Re: [Wikimania-l] scholarships app

[Amir E. Aharoni]

Oh... there's a possibility that I saw "app" and thought that it's a mobile
app.

So this is about https://scholarships.wikimedia.org , and it is used?

I am asking mainly to make sure that translating it on translatewiki.net is
still useful.

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‫בתאריך יום ב׳, 25 במרץ 2019 ב-5:05 מאת ‪Mārtiņš Bruņenieks‬‏ <‪
marti...@gmail.com‬‏>:‬

> Can this be a confusion caused by Wikimania Scholarship
> application website sometime using name "Wikimania Scholarships app"?
>  https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimania_Scholarships_app
>
>  Mārtiņš
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 1:19 PM DerHexer  wrote:
>
>> Agreed, since I serve in the scholarship committee one or the other way
>> from 2012 on, such app has never been used. I think I haven't even heard of
>> this before.
>>
>> Best,
>> Martin
>>
>> Am Freitag, 22. März 2019, 16:29:53 MEZ hat Bryan Davis <
>> bd...@wikimedia.org> Folgendes geschrieben:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 1:41 AM Amir E. Aharoni
>>  wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have a vague recollection of a Wikimania Scholarship mobile pp.
>> >
>> > Is it still used in any way?
>>
>> Must be a very old vague memory. There has been no such thing since
>> the Foundation took over hosting https://scholarships.wikimedia.org in
>> late 2013 for Wikimania London.
>>
>> Bryan
>> --
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[Wikimania-l] scholarships app

[Amir E. Aharoni]

Hi,

I have a vague recollection of a Wikimania Scholarship mobile pp.

Is it still used in any way?

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Sensory overloads

[Amir E. Aharoni]

Thank you for sharing this, Romaine.

Our experiences are so different, and we should acknowledge it and cherish
it, and we need to respect all people and accommodate all people.

My experience is related and opposite at the same time. I sometimes tell
people that Wikimania is my social life. It's an exaggeration; it's
Wikimania and other Wikimedia-related events: hackathons, workshops, local
meetups. But that's really about it. The Wikimedia community is my social
life. Events other than Wikimedia events —weddings, holidays, parties, you
name it— can easily cause me to feel out of place and to experience
feelings described in this thread.

Wikimania is where I feel completely at home. But if it's not a place where
others can feel at home, it's a problem.

I remember one Wikimedia event that had an "introversion room". I remember
how some people cheered when the event organizer mentioned it in her
welcome speech. We need more of that: not only "introversion rooms" (even
though they are welcome), but anything that makes people feel welcome.

We need more of this consideration and inclusion not just because it's the
right and decent human thing to do. We need it because it's our expressed
goal to include every single human being. Who if not us?

בתאריך יום ד׳, 15 באוג׳ 2018, 18:42, מאת Romaine Wiki ‏<
romaine.w...@gmail.com>:

> Hi everyone,
>
> In our movement we have a lot of different people, including people with a
> different neurodiversity.
>
> Then it can happen that with events organised by the Wikimedia movement,
> there are people that get sensory overloads. it basically means that the
> input through the senses gets too much at some point. This can result in an
> emotional outburst, an instant heavy headache/migraine attack, or in my
> case I go (almost) completely blank.
>
> It is really hard to complain how it is like to people who have no
> experiences with it.
> I think however that we need as inclusive movement to be more aware of the
> huge amount of varieties of people and there needs. For that reason I like
> to share a thread on Twitter with you how a user I know well has
> experienced it herself.
>
> Read at: https://twitter.com/dodocurieux/status/1029743772584865792
>
>
> Thank you!
>
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Celebrating Wikimania 2018 online

[Amir E. Aharoni]

In Cape Town I bought a Northern Sotho–English dictionary,[1] and used it
to improve the article about the Northern Sotho language a bit. I'm very
far from being an expert however, so if you know anybody who knows this
language well, please point them to the many questions on the talk page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Northern_Sotho_language .

[1] I really, really love dictionaries.


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2018-07-23 21:24 GMT+03:00 Romaine Wiki :

> The official part of Wikimania is over, this does not prevent ourselves
> from celebrating Africa's first Wikimania online, in more particular:
> writing Wikipedia articles.
>
> Africa is under represented in Wikipedia, by writing about it we both
> celebrate our great conference as well as we work on solving the Africagap
>
> With some Dutchies we started the idea of having a list of like 10-20
> articles of subjects from Cape Town and surrounding area. For example:
>
>
> Well-known park in Cape Town:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company%27s_Garden
>
> The often referred to Dassie:
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q323847
>
> Input needed!
>
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Local Wikipedias of Cape Town/ South Africa

[Amir E. Aharoni]

Afrikaans and Xhosa are the most relevant local languages to Capetown.

Afrikaans is not huge, but fairly active.

Xhosa has a tiny number of contributors, but they are dedicated, and I
think that at least one will be at the Wikimania.

Other languages of South Africa in which there is a Wikipedia

There are many other languages in South Africa, and there is a Wikipedia in
most of them, although activity is unfortunately very low even though they
are spoken by quite a lot of people. See:
http://www.greenman.co.za/blog/?p=2244

Other people to contact directly about this:
User:Mapoza2
User:Nomden
User:Thuvack
User:Alias

בתאריך יום ד׳, 11 ביולי 2018, 21:07, מאת Andy Mabbett ‏<
a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk>:

> I'm writing some slides for a presentation at Wikimania. I'd like to
> use some local examples - which Wikipedias exist (and are most
> active), in the local languages of Cape Town/ South Africa?
>
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Volunteers needed for the "Learn to edit" desk at Wikimania

[Amir E. Aharoni]

You'll be surprised how much help you can give to other people who want to
write in their language if you just try. The languages are different, but
the buttons are mostly the same :)

בתאריך יום ב׳, 25 ביוני 2018, 21:26, מאת Justice Okai-Allotey ‏<
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> Hello Ceil,
>
> I am also interested in volunteering to teach people how to edit
> Wikipedia. But the problem is I only speak English so that means I would be
> stuck with English Wikipedia only.
>
> Best,
> Justice.
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 5:24 PM Armine Aghayan 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello, I am interested in helping new wiki learners in English.
>>
>> Best,
>> Armine
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 9:14 PM, balaji  wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I am interested to volunteer for new people. I know English,
>>> Tamil well. Kindly let me know further details.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> J. Balaji
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 9:46 PM Gabriel Thullen 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 Hello Ciell,

 I am attending Wikimania and I am interested in helping out. I am a
 bi-lingual (two mother tongues) French/English, and I can get by in German
 as well as smatterings of Spanish and Italian.

 I also do teacher training about using Wikipedia in schools, both as
 readers and as editors.

 Best regards
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> *Hi everyone*!
>
> Are you coming to Cape Town this South African winter? And can you
> spare a couple of hours at the conference? Then please join us as a 
> trainer
> at the *Learn to Edit desk*!
>
> The Learn to Edit desk will (most probably) located near the
> registration desk and will be open from Friday till Sunday, all day. Aim 
> is
> to help people taking their first steps on the wiki: getting an account,
> exploring the different pages and doing an edit or an upload. We'll have
> tables with laptops, for people that did not bring their own, or maybe 
> want
> to edit on a mobile device in the future.
>
> *For this I'm in need of Wikimedians who would like to share their
> knowledge*, and it would be nice if you...:
>
>- Have good knowledge of the English language
>- Maybe even another language? French, Afrikaans, ...?
>- Know how to edit Wikipedia, Wikidata and Commons
>- Know how to explain things in a simple and patient way
>- Have approximately one and a half/two hours to spare each day.
>
> *I'll make us volunteers a scheduale* and will take your wishes into
> account if you want to attend certain talks or meetups and are not
> available. Even if you cannot make it every day, please let me know if you
> want to help, I'm sure I can work around that.
>
> Send me an email!
>
> Kind regards, Vriendelijke groet,
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2017 Social Telegram group

[Amir E. Aharoni]

My understanding is that "Wikimania2017" is the serious "please no
unnecessary off topic messages" group, and "Wikimania2017Social" is the
"have fun and write whatever" group. (And in both, of course, the Code of
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2017-08-08 20:58 GMT+03:00 Freddy2001 :

> Is it possible to delete the wrong group? Two groups are just confusing…
> Freddy2001
>
> 2017-08-08 19:38 GMT+02:00 Siebrand Mazeland :
> >  @Wikimania2017Social
> >
> > Siebrand
> >> Op 8 aug. 2017 om 13:21 heeft Freddy2001  het
> volgende geschreven:
> >>
> >> @Wikimania2017Social
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Visa rejections

[Amir E. Aharoni]

2017-06-22 13:57 GMT+03:00 Lodewijk :
>
> I wonder, do we keep track of the number of visa rejections year over
year, so that we know in comparison?
>
> There are of course many factors that go into venue selection - one of
them is visa (another is security, political stability etc). The countries
that I remember going relatively smoothly were the ones where the
organizers sought a collaboration with the foreign affairs of their
country, to get some help. I don't know if Wikimedia Canada was able to
accomplish that. But it does mean that a general bad reputation is not
necessarily a bad rejection rate for this particular conference. (if memory
serves me well, WMIL did a great job in this respect in 2011, for example)
>

Heh, I'm not sure whether it was positive or negative :)

Jokes aside, this involved A LOT of work from the Haifa organizing team.
Many months before the event Wikimedia Israel people (not me) contacted the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, explained to them what kind of event this is,
and what kind of people come to it. The Ministry contacts were friendly and
cooperative and suggested a process and an invitation letter.

Then, when the actual event was coming closer (May–June or so), yours truly
spent about two weeks doing nothing but sleeping, eating, and helping
hundreds of people get visas. Luckily, I was employed very part-time back
then and I could easily afford to volunteer for this. I mostly followed the
process that the ministry suggested, but I also remember very-late-night
Skype calls with participants from faraway timezones who had trouble
filling forms (different forms in each consulate!) and writing special
invitation letters for participants that represents highly respected
international organizations. Days before the event I remember more
surprising international phone calls from my country's representatives in
consulates, airports, and border-crossings around the world—sometimes
asking about Wikipedians I knew in person, and sometimes about people whom
I had to look up in lists of participants and verify that they're legit (in
case you're wondering, they all were).

As far as _I_ know, there were two rejections in 2011, but there may have
been others I don't know about.

I've been telling this story every time I had a chance to talk to Wikimania
organizers after 2011. Visa rejections come up every year at least since
2010, the year I started following Wikimania. The current version of the
Wikimania Handbook [1] also refers to this: "Visa assistance—This is
probably one of the most time-consuming and complicated thing to
consider... Writing these letters is a full-time job". While writing this
email I added: "... a full-time job for about two weeks or even more", and
I moved the suggested time for this to April–May instead of May–June.

The Wikimania Handbook is awesome, and it's written based on real
experience—future organizers should take it seriously. (I'm _not_ implying
that the 2017 organizers didn't take it seriously. I acknowledge that it's
complicated and that every country is different.)

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Handbook

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Re: [Wikimania-l] lost umbrella

[Amir E. Aharoni]

Believe it or not, a kind person found it for me. It was worth trying :)


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2015-07-15 23:26 GMT-05:00 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il:

 Hi,

 If you took your Wikimania bag from the hackathon room today and found an
 umbrella in it, then there's a chance that it's mine ;)

 Yes, I know that umbrellas are one of the most frequently lost and least
 frequently found items, but I decided to give it a shot anyway.

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[Wikimania-l] lost umbrella

[Amir E. Aharoni]

Hi,

If you took your Wikimania bag from the hackathon room today and found an
umbrella in it, then there's a chance that it's mine ;)

Yes, I know that umbrellas are one of the most frequently lost and least
frequently found items, but I decided to give it a shot anyway.

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Anyway with downloaded pagecount-raw dumps?

[Amir E. Aharoni]

You probably wanted to send it to to some other list, like wikitech-l or
wikimedia-l :)


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2014-07-27 1:47 GMT+03:00 Osama Khalid osa...@gnu.org:

 Hello Wikimanaias,

 This is Osama Khalid, from the Arabic Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.

 I was wondering whether anyone here has a good number of the raw
 pagecounts downloaded so I can copy them to a hard disk during the
 conference.  They have been very helpful for me in trying to determine
 which articles need the most attention, but my sample size has always
 been too small since they are very huge and dumps.wikimedia.org
 restricts parallel downloads.

 If you have a bunch of them, and can bring, please let me know.

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Re: [Wikimania-l] holidays around Wikimania

[Amir E. Aharoni]

2011/8/24 Peter Meyer pbmeyer22...@yahoo.com
 Regarding [[The Three Weeks]] and the Orthodox fasting period below I'm not 
 getting
 a sense that there is a specific benefit from avoiding an overlap, or what 
 actions the
 conference organizers should take if an overlap is going to happen.

As the Haifa conference proved, if is not very important to avoid
[[The Three Weeks]] entirely. However, practicing Orthodox Jews would
appreciate if it wouldn't fall on [[Tisha B'Av]], the last day of The
Three Weeks.

(Orthodox Jews would also appreciate if it wouldn't be on Saturday,
but everybody understands that it's not practical.)

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Thanks for all the fish... and lessons learned

[Amir E. Aharoni]

2011/8/9 Delphine Ménard notafi...@gmail.com:
 * Food: the food was so excellent it's not even funny (wow the
 hummus).

Yesh!

 But I've seen _lots_ of people looking for the vegetarian
 food without ever knowing which it was. So: Label food. Name of the
 food, principal ingredients (some are allergic to say... bell pepper,
 can't have milk etc.), vegetarian, kosher, whatever is of importance,
 make it clear.

You are right. We made sure that there would be enough vegetarian and
vegan food in all meals, including hot main courses. On the way we
taught the catering staff what veganism is, so vegans can be happy
about this educational success :)

Nevertheless, a significant number of vegetarian people had hard time
finding their meals. I thought about labeling it, because discerning
the ingredients is not always easy, especially in a foreign country.
Unfortunately, it slipped my mind at the last minute.

Recommendation to all future Wikimania organizers: Just ask the
catering company for detailed labels on the food. Don't just ask, put
it in the contract. They know the info, they have the staff and it
should be their job.

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[Wikimania-l] vegetarian and vegan food

[Amir E. Aharoni]

Hi,

If you need vegetarian food, please ask the catering staff for it.
There's more than just salads - there are hot vegetarian and vegan
main courses. If the waiter doesn't know this, please the waiters'
manager.

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[Wikimania-l] lost and found

[Amir E. Aharoni]

A couple of lost items are at the Staff room on the second floor of Beit-Hecht.

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Re: [Wikimania-l] vegetarian and vegan food

[Amir E. Aharoni]

I apologize for this. The food is there, but some waiters are not
aware of it. If it happens again, please talk to the waiters' manager
about it.

2011/8/5 Alolita Sharma asha...@wikimedia.org:
 Hi Amir,

 I asked for vegetarian food and unfortunately the waiters have just
 said there isn't anything other than the salads so far.

 -Alolita

 On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
 amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
 Hi,

 If you need vegetarian food, please ask the catering staff for it.
 There's more than just salads - there are hot vegetarian and vegan
 main courses. If the waiter doesn't know this, please the waiters'
 manager.

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Welcome Some press cover

[Amir E. Aharoni]

Ahem, the hashtag is #wikimania

It is quite active, but make it even more active :)


2011/8/3 Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il:
 and web version...
 http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=232179

 On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il wrote:

 Good morning everyone!
 For the people who been here yesterday, we are hoping that everything
 works fine for you until now - and for the folks who are on their way to the
 venue - We're waiting for you, come on!
 We already getting a lot of press attention to the conference here, here
 is a fresh piece from the jPost this morning (as I'll not spam you with
 others stories in Hebrew :)
 Enjoy your stay, and keep updates with the hash-tag #wikimaniam so we
 could track your comments and your feelings about the conference.
 And do not hesitate to contact any of the volunteers the conference area
 at any time!
 Have a fun!
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Presentation format / software / OS?

[Amir E. Aharoni]

Short answer: PDF is probably best. ODP, PPT, Keynote and Google Docs
are probably fine, too, but each of them will have its issues. (For
example, if you use any special fonts, it may be a problem.)

The organizers are not providing a computer. There are plenty of
people with functional laptops here with Windows, GNU/Linux and Mac OS
and various office software. You can try asking someone to use a
laptop. Of course, make sure to check your presentation on the
computer you will use with the projector at least a couple of hours
before the presentation.


2011/8/2 vassia atanassova vassia.atanass...@gmail.com:
 Hello,

 I'm doing the final strokes of my presentation and I have a question. What
 will be the operation system and the software in use for viewing the
 presentations?
 I need to know because I have one custom (handwriting) font in one of my
 presentations, which I either need to install first, or turn the respective
 textboxes into images, or convert the whole presentation to PDF (which will
 be more difficult to me in another aspect)... So, any info available about
 this?

 Vassia / Spiritia

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[Wikimania-l] taking a taxi to the Technion

[Amir E. Aharoni]

If you are taking a taxi to the Technion dorms, demand that the driver
take you inside the campus to the dorm itself and not leave you at the
gate of the Technion campus.

If the driver insists, tell him that the manager of the taxi station,
Shlomo, said that the drivers are supposed to take Wikimania
participants all the way to the dorms.

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Shipment receiving in Haifa

[Amir E. Aharoni]

I'll reply personally.

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2011/7/31 KIZU Naoko aph...@gmail.com:
 Hi,

 I've got insomnia since this June and use sleeping pills, and
 unfortunately I forgot to pack them into my luggage at the last
 minute.
 Under certain conditions I can have someone in Japan ship them to me,
 and it takes at least 5 days; so to arrive on August 6 at earlier.

 Questions related:
 - Can we receive such emergency needed goods in Haifa, at our own name
 c/o Conference office whatsoever? If not, do any other possibilities
 avail?
 - Can we at dorms make our stay longer than reserved atm?

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Sherut Sharing

[Amir E. Aharoni]

I agree that for people who like trains, the experience is important :)

During the night you can take bus 205 to Hof HaCarmel station to
Merkaz HaCarmel. From Merkaz HaCarmel it's a short walking distance to
Nof and Dan Panorama hotels, and about 15 minutes to Har HaCarmel (go
downhill on Derech Hayam street).

If you don't want to walk, take a taxi from Hof HaCarmel station. It
will cost 45 sheqels.

To save money and effort, please print this document:
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taxi_Prices.pdf

Print it in any case, even if you don't currently plan to take a taxi
from the train station. Surprises happen :)


2011/7/31 Иванов Вячеслав v.iva...@amikeco.ru:
 But train is more fun for those who are railway fans :)
 It'd be nice to go by train and to share a taxi from the station (I go after 
 midnight, probably buses will appear rarely then).

 Viatcheslav / Amikeco

 31.07.2011, 10:21, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com:
 :) See you all there.. I am arriving on 2nd Aug.
 I think Sherut to Dorm is cheaper and convenient than Train to Haifa+ Taxi 
 from station to Dorm/Accom

 - Tinu Cherian

 On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan 
 jerry.tschan...@gmail.com wrote:
 @cherian
 In seems I started this thread stupidly here XD
 as it seems my intelligent travel buddy
 already put my name on that very wiki page

 自吾之埃拍
 Sent from my iPad

 On 30 Jul, 2011, at 16:27, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:17, Amir E. Aharoni
 amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
 Just to clarify things: Sharing a Sherut taxi means that you share the
 ride, but not the price. Each passenger pays 80 sheqels.

 I was preparing myself today for the trip. The only sense for sharing
 taxi is to share taxi from the Haifa train station to dorm/hotel.
 Otherwise, according to the prices, shared taxi (something like this
 [1]; actually, a van) is the cheapest variant for traveling from the
 airport to the dorm and it is around 16.30 EUR (otherwise, it is
 slightly more expensive, ~85 ILS ~ 17.30 EUR).

 And as Deryck and I arrived in the airport at very late hour
 Seems sherut is a better option for us?


 [1] http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reding_138.jpg

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[Wikimania-l] please arrive early to the airport

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Hello,

Some Wikimaniacs already landed in Israel, but most of you will be
flying in the next few days.

The travel agent who sold you the plane ticket must have told you
this, but let me re-iterate it, because it's very, very important:
When you go to Israel, arrive to the airport three and a half hours
before the departure! For example, if your flight departs at 22:00,
you must already be at the airport at 18:30. Yes, that is a lot of
time. It is needed because of security checks, although it doesn't
mean that you'll spend three hours in interrogations and X-rays -
you'll probably spend most of it reading or browsing the duty-free
store. Nevertheless, don't arrive late!

The same is true for the return flight: When you go from Israel back
home, arrive at the Ben-Gurion airport three and a half hours before
the departure.

Make sure you take a good book to spend the waiting time productively! :)

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Re: [Wikimania-l] The weather this week

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2011/7/30 Harel Cain harel.c...@gmail.com:
 Just wanted to let those of you already here or landing today: yesterday and
 today are considerably hotter than normal (perhaps the worst in the whole
 summer...), and the forecast is for temperatures to gradually decline over
 the coming week, starting already tomorrow. It will be about 5 to 6 Celsius
 degrees cooler by this time next week.

 Remember to drink *a lot* and wear a hat when out in the sun!

Tel-Aviv is pretty hot, but Haifa is better :)

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Re: [Wikimania-l] please arrive early to the airport

[Amir E. Aharoni]

A couple of people commented privately and told me that i may be
exaggerating. I am not exaggerating: on all my direct flights to and
from Israel in the recent years the agents requested that i be at the
airport 3 and a half hours before the flight. I am actually happy
about it: it's a great chance to read a book instead of email :)

There is an exception, though: If you have a transfer flight, don't
worry, because that is supposed to be arranged. If the first part of
your itinerary is a short local flight inside North America, Europe,
China, India etc., then much shorter times may apply. To be sure,
please call the agent who provided you the ticket and ask when should
you be at the departure airport. To double-check, call the airline
company. Ask about both directions!


2011/7/30 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il

 Hello,

 Some Wikimaniacs already landed in Israel, but most of you will be
 flying in the next few days.

 The travel agent who sold you the plane ticket must have told you
 this, but let me re-iterate it, because it's very, very important:
 When you go to Israel, arrive to the airport three and a half hours
 before the departure! For example, if your flight departs at 22:00,
 you must already be at the airport at 18:30. Yes, that is a lot of
 time. It is needed because of security checks, although it doesn't
 mean that you'll spend three hours in interrogations and X-rays -
 you'll probably spend most of it reading or browsing the duty-free
 store. Nevertheless, don't arrive late!

 The same is true for the return flight: When you go from Israel back
 home, arrive at the Ben-Gurion airport three and a half hours before
 the departure.

 Make sure you take a good book to spend the waiting time productively! :)

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Re: [Wikimania-l] please arrive early to the airport

[Amir E. Aharoni]

If you, for example, fly from Marseille to Frankfurt and then to
Tel-Aviv, then it may be OK. But double-checking with your travel
agent or airline company won't hurt.


2011/7/30 Florence Devouard anth...@anthere.org:
 Is that the right time to outline that my flight is departing from my city
 at 07h20 and that I do plan to be at the airport at... say... 06h55 ? Should
 be 'nough.

 Florence

 On 7/30/11 1:35 PM, Itzik Edri wrote:

 I agree with Harel,
 I also few Dozens times, and I never got more than two hours - two and a
 half before :)
 Itzik
 On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Harel Cain harel.c...@gmail.com wrote:

 I flew over 20 times in and out of Israel in the last couple of years and
 was never in the airport more than 2 hours before the flight, and everything
 was fine. However, for Israelis the procedures can indeed be quicker.

 From what I know the recommended time to be in TLV for tourists is 3 hours
 before the flight. I never heard about a 3.5 hour recommendation.

 When flying into Israel, if you're not flying El Al there's no special
 reason to be earlier there than normal. But take an extra half an hour for
 safety. Also bear in mind that it's peak holiday season and the airports all
 over the world are very busy.



 Harel Cain
 Wikimania 2011 local team

 On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 13:52, Amir E. Aharoni
 amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:

 A couple of people commented privately and told me that i may be
 exaggerating. I am not exaggerating: on all my direct flights to and
 from Israel in the recent years the agents requested that i be at the
 airport 3 and a half hours before the flight. I am actually happy
 about it: it's a great chance to read a book instead of email :)

 There is an exception, though: If you have a transfer flight, don't
 worry, because that is supposed to be arranged. If the first part of
 your itinerary is a short local flight inside North America, Europe,
 China, India etc., then much shorter times may apply. To be sure,
 please call the agent who provided you the ticket and ask when should
 you be at the departure airport. To double-check, call the airline
 company. Ask about both directions!


 2011/7/30 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il
 
  Hello,
 
  Some Wikimaniacs already landed in Israel, but most of you will be
  flying in the next few days.
 
  The travel agent who sold you the plane ticket must have told you
  this, but let me re-iterate it, because it's very, very important:
  When you go to Israel, arrive to the airport three and a half hours
  before the departure! For example, if your flight departs at 22:00,
  you must already be at the airport at 18:30. Yes, that is a lot of
  time. It is needed because of security checks, although it doesn't
  mean that you'll spend three hours in interrogations and X-rays -
  you'll probably spend most of it reading or browsing the duty-free
  store. Nevertheless, don't arrive late!
 
  The same is true for the return flight: When you go from Israel back
  home, arrive at the Ben-Gurion airport three and a half hours before
  the departure.
 
  Make sure you take a good book to spend the waiting time productively!
  :)
 
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Sherut Sharing

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Haifa Central (a.k.a Haifa Merkaz) is near the Tiltan college, which
is the venue of the Wednesday evening party.

It is the third station in Haifa, after Hof HaCarmel and Bat-Galim.

Go to Haifa Central/Merkaz in these two cases:

1. You arrive to Haifa on Wednesday between 19:00 until 22:00. (The
ride takes slightly more than an hour.) In this case you shouldn't
take any taxi from the airport.

2. You stay in Nof or Dan Panorama, arrive to Haifa before 21:30 and
you're are ready to walk a little from the train station to the
Carmelit subway station. Carmelit works until 22:00.


2011/7/30 Harel Cain harel.c...@gmail.com:
 There are better ways to do it, please see the information on
 http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/In_Haifa_-_getting_to_the_Venue

 there is no reason to try to reinvent the routes all over again.

 As we wrote in the automated mail, unless you wish to go directly to the
 party on Wednesday evening, the best train station to disembark is Hof
 HaCarmel (I don't know what Haifa Central is - as there are 4 different
 stations in Haifa) and taking a bus or a taxi from there, without the
 Carmelit.

 Local bus ticket costs NIS 6.40 nowadays (USD 1.90).


 Harel Cain
 Wikimania 2011 local team

 2011/7/30 KIZU Naoko aph...@gmail.com

 Really good point!

 Let me make it sure, it means one can reach:
 - Haifa Central by train (38.5 NIS if you start from TLV?)
 - then Paris Sq. by walk
 - then Gan Ha Em by Karmelit (Metro) 6.2 NIS*
 - then Dorms/Haifa Univ. by bus No. 37 (and more other route?) 6.2 NIS

 Right?

 * Not sure if it's correct, my guidebook says so anyway.

 Cheers,

 On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 11:18, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com
  wrote:
  2011/7/30 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com:
  On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:26, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
  airport to the dorm and it is around 16.30 EUR (otherwise, it is
  slightly more expensive, ~85 ILS ~ 17.30 EUR).
 
  otherwise means train to Haifa, then taxi to hotel/dorm.
 
 
  But when you take public transport from Haifa train station it is much
  cheaper.
 
  It is 38.5 NIS for train + 6 NIS for metro in Haifa...
 
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Sherut Sharing

[Amir E. Aharoni]

Yes, sherut is the easiest option for you.

You can also take a bus from Hof Hacarmel station to the hotel, but
taking a sherut from the airport will be easier.


2011/7/30 Deryck Chan deryckc...@gmail.com:
 I guess that means in my case (flight arriving TLV 23:10) sherut is the only
 sensible option?

 On Jul 30, 2011 11:25 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il
 wrote:
 Haifa Central (a.k.a Haifa Merkaz) is near the Tiltan college, which
 is the venue of the Wednesday evening party.

 It is the third station in Haifa, after Hof HaCarmel and Bat-Galim.

 Go to Haifa Central/Merkaz in these two cases:

 1. You arrive to Haifa on Wednesday between 19:00 until 22:00. (The
 ride takes slightly more than an hour.) In this case you shouldn't
 take any taxi from the airport.

 2. You stay in Nof or Dan Panorama, arrive to Haifa before 21:30 and
 you're are ready to walk a little from the train station to the
 Carmelit subway station. Carmelit works until 22:00.


 2011/7/30 Harel Cain harel.c...@gmail.com:
 There are better ways to do it, please see the information on
 http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/In_Haifa_-_getting_to_the_Venue

 there is no reason to try to reinvent the routes all over again.

 As we wrote in the automated mail, unless you wish to go directly to the
 party on Wednesday evening, the best train station to disembark is Hof
 HaCarmel (I don't know what Haifa Central is - as there are 4 different
 stations in Haifa) and taking a bus or a taxi from there, without the
 Carmelit.

 Local bus ticket costs NIS 6.40 nowadays (USD 1.90).


 Harel Cain
 Wikimania 2011 local team

 2011/7/30 KIZU Naoko aph...@gmail.com

 Really good point!

 Let me make it sure, it means one can reach:
 - Haifa Central by train (38.5 NIS if you start from TLV?)
 - then Paris Sq. by walk
 - then Gan Ha Em by Karmelit (Metro) 6.2 NIS*
 - then Dorms/Haifa Univ. by bus No. 37 (and more other route?) 6.2 NIS

 Right?

 * Not sure if it's correct, my guidebook says so anyway.

 Cheers,

 On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 11:18, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com
  wrote:
  2011/7/30 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com:
  On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:26, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com
  wrote:
  airport to the dorm and it is around 16.30 EUR (otherwise, it is
  slightly more expensive, ~85 ILS ~ 17.30 EUR).
 
  otherwise means train to Haifa, then taxi to hotel/dorm.
 
 
  But when you take public transport from Haifa train station it is
  much
  cheaper.
 
  It is 38.5 NIS for train + 6 NIS for metro in Haifa...
 
  Good point!
 
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Re: [Wikimania-l] A trip to Petra after Wikimania

[Amir E. Aharoni]

I probably won't be able to join it, but i can help with organization.
(By myself, of course, not as WM-IL.)

2011/7/1 Danny B. wikipedia.dann...@email.cz:
 Hello,

 would anybody be interested in a trip to Petra in Jordan 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra, famous UNESCO heritage site after 
 Wikimania is over?

 And would any local person be willing to help with arranging of this trip?


 Kind regards


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Re: [Wikimania-l] Claims by BDS

[Amir E. Aharoni]

2011/6/29 John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com:
 I don't have precise measurements of popularity of Palestinians'
 Wikipedia participation. It's not zero - there is a considerable
 number of user pages in the Arab Wikipedia with userboxes that say
 this user lives in Israel or this user lives in Palestine; at
 least some of them actually demonstrated it in their edits (i can read
 Arabic a little). I emailed all of them and got no reply.

 Have you try reaching the people in

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Palestine

 ?

Yes, some of them, but i'll try a few more. Thanks for poking.

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Developer's Q/A - meet that hackers at Wikimania

[Amir E. Aharoni]

2011/1/20 Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de:
 So, I would like to propose to have a Q/A session where the community can
ask
 questions to developers. I'd like to do this during Wikimania proper, so
 everyone has a chance to attend.

 The question is: are people interested? Or is it just my silly idea?

It's an excellent idea, but it may be a bit hard to implement.

There are a dozen or so bugs in Bugzilla which are very important to me, and
i think that they are quite important for the whole WM community and i keep
wondering when will they finally be fixed. But dozens of other people have
dozens of other bugs which are important to them. Put them all in one room
with a few developers, and most likely a very little fraction of the
people's questions will be answered.

It doesn't mean that such a session shouldn't be held, but this problem
should be kept in mind. One idea is to prepare the people who will
participate in it that it will be a very first-come-first-served thing and
to tell the people to prepare their questions precisely (e.g. to have the
bug number) or maybe even to submit their questions in advance. Also, there
can be a kind of a preparatory lecture explaining how the developers work in
general, how do they decide on which bugs to work, etc.
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Re: [Wikimania-l] What to do about 2012, and the future

[Amir E. Aharoni]

2011/1/19 Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com
 2. Even if Wikimania is not relatively big when it comes to technology 
 conferences, the problem is growing a strong local team of volunteers in a 
 new place every year. That's very, very hard. We're not unique in having that 
 difficulty as a movement, but I don't think it means we should abandon 
 volunteer-based organization for the event.

This is an important point.

It's hard to grow such a team in a new place every year, but if you
do, then after X years you will have grown X strong local team of
volunteers, ready to take on new challenges and to teach their
experience to other teams. This may be a worthy goal. It would be
interesting to check previous Wikimanias and to see whether the team
that organized them went on as a team.

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Be bold! Say Hello!

[Amir E. Aharoni]

2010/7/9 Asaf Bartov asaf.bar...@gmail.com:
 Hi.
 This is just a reminder: in Wikipedia, we say Be bold!
 Many of us have not yet exchanged a single word with many others of us,
 naturally.
 So be bold!  Say hello and introduce yourself to people you haven't spoken
 to yet!
    Asaf

I did it and i was very pleasantly surprised every single time!
Everyone should do it!

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikidictionary projects

[Amir E. Aharoni]

 Gerard Meijssen wrote:
 Hoi,
 Both Polish and Hungarian are well presented in http://OmegaWiki.org
 .. OmegaWiki as you may know is developed from ideas from working on
 Wiktionary .. I am around ..

2010/7/10 Jerzy Celichowski celic...@osi.hu:
 Hi Gerard,

 Great, how can I find you? Could you send me your e-mail address or
 phone number? I'd like to meet you.

 Thanks,
 Jerzy

I will be very glad to talk you both about OmegaWiki! Maybe we can
organize some small (or large!) OmegaWiki meetup here?

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[Wikimania-l] electricity plug

[Amir E. Aharoni]

The electricity plug adapter which i brought was good for Spain, but
it isn't good for Poland. Does anyone know an electric appliances
store near the Baltic Philharmonic where i can buy a fitting plug?

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Re: [Wikimania-l] electricity plug

[Amir E. Aharoni]

Thank you very much for the offer, but i need an Israel-to-Polish
plug. Israel has unique plugs which aren't used anywhere else. (The
people from the Standards Institute of Israel, who are supposed to be
responsible for this mess, hate them too.)

2010/7/10 Peter Gehres in2that...@gmail.com:
 I have a US to Polish plug adapter I would be willing to part with.  I have
 only used one of the two I brought and I have to leave in the morning.  I
 don't know if this works for you, but the offer is open to anyone.

 On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
 amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:

 The electricity plug adapter which i brought was good for Spain, but
 it isn't good for Poland. Does anyone know an electric appliances
 store near the Baltic Philharmonic where i can buy a fitting plug?

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Vegetarians

[Amir E. Aharoni]

2010/7/9 Brianna Laugher brianna.laug...@gmail.com:
 Hi!

 If you are vegetarian and consider that you might like to meet fellow
 vego's for dinner, feel free to out yourself here -
 http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vegetarians

 If tomorrow's dinner is like tonight's, I will probably again go to
 find dinner elsewhere, and I'd be happy to go with other vegetarians
 :)

I sincerely hope that the second day won't be like the first. If it
will be like the first, count me in!

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Airport Pickup

[Amir E. Aharoni]

2010/7/5 Dorożyński Janusz dorozyns...@wampnm.webd.pl:
 | From: wikimania-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org 
 [mailto:wikimania-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jeromy-Yu Chan 
 (Jerry~Yuyu)
 | Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 12:09 PM
 /
 | any advice on exchange Euro to PLN?

 In what sense? Exchange rate or where you can exchange?

Exchange rate can be easily found online, but it would be useful to
know where we should change our banknotes. For example, in some
countries (maybe all...) changing in the airport is much more
expensive than changing in the city.

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Airport Pickup

[Amir E. Aharoni]

2010/7/5 Guillaume Paumier guillom@gmail.com:
 Greetings,

 On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
 amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:

 Exchange rate can be easily found online, but it would be useful to
 know where we should change our banknotes. For example, in some
 countries (maybe all...) changing in the airport is much more
 expensive than changing in the city.

 Speaking generally, it is usually cheaper to withdraw local money from
 an ATM using a credit / debit card (if it's possible for you), than to
 change money.

Last time i checked, for Israeli accounts drawing from an ATM is more
expensive. But i might be wrong.

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[Wikimania-l] dormitories - location

[Amir E. Aharoni]

In the registration process i asked for dormitories. I already
received the confirmation and payed for the registration, but i still
don't know where exactly i will be sleeping the first night.

I looked at the Google map which is linked from the wiki and there are
many hostels and dormitories in it.

If i won't know where i'm staying until i arrive, should i just come
to the Baltic Philharmonic? Note that my flight is scheduled to land
at 22:30, so i shall probably arrive after 23:00.

Very similar questions were already asked on this list in the last few
days, so can anyone please update this in the FAQ (
http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/FAQ ).

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