I volunteer to be the ambassador for the Italian Wikisource. I also think that the global contest would be more difficult and challenging, but definetely *cooler*. We could get support from the Wikimedia Foundation blog ans social media, and even from local Wikipedias, but we need to move *fast*. We only have 3 weeks.
Aubrey On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:04 AM, David Cuenca <[email protected]> wrote: > So far 3 chapter organizations have expressed interest supporting the 10th > aniversary Wikisource proofreading contest (planned from 24 to 30 Nov): > - Wikimedia DC > - Wikimedia Italy > - Amical Wikimedia > > However, there is a question that needs to be resolved: shall we do a big > global contest or three independent contests? > > With the first option we would put the prices offered by each chapter in a > "pool" (1 e-reader from each chapter) and then the rankings will be shared > between all partipants in all interested wikisources (we would need at > least a coordinator for each wikisource). > > With the second option each prize would be for the winner at the local > wikisource offering the prize. > > I would prefer a global contest, even if it requires more volunteers and > more organizational work, I think it is important to have solidarity > between chapters and wikisources. > > What do you think? > > Cheers, > Micru > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > >
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