On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Erik Moeller
<erik@wikimedia.org> wrote:
2011/1/18 Jay Walsh <jwalsh@wikimedia.org>:
> That was the original idea behind Wikipedia Day, as far as I know! I see no reason why we wouldn't revisit the event annually on this day.
In addition to having a "big day" once a year, I generally love the
idea of having more "event kits" for different kinds of purposes that
we can ship throughout the year (together with continually improving
best practices, repositories of visualizations and outreach materials,
etc.). We'll need to do some internal post-morteming on this
And it's not over! We're doing our event in Washington DC this Saturday [1] (so the NYC folks, Phoebe, and others can attend).
We already have learned a lot from organizing this event, and hope to
build upon this experience to do more events on a more regular basis including something each January.
-Katie
[1]
http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiXDC
experience to see if this is a habit we can get into more regularly.
But I for one certainly see ten.wikipedia.org as a great pilot for
supporting distributed events around the world.
Throwing in some general comments: Thanks to Steven and all who helped
with it, and all who organized, attended or supported celebrations.
The event in SF was awesome, and the photos from the world-wide events
show the incredible energy and strength of Wikimedia in the year 2011.
Please, folks, upload more images to Commons :-)
Cheers,
Erik
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Erik Möller
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