Re: [Wikimania-l] warning: green USB sticks

Not criticising you Mike, but that's like the number 1 travel tip for Italy :/ so I'm a bit surprised it didn't get any mention in the travel info!! T On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 at 21:41 Michael Peel wrote: > Error 404: I wasn't given a USB stick. But maybe I didn't lose out

Re: [Wikimania-l] Category for monkey selfie of Wikimedians!

the photographer makes (and I don't), but there's no need for mockery and derision. Cheers, Craig On 9 August 2014 08:24, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote: I find this a bit distasteful, rather akin to rubbing it in the photographers face. Its fine to take a stand

Re: [Wikimania-l] Category for monkey selfie of Wikimedians!

I find this a bit distasteful, rather akin to rubbing it in the photographers face. Its fine to take a stand on a point of copyright. But being dicks about winning is surely not the sort of attitude we want to display? Hardly helps support our stance as serious, rather than trollish. Tom On 8

Re: [Wikimania-l] 300-word abstracts@: too much

300 is quite a small requirement for a large conference really. Generally the reason is to ensure that it's a serious/developed proposal (ie not an off the cuff idea) and to make sure the programme organisers have enough detail to get the talk into the right track. But that's just my experience

Re: [Wikimania-l] Child care

Having an event creche company is really the only viable option; fortunately there are a few about, tend to be reasonably priced. The only two sticking points are that its currently quite late to be booking such things :) and, we'd need to organise an appropriate room (secure, to keep the kids in

Re: [Wikimania-l] [Wikimania 2013] Too many people accessing the website at this time. Please try later.

Caching and Nginx are your first friends, every time. Tom On 14 April 2013 14:38, Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.chwrote: Am 14.04.2013 14:47, schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo): Butch Bustria, 14/04/2013 14:21: The registration website crashed in time for the last day of Early

Re: [Wikimania-l] [Wikimania 2013] Too many people accessing the website at this time. Please try later.

, schrieb Thomas Morton: Caching and Nginx are your first friends, every time. this is a general server for many different purposes. I don't have the money to sponsor a specialised setup just for two day of Wikimania registration and central notice. /Manuel -- Wikimedia CH - Verein zur

Re: [Wikimania-l] [Wikimania 2013] Too many people accessing the website at this time. Please try later.

This is going off topic (sorry) but I've been wondering for a while whether the chapters need to collaborate on a robust infrastructure for their technology needs - to increase capacity, reduce costs and deal with situations such as these (i.e. have expertise on hand and widely available). At

Re: [Wikimania-l] UK budget plan for 2014 Wikimania bid

On 28 August 2012 06:29, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.comwrote: No, travel costs are not a purely geographic thing. London is an unusually central location for the world's airlines, and also has a number of budget airlines with many routes. If everyone was driving across Europe to

Re: [Wikimania-l] [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania-l Digest, Vol 77, Issue 15

Bleh; the new list settings are CONFUSING! Reply forwarded below: On 26 August 2012 13:16, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote: On 26 August 2012 02:32, Edward Saperia edsape...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, the downside of doing your work open and in public is that people see a half

Re: [Wikimania-l] UK budget plan for 2014 Wikimania bid

The problem is, that it takes someone to step forward and DO something. Ed is not a Wikipedian per se, but he has donated a lot of time so far and the question is - do we want a half-assed volunteer attempt plagued by volunteers flaking out etc. Or do we want Wikimania. If someone objects so

Re: [Wikimania-l] UK budget plan for 2014 Wikimania bid

Eek, I didn't notice this was the Wikimania list.. Agreed! This is a totally inappropriate venue. Tom On 25 August 2012 20:48, Joseph Fox josephfoxw...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think this is a suitable topic for such a public mailing list at this time, regardless. Hong Kong comes before a

Re: [Wikimania-l] UK budget plan for 2014 Wikimania bid

On 25 August 2012 21:13, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Joseph Fox josephfoxw...@gmail.comwrote: To be honest I'm rather offended that the UK bid is being written off while it's still 2014. I agree with you, but London is far from the cheapest city in the

Re: [Wikimania-l] UK budget plan for 2014 Wikimania bid

On 25 August 2012 21:31, Joseph Fox josephfoxw...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sorry, guys, I think I'm guilty of not reading up properly on this - apparently the £40,000 is just for the *bid*? Clarification from someone at WMUK please? I think surely that's an estimate on total cost that's been

Re: [Wikimania-l] Why?

On 15 July 2012 17:12, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: I have just got back to my hotel from a wannabe goth night club. Can anyone explain to me what the hell I was doing in a wannabe goth night

Re: [Wikimania-l] Not using your hotel shampoo?

Cue moral discussion on whether putting the shampoo on your head, in in a charity bin, has moral or functional difference to the hotel :) Tom On 13 July 2012 14:35, Sebastian Wallroth sebast...@wallroth.de wrote: Please do not steal hotel properties. Thank you, Sebastian 2012/7/13 James

Re: [Wikimania-l] Tours! -badly organized

This is perplexing to me. I have never encountered this policy, and the National Archives web site makes no mention of it(Show official identification that includes a photograph. Acceptable IDs include driver's license, passport, and school and employment identification.), or special