That's awesome. Congrats to Hebrew Wikipedia ! Sydney
Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel < [email protected]> wrote: > Hey, > > I'm very excited to share that last night, we received the award at an > event presence with of hundreds of guests (Picture of the award: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roaring_Lion_2014_award_to_Wikimedia_Israel.jpg > ) > > The Roaring Lion competition is an award for excellence within Israel's > communications and public relations industry awarded by the Israel Public > Relations Associations. The campaign was chosen among many, judged by a > committee of public relations executives, academics and public figures. > > Last July the Hebrew Wikipedia celebrated her 10th anniversary. The > celebrations were followed by massive press coverage - TV radio, internet > and print. You can give a look on some of them in our Press Book: > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9iobJg3Vpp0bDdKaDExNmU2VEU/edit?usp=sharing > > The strategy was to show the volunteers – the people behind the projects, > so each cover presented another volunteer. To show the power of Wikipedia > we collected a lot of numbers such the most viewed articles of the last 5 > years, numbers of edits, words and many others – which leads to many items > covering the history of HEWP. > > But besides arranging massive coverage for the celebrations we were > looking for a special way to celebrate – to do something that has never > been done before. The result was a unique collaboration with TV Channel 2, > the most viewed channel in Israel! For an entire week, five of the most > senior Channel 2 reporters, who learned to edit Wikipedia by our > volunteers, wrote or extended an article on Hebrew Wikipedia. Then, each > recorded a one minute video, explaining why they have decided to write on > this specific topic. Every day, just before the evening news broadcast, the > video was broadcasted and while the anchor presented the project, he > explained "we wanted to celebrate Wikipedia’s 10th anniversary and show > that everyone can write an article on Wikipedia. Happy Birthday Wikipedia!” > > Due the success of the project Channel 2 decided to broadcast it all over > again on the week after. According to the ratings records 2.033 million > people (cumulatively) watched the project. On the celebrations month pages > views on Hebrew Wikipedia showed increase of 12% (compare to 1% > internationally) and increase of 12% in new articles (compare to 14% > internationally decrease). > > You can watch them the videos (translated to English) on our Youtube > Channel: > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuQcXKjU3rwJ-TOL8lyru7oHvoufnWtED > > I wish to thank all the volunteers who take part making this happen, to > the Wikimedia Israel team, and to Gidoen Amichay who supported and helped > lead the Channel 2 cooperation. > > > > *Regards,Itzik Edri* > Chairperson and Spokesperson, Wikimedia Israel > +972-(0)-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment! > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately > directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia > community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l > > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
