Hello all,
At the IRC meeting this evening we brainstormed a great deal about how
we can better manage Wikimedia's PR material in the future, and we
established an action plan for the first stage, which I'm summarising
here. Please be bold and get involved in this.
The idea is to tag all of our PR material, whatever the form or quality,
with a hidden category on the wiki it is on. Then, this hidden category
will be linked to on our meta page, [[m:PR material cleanup]]. From
there we can then decide what to do with it all. We just need volunteers
to find this stuff at present.
So:
1) Find PR material - there are some starting locations on [[m:PR
material cleanup]].
2) Determine if the wiki you are working on has [[Category:WMF-COM]]. If
it doesn't, create it from the template at [[m:Category:WMF-COM]] and
put a link to this category on [[m:PR material cleanup]].
3) Add the category to all PR material pages you can find.
I hope this is reasonably clear. Thanks for your help in this.
Sean
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Hey all,
We're going to hold an IRC meeting on Wednesday at 2030 UTC (standard
ComProj meeting time) to discuss the PR materials cleanup project in
order to get everything in order and to get going.
It'll be in #wikimedia-cpg - do join us if you can.
Thanks,
Sean
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Hello all,
A project to get involved in:
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PR_material_cleanup>
"An effort has been started to bring together all the PR and
communications material out there around various wikis and other
locations in one organised space here on meta. It is being loosely
co-ordinated by Sean Whitton and involves ComCom, ComProj and Jay
Walsh. At the moment the project is being planned on this page, which
you are invited to pitch in and edit (discussion should take place on
the ComProj list). When this planning is complete, things will go
ahead per the below plan (which of course can be changed).
The idea is to have a plan and brutally work away at it in order to
get this done in a reasonable timeframe. By focussing on just
PR/communications stuff, we should be able to avoid drifting off and
should be able to finish this project. So, once this page has been
open for planning for a week or so, we'll just get going."
Interested? Go and sign up and contribute to the skeleton and plan :)
Thanks,
Sean
Hello,
A useful element for a leaflet or booklet are short bios of
Wikipedians, to show what kind of people actually contribute. For
example, in my prototype German booklet I present Dr. Josef Winiger
form Switzerland, a philosopher and translator of fictional
literature. His PhD thesis was about the famous 19th century thinker
Ludwig Feuerbach. He is also main author of the article "Ludwig
Feuerbach", and for that he was awarded in 2007 with the
Zedler-Medaille of Wikimedia Deutschland and the Akademie der
Wissenschaften und Literatur (Mainz).
Another one is 15 year old user "Suedwester93" from Münster who is
interested in the history of German resistence, believes that India is
the coming super power and that Loriot is the greatest comedian of all
times. He wrote the articles "Deutsche Botschaft London" and "Salomon
Blumenau".
You see, such short bios include something interesting, something that
makes people curious (a 15 year old encyclopedian? let's have a look
at that articles!). They link the notion "Wikipedia" positively with
real (even if anonymous) persons.
Would it be a good idea to collect such bios at Meta-Wiki, in the
original language and also in English? At the moment, I am looking for
some bios about Wikipedians from other Wikipedias than the German one.
Kind regards
Ziko
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Hi Liam,
And thanks you so much for the reports. HYPERLINK
"http://wikipediaweekly.org/"http://wikipediaweekly.org/
Would you like to consider hosting sessions for this group, perhaps at the
same time as the IRC meetup?
I think we mind find that what you’ve been doing is a lot more inclusive.
Thanks and regards, simon
Just thought I'd drop a note to the list readership to say that I've
joined up here. *waves to all*
Hopefully I can be of use and am looking forward to contributing to
discussion.
Best,
-Liam
www.wikipediaweekly.com
Skype - Wittylama
Wikipedia - [[User:Witty lama]]
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1:16 PM
Hello,
After some questions came up, I decided to build up some pages at Meta
belonging to the issue "Multilingual Wikipedia".
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multilingual_Wikipedia
It serves as an overview for the pages that deal with these aspects of
Wikipedia.
One of the new pages is
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tell_us_about_your_Wikipedia
Wikipedians love to tell about their language edition, but often
simply no one askes them. I hope that by this way we get some
interesting answers on how Wikipedians do promote their edition and
what problems they face.
Of course, the idea is to learn from each other and improve the
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ziko/manualnsw
Manual for new and small Wikipedias.
Please have a look, check the spelling and add some ideas.
Kind regards
Ziko
Ziko van Dijk
NL-Silvolde
Dear fellow Wikimedians,
At Meta:Communication Projects Group/Projects I have foreseen a small
evaluation in the beginning of August for
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ziko/manualnsw
, the manual for new and small Wikipedias.
I would like you to read the chapters and tell me or mail to this list
or put onto the talk page what you think about it, what should be
different, what is missing etc. - and where we should move it to.
Kind regards
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NL-Silvolde
Just thought I'd drop a note to the list readership to say that I've
joined up here. *waves to all*
Hopefully I can be of use and am looking forward to contributing to
discussion.
Best,
-Liam
www.wikipediaweekly.com
Skype - Wittylama
Wikipedia - [[User:Witty lama]]