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
>>
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