[WikiX-l] Wikipedia Day Forever

[phoebe ayers]

For those of you interested in this, there is a fine discussion about
Wikimania and local events going on now on the Wikimania list:

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/2011-January/thread.html

Maybe we can converge discussions ... on meta :)

-- Phoebe

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Steven Walling <swalling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> The future of tenwiki isn't nailed down yet, but I think it would be fine to
> use it to seed a new event namespace or page network on Meta.
> On Jan 24, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Michael Peel wrote:
>
> What about a page/namespace on meta.wikimedia.org? Wouldn't that make more
> sense?
>
> On 24 Jan 2011, at 21:03, Lodewijk wrote:
>
> what about event.wikipedia.org ? wouldn't that make more sense?
>
> 2011/1/24 Pharos <pharosofalexandria at gmail.com>
>
> 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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