On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Philippe Beaudette
<pbeaudette(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I'd like to begin a conversation about the
2010-2011 Fundraiser, which
isn't slated to launch for a few months, but for which we'd like to
get community involvement early and often.
Aside from recalling the lesson of the disastrous "WIKIPEDIA
FOREVER!!!" banner to make sure that doesn't happen again, I think
some (more?) appeal videos would be good.
What about asking our readers to submit "I use Wikipedia to..."
videos; they begin with those words and then carry on talking. Perhaps
it would be possible to get a call for such videos mentioned on the
YouTube blog: they often run special events calling for people to
submit vids on a particular subject. The individual projects sometimes
have fancy landing pages with novel interfaces:
Examples:
Life In A Day - users asked to submit their daily activities on a
specific date; some of the resulting submissions will be edited
together to make one coherent (?) film:
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/07/life-in-day-thank-you-for-filmin…
Life In A Day - landing page and interface:
http://www.youtube.com/lifeinaday
YouTube Play - a call for submissions from artists:
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/07/youtube-play-jury-selected-and-r…
YouTube Play - landing page and interface:
http://www.youtube.com/play
We already have a relationship with Google. We also have a
relationship with Facebook:
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=382978412130
... so perhaps we can get them to advertise our fund drive too?
en.User:Bodnotbod
Would there be an opportunity to get the word out via an interview on
NPR or C-SPAN? I'm in the UK so not overly familiar with public
service broadcasting in the US, but I wonder whether they might be
good avenues to promote the fund drive.