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> From: Steven Walling <swall...@wikimedia.org> > Date: January 8, 2011 3:35:06 PM PST > To: Planning for WP 10th anniversary <wiki...@lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: 10th anniversary banners > > Hi everyone, > > So we're about a week away from the anniversary, and there more than 275 > events listed on ten.wikipedia.org. Whether you're an informal meet-up of a > dozen people or a conference for hundreds led by a chapter, we're going to > use this week to run CentralNotice banners on Wikimedia sites to remind > readers of the anniversary and promote your activities. (I'm going to repeat > the following details on the tenwiki Village Pump if you prefer to read it > there.) > > We're currently running a banner on English Wikipedia that links directly to > tenwiki and is awaiting further translation. (We will also be translating the > Main Page of tenwiki further. Let me know if you want to help with both those > translation projects.) The priority here is threefold: > > 1. Educate people about the 10th anniversary in general. > 2. Link to a comprehensive list of online and offline events so that people > can choose the event that interests them. > 3. Show people the enormously diverse number of things our movement is doing > to celebrate. > > Considering that we're only running the 10th anniversary messages for a week, > we did not plan for a large number of different banner designs. However, if > you're an organizing group that would like to run your own banner design or > directly link to your event in your country, that is definitely welcome > contingent on a few basic requirements: > > 1. Just to state the obvious, the banner needs to be localized fully and will > only run for visitors in your country who are on the wiki the banner is > localized for. > 2. The banner will need to mention both the 10th anniversary (remember, most > people have no idea it's happening) and that there are events to join. A > banner that merely mentions a single party or other kind of event without > context would fail to do justice to the anniversary and the other volunteers > who have worked hard to make it memorable. > 3. The banner can link to your event's ten.wikipedia.org page or a landing > page elsewhere. To link directly to a page off tenwiki, that page needs to > clearly mention and link back to the other events on tenwiki (so that people > don't end up at a dead end if they don't find what they're looking for). If > there are multiple events happening in your country, then whatever page the > banner links needs to mention all of them. > 4. You need to submit this banner directly to me so that we don't miss any > submissions. If you want to put it on-wiki first and simply link to it in > your email, that's great. > > If you're still with me here, thanks for reading, and thanks for everything > you're doing to make the 10th anniversary great. If you have questions, > please let me know. > > Steven Walling > Fellow at the Wikimedia Foundation > wikimediafoundation.org > > > > Steven Walling Fellow at the Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
