James Hare, 09/08/2011 20:15:
Here's a thought. I stayed at what the conference called the Senate dorms,
yet I see nothing on campus that indicates that it was called that. Yes, the
term Senate Dorms does appear at the bus stop, and there is a Senate House
nearby, but the dorms themselves
On 08/09/11 9:40 PM, Lodewijk wrote:
Personally, I found it a nice experience to not have all those titles
thrown into my face every time I saw a badge. But then I know most of
the people already, so maybe I'm not a fair person to consider there :)
I would have preferred to not have the
On 08/09/11 2:29 PM, Daniel Kinzler wrote:
On 09.08.2011 15:26, Delphine Ménard wrote:
* Food: the food was so excellent it's not even funny (wow the
hummus). But I've seen _lots_ of people looking for the vegetarian
food without ever knowing which it was. So: Label food. Name of the
food,
On 15 August 2011 11:04, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
I would have preferred to not have the @wikiwhatever extension. Since
SUL that has become less important. Being longer, it also makes it
harder to focus on reading the name. I do remember seeing a few where
it made the name so
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:26, Nemo nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
On 15 August 2011 11:04, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
I would have preferred to not have the @wikiwhatever extension. Since
SUL that has become less important. Being longer, it also makes it
harder to focus on reading
Not sure if QR codes are so globally popular, that said, at the
pre-conf welcoming party some of us got a QR code seal on our label,
and some participants didn't know what it was.
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Deryck Chan deryckc...@gmail.com wrote:
QR codes are a good lown-cost idea too,
Latin script may be so bewildering you know.
Reading a Hungarian or a Polish name in Latin may require knowing the
orthography rules of those languages; and for reading an English name one may
need to ask the bearer for the pronunciation :) And probably just IPA would be
easier, though, yes,
As someone who prefers to have their firstname and username printed along
with their home wiki, but didn't want my fullname printed I'm happy that
aspect of the badge worked - it wasn't an option in Gdansk.
With such a high proportion of us presenting I'm not sure that printing the
word Presenter
Thanks for the input. I have started changing / enhancing the Wikimania
Handbook accordingly.
Maybe some of you didn't know it already but it is extremely helpful. We
have started this last year after Wikimania in Gdansk and it is already
quite big:
Or just your photos are plenty of Commons. :D
User name and home wiki are musts in my opinion, WMF staff are
preferable (and separated from the organizing team) since even during
the conference some topics raised up and there would be many people
who wanted to talk w/ staffers but not known who
IPA would do better than English approximations usually do :)
Viatcheslav
11.08.2011, 02:00, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com:
2011/8/10 KIZU Naoko aph...@gmail.com:
Also, even if an option, I prefer to see a latenized name along in
their original script. Either printed or
2011/8/10 Иванов Вячеслав v.iva...@amikeco.ru:
IPA would do better than English approximations usually do :)
Only for people that know IPA - and know it for the phonemes used in
that language, too. I can muddle through most of the IPA symbols used
in English (since I've read so many Wikipedia
I'll add my thanks to the chorus. It was an amazing Wikimania.
Having participated in the organisation of quite a few Wikimanias, and
since Itzik asked somewhere for critics so that they can do better
next time, here are a few things that come to mind. I'd urge everyone
to answer this thread to
2011/8/9 Delphine Ménard notafi...@gmail.com:
* Badges: badges should be recognizable at a glance. Especially for
press. But also for organizers, speakers etc.. By the time I arrived,
everyone had a different lanyard, some had written badges, other
printed... complicated. Make more badges than
I'm not sure if this is covered by Delphine's suggestion, but the ability to
recognize staffers is helpful - I knew quite some of them so had little
trouble, but I saw others looking harder for them. Giving staffers a special
symbol/color on their badge or giving them a different color T-shirt
2011/8/9 Delphine Ménard notafi...@gmail.com:
* Food: the food was so excellent it's not even funny (wow the
hummus).
Yesh!
But I've seen _lots_ of people looking for the vegetarian
food without ever knowing which it was. So: Label food. Name of the
food, principal ingredients (some are
Here's a thought. I stayed at what the conference called the Senate dorms, yet
I see nothing on campus that indicates that it was called that. Yes, the term
Senate Dorms does appear at the bus stop, and there is a Senate House nearby,
but the dorms themselves aren't labeled as such, nor is that
Thanks all for your feedback! it really great to hear your notes...
Just one thing:
* for some reason, the role/occupation/whatever field (e.g.
'developer', 'designer', 'WMF employee', ...) was not printed on any
of the WMF employees' badges, which led to people using magic markers
to write
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:20 PM, Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il wrote:
Everyone during the registration process had the option to select which
lines and titles will be printed on his badge. We didn't want to print
things that people not asked (as some people even select not to print their
Personally, I found it a nice experience to not have all those titles thrown
into my face every time I saw a badge. But then I know most of the people
already, so maybe I'm not a fair person to consider there :)
Lodewijk
2011/8/10 Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com
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