I think it's better "from 24 to 30", because we will have the media coverage of 24-Nov and we will advantage it.
To do list: - ensure the 3 prizes. (Amical prize is sure) - list of wikisource communities willing to participate - consensus the rules. Carles 2013/11/2 Andrea Zanni <[email protected]> > Wikisource community is eager to do that :-) > What about extending it for the whole week? > > From 18 to 24, or from 24 to 30 we could have a Wikisource Week! > I think it's better, as we could let people have more time to read and > proofread, > and we could gain much more pages :-) > > Of course, this is completely free, every community can do what they want. > > Please, as always, go and discuss it with your own local community, > and report back what they say! > > Aubrey > > > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 7:55 AM, John Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Great concept. >> >> I think this would a great little project, and worth the expense for the >> WMAu chapter. >> >> I helped run a small wikisource competition with Wikimedia Indonesia >> (esp. Ivonne & Siska) to transcribe a 550 page dictionary, and found it to >> be very successful, but does require quite a bit of time to run and help >> newbies. >> >> Ill write up a proposal if another WMAu member is willing to second and >> help organise the competition in Oz. >> >> -- >> John >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: "David Cuenca" <[email protected]> >> Date: Oct 31, 2013 10:09 PM >> Subject: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource 10th aniversary proposal : >> Proofreading contest >> To: "discussion list for Wikisource, the free library" < >> [email protected]> >> Cc: >> >> Talking with some members of Amical Wikimedia about how to celebrate the >> 10th aniversary, one of the proposals was to organize a proofreading >> contest. >> >> Basically, we would select some books for the participants to proofread >> and validate and they would gather points for each page without errors. The >> person with the most points would win a Kindle donated by Amical Wikimedia. >> >> However, we have been thinking that with the help of some members of the >> Wikisource User Group and other Chapters, then we could escalate it to an >> international proofreading contest, instead of being just regional. I guess >> ideally we would need 3 kindles and at least a volunteer from each >> community to organize it. >> >> What do you think of the idea? Would you or any chapter that would like >> to get involved? >> >> Micru >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikisource-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikisource-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > >
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