[ComProj] WIKIMEDIA CENSUS

Tue Nov 6 12:37:31 UTC 2007

Michael: No, it is not a bug at all
I  need questions first, I just sent you the link so, every now and then you 
can see how the survey has developed. Wikiversity have been the only project 
to add questions (although, many of them are not impoortant, ie. they want 
to ask in the census if the video player is working - not relevant IMHO

thanks though for taking a look, you will slowly see it develop. I am gonna 
go mad adding the data - there is gonna be like 30 questions from each 
project (people filling out the census won't need to answer them all, they 
will only need to answer around 30-35 in total.

thanx

symode09 + deni + itunes

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From: "Michael Bimmler" <mbimmler at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 9:31 PM
To: "Discussion list for the Communication Projects Group" 
<comproj at lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [ComProj] WIKIMEDIA CENSUS

> Something seems to bit a be wrong...
> In question "Which Wikimedia Project do you work on the most?", I
> checked "Wikipedia". One screen later it says "This section will ask
> you questions about WIKIVERSITY which, you specified you spend the
> most time on." Bug?
>
> Michael
> On 11/6/07, symode09 at hotmail.com <symode09 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey everyone! I have begun working on the census and have a section on 
>> most
>> projects where I would like questions to be put up. I am working on the
>> coding/layout of it all so, take a look at the preview at
>> http://loopaustralia.com/survey/index.php?sid=54369&lang=en - it may not
>> work for everyone since it has not been published but, you can have a 
>> very
>> rough idea about how it looks. It will slowly evolve so, keep checking 
>> back.
>> There is a section on each project in the same location on each;
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Census
>> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Census
>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Census
>> etc.
>>
>> We need help to work out how we could get users to fill it out, by the 
>> name,
>> a census is meant to be filled out by the entire community but, emailing 
>> out
>> to 5 million+ users would be a world record spamming (c) brianmc
>>
>> Any ideas on how we could do it?
>>
>> thanx
>>
>>
>> symode09 + brown_cat + itunes
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------
>> From: "Sean Whitton" <sean at silentflame.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 6:49 PM
>> To: "ComProj" <comproj at lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Subject: [ComProj] Fwd: [Internal-l] Edit Wikipedia Week: call
>> forparticipation
>>
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > The following was posted to internal-l by Sue regarding a possible
>> > 'Edit Wikipedia Week' to be held in December as part of a way of
>> > keeping the momentum of the fundraiser going. All are invited to
>> > participate in the planning for this event at
>> > <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edit_Wikipedia_Week>.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Sean
>> >
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > From: Sue Gardner <sgardner at wikimedia.org>
>> > Date: Nov 5, 2007 4:09 PM
>> > Subject: [Internal-l] Edit Wikipedia Week: call for participation
>> > To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed
>> > subscription)" <internal-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi folks,
>> >
>> > I'm writing to invite you –chapters, individuals, everyone- to help
>> > stage a bunch of "Edit Wikipedia Week" events in December. The idea is
>> > to pick a date, probably the week of December 3, and stage outreach
>> > events around the world designed to encourage people to participate in
>> > the projects.
>> >
>> > The events could be practically anything – big or small. You could
>> > speak about the projects at a local school; get yourself booked on TV;
>> > talk to a local photography club about contributing to Commons;
>> > organize a marathon weekend of translations; recruit new people to
>> > help you launch a WikiProject, or even just teach your mom how to
>> > edit. Anything that you think will improve the projects: the purpose
>> > is to reach out to people who don't edit, and encourage them to make a
>> > contribution.
>> >
>> > This is intended to be an experiment. The premise is that anyone can
>> > organize an event under this umbrella idea, and it can take whatever
>> > form makes sense to them. Nobody needs permission: feel free to just
>> > participate.
>> >
>> > Why now? As you know we're in the middle of the annual fundraiser,
>> > which this year runs from October 22 to December 23. Because it's so
>> > long, we want to stage events at various points, designed to keep the
>> > media and the public paying attention. We've got some Wikipedia
>> > Academies coming up in South Africa
>> > http://internal.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Academies on November 10
>> > and 11, with Jimmy, Frank Schulenburg and Ndesanjo Macha. Edit
>> > Wikipedia Week would be the next big event after that.
>> >
>> > This would be focused on Wikipedia, because it's our biggest and best
>> > known project, and therefore most likely to generate interest among
>> > the media and general public. That doesn't mean we couldn't hold
>> > similar events for Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikisource, or any other WMF
>> > project. Implementation-wise, I'm thinking of having us set up
>> > edit.wikipedia.org, which would redirect to pages in the local
>> > Wikipedias. Each of those pages would also refer back to the ongoing
>> > fundraiser with a little info-box (something along the lines of "There
>> > are different ways to help Wikipedia..").
>> >
>> > I'm also going to ask Cary to make a page for this on meta, where we
>> > can discuss it, and people can post events. I would ask you please to
>> > translate and share this note with whoever you like. I know that not
>> > everyone can afford to make a financial contribution to the
>> > fundraiser: I am hoping some people will choose to support it (us) by
>> > helping with Edit Wikipedia Week instead.
>> >
>> > The first thing we'll need to do is finalize a date. I think December
>> > 3 would probably work best, but please let me know if/why you think
>> > another week would be better.
>> >
>> > And lastly .. I am thinking this could become an annual event. In that
>> > spirit, this year may be a little wonky and haphazard, which would be
>> > okay. If it goes well, we'll learn some good lessons, and next year
>> > will be better :-)
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Sue
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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