[WikiX-l] Wikipedia Day Forever

[Arun Ramarathnam]

Echo the sentiments of doing widespread events on the Anniversary day every
year. We at Bangalore did one last year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/WPDay2010
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/WPDay2010>It brings
everyone together and reminds the public of the vaue wikipedia and wikimedia
are creating in very day lives.

I do think there is an opportunity to do a standard event kit - standard
banners, publicity material, possibly an exhibition kit that could be used
globally. Organizations like Rotary and PMI do this very well to reach out
to the public.

A big thanks to Steven and Barry for all the support.

regards
Arun

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:49 AM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> 2011/1/18 Jay Walsh <jwalsh at wikimedia.org>:
> > That was the original idea behind Wikipedia Day, as far as I know!  I see
> no reason why we wouldn't revisit the event annually on this day.
>
> In addition to having a "big day" once a year, I generally love the
> idea of having more "event kits" for different kinds of purposes that
> we can ship throughout the year (together with continually improving
> best practices, repositories of visualizations and outreach materials,
> etc.). We'll need to do some internal post-morteming on this
> experience to see if this is a habit we can get into more regularly.
> But I for one certainly see ten.wikipedia.org as a great pilot for
> supporting distributed events around the world.
>
> Throwing in some general comments: Thanks to Steven and all who helped
> with it, and all who organized, attended or supported celebrations.
> The event in SF was awesome, and the photos from the world-wide events
> show the incredible energy and strength of Wikimedia in the year 2011.
> Please, folks, upload more images to Commons :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Erik
>
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