Florence Devouard wrote:
On 7/31/10 5:21 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
But all of the above are nice dreams about the future. Is there any
proven experience from the past that demonstrates why personal
meetings between Wikimedians are not just fun for them, but actually
beneficial to the
This has been an interesting thread to follow, there should be one
non-Wikimania, because it does matter. I've met several Wikimedians at the
couple meet-ups I've been to with whom on-wiki I had many disagreements
with. Meeting face to face clears that air with the human contact. James
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:09 AM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.comwrote:
This has been an interesting thread to follow, there should be one
non-Wikimania, because it does matter. I've met several Wikimedians at the
couple meet-ups I've been to with whom on-wiki I had many disagreements
Agreed. A good example; on the English Wikipedia, I'm a massive law nerd
with 40-something legal GAs and FAs to my name. I'd never even have studied
the subject if it wasn't for a group of Wikipedians, some of whom have later
helped me with or collaborated on articles. The importance of social
Tomasz Ganicz wrote:
In 2006 Wikimania in Boston there was a brief, informal meetup of
chapter committee, existing chapters boards members and people thinikg
to establish their own chapters. I don't know if it was the results of
only this meeting but several weeks/months after this meeting
Oliver Keyes wrote:
Agreed. A good example; on the English Wikipedia, I'm a massive law nerd
with 40-something legal GAs and FAs to my name. I'd never even have studied
the subject if it wasn't for a group of Wikipedians, some of whom have later
helped me with or collaborated on articles. The
OMG I MET ROBERT I LUV HIM SO is disruptive. Does anyone know where he was
educated? It isn't listed is potentially helpful. And so on.
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:44 AM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
Oliver Keyes wrote:
Agreed. A good example; on the English Wikipedia, I'm a massive
On 7/31/10 5:21 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
I am thinking about making Wikimania 2011 as awesome as possible and
here's a little something that bothered me.
Wikimania 2010 was my first. It was a lot of fun to meet Wikimedians
from around the world. I also think that a lot of new ideas were
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 09:58, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com wrote:
On 7/31/10 5:21 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
I am thinking about making Wikimania 2011 as awesome as possible and
here's a little something that bothered me.
Wikimania 2010 was my first. It was a lot of fun to meet
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:21:25 +0300, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
But all of the above are nice dreams about the future. Is there any
proven experience from the past that demonstrates why personal
meetings between Wikimedians are not just fun for them, but actually
On 31 July 2010 16:21, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
But all of the above are nice dreams about the future. Is there any
proven experience from the past that demonstrates why personal
meetings between Wikimedians are not just fun for them, but actually
beneficial to the
On 31 July 2010 16:27, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 31 July 2010 16:21, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
But all of the above are nice dreams about the future. Is there any
proven experience from the past that demonstrates why personal
meetings between
On 31 July 2010 16:32, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
OK, but how exactly? Why did people have to fly to another continent
to start a chapter in their own country? Did they use Wikimania as an
opportunity to talk to the people who started the pioneering chapters
(Germany,
On 31 July 2010 16:35, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
You said personal meetings between Wikimedians, not specifically
Wikimania. Do you mean only Wikimania, or do you mean personal
meetings in general?
Ah, you were answering the first of the two questions in the text you
quoted. I
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
But all of the above are nice dreams about the future. Is there any
proven experience from the past that demonstrates why personal
meetings between Wikimedians are not just fun for them, but actually
On 31 July 2010 16:37, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote:
There was also a fundraising summit hosted by Wikimedia UK
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2010_Fundraising_Summit, which Thomas
could tell us more about.
Indeed. For people involved in chapters, there are lots of in-person
meetings
2010/7/31 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
On 31 July 2010 16:32, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
OK, but how exactly? Why did people have to fly to another continent
to start a chapter in their own country? Did they use Wikimania as an
opportunity to talk to the people who
2010/7/31 Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org:
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
But all of the above are nice dreams about the future. Is there any
proven experience from the past that demonstrates why personal
meetings between Wikimedians are
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 31 July 2010 16:27, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 31 July 2010 16:21, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
But all of the above are nice dreams about the future. Is there any
proven
On 31 July 2010 18:15, Austin Hair adh...@gmail.com wrote:
To answer the original post, many projects have resulted from random
talks at dinners during Wikimania, five-minute chats between sessions,
and people just getting to know each other. I wish I could take the
time to make a more
2010/7/31 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com:
On 31 July 2010 16:27, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 31 July 2010 16:21, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
But all of the above are nice dreams about the future. Is there any
proven experience from the past that
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