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.. :)

Itzik

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Jay Walsh <jwalsh@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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