This is seriously a tricky question. Like me, I am a hardcore Wikipedian, but I am not attending this event due to personal issues.
Regards,Hydrizhttp://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hydriz
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> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:53:21 +0800
> To: wikimedia-sg(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-SG] Wikimedia-SG Digest, Vol 1, Issue 7
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> I really dont think Singapore has too many hardcore Wikipedians or whatever you call it. I myself am not one either, but Im willing to sacrifice one of my good weekends for the 10th anniversary of Wikipedia- Im sure many people would too if this event were more lively
We've tried IRC before, I still have it up and running, but it's no longer
in use.
Tdxiang
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Can we make this a lively event?
It will attract more people if we offer more perks, rather than just a simple wikipedia-editing day
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> On Jan 11, 2011, at 21:07, Wikis Organisation <admin(a)wikisorg.tk> wrote:
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>> Hi guys,
>>
>> This is rather the first time I am posting here... But I am not attending the Wikipedia meetup as on that day, I have something else on. I do hope that you guys can point me out to the news reporter! :)
>>
>> Hmm, can I also find out when is this article is going to be published?
>>
>> From: anirudhsbh(a)gmail.com
>> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:12:56 +0530
>> To: wikimedia-sg(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> CC: mailer.diablo(a)gmail.com; bjornteo(a)sph.com.sg
>> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-SG] Inquiry into Singapore Wikipedia Team by The New Paper
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>> Hi Gaurav,
>>
>> Thank you for sending this email to the mailing list.
>>
>> Hi Bjorn,
>>
>> Please reach out to Kua K.H. and Terence Ong (cc'd on the email), they have been around on Wikipedia since the olden days of our project and both are very experienced. Kua is also an administrator on the English Wikipedia and a member of the Arbitration Committee.
>>
>> Yours sincerely,
>>
>> Anirudh Bhati
>>
>> 00 91 9328712208
>> Skype: anirudhsbh
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>>
>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Gaurav Vaidya <gaurav(a)ggvaidya.com> wrote:
>> Hi Bjorn,
>>
>> Thanks so much for your interest! Unfortunately, there isn't really a
>> local group at the moment. I'm forwarding your e-mail to the
>> WikiMedia-SG mailing list, which is where the organization of this
>> event is happening. There might be long-term editors on this mailing
>> list interested in talking to you directly, or who have a better idea
>> than me as to where hardcore Wikipedia contributors might be found in
>> Singapore. If they do, I'm sure they'll get in touch with you
>> directly.
>>
>> Otherwise, I'm afraid your best option will be to come down on
>> Saturday, where you can meet with all of us and get a sense of how
>> many Wikipedians there are in Singapore and what we do. Hope you can
>> join us for some cake!
>>
>> cheers,
>> Gaurav
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
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>> Date: 11 January 2011 13:57
>> Subject: Inquiry into Singapore Wikipedia Team by The New Paper
>> To: gaurav(a)ggvaidya.com
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>>
>> Hello Gaurav,
>>
>> This is Bjorn from The New Paper. I got your email from my polytechnic
>> course mate, Ding Xiang. I believe he is your colleague.
>>
>> This is regarding a story we're chasing on a group of hardcore
>> wikipedia contributors located in Singapore. We are looking to do a
>> story on this select group of contributors and possibly do a feature
>> of the members of this group.
>>
>> Would you be able to grant me an interview with, say, 4 or 5 members
>> of this group? Would really appreciate your help with this.
>>
>> Thanks for your time and I hope to hear from you soon!
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>> Regards,
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Hi Bjorn,
Thanks so much for your interest! Unfortunately, there isn't really a
local group at the moment. I'm forwarding your e-mail to the
WikiMedia-SG mailing list, which is where the organization of this
event is happening. There might be long-term editors on this mailing
list interested in talking to you directly, or who have a better idea
than me as to where hardcore Wikipedia contributors might be found in
Singapore. If they do, I'm sure they'll get in touch with you
directly.
Otherwise, I'm afraid your best option will be to come down on
Saturday, where you can meet with all of us and get a sense of how
many Wikipedians there are in Singapore and what we do. Hope you can
join us for some cake!
cheers,
Gaurav
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From: Bjorn Teo WC <bjornteo(a)sph.com.sg>
Date: 11 January 2011 13:57
Subject: Inquiry into Singapore Wikipedia Team by The New Paper
To: gaurav(a)ggvaidya.com
Hello Gaurav,
This is Bjorn from The New Paper. I got your email from my polytechnic
course mate, Ding Xiang. I believe he is your colleague.
This is regarding a story we're chasing on a group of hardcore
wikipedia contributors located in Singapore. We are looking to do a
story on this select group of contributors and possibly do a feature
of the members of this group.
Would you be able to grant me an interview with, say, 4 or 5 members
of this group? Would really appreciate your help with this.
Thanks for your time and I hope to hear from you soon!
Regards,
Bjorn Teo Wen Cheng
The New Paper
Singapore Press Holdings
1000 Toa Payoh North, News Centre
Level 6, Annexe Block
Singapore 318994
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Heya,
So far, the RSVP form has eight positive replies, with 4 "almost certains" (+ 2 on Facebook) and 4 maybes (+1 on Facebook). So it looks like there'll be 4 to 11 people come next Saturday.
So far, a lot of people seem to like the idea of just meeting up for coffee - I did that at Slashdot's 10th anniversary, and it was plenty of fun just like that. Does anybody know any nice coffee places with enough space for 10-20 people? (our numbers might go up over the next week if we can market this event a bit on mailing lists and Facebook) If so, let me know and I'll make a reservation.
A slightly more sophisticated meet up could be at Hackerspace.sg (if we can talk them into lending us the space). The question is, what would we do there? Other WikiX events seem to have a lot of talks in them, but I don't know where we'd find speakers for that at such short notice. So unless somebody comes up with a good idea for this, I don't think we'll bother. But ...
... we could run a (mini) Editathon, like they're doing at the British Library, London [1]. It sounds awesome and also a lot of fun, and would give us something to focus on in terms of our organization. We could pick Singapore related pages to clean up and work on, or just work on our own articles or interests. This would be brilliant, as we'd have definite goals, would keep people interested all day long, but also have plenty of time to disengage and chat with each other. Space *oughtn't* to be an issue, as I think this is the sort of event that Hackerspace might get excited about. There might be networking issues or other problems, but if we're on a public Wifi I think we ought to probably be okay.
Interestingly, *three* of the people interested in coming for the party have *never* edited Wikipedia at all, so maybe we can also have "How to edit your first article" type discussions or lectures. Would anybody be interested in organizing those?
Meanwhile, I'm going to try to get the people who signed up on Wikipedia but didn't RSVP to do so, so we know how likely their showing up is. I'll also drop e-mails to NLB and Hackerspace, and see if they'd be interested or have ideas as to how to run this.
cheers,
Gaurav
[1] http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editathon,_British_Library
Dear All,
I'm Chandra.Cheers!! to all.
Good know about the Wikipedia 10th celebration. I would like to join.I have Wikipedia log-in and long ago try to start a new article in English.Last year i have donated a little amount to Wikipedia Foundation.If possible if can ask Singapore Computer Society for Space or Sponsor (not sure it FOC).But i afraid we have not much time?
Can anyone share the correct FB page?
What to do next ? When? Where?
With kindest regards & thanks,
Chandra
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2. Re: Wikipedia X Celebrations in Singapore (Gaurav Vaidya)
3. Re: Wikipedia X Celebrations in Singapore (York Koon Tan)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:48:05 +0530
From: Anirudh Bhati
Subject: [Wikimedia-SG] Wikipedia X Celebrations in Singapore
To: Wikimedia Singapore ,Andrew
Yeung , Yoong Ren Yan
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Greetings, Wikipedians!
There are only a few of us on this list, so we must make the best out
of whatever capital we have here. The Tenth Anniversary of the
Wikipedia project is fast approaching[0] and Gaurav Vaidya is helping
support a small event to celebrate the occasion.[1] Is there a way we
could make this happen in Singapore?
Terence, it would be great if you could personally talk to some of the
Wikipedian volunteers to join this list and find out if they would be
interested in attending this event.
Mohan, would you help Gaurav and Terence to find a venue and structure
the event? It could be an informal barbeque party where Wikipedia
enthusiasts gather around to celebrate the anniversary of our
movement. Funds can be made available from the Wikimedia Foundation
through the grants process.[2]
Andrew and Ren Yan, please join this list to keep abreast of volunteer
activities in the city.
Preetam (on-list) told me about a bar-owner in SG making donations to
the Wikimedia Foundation based on the number of drinks sold.
Guys, do let me know if I can assist in any way possible.
Yours sincerely,
Anirudh Bhati
00 91 9328712208
Skype: anirudhsbh
[0] http://ten.wikipedia.org
[1] http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore
[2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Index
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 02:08:39 +0800
From: Gaurav Vaidya
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-SG] Wikipedia X Celebrations in Singapore
To: Wikimedia Singapore
Cc: Andrew Yeung , Yoong Ren Yan
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Hello folks!
On 29-Dec-2010, at 4:18 AM, Anirudh Bhati wrote:
> There are only a few of us on this list, so we must make the best out
> of whatever capital we have here. The Tenth Anniversary of the
> Wikipedia project is fast approaching[0] and Gaurav Vaidya is helping
> support a small event to celebrate the occasion.[1] Is there a way we
> could make this happen in Singapore?
If you're interested in attending, could you please fill in this form: http://tinyurl.com/wikipedia-10-singapore
I'm trying to get a good estimate of the number of people interested - three people have e-mailed me regarding this, so there is *some* interest.
> Mohan, would you help Gaurav and Terence to find a venue and structure
> the event? It could be an informal barbeque party where Wikipedia
> enthusiasts gather around to celebrate the anniversary of our
> movement. Funds can be made available from the Wikimedia Foundation
> through the grants process.[2]
Probably the best option for 5-20 people would be Hackerspace.sg [1] - they're usually pretty good about supporting open source/open content groups. If there's fewer than five, we could just meet somewhere for coffee and cake and reminisce :). If we're doing it at Hackerspace, I think we should try getting it a bit more structured: there'll be other people around, and we'd want to attract people to the cause.
> Preetam (on-list) told me about a bar-owner in SG making donations to
> the Wikimedia Foundation based on the number of drinks sold.
Woah! Which is that? Sounds awesome.
cheers,
Gaurav
[1] http://hackerspace.sg/
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 09:23:14 +0800
From: York Koon Tan
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-SG] Wikipedia X Celebrations in Singapore
To: Wikimedia Singapore
Cc: Andrew Yeung , Yoong Ren Yan
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Hi all, i'd be interested to attend. As I am posted overseas at the moment,
might not be able to help much in terms of organizing it.
Cheers,
YK Tan
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:08 AM, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
> Hello folks!
>
> On 29-Dec-2010, at 4:18 AM, Anirudh Bhati wrote:
> > There are only a few of us on this list, so we must make the best out
> > of whatever capital we have here. The Tenth Anniversary of the
> > Wikipedia project is fast approaching[0] and Gaurav Vaidya is helping
> > support a small event to celebrate the occasion.[1] Is there a way we
> > could make this happen in Singapore?
> If you're interested in attending, could you please fill in this form:
> http://tinyurl.com/wikipedia-10-singapore
> I'm trying to get a good estimate of the number of people interested -
> three people have e-mailed me regarding this, so there is *some* interest.
>
> > Mohan, would you help Gaurav and Terence to find a venue and structure
> > the event? It could be an informal barbeque party where Wikipedia
> > enthusiasts gather around to celebrate the anniversary of our
> > movement. Funds can be made available from the Wikimedia Foundation
> > through the grants process.[2]
> Probably the best option for 5-20 people would be Hackerspace.sg [1] -
> they're usually pretty good about supporting open source/open content
> groups. If there's fewer than five, we could just meet somewhere for coffee
> and cake and reminisce :). If we're doing it at Hackerspace, I think we
> should try getting it a bit more structured: there'll be other people
> around, and we'd want to attract people to the cause.
>
> > Preetam (on-list) told me about a bar-owner in SG making donations to
> > the Wikimedia Foundation based on the number of drinks sold.
> Woah! Which is that? Sounds awesome.
>
> cheers,
> Gaurav
>
> [1] http://hackerspace.sg/
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Hi everybody!
For the Wikipedia 10th Anniversary celebration on Jan 15, 2011, what do you all think of organizing an Editathon? I've written up my idea of what this would look like at: http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore#The_Editathon_Proposal
I think it'd be a great way of getting those of you who have not edited Wikipedia before to try your hand at contributing, and would be a great way to celebrate what a wonderful thing Wikipedia is. I'd like to get your feedback on what you think of the idea before committing to this idea, so let me know what you think!
cheers,
Gaurav
Greetings, Wikipedians!
There are only a few of us on this list, so we must make the best out
of whatever capital we have here. The Tenth Anniversary of the
Wikipedia project is fast approaching[0] and Gaurav Vaidya is helping
support a small event to celebrate the occasion.[1] Is there a way we
could make this happen in Singapore?
Terence, it would be great if you could personally talk to some of the
Wikipedian volunteers to join this list and find out if they would be
interested in attending this event.
Mohan, would you help Gaurav and Terence to find a venue and structure
the event? It could be an informal barbeque party where Wikipedia
enthusiasts gather around to celebrate the anniversary of our
movement. Funds can be made available from the Wikimedia Foundation
through the grants process.[2]
Andrew and Ren Yan, please join this list to keep abreast of volunteer
activities in the city.
Preetam (on-list) told me about a bar-owner in SG making donations to
the Wikimedia Foundation based on the number of drinks sold.
Guys, do let me know if I can assist in any way possible.
Yours sincerely,
Anirudh Bhati
00 91 9328712208
Skype: anirudhsbh
[0] http://ten.wikipedia.org
[1] http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore
[2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Index