Agreed. Italian Wikisource already decided that we will run this contest every year :-D The stats for us are unbelievable: http://toolserver.org/~phe/statistics.php?diff=4 but all thanks to the wikipedia sitenotice, which gives has been giving a lot of visibility to the contest page: http://stats.grok.se/it.s/201311/Wikisource:Decimo_compleanno_di_Wikisource
Aubrey On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 12:35 PM, David Cuenca <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I must say that this contest really works well as a "excuse" to ask for > promotion that otherwise wouldn't happen. > > So far, thanks to the contest, the Catalan Wikisource appeared in at least > 6 websites/blogs/news outlet, some of them minor, but other as important > for us as the National Library of Catalonia (who were so kind to announce > us on their facebook and twitter accounts). > > So I recommend to take advantage of the opportunity and contact AS MANY > BLOGS AND ORGANIZATIONS AS POSSIBLE, even better if they are libraries or > literary blogs. It doesn't matter if you think it is too late for > participating or not worth the effort, they can also inform about the > results :) > I can attest that it does work as a promotion tool and letting people be > more aware of our existence :) > > Micru > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > >
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