Hello,
Just to let you a little bit about what happens in Sweden:
It has been a media frenzy, with us in Wikimedia Sverige and regular Wikipedians being interviewed in most major news outlets, including TV and the big newspapers. There have been some blog actvity, and there is a steady flow of Tweets.
Most of the stories and posts have been of generally higher quality than is usual, with the biggest newspaper, Dagens nyheter being among the best.
A little bit surprising to us is that the reporter Adam Svanell who wrote a story this autumn where he tested adding silly things to his Wikipedia article would get noticed (which is wasn't, since he's barely notable), and appeared quite critical towards Wikipedia, despite stating that he liked it - well, he has been seen everywhere during the anniversary media coverage. Apparently he's the go-to guy among journalists for the inside scoop about how bad Wikipedia is. The second twist in the story is that he has actually tried to say nice things about us, but the other journalists keep coming back to him with questions that focus on his article, which he admits is very un-scientific.
Some of the blog posts about our panel debate and party on the 13th have been a little critical, as well. Mostly they have complained that 1) we are very bad at organising events (which is why we paid a PR firm to do it for us - and also is somewhat positivt, since it means that we focus on other things), 2) the participants in the panel debate being badly selected, and 3) the debate itself being a little bit off-topic instead of concentrating on some of the hard questions about Wikipedia. I have blogged about it: http://wikimediasverige.wordpress.com (in Swedish).
We have a film of the panel debate, which we hopefully will upload today.
And in about four hours I will have to get up, so I'll get to bed now.
Have a good Wikipedia-day, everyone!
Best wishes,
Lennart Guldbrandsson,
Fellow of the Wikimedia Foundation / Wikimedia Foudation-stipendiat
Chair of Wikimedia Sverige / ordförande för Wikimedia Sverige http://wikimedia.se
Tfn: 031 - 12 50 48 Mobil: 070 - 207 80 05 Epost: l_guldbrandsson(a)hotmail.com Användarsida: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anv%C3%A4ndare:Hannibal Blogg: http://mrchapel.wordpress.com/
I'm assuming this was directed at the list.
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From: Thatoe Kyaw <myanmardj(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2011/1/14
Subject: LOGO design of Burmese (Myanmar) Language in Wikipedia 10 anniversary
To: wikix-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hello Wikipedia
Congratulation of your 10 years anniversary. This attache file is the
Burmese language logo of Wikipedia 10 anniversary.
Here is the 10 years anniversary of Wikipedia celebrates in
Burma(Myanmar)
http://freedomnewsgroup.com/2011/01/14/wikipedia-10-year-anniversary/
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Sincerely
Thatoe
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Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
Hey,
Just quick update (we will send soon full update about the events that we
arranged in Israel) but this morning we had about 400 people on "Lev" cinema
in Tel aviv, Israel. I think it was a great event, the people love that, the
press love that.
some photos from the event:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=43890&id=135920589795939http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_10_in_Israel
Video will come i hope during the next week...
Thanks to the foundation for the help.
Happy anniversary / Mazal Tov!
Itzik
Hi everyone,
So tomorrow is the actual anniversary, but there are already photos rolling in on Commons of the events, which you can see at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_10_events
Israel definitely wins the prize for most comprehensive coverage so far with 97 photos. Go Itzik and Wikimedia Israel! Stockholm is the runner up, with 46 photos. There are also some very nice shots from Poland, Amsterdam, Indore and Jaipur. Even just one good photo does the job in my opinion.
Thank you to everyone who has uploaded so far. I cannot understate how excited it makes everyone at the Foundation to see these. I will be adding some of them to the photo gallery on tenwiki (http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_gallery) and I'm going to highlight the gallery on the main page.
I also know there are some photos of events (like the awesome kite flying in Bangladesh) that are on Facebook but not on Commons yet. If there's any way we can share those outside Facebook, that would be great. If not, just be sure to post them to the "10 years of Wikipedia" event page.
Let me know if you need any help getting things on Commons. I am happy to upload anything if you want to send me the files. Of course, there's also the guide created by Jay at http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organize/Record_our_history
Thank you, and happy anniversary!
Steven Walling
Fellow at the Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org
Hello,
please help. User whom I mentioned before who is organizing the alleged
Wikimeeting in Rijeka continues to refuse to publish anything about this
meeting.
Now on IRC he says that there he will meet with his friends who are not
Wikipedia users.
How can be something called Wikimeeting if it is hidden from Wikipedia
users, and if on this meeting there will be one new user and others who are
not really part of the community?
http://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razgovor_sa_suradnikom:Anton008#Susrethttp://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rijekahttp://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Rijeka
Roberta
Hello Everyone,
We Wikipedians in Jaipur celebrated the anniversary
(First Wikipedia chapter) without the goodies and we don't complaint
because we know Jay and Steven are really very busy with other stuffs as
well. I appeal everyone to keep patience and wait for the goodies. Hope they
will arrive to you all at time but believe me it is a great fun to celebrate
the event. I wish all you all the very best for the event. May god bless all
of you. Cheers Wikipedia!!
Apurva Tripathi
Hello everyone,
I hope you speak hindi and can write it too.
I realise that I'm a little late in translating the page but I was pretty with studies now I have done quite a lot of translation on the page but need some help with a line or two I cant get the link to work with translatin(the one that says today there are these many events) and get the page added to the translated pages list. Also please check a few translation like for the word "event" I couldnt figure out any better translations.
The link is:
http://ten.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page/hi&uselang=hi
Thanx in advance and hope u do it before 15th :P...
Regards
Kshitij
Pls ignore typos.
