On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 5:07 AM, Rehman Abubakr
wrote:
> As earlier discussions on this topic received relatively little response
> from the community, I'm sending this email to let you know about the new
> topic posted at
Actually, this kind of “journal” or mega-report is what we are planning to
do for Wikiconference North America 2016, in that not only do we want to
report back to the WMF what we did with the original grant, but we wanted
to document best practices for future conferences. This also lets partners
Hey Gnagarra,
Thanks for the clarification. The report would therefore be quite a costly
business, if you expect it to be executed by paid staff. And it would
probably go at the expense of what they would otherwise be doing. 6-12
months is by the way a very long time to publication!
Could you
Its not something that a volunteer could be expected to manage as it would
need a dedicated person with resources to follow up with those involved and
collate all the information
I would see it as something done by the WMF either by their Wikimania team
or the media team given the WMF already do
It would be nice to see past events wrapped up into one journal covering
all aspects from original discussion until the final reporting of the event
including financials, attendee reports and media reports at the moment
everything is spread across chapter, foundation, event pages which means
The discussion has now been moved to
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Wikimania_wikis apparently,
where it will probably also get archived not too distant in the future. I
hope someone will post a link here to that archive page.
Lodewijk
2016-10-22 11:07 GMT+02:00 Rehman Abubakr
(cross-posting to Wikimania-l and Wikimedia-l)
Hi,
As earlier discussions on this topic received relatively little response from
the community, I'm sending this email to let you know about the new topic
posted at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Babel#Wikimania_wikis, with
regards to