Hey,
Wikipedia 10th anniversary is a wonderful event. it's a great opportunity to
make a "cool" events, also with option to push and drive our current editors
and volunteers by special activities and events - and with right events,
it's can be get a well cover in the international press around the world.
I think Wikipedia is a global project - and one big event of it need to be
something around the world. one big party all over the world, broadcasting
via web.. A video taking shoots around the world. People record them self to
the "wall of wishes to Wikipedia birthday" on a special website.. something
that involved the fact we our global movement and using internet and social
media activities.
I think we running of time. and we really need to push this issue. Good idea
is to use global-notice to invite people in the next few weeks to share
ideas for big and global events and projects on the meta or to to a special
email account (for people not really know how to use Wiki.. but reading
that..).
In any case, I think maybe we will do it on HE-WP - invitation from
individual and organization to give ideas for projects and sponsorship
events. The problem that we really didn't count this on our budget, and kind
of saving money to Wikimania :-)
I will be happy to know what the range of money the foundation can give as
grants to the chapters...
Another nice and very easy thing - we can offer as part of other activies -
also a context to design a spcial logo for wikipedia - the winner one will
replace the Wikipedia logo for few days. it's a good context that can run
also in designer forums, and designers schools - and can bring new designer
volunteers to wikipedia.. a thing that is very needed and welcome on
Wikipedia.
And of course, I see the all celebration also taking important part of the
next Wikimania, not only because we hosting it.. :)
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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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