[Wikimania-l] Re: The Festival Edition goes global

[Samuel Klein]

Thank you Sandra.  This looks lovely; is there a map of the local in-person
events planned?

On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 2:42 PM Sandra Aceng  wrote:

> Hello Wikimedians! It's four weeks to our Festival Wikimania 2022 and We
> are happy to let you three important updates as follows: Wikimania
> Festival will have scheduled programming that rotates between three
> longitudinal zones: Asia-Oceania; the Americas; and Africa, Europe, and the
> Middle East.
> This year, apart from the core UN languages (Arabic, Chinese, English,
> French, Russian and Spanish), the Wikimania Festival will provide live
> interpretation on a rotating basis into Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese,
> Portuguese, Swahili, Turkish, and Ukrainian.
> Moreover, as part of a hybrid Wikimania, Wikimedia affiliates around the
> globe will be hosting interactive in-person events, from watch parties to
> edit-a-thons, to slumber parties and picnics. For more info please visit
> our Diff post
> <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/07/12/the-wikimania-festival-goes-global/>.
> Best regards,
>
> Sandra Aceng
> On behalf of Wikimania 2022 Core Organising Team,
> *Web:* about.me/saceng
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[Wikimania-l] Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open Call for Wikimania Volunteers

[Samuel Klein]

Thanks, Antoni!  Are you also looking for translators?  How is language
support going to work this year?

Warmly, SJ

PS - It's hard to see what is still needed when things happen via forms and
off-wiki.  Any updates you can post to the wiki itself would be welcome ///

On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 9:53 AM Antoni Mtavangu 
wrote:

> Hello dear Wikimedians!
>
> We would like to let you know that The Wikimania 2022 Core Organizing Team
> wants to work with you in making the Wikimania 2022 Conference inclusive as
> possible. The roles we would like you to support us during Wikimania
> includes Trust and Safety, Session Q Facilitators, Tent Managers, Help
> Desk, Newcomer Host, and Newcomer Desk. In all those tasks, no prior
> experience is necessary as we will provide training for all volunteers.
>
> We kindly ask those who are  interested to join us at the Wikimania
> Festival (August 11-14) in either of the roles mentioned to sign up here
> <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/06/03/open-call-for-wikimania-volunteers/>
>   to support one of the roles mentioned above.
>
> We look forward to celebrating with you at this year’s Wikimania Festival!
>
> On behalf of Wikimania 2022 COT
> <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/02/24/announcing-the-wikimania-2022-core-organizing-team/>
> ,
>
>
> Antoni Mtavangu (He/Him)
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[Wikimania-l] Re: Core Organizing Team (COT) Wikimania 2022

[Samuel Klein]

Huzzah!  Thanks for the update.  Looking forward to the new new mania.
Learning to throw a wide range of beautiful virtual events feels like a
strength that will be important to the projects for a long time to come.

On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 10:19 AM Iolanda Pensa  wrote:

> Dear all,
> We are very happy to announce the Core Organizing Team (COT) for Wikimania
> 2022: Anton Protsiuk, Antoni Mtavangu, Evelin Heidel (Scann), Houcemeddine
> Turki (Csisc), Kayode Yussuf (Kayusyussuf), NANöR, Omar David Sandoval Sida
> (Omar_sansi), Richard Knipel (Pharos), Sandra Aceng, and Venus Lui.
>
> You find photos and biographies on
>
> https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/02/24/announcing-the-wikimania-2022-core-organizing-team/
>
> This talented group of volunteers from around the world was selected from
> more than 70 excellent applications. They will work with you over the next
> six months to organize our annual flagship event, designing a Wikimania
> that brings our community together and celebrates our movement.
>
> In the coming weeks, the COT will be inviting your ideas and suggestions
> on what Wikimania 2022 should look like – what would you like to see more
> of? What should we keep from last year [1]? What should be different? And
> of course we’ll need your contribution to the event as volunteers. More to
> be shared soon and do not hesitate to share your thoughts with us on the
> Wikimania 2022 discussion page.
>
> Thanks to the new COT and to all Wikimania 2022 volunteers!
> Here’s to a great event!
> iolanda
> on Behalf of the Wikimania Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation team
>
> [1] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Evaluation
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Disinformation meet-up - Sunday, August 18, 13:10-13:55

[Samuel Klein]

Wish I could have been there for this -- please let me know if there was a
followup space for future discussion.
Wikiconf North America this November will be focused on credibility, so I'm
both personally and eventually interested!  SJ

On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 4:48 PM Liz 99  wrote:

> I'll try to be there. The Research track talks today were very rich with
> information & areas for future work.
>
> On Sat, Aug 17, 2019, 3:07 PM Leila Zia 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Over the past days, we have been hearing or have been part of small
>> group conversations about the topic of disinformation. If you're
>> interested to get a sense of these discussions or share your thoughts
>> with others about this topic, we (Research+Policy teams at Wikimedia
>> Foundation) invite you to attend a 45-min meet-up about this topic on
>> Sunday, 13:10-13:55, in Curie, Aula Magna. The meet-up page is at
>> https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Meetups/Disinformation .
>>
>> This is a very short meet-up and we will start on-time as a result.
>> Please plan for it if you intend to attend. :)
>>
>> Leila
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania remote meetup

[Samuel Klein]

This is a lovely idea..  thank you
A related question: how can we best support remote participation for
upcoming events?

We have earmarked (volunteer support + budget) for this for WikiconfNA but
don't have ideas yet for how to proceed.

On Fri., Aug. 16, 2019, 9:45 p.m. Daniel Mietchen, <
daniel.mietc...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
> with all the meetups taking place in person right now at Wikimania, I
> thought about setting up a remote one as well and eventually went
> ahead to put it on the schedule for
> Saturday August 17 from 20:00 Swedish time (i.e 18:00 UTC) for
> initially an hour but possibly longer. As this email will not update,
> the most recent information on the matter should be on the wiki page
> at
> https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Meetups/Wikimania_remote_meetup
> .
>
> Hope to meet some of you there!
>
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Book Swapping at Wikimania

[Samuel Klein]

what a lovely idea.

On Mon, Jul 9, 2018, 4:22 AM Mohammed Bachounda  wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Are you coming to Wikimania 2018
> ? *Bring books
> with you to share!*
>
> There will be a corner where you can *swap your books* with books other
> participants will bring; *or leave your books* for Cape Town Library.
>
> Swapping books  is not just
> a fun activity: those could be a source of good references for content on
> our sites, or just items you'd like to donate/bring back home because
> they're cool anyway—maybe they feature gorgeous pictures, or a
> language/script many people may have never seen before, etc. Any language
> is welcome—books in in english . are more likely to be reused by several
> attendees, though!
> I created this page on Wikimania 2018 mediawiki - For those will be
> attending and want to participate to the bookswap they can use this page
> https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Book_Swapping
>
> Bests
>
> *Mohammed Bachounda*
>  Leader Wikimedia Algeria UG
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Re: [Wikimania-l] What sections to be included in what articles

[Samuel Klein]

Coool.  Sections are a great way for people to get hints. Esp if linked to
a model example... Thanks for sharing!

On Aug 12, 2017 2:06 PM, "Leila Zia"  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We need your help! :)
>
> We are developing a recommendation system that can help newcomers (or
> more experienced editors who are interested) receive recommendations
> about what sections to add to an already existing article in
> Wikipedia.
>
> As part of this research, we need labels from editors on whether a
> section recommended for an article on English Wikipedia is a good
> section or not. (The research is not limited to enwiki, this step of
> the test is.)
>
> You can come with your laptop to the Hackathon room (Salon 7) at 17:00
> (break time) to chat about this research and do the labeling in
> person, or you can just do it on your own using the following link
> (The link will take you to our test and labeling environment, set up
> quickly to collect some labels. Please know that once you click on the
> link, a cookie will be set in your browser that will help us count how
> many different contributors we had):
> http://40.118.110.204/
>
> As always, questions and comments are welcome, ideally in person, now
> that we are all in one place. :)
>
> Best,
> Leila
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Speaker advice thread

[Samuel Klein]

I would welcome a pool for those who want 1-on-1s to match w someone like
Lodewijk for a run through :)

--Sam

On Aug 5, 2017 3:29 PM, "Lodewijk"  wrote:

(PS: if anyone wants a dry-run of their presentation one-on-one, I'm more
than happy to volunteer with 2-3 presenters, either on hangout (monday) or
in real life (Wednesday). Reach out to me off-list. If there's more
interest, I imagine we could do a pool somewhere on-wiki :) -- Lodewijk )

On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 9:25 PM, phoebe ayers  wrote:

> Thanks Lodewijk & Leila! All good tips.
>
> One more thing about posting information online is you can share extra
> data. I encourage everyone to put links etc in their program submission
> pages on wiki.
>
> In the actual presentation, you are trying to convey the main idea and,
> often at Wikimania, you're also trying to recruit other people to work on
> your project :) If there's detailed information that you want to share but
> would distract from the main presentation, putting it on the wiki is a good
> way to share.
>
> Phoebe
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Lodewijk 
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for sharing!
>>
>> While some may be concerned that their vocabulary is too limited - the
>> opposite warning must be provided for native speakers. It is often easier
>> to follow a non-native speaker, because they are aware of their
>> limitations. Especially native speakers have the tendency to speak too
>> fast, push in too much content in their presentation and rush through it.
>> Realize that about half your audience (if not more!) is unlikely to speak
>> English as their first language. It sucks, right? Because you always want
>> to tell more.
>>
>> This also goes with the other tip that I hate: don't be too fancy with
>> your slides. I love to put as little information on slides as possible,
>> trying to make them complement my story. WRONG! With a large number of
>> non-native speakers, it is important that the information is in both.
>> Especially if you have an accent (and sorry native speakers: many of you
>> do, too) you're probably hard to understand for some part of your audience,
>> at some point in your presentation. Having the basic storyline in your
>> sheets doesn't just help the people in the room, but also people who try to
>> follow your presentation online.
>>
>> Finally: in an ideal world you upload your slides before your
>> presentation. That way, you can add the link in your last (or first!)
>> slide, so that people can download it, and read along at their own speed -
>> or jot it down/photograph it for later reviewing. ESPECIALLY if you have
>> lots of data/beautiful graphs!
>>
>> Best,
>> Lodewijk
>>
>> PS: if you like to be rogue, you try to hit every single spot in 'bad
>> presentation bingo' here
>> .
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 9:08 PM, Leila Zia  wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Phoebe,
>>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 11:01 AM, phoebe ayers 
>>> wrote:
>>> > Dear all,
>>> >
>>> > We had planned to have a presentation clinic for speakers at
>>> Wikimania, but
>>> > unfortunately the leader had to cancel at the last moment. So
>>> > instead...since I imagine lots of people are finishing their talks this
>>> > weekend, let's share our best advice for giving a presentation with
>>> each
>>> > other!
>>>
>>> If someone else signing up to help you on this front can reduce some
>>> workload from you, please ping me. I'd be happy to pick up work on
>>> this front or others.
>>>
>>> > More tips are here: https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Speaker
>>> > information
>>> > Add your own, or reply here.
>>>
>>> Adding one more tip:
>>>
>>> Context: I'm not a native English speaker which means my vocabulary
>>> set is limited, I can make grammatical errors when speaking, and under
>>> stress, I may say things that in sequence may not make sense in
>>> English. ;)
>>>
>>> The best advice for this case I've received from a professor some
>>> years ago was to write down /everything/ I want to say about a slide
>>> in the slide notes exactly how I wish I could say it at the
>>> presentation time. Then, I read these notes 2-3 times, and then I do
>>> 2-3 runs of the presentation for myself. This approach has worked for
>>> me quite well. Before doing this, I used to waste a lot of time (and I
>>> guess annoy the audience) by saying "emmm" and looking for words in my
>>> mind. On extra tip if you go with this approach: don't read your notes
>>> too many times or you will sound like someone who has memorized a
>>> script. ;)
>>>
>>> Writing what you want to say will take time, it takes me between 45-60
>>> min for 15 slides (that I've never presented before), but it's
>>> honestly one of the best uses of that time if you're preparing for a
>>> presentation.
>>>
>>> > see you very soon!
>>>
>>> can't wait. :)
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Leila

[Wikimania-l] Driving to the floating piers tomorrow?

[Samuel Klein]

A few of us (Andrew, Siebrand, me) are hoping to drive to Lake Iseo
tomorrow.  If we leave early enough and take the ferry across Iseo, it
shouldn't take all day :)  is Anyone else planning to go?

SJ
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Burning globe is on tonight

[Samuel Klein]

Simply splendid!  You win one Internet, Garads.
On Jun 25, 2016 21:33, "claudia.garad"  wrote:

>
> Dear Wikimaniacs,
>
> this not Burning Man but we have a burning Wikipedia globe at the Tent
> tonight.
>
> My little brother is a craftsman specialized on metal work and he designed
> a Wikipedia fire basket for Wikimania and as gift for the people of Esino
> Lario.
>
> We'll light the basket at around 10pm so stop by at some point tonight and
> enjoy some campfire atmosphere when it gets chilly. :-)
>
> See you at the Tent later!
> Claudia
>
>
> Von meinem Samsung Gerät gesendet.
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[Wikimania-l] Meetup, 1700 today: Encyclopedia of World Problems & Human Potential

[Samuel Klein]

In a few hours, I'm giving a short intro to the Encyclopedia of World
Problems and Human Potential, a collection of world problems and
humanitarian initiatives. If you have worked with global census,
environmental, scientific or humanitarian datasets, or have synchronized
other historical encyclopedias with WP: your input is wanted!
http://uia.org/encyclopedia

This cool reference was the result of one of Paul Otlet's projects from the
20th century, the Union of International Associations. It has ~60,000
articles at many levels of abstraction, along with links to related data
sources and network information about which problems influence which other
ones.

The EWPHP has just been released under a BY-SA license, and a small team is
trying to wikify it, integrate its sources with wikidata, synchronize parts
w/ WP where appropriate, and set up a world-editable interface to it. I
will show you what the current digitized site looks like.
When: 1700
Where: Room 40 of the Primary School

https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetups/Encyclopedia_of_World_Problems_and_Human_Potential

The lead developer of the editable version, Tomáš Fülöpp, will also be
coming to Wikimania this weekend, to meet with interested people.

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Re: [Wikimania-l] News from the Team / 2015-03-31

[Samuel Klein]

So nice to see that! thanks for the update, Ivan.

2015-03-31 12:10 GMT-04:00 Ivan Martínez gala...@gmail.com:

 Dear all, just sharing some quick facts from our Wikimania 2015 Volunteer
 Program.


 https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:News_from_the_Team/2015-03-31#Quick_Stats_about_our_volunteers

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Fwd: [okfn-discuss] Open Knowledge Festival update

[Samuel Klein]

Ha, I just sent Naomi a note about the same thing :) Cool!

A nice perspective from sister communities would be interesting. Especially
since they ate thinking so much about how to be a good distributed
community, multilingual and less euro centric, c.

In the same vein, has anyone reached out to OKFN about the call for
submissions?

Can't wait until July,
Sam
On Feb 4, 2015 9:00 AM, Ivan Martínez gala...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Luis, we will have a track devoted to Open projects. I will share in
 their list our Call for Submissions.

 Thanks for sharing!
 El feb 4, 2015 10:52 a.m., Luis Villa lvi...@wikimedia.org escribió:

 FYI that the Open Knowledge Foundation is not having their annual
 conference this year; may be worth reaching out to the Open Knowledge
 community to have a track or space at Wikimania.

 -- Forwarded message --
 From: Naomi Lillie naomi.lil...@okfn.org
 Date: Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 5:06 AM
 Subject: [okfn-discuss] Open Knowledge Festival update
 To: Open Knowledge Foundation discussion list 
 okfn-disc...@lists.okfn.org, Open Knowledge Foundation Local
 Coordinators Mailing List okfn-local-co...@lists.okfn.org, 
 wg-co...@lists.okfn.org wg-co...@lists.okfn.org


 Hello all,

 I have bad news and good news to share:

 The bad news:

 Open Knowledge will not run a large international event in 2015
 (OKFestival or OKConference) - boo! :-(

 The good news:

 Open Knowledge will be supporting our Local Groups in running events
 around the world in 2015 and looking to hold future large international
 events outside of Europe - yay! :-)

 Why isn’t Open Knowledge running an OKFestival in 2015?

 I’m very sorry for the disappointment I know this will cause - along with
 many of you, OKFest 2012 / OKCon 2013 / OKFestival 2014 were the highlights
 of my years since joining this organisation and network in 2011… But we’ve
 been thinking hard here at ‘OKI’ (meaning ‘Open Knowledge International’,
 the informal name for the organisation that supports Local Groups and
 Working Groups, and the rest of the network) and it really came down to
 asking ourselves ‘how can we best support our groups around the world?’

 Point 1: representing an international network
 https://okfn.org/network/

 Towards the end of last year, Rufus asked the question ‘where should the
 next OKFestival be held?’ and members of the community on the
 OKFN-Discuss mailing list
 https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss responded, as
 well as leaders of Working Groups and Local Groups who were specifically
 invited to share thoughts (see here for the original message
 https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-discuss/2014-October/010627.html
 and search the archives https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-discuss/
 for responses). A theme appeared in the answers: people don’t want another
 European event, unless other parts of the world are being seriously
 considered for future events. That means we can’t go ahead with ‘business
 as usual’, but need to rethink how we do things for our next event.

 It’s clear that, while the organisation seeks to support a global network
 of people passionate about open knowledge, historically we haven’t been
 very good at extending in-person support beyond Europe, despite the growing
 representation of areas of the globe through Local Groups, projects and
 staff hires. The School of Data http://schoolofdata.org/ has been a
 brilliant flagship for reaching beyond Europe, with Partnership for Open
 Data https://okfn.org/projects/partnership-for-open-data/ doing
 excellent work in broadening awareness and access of work already happening
 in the Global South, but generally the overall organisation’s efforts in
 running in-person events have been in Berlin, with the occasional foray
 into countries such as Switzerland, Finland and the UK (see our events
 page https://okfn.org/get-involved/events/ for more information). We
 want that to change, and are committed to exploring how we can enable that
 to happen for future events.

 Point 2: supporting the international network https://okfn.org/network/

 Open Knowledge has arranged a fair few gatherings over the years, and
 enjoyed the partnerships with the Finnish and Swiss Chapters in running the
 2012 and 2013 events respectively as well as liaising with the German
 Chapter over several years, but generally there hasn’t been much room for
 supporting events around the community network beyond some promotion (such
 as here http://okfncommunity.tumblr.com/, here
 http://blog.okfn.org/2014/12/10/a-round-up-of-open-knowledge-community-events-around-the-world/
 and here https://twitter.com/okfn). Here at “OKI” we do our best to
 empower others to lead, and it’s pretty hard to lead when someone else
 takes all the attention! So, rather than effectively asking our Local
 Groups and Working Groups to compete with us if they want their own events
 (going up against Open Knowledge the organisation for scheduling, attendees
 and 

[Wikimania-l] Wiki wishes for 2014

[Samuel Klein]

Dear Wikimaniacs,

(Spurred by lunch discussion, channeling Anthere :)

You may not have a lot of time. But you certainly have ONE minute.

Without giving it too much thought, please share the FIRST wish that
comes to your mind for the coming year, regarding our projects and
helping the world become a better informed  educated place.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wishes_2014

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Translation service for panel discussion

[Samuel Klein]

Simultranslation can be a lot of fun.

We looked into simultranslators a number of years; Buenos Aires had a
complete solution with headsets for attendees.  Sometimes we've had a
translator sit next to a presenter.  This should be a standard option
for organizers to consider any year.



On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:42 PM, rupert THURNER
rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 Would there be any possibility ro have simultaneous translation at the glam
 podium discussion? The person whom we asked from the swiss national library
 refused to take part as his English would not be up to a level allowing him
 to sufficiently contribute. This would be German - English.

 Best regards,

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Two years to plan and implement Wikimania

[Samuel Klein]

The people most active in bid development often have only slight overlap
with those most active in implementation. Asking other things the org team
is global, and may include people who were part I'd many different bids.

It is coming in other late communities to have bids start before the event
two years prior so that bid teams can recruit people to get involved with
the bid at the annual event immediately before bids close.  Some
communities vote on the venue for year N+2 at the end of the event in year
N.
On Mar 24, 2014 5:38 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:

 Will this make it harder for volunteers (e.g. chapters without a
 professional staff or resources to hire one) to plan? A two year timeline
 for bids and planning is a long, long time for a volunteer commitment.

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Setting ticket prices

[Samuel Klein]

I like this idea, Iolanda. It makes sense to have more people attend the
conference proper than buy into catering and parties.  And also makes sense
to let the whole world listen to the lectures.

Though for events that are expected to be oversold, you might need another
solution, since not everyone will fit in the main room.  But there can be
overflow rooms streaming the session for everyone.

Sam.

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Iolanda Pensa iola...@pensa.it wrote:
 I have looked at past editions[1].
 In general there have been differences of registration costs for
participants (mainly a difference between Wikimedia contributor with
username or not), but the registration cost never covered the actual cost
per participant (including catering, participant package and parties - the
costs that normally registration costs cover).

 personally I think:
 * attending the conference and its sessions should be free (it is the
Plato legacy and also in Italy universities do the same: you don't pay to
listen, you pay for additional services :) The only payment which might be
necessary is only if an insurance is needed (and the cost would be the cost
of the personal insurence only).
 * services should be covered by the registration fee: catering,
participant package and parties. This also means that there should be much
more scholarships available (for volunteers, contributors, people we want
to target specifically).
 * general costs (i.e. venue, technical, promotional materials,
communication, keynotes) should be covered by sponsors and donors.

 this system is much more transparent. People can attend the conference
without having lunch in the venue (a sandwich in a cafe or a self-service
menu is always cheaper than the catering), without a printed booklet and
t-shirt and without going to the party. Also if they do not use those
services, in any case they will have to register (this facilitates the
planning).
 At the same time scholarship and institutions normally cover registration
costs; this means that staff from chapters, WMF, universities and
institutions attending Wikimania will cover a reasonable cost per person
(and indeed they will not benefit from not covering those costs).

 Registration could be 200 $ (for 3 lunches 30$ each, the participant's
package 10$, and two parties 50 $ each).
 Higher registration costs (differences between pre-registration and
registration and between institutions and volunteers/contributors) can be
used to contribute to scholarships.
 iolanda / iopensa

 [1] The data available are not very precise but here is a comparative
summery https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/Comparative#Registrationand
you can find in the upper menu the details for each conference when
information are available.

 Il giorno 23/mar/2014, alle ore 00:21, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com
ha scritto:

 Proposed prices for Wikimania tickets continue to seem artificially
 low. I'm not sure what the benefit to this is. Could people who have
 run events in other contexts comment on how you set ticket prices?

 In my experience, tickets are set at roughly what it costs for each
 person to attend. Then there may be different sorts of tickets: for
 local supporters  volunteers, for school groups, for students 
 community members, presenters, VIPs  sponsors. Sponsorship helps
 ensure how many tickets of each type there are. Last-minute tickets
 are more expensive.

 This has a few benefits:
 * tickets fully cover the cost of food and materials
 * tickets contribute significantly to covering the cost of the event
 * scholarships and reimbursements for attendance (for scholars,
 professionals, academics all getting covered by their home
 institutions), in paying for tickets, cover the full cost of those
 people attending the event.
 * more accurate headcounts in advance.

 Warmly,
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Setting ticket prices

[Samuel Klein]

Ellie - I was looking at the proposed ticket prices in the 2015 bids :)

 On 3/22/2014 4:21 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:

 Proposed prices for Wikimania tickets continue to seem artificially
 low.  I'm not sure what the benefit to this is. Could people who have
 run events in other contexts comment on how you set ticket prices?

In particular, I mean full price tickets.
Our most expensive tickets are regularly less than the full cost of
participation.

Deryck - I agree, the price community members must pay to attend
should not rise.
Rupert - yes, subsidizing the cost of helping contributors meet one
another is important. But I think we can be more clear about the size
of the subsidy: we should know what a full cost ticket is, and allow
those who can pay it to do so.  And perhaps we could also have a
donor ticket option as Deryck suggests.

Michael Snow writes:
 This could be a reasonable approach, but it would need significant effort to
 ensure awareness of the different options, particularly low-cost tickets for
 attendees with limited resources.

What about a self-identifying system where anyone can claim a low-cost
community ticket?  Also noting on the same page the full cost of
attending, and offering tickets at that price too.

 listing higher ticket prices is a major deterrent to attending.

Worth exploring with data: what inspires or deters attendance. That
may be affected by all of: the various prices listed, the difference
between the high and low prices listed, presentation of other options,
banner text used, c.

Sam.

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Setting ticket prices

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On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 4:04 AM, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com wrote:
 On 3/23/2014 12:47 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:

 listing higher ticket prices is a major deterrent to attending.

 Worth exploring with data: what inspires or deters attendance. That
 may be affected by all of: the various prices listed, the difference
 between the high and low prices listed, presentation of other options,
 banner text used, c.

 Okay, but we should look for existing knowledge and research related to the
 subject to begin with. Answers for Wikimania ticket pricing are not as
 straightforward to determine by A/B testing as fundraising approaches. The
 population involved is a much smaller sample, motivating factors may be more
 diverse, and the impact on the test subjects perhaps a little too personal
 for that to be appropriate.

Very true.  Worth exploring with research, and gathering passive data
on current behavior, for a start.

(We do currently show the Wikimania banners to 100M+ readers, I
believe, so we have a large sample at that level.)

SJ

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Setting ticket prices

[Samuel Klein]

 from attending.

 That being said, there's no reason why future Wikimanias shouldn't
 offer various pricing options, like higher individual sponsorship
 registration for those who want to sponsor on a smaller level, student
 registration, etc.

 Sincerely,
 Nicholas Michael Bashour

 Sent from my iPhone

  Am 22.03.2014 um 19:21 schrieb Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com:
 
  Proposed prices for Wikimania tickets continue to seem artificially
  low.  I'm not sure what the benefit to this is. Could people who
 have
  run events in other contexts comment on how you set ticket prices?
 
  In my experience, tickets are set at roughly what it costs for each
  person to attend. Then there may be different sorts of tickets: for
  local supporters  volunteers, for school groups, for students 
  community members, presenters, VIPs  sponsors. Sponsorship helps
  ensure how many tickets of each type there are.  Last-minute tickets
  are more expensive.
 
  This has a few benefits:
  * tickets fully cover the cost of food and materials
  * tickets contribute significantly to covering the cost of the event
  * scholarships and reimbursements for attendance (for scholars,
  professionals, academics all getting covered by their home
  institutions), in paying for tickets, cover the full cost of those
  people attending the event.
  * more accurate headcounts in advance.
 
  Warmly,
  Sam
 
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[Wikimania-l] Setting ticket prices

[Samuel Klein]

Proposed prices for Wikimania tickets continue to seem artificially
low.  I'm not sure what the benefit to this is. Could people who have
run events in other contexts comment on how you set ticket prices?

In my experience, tickets are set at roughly what it costs for each
person to attend. Then there may be different sorts of tickets: for
local supporters  volunteers, for school groups, for students 
community members, presenters, VIPs  sponsors. Sponsorship helps
ensure how many tickets of each type there are.  Last-minute tickets
are more expensive.

This has a few benefits:
* tickets fully cover the cost of food and materials
* tickets contribute significantly to covering the cost of the event
* scholarships and reimbursements for attendance (for scholars,
professionals, academics all getting covered by their home
institutions), in paying for tickets, cover the full cost of those
people attending the event.
* more accurate headcounts in advance.

Warmly,
Sam

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2015 scholarships vision

[Samuel Klein]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.org
 wrote:


 On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:

 I too am concerned that the current scholarship process tends to polarize
 the community, and too often simply rewards long-time community members, or
 those who are connected to large movement entities, with free travel:
 rather than increasing the diversity of new voices and faces at global
 events.


 Do we have any statistics to back up this claim?


I share a concern; it would be welcome to find it unwarranted.

The public statistics I know of are these reports:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/Scholarships/2013
That level of detail does not address either of the two stated concerns:
that some recipients are not so active, and that there is limited rotation.

It would be welcome to see a count of the # of recipients who attended
Wikimania for the first time; the # who received a travel scholarship for
the first time; the # who were active contributors and to which {clusters
of} projects.  I also find Nemo's version of transparency compelling:  In
cases where scholarships are presented as an honor, the recipients are
named, which also seems in the wiki-spirit.

SJ
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2015 scholarships vision

[Samuel Klein]

I like this vision very much.   Like Lodewijk, I suggest the scholarships
piece should not be bid specific.

I've been thinking a great deal about scholarships, travel, and attempts to
build community via jet fuel.  Some thoughts off the top of my head for the
new year:

I don't understand why the current scholarship criteria make no mention of
need.
Are they meant to be for newcomers, or for the same community members each
year?

I too am concerned that the current scholarship process tends to polarize
the community, and too often simply rewards long-time community members, or
those who are connected to large movement entities, with free travel:
rather than increasing the diversity of new voices and faces at global
events.

I think we should match every Euro spent on travel support with a Euro
spent on infrastructure for great virtual participation: cameras,
projectors, and video-screens for communities around the world (physical
tools they can keep and use for years); making space to share the faces and
voices of people who are unable to travel to the event;  live-streaming
hubs stationed around the event itself; and support for getting all videos
up online within 24 hours.


I do remember why we moved away from finding other entities and
institutions to provide travel support: it seemed 'easier' to do it
ourselves.  But as a result we are no longer empowering foundations that
care about global dialogue to support Wikimedia in this way; and we are no
longer learning from their criteria and understanding of the world.

This seems related to why we are funding so much of Wikimania directly from
global donations, rather than developing the fundraising and
sponsor-finding skills of our international community.  This centralization
of how Wikimania and scholarships are funded makes the conference less
robust.  It sets future conference up for failure: or at least an awkward
transition if we stop spending so much on them.

IIRC, the Fedora community faced this years ago: they initially were
thrilled to organize themselves at global events without much travel
support. Then RedHat started paying for the travel of most of the core
developers and community members. When they later stopped this, the core
community members stopped coming: they now felt that a full scholarship was
their due.  It took a while for the conferences to become as useful again.


SJ



On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hello, today I and Martin have polished the scholarship vision/program for
 our Wikimania 2015 bid: https://meta.wikimedia.org/
 wiki/Esino_Lario/Scholarships.
 Considering a background and aiming for a long-term impact on the
 Wikimedia mission, we propose the following principles: Transparency;
 Accountability and self-reflection; Grassroot; Efficiency and fairness;
 Innovation. From those we identify 4 external needs and 8 goals.
 Please read the proposal and edit boldly or comment on talk page
 or wherever. Keep in mind it's still a draft, not the official WMIT
 proposal yet. While the bids warm up and the Wikimania discussion is still
 quiet, we think it's useful for everyone to focus the discussion on some
 specific areas in advance. (And if all bids adopt our idea of scholarships,
 all the better!)

 Nemo

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2015 scholarships vision

[Samuel Klein]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote:

 On 13/01/2014 03:35, Samuel Klein wrote:


 I don't understand why the current scholarship criteria make no mention
 of need.
 Are they meant to be for newcomers, or for the same community members
 each year?


 Per my reply on [[wm2014:Talk:Scholarships]], there's simply no way for
 the reviewers or the WMF to verify someone actual needs. Unless we are
 comfortable and want to move down the road of asking for and checking each
 applicants personal financial circumstances before awarding a scholarship,
 there's no fair and accurate way of taking needs into account.


Thank you, Katie.  I think it would be enough to state whether the
scholarships are meant for those who cannot afford to attend, or whether
they are meant to reward active participants.  These are totally different
goals.  Our community is generally good-hearted: those who might apply
under one circumstance would not under the other.

Nemo's proposal seems to provide a more nuanced way forward without
checking financial circumstances.  It also offers partial scholarships
(which I think are a good idea, for just this reason).

I too am concerned that the current scholarship process tends to
 polarize the community, and too often simply rewards long-time community
 members, or those who are connected to large movement entities, with
 free travel: rather than increasing the diversity of new voices and
 faces at global events.


 This is a discussion the community should have. However, I can say now
 that I know of many people who not only disagree with the above, but think
 the exact opposite is actually taking place. Namely, that dedicated and
 long term contributors are missing out in the name of balance and diversity
 to those who have barely contributed to our projects and unlikely to do
 much in the future either.


Those are not opposites, exactly.

We have had people who barely contribute getting scholarships.  That is not
healthy.
We have also had people who regularly get scholarships, and come to feel
that this is deserved as a result of their contributions (and feel rejected
when they don't get one).  That feels to me like the situation Fedora was
in; also unhealthy.

Perhaps we can change our notion of 'balance and diversity' so that it
draws from our community of thousands of enormously active contributors who
would benefit from sharing experiences and learning from other parts of our
shared community, but have never yet done so.  Most of those contributors
do not apply for scholarships; barely know they exist; and do not think of
coming to international events.

Personally, I think a balance need to be struck between the two.


Yes.

SJ
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Re: [Wikimania-l] a thought: break events

[Samuel Klein]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 15 August 2013 00:03, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:

  Wikimania should have less parallel sessions,
  longer sessions with more time between the sessions
  and an open space as an additional track.
 
  I've been wanting fewer sessions at Wikimania for a long time.

 I agree totally.  We can rethink the traditional program entirely.

 Imagine a Wikimania where
 * the only talks or presentations are Plenary sessions
 * all other sessions [ share docs in advance, have discussion in advance,
   are group discussions + interactions, have a facilitator, produce output ]

 I dunno. That sounds fundamentally unwiki, and an awful lot like the
 professional annual meetings that everyone hates attending.

You may be reading something else into my suggestion.

The only docs shared in advance would be those that the presenter
would otherwise 'broadcast' to the audience.
A session that was already designed as a discussion might not have
anything more than the talk-abstract to share.

This should not privilege experienced presenters.  It does encourage
people to start conversations and provide knowledge-dumps online. That
way the time spent together can focus on collaboration, and developing
new ideas together.

 quite a few [sessions] included up to the minute information and data.

Yes.  The presenter and any interested parties could update the wiki
page of materials with the latest data, up until it starts (or even
during the session).

 What I'd like to see is live-streaming of sessions with moderation that
 could include online questions for the sessions.

This is important, and one of the reasons to have moderators.

 Some sessions are of professional quality, some others gain their energy
 from the presentation itself or the perceived importance of the topic, and
 others simply by being presented by sincere and caring community members.

True.  Presenters should be welcome to give a half-hour speech if
that's what they want -- it can be fun and energizing -- but this does
not need to be the default.  Many sessions would benefit from spending
the bulk of their time in discussion rather than broadcasting.


 The best session I saw this year... was about the Javanese
Wikipedia, and it was
 the one that was so full of hope and joy at the prospect of sharing knowledge 
 freely
 that the few of us who were in the room walked away with a refreshed sense
 of what our movement is all about.

 You can't capture that with slides or plenary sessions or expert moderation.
 You need to be in the room.

This sort of hope and joy is indeed the heart and soul of Wikimania. I
think Sophie picked up on the hope in my suggestion: that we find
a different way to amplify and share such joy, and help more people
have this experience.

Our community moderators did a great job this year; they aren't
experts : just people who enjoy that role.  The presenter need not
be responsible for tracking live, online, and wiki questions, unless
they want to be.  They should be focused on sharing their ideas, and
responding to feedback.  It is enough to ask one participant in each
session to take on the role of moderator; and another to take on the
role of the recorder - capturing the outcome of the session and
posting it online.

Sam.

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Re: [Wikimania-l] A thought: Different tracks

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I am smiling at the idea that sharing one's notes  images on the wiki
two weeks beforehand in advance is huge preparedness. :-)   And I am
someone who is always working on talks the night before...  But I have
notes/images/outlines, in one arrangement or another, well before
that.

I suspect we could find a community norm that would work for everyone,
and still let attendees reflect on (and comment on!) the meat of a
session before it starts.  And it certainly won't hurt to invite
presenters to do this.  It might be good to have a mix of presenters
who do and who don't share materials in advance, for comparison.

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:
 I also wouldn't be in favor of a lot of plenary sessions

Ah, to be clear:  I don't want to see any /more/ plenary sessions.  I
just mean that those sessions would be the only ones that were
traditional performances -- one speaker, a passive audience, few if
any questions.  (and even there we might find speakers with more
different approaches.)

 Something what I *would* like to see changed about the schedule is more
 discussions with experienced discussion leaders. Not like this year when it
 was basically a run-out-time for the session before, but a dedicated track,
 with a dedicated discussion coordinator that puts together the discussion
 track only a few days in advance to ensure that the most recent topics are
 covered too. In that way I hope that you also have an improved experience -
 that track could be somewhat run like you suggested (with someone preparing
 the discussion etc) and should indeed of course be documented!  I just don't
 think the whole schedule should be like that.

A nice framing.  Similarly, I would appreciate a track that was
dedicated to speaker-performances:  inspiring presentations with no
audience participation.  Like a TED-talk track.

I would prefer more of Wikimania to be interactive and
discussion-oriented; perhaps you would prefer more to be
presentation-oriented.  That's a good tradeoff for a program team to
discuss.  But presenters could then think consciously about which of
these modes they intend to participate in.

SJ

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Re: [Wikimania-l] a thought: break events

[Samuel Klein]

 Wikimania should have less parallel sessions,
 longer sessions with more time between the sessions
 and an open space as an additional track.

 We implemented this idea last year at the WikiCon...
 I am a strong believer that less is actually more. I would like to have
 a less stressful but more effictive Wikimania.

 Your ideas are welcomed by me :) I've been wanting fewer sessions at
 Wikimania for a long time.

I agree totally.  We can rethink the traditional program entirely.

Imagine a Wikimania where
* the only talks or presentations are Plenary sessions
* all other sessions
** have their documents/drawings/slides/tools published 2 weeks in
advance, for others to read / comment / link
** have QA handled online in advance of the event (via comments and discussion)
** are group discussions or collaborations around a topic, not one-way
presentations
** are moderated by someone who is good at moderation (this may or may
not be the primary author of works being discussed)
** update the latest documentation about those ideas/projects/tools
live, during the session (via a designated facilitator/editor)

SJ

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Re: [Wikimania-l] [Wikimania-jury] The future of Wikimania

[Samuel Klein]

Dear Wikimaniacs,

Ellie Young is offering to host a dinner meeting Friday, August 9,
from 7-9 pm, to talk about the future of Wikimania, following up on
the panel discussion earlier that day on Deror's panel.  Notes from
this discussion will be added to those from the panel.
http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/The_Growth_and_Future_of_Wikimania

If you are regularly part of Wikimania planning, or part of a past org
team, and would be interested in this - please reply to Ellie (cc:ed
here) and let her know, and include a few words about what part of
Wikimania you've been involved with. Space is limited to 15 people; if
there is more interest than that, preference will be given to
perennial volunteers and past  organizers.

Thanks!
Sam.

On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Ellie Young eyo...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 With regard to the after-hours event, I was going to suggest that any of the 
 following who will
 be in Hong Kong attend.  (Past chair -- especially those who will be on this 
 committee), the
 current coordinator (he may be too busy), Garfield, me, and '14 chairs, ec.)

 I would like to suggest that we go on a evening Harbour Cruise (with 
 dinner/drink) on
 Friday, Aug 9, from 7-9 p.m.   We are limited to 20 people.  This is 
 compliments of the Hong Kong
 Tourist Board.  If enough of you are available, we could do this.  And a 
 followup meeting of course
 if we need one.

 Please let me know ASAP if you are amenable/available for this. If not, 
 we can of course meet
 sometime before the end of the conference (coordinatoring with the workshop 
 that Deror is hosting of course.)

 Thanks, Ellie



 On Jul 19, 2013, at 3:27 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:

 Dear Jury - we have a few interested members so far:  Deror, Muhammad,
 and James.  There is also a full panel talking about the future of
 Wikimania in Hong-Kong:
 http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/The_Growth_and_Future_of_Wikimania

 Ellie has offered to organize an after-hours event for past organizers
 to expand on the topics of this workshop, if there is interest.  And I
 am sure that Ellie will have her own thoughts to share by then, having
 spent tha past couple of months seeing Wikimania preparations with her
 new perspective.

 Perhaps we can move this discussion to a thread on the wikimania-l
 list about future bids  the future of Wikimania, and similar regional
 events.

 Sam.

 On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
 Excellent.  Thank you, Mohamed and Muhammad.  We are still waiting to
 hear back from 3 of the recent wikimania teams.   I second the hope
 that this will help all future Wikimanias!

 Warm regards, Sam

 On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Mohamed Ibrahim
 mido.archit...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello Sam,

 Thanks again for your kind invitation to our team, appreciated.
 Muhammad Yahia [Shipmaster] is the one from our core team we're proposing 
 to
 join the committee.
 Good luck to all and hope this will help future Wikimanias :)



 On 10 July 2013 23:27, Mohamed Ibrahim mido.archit...@gmail.com wrote:

 I will pass the message to the organizing team.
 Thank you for your efforts guys, hope that will help next Wikimanias
 organizing and bidding teams


 On 10 July 2013 22:21, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:

 Also - please pass this request on to your original organizing team --
 to whom future Wikimaniacs are all grateful -- and check with them.
 Ideally your team would agree on the person to be nominated to
 represent your team's experience on the committee.   But they should
 at least be informed that we are looking for a representative.

 For those who want to be involved, but don't have time to commit to
 being an active committee member, most of the committee's work will be
 public on meta / in public chats, and all participation will be warmly
 welcome.

 Thank you,
 Sam.

 On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dear Mido, Patricio, Marcin, Deror, and James,

 A Wikimania committee is being put together, to appoint next year's
 jury and improve knowledge sharing and mentoring for Wikimania teams.
 The goal is to include a representative each year from each of the
 past 5 conferences. Could you suggest someone from your past
 organizing team, including yourself, who might be interested in this?

 More info: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Committee

 Warm regards,
 Sam.

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 OK, it seems there is significant enough support for this :) That
 would mean the members would be:

 * Someone from or selected by the main organizing team of Wikimania
 2008 (Alexandria)
 * Someone from or selected by the main organizing team of Wikimania
 2009 (Buenos Aires)
 * Someone from

Re: [Wikimania-l] [Wikimania-jury] The future of Wikimania

[Samuel Klein]

A neat challenge.  Perhaps this could be set up with someone's
phone...  Sound quality might be an issue.

Sam
(who can't make it, but likes the idea of this meeting)

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Cary Bass bastique...@bastique.com wrote:
 Wow, this would be great if it were live feed

 On 07/24/2013 12:49 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
 Dear Wikimaniacs,

 Ellie Young is offering to host a dinner meeting Friday, August 9,
 from 7-9 pm, to talk about the future of Wikimania, following up on
 the panel discussion earlier that day on Deror's panel.  Notes from
 this discussion will be added to those from the panel.
 http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/The_Growth_and_Future_of_Wikimania

 If you are regularly part of Wikimania planning, or part of a past org
 team, and would be interested in this - please reply to Ellie (cc:ed
 here) and let her know, and include a few words about what part of
 Wikimania you've been involved with. Space is limited to 15 people; if
 there is more interest than that, preference will be given to
 perennial volunteers and past  organizers.

 Thanks!
 Sam.

 On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Ellie Young eyo...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 With regard to the after-hours event, I was going to suggest that any of 
 the following who will
 be in Hong Kong attend.  (Past chair -- especially those who will be on 
 this committee), the
 current coordinator (he may be too busy), Garfield, me, and '14 chairs, ec.)

 I would like to suggest that we go on a evening Harbour Cruise (with 
 dinner/drink) on
 Friday, Aug 9, from 7-9 p.m.   We are limited to 20 people.  This is 
 compliments of the Hong Kong
 Tourist Board.  If enough of you are available, we could do this.  And a 
 followup meeting of course
 if we need one.

 Please let me know ASAP if you are amenable/available for this. If not, 
 we can of course meet
 sometime before the end of the conference (coordinatoring with the workshop 
 that Deror is hosting of course.)

 Thanks, Ellie



 On Jul 19, 2013, at 3:27 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:

 Dear Jury - we have a few interested members so far:  Deror, Muhammad,
 and James.  There is also a full panel talking about the future of
 Wikimania in Hong-Kong:
 http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/The_Growth_and_Future_of_Wikimania

 Ellie has offered to organize an after-hours event for past organizers
 to expand on the topics of this workshop, if there is interest.  And I
 am sure that Ellie will have her own thoughts to share by then, having
 spent tha past couple of months seeing Wikimania preparations with her
 new perspective.

 Perhaps we can move this discussion to a thread on the wikimania-l
 list about future bids  the future of Wikimania, and similar regional
 events.

 Sam.

 On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
 Excellent.  Thank you, Mohamed and Muhammad.  We are still waiting to
 hear back from 3 of the recent wikimania teams.   I second the hope
 that this will help all future Wikimanias!

 Warm regards, Sam

 On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Mohamed Ibrahim
 mido.archit...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello Sam,

 Thanks again for your kind invitation to our team, appreciated.
 Muhammad Yahia [Shipmaster] is the one from our core team we're 
 proposing to
 join the committee.
 Good luck to all and hope this will help future Wikimanias :)



 On 10 July 2013 23:27, Mohamed Ibrahim mido.archit...@gmail.com wrote:
 I will pass the message to the organizing team.
 Thank you for your efforts guys, hope that will help next Wikimanias
 organizing and bidding teams


 On 10 July 2013 22:21, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
 Also - please pass this request on to your original organizing team --
 to whom future Wikimaniacs are all grateful -- and check with them.
 Ideally your team would agree on the person to be nominated to
 represent your team's experience on the committee.   But they should
 at least be informed that we are looking for a representative.

 For those who want to be involved, but don't have time to commit to
 being an active committee member, most of the committee's work will be
 public on meta / in public chats, and all participation will be warmly
 welcome.

 Thank you,
 Sam.

 On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 Dear Mido, Patricio, Marcin, Deror, and James,

 A Wikimania committee is being put together, to appoint next year's
 jury and improve knowledge sharing and mentoring for Wikimania teams.
 The goal is to include a representative each year from each of the
 past 5 conferences. Could you suggest someone from your past
 organizing team, including yourself, who might be interested in this?

 More info: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Committee

 Warm regards,
 Sam.

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 Date: Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 3:16 AM
 Subject: Re: [Wikimania-jury] The future of Wikimania

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania, or other events done by a third party?

[Samuel Klein]

I recommend trying to sell them on organizing a regional event if they
don't win the bid for a global one.   There have been many successful
regional 'manias, and after London 2014 there are some rotation
reasons why it would not be an ideal year for a bid in Europe.

SJ

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
 Balázs Viczián, 14/05/2013 23:30:

 1) What if a third party applies to create an event? [...]


 1/b) What if their bid is the best overall? Would they be allowed to
 execute it (a.k.a. being announced winners)? [...]


 In practice this has already happened, so it doesn't seem particularly
 strange.

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania, or other events done by a third party?

[Samuel Klein]

(regional events are usually not called 'wikimania' but something
else, however - like Wiki Conference India :)

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
 I recommend trying to sell them on organizing a regional event if they
 don't win the bid for a global one.   There have been many successful
 regional 'manias, and after London 2014 there are some rotation
 reasons why it would not be an ideal year for a bid in Europe.

 SJ

 On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
 nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
 Balázs Viczián, 14/05/2013 23:30:

 1) What if a third party applies to create an event? [...]


 1/b) What if their bid is the best overall? Would they be allowed to
 execute it (a.k.a. being announced winners)? [...]


 In practice this has already happened, so it doesn't seem particularly
 strange.

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[Wikimania-l] Thanks for a very smooth registration!

[Samuel Klein]

Dear Wikimania team,

I really appreciated the simple, smooth registration and housing setup
- the smoothest process to date, imo.

SJ

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2014: Official bid list

[Samuel Klein]

Dear all: Please post any further questions you have for the two bids.

Dear bidders: please review your bids this coming week to make sure
they are complete.

SJ

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 12:55 AM, James Forrester jdforres...@gmail.com wrote:
 All,

 To confirm, the candidate bids to host Wikimania 2014 are:

 * Arusha, Tanzania
 * London, UK

 The bids now have two weeks (until 23:59 UTC on 17 March 2013) to
 finalise all major information on their pages, responding to questions
 from the jury and the community, and prepare for the
 question-and-answer phase.

 Good luck to both bids!

 On behalf of the Wikimania 2014 Jury,

 Yours,
 --
 James D. Forrester
 jdforres...@gmail.com
 [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal 
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Why?

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On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:

 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 club
 in the middle of DC? Anyone?

For the record, and in an effort to honor the quality of local cultural
attractions after dark, DC has some of the best wannabe goth night clubs
this side of the Mississippi.

SJ
also impressed with the quality of local breakdancing (which our party
seems to have enhanced)
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Re: [Wikimania-l] [Wikimediaus-l] Wiki-Americans WALRUS II tonight

[Samuel Klein]

Nice!  S.

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Pharos pharosofalexand...@gmail.comwrote:

 My fellow Wiki-Americans,

 Since many more Wikimaniacs have joined us since the first officialish
 meeting, I propose that we hold an informal WALRUS II get-together
 this evening (Saturday) for dinner-ish and pub-ish stuff at 5:30PM
 right after the big Wikimanioa Group Photo.

 We'll leave directly from the Group Photo location.

 Bring your fellow Wiki-Americans and friends, all nationalities are
 certainly welcome!

 Thanks,
 Richard
 (User:Pharos)

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Re: [Wikimania-l] About accommodation in university dormitories

[Samuel Klein]

Same here... is there someone who can just focus on resolving and
answering housing questions for the next few weeks?  That's important
to everyone who is making their plans now.

SJ

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Shujen Chang i...@blue.cat wrote:
 I want to live in university dormitory during the conference. It is said We
 are currently looking into reserving university dormitories. We'll keep you
 posted! on the Accommodation page. I wonder more information about it, and
 if there're some limits (such as only to WMF or chapter scholarship
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Scholarship and early registration

[Samuel Klein]

It seems it might be worth getting someone new to help manage *nothing
but* the public communication about lodging -- from confirming details
to updating wiki pages to answering questions on mailnig lists --
including dorm and hostel options and the variety of hotel options.
That may help avoid extra confusion.

S.


On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:
 At least there will be plenty of dorms available if I'm reading the bid, for
 24$ a bed with double occupancy. These were at least confirmed already *in
 the bid* so I guess we can have those up soon, a year later :) Because yeah,
 this amount per night is what I would ideally spend on a whole Wikimania for
 staying etc.

 Best,
 Lodewijk

 El 23 de abril de 2012 03:51, James Hare messedroc...@gmail.com escribió:

 I and every American will concede the U.S. tax code does not make
 sense. (Technically this is the D.C. tax code we're dealing with, but
 just another part of the problem.) But now that we have that settled,
 let me know if you want me to clarify a price.

 Regards,
 James Hare

 On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Joseph Seddon josephsed...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Primarily sensible tax policies :) It is a very annoying practice
  though.
  And pointless because rarely is there any indication of what the actual
  tax
  is until youve bought something. So you neither know how much your going
  to
  pay or have any idea to what to expect from the state.
 
  Seddon
 
 
  2012/4/23 Delphine Ménard notafi...@gmail.com
 
  On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
  
  
   2012/4/22 Delphine Ménard notafi...@gmail.com
  
   On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 5:32 PM, James Hare messedroc...@gmail.com
   wrote:
  
The deals we're arranging have no extra charge for dual occupancy.
  
   This might sound extremely stupid, but make sure that dual occupancy
   means 2 beds in a room, not a Queen Size Bed. There are surprisingly
   few hotels that actually offer two separate beds in a room or their
   contingent of such rooms is actually quite limited. At the prices
   that
   were mentionned, you really want to book all the double bed rooms in
   those hotels, because very few people will be able to afford a
   single
   room.
  
   Best,
  
   Delphine
   --
  
  
   I'm not sure about this... While I haven't done a survey or
   discovered
   any
   references on point, I've stayed in a number of hotels in Washington
   and
   throughout the U.S. and almost always encounter two beds in a room as
   a
   single occupant. Since I'm commenting anyway, I will say that $149 is
   a
   very
   good rate for hotels in Washington D.C.
 
  Point taken on the beds. It must be a silly European habit ;).
  I am not arguing with the fact that $150 is cheap or expensive for
  Washington. My point was rather to say that $150/night is not
  something that many wikip/medians can afford.
 
   And while Thomas Dalton denigrates it as a silly American habit to
   quote
   prices before taxes, that may be because we have so many different
   tax
   domains with different rates. It helps to know the pre-tax amounts
   (similar
   to how airline seats are often quoted) for comparison purposes, as
   the
   tax
   component will give you no sense of the accommodations or amenities
   expected
   etc. I suppose that may not be commonly understood by travelers from
   small
   nations with primarily national tax policies.
 
  Heh, I like the small nations part a lot ;). You're right though, at
  least in Europe, you know the tax, but it's included in the display
  price. Shopping in the US can quickly become a problem if you max out
  your available dollar by just adding up numbers without thinking the
  tax.
 
 
  Delphine
  --
  @notafish
 
  NB. This gmail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails will
  get
  lost.
  Intercultural musings: Ceci n'est pas une endive -
  http://blog.notanendive.org
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Thank you Wikimedia Israel!

[Samuel Klein]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Patricio Lorente
patricio.lore...@gmail.com wrote:
 From the boarding area of Ben Gurion airport I want to add my
 congratulations to the WikimediaIL team: it was a wonderful Wikimania not
 only because it was perfectly organized or because it had a great schedule,
 or because there were incredible parties and meetups: most of all because
 you were there, always with a smile, and always trying to make things even
 better.

 I know it's been a hard work. Thank you all for your commitment and care. Un
 abrazo!

+1 on all counts!  An utterly wonderful experience.   Support before
and after the official conference was amazing and generous as well.
And I have never before seen so many Wikipedians dancing, or watching
others dancing, as at the closing party.

Warm regards,
SJ

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[Wikimania-l] Etherpad @ wikimedia lag?

[Samuel Klein]

I've been using Etherpad yesterday and today, and increasingly getting
connection errors for a while, and on trying to submit a help req, get
this notice:

Oops! A server error occured. It's been logged.
Please email supp...@etherpad.com if this persists.

If this is load related: should we be wary of using that etherpad
server during sessions?

Wikimania!
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Videos from Gdansk

[Samuel Klein]

Any update on the videos?   Perhaps someone who knows them should ping
iStream regularly until they reply.

SJ

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Manuel Schneider
manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch wrote:
 not here, at least :-(

 Marcin?

 Am 13.10.2010 15:55, schrieb Zugravu Gheorghe:
 still no news about the recording from the conference?

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 Regards
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Videos from Gdansk

[Samuel Klein]

I will do this if someone will pass me their email :-)

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
 Any update on the videos?   Perhaps someone who knows them should ping
 iStream regularly until they reply.

 SJ

 On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Manuel Schneider
 manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch wrote:
 not here, at least :-(

 Marcin?

 Am 13.10.2010 15:55, schrieb Zugravu Gheorghe:
 still no news about the recording from the conference?

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Videos from Gdansk

[Samuel Klein]

Who is they?  Are they on this list?  Perhaps they would like to
share the current status...  SJ

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Manuel Schneider
manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch wrote:
 I have passed my last mail to Piotr Damian, the team leader of the
 on-site team of iStream, to the foundation. As far as I know they are
 trying to get hold of them.

 /Manuel


 Am 11.01.2011 01:39, schrieb Lodewijk:
 /me suggests to pass on phone number actually

 2011/1/11 Samuel Klein meta.sj http://meta.sj@gmail.com
 http://gmail.com

     I will do this if someone will pass me their email :-)

     On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Samuel Klein meta.sj
     http://meta.sj@gmail.com http://gmail.com wrote:
       Any update on the videos?   Perhaps someone who knows them should
     ping
       iStream regularly until they reply.
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Biography of Lech Wałęsa in 104 languages of the world on Wikimedia Commons

[Samuel Klein]

I just printed out a copy: this is awesome.  Is there a POD edition
for people who want better binding?  --SJ

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 5:40 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ay...@gmail.com wrote:
 So cool!!! I thought this was just going to include the intro
 paragraph of each article -- nice to see the full text. What a lovely
 reuse effort :) Congratulations to all who worked on it.

 phoebe


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 wrote:
 Hi all,

 I'm pleased to announce that the book about Lech Wałęsa, which was
 prepared for Wikimania 2010 in Gdańsk, has been published at Wikimedia
 Commons.

 The book contains biographies of Lech Wałęsa[1] in 104 languages of
 the world. Every biography comes from a different language version of
 Wikipedia. All the text was retrieved at the same moment - On the 1st
 of March, 2010. The book was prepared by volunteers from the Polish
 Wikipedia community and the whole book, including the cover, is
 available under CC-BY-SA 3.0. All the authors are listed on the book's
 last pages.

 During the closing ceremony of Wikimania 2010 the book was shown for
 the first time in public. And a few days after Wikimania, the
 President of Gdańsk, Wikimania organizers and Polish Wikipedians gave
 Lech Wałęsa the first copy of the book[2].

 Now the book is available in PDF on Wikimedia Commons:
 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walesa_-_Biographies_in_the_languages_of_the_world_(Wikimania_2010).pdf.

 [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa
 [2] - http://www.gdansk.pl/galeria?c=663

 Regards,
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Re: [Wikimania-l] thank you

[Samuel Klein]

I also had a delightful time in Gdansk, and found this one of the most
engaging Wikimanias ever; thanks to the local team for their hard work
in pulling this off!

And thanks to everyone in back rooms who spent their days making
Wikimania amazing. Some were long-time organizers and Wikimaniacs;
some were local enthusiasts, new to Wikimania; and some were venue and
city staff who really made an extra effort to be available at all
hours.   ( Łukasz - perhaps you can make a page online recognizing the
work of the local volunteers that chipped in over the last week. )


On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Aphaia aph...@gmail.com wrote:

 Specially I'd like to appreciate the streaming team, on behalf of
 Wikimedians in Kyoto, Japan.

Yes - streaming was smoother and more reliable than it has ever been.
Thanks to iStream for this, and to Manuel for overseeing the process
(and the last-minute network upgrade for the venue) and making sure
both were solid.

SJ

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[Wikimania-l] Program-session chairs, room moderators, and general session helper for Wikimania

[Samuel Klein]

Dear Wikimaniacs,

I hope you have all had a chance to look at the final program by now.
Three long days, but lots of amazing space to hang out and relax on
your own; of course noone is obliged to spend their conference time in
sessions ;-)  We will have all the riverside seating and walkways
around the venue, and aside from an interlude in which a wedding party
is using the upstairs restaurant at our venue -- which should be fun
-- we will have full use of the Philharmonic during Wikimania.

We need another dozen or so volunteers to help with the sessions: we
are looking for room moderators (needed to moderate one room for at
least half a day), session chairs (helping disparate ideas and talks
integrate into a coherent discussion in the room), and general
room-helpers: people who can assist with technical issues that may
affect speakers and videographers, and help with crowd control and
cleanup.

If you are interested in any of these things, please leave a note on
the talk page of the main program, or let our program chair Jacek
Jankowski know.

More notes will be out shortly about where to start discussing your
own sessions -- every session will have its own talk page on the
maniawiki.

Thank you :-)

SJ
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Council of Chapters Meeting

[Samuel Klein]

Thanks, Manuel.  I thought the Chapters' association (now council) was
a great idea, just checking to see if this was something new.

Manuel (and all) If you want to make up / print out some materials
from the last discussion ahead of time, some of us will be in the open
space area Friday afternoon preparing for this during the last
talk-sessions of the day.

SJ


On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Manuel Schneider
manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch wrote:
 I'd like to share these links with you on this topic:

 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_meeting_2009/Topics#Relationships_within_Wikimedia

 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_meeting_2009/Committees#Chapters.27_association

 I was in the Relationships discussion in 2009 and after defining all
 the different relationships and a vision for 10 years we had quite
 interesting discussions and ideas which can be summarized best as
 having kind of a UN structure between chapters and foundation / public.
 I will bring photographs of the posters we have made in this session, so
 we can pick up some of the ideas.

 /Manuel

 Am 05.07.2010 06:42, schrieb Jan-Bart de Vreede:
 Actually, sounds like quite a good definition, and quite a good idea!

 Jan-Bart

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Re: [Wikimania-l] meeting place before wikimania

[Samuel Klein]

We will have access to the main venue as early as Tuesday; the
organizers are moving there then, and I think we can use the
amphitheatre outside as a place to meet up.  There is internet, and
using it may help test wifi for the conference -- including latency
and how well it functions in the morning/evening -- since that same
outdoor space will be used as social space during Wikimania...

Bonus: this is one of the most beautiful places to hang out in Gdansk,
in sun or shade.
People may have to bring their own drinks c, however.

SJ


On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:
 hey folks,

 is there a meeting place where we can meet up before wikimania? Preferrably
 with internet? I will arrive the 5th already, and it would be nice to meet
 up with folks.

 Best,

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Council of Chapters Meeting

[Samuel Klein]

what is the Council of Chapters?  is it related to the EU Chapter?  ;-)   SJ

2010/7/3 Jankowski, Jacek jacek.jankow...@deri.org:
 Hi,



 Due to some issues with the Council of Chapters meeting organization we need
 to speak to the person in charge of this effort. Please contact Marcin
 Cieslak and myself – please provide us with your skype id or phone number.
 We need to talk to you soon as we are working finalizing the printed version
 of the program.



 Best regards,

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Airport Pickup

[Samuel Klein]

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Daniel ~ Leinad danny.lei...@gmail.com wrote:

 BTW Train connection from the airport to the city center is under
 construction, so you have to choose between bus and taxi ;-)

I arrived in Gdansk yesterday.  What a gorgeous city!

If you are not feeling adventurous, just take a taxi from the airport
: about 50zl.  Taxi drivers at the airport are friendly and metered.

If you are feeling adventurous, you may want to take the 210 bus to
the main train station, and pick up a taxi there.  The line of radio
taxis nearby (if you're facing the station entrance, on the left) are
similarly reliable.  But there are also some unofficial taxis there
which might be unmetered / might overcharge.

If you get stuck somewhere, you can call a taxi:  +48 58 19191

SJ

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Airport Pickup

[Samuel Klein]

You walk outside to the taxi stand at the airport.  It's a small
airport, compared to BA.  one stand for the bus, one line for taxis.

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Jeromy-Yu Chan (Jerry~Yuyu)
jerry.tschan...@gmail.com wrote:
 Lovely advice SJ
 so you was just walk out to the taxi stand to take a cab
 or like in Buenos Aires, need to find a trusted  company in the stand inside
 the airport?
 Jerry~雨雨
 Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan, ARAD
 User:Yuyu | zh.wikipedia | Wikimedia HK
 ChapCom, WMF | ComCom, WMF
 Blogger | http://jeromyu.wordpress.com
 MSN: jeromyuc...@msn.com
 also Jeromyu on twitter, plurk and most of places

 Tel (Mobile): +852 9279 1601
 Laudamus quae laudentur
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 Non clamatis hostilia, numquam esse vos accusatoribus


 On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 17:52, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Daniel ~ Leinad danny.lei...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  BTW Train connection from the airport to the city center is under
  construction, so you have to choose between bus and taxi ;-)

 I arrived in Gdansk yesterday.  What a gorgeous city!

 If you are not feeling adventurous, just take a taxi from the airport
 : about 50zl.  Taxi drivers at the airport are friendly and metered.

 If you are feeling adventurous, you may want to take the 210 bus to
 the main train station, and pick up a taxi there.  The line of radio
 taxis nearby (if you're facing the station entrance, on the left) are
 similarly reliable.  But there are also some unofficial taxis there
 which might be unmetered / might overcharge.

 If you get stuck somewhere, you can call a taxi:  +48 58 19191

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[Wikimania-l] Local phone numbers for communication

[Samuel Klein]

I've just gotten a local Polish sim card, and posted my # on my
wikimania2010 userpage.  If others are getting local numbers, you may
want to do the same.  Also, people organizing their own pub crawls and
meals early this week, please post a note about what you're doing
online...
  http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Events

SJ

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Local phone numbers for communication

[Samuel Klein]

You can get a PLAY sim card at any small market.  (put it in your
phone, get on the PLAY network, wait until you get a confirmation by
SMS in a few minutes.)

There's no charge, you simply pay for credit.  you can get a 5 or 15
zl card anywhere, and add credit online. SMS'es are 0.5 zl each .  I
haven't yet tested what calls cost.

SJ

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Jeromy-Yu Chan (Jerry~Yuyu)
jerry.tschan...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 23:32, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:

 I've just gotten a local Polish sim card, and posted my # on my
 wikimania2010 userpage.

 Great

 where do you got it?
 How much? and is it complicated to get one?



  If others are getting local numbers, you may
 want to do the same.  Also, people organizing their own pub crawls and
 meals early this week, please post a note about what you're doing
 online...
  http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Events

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Schedule?

[Samuel Klein]

Good question.  Danica mentioned yesterday that there's another
program meeting Friday.

Wikimania's on the open agenda at today's meeting (starting on IRC in
10 min or so) -- general thoughts on coordination for this  future
years are welcome.

SJ

2010/6/17 Pavel Richter pavel.rich...@wikimedia.de:
 Hi everybody,

 I wonder when we will see a (preliminary) schedule for Wikimania? We need to
 schedule meetings, book flights, hotel rooms, etc, so it would be very
 helpful to get an rough overview what will happen when. Do you know when the
 venue will open on Friday and when Wikimania will close on Sunday?


 Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

 Pavel Richter
 Executive Director
 -
 Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
 Eisenacher Straße 2
 10777 Berlin

 Telefon 030 - 219 158 26-0
 www.wikimedia.de

 Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
 Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
 http://spenden.wikimedia.de/

  Unterstützen Sie Freies Wissen mit einer SMS. Senden Sie einfach WIKI
 an 81190. Mit 5 Euro sichern Sie so die Verfügbarkeit und Weiterentwicklung
 der Wikipedia. 

 Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
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Re: [Wikimania-l] [Wikimania2010] [Wikimania-planning-l] When will the call for participation be made?

[Samuel Klein]

Ah, I just got a copy of the CfP draft in question and posted it to
the wiki.  Comments and edits (and offers to help with reviewing or
administering  EasyChair, our reviewing tool) are welcome.

http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation

SJ


On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello,

 Saper just mentioned that a CfP is drafted and will be uploaded to the
 wiki tomorrow.  In the meantime I spruced up the discussion  about the
 conference theme and balanced its three topic areas (which I like),
 here:

 http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Call_for_Participation

 I'm interested in helping identify potential speakers who could
 inspire great conversations around these core topics -- is anyone else
 interested and available this weekend to discuss?  We should start
 reaching out (in some cases to audiences we've never invited to a wiki
 conference before) asap.

 SJ

 2010/4/2 Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org:
 On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Angela bees...@gmail.com wrote:
 I'm surprised http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation
 is still blank. Last year, submissions were accepted from March 1st.
 What's the timeline for this year?


 Has the Program committee even been formed yet?  I'm not sure that it
 has.  (CCing to the local team's mailing list at wikimania2010.pl.)

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2011

[Samuel Klein]

Lodewijk writes:
 I had the impression that it would give a certain atmosphere where
 there would be a clear division in the community between the Spanish
 speaking people not speaking English and the English speaking people
 not speaking Spanish.

I don't see how you can say that making the conference accessible to
non-English speakers somehow *creates* a division in the community.
True, if an event is inaccessible to a different community, they won't
show up, and no division will be visible but it exists even more
strongly then.


WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@googlemail.com writes:

 But I think the idea is great and fully
 inline with the idea that we are building a global encyclopaedia.

I found it delightful.  And utterly appropriate, given that many local
attendees were visibly more comfortable discussing Wikipedia in
Spanish.

The tremendous global nature of the projects really doesn't come
across to most people - not the first time they hear about it, or the
second or third times either.  Giving everyone access to the world's
knowledge in their own language was an important idea... we
shouldn't lose sight of it.

If as a community we didn't care enough about accessibility across
languages to make a global, public event comfortable for the local
wikipedians to attend, what would that say about the projects as a
whole?


On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
 2009/9/15 WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@googlemail.com:
 1 Which languages have to be covered at every Wikimania? The de-facto
 minimum is probably now host country plus English, but that might rise
 in future.

 We've only had the host language (if not English) represented once, I
 wouldn't say that is a de-facto minimum. It might become so, but it
 isn't yet.

Perhaps in the 'full coverage' sense this is true -- but talks and
posters in the local language have long been a part of Wikimania.

SJ

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Thank you!

[Samuel Klein]

Ditto he says while downloading some video.  I am in love with B.A.,
and glad that I have a few more days of vacation here before I have to
return home.  Thank you so much, Carlos, Patricio  everyone!

Sj

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Ting Chenwing.phil...@gmx.de wrote:
 I can only second all what Erik had said. By the way, I did get the
 chance to see the Southern Cross from the plane. So also this wish of
 mine was fulfilled.

 Ting

 Erik Moeller wrote:
 Having arrived home earlier today, I just wanted to send a quick note
 saying a big THANK YOU to the local planning team in Buenos Aires and
 to all helpers, for a beautiful, inspiring, fun Wikimania 2009
 conference and a great party. The program had way more interesting
 talks to offer than I could see (yay video!), the volunteers on the
 ground did a fantastic job, the venue was great, and the city was
 lovely to explore. I hope you all get some well-deserved rest, but I
 can't wait to see what Wikimedia Argentina will come up with next. ;-)
 Kudos to all of you!


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[Wikimania-l] Board QA session this afternoon, and IRC

[Samuel Klein]

(Resending to the right wikimania list :)

Hello,

There is a QA session with the whole board scheduled for this
afternoon at 3:45 EST, at the end of Wikimania:
  http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule

It will run for an hour.  If you have questions to ask but are not
physically at the event, you can post questions in #wikimania on IRC.

SJ

PS - I'd like to see regular public IRC discussions and QAs w/the
Board.   We are discussing having one primarily with the new Board
members (Arne, Matt and myself) within the next few weeks.

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Board QA session this afternoon, and IRC

[Samuel Klein]

Nah, just the difference between EST and Buenos Aires time.   (I
should have given UTC :)

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:27 AM, effe iets
anderseffeietsand...@gmail.com wrote:
 I guess Sam wants to panel two hours ;-)

 2009/8/28 Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com

 2009/8/28 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com:
  (Resending to the right wikimania list :)
 
  Hello,
 
  There is a QA session with the whole board scheduled for this
  afternoon at 3:45 EST, at the end of Wikimania:
    http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule
 
 Note that this is 4:45 in Buenos Aires time.

 Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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Re: [Wikimania-l] The Wikimania of my dreams

[Samuel Klein]

The mania of my dreams has voice-montages from the public speeches of
various wikimedians to announce the end of sessions / meals /
coffee-times.   A 90-min panel on article quality with  John Seigenthaler,
Ryan Jordan, Larry Sanger and Mathias Schindler, moderated by Lord
Emsworth.  And various covers of the chipmunk-voiced wiki-section of Jam On
It as musical theme.

my dreams are troubled dreams.

SJ


On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Mohamed Sanad [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

 I wanna add one more point:

 - It would have someone who can drive really fast like crazy to handle the
 needed right now stuff and urgent situations :)


 On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Delphine Ménard [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

 I woudl like to dedicate this thread to the Wikimania of your dreams.

 No argument, no debate, just ideas, a giant brainstorming of what the
 Wikimania of your dreams would be. Please throw your stuff in, and try
 to make it only positive things (ie.write  something that's green
 rather than something that's not blue or red.)


 here is the Wikimania of my dreams:

 -It would be in a city easy to reach, with a big airport and cheap
 flights incoming because it's a huge hub, or it would be next door
 (Frankfurt airport ;-) )
 - It would be in a top-notch conference facility, with tons of plugs
 everywhere, air conditionned if needed, modular conference rooms, all
 in one place and close to the accommodation building (a mix of
 Cambridge, Alexandria for the conference facility, Taipei and
 Frankfurt for access).
 - It would have a great outdoor and indoor community area, with wifi
 that works all the time, with comfy couches as well as ground mats for
 the yoga-types, with coffee, cookies, juices and fresh water available
 at all times. (a mix of Frankfurt and Taipei)
 - It would have all the accommodation in one place, close to the
 conference grounds, or even actually _on_ the conference grounds, and
 it would be cheap but practical, clean and modern accommodation, with
 different possibilities - share a room, not share a room, share a dorm
 etc. (a mix of Frankfurt and Taipei)
 -It would have an amazing range of food for lunches, which would be
 served in a big room where annoucements and meetings can take place (a
 mix of Taipei and Cambridge).
 - It would take place in a really wow place so that we get speakers
 to *want to come* to speak (Harvard or Bibliotheca Alexandrina)
 - It would be close to sightseeing stuff for social evenings as
 discovery trips.
 - It would have an amazing party location and an amazing party with
 dancers with rotating hat-thingies (just like Alexandria!)
 - It would host up to 500 people, not more, so I can get to meet
 almost all of them. :-)
 - And finally, to steal Sj's idea, it would have a giant rotating
 Wikipedia globe that people could get into and make roll around like a
 hamster wheel, just for the fun of it.

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2010 bidding process

[Samuel Klein]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 3:50 AM, Aphaia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I prefer to have a longer post-mortem phase than rushing into the next
 stage. I'm now in Singapore for transit and have given no many time to
 input feedbacks I had gotten from Wikimania attendees. Some are just
 complements, others improvement suggestions. I think one of important
 parts of city bidding is to clarify the criteria and feedback from the
 latest conference should be concerned in refining our current
 criteria.

 Best,


Well, the sooner we start, the longer it will last :-)Are the feedbacks
you received posted anywhere?  Do people with feedback know about the
Comments page on the wikimania2008wiki?

I've also been thinking that we should have a more active collaboration
/about/ wikimania and related events, including long-term hosting for
presentations and project-ideas and workshop-results, on metawiki (and not
on a site dedicated to a specific year).

Discussions about wikimania's purpose, including annual post-mortems, might
best go there.

Until we work out where, recent discussions have been posted to the
wikimania2008 site:
   http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem

Sharing in other languages the fact that there is a public post-mortem
discussion might be a good idea.

SJ




 On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:44 PM, effe iets anders
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  Well, to be honest I think we first should think about the general
  time schedule. Do we want to hurry or do we first want to reconsider
  what kind or conference we want in the coming years and build the
  wikimanias around that idea. It means a lot whether we want a very
  unofficial conference or whether we want a more serious conference
  which could for instance mean more possibilities for finding sponsors
  and having a serious media look during the conference, more results
  with respect to the main goals we have etc etc... I do know that at
  least the program committee needs a huge evaluation (as soon as Jakob
  and me are home, we will do that I guess) and I assume also other
  teams want to do that, before we would do a wikimania wide evaluation,
  and draw results from that.
 
  So a few big questions ahead, which can very much influence the choice
  of the city. Personally I'd not want to rush anything until we know
  that.
 
  On the page you created, which is of course a draft, it has been
  assumed almost that we choose the early schedule, even though it is
  still a draft (you could also make changes there, and still call it a
  draft, even though the main window has been set).
 
  I sincerely hope we can have an open discussion *first* on whether we
  need evaluation, together with local team, committees, WMF etc, and
  then see how long we need for that to draw conclusions etc.
 
  Best regards,
 
  Lodewijk
 
  2008/7/23 Cary Bass [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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  | Ehm? Did you decide on the timeline now? :S
  |
  | Just for the record, is this a WMF decision, or just what we call in
  | Dutch a proefballon, a little test to taste the reactions.
  |
  | as explained in my previous email, I see barely advantages and a lot
  | of disadvantages. I sincerely hope this time schedule will not be
  | close to what it will be, especially not without a little more
  | rationale?
  |
  | Best regards,
  |
  | Lodewijk
  |
 
  Perhaps you missed the page title Draft Timeline.  Or my comment, It
  *is* a wiki.  That is, I anticipate much discussion and explanation as
  well as consensus about the timelines.  I believe Damien Finol has
  already begun the talk page.
 
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Comments

[Samuel Klein]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Delphine Ménard [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:


 PPS. I'll take your word on the wifi. I have yet to attend ONE geeky
 conference --anywhere in the world-- where the Wifi works perfectly


Seconded...SJ
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Back home; missing Wikimania already! Regards from Boston...

[Samuel Klein]

That's neat, but I only see two arabic links, and mainly English; is there a
separate press page written for an Arabic-speaking/reading audience?

SJ

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:43 PM, The Egyptian
[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:



 On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Is there an Arabic-language overview of the conference and related press
 that I can point people to?  And do we have a shared delicious tagset?


 http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press



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Re: [Wikimania-l] [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2008 and reflecting on what Wikimania is all about

[Samuel Klein]

Guillaume,

Good timing on the reminder :-)  12-24 months out is a good time to
plan bids. Another good idea that has been raised is defining a
process so that bids are resolved once a year, more than a year in
advance of Wikimania.

Some of the successful processes I've seen involve selecting a
location the year before (or two years before) at the event itself --
that allows a fair number of bid evaluators to meet in person; allows
the team that has just finished the event to debrief and directly pass
on ideas and advice to a future team; and passes on momentum from a
successful bid through an international audience once it is announced.

SJ


On 6/6/07, Guillaume Paumier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hello

 On 8/17/06, Delphine Ménard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I have read the numerous comments on the fact that we should be
  planning Wikimania well in advance, and I fully agree that choosing
  the city for Wikimania 2008 sometime at the end of 2006 or beginning
  of 2007 makes perfect sense, and we have started working on it.

 This email was sent in august 2006. We said it would be better to start
 planning Wikimania 2008 in advance, and before Wikimania 2007 happens. As
 far as I know, not much has been done yet. For the record, there are current
 bids, but not many seem to be serious:
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Bids

 So, maybe we should think about it :) (call this email a friendly
 reminder...)

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Hacking Days planning? About the fee...

[Samuel Klein]

A small fee to cover expenses such as lunch was charged both years; and
people paid for their lodging as per the rest of the conference. -SJ

On 3/22/07, Tian-Jian Barabbas Jiang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Dear all,

If you had attended to past Hacking Days, especially the private one for
MediaWiki core developers, could you please tell me that did they charge for
any fee or not? Thank you!

Best Regards,
Mike

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Re: [Wikimania-l] From YouTube

[Samuel Klein]

A few people from Global Vision came as well; their wikimentary footage 
from '05 is up on the Internet Archive and linked from meta... but I
don't know where footage from '06 is.

SJ
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On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Angela wrote:

 On 3/1/07, Damian Finol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Well, wasn't there a video crew at WM06? I remember them with cameras
 around the big lectures; what happened with the video?

 I think there was more than one film crew, but one of them were
 involved with the WikiDocumentary project at
 http://wikidocumentary.org which is due out in Spring 2008.

 Angela

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