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

2011-08-15 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 08/09/11 9:40 PM, Lodewijk wrote: Personally, I found it a nice experience to not have all those titles thrown into my face every time I saw a badge. But then I know most of the people already, so maybe I'm not a fair person to consider there :) I would have preferred to not have the

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

2011-08-15 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 08/09/11 2:29 PM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: On 09.08.2011 15:26, Delphine Ménard wrote: * Food: the food was so excellent it's not even funny (wow the hummus). 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,

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

2011-08-15 Thread Nemo
On 15 August 2011 11:04, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote: I would have preferred to not have the @wikiwhatever extension.  Since SUL that has become less important. Being longer, it also makes it harder to focus on reading the name.  I do remember seeing a few where it made the name so

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

2011-08-15 Thread Finne Boonen
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:26, Nemo nemow...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 August 2011 11:04, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote: I would have preferred to not have the @wikiwhatever extension.  Since SUL that has become less important. Being longer, it also makes it harder to focus on reading

[Wikimania-l] Fwd: Wikimania 2011: Thank you!

2011-08-15 Thread Itzik Edri
-- Forwarded message -- From: Wikimania 2011 wikimania-i...@wikimedia.org Date: Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 1:20 PM Subject: Wikimania 2011: Thank you! To: it...@infra.co.il [image: Wikimania 2011

Re: [Wikimania-l] CD

2011-08-15 Thread Niklas Laxström
On 11 August 2011 14:03, Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il wrote: We talked before, and also today with the airport - they know about Wikimania group, and they also to expedite this process.. The manger told us today that August is the most busy month on Ben Gurion - They doing as much as they can

Re: [Wikimania-l] CD

2011-08-15 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 21:59, Иванов Вячеслав v.iva...@amikeco.ru wrote: Every one of us has received a book „Facts about Israel“. It is a not very neutral one, but that makes it so very interesting. I love the wording of some parts of the History section that make it impossible to accuse them

Re: [Wikimania-l] Mail from fina...@wikimania.org.il

2011-08-15 Thread Harel
It's invoices we are required to issue to each of you who paid us. Too bad the damn service is Hebrew only. If you don't need the invoice, there's nothing you need to do about it. Harel Cain Wikimania 2011 local team On Aug 15, 2011, at 20:15, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxst...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Wikimania-l] Mail from fina...@wikimania.org.il

2011-08-15 Thread Harel Cain
I was just told that we had some mix-ups for some people who got invoices on the wrong sums :-( It's supposed to be fixed soon (probably tomorrow) and then you will get the correct invoices (actually, these are receipts and not invoices...) on the correct sum, including accommodation. Harel On

Re: [Wikimania-l] Mail from fina...@wikimania.org.il

2011-08-15 Thread Lodewijk
Thanks for the note on the list. I actually assumed it was a scam/fake and emailed the OTRS team about it (no reply yet) - I'm always a bit suspicious about this kind of unexpected emails without any explanation in a relevant language :) Lodewijk 2011/8/15 Harel Cain harel.c...@gmail.com I was

Re: [Wikimania-l] Videos!

2011-08-15 Thread James Hare
As far I know, you're looking in the right place. Each video is 5 GB and there's a total of 2 TB of video, so uploading probably will take them a while. On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote: Hello! Once again, thanks for the cool conference. Right now I'd

[Wikimania-l] OSM mapping party report

2011-08-15 Thread aude
Here's a write-up, photos, and the map (before/after) for the mapping party held during Wikimania: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/aude/diary/14605 In sum, we gave a workshop, followed by taking ~25 participants out on the streets of Haifa to collect map data, broke into 4 smaller groups.