On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 09:58, Florence Devouard <[email protected]> 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 Wikimedians >> from around the world. I also think that a lot of new ideas were born >> thanks to the personal meetings in Gdansk, at least some of which may >> grow to successful projects. Maybe it will be smarter use of machine >> translation, maybe outreach to underprivileged languages, maybe >> accessibility improvements. Maybe other things. >> >> 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 Wikimedia community, the Internet, the Humanity? Can >> anyone here give me solid examples of successful projects that were >> born thanks to past Wikimanias? > > Children... > > I know that for a fact :) > Delphine met Arne whilst going to Germany to prepare first Wikimania > ever. Look now: two children. Our future :) >
* A fix for a missing patrolling feature for the Dutch wikipedia in 2005, Frankfurt; mainly because I met people who 'figuratively' held my hands while figuring out how to fix the last part. * for years, wikimania gave me the energy to do things again henna -- "Maybe you knew early on that your track went from point A to B, but unlike you I wasn't given a map at birth!" Alyssa, "Chasing Amy" _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
