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> From: Asaf Bartov <asaf.bartov(a)gmail.com>
> Date: December 31, 2010 1:19:31 AM PST
> To: chapters(a)wikimedia.ch
> Cc: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination \(closed subscription\)" <internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Internal-l] WMIL wants to send you a Wikipostcard!
> Reply-To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination \(closed subscription\)" <internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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> Reminder: Please register soon if you want your special Wikipedia-10th-Anniversary-postmarked postcard from Wikimedia Israel!
>
> The following established chapters have not yet signed up for their postcard:
>
> WMAR, WMCZ, WMDK, WMEE, WMHK, WMID, WMPH, WMPL, WMRU, WMSE
>
> Again, non-chapter Wikimedian *groups* are welcome to sign up as well.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Asaf Bartov
> Wikimedia Israel
>
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Asaf Bartov <asaf.bartov(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, everyone.
>
> (CCing Internal for fear some might miss it in chapters-l, and to include some non-chapter groups)
>
> As previously announced, Wikimedia Israel, in cooperation with the Israel Post (postal monopoly of Israel), created a special Wikipedia Tenth Anniversary postmark, which will be put on all postal items passing through a major postal branch in Tel Aviv on the day before the Wikipedia Tenth Anniversary (the 15th is not a working day for the postal authority, unfortunately).
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> Wikimedia Israel would like to send every Wikimedia Chapter a Happy Anniversary postcard with the special postmark. To do that, we need your exact and up-to-date postal address.
>
> If your chapter would like to receive a postcard, please fill out this form. no later than January 5th:
> https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dE84bWw1REVqR09VTm9oMEZkUm…
>
> (All data will remain confidential, and will only be used for this one-time mailing.)
>
> One postcard per chapter, please.
>
> Non-chapter Wikimedian groups (Brazil, Kansai, Catalans, Kenyans etc.) are welcome to send us their addresses too!
>
> Happy holidays, happy new year, and a very happy tenth anniversary, from all of us at Wikimedia Israel!
>
> Asaf Bartov
> Wikimedia Israel
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Steven Walling
Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation
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>From the Catalan Wikipedia (with the collaboration of Amical Viquipèdia)
are organizing a series of events in different parts of the Catalan
Countries (located in Andorra, France, Italy and Spain). These events
will take place during the month of March by making coincide the 10th
anniversary celebration in the world with the 10th anniversary of the
Catalan Wikipedia.
Our forecast is to gather between 300 and 500 persons during the
congress in Barcelona will meet 15-30 people in different locations of
the "party of release. "
Even taking the low range of forecasts that employ you submit requests
to us 10 packs of merchandising.
please let us know how to organize the reception of the packs
Thank you and Congratulations!
Mafoso
http://ca.wikipedia.orghttp://www.viquimedia.cat
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Assumpte: [Wikimedia] Pack de merchadasing oel 10è aniversari
Data: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:03:35 +0100
De: Joan Goma <jrgoma(a)gmail.com>
Ho envio a tothom però em sembla que era en mafoso que ho portava.
El termini per demanar merchadasing pel 10è aniversari s'acaba.
Hem demanat res?
> From: Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org
<mailto:swalling@wikimedia.org>>
> Date: December 22, 2010 4:46:20 PM PST
> To: wikix-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:wikix-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [WikiX-l] Deadline approaching to get merchandise
> Reply-To: Planning for WP 10th anniversary
<wikix-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:wikix-l@lists.wikimedia.org>>
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> Hi everyone,
>
> Just wanted to make a quick announcement: the deadline to receive a
shipment of merchandise (ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design/Merchandise
<http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design/Merchandise>) from the Foundation
is rapidly approaching. For the couple dozen event organizers who have
sent me their shipping and contact information, thank you.
>
> For those who haven't, if we don't ship at least 10 business days
before the 15th, then it may not get to you in time for the anniversary,
so let's make it happen so you can have awesome merchandise for your
parties, conferences, and other meetups.
>
> Feel free to forward this message as necessary.
>
> Steven Walling
> Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation
> wikimediafoundation.org <http://wikimediafoundation.org/>
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Just wanted to make a quick announcement: the deadline to receive a
> shipment of merchandise (ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design/Merchandise) from
> the Foundation is rapidly approaching. For the couple dozen event organizers
> who have sent me their shipping and contact information, thank you.
>
> For those who haven't, if we don't ship at least 10 business days before
> the 15th, then it may not get to you in time for the anniversary, so let's
> make it happen so you can have awesome merchandise for your parties,
> conferences, and other meetups.
>
yes, we want some of these merchandise
and please send to
Wikimedia Hong Kong
P.O. Box 73859
Kowloon Central Post Office
Hong Kong
as you might send via Fedex, as previous experience they dun accept PO boxes
then do tell me, I will give you somebody's home address
and you can contact me
Jeromy-Yu Chan
+852 9279 1601
or
Tango Chan
+852 9063 2515
>
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> Steven Walling
> Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi everyone,
Just wanted to make a quick announcement: the deadline to receive a shipment of merchandise (ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design/Merchandise) from the Foundation is rapidly approaching. For the couple dozen event organizers who have sent me their shipping and contact information, thank you.
For those who haven't, if we don't ship at least 10 business days before the 15th, then it may not get to you in time for the anniversary, so let's make it happen so you can have awesome merchandise for your parties, conferences, and other meetups.
Feel free to forward this message as necessary.
Steven Walling
Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org
Hi everyone,
I just wanted to let everyone know that as a baby step towards ramping
up promotion of the events in the coming days, there is now a watchlist
notice (i.e. for logged in users only) on English Wikipedia.[1]
English Wikipedians also are using MediaWiki:Geonotice.js to do
geo-targeted watchlist notices for events in Washington D.C., Miami, and
New York City.[2]
I would strongly encourage anyone interested to do the same for their
events. I'll be sending a list update about how we can plan for using
CentralNotice (i.e. banners for all visitors to Wikimedia projects) in
collaboration with the fundraising team here at the Foundation. But in
the meantime, watchlist notices require almost no work, just a basic
consensus on the talk page of those MediaWiki message pages.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Watchlist-details
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Geonotice.js
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Steven Walling
Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org
All:
There was a discussion on Internal about what hashtag we might use for
W10 social media communications and we'd like to make sure others have
the opportunity to participate in that conversation. If you have
ideas, please contribute to the talk page here:
http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Communications_Kit
--
Cheers,
Moka
Moka Pantages
415.839.6885 x 635
@moka
An update for people interested in previewing or screening Truth in Numbers:
Email info(a)crowdstarter.com with your interest. (They seem to be
responding quickly now.) They will set you up with a way to stream a
preview, and can mail you a screener DVD.
Sam.
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From: Paola Freccero <paola(a)crowdstarter.com>
Date: Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:16 AM
Subject: RE: [WikiX-l] Truth in numbers
Hi there – sorry for the delay in getting back to you. We are happy
to make sure that anyone who wants or needs one gets a screener in a
timely fashion. We are also arranging for the film to be posted to an
FTP so that people can do a stream preview.
Anyone who wants to be in touch can email info(a)crowdstarter.com which
reaches both Liz and I.
So excited to see what events pop up!
paola
Hi, everyone!
Apologies at the top for the epic email! As you know, our 10th anniversary
is right around the corner. The milestone offers us an unprecedented
opportunity to channel the energy and positive international spotlight from
our celebration around what’s most important to the Wikimedia movement. In
reality, celebrating 10 years of Wikipedia has begun. Volunteers are now
poised to host scores of celebrations in all parts of the world – at least
two on every continent so far – and a handful of press have already covered
the pending milestone. Whether we proactively work with media to cover the
anniversary or not, we know it'll happen. What may not happen and what
matters most – the reason we need to be strategic in how we approach media
relations – is influencing how media cover this historic milestone. Even
more, beyond changing what people know about Wikipedia, the ultimate
birthday wish is influencing how they act (i.e. turning skeptics into
readers, readers into volunteers/editors, etc…). However without wider, more
informed appreciation first, we can't expect wider, more useful action in
the future. We want the world to get to know us as a people-driven movement,
appreciate what we’re doing and join us: this is our 10-year birthday wish.
As we discuss, almost daily, on the the Communications Committee list, there
are a number of challenges we face as movement communicators: 1) general
awareness regarding exactly what we are 2) a real understanding and
appreciation for the people-driven movement and the extended global impact
of our work 3) disambiguation from a number of other organizations and
causes.
To address this, we’ve drafted three core messages and a call to action that
everyone can remix and use however they like. All press will have their own
angle on our 10 year celebrations, but if we all work together to at least
incorporate three similar messages and the same call to action, the impact
of our global communications work will be much more effective. The draft
messages are below for your review.
We’ll be uploading a light communications tool kit to the
ten.wikipedia.orgsite so that all volunteers have access to the
materials as well. Phase
I has been uploaded. Over the next few weeks, we'll include a media
advisory, press release and other “how to” guides for volunteers. We'll send
another email once that information has been included.
If you have any questions or would like to help with the creation of the
tool kit, please let me know. And as always, if you have any feedback on
anything, please share.
Cheers,
Moka
*W10 Messages*
Creative hooks to generate interest from various media outlets will vary, as
will stories and central focus; however, in each and every interview, global
volunteer spokespeople should return to the basic call to action and these
main messages at several points in the conversation.
Wikipedia is more than a Website: it’s a non-profit, volunteer-based,
advertising-free public service:
*Wikipedia is a public service created and maintained by people volunteering
their time for the betterment of the world.
*In order to maintain editorial independence, we do not allow advertising on
Wikipedia and generate revenue to keep the site and the movement going by
encouraging many individual donations.
*Wikipedia is truly the people’s encyclopedia: Hundreds of thousands of
volunteers created and maintain the site and hundreds or thousands of people
help pay for it to make sure it continues to be a free public service for
everyone in the world to use.
Everyday People Helping Everyday People:
*We’re a volunteer-led, mission-focused movement. Behind every article, word
and photo on Wikipedia are people working and giving their time because they
care about providing free information and knowledge to other people.
*Wikipedia is more than an encyclopedia; it’s a collective movement
committed to providing free information to people who need it.
*These people are doctors, lawyers, teachers, college students, your
13-year-old daughter or son, your grandmother or that person who held the
door open for you this morning. These people all have something in common:
they have information that they want to share because they care.
Increasing diversity of information and impacting information scarcity:
*Our commitment in the Global South is an example of how people writing this
encyclopedia are committed to changing the world for the better.
*As a mission-focused group of people, we’re fiercely committed to improving
information scarcity in parts of the world where good, quality information
in local languages is hard to find. In some parts of the world information
is accessible, even overwhelming, but in many parts of the world people are
starved for knowledge. In places where books are expensive and libraries few
and far between, or even nonexistent, Wikipedia is often one of the only
reliable, freely accessible resources available. But it’s still limited in
countries outside of the Global North and we need more help to change this.
*Our focus on the Global South and increasing our diversity of contributors
is to help make sure this isn’t an encyclopedia written by people in rich
countries for people in less fortunate countries, or rich people writing for
rich people, it’s about making sure we have participation from as many
people as we can, from all walks of life. We all know that the more diverse
our editors are the more comprehensive and rich our encyclopedias will be.
Call to Action: Our 10th Birthday Wish
*We have a birthday wish for our ten years: we want people to get involved
and contribute. We need you to contribute. Contribute with your time and
become an editor. If you absolutely can’t edit, donate. We can’t keep this
amazing resource going if we don’t have the continued support from as many
people as possible who are willing to share.
*This is just the beginning. Wikipedia is not complete; we have a long way
to go. Only about five percent of humanity use Wikipedia each month. There
are a number of articles that are missing. We need help filling in gaps of
information in all of our 270 languages.
*We have about 100,000 people contributing, and in general, they tend to be
younger, European, educated males. Our current volunteers are wonderful and
we admire them for all that they’ve done to keep this amazing free resource
going, but we need more people to join us. More women. More people from the
Global South. More older people. We all have something to contribute, and we
invite you to share what you know. We all know that the more diverse our
editors are the more comprehensive and rich our encyclopedias will be, so we
invite you to join us.
Hello, everyone:
Following up on the email we sent out last week, we have Phase I of the
Community Communications Toolkit up:
http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Communications_Kit
Phase I stresses two things for volunteers: telling your own story NOW and
helping to pull together background information on the history of Wikipedia
and the global magnitude of our work.
As discussed in the last email, we understand that most people don’t fully
realize we’re a mission-driven, non-profit movement run by real, everyday
people who care about providing a free public service to the world. Often,
Wikipedia is thought to be a static product or service, not a living,
breathing community of people who care. While some of us in the Wikimedia
community are dedicated to communications work, all of us can use this
10-year anniversary as an opportunity to educate the world about who we are,
the work that we do and the mission that drives us. The first—and most
important—thing we can do RIGHT NOW is tell our own stories in our own words
and encourage others who care about our work to do the same. Over the past
10 years, what has Wikipedia come to mean to the world? What was it like
before there was a Wikipedia in your language? How will it impact the next
ten years? We're encouraging all volunteers and anyone who cares about our
projects to publicly tell their personal Wikipedia stories via letters to
the editor, op-eds and personal or chapter blog posts. If volunteers don't
have a blog or aren't comfortable sharing thoughts publicly, we've created a
page to post on wiki as well: http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Stories
Additionally, we need help curating all of the interesting information about
Wikipedia including:
*Wikipedia's Historical Timeline:
http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_timeline
*Stats and information to help demonstrate the magnitude of Wikipedia:
http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_by_the_numbers<http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share>
*Wikipedia's top 10s: http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%27s_Top_Ten
There's a wealth of interesting information out there, but hasn't been
captured and organized so that we can all access it easily. If you remember
any fun facts and Wikipedia trivia from the last ten years, please share!
We plan to send a variation of this email to Internal and Foundation. We'll
likely post Phase II of the Toolkit on Friday which should also include a
draft media advisory we plan to send to press next Tuesday. Until then,
please provide any feedback you have.
Cheers,
Moka
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From: Asaf Bartov <asaf.bartov(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:16 PM
Subject: [Internal-l] Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Commemorative Postmark
To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)"
<internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello, everyone.
I am pleased to announce, on behalf of Wikimedia Israel, that Israel Post
(the Israeli monopoly postal service) will be stamping all items passing
through several major post offices in Tel Aviv and in Haifa with a special
*Wikipedia 10th Anniversary postmark*.
You can get an idea of what it might look like (Hebrew Wikipedians are still
working on the design) here:
http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%…
In addition to the anniversary, a _second_ special postmark will be stamped
on all through Wikimania 2011, in August!
<http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%…>To
the best of our knowledge, this is the first time Wikipedia is featured on
postal materials. Is that correct?
Dedicated philatelists and stamp-collectors among you (and your respective
communities) may want to make arrangements to have something postmarked. In
addition, we'll try to have some stamped items to give away.
This cool way of marking the anniversary is the work of Wikimedia Israel
member Liron Dorfman, who's done excellent outreach work with Israel Post.
Cheers, and happy holidays,
Asaf Bartov
Wikimedia Israel
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