Re: [Wikimania-l] Unified Wikimania wiki

2016-10-22 Thread Andrew Lih
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

Re: [Wikimania-l] A Wikimania journal

2016-10-22 Thread Andrew Lih
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

Re: [Wikimania-l] A Wikimania journal

2016-10-22 Thread Lodewijk
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

Re: [Wikimania-l] A Wikimania journal

2016-10-22 Thread Gnangarra
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

Re: [Wikimania-l] Unified Wikimania wiki

2016-10-22 Thread Gnangarra
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

Re: [Wikimania-l] Unified Wikimania wiki

2016-10-22 Thread Lodewijk
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

[Wikimania-l] Unified Wikimania wiki

2016-10-22 Thread 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