Couple of responses:
Lodewijk,
You (or anyone else from your organizing group) can get in touch with
me about lining up a package for folks in the Netherlands. Also, the
Amsterdam event is still a red link on
, hint hint. :)
Béria,
Yes, translations are definitely needed/wanted. If you think a queue
on translatewiki and/or meta is the best method, I'll go for it. In
the meantime, the site is already partially translated into Chinese,
French, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
On Nov 14, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Lodewijk wrote:
Hi Jay,
such a kit would definitely be welcome in the Netherlands! We will
be having a three day event with several sub-events put together,
ranging from a hackathon to a bootcamp for GLAM and a reception.
More info to come... However, even if we don't use everything you
send us, we plan to have more activities around 10 year Wikimedia
the months to follow (10 year after the Dutch Wikipedia was founded,
10 year after the first article, 10 year after the first edit
war... ) but the exact details will have to crystallize out still.
With who should we get in touch to get such a package and how to do
that most effectively?
Thanks,
Lodewijk
2010/11/14 Jay Walsh <jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org>
Thanks Steven - and I'd like to add that momentarily I'll be
uploading a big pack of graphic elements like the one on the main
page of the
ten.wikipedia.org page. These were developed by David
Peters at Exbrook design - David's done some great work for us over
the past year or so, and this really scalable and easy-to-localize
concept is something that should help us tie together a style for
all of the celebrations.
Use of the designs isn't obligatory of course, but we will be using
versions and styles of these marks in a series of awesome WP 10th
themed merchandise that we're going to want to send anyone
(globally) who is hosting a party.
That includes:
* tshirts (two styles, one a basic Wikipedia shirt and the other a
Wikipedia '10' 'team shirt')
* a pack of 12 Wikipedia 10th anniversary buttons, and simple
Wikipedia puzzle globe buttons
* paper labels with the Wikipedia tenth logo and style
* and Wikipedia vinyl stickers
* (and maybe some other cool stuff)
We'll be sending out 'kits' with up to about 50 shirts of varying
sizes/styles, and if you expect your event to be much bigger, we'll
try to help get you more.
We're really excited about the designs and getting everyone cool
merchandise as soon as possible!
Thanks - and big thanks to Steven for kicking this off and carrying
it forward.
jay
On Nov 12, 2010, at 3:55 PM, Steven Walling wrote:
Hi friends,
I just wanted to give everyone an update on what's been
accomplished here at the Wikimedia Foundation so far and what we've
got in store for the near future. We've got roughly two months
until the 15th is here. With that deadline rapidly approaching, I
want to really step up our efforts here at the WMF to help local
events happen.
Just to restate it: our goal is to help make the tenth anniversary
a memorable one for Wikimedia editors/readers/donors wherever you
are. To that effect, we've launched
ten.wikipedia.org in the last
couple days. Many of you probably saw the pages on Outreach wiki
that have since been migrated. Thanks to the editors who stepped up
to help wiki-garden so far.
We've tried to structure the wiki to make it clear what it's for.
Here's some more detail on what I want to include:
1. A list of all the events that will happen. Lots of organizing
work is happening on other wikis and off-wiki, such as through
Facebook events. That's great, and of course we want that to
continue. But having a single list of what's happening is immensely
useful for organizers, attendees, and the press.
2. On-wiki activities for reflecting on our anniversary and
conveying the magnitude of our first decade of work. There is a
list of preliminary ideas on the [[Share]] and [[Ideas]] pages.
3. Providing a space to gather resources for organizers, including
a basic press kit and a set of anniversary designs put together by
Jay Walsh and David Peters, whose work you will recognize from the
2009 Annual Report. The designs will all be uploaded to Commons
shortly and will be in a gallery on the anniversary wiki. I'm
really excited about this part of what's been prepared, since it's
ideal for the customization and localization that needs to happen.
These designs are yours to run wild with, and some of them will be
incorporated into products (t-shirts, buttons, stickers etc.) that
will be provided to event organizers that want them. All we need to
give you these materials is a basic set of event details and
contact information, all of which can go on your event page. If
it's unclear on the wiki what we're asking for, then that's my
fault, so please let me know.
4. A place to document everything that goes on. Encouraging taking
photos, video, and making written records of what everyone is up to
in their celebrations is essential (and it's fun, at least to me).
Media should probably go on Commons, as is standard procedure, but
I'd love to see everything aggregated into the event pages on the
wiki. Sharing the cool things that you're doing will be both a gift
to other Wikimedians who can't be there, and will create a
permanent record of our first double-digit anniversary.
If you have any questions, either about the wiki or however else
the Foundation can support you in planning, I'm your best point of
contact. I'll also be posting more regular updates to this list.
Thanks for reading,
--
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ten.wikipedia.org
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