It might also be interesting to see a similar podcast in Spanish too! As
the technical setup will be there anyway, it would mostly mean an extra
hour or so and a few native spanish speakers?


2013/8/20 Ivan Martínez <gala...@gmail.com>

> I can support the coverage in spanish and english-to-spanish for Wikinews,
> and work in the design of the exhibition proposed by Andrew.
> Regards.
>
>
> 2013/8/20 Andrew Lih <and...@andrewlih.com>
>
>> Brian, I'm not as interested in the logistics of streaming every session,
>> but the idea of having a daily dispatch from Wikimania with Wikinewsies,
>> following on the tradition of Wikipedia Weekly podcasting from the
>> conference and Signpost write-ups could be really interesting. A daily
>> video roundup perhaps, with team coverage.
>>
>> To your second point -- how to use this as an outreach opportunity to
>> raise Wikipedia awareness not just in London but elsewhere.
>>
>> We came up with an idea of a "Wikipedia Traveling Exhibit" at the
>> Wikimania session on museum exhibits, and encourage more thinking along
>> these lines. What if we could have a portable 10 ft x 10 ft display that
>> tells Wikipedia's story, with an adjoining area where people could learn to
>> edit Wikipedia, alongside volunteer editors.
>>
>> Here is a link to the Wikimania session and the Etherpad notes from the
>> session.
>>
>> Also, below are the two Wikipedia Weekly podcasts episodes from Wikimania
>> 2013:
>>
>>
>> *
>> https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Edit_this_Museum_Exhibit_about_Wikipedia
>>
>> *  http://etherpad.wmflabs.org/pad/p/Wikipedia_exhibition
>>
>> *  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly#Wikimania_2013
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -Andrew Lih
>> Associate professor of journalism, American University
>> Email: and...@andrewlih.com
>> WEB: http://www.andrewlih.com
>> BOOK: The Wikipedia Revolution: http://www.wikipediarevolution.com
>> PROJECT: Wiki Makes Video
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wiki_Makes_Video
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:22 AM, <brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org> wrote:
>>
>>> We're looking a year ahead, so we should have plenty of time to sort
>>> things out. But, the UK has some particularly-talented Wikinewsies (I'm
>>> looking at Iain Macdonald, Tom Morris and Paul Williams in particular).
>>>
>>> It would be short-sighted, in the extreme, not to ask the UK-resident
>>> Wikinewsies to get involved. Given the direction I've seen Paul heading off
>>> in (to Wikinews' great loss) I suspect he would make a great 'Head of
>>> Broadcasting' for next year's Wikimania; and, with Wikimedia UK's support,
>>> could help make sure Wikimania 2014 is the 'most-online' annual
>>> conference to-date. [All sessions webcast live, all recordings thereof
>>> online faster than the BBC does with iPlayer.]
>>>
>>> The major snag for me, a Wikinewsie in Edinburgh, is it looks-like
>>> Wikimania 2014 clashes with the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe. (I
>>> already have interest from a local community Radio station, which might
>>> lead to free use of high-end gear, and a few other things in-the-works).
>>>
>>> But, anyone who is planning to travel to the UK for Wikimania should
>>> bear that in-mind!
>>>
>>> If you want to come up to The Athens of The North, post-conference,
>>> start looking at those accommodation bookings right now. Otherwise, you'll
>>> be camping somewhere in the vicinity of Arthur's Seat.
>>>
>>> Regardless, and no-matter how hard Wikimedia UK tries to promote their
>>> London Wikimania, I can promise you "us lot up in Scotland" will keep
>>> knocking you off the front page when it comes to headlines in the press.
>>> Does anyone else have some 'creative ideas' about Wikimania 2014 having
>>> a 'token presence' in Edinburgh? (The Fringe venue I want to 'hijack' is
>>> close-enough to the Edinburgh Uni CS facilities I was hacking - 25 years
>>> ago - that, we could run an armoured fibre straight into JANET).
>>>
>>> It's simply too-good an opportunity to miss. And, where I strongly agree
>>> with the broad-criticisms Jimmy made of mainstream media in his HK keynote,
>>> I know that "the news division of the WMF" (i.e. Wikinews) could wipe the
>>> floor with the Mainstream on the independence debate.
>>>
>>>
>>> Brian.
>>>
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