[WikiX-l] Wikipedia Day Forever

[Pharos]

I also feel ten.wikipedia.org has been an excellent global
coordination resource for this year's events, and as that is archived,
we should think about the domains or subdomains to be used for
Wikipedia Day activities in future years.

Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Arun Ramarathnam <arunram25 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> 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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