I have a toolserv account however, it was a bitch (srry bout language)
uploading it and, I recieved NO help - I attempted to get help for over a
month and, asked everywhere, my conclusion: people on the toolserv are
generally douchebags
--------------------------------------------------
From: "Sean Whitton" <sean(a)silentflame.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 7:22 PM
To: "Discussion list for the Communication Projects Group"
<comproj(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [ComProj] WIKIMEDIA CENSUS
> Symode,
>
> Your use of the Wikimedia logo on your pages is questionable as they
> are not official. Have you considered getting a [[m:toolserver]]
> account to run this survey off? That would probably be a more
> appropriate option.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sean
>
> On 11/6/07, symode09(a)hotmail.com <symode09(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey everyone! I have begun working on the census and have a section on
>> most
>> projects where I would like questions to be put up. I am working on the
>> coding/layout of it all so, take a look at the preview at
>> http://loopaustralia.com/survey/index.php?sid=54369&lang=en - it may not
>> work for everyone since it has not been published but, you can have a
>> very
>> rough idea about how it looks. It will slowly evolve so, keep checking
>> back.
>> There is a section on each project in the same location on each;
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Census
>> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Census
>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Census
>> etc.
>>
>> We need help to work out how we could get users to fill it out, by the
>> name,
>> a census is meant to be filled out by the entire community but, emailing
>> out
>> to 5 million+ users would be a world record spamming (c) brianmc
>>
>> Any ideas on how we could do it?
>>
>> thanx
>>
>>
>> symode09 + brown_cat + itunes
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------
>> From: "Sean Whitton" <sean(a)silentflame.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 6:49 PM
>> To: "ComProj" <comproj(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Subject: [ComProj] Fwd: [Internal-l] Edit Wikipedia Week: call
>> forparticipation
>>
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > The following was posted to internal-l by Sue regarding a possible
>> > 'Edit Wikipedia Week' to be held in December as part of a way of
>> > keeping the momentum of the fundraiser going. All are invited to
>> > participate in the planning for this event at
>> > <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edit_Wikipedia_Week>.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Sean
>> >
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > From: Sue Gardner <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org>
>> > Date: Nov 5, 2007 4:09 PM
>> > Subject: [Internal-l] Edit Wikipedia Week: call for participation
>> > To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed
>> > subscription)" <internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi folks,
>> >
>> > I'm writing to invite you –chapters, individuals, everyone- to help
>> > stage a bunch of "Edit Wikipedia Week" events in December. The idea is
>> > to pick a date, probably the week of December 3, and stage outreach
>> > events around the world designed to encourage people to participate in
>> > the projects.
>> >
>> > The events could be practically anything – big or small. You could
>> > speak about the projects at a local school; get yourself booked on TV;
>> > talk to a local photography club about contributing to Commons;
>> > organize a marathon weekend of translations; recruit new people to
>> > help you launch a WikiProject, or even just teach your mom how to
>> > edit. Anything that you think will improve the projects: the purpose
>> > is to reach out to people who don't edit, and encourage them to make a
>> > contribution.
>> >
>> > This is intended to be an experiment. The premise is that anyone can
>> > organize an event under this umbrella idea, and it can take whatever
>> > form makes sense to them. Nobody needs permission: feel free to just
>> > participate.
>> >
>> > Why now? As you know we're in the middle of the annual fundraiser,
>> > which this year runs from October 22 to December 23. Because it's so
>> > long, we want to stage events at various points, designed to keep the
>> > media and the public paying attention. We've got some Wikipedia
>> > Academies coming up in South Africa
>> > http://internal.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Academies on November 10
>> > and 11, with Jimmy, Frank Schulenburg and Ndesanjo Macha. Edit
>> > Wikipedia Week would be the next big event after that.
>> >
>> > This would be focused on Wikipedia, because it's our biggest and best
>> > known project, and therefore most likely to generate interest among
>> > the media and general public. That doesn't mean we couldn't hold
>> > similar events for Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikisource, or any other WMF
>> > project. Implementation-wise, I'm thinking of having us set up
>> > edit.wikipedia.org, which would redirect to pages in the local
>> > Wikipedias. Each of those pages would also refer back to the ongoing
>> > fundraiser with a little info-box (something along the lines of "There
>> > are different ways to help Wikipedia..").
>> >
>> > I'm also going to ask Cary to make a page for this on meta, where we
>> > can discuss it, and people can post events. I would ask you please to
>> > translate and share this note with whoever you like. I know that not
>> > everyone can afford to make a financial contribution to the
>> > fundraiser: I am hoping some people will choose to support it (us) by
>> > helping with Edit Wikipedia Week instead.
>> >
>> > The first thing we'll need to do is finalize a date. I think December
>> > 3 would probably work best, but please let me know if/why you think
>> > another week would be better.
>> >
>> > And lastly .. I am thinking this could become an annual event. In that
>> > spirit, this year may be a little wonky and haphazard, which would be
>> > okay. If it goes well, we'll learn some good lessons, and next year
>> > will be better :-)
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Sue
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Internal-l mailing list
>> > Internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > ComProj mailing list
>> > ComProj(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/comproj
>> >
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> ComProj mailing list
>> ComProj(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/comproj
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> ComProj mailing list
> ComProj(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/comproj
>
I have several projects I need help with. I need someone that could
dedicate at least an hour a day, and that can work closely with me. The
projects are actually quite cool. if interested, please email me
directly, I will be semi-around for comproj meeting, so ping me then as
well :)
sandy :)
--
Sandy Ordonez
Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Phone: 727.231.0101
Fax: 727.258.0207S
E-Mail: sordonez(a)wikimedia.org
Hello all,
I will not be available for this week's meeting due to being at my
Grandparents. Would someone like to lead/chair the meeting in my
stead? I will give you my best gavel!
Also, please note that the meeting remains GMT despite some of us
moving timezones (I don't know if other countries have the hour change
at this time of year in the way the UK does, I expect they do at least
in Europe). So for those of us in Britain it is now an hour earlier,
at 8:30pm rather than 9:30pm. This will be easier for those in Europe,
not sure how it will affect others.
Let me know if you can lead on Wednesday.
Thanks,
Sean
I have been very patient and have gone insane. Is there a SFTP client with a
gui rather then having to type files?
thanx
symode09 +itunes
--------------------------------------------------
From: "Sean Whitton" <sean(a)silentflame.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 7:29 PM
To: "Discussion list for the Communication Projects Group"
<comproj(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [ComProj] WIKIMEDIA CENSUS
> Symode,
>
> I think it could be done with a little patience :-)
>
> I suggest you try getting an SFTP client working then you can upload
> really quickly. Try FileZilla.
>
> Sean
>
> On 11/6/07, symode09(a)hotmail.com <symode09(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a toolserv account however, it was a bitch (srry bout language)
>> uploading it and, I recieved NO help - I attempted to get help for over a
>> month and, asked everywhere, my conclusion: people on the toolserv are
>> generally douchebags
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Sean Whitton" <sean(a)silentflame.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 7:22 PM
>> To: "Discussion list for the Communication Projects Group"
>> <comproj(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Subject: Re: [ComProj] WIKIMEDIA CENSUS
>>
>> > Symode,
>> >
>> > Your use of the Wikimedia logo on your pages is questionable as they
>> > are not official. Have you considered getting a [[m:toolserver]]
>> > account to run this survey off? That would probably be a more
>> > appropriate option.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Sean
>> >
>> > On 11/6/07, symode09(a)hotmail.com <symode09(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Hey everyone! I have begun working on the census and have a section on
>> >> most
>> >> projects where I would like questions to be put up. I am working on
>> >> the
>> >> coding/layout of it all so, take a look at the preview at
>> >> http://loopaustralia.com/survey/index.php?sid=54369&lang=en - it may
>> >> not
>> >> work for everyone since it has not been published but, you can have a
>> >> very
>> >> rough idea about how it looks. It will slowly evolve so, keep checking
>> >> back.
>> >> There is a section on each project in the same location on each;
>> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Census
>> >> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Census
>> >> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Census
>> >> etc.
>> >>
>> >> We need help to work out how we could get users to fill it out, by the
>> >> name,
>> >> a census is meant to be filled out by the entire community but,
>> >> emailing
>> >> out
>> >> to 5 million+ users would be a world record spamming (c) brianmc
>> >>
>> >> Any ideas on how we could do it?
>> >>
>> >> thanx
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> symode09 + brown_cat + itunes
>> >>
>> >> ---------------------------------------------
>> >> From: "Sean Whitton" <sean(a)silentflame.com>
>> >> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 6:49 PM
>> >> To: "ComProj" <comproj(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>> >> Subject: [ComProj] Fwd: [Internal-l] Edit Wikipedia Week: call
>> >> forparticipation
>> >>
>> >> > Hello all,
>> >> >
>> >> > The following was posted to internal-l by Sue regarding a possible
>> >> > 'Edit Wikipedia Week' to be held in December as part of a way of
>> >> > keeping the momentum of the fundraiser going. All are invited to
>> >> > participate in the planning for this event at
>> >> > <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edit_Wikipedia_Week>.
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks,
>> >> >
>> >> > Sean
>> >> >
>> >> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> >> > From: Sue Gardner <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org>
>> >> > Date: Nov 5, 2007 4:09 PM
>> >> > Subject: [Internal-l] Edit Wikipedia Week: call for participation
>> >> > To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed
>> >> > subscription)" <internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Hi folks,
>> >> >
>> >> > I'm writing to invite you –chapters, individuals, everyone- to help
>> >> > stage a bunch of "Edit Wikipedia Week" events in December. The idea
>> >> > is
>> >> > to pick a date, probably the week of December 3, and stage outreach
>> >> > events around the world designed to encourage people to participate
>> >> > in
>> >> > the projects.
>> >> >
>> >> > The events could be practically anything – big or small. You could
>> >> > speak about the projects at a local school; get yourself booked on
>> >> > TV;
>> >> > talk to a local photography club about contributing to Commons;
>> >> > organize a marathon weekend of translations; recruit new people to
>> >> > help you launch a WikiProject, or even just teach your mom how to
>> >> > edit. Anything that you think will improve the projects: the purpose
>> >> > is to reach out to people who don't edit, and encourage them to make
>> >> > a
>> >> > contribution.
>> >> >
>> >> > This is intended to be an experiment. The premise is that anyone can
>> >> > organize an event under this umbrella idea, and it can take whatever
>> >> > form makes sense to them. Nobody needs permission: feel free to just
>> >> > participate.
>> >> >
>> >> > Why now? As you know we're in the middle of the annual fundraiser,
>> >> > which this year runs from October 22 to December 23. Because it's so
>> >> > long, we want to stage events at various points, designed to keep
>> >> > the
>> >> > media and the public paying attention. We've got some Wikipedia
>> >> > Academies coming up in South Africa
>> >> > http://internal.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Academies on November
>> >> > 10
>> >> > and 11, with Jimmy, Frank Schulenburg and Ndesanjo Macha. Edit
>> >> > Wikipedia Week would be the next big event after that.
>> >> >
>> >> > This would be focused on Wikipedia, because it's our biggest and
>> >> > best
>> >> > known project, and therefore most likely to generate interest among
>> >> > the media and general public. That doesn't mean we couldn't hold
>> >> > similar events for Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikisource, or any other WMF
>> >> > project. Implementation-wise, I'm thinking of having us set up
>> >> > edit.wikipedia.org, which would redirect to pages in the local
>> >> > Wikipedias. Each of those pages would also refer back to the ongoing
>> >> > fundraiser with a little info-box (something along the lines of
>> >> > "There
>> >> > are different ways to help Wikipedia..").
>> >> >
>> >> > I'm also going to ask Cary to make a page for this on meta, where we
>> >> > can discuss it, and people can post events. I would ask you please
>> >> > to
>> >> > translate and share this note with whoever you like. I know that not
>> >> > everyone can afford to make a financial contribution to the
>> >> > fundraiser: I am hoping some people will choose to support it (us)
>> >> > by
>> >> > helping with Edit Wikipedia Week instead.
>> >> >
>> >> > The first thing we'll need to do is finalize a date. I think
>> >> > December
>> >> > 3 would probably work best, but please let me know if/why you think
>> >> > another week would be better.
>> >> >
>> >> > And lastly .. I am thinking this could become an annual event. In
>> >> > that
>> >> > spirit, this year may be a little wonky and haphazard, which would
>> >> > be
>> >> > okay. If it goes well, we'll learn some good lessons, and next year
>> >> > will be better :-)
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks,
>> >> > Sue
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > _______________________________________________
>> >> > Internal-l mailing list
>> >> > Internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> >> > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l
>> >> >
>> >> > _______________________________________________
>> >> > ComProj mailing list
>> >> > ComProj(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> >> > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/comproj
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> _______________________________________________
>> >> ComProj mailing list
>> >> ComProj(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> >> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/comproj
>> >>
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > ComProj mailing list
>> > ComProj(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/comproj
>> >
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> ComProj mailing list
>> ComProj(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/comproj
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> ComProj mailing list
> ComProj(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/comproj
>
Platonides; most php pages similar to surveys often screw up with php, the
site *should* work with the back button but, many don't. I think the survey
can but, I have not tested.
NOTE TO EVERYONE: Please don't tell me mistakes - if you look for a few
seconds you could find at least 20 - I simply gave the link so you guys
could simply see a *little* of how it will look and so in the future, you
can look at it and it will evolve (slowly) - if you look in a week when I
have a few questions, you will see an early short prototype.
thanx everyone for the help :)
deni + ipod
--------------------------------------------------
From: "Michael Bimmler" <mbimmler(a)gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 11:10 PM
To: "Discussion list for the Communication Projects Group"
<comproj(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [ComProj] WIKIMEDIA CENSUS
> On 11/6/07, Platonides <platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> symode09 wrote:
>> > I have been very patient and have gone insane. Is there a SFTP client
>> > with a
>> > gui rather then having to type files?
>> > thanx
>> >
>> >
>> > symode09 +itunes
>>
>> In which OS are you?
>> Assuming Windows, you should try out WinSCP3.
>> I hope that by typing you don't mean manually copying the files to a
>> shell...
>>
>> If you have any problems.
>>
>>
>> On the survey, "Choose only one of the following" is superflous when you
>> can only choose one.
>> "If this is incorrect, please go back. Do not use your browser
>> controlls, use the button inside the page." -> There's no back button in
>> the page (and the web should be able to work with the browser back
>> button).
>>
>> What type of account on Wikiversity do you have?
>> You can't have a Developer account on any WMF wiki.
>
> In theory...
> Look e.g. at
> http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AListusers&username=&gro…
>
> Developers there are "Aoineko", "Hashar" and "Shaihulud"
>
> On dewikipedia, it's Eloquence and Magnus Manske.
>
> I agree that it is somewhat redundant to have these (they don't serve
> any purpose anymore, do they?) but they are still there...
>
>> Nor can you be steward per wiki (you are or not on the global WMF wikis).
>> Nor can you AFAIK have Oversight other than in en: wikipedia (it's
>> handled by stewards).
>>
>
> In Theory, yes. In practice there seems to be a bit of a mess
> On dewikipedia, Tim_Starling has oversight
> On frwikipedia, Anthere and Cary Bass have oversight
> Other projects, I didn't check.
>
>
>
>
>> Keeping it Standard User / Administrator / Bureaucrat sohould be enough.
>> Only maybe having Checkuser.
>>
>
> Checkuser should be added, imho.
>
> Michael
>
>> Platonides
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/comproj
>>
>
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Michael: No, it is not a bug at all
I need questions first, I just sent you the link so, every now and then you
can see how the survey has developed. Wikiversity have been the only project
to add questions (although, many of them are not impoortant, ie. they want
to ask in the census if the video player is working - not relevant IMHO
thanks though for taking a look, you will slowly see it develop. I am gonna
go mad adding the data - there is gonna be like 30 questions from each
project (people filling out the census won't need to answer them all, they
will only need to answer around 30-35 in total.
thanx
symode09 + deni + itunes
--------------------------------------------------
From: "Michael Bimmler" <mbimmler(a)gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 9:31 PM
To: "Discussion list for the Communication Projects Group"
<comproj(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [ComProj] WIKIMEDIA CENSUS
> Something seems to bit a be wrong...
> In question "Which Wikimedia Project do you work on the most?", I
> checked "Wikipedia". One screen later it says "This section will ask
> you questions about WIKIVERSITY which, you specified you spend the
> most time on." Bug?
>
> Michael
> On 11/6/07, symode09(a)hotmail.com <symode09(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey everyone! I have begun working on the census and have a section on
>> most
>> projects where I would like questions to be put up. I am working on the
>> coding/layout of it all so, take a look at the preview at
>> http://loopaustralia.com/survey/index.php?sid=54369&lang=en - it may not
>> work for everyone since it has not been published but, you can have a
>> very
>> rough idea about how it looks. It will slowly evolve so, keep checking
>> back.
>> There is a section on each project in the same location on each;
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Census
>> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Census
>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Census
>> etc.
>>
>> We need help to work out how we could get users to fill it out, by the
>> name,
>> a census is meant to be filled out by the entire community but, emailing
>> out
>> to 5 million+ users would be a world record spamming (c) brianmc
>>
>> Any ideas on how we could do it?
>>
>> thanx
>>
>>
>> symode09 + brown_cat + itunes
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------
>> From: "Sean Whitton" <sean(a)silentflame.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 6:49 PM
>> To: "ComProj" <comproj(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Subject: [ComProj] Fwd: [Internal-l] Edit Wikipedia Week: call
>> forparticipation
>>
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > The following was posted to internal-l by Sue regarding a possible
>> > 'Edit Wikipedia Week' to be held in December as part of a way of
>> > keeping the momentum of the fundraiser going. All are invited to
>> > participate in the planning for this event at
>> > <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edit_Wikipedia_Week>.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Sean
>> >
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > From: Sue Gardner <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org>
>> > Date: Nov 5, 2007 4:09 PM
>> > Subject: [Internal-l] Edit Wikipedia Week: call for participation
>> > To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed
>> > subscription)" <internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi folks,
>> >
>> > I'm writing to invite you –chapters, individuals, everyone- to help
>> > stage a bunch of "Edit Wikipedia Week" events in December. The idea is
>> > to pick a date, probably the week of December 3, and stage outreach
>> > events around the world designed to encourage people to participate in
>> > the projects.
>> >
>> > The events could be practically anything – big or small. You could
>> > speak about the projects at a local school; get yourself booked on TV;
>> > talk to a local photography club about contributing to Commons;
>> > organize a marathon weekend of translations; recruit new people to
>> > help you launch a WikiProject, or even just teach your mom how to
>> > edit. Anything that you think will improve the projects: the purpose
>> > is to reach out to people who don't edit, and encourage them to make a
>> > contribution.
>> >
>> > This is intended to be an experiment. The premise is that anyone can
>> > organize an event under this umbrella idea, and it can take whatever
>> > form makes sense to them. Nobody needs permission: feel free to just
>> > participate.
>> >
>> > Why now? As you know we're in the middle of the annual fundraiser,
>> > which this year runs from October 22 to December 23. Because it's so
>> > long, we want to stage events at various points, designed to keep the
>> > media and the public paying attention. We've got some Wikipedia
>> > Academies coming up in South Africa
>> > http://internal.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Academies on November 10
>> > and 11, with Jimmy, Frank Schulenburg and Ndesanjo Macha. Edit
>> > Wikipedia Week would be the next big event after that.
>> >
>> > This would be focused on Wikipedia, because it's our biggest and best
>> > known project, and therefore most likely to generate interest among
>> > the media and general public. That doesn't mean we couldn't hold
>> > similar events for Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikisource, or any other WMF
>> > project. Implementation-wise, I'm thinking of having us set up
>> > edit.wikipedia.org, which would redirect to pages in the local
>> > Wikipedias. Each of those pages would also refer back to the ongoing
>> > fundraiser with a little info-box (something along the lines of "There
>> > are different ways to help Wikipedia..").
>> >
>> > I'm also going to ask Cary to make a page for this on meta, where we
>> > can discuss it, and people can post events. I would ask you please to
>> > translate and share this note with whoever you like. I know that not
>> > everyone can afford to make a financial contribution to the
>> > fundraiser: I am hoping some people will choose to support it (us) by
>> > helping with Edit Wikipedia Week instead.
>> >
>> > The first thing we'll need to do is finalize a date. I think December
>> > 3 would probably work best, but please let me know if/why you think
>> > another week would be better.
>> >
>> > And lastly .. I am thinking this could become an annual event. In that
>> > spirit, this year may be a little wonky and haphazard, which would be
>> > okay. If it goes well, we'll learn some good lessons, and next year
>> > will be better :-)
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Sue
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Internal-l mailing list
>> > Internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > ComProj mailing list
>> > ComProj(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/comproj
>> >
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> ComProj mailing list
>> ComProj(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/comproj
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> ComProj mailing list
> ComProj(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/comproj
>
Hey everyone! I have begun working on the census and have a section on most
projects where I would like questions to be put up. I am working on the
coding/layout of it all so, take a look at the preview at
http://loopaustralia.com/survey/index.php?sid=54369&lang=en - it may not
work for everyone since it has not been published but, you can have a very
rough idea about how it looks. It will slowly evolve so, keep checking back.
There is a section on each project in the same location on each;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Censushttp://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Censushttp://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Census
etc.
We need help to work out how we could get users to fill it out, by the name,
a census is meant to be filled out by the entire community but, emailing out
to 5 million+ users would be a world record spamming (c) brianmc
Any ideas on how we could do it?
thanx
symode09 + brown_cat + itunes
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From: "Sean Whitton" <sean(a)silentflame.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 6:49 PM
To: "ComProj" <comproj(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [ComProj] Fwd: [Internal-l] Edit Wikipedia Week: call
forparticipation
> Hello all,
>
> The following was posted to internal-l by Sue regarding a possible
> 'Edit Wikipedia Week' to be held in December as part of a way of
> keeping the momentum of the fundraiser going. All are invited to
> participate in the planning for this event at
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edit_Wikipedia_Week>.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sean
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Sue Gardner <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org>
> Date: Nov 5, 2007 4:09 PM
> Subject: [Internal-l] Edit Wikipedia Week: call for participation
> To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed
> subscription)" <internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm writing to invite you –chapters, individuals, everyone- to help
> stage a bunch of "Edit Wikipedia Week" events in December. The idea is
> to pick a date, probably the week of December 3, and stage outreach
> events around the world designed to encourage people to participate in
> the projects.
>
> The events could be practically anything – big or small. You could
> speak about the projects at a local school; get yourself booked on TV;
> talk to a local photography club about contributing to Commons;
> organize a marathon weekend of translations; recruit new people to
> help you launch a WikiProject, or even just teach your mom how to
> edit. Anything that you think will improve the projects: the purpose
> is to reach out to people who don't edit, and encourage them to make a
> contribution.
>
> This is intended to be an experiment. The premise is that anyone can
> organize an event under this umbrella idea, and it can take whatever
> form makes sense to them. Nobody needs permission: feel free to just
> participate.
>
> Why now? As you know we're in the middle of the annual fundraiser,
> which this year runs from October 22 to December 23. Because it's so
> long, we want to stage events at various points, designed to keep the
> media and the public paying attention. We've got some Wikipedia
> Academies coming up in South Africa
> http://internal.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Academies on November 10
> and 11, with Jimmy, Frank Schulenburg and Ndesanjo Macha. Edit
> Wikipedia Week would be the next big event after that.
>
> This would be focused on Wikipedia, because it's our biggest and best
> known project, and therefore most likely to generate interest among
> the media and general public. That doesn't mean we couldn't hold
> similar events for Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikisource, or any other WMF
> project. Implementation-wise, I'm thinking of having us set up
> edit.wikipedia.org, which would redirect to pages in the local
> Wikipedias. Each of those pages would also refer back to the ongoing
> fundraiser with a little info-box (something along the lines of "There
> are different ways to help Wikipedia..").
>
> I'm also going to ask Cary to make a page for this on meta, where we
> can discuss it, and people can post events. I would ask you please to
> translate and share this note with whoever you like. I know that not
> everyone can afford to make a financial contribution to the
> fundraiser: I am hoping some people will choose to support it (us) by
> helping with Edit Wikipedia Week instead.
>
> The first thing we'll need to do is finalize a date. I think December
> 3 would probably work best, but please let me know if/why you think
> another week would be better.
>
> And lastly .. I am thinking this could become an annual event. In that
> spirit, this year may be a little wonky and haphazard, which would be
> okay. If it goes well, we'll learn some good lessons, and next year
> will be better :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Sue
>
>
>
>
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Hello all,
Firstly, this e-mail is not directives or commands or anything like
that, but I am throwing lots of ideas around in the hope that they
will bounce off some of you. I am thinking that due to a lack of other
issues the following could also be discussed exclusively at
Wednesday's meeting, so it would be good if as many of our members
could attend as possible for this reason as this is pretty important.
I think most of us will admit that right now ComProj is not doing a
lot. I think that there are a number of reasons for this, which I will
try to outline.
1) Lack of work
In general, we are not being given enough things to do. Those that we
do get end up being an individual thing between someone and a ComProj
member which is not ideal as it would be better to work more as a
group.
2) Lack of participation
We don't actually have that many active members right now. We could do
with recruiting more or we can't get done what we intend to.
3) Lack of motivation
I don't think people are interested in the projects we have. This
means nothing gets done. There is no expectation that members should
do things they are not interested in in this group (perhaps this is so
for the ComCom, but not ComProj which should be enjoyable in all
aspects)
So how do we solve this? I think that we need to make some fundamental
decisions, as a group, about how we want ComProj to work. Do we need
to formalise, bring in membership requirements (i.e. doing work, not
that people should be qualified to join initially), or do we need to
stop worrying about set projects and simply have a pool of people to
access via the mailing list.
Unsurprisingly, since I am chair and we are in this situation, I am
stumped. Ideas welcome.
Thanks,
Sean
Hello all,
The following was posted to internal-l by Sue regarding a possible
'Edit Wikipedia Week' to be held in December as part of a way of
keeping the momentum of the fundraiser going. All are invited to
participate in the planning for this event at
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edit_Wikipedia_Week>.
Thanks,
Sean
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sue Gardner <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Nov 5, 2007 4:09 PM
Subject: [Internal-l] Edit Wikipedia Week: call for participation
To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed
subscription)" <internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi folks,
I'm writing to invite you –chapters, individuals, everyone- to help
stage a bunch of "Edit Wikipedia Week" events in December. The idea is
to pick a date, probably the week of December 3, and stage outreach
events around the world designed to encourage people to participate in
the projects.
The events could be practically anything – big or small. You could
speak about the projects at a local school; get yourself booked on TV;
talk to a local photography club about contributing to Commons;
organize a marathon weekend of translations; recruit new people to
help you launch a WikiProject, or even just teach your mom how to
edit. Anything that you think will improve the projects: the purpose
is to reach out to people who don't edit, and encourage them to make a
contribution.
This is intended to be an experiment. The premise is that anyone can
organize an event under this umbrella idea, and it can take whatever
form makes sense to them. Nobody needs permission: feel free to just
participate.
Why now? As you know we're in the middle of the annual fundraiser,
which this year runs from October 22 to December 23. Because it's so
long, we want to stage events at various points, designed to keep the
media and the public paying attention. We've got some Wikipedia
Academies coming up in South Africa
http://internal.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Academies on November 10
and 11, with Jimmy, Frank Schulenburg and Ndesanjo Macha. Edit
Wikipedia Week would be the next big event after that.
This would be focused on Wikipedia, because it's our biggest and best
known project, and therefore most likely to generate interest among
the media and general public. That doesn't mean we couldn't hold
similar events for Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikisource, or any other WMF
project. Implementation-wise, I'm thinking of having us set up
edit.wikipedia.org, which would redirect to pages in the local
Wikipedias. Each of those pages would also refer back to the ongoing
fundraiser with a little info-box (something along the lines of "There
are different ways to help Wikipedia..").
I'm also going to ask Cary to make a page for this on meta, where we
can discuss it, and people can post events. I would ask you please to
translate and share this note with whoever you like. I know that not
everyone can afford to make a financial contribution to the
fundraiser: I am hoping some people will choose to support it (us) by
helping with Edit Wikipedia Week instead.
The first thing we'll need to do is finalize a date. I think December
3 would probably work best, but please let me know if/why you think
another week would be better.
And lastly .. I am thinking this could become an annual event. In that
spirit, this year may be a little wonky and haphazard, which would be
okay. If it goes well, we'll learn some good lessons, and next year
will be better :-)
Thanks,
Sue
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