Hi,
I had two meetings in the last days with Google, and their YouTube regional
marketing team and after also talking with YouTube team on Google HQ. We
start to discuss maybe to do something together to celebrate 10th Wikipedia
anniversary by a global and international project. YouTube and Wikipedia
together are one of the top website in the world - and project together can
be a very successful and marketing one..
The spectrum of ideas is very wide. People can share stories about how
Wikipedia help them, their favorites articles, context with universities to
make the most "coolest" video, by student reading articles.. it really to us
what we want to do...
Now the limitations - to shy the true, I don't really know our
"relationship" with YouTube. are any project with them can be something that
work aginast our goal to push Commons\Kaltura? Our it's OK to do this kind
of collaboration?
In any case, we still need to build the project - but YouTube will probably
into that..
Feedback?
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On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Jay Walsh <jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi folks -
I know things have been quiet on this list from the Foundation side over
the past few months, and we know all too well that there's not much time
between now and the magic date: January 15, 2011!
Supporting Wikipedia 10th anniversary planning has largely fallen into the
global development/communications section of the Wikimedia Foundation. Of
course nothing will be possible without lots of broad support from our
thousands of global volunteers and our chapters, as well as other partners
(new and old!) and sponsors to help kick things off in style, for
Wikipedia's 10th year.
Right now there are a couple of major considerations here at the
Foundation, and I thought I'd start by sharing those major sections. Some
areas need a lot more input from the community than others, but in all cases
we want to share everything that's being planned (our ideas, your ideas,
strategies, practices etc) so we can openly collaborate and try innovative
ideas.
I see these as the three major areas of planning for Wiki 10 - leading up
to, and during the year starting Jan 15:
1. Global celebrations
(chapters and volunteer groups around the world hosting events, parties,
and local festivities)
2. A 'free' birthday celebration in San Francisco
(A Foundation-driven party on January 15, probably open to the public and
acting as a central focus for festivities here in the Bay area)
3. On-wiki festivities and celebrations
(Any number of great ideas to mark the 10th anniversary, on en:wp or other
wikis - which may include tie-ins with the upcoming annual fundraiser)
We'll have more to say about each of these areas early next week, and
hopefully we'll add more areas or fill those sections out soon. I'd like to
use this list as a central planning space, but I'm sure there will also be
on-wiki discussions taking place.
The Foundation also has a small budget to provide reasonable grants to
chapters or other volunteer groups around the world to support celebrations.
The conditions for receiving those grants won't be too complicated, and we
hope to get that process underway soon.
Although the Foundation is largely focussed on hosting a party and helping
to support activities, we want to help coordinate a central on-wiki space
where all activities from chapters, project reps etc can be shared so we can
create a global 'at a glance' page with all planned activities.
We also plan to post our plans for a local party in the next week or two,
so you can see how we're pulling the pieces together, what partners we're
talking to, and generally share our information so you have a party template
to use (if you're looking for one :)
I'm glad to see some other discussions underway on the list already -
hopefully we can start adding more. Please share more of your ideas and
we'll get started with the planning.
Thanks!
jay
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Jay Walsh
Head of Communications
WikimediaFoundation.org
blog.wikimedia.org
+1 (415) 839 6885 x 609, @jansonw
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