[WikiX-l] Wikipedia Day Forever

[Neal McBurnett]

From my perspective (low-overhead, successful event in the US) the
biggest hassle was my use of a wiki other than en.wikipedia for the
event page itself (which I put on ten.wikipedia - either because it
was suggested that I do so or because I didn't think very clearly when
I did - I forget).

But local folks didn't have an account on ten, didn't leave contact
info when they edited, didn't have their account preferences set up
nicely to edit, didn't have it integrated with their watchlist, didn't
know how to refer to pages on en, didn't check their user talk
notifications, etc.

I also fear that with inactivity, the ten site will get spammy, or
require extra overhead to fight it.

So next time I'd suggest overall organizing on meta (a useful site to
be on anyway), and suggesting that folks like me actually
put their event page on a local language wikipedia site if that makes
sense.  Places with multiple languages used by likely participants
might need a different solution.

Thanks again, folks!

Neal McBurnett                 http://neal.mcburnett.org/

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 01:39:57PM -0800, Steven Walling 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)