From my perspective (low-overhead, successful event in the US) the biggest hassle was my use of a wiki other than en.wikipedia for the event page itself (which I put on ten.wikipedia - either because it was suggested that I do so or because I didn't think very clearly when I did - I forget).
But local folks didn't have an account on ten, didn't leave contact info when they edited, didn't have their account preferences set up nicely to edit, didn't have it integrated with their watchlist, didn't know how to refer to pages on en, didn't check their user talk notifications, etc.
I also fear that with inactivity, the ten site will get spammy, or require extra overhead to fight it.
So next time I'd suggest overall organizing on meta (a useful site to be on anyway), and suggesting that folks like me actually put their event page on a local language wikipedia site if that makes sense. Places with multiple languages used by likely participants might need a different solution.
Thanks again, folks!
Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.org/
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 01:39:57PM -0800, Steven Walling wrote:
The future of tenwiki isn't nailed down yet, but I think it would be fine to use it to seed a new event namespace or page network on Meta.
On Jan 24, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Michael Peel wrote:
What about a page/namespace on meta.wikimedia.org? Wouldn't that make more sense? On 24 Jan 2011, at 21:03, Lodewijk wrote: what about event.wikipedia.org ? wouldn't that make more sense? 2011/1/24 Pharos <pharosofalexandria@gmail.com> I also feel ten.wikipedia.org has been an excellent global coordination resource for this year's events, and as that is archived, we should think about the domains or subdomains to be used for Wikipedia Day activities in future years. Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)