[Wikimania-l] Badges

2012-04-23 Thread Deryck Chan
Dear organizing team, Thanks for offering 4 check-boxes for the details on the badge! May I ask, how will the details be presented? I think it'll be a useful piece of information for many of us whose username is the same as our real name. If it looks like First Last username project it'll be a

Re: [Wikimania-l] Badges

2012-04-23 Thread Delphine Ménard
Hi, On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Nicholas Bashour nicholasbash...@gmail.com wrote: Some users may not be affiliated with any project or chapter, and may not have a username. I suggest First Last Username (optional) Affiliation Actually, I am pretty sure some people do not wish to have

Re: [Wikimania-l] Badges

2012-04-23 Thread Delphine Ménard
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Deryck Chan deryckc...@gmail.com wrote: Dear organizing team, Thanks for offering 4 check-boxes for the details on the badge! May I ask, how will the details be presented? I think it'll be a useful piece of information for many of us whose username is the same

Re: [Wikimania-l] Badges

2012-04-23 Thread Deryck Chan
I would recommend putting square brackets (and maybe User:) around the username whenever both real name and username are supplied. It's seldom immediately obvious which name is the username and which name is the real name if you don't speak the other person's mother language! Deryck 2012/4/23

Re: [Wikimania-l] Badges

2012-04-23 Thread Richard Symonds
Ladies and gentlemen, I fear we may be in danger of falling afoul of Parkinson's Law of Triviality here Richard Symonds Office Development Manager Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 07885 764 613 Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited, a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in

Re: [Wikimania-l] Badges

2012-04-23 Thread Lodewijk
Are you sure an apostrophe is required and that it is not Parkinsons Law of Triviality? El 23 de abril de 2012 16:09, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk escribió: Ladies and gentlemen, I fear we may be in danger of falling afoul of Parkinson's Law of Triviality here

Re: [Wikimania-l] Badges

2012-04-23 Thread Nicholas Michael Bashour
For security reasons, the first and last name MUST be on the badge. Only the username and affiliation can be optional. Those who do not want their real name associated with a username should only provide their first and last. Sincerely, Nicholas Michael Bashour President Wikimedia District of

Re: [Wikimania-l] Badges

2012-04-23 Thread Joseph Seddon
That seems to imply a Law of Triviality that only those systems involving parkinsons. Seddon On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.orgwrote: Are you sure an apostrophe is required and that it is not Parkinsons Law of Triviality? El 23 de abril de 2012 16:09,

Re: [Wikimania-l] Badges

2012-04-23 Thread Joseph Seddon
I agree. There is going to have to be some room for manoeuvre on that. Seddon On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Deryck Chan deryckc...@gmail.com wrote: I think there are a number of regular Wikimania attendees who, for privacy reasons, would not like to use their real names at Wikimania and

Re: [Wikimania-l] Badges

2012-04-23 Thread Béria Lima
That is a good idea. We should have the affiliation in the badge for sure (for those who want it - of course). _ *Béria Lima* *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho.

Re: [Wikimania-l] Badges

2012-04-23 Thread WereSpielChequers
Israel has very tight security and I'm pretty sure they didn't insist on printing real names on badges. Genuinely tight security does not require outing pseudonymous wikimanians. If I go to DC it will be my first trip to the US since I received a death threat from somebody there. That's what I

Re: [Wikimania-l] Badges

2012-04-23 Thread aude
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 6:13 PM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Israel has very tight security and I'm pretty sure they didn't insist on printing real names on badges. Genuinely tight security does not require outing pseudonymous wikimanians. If I go to DC it will be

Re: [Wikimania-l] Badges

2012-04-23 Thread James Hare
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:21 PM, aude aude.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 6:13 PM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Israel has very tight security and I'm pretty sure they didn't insist on printing real names on badges. Genuinely tight security does not

Re: [Wikimania-l] Badges

2012-04-23 Thread Nicholas Michael Bashour
After double checking to make sure, rest assured that anonymity will be protected and you will, as before, have a choice of what you want to display on your badge. I apologize for any confusion :) See you in July! Sincerely, Nicholas Michael Bashour President Wikimedia District of Columbia

Re: [Wikimania-l] Badges

2012-04-23 Thread Delphine Ménard
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Nicholas Michael Bashour nicholasbash...@gmail.com wrote: After double checking to make sure, rest assured that anonymity will be protected and you will, as before, have a choice of what you want to display on your badge. I apologize for any confusion :)

Re: [Wikimania-l] Badges

2012-04-23 Thread Itzik Edri
BTW, there is no open to a free line? I know that last years we had, to allow people for example to add their chapter\wmf staff, company name and ext'. Not everyone are Wikipedian's. 2012/4/23 Delphine Ménard notafi...@gmail.com On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Nicholas Michael Bashour

Re: [Wikimania-l] Badges

2012-04-23 Thread aude
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il wrote: BTW, there is no open to a free line? I know that last years we had, to allow people for example to add their chapter\wmf staff, company name and ext'. Not everyone are Wikipedian's. We have added affiliation as an option