Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon

2014-10-11 Thread Nurunnaby Hasive
Hi All, We Bengali Wikipedia community arrange a Nobel Prize Edit-a-thon this edit-a-thon to be held next October 14 at 5-8PM. In this time we add this year Nobel laureate details at Bengali Wikipedia. On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 9 October

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon

2014-10-10 Thread Rachel diCerbo
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Jon Harald Søby jhs...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, all! The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced this Friday, and in cooperation with Wikimedia Norge, the Nobel Peace Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Center has invited Wikipedians from

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon

2014-10-10 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
Hi Rachel, I'd like to suggest someone in change of WMF communication to write a blog post about this great initiative from Norwegian volunteers. Talk to those taking the lead. :) Such initiative should be highlighted very much, mainly after to see those great Nobel Prizes (different from some

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon

2014-10-10 Thread Katherine Maher
There is a short blog post about the event that went up yesterday, thanks to the speedy turnaround of Astrid and Jon! We reached out to them right after seeing this announcement, and they provided a quick background just a few hours later. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/09/wikinobel/ I agree

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon

2014-10-10 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 9 October 2014 09:05, Jon Harald Søby jhs...@gmail.com wrote: the award ceremony itself will be held on December 10 as usual. As much as I like the idea, I think that is probably the worst time to try to make something like that happen, seeing as we'd be competing with every major news

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon

2014-10-09 Thread MZMcBride
Jon Harald Søby wrote: 2014-10-08 23:40 GMT+02:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com: Will they release their own biographies under a free license to ease article expansion? :) Good question, Nemo. I don't know if it has been brought up, but we should probably look into that. :-) I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon

2014-10-09 Thread Jan Ainali
You are right Tom, WMSE made several such videos, I guess the one you are thinking of is this one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nobel_BrianSchmidt_2011-12-08.ogv Will the winners be present at the announcement? *Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali* Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon

2014-10-09 Thread Liam Wyatt
This is an excellent event idea, congratulations to Wikimedia Norway for organising it. It is also a brilliant example of how Chapters and other groups around the world can take responsability for topics that have particular local relevance to them, and take a leadership role in the worldwide

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon

2014-10-09 Thread Jan Ainali
Today there was the announcement for the Nobel prize in literature. Quit interesting is that the Swedish Radio, Swedish Television and the Norwegian NRK are updating articles related to this. Not perfect, but with a obviously good ambition!

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon

2014-10-09 Thread Àlex Hinojo
I do agree. In Amical we regularly organize small one-week long online writing contest regarding local Music Festivals, ComicCons or similar. We get in touch with new organisations, reach to new communities and get quite a lot of press atention with relatively small organizing effort and one small

[Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon

2014-10-08 Thread Jon Harald Søby
Hi, all! The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced this Friday, and in cooperation with Wikimedia Norge, the Nobel Peace Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Center has invited Wikipedians from the Norwegian Wikipedia community to an editathon to improve the article about

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon

2014-10-08 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Will they release their own biographies under a free license to ease article expansion? :) Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon

2014-10-08 Thread Ivan Martínez
Congratulations, Jon, sounds great! Regards. 2014-10-08 16:07 GMT-05:00 Jon Harald Søby jhs...@gmail.com: Hi, all! The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced this Friday, and in cooperation with Wikimedia Norge, the Nobel Peace Center

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon

2014-10-08 Thread Jon Harald Søby
Good question, Nemo. I don't know if it has been brought up, but we should probably look into that. :-) 2014-10-08 23:40 GMT+02:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com: Will they release their own biographies under a free license to ease article expansion? :) Nemo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon

2014-10-08 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
Hi Jon, that is a great initiative. I've already spread the word among Wikimedia Brasil and Open Knowledge Brasil. I'd like to suggest that you try to make a short video for the winner asking about Wikipedia and its importance. I think Wikimedia Sweden has made a cool short interview with some

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon

2014-10-08 Thread Alhen ałħen
It sounds like something we can pull in many languages! Congrats on the event :D Alhen @alhen_ alhen at most places. Coordinator at Wikimedia Bolivia https://www.fb.com/w https://www.fb.com/wikimediaboliviaikimediabolivia https://www.fb.com/wikimediabolivia Thrive, live, and bloom. On Wed, Oct