Ideas

Have ideas for Wikipedia's tenth anniversary?

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## Giveaways / swag

Any ideas on giveaways? Perhaps this could be an occasion to produce some Wikipedia pens, lanyards, buttons/pins, stickers, etc and send them to meetups. Buttons are a great way for Wikipedians to show that they identify with the project. (And WMF can use this as a small gesture that they appreciate volunteer work ;)) -- 21:59, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
:Excellent Idea, would the foundation be willing to send merchandise to the planned events? 22:04, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
::I believe so, from what Steven posted on outreachwiki, .  06:49, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
:::I hope that by that time issues with chapters "selling" merchandising will be solved. As far as I know at least WMFR and WMI are involved in this.  21:17, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

## Video conference

It has been suggested to hold a video conference with different Wikipedia meetups from all over the world. Are there any free/cheap video conference systems, which (preferably) are free software? -- 22:03, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
:Not sure about video conferencing but just saw http://bigbluebutton.org/overview - which is a collaborative online space, using open source components. It might be good because it also has text and a shared document, etc? -- (sorry not sure how to add timestamp, it's 11 Nov.)

## Global logo

Suggest that make a global wikipedia logo for the 15th Jan,11 to be shown on every wikipedia.-- 13:39, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

:谢谢您的贡献在这里. I don't know if we'll be able to do that, but we are working on special tenth anniversary logos at the Design page.  16:43, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

::It should be 谢谢您在这里的贡献, :). Also, can local wiki make a special logo for this day?-- 00:49, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

:::Thanks for fixing my bad Chinese. :) Yes, please do make a special logo if you want. That  would be very fun. Feel free to upload it to Commons and add it to the the Design page so everyone can see it.  01:02, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

I just simplified both of your chinese.Also don't forgot to share these ideas or creation on your social network ex:fb 
## Quiz

Make a quiz for the attendees using this software in a laptop in a stand. If the person replies correctly to 2-3 questions about Wiki[mp]edia projects, she wins a gift (a wiki-pen, a t-shirt, etc). We need to change the background and the questions/answers. This software comes from Guadalinex events, a GNU/Linux distribution form Andalusia, Spain. People enjoy it so much. Wikipedians obviously will reply correctly to all the questions, so, this is focused in non-wikipedians attendees.  19:42, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

:If you want to test the code, do `svn co http://forja.guadalinex.org/svn/guadaquiz/`. Then, double clic in guadaquiz2. If you want to exit, press left & right mouse buttons at the same time, or the center button. This only works in Linux.  19:58, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

## Broader context and next 10 years

It would be nice to look at Wikipedia "in context" over the last ten years, i.e., a short summary of the last ten years on Earth, with Wikipedia at the center :)

I partly mention this as a way of introducing a book chapter that I recently wrote that deals, in part, with the past ten years of PlanetMath.org (which I like to think of as a synergistic project with Wikipedia :)), and also with the much younger P2PU.org.  It's here: Crowdsourcing Education: A Role-Based Analysis (this is a preprint in .doc format).  At times like this it is quite exciting to think about the "next ten years" -- a decade that I personally feel will be strongly shaped by the Wikimedia Foundation's mission statement.  23:49, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

:Over the last years lots of users have been apart of our family and we would like you to be too ! - Thank You !  

## Boston/Cambridge

I don't have the time or resources to organize a meetup, but it seems that there is a large number of Wikipedians in the area, as evidenced by the frequent messages that I get on my watchlist page about meetings. Anyone know who is active in Boston/Cambridge?  02:53, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

:I will definitely try to reach out soon to meetup groups like those in Boston/Cambridge. Good idea.  16:26, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

## Sitenotice

Can these events be announced in the sitenotice, detecting the country/area of the reader? Perhaps, before that, we can promote the creation of these events showing a banner only for registered users.  15:04, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

:Both of those things are definitely in the plan, though we may target non-registered users with anniversary-themed banners as part of the fundraiser as well. Perhaps we should craft messages for the sitenotices/event promotion here?  16:25, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

## IRC?

Would having a meetup via IRC for those of us who can't go to a "real" meetup be a good idea? Such as #wiki[p/m]edia-ten?  <span style="color:#46520C"><sup><u><i>Talk</i></u></sup></span> 00:21, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
:We have those, like, every day on IRC :)  16:24, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
::/me knew that.  <span style="color:#46520C"><sup><u><i>Talk</i></u></sup></span> 23:29, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
:::Seriously, I think it would be a good idea. Fetchcomms, what's ur nick? reply to me on the english wikipedia. I'm interested in inviting you to my channel for no reason at all (to party, that is).  01:39, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

## Birthday cake

Perhaps all events could have a birthday cake for Wikipedia with his logo, and they could sing "Happy birthday" to Wikipedia, and they could blow up ten candles :). They could share then the birthday cake with all presents. Bye, -- 14:00, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
:I'm pretty sure it will be done almost everywhere.  20:24, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
Yeah Wiki cake Is a good idea :)

## What about sponsoring events?
People that organize that events, could look up entities that sponsor the event to get a little budget?. The budget would serve to buy merchandising of wikimedia to give it away to the attendees to the event, to buy different materials necessary to the event and other expenses. Bye, -- 14:07, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
:If your country does not have a chapter, I think you may ask WMF for funds. Try and e-mail Steven. Or, you may ask local authorities to be patrons of the event (your municipality, or regional government and so on).  20:28, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

## Social Media

We can send out original *tweets* on Twitter, make special Facebook pages e.g. **Wikiversary** etctera.  07:53, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

:Also, I guess that WMF will publish a press release in that day, and the media and blogs will spread the word. Can a "promotional" video about these 10 years be created?  20:18, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

As a start there is one LinkedIn  14:28, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

## Activity cancel notice

Since the information of Hong Kong Spring meetup is unclear, and WMHK will hold a activity (no information is release now), the activity in Hong Kong is cancelled. Please wait for the news update by WMHK or , WMHK board.- (Talk - Home wiki) 02:09, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
## Skype
Would it make sense to have a Skype conference call open for that day, that way lots of editors could participate even if they live far from the big cities? If so you might be able to get meetings joining in - London is due to have our 41st meetup on the 9th but we are considering shifting it to the 15th and if so we could probably join the Skype chat for a while.  17:49, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

:We'd thought about that, but due to the time zones and the huge variety in the size/kind of events happening, we've pretty much scrapped the idea of coordinating one, at least through the WMF. There are some groups, such as Barcelona, doing coordinated editing campaigns from multiple locales though.  19:50, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

::Why shouldn't the individual events not try to hook up individually. I have set up a planning table as a sortable list . If those events that want to hook up via Skype list themselves there with the starting and finishing times of their event, each event can check out which other event would be online at the same time and than can dial up that event individually. This way we can pass on our greetings from East to West as the Wikipedia Globe rolls belows us and meet up with intereting and curious people along the way. Just add your event to the list and do the sorting later. -- 15:13, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

## Wikipedia World Records / Global Edit Party
What do you think about? Number of edits per day / translations / creation new accounts (invitation in anonnotice) + welcoming new users (with special template  / ilustrating articles / cleaning articles with special link in the edit summary...  07:34, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

:How to count it? What about mascots? User:Juan de Vojníkov
:: by this tool - Martin needs only $75 ;)? (edits/articles/accounts/active users). Cleaning: use  for problematic categories. Look here: :pl:Wikipedia:Sprzątanie Wikipedii. We have all on this page. Mascots... hmm. Good question ;) But we could use special info in MediaWiki:Welcomecreation for newbies.  19:15, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

## Flash mob

What about a Flash Mob dedicated to Wikipedia Anniversary? -- 19:51, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
:Where? IRC? ;)  22:54, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
::No, he was being serious here. Not that requests for IRC events are less serious ones: I can't attend any events, and I'd love to remotely follow activities run by my chapter, but as I know them I also know this is not going to happen.  08:08, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

## Poster

I think this image is good to make some poster to affix on the streets, to promote events. Though something with a little more intent may serve better.

File:10yrs carry-our-message.png

-- 12:39, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
:Sure, but we need better quality - this one is too small: 792 × 612px. It could be used with text "cc-by-sa 3.0 David Peters". Not only on the streets ;)  19:25, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
::Wikipedia mini globe handheld.jpg 2,45 Mb, but it needs improve.  21:40, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
::: WMPT have a version of that image in .svg if that helps. I will ask the owner of the svg image to upload it in commons.  <font size="3" face="Vivaldi" color="#4069e1">msg</font> 23:56, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

## Animated PNG/GIFs showing development?

Can we have a bunch of animated GIF/PNGs showing 1 year per second? For example:
:* Animation showing places wikimeetups were help in 2001 / 2002 / 2003 / 2004... 2010
:* Animation showing chapter formations in 2001 / 2002 / 2003 / 2004... 2010
:* Animation showing editing population in countries round the world (Image Attached==

Are there currently any plans to include Wikipe-tan in the 10-year birthday celebration? I could totally see her friends throwing a surprise birthday party with the balloons, cake, silverware, and presents being various incarnations of the 10 year anniversary logo, but at the moment I do not even see her being included in the planning. Just something to think about, especially with the growing number of anime and manga fans out there...  23:22, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
:Another point of interest: if this idea gets any kind of interest you could include the various operating systems as 'parents' such as it were to show the different systems that have guided user to the net to help build the site. Just another thought.  23:34, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

:She was originally drawn in 2006 (IIRC), and she very much appeared 5 in the original drawing, so could someone find a Manga artist to draw an updated look of how Wikipe-tan would appear at 10 years old? -- 09:55, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

::**Update**: I think I found a drawing of her looking a little older. She could pass for 10 on this picture: 

:She looks like 7 or 8, but 10 is acceptable. Anyone can draw any older pictures?  10:37, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

::As silly as it sounds, I like it! Few and far between are the cartoons that age with time. That makes those cartoons unique. Bob the Wikipedian (talk • contribs)  07:29, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

## Wikipedia turns 10 Globe?

I think it would be a good idea to make a globe for Wikipedia turns 10. I've already started, but I need more ideas. Can anyone help me?  10:35, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

## Wikipedia Comes to your door!

I know at-least 5-10 colleges with more than 500 technical and graduate student strength here in Bangalore, Karnataka, India and most of the Bangalorean online users are hard core Wikipedia Fans! Why can't we reach out to them to announce TEN. But I think we need to give away T-Shirts, Caps, Pens etc., to create the awareness that "All of us can contribute to the largest-free-online-easy-to-access-ad-free-non-profit ENCYCLOPEDIA (Ok, that word is outdated :) ENCYCLOPEDIA is no more- It's Wikipedia)"

I have joined the Bangalore organizers mailing list. Waiting for some response from somebody!

:Thank you for your interest. Please post on the India list or on the Ten Anniversary India coordination page with your contact details. Someone from the team will surely respond. regards  06:36, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

## Ugh shoot me, but merchandizing?

To increase discussion IRL, shirts, sweatshirts, the like with Wikipedia logo and/or username on front, on back "give back" or somesuch. Might lessen donation duration, and be fun. Those who can *do*; those who can do well *Wikipedia!*. (I also like better and good in place of well; "doing good" in the correct meaning of benefitting)  20:45, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

## idea for celebration

first of all happy new year and also happy birthday
my suggestion or so called idea for you is that celebrate your birthday in front of whole world so that we may know about the dedicated team of wikipedia.
:I really like this one. WMF staff, please think about it :)  08:02, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

## 'Why I Contribute' audio recording

I got back into editing (en) Wikipedia again recently. One thing that constantly astounds me about it is the sheer size of the project infrastructure: all the WikiProjects ande behind-the-scenes admin. Patrollers, the whole AfD crew, policy wonks and so on. If you do New Page Patrol for a few days, you get to see how enormous Wikipedia really is. People building elaborate scripts to produce tables and templates for sports leagues and so on.

The idea then is to document a cross-section of this. A list of questions or prompts would be constructed and Wikipedians would be invited to record some audio answering them. They would send the audio in, and then the most interesting bits would be picked out and turned into an audio documentary. 

Here's a few rough questions that they could answer:
* What got you into editing Wikipedia in the first place?
* What sort of things do you do?
* Is there anything you do as a Wikipedia editor that the average Wikipedia reader wouldn't really know about?
* What's the strangest article you've edited or argument you've had on Wikipedia?
* Is it all worth it?

In addition, contributors could record some little blips that could be used at the beginning and end of the documentary (maybe "Happy birthday Wikipedia!" and "I'm (name) and I edit Wikipedia."

What's the value of this then? There's a few things.
* It'd be fun. People would get an interesting, funny, enlightening view of what their fellow Wikipedians are doing.
* It could be used as outreach, perhaps to supplement the Wikimedia Outreach Bookshelf Project.
* The clips could be reused (they'd be on Commons under a free license, of course) for other projects.
* It may help readers become editors, and maybe get people to care about Wikipedia enough to contribute to WMF during the next donations drive.
* It would serve as a sort of time capsule of what it is like to help write Wikipedia ten years in.

Does that sound like a good idea? — 10:41, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
:I like it, but it looks difficult to realise… vh 16:20, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

::Not necessarily. You'd need about two or three people to come up with the questions and send them out to people. You'd need a group of people to sort the submissions. And you'd need someone to edit them all into one piece. People could record the interviews at the IRL tenth anniversary meetups too. — 03:54, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
:::I really like this idea.  <span style="color:#46520C"><sup><u><i>Talk</i></u></sup></span> 23:03, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

## Меню без конструктора

Sorry, I almost cannot speak and write English. I will write almost only in Russian.

Моя идея: Упростить ввод ссылок и шаблонов без использования конструктора:
*Example: / Пример:*
Пользователь хочет вставить ссылку на страницу «Список самых высоких зданий и сооружений в мире». Это длинное название.
Пользователь в ручную начинает вводить:

```
[[Спи
```

И ему сразу показываются 10 результатов, как при вставки ссылки с помощью конструктора.
Подпример:

```
[[Список самы
```


Список самых ярких звёзд
Список самых высоких православных храмов и колоколен 
Список самых дорогих музыкальных видеоклипов
Список самых высоких зданий и сооружений в мире
И так далее. Также с шаблонами.
 
<span style="color: orangered;">IRWP</span>*   * In russian Wikipedia
:I think this kind of proposal fits better on Meta. Thanks.  09:59, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

## Better coordinate the various wiki (projects as languages)

We can notice that the wikis are a little bit marginal, the links are not sufficient in my opinion... Why not to encourage to publish somewhere else that on wikipedia? Luc, from Wikipédia France
:I could not understand this one, can you please explain it better (even in French, then I'll try and translate)?  08:07, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
::Désolé... Je pensais juste à quelque chose comme un bandeau en haut de tout les wikis encourageant les utilisateurs à contribuer un peu partout. Une idée bien modeste en somme! :) Luc, from Wikipédia France
:::Tu veux dire d'animer les gens a organiser un evenement? Il y en a dejá quelques banners distribues par quelques wikis, comme en.wiki. Ou tu veux dire de contribuer globalement dans n'importe quelle wiki: Dans ce cas, c'est mieux de te diriger a meta-wiki, le centre de coordination. Merci, vh 16:17, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
::::Luc, someone had already thought about it. Such a banner was meant to show up on all the wikis toward the end of this fundraising. But it looks like they changed their mind because I'm still seeing donate messages or thank you messages. The best way to endorse your idea is writing it on Meta, I guess.  18:09, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
:::::A very good point. Every so often I force myself to write a page for :simple:, but it's not often enough. We should all make it a goal to do this more often if it's in our capacity. Bob the Wikipedian (talk • contribs)  07:32, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

## Flash Mob in Wikieup, AZ, USA

I mean seriously.  If you were to have a flash mob anywhere for the 10th anniv. of Wikipedia it should be in a place called Wikieup!  It's on Hwy 93 in north-eastern Arizona.
:I had never heard about it :)  10:03, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

## Sitenotice - special banner

What do you think about? ;)   20:55, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
:*2001: A Knowledge Odyssey* ;)  21:44, 4 January 2011 (UTC)



:Cute, except it's the old version of the puzzle globe with the wrong Hebrew letter. -- 07:31, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
::OK, new version uploaded  09:36, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

::: I think 10 should be white or something that can be seen easier? -- 10:51, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

::::Or something ;) ...  17:00, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

:I like them all. May I suggust adding a link to this wiki? Like ``. This way, users can click on the banner to be led here. :) Just a thought. -  01:45, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

::The last one looks best. The Rosetta Stone is a bit isolated, though. Bob the Wikipedian (talk • contribs)  22:27, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
:::In Chinese Wikipedia, we are discussing to reuse it. Does anyone have the picture without the word for us to translate?-- (Talk - Home wiki) 00:36, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
::::SVG format would be more flexible for translations. Bob the Wikipedian (talk • contribs)  00:50, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
:::::But translation must be hurry since there is only 7 days to 15 January.-- (Talk - Home wiki) 01:53, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
::::::Hmmm.... Maybe you can change the backround a bit? 23:48, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

:Add/translate text...  11:12, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

:comics...  16:42, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

:join banner

## You should sell those little puzzle spheres

I'd buy one.

## 10 aniversario wikipedia en Facebook

Si eres usuario de Facebook, te invitamos a apoyarnos haciendo clic en el botón "me gusta" en: 10 aniversario Wikipedia
y dejando tus anécdotas para compartirlas con tus amigos de Facebook.

## Attention, Event Holders!

The Department of Fun at the English Wikipedia has been working very hard on developing a unique trading card game based on the English Wikipedia. The profits (beyond production) will benefit Wikimedia, as we'd like to continue the non-profit tradition.

We'd like to thank all the Wikipedians in the world (and the Wikipedia fans) who have helped make Wikipedia worthy of its own trading card game, so we're offering a free promotional trading card to everyone. Unfortunately, since the game is still under development, we're only able to offer a coupon at the moment which can be redeemed after the game's release (which might easily be a few years from now). We encourage all event leaders to download and print several copies to distribute at your events. Thanks, Event Leaders, and happy anniversary, Wikipedia!

On behalf of the Department of Fun, Bob the Wikipedian (talk • contribs)  03:52, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

## From Jimbo
Promotional videos and calls to meetup venues are on the way, check out the mailing list and Video Chat  08:30, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

## Page Visits

Thanks for the great work.

I think it would be better to include the number of page visits to a particular page.
It would better be on the extreme left to the title of the page.
for ex: I am seeing black book (film)
the page goes

Black Book
...............
..............

I ask it to be as 
Black book                                                                     xxxxxxxxvisits

Another small suggestion is to display the potential of wikipedia by displaying the visits on a per day basis, no: of users online(I think it would do good on below the "Donate to Wikipedia" on the left side ) on the main page, followed by a link to apage including that day's stats 

thank you

## Google

I know this is probably a very difficult idea to implement, but wouldn't it be nice if there was a google doodle on the day? maybe with the puzzle globe replacing an O?  16:41, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
:That would be the coolest thing ever IMHO :) Anybody knows folks  Google to recommend that?  17:53, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
::...and tell them about fake mirror (non-spelling) which must be removed from google servers.  18:30, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
:::We've got quotes of the day and did-you-knows at , but those involve intellect and such. We're talking here about illustrations. I wonder if there are illustrators on Wikipedia with that kind of time? Bob the Wikipedian (talk • contribs)  19:40, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
::::I have lots of time, I just need an Idea.

Great idea. E-mail sent to the contact details available here.http://www.google.com/doodle4google/history.html  12:11, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

:Thanks :-). Also, Thanks for going out of the way to contact Google.  20:58, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
::Now spread the word through your social networks accounts :)  08:20, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

## Kite Festival

I think there must be a Kite Festival where people will fly the kites in the sky with wikipedia logo. We guys are organizing the event with very few resources and help in Jaipur India and we have planed to celebrate the event like this only. Please place your feedback and help me to make this event successful. You can also help me by giving the feedback on  page 
#Jaipur Event 
.

## For the wikifans....

As wikipedia celebrates its 10 years of success and fame all around the world... why not make it special for its own fans. Let wikipedia promote itself by giving new naming nomenclature to its members/fans such as "wikipedes" or "wikiplorers". It would be great if promo t-shirts ( labelled - "ru wikimaniac", "i m wikidelic" or "i m a wikifan")are distributed just for promulgation...

:If you do that, I'll insist you spell it and use proper punctuation, as we do here at Wikipedia. Wikipedia's not a phone, nor should it be edited with one. Bob the Wikipedian (talk • contribs)  19:16, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

## Spread the news to the youths!

Users like me use Wikipedia for anything and everything!But I was not aware of the 10th anniversary!and hearty congratulations 'Wiki'!.I think the team could scoot to various schools and colleges and bring in a lot of youth!Visit colleges and get the students to gather ideas and the event will rock!!

People could be asked to come up with wiki-songs,wiki-poems,wiki-times(their experiences with wikipedia),wiki-future(how they want wikipedia to look in the future),wiki-thanks(how the participants would like to thank wikipedia!).This could be organised as events and the best of those could be awarded!

It's another year of continuous knowledge for me. Wikipedia answers every questions that i need to give an answer. Happy anniversary Wikipedia!!! More power and keep the world educated.

## online chat event

hi, i have idea i hope its good we all have yahoo we can make account just for the party and all who want add it and we can invite everyone who add the account to Conference it has video and voice and chat and everyone can join by just add the account

## how to spread wikipedia mania world wide in Wikipedia 10 event
I suggest that Wikipedia should go to each and every school in the world and inculcate among all students of all ages the habit to approach Wikipedia in their respective languages to gather any sort of information that is useful to them in their educational ,cultural and moral development.All students should be given a unique Identity Number and those students who make maximum use of Wikipedia in a given academic session should be honoured by giving special prizes to such students at Special Functions to be organised by respective countries under the guidance of Wikipedia head quarters /regional head quarters.

Vijay Chitale 
                        
## New Design

I think the Wikipedia page should have a makeover and children that are eleven like myself should be able to sign up to Wikipedia.

## Launch of Personal Observed Data/Citizen Scientist Wiki

It's time for wikipedia to open itself to a new user dynamic, from the systematic storage of available information to the processing and storage of novel, observed information... (hidden text) 

:The right place for this proposal is Meta wiki.  10:17, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
## GLOBAL PINOY SOLUTION TO CELEBRATE WITH FREE I.T. TRAINING

We congratulate WIKEPEDIA on its 10th Year Anniversary! Global Pinoy Solution, a group of Filipinos that advocates to inculcate continuous learning and promote I.T. Literacy to fellow Overseas Migrant Workers, would like to participate in celebrating the tenth year anniversary by mentioning Wikepedia as a resource medium in our Free I.T. Training here in Al-Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Please allow us to use Wikipedia Logo for graphic presentation and promotion in our slide and our website as well (www.globalpinoysolution.com). We are planning to have a link on Wikepedia because it will help our participants to understand more the intricacies of information technology. We are open to help spread the "sum of all knowledge" in our own little way. Then again, congratulations and more power to Wikepedia Team!
:Please read this.  10:17, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
## The year of the Encyclopedia-2011

In 2011 we celebrate 10 years of encyclopedic revolution in the 21st century. The emergence of the collective networked encyclopedia which in the name of Wikipedia opened a new dimension in our cultural space.  Where human knowledge is organized for the commons by the commons themselves. We also celebrate 260 years of the "Encyclopédie", the radical idea of Diderot and d'Alembert, the collective work that promised to change the way people think and created the dream that "At least one day this work could take the place of a library of all types of knowledge... and by multiplying the number of true scholars, distinguished artisans, and enlighted amateurs, it will contribute new advances to the society as a whole..."

This day has come.Today all we feel the multiplying effect of Wikipedia, the open, collective encyclopedia. We feel and use the creative work of the hundreds of thousands of enlighted amateurs that all around the world edit and evolve the encyclopedia. They are everywhere among us, writing for the encyclopedia in all languages. So proudly we hail them! And we all the Friends of the Encyclopedia, are calling the scholars, artisans, educators, scientists and amateurs all around our cosmos to contribute in the enrichment of  Wikipedia and to spread its use in our society.

Lets make 2011-The year of the Encyclopedia- in every country!

## Воспользоваться юбилеем для знакомства ДЕТЕЙ, в частности школьников, с WIKI для дальнейшего привлечения и участия их в проекте

Для привлечения школьников:
1. Создать что-то типа детской страницы, интерфейс более облегченный, участие детей в праздновании-пока нет идей, каким образом это сделать, но видео, фото, музыка, кадры из знакомых фильмов, цитаты из популярных книг, иллюстрации и т.п., а также игровые моменты, загадки    должны быть. (Был когда-то печатный журнал для школьников, назывался кажется ЭВРИКА-я не уверена, там очень удачно и интересно было изложено, найти бы да посмотреть!)
2. Связь со школьной программой, возможно даже по предметам и классам средней школы.
:You might reach schools yourself using bookshelf materials from Outreach wiki, in the meantime.  10:17, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
::Sorry, I'm responding in English because I don't know your language. :Simple: is a good version of Wikipedia for younger students, and for people who don't know English very well. In fact, I find it's helpful when I need to look up something where the article on :en: is way too technical. Bob the Wikipedian (talk • contribs)  07:21, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

## buy  Time Capsules

Buy  Time Capsules for the 10th anniversary.  Send them to locations around the world to collect physical momentos.  Have them sent back to Wikipedia headquarters in the US.  Open them in 10 years to see what was of interest in the "physical" world as part of the 20 year celebration.

:Very interesting. Instead of real time capsules, we can open a wiki page to write thoughts, wishes, ideas about how will be the future of Wikipedia. We can protect that page, and re-read it in 2021 to see how Wikipedia has changed.  20:51, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

::Time capsule needs to be publicized more!  02:10, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

## Youtube

One thing that I noticed people do, is celebrate on Youtube. Wikipedia can make an "official" Wikipedia 10th Anniversary video, and everyone can watch it, subscribe it, and comment, and hopefully win a Youtube award,(i.e. "most subbed", "most liked"', etc.)
:The videos are already on Vimeo and Commons. On Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=113J-hP4CQI, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMBbGvG8lpU.  20:44, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
:    I agree! We should create a YouTube Account for Wikipedia, download all of the WIKI 10 vids from all over the world, and get people to subscribe and pass it on!  GENIUS!!!  (Never would have thought of it either...) ->Mastercodex199(talk • contribs)  07:27, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

## Main Page Slideshow

Thanks to motivation from Jimbo and the wonderful screen captures by Erik Zachte, we've got a nice slideshow of screenshots of the main page in various languages.

If anyone would like to display this slideshow, we've got several options for you. Before displaying it, I advise you run through it and make sure a slide with your event's native language appears in it. If not, you'll need to add that in there yourself.

HTML version (9.9 KB + 107 MB images; requires Internet connection to present)

PowerPoint Presentation 2007-2010 (42.2 MB, offline presentation)

PowerPoint Presentation 97-2003 (42.4 MB, offline presentation)

Open Document Presentation (41.9 MB, offline presentation)

cropped image files at standard 4 x 3 aspect ratio (41.0 MB, offline images; make your own presentation or use a "photo screensaver")

raw image files at nonstandard 1 x 3 aspect ratio (107 MB, offline images; make your own presentation or use a "photo screensaver")

Bob the Wikipedian (talk • contribs)  06:48, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
:Shouldn't this go somewhere else (Share maybe)?  07:32, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
::I dunno; I'm still figuring out this site's layout. I won't stop you from putting it there. This just seems to be the page where people seem to be conversing; Share is probably not on anyone's watchlist since it seems to just be a guide for coming up with neat things to talk about. Bob the Wikipedian (talk • contribs)  07:35, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
:::Maybe .  08:05, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

## National Wikipedia editing day

I sit in an NGO that teaches over 50s to get on the net. We have 116 clubs. Whatabout a national day in the Autumn to edit and set in new articles? We are Norwegian. We are a little language, and need more articles, we have women and we have the elderly.
Any ideas on how we can teach them editing? We are willing to test out new software as well
:I know that the Swiss chapter (and maybe also the German one in the past) have a program like the one you are looking for, see Local chapters.  12:51, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

## holding wikipedia events in the East Midlands

Hi i would like it if wikipedia events could be held in the East Midlands or derbyshire because i live in derby and it is too far away for me to attend the London and Bristol events. - 

::Are you willing to organize them too?  12:52, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

## Wikipedia e Twitter

Sarebbe bello se Wikipedia avesse dei collegamenti con Twitter in modo che gli utenti possano postare quello che desiderano:      
spero che questa idea si possa realizzare presto.

Grazie Wikipedia!

curiosity 8:03, 15 gennaio 2011 UTC

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## Media articles

Hi. Is there a page anywhere that lists and links to various newspaper and media articles about the 10th anniversary? Thanx. -  11:02, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
:Media coverage‎.  12:45, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

## Communicator setup

A communicator/chat room based on different areas should be setup for the wikipedians for the worldwide knowledge sharing.
::meta:IRC/Channels is not enough?  10:44, 20 January 2011 (UTC)


## start adding official merch?

maybe a Wikipedia shirt, or a figure of the Wikipedia anime girl? 03:34, 1 December 2011 (UTC)