Echo the sentiments of doing widespread events on the Anniversary day every year. We at Bangalore did one last year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/WPDay2010
It brings everyone together and reminds the public of the vaue wikipedia and wikimedia are creating in very day lives.
I do think there is an opportunity to do a standard event kit - standard banners, publicity material, possibly an exhibition kit that could be used globally. Organizations like Rotary and PMI do this very well to reach out to the public.
A big thanks to Steven and Barry for all the support.
regards
Arun
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:49 AM, 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
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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