Re: [Wikimania-l] Thank you!!!

2012-07-19 Thread Manuel Schneider
Am 19.07.2012 08:34, schrieb Florence Devouard: Hi guys Salut Madame, What's the favorite wiki page where we can collect our feedback on this year Wikimania ? vous voulez prendre ça: https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feedback Cordialement, Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider

Re: [Wikimania-l] Thank you!!!

2012-07-19 Thread Florence Devouard
On 7/19/12 10:00 AM, Manuel Schneider wrote: Am 19.07.2012 08:34, schrieb Florence Devouard: Hi guys Salut Madame, What's the favorite wiki page where we can collect our feedback on this year Wikimania ? vous voulez prendre ça: https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feedback

[Wikimania-l] Feedback

2012-07-19 Thread Florence Devouard
https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feedback I dropped my comments over there. There are three things on which I would like to specifically insist upon The first is that I see a trend in seeing Wikimania as a conference rather than a sort of giant meetup. I regret it. I was particularly

Re: [Wikimania-l] Thank you!!!

2012-07-19 Thread Cristian Consonni
2012/7/18 Alhen alhen.w...@gmail.com: Thanks to all the folks that helped organizing a absolutely incredible Wikimania. The only bad thing is that it finished!! Thank you all guys for having put your heart to this project. Everything was flawless I believe :) Thank you all for your effort

Re: [Wikimania-l] Feedback

2012-07-19 Thread Katherine Casey
I agree with Florence's comment about being sad that Wikimania is no longer a giant meetup. For all that the talks and lectures are very informative, I sort of wish that we had the GLAM track lecture, the Dev track, the [whatever] track, *AND *the I just want to hang out with people track. Give

Re: [Wikimania-l] Feedback

2012-07-19 Thread Joseph Fox
To be honest, I think I spent the majority of the time just sitting with a laptop in the big rooms and I felt that the conference's structure was well done (i.e. it allowed for this laziness rather than tutting at me for it). I think what you're really looking for is one giant unconference -

Re: [Wikimania-l] Feedback

2012-07-19 Thread Lodewijk
Something I would personally appreciate as an improvement, is a block of 2 hour around lunch with NO INTERNET! That ought to improve the mingling :) Also speeddating seems to be an effective method (there are many ways to accomplish that). Lodewijk 2012/7/19 Katherine Casey

Re: [Wikimania-l] Feedback

2012-07-19 Thread Tom Morris
On Thursday, 19 July 2012 at 16:18, Joseph Fox wrote: To be honest, I think I spent the majority of the time just sitting with a laptop in the big rooms and I felt that the conference's structure was well done (i.e. it allowed for this laziness rather than tutting at me for it). I think

Re: [Wikimania-l] Feedback

2012-07-19 Thread Nicholas Michael Bashour
2012/7/19 Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org Something I would personally appreciate as an improvement, is a block of 2 hour around lunch with NO INTERNET! That ought to improve the mingling :) That's what we would call an Analogue Hour, which I would be in favor of having. I think encouraging

Re: [Wikimania-l] Feedback

2012-07-19 Thread Joseph Fox
That's not a bad idea actually! But I imagine people would be baying for blood quite quickly ;) Joe On 19 Jul 2012, at 23:22, Lodewijk wrote: Something I would personally appreciate as an improvement, is a block of 2 hour around lunch with NO INTERNET! That ought to improve the mingling :)

Re: [Wikimania-l] Feedback

2012-07-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 19 July 2012 11:18, Joseph Fox josephfoxw...@gmail.com wrote: I think what you're really looking for is one giant unconference - and, given that Sunday was clearly the least productive day of the whole weekend, I don't think Wikimania 2013 would really benefit from a complete overhaul of

Re: [Wikimania-l] Feedback

2012-07-19 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 19 July 2012 05:57, Florence Devouard anth...@anthere.org wrote: The first is that I see a trend in seeing Wikimania as a conference rather than a sort of giant meetup. I regret it. I was particularly sensible this year to the fact we had factions. I could see the French speaking guys

Re: [Wikimania-l] Feedback

2012-07-19 Thread Katherine Casey
Thomas, I LOVE this idea. Can we please please please have this for our badges next year, Hong Kong people? Pretty please with a cherry on top? -Fluff On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: snip * Talk to me about... lists on badges. Knowing that someone

Re: [Wikimania-l] Feedback

2012-07-19 Thread Tom Morris
On Thursday, 19 July 2012 at 17:03, Katherine Casey wrote: Thomas, I LOVE this idea. Can we please please please have this for our badges next year, Hong Kong people? Pretty please with a cherry on top? We need the conference badge anyone can edit. ;-) -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/

Re: [Wikimania-l] Feedback

2012-07-19 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi, On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: * Talk to me about... lists on badges. Knowing that someone is interested in a particular thing can give you an excuse to talk to them. I'd like to +1 this. It was done for the hackathon badges in 2011 iirc and

Re: [Wikimania-l] Feedback

2012-07-19 Thread Joseph Fox
I do hope the HK guys are reading ;) Joe On 19 Jul 2012, at 23:59, Thomas Dalton wrote: On 19 July 2012 05:57, Florence Devouard anth...@anthere.org wrote: The first is that I see a trend in seeing Wikimania as a conference rather than a sort of giant meetup. I regret it. I was particularly

Re: [Wikimania-l] Feedback

2012-07-19 Thread Lori Phillips
This has been a really interesting discussion so far, I think! A part of me wants to say that the grouping off at this Wikimania isn't the fault of anyone, but is a natural course of what happens at larger conferences. Having had the chance to attend conferences of many sizes and of varied topics,

Re: [Wikimania-l] Feedback

2012-07-19 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thomas Dalton, 19/07/2012 17:59: I certainly found myself talking to people from the UK far too much. I did make a point of leaving the UK group to go and speak to other people a few times, but there is a strong tendency to drift back to the people you know. I think it becomes more of a problem

Re: [Wikimania-l] Feedback

2012-07-19 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 19 July 2012 12:56, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: As already written by some on [[feedback]], the first problem is being able to meet people you know already, but only by name; which can already easily count in the hundreds, if one is mildly active on wiki and on mailing

Re: [Wikimania-l] Feedback

2012-07-19 Thread Sven
I personally met quite a few new people, but I did so at the Hackathon (where no one I knew was there) and at random (i.e. the non-event/invite) dinners. During the conference proper, when I didn't have something I really wanted to see, I followed a pre-conference friend to what they were

[Wikimania-l] Who took our group photos on Wikimania Takes Manhattan?

2012-07-19 Thread Shujen Chang
I think we have some group photos at Wiki World's Fair and United Nation, who took these photos? Please upload them to Commons. -- Sincerely, Shujen Chang ___ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimania-l] Feedback

2012-07-19 Thread Alhen
I totally agree with Sven, the tag explaning about what you can talk about can really make it easier for a person to just break the ice and start talking. Just like him, I also met quite a lot of different people. Although I regret no having spent more time with the Iberocoop crowd, I had the