That's such a wonderful, sweet project! :) It seems likely infeasible for bigger projects but as a way to build a strong small wiki community, I think it's amazing!
Kudos to you! -Emily On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:35 PM, attolippip <attolip...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh, Liam, you are right :) > > We award the "best newbie of the month" on Ukrainian Wikipedia and award > him/her with a can of condensed milk via post [1] > (we also award with a can of condensed milk the "best contributor of the > month", and want to do it is a few smaller wikiprojects as well (Wikiquote, > f.ex.)) > > For this we create the lists with all contributions (main namespace only) > for all users per project per months [2] and look if the contributions are > in line with the rules (no copyright violation, vandalism etc.). Then a > message on the talk page with a picture of a can and after the winner gives > us his/her postal address, we send him/her the can itself :) [3] > > It is sweet. I can vouch for that :) > > [1] > > https://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%89%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%88%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%8E > [2] > > https://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%89%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%88%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%8E/bb:%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%96%D1%8F > [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Zgushchivka_poshtoyu > > Best regards, > antanana > ED of Wikimedia Ukraine > > 2015-06-11 22:04 GMT+03:00 Liam Wyatt <liamwy...@gmail.com>: > > > And the award for for the first negative comment on this thread that is > > designed to be "about things going right" goes to Trilliam. > > Congratulations on being the official "party pooper" of Wikimedia-l. > There > > will be cake tomorrow. > > > > To return to nice things, and in response to the previous message by A > > ntanana: > > I learned a few months ago that in the Ukrainian Wikipedia they don't > give > > out "barnstars", the give out "cans of condensed milk"! Why? Because > > they're sweet :-) > > > > > https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%96%D1%8F:%D0%97%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%89%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0 > > > > > > And, please correct me if I'm wrong Antanana, but you also identify the > > "best newbie" each month on the Ukrainian Wikipedia and physically send a > > can of condensed milk to that person in the mail?! I think that's just > the > > coolest, funnest, most unique way of celebrating new contributors I've > > heard of! > > > > -Liam / Wittylama. > > > > wittylama.com > > Peace, love & metadata > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
