[Foundation-l] 10th birthday edit drive?

[Philippe Beaudette]

I heart this idea.

Srsly.

Can you imagine, finding places that have WP articles and projecting  
the logo globe on them?

That would be an amazing public visibility thing.  In SF alone, for  
instance, Grace Cathedral, Coit Tower, the Transamerica Pyramid....



On Feb 7, 2010, at 2:33 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote:

> 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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