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Fwd: [Internal-l] brief update wikipedia10
by Steven Walling 23 May '11

23 May '11

Good news from Argentina. :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Patricio Lorente <patricio.lorente(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, May 22, 2011 at 5:39 PM Subject: [Internal-l] brief update wikipedia10 To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)" <internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear friends: This last week we had exciting events in Argentina regarding outreach with the educational system and the celebrations of Wikipedia 10. # On May 17th we signed an agreement with the Ministry of Education of Buenos Aires province. They want us to help them to develop some skills with teachers and librarians regarding the new digital enviroment. This is probably the largest educational system of Latin America [[citation needed]] and we are very happy to have a voice there. More info (in spanish) in our site: http://www.wikimedia.org.ar/node/30 # Yesterday we celebrated the first 10 years of the spanish Wikipedia with a large conference: http://www.wikimedia.org.ar/node/28 ## We launched a wikicontest about Iberoamerican women: the idea was to write about remarcable women of Argentina, but the community of Wikipedia asked us to extend the challenge to Iberoamerican women. As you know, the gender gap is not only about editors but also about content; this wikicontest pretends to help to fill this gap. ## Educ.ar, the official site of the Argentinian Ministry of Education, launched their site "Wikipedia in the classroom": http://wikipediaenelaula.edu.ar, with resources for teachers. ## Mariano Blejman, from Página/12 (the third national newspaper) and Ariel Torres from La Nación (the second national newspaper -sorry, but the first one doesn't like us :P) made a great presentation about Wikipedia and journalism. ## To end the journey, we had a conference about Wikipedia and education, with several academics as you can see in http://www.wikimedia.org.ar/node/28. And then, we went for a wine and a barbecue! As you can imagine, we are exhausted but happy. We will update you as soon as we upload the photos and videos. Patricio -- Patricio Lorente Blog: http://www.patriciolorente.com.ar Identi.ca // Twitter: @patriciolorente _______________________________________________ Internal-l mailing list Internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l -- Steven Walling Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org

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Wikipedia for World Heritage
by Catrin Schoneville 17 May '11

17 May '11

Hi everyone, at the Chapters Conference in Berlin we briefly introduced our idea for a very special global initiative called "Wikipedia for World Heritage!". Feedback was great and now we would love to discuss ideas with you. The initiative is designed as an international project. Your opinions and participation are most welcome! But first, what is this all about? We are convinced that Wikipedia is predestined to become the first ever digital UNESCO World Heritage Site. The free encyclopedia should be recognized as what it really is: a pioneering project of the digital age. It has carried the ancient idea of common and free knowledge over into the third millenium. So, is this a birthday present? It is, since Wikipedia is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. At the same time, it is much more than that. The tenth anniversary is a perfect opportunity to look back at what tens of thousands of volunteers have achieved in so little time. Wikipedia is unprecendented in the history of mankind's endeavours to preserve and disseminate knowledge. To quote from the first of UNESCO's ten criteria for World Heritage sites: It represents a masterpiece of human creative genius. Our major goals focus on public debate and on increasing awareness of what Wikipedia means to the global society. Millions of people around the world take Wikipedia for granted, as a convenient source of information. We know that it is incredibly more than that. Wikipedia is by far the most successful ambassador of the free knowledge concept. It provides free access to knowledge. It enables cooperation beyond national and cultural barriers. It is there for anybody to benefit from. And finally, Wikipedia is waiting to be improved. Anyone can help and participate. "Wikipedia for World Heritage!" could be a unique possibility to bring all this into the public spotlight, because it honestly isn't there yet. There are many means to achieve this. One of our first that we are currently preparing is to convince as many people as possible to sign a petition of support. We have established a project page on our Wikimedia Germany website. There is a language version in both English<https://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/WorldHeritage>and in German <http://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/Weltkulturerbe>. Furthermore, we will open the petition (in German and English) next week. Additionally, we hope to establish an international landing page, where chapters can share information. We don't have decided on an URL yet. Suggestions anyone? Please feel free to brainstorm and discuss some catchy (and available) ideas! There is so much information to share with you. Take this as a first "hello" and feel invited to comment, criticize and help pushing this initiative further! We are in touch with experts on the UNESCO's World Heritage program, and they tell us that we can do it. If the Wikimedia chapters jointly create public awareness of the amazing achievements of free knowledge, chances are good. We already had the first (positive) press coverage<http://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/Presse>in Germany and today we had an interview with New York Times (article will be published -maybe- in about 1-2 weeks). Last but not least I would like to take the opportunity to introduce Sebastian Sooth our new project manager (for this and other community projects). Sebastian <sebastian.sooth(a)wikimedia.de>, me and my PR-assistantMichael<michael.jahn(a)wikimedia.de>will be responsible for this project, please don't hesitate to contact us directly or on this list. See you, Catrin.

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WikiX-l mailing list submissions
by DAW MAY KHAING OO 21 Apr '11

21 Apr '11

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2010-2011 wrap-up - We need your help!
by Itzik Edri 14 Apr '11

14 Apr '11

Hey folks, As part of Wikimania 2011 in Haifa, we want to make a short video clip for the opening ceremony. At first we thought to make summary of the 10th anniversary events around the world and asked you for videos - but we understand many of you don't have such one. So we trying again - now we are planning to make some kind of video to wrap-up the 10th anniversary events and to summarize the movement activities and events over the last months (since Wikimania 2010). We don't have much time, and we also have to produce a huge conference :) I be happy if each chapter\group can send us: 1. Their best pictures from the 10th anniversary events (and videos - if you have!) 2. Few photo\videos from interesting events\activities that you had over the past months with one-two sentence to explain. 3. And everything else that will fit :) We would much more prefer videos - as we can make the video much more interesting, but photos will be fine too, just try to focus us one to your best one, and not to select from 300 photos galleries :) If people also want to help us with this project, we will be happy!. Please send your photos\videos and everything else to * wikimania(a)wikimedia.org.il*. We will appropriate your help and waiting to see you in Haifa! Don't forget to register! http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration *Thanks!* Itzik Edri Spokesperson, Wikimedia Israel Wikimania 2011 Organization committee

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Wikipedia 10 sessions at Wikimania
by Steven Walling 12 Apr '11

12 Apr '11

Hi WikiX folks, Just a quick notice that there are two potential Wikimania submissions (links below) related to the 10th anniversary and event organizing in general. I'm not sure how many of you plan on attending in Haifa this summer, but you're the ones who really put these events together, and the Wikimedia events workshop in particular would benefit greatly from sharing your experiences with the planning. 1. http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikimedia_events 2. http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/How_to_Start_a_Party_on… -- Steven Walling Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org

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Re: [WikiX-l] What to do with ten.wikipedia.org in the future
by fridaesdoom＠gmail.com 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

Speaking of which, I couldn't attend an event and I'm not sure if there was anything available at the event... is there anyway I could obtain such merchandise? On , Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Jeremy Baron jeremy(a)tuxmachine.com> > wrote: > Keep in mind there's more tenwiki events that haven't occurred yet. > eg anniversaries for other languages. > -Jeremyb > Yeah, I don't think we need to do anything immediately, but we should > probably start planning, since there has been very little activity lately > on the site. > -- > Steven WallingFellow at Wikimedia Foundation > wikimediafoundation.org

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Re: [WikiX-l] What to do with ten.wikipedia.org in the future
by Jeremy Baron 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

Keep in mind there's more tenwiki events that haven't occurred yet. e.g. anniversaries for other languages. -Jeremyb On Mar 21, 2011 9:58 PM, "Steven Walling" <swalling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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What to do with ten.wikipedia.org in the future
by Steven Walling 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

Hi everyone, So quite some time has passed since Wikipedia’s 10th anniversary, and now that things are starting to wind down, it’s time to consider what we want to do with ten.wikipedia.org (AKA tenwiki, if you use interwiki links). We’re in no rush to act, and I know there are a few celebrations yet to happen, but I thought it was good to start thinking about this now that we’re well past the rush of January 15th. >From the start, one of the reasons I was comfortable starting “yet another wiki” was that I figured that after the anniversary was over there would be no need to leave it up indefinitely, requiring upkeep from the community and staff. There are lots ideas that have been mentioned casually. For example: at the last community IRC meeting there was a suggestion for it to be merged with Meta.[1] In general I’m agnostic on the matter, though I do a have a couple general goals... With that frame of mind, I’ve opened a discussion at the tenwiki Village Pump with some of the various options I’ve heard or thought of.[2] Please add your ideas there, especially if you’ve been a part of the crew of editors who’ve worked to maintain the site over the past several months. If you haven’t heard me say it before: thank you for helping the site grow so quickly in those past months while staying free of vandalism/spam. The whole idea would have been a disaster if it wasn't for your hard work.[3] (On a related note: Jay Walsh and I have been working on some reports to wrap up the Foundation's major work on the 10th anniversary, one of which is the start of a page about running any global, distributed event in the Wikimedia movement. Jay is currently consumed by another deadline, but we're hoping to publish that work soon.) Thanks! <http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics>-- Steven Walling Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org 1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_meetings/2011-02-05 2. http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump#Ideas_for_what_to_do_w… 3. http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics

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Wikipedia 10 videos
by Itzik Edri 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Hi!, As part of Wikimania 2011 in Haifa, we are looking for videos from the Wikipedia 10th anniversary celebration events around the world. I will be happy if anyone that have such video could contact me to see how we can get it from you - itzik(a)wikimedia.org.il Thanks, Itzik

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Steward Elections 2011 - Please vote soon if you havent
by Jyothis E 26 Feb '11

26 Feb '11

All, The Election is almost coming to an end. Kindly cast you vote if you havent already. Thanks. Regards, Jyothis. http://www.Jyothis.net My Malayalam Wikipedia page <http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis> Metawiki page <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis> I am the first customer of http://www.netdotnet.com My toolserver tools <http://toolserver.org/~jyothis> woods are lovely dark and deep, but i have promises to keep and miles to go before i sleep and *lines to go before I press sleep* completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) / resources) + ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings

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