[Foundation-l] 10th birthday edit drive?

[Liam Wyatt]

Yeah!
There's so much we could be doing (both on-wiki and in meatspace) for the
"10th anniversary" next January. I would suggest that not only should we be
investigating activities such as that you describe to improve the content,
but also that we undertake fundraising and general outreach activities
across the world around. For example, the "spread
Firefox<http://www.spreadfirefox.com/>"
project has been a success and I'd love to see this kind of thing for
Wikipedia projected on monuments around the world on the 10th anniversary
day:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nois3lab/4088072729/in/set-72157622640597827/:-)
(video of same:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_8Dyhz_qbs )
And yes, as you say, it is also a very good opportunity to really utilise
the value of the geo-targeted notices if all the chapters and geographically
defined wikiprojects coordinate undertake activities simultaneously.

-Liam [[witty lama]]

wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love & metadata


On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Stuart West <stuwest at gmail.com> wrote:

> At a meetup in San Francisco today I was thinking about next January's 10th
> Birthday for Wikipedia and recent strategic planning discussions around
> participation.  What about celebrating Wikipedia Day with an edit drive?
>  We
> could aim for some stretch target (e.g. 1 million edits across all projects
> over 24 hours on 15 Jan 2011, or 25 million edits during the month of
> January) and use the project and geo-targeted sitenotice technology from
> the
> fundraisers.
>
> Seems like it could be a great way to celebrate and also get the word out
> about the "anyone can edit" spirit of our projects.
>
> -stu
> [[m:User:Stu]]
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