On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Translations are done on Meta. Three banners seems overkill, btw. Was this banner discussed somewhere? I don't remember previous general banners for any event other than Wikimania (and there are several upcoming hackathons).
Sorry about the new-ness of this idea: that's almost certainly my fault for not being quite sure how to engage folks. I've been working with WMF folks directly on this project.
The upcoming hackathons are mostly hackathons in particular places, AIUI: New Orleans, India, etc. The goal of this challenge is to provide opportunities to basically anyone who can take a weekend or two to hack some code.
It's basically an experiment. If we run banners for a week and challenge the entire Wikipedia community to spend a couple of weekends hacking, what results might we get? Not sure how well it will work, but we're certainly going to give it a try.
--g