Hi Leila, Thank you for the updates. I have one small question. Will the sessions which are available on Zoom also be recorded for later viewing? On occasion, I watch or share presentations after they have occurred.
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 9:43 PM Leila Zia <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > We have an update for you regarding Wiki Workshop 2020 [0] in light of > the global health situation related to COVID-19. > > ==Summary== > We have turned Wiki Workshop 2020 from an in-person event to a fully > virtual event. This was not an easy decision for us to make. We know > that past year attendees had gained a lot from the in-person set-up of > the workshop. This being said, we're excited about the opportunity of > organizing the workshop in a virtual set-up: this allows us to reduce > our carbon foot-print and to allow more people to benefit from the > workshop. > > For this year's workshop, we have decided to remove the registration > cost which is removing one more barrier for participation. The > workshop will take place, as originally planned, on April 21 2020. We > have changed the time of the workshop from Taipei's local time to > afternoon UTC until evening UTC. (Exact times will be announced in the > coming couple of weeks.) We also want you to know that we're working > hard to transform the workshop program to one that can be engaging in > a virtual set-up. We are making good progress on this front, thanks to > the immense flexibility of everyone who is working with us including > our speakers and the authors of the papers. Look for more information > in the coming weeks about how to register (for fee). If you want to > know more, please read on! :) > > ==Where?== > Wiki Workshop 2020 is going fully virtual. All talks, conversations, > poster sessions, and one on one meetings are moved to a virtual > environment. > > ==When?== > April 21, 2020. We will start in the afternoon UTC and will end in the > evening UTC. Note that this is a change from the original plan to > start at 9:00 local time in Taipei. We expect to be able to finalize > the start and end times of the workshop no later than 2020-03-27. > > ==How?== > We are testing a few different video communication options and most > likely we will go with Zoom [1]. There is no cost for downloading > Zoom, and there is even a web browser version of it. However, some of > the features we will use, such as breakout rooms, will work more > smoothly if you download Zoom. We will send specific instructions for > how to connect to those who register for the event. > > ==Registration== > If you are not an author of an accepted archival paper, you can > request to attend the event for free. We will send the details for how > to submit your request by 2020-03-27. We will review all registration > requests and will let you know if your registration is through. > > If you are an author of an accepted paper in the workshop, you will > need to make sure at least one of the authors of your paper is > registered for a 1-day (or more) in-person registration option offered > by the Web Conference 2020 organizers or the 5-day virtual attendance > registration for the conference. Link to register: > https://www2020.thewebconf.org/registration . Please note that your > paper will be removed from the proceedings of the conference if you do > not take this step and we, as workshop organizers, don't have any > means to fix that for you. > > ==Program== > We traditionally had 5-6 invited talks (45-min each) in Wiki Workshop > along with a Featured and Lightning Talk session by the authors of the > accepted papers followed by a poster session. The duration of the > workshop in the old set-up was 8 hours. > > We have no doubt that our traditional model for the program has to > change for this year. We know that the dynamics of engagement in the > virtual set-ups are different from the in-person set-ups. Here is what > we're thinking about the high-level format, the details to be > announced as we finalize the program in the coming few weeks: > * Ice-breaker: unchanged. > * Introductions: some way of making sure every person knows at least a > few other of the participants. (We can do 15-sec intros if we have 10s > of attendees, but we can't scale that if we have many more.) > * Keynote plus Q&A > * A conversation: an interview style back-and-forth between two people > with room for questions at the end. > * A conversation: a panel style of conversation. we have a couple of > topics in mind for the panel and are sorting out details. > * Featured Talks and Lightning Talks: 10-min or 3-min presentations by > the authors of the accepted papers. This is unchanged from last year, > except that after this session we would go to a poster session and > this year we are working on a topic-based virtual poster session. The > authors will receive more information about this. > * The virtual poster session > * Wrap-up > * One on one meetings: This is new for this year. We will be offering > the participants the option to sign up for short one on one virtual > meetings with a selected subset of Wikimedia researchers and volunteer > editors for more in-depth conversations. > > Please expect more updates in the coming weeks on this thread. If you > have questions, please send them to us via > [email protected] or you can comment on this thread. > > We wish you, your family, and your friends health. > > Best, > Leila, on behalf of Wiki Workshop organizers [2] > > [0] https://www2020.thewebconf.org/ > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Video_Communications > [2] https://wikiworkshop.org/2020/#organization > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 7:13 PM Leila Zia <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > We are delighted to announce that Wiki Workshop 2020 will be held in > > Taipei on April 20 or 21, 2020 (the date to be finalized soon) and as > > part of the Web Conference 2020 [1]. In the past years, Wiki Workshop > > has traveled to Oxford, Montreal, Cologne, Perth, Lyon, and San > > Francisco. > > > > You can read more about the call for papers and the workshops at > > http://wikiworkshop.org/2020/#call. Please note that the deadline for > > the submissions to be considered for proceedings is January 17. All > > other submissions should be received by February 21. > > > > If you have questions about the workshop, please let us know on this > > list or at [email protected]. > > > > Looking forward to seeing you in Taipei. > > > > Best, > > Miriam Redi, Wikimedia Foundation > > Bob West, EPFL > > Leila Zia, Wikimedia Foundation > > > > [1] https://www2020.thewebconf.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
