Hi Steven,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/1/12 Steven Walling <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:swalling@wikimedia.org">swalling@wikimedia.org</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

<div style="word-wrap:break-word">We put the banner up for three reasons:<div><br></div><div>1. Most people still don&#39;t know we&#39;re having our 10th anniversary. Even in countries without events, there is a very basic outreach message here that needs to be communicated. </div>

</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Definitely true! </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br>
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<div>2. There are events all over Europe, and it&#39;s not inconceivable that people reading Dutch Wikipedia might want to go somewhere/be somewhere other than Amsterdam. Even if that&#39;s not true, I think there&#39;s enormous value in showing people from all languages the breadth of what we&#39;re doing for the anniversary. Local promotion is one goal for the banners, but it&#39;s not the only one.</div>

</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah, my suggestion wasn&#39;t so much to differentiate on language, but rather on region. There might be a small percentage of them able to go to Ghent instead, but I think that the number of disappointed people will be much larger. </div>

<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div>3. There are online only events, including livestreams from a couple and a running Skype session Jimmy is coordinating.</div>

<div><br></div><div>If you want to change the banner text in Dutch, including to a more generalized 10th anniversary message that does not mention events at all, please do so. If there&#39;s any way we can get a different or better translation up, let me know how I can help.</div>

</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Here, I was mainly referring to the landing page - which only mentions real life events. I think it would be great if people also have the opportunity to participate in some way online (&quot;congratulate us by making an edit&quot; ?). </div>

<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br><div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div>On Jan 12, 2011, at 11:21 AM, Lodewijk wrote:</div>

<br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div class="h5">So... now we have this banner in the Netherlands asking people to participate in the celebrations. But the only event in the Netherlands (Amsterdam) is fully booked with 200 people already. <div>

<br></div><div>What do you think? Should we pull down the banner, change the text (what would be good options?) Is there a way in general for people to participate online? (is there an overview of available video streams?) Is there a page where people can leave their congratulations? </div>



<div><br></div><div>Best, </div><div><br></div><div>Lodewijk</div></div></div>
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