Hello, I had the pleasure of spending this past Monday in Tel Aviv, speaking at the Israeli Wikipedia Academy. (More about that in a bit -- the support for Wikipedia and wikis in general among universities there remains extremely strong.) We talked about next year's Wikimania over dinner.
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Casey Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm interested in everyone's views on this, and I'd be particularly >> interested in hearing from the people who've been involved in past >> Wikimanias, and also from the Haifa people, to hear if this'd be >> useful for them for 2011. > > I know that the Haifa team is definitely interested in this. Last I > heard, they were actively reaching out to previous organizers so that > they could meet them in Gdansk and get feedback/tips. (They've also > been setting up planning information on the existing > wikimaniateamwiki.) It is always good to see an org team still flush with the energy of organizing a bid, trying to reach out and connect with all of the right groups with knowledge from previous years. And it's always a bit of a letdown if that energy doesn't find anyone from outside the team with similar energy, reaching back. Happily, there are a lot of past organizers - both people who were on bid teams and people who were part of other institutions - who have spoken up in recent days to ask how they can help. If we start a Wikimania Primer now, while a new team has that honeymoon energy, we can have a detailed discussion in Gdansk about how to set up a group to support future org teams from yeear to year. As Casey mentioned earlier, there is a lot of good "how-to" material on the wikimaniateam wiki which is unnecessarily hidden, and should simply be converted into that sort of public document.* SJ * a problem shared with most private wikis... -- [email protected] w:user:sj identi.ca:sj _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
