On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Arun Ramarathnam <
arunram25@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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