Talk:International Year of Astronomy/En

Talk:International Year of Astronomy –

task list[edit]

Please add to the list below. --mikeu ^talk 05:08, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

translate International Year of Astronomy into all languages that are active on beta and announce on each language page.

start: CS DE EL EN ES FR IT LV PT RU ZH
stubs: AR BG EO FA FI HE HU JA KO NL NO PL RO SK SR SV TH
todo: BCC BO CA HT LT TA TR UK etc.

create a learning project on each independent language wikiversity and announce on the site.

start: CS DE EL EN
stub: FI
todo: ES FR IT JA PT

for each language create or improve the wikipedia article on en:w:International Year of Astronomy (and post a note to the talk page about the wikiversity learning project.)
Wikinews - write an article announcing the IYA to coincide with the opening ceremony on Jan. 15-16, 2009 [1]
Commons - upload IYA related images to Category:International_Year_of_Astronomy

learning project ideas[edit]

Please add more. --mikeu ^talk 17:26, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dark Skies - an opportunity for citizen-scientists to monitor light pollution worldwide [2] [3]

GLOBE at Night (March 16 - 28, 2009) [4] [5]
Earth Hour - A Global Event on Climate Change (March 28, 2009) [6] [7] Earth Hour
The Great World Wide Star Count (October 9 - 23, 2009) [8] [9]

Observing

100 Hours of Astronomy (April 2-5, 2009) [10]

Research Experiences for Students, Teachers and Citizen Science

Observe the eclipse of w:Epsilon Aurigae [11]

Greek[edit]

I completed the translation and in the evening I will import the page to the greek wikiversity in order to start an article about the IYA there, too.--ZaDiak^(T)(C)@ 14:09, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Good job.--Juan 14:17, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Banner[edit]

Hello,

I have created a banner for International Year of Astronomy(please write a comment):

--Jan Luca 19:45, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This looks great! Might I suggest using an image of Kepler's Supernova? (DE EN) Or, perhaps the NASA Kepler Mission? (DE EN) --mikeu ^talk 21:28, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Kepler's supernova
Kepler Mission

Changed. --Jan Luca 09:36, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Here's the link to more banner iamges: de:Projekt:Internationales Jahr der Astronomie 2009/Banner --mikeu ^talk 18:53, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

wikinews[edit]

I've created a Wikinews Short at International Year of Astronomy is launched. Please consider creating a story on other wikinews language sites. --mikeu ^talk 18:43, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]