[Foundation-l] International Writing Contest

[Achim Raschka]

Hello everybody,

the following text I posted in about 30 languages of Wikipedia:

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In Berlin at Dezember 2004 there was the critique that there is not enough 
connection in the work of all the different Wikipedias in their different 
languages. I think, that an internationally linked writing contest should 
be one possible chance to cooperate and work together. At March 1st there 
will be the start of the second writing contest in the german Wikipedia so 
I thought, we can start it as an international project. There had been 
contests in the Wikipedia of the Netherlands 
[[:nl:Wikipedia:Schrijfwedstrijd]], the german Wikipedia 
[[:de:Wikipedia:Schreibwettbewerb]] and the english one 
[[en:Wikipedia:Danny's contest]] and as far as I could see it, it worked 
really good.

I hope you will join the Contest, please visit [[:meta:International 
writing contest]] to find out more. -- [[Benutzer:Achim Raschka|Achim 
Raschka aka Necrophorus]] 10:14, 11. Jan 2005 (CET)
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It would be great, to discuss the contest and to coordinate stuff like 
press releases, maybe extren judges, coordination on meta (if you likeI 
will construct a Portal-Page on meta with joining languages and nominations 
(as far as I´m able for that) and so on. I know, I didn´t discuss it on any 
mailing list, but I think it´s a good idea so I started it. The time plot 
was set before for the german contest and I think it´s time enough to 
organize a contest in the other languanges until the contest starts at 
March the 1st.

It would be great if I can get any reaction (maybe a bit more than to the 
Wikikids-idea), I would tolerate all between "It´s a genius idea" and "What 
in the hell´s came over you".

Greeting from Berlin, Achim aka Necrophorus