That's such a wonderful, sweet project! :) It seems likely infeasible for
bigger projects but as a way to build a strong small wiki community, I
think it's amazing!
Kudos to you!
-Emily
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:35 PM, attolippip <attolippip(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Oh, Liam, you are right :)
We award the "best newbie of the month" on Ukrainian Wikipedia and award
him/her with a can of condensed milk via post [1]
(we also award with a can of condensed milk the "best contributor of the
month", and want to do it is a few smaller wikiprojects as well (Wikiquote,
f.ex.))
For this we create the lists with all contributions (main namespace only)
for all users per project per months [2] and look if the contributions are
in line with the rules (no copyright violation, vandalism etc.). Then a
message on the talk page with a picture of a can and after the winner gives
us his/her postal address, we send him/her the can itself :) [3]
It is sweet. I can vouch for that :)
[1]
https://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%89%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0…
[2]
https://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%89%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0…
[3]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Zgushchivka_poshtoyu
Best regards,
antanana
ED of Wikimedia Ukraine
2015-06-11 22:04 GMT+03:00 Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com>om>:
And the award for for the first negative comment
on this thread that is
designed to be "about things going right" goes to Trilliam.
Congratulations on being the official "party pooper" of Wikimedia-l.
There
will be cake tomorrow.
To return to nice things, and in response to the previous message by A
ntanana:
I learned a few months ago that in the Ukrainian Wikipedia they don't
give
out "barnstars", the give out
"cans of condensed milk"! Why? Because
they're sweet :-)
https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1…
And, please correct me if I'm wrong Antanana, but you also identify the
"best newbie" each month on the Ukrainian Wikipedia and physically send a
can of condensed milk to that person in the mail?! I think that's just
the
coolest, funnest, most unique way of celebrating
new contributors I've
heard of!
-Liam / Wittylama.
wittylama.com
Peace, love & metadata
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