On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Jon Harald Søby jhsoby@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, all!
The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced this Friday, and in cooperation with Wikimedia Norge, the Nobel Peace Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Center has invited Wikipedians from the Norwegian Wikipedia community to an editathon to improve the article about the winner(s?) as soon as possible. We'll be sitting practically in the next room from where the announcement is made, updating relevant articles as fast as we can.
For this to be a global event, I'd like to invite anyone who's interested to join us in the IRC channel #wikipedia-nobel irc://freenode/#wikipedia-nobel, where we'll be talking and coordinating. We'll also try to livetweet the event using the hashtag #wikinobel https://twitter.com/hashtag/wikinobel, probably mainly from the account @WikimediaNorge https://twitter.com/WikimediaNorge.
The press conference will be start around 10:30 Norwegian time, which is *08:30 UTC*, like I said on *Friday, 10th of October*. Please join us, and help spread this invitation to your community.
-- mvh Jon Harald Søby http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by _______________________________________________
Hi Jon, thank you so much for your efforts in having Malala and Kailash Satyarthi's pages updated. I was over the moon to see the announcements this morning and really proud of the Norwegian Wikipedia community for updating the pages today! I for one would love to hear about everyone's experience being there.
(I'd also love to hear anyone's experiences about edit conflicts while updating the pages).
I'm not sure when you were notified of the invitation, but do know that the Foundation wants to find ways of supporting community activities like this, so if there are any ideas on how to do that please say so.
Cheers, Rachel