Re: [Wikimania-l] Airport Pickup

2010-07-05 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2010/7/5 Dorożyński Janusz dorozyns...@wampnm.webd.pl: | From: wikimania-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimania-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jeromy-Yu Chan (Jerry~Yuyu) | Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 12:09 PM / | any advice on exchange Euro to PLN? In what sense?

Re: [Wikimania-l] Airport Pickup

2010-07-05 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2010/7/5 Guillaume Paumier guillom@gmail.com: Greetings, On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Exchange rate can be easily found online, but it would be useful to know where we should change our banknotes. For example, in some countries

[Wikimania-l] dormitories - location

2010-07-05 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
In the registration process i asked for dormitories. I already received the confirmation and payed for the registration, but i still don't know where exactly i will be sleeping the first night. I looked at the Google map which is linked from the wiki and there are many hostels and dormitories in

Re: [Wikimania-l] Vegetarians

2010-07-09 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2010/7/9 Brianna Laugher brianna.laug...@gmail.com: Hi! If you are vegetarian and consider that you might like to meet fellow vego's for dinner, feel free to out yourself here - http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vegetarians If tomorrow's dinner is like tonight's, I will probably again

Re: [Wikimania-l] Be bold! Say Hello!

2010-07-10 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2010/7/9 Asaf Bartov asaf.bar...@gmail.com: Hi. This is just a reminder: in Wikipedia, we say Be bold! Many of us have not yet exchanged a single word with many others of us, naturally. So be bold!  Say hello and introduce yourself to people you haven't spoken to yet!    Asaf I did it and

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikidictionary projects

2010-07-10 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, Both Polish and Hungarian are well presented in http://OmegaWiki.org .. OmegaWiki as you may know is developed from ideas from working on Wiktionary .. I am around .. 2010/7/10 Jerzy Celichowski celic...@osi.hu: Hi Gerard, Great, how can I find you? Could you

[Wikimania-l] electricity plug

2010-07-10 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
The electricity plug adapter which i brought was good for Spain, but it isn't good for Poland. Does anyone know an electric appliances store near the Baltic Philharmonic where i can buy a fitting plug? -- Amir Elisha Aharoni ___ Wikimania-l mailing

Re: [Wikimania-l] electricity plug

2010-07-10 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
have a US to Polish plug adapter I would be willing to part with.  I have only used one of the two I brought and I have to leave in the morning.  I don't know if this works for you, but the offer is open to anyone. On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il

Re: [Wikimania-l] What to do about 2012, and the future

2011-01-19 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2011/1/19 Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com 2. Even if Wikimania is not relatively big when it comes to technology conferences, the problem is growing a strong local team of volunteers in a new place every year. That's very, very hard. We're not unique in having that difficulty as a

Re: [Wikimania-l] Developer's Q/A - meet that hackers at Wikimania

2011-02-01 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2011/1/20 Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de: So, I would like to propose to have a Q/A session where the community can ask questions to developers. I'd like to do this during Wikimania proper, so everyone has a chance to attend. The question is: are people interested? Or is it just my silly

Re: [Wikimania-l] Claims by BDS

2011-06-29 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2011/6/29 John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com: I don't have precise measurements of popularity of Palestinians' Wikipedia participation. It's not zero - there is a considerable number of user pages in the Arab Wikipedia with userboxes that say this user lives in Israel or this user lives in

Re: [Wikimania-l] A trip to Petra after Wikimania

2011-07-01 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
I probably won't be able to join it, but i can help with organization. (By myself, of course, not as WM-IL.) 2011/7/1 Danny B. wikipedia.dann...@email.cz: Hello, would anybody be interested in a trip to Petra in Jordan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra, famous UNESCO heritage site after

[Wikimania-l] please arrive early to the airport

2011-07-30 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hello, Some Wikimaniacs already landed in Israel, but most of you will be flying in the next few days. The travel agent who sold you the plane ticket must have told you this, but let me re-iterate it, because it's very, very important: When you go to Israel, arrive to the airport three and a

Re: [Wikimania-l] The weather this week

2011-07-30 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2011/7/30 Harel Cain harel.c...@gmail.com: Just wanted to let those of you already here or landing today: yesterday and today are considerably hotter than normal (perhaps the worst in the whole summer...), and the forecast is for temperatures to gradually decline over the coming week, starting

Re: [Wikimania-l] please arrive early to the airport

2011-07-30 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
. To be sure, please call the agent who provided you the ticket and ask when should you be at the departure airport. To double-check, call the airline company. Ask about both directions! 2011/7/30 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il Hello, Some Wikimaniacs already landed in Israel

Re: [Wikimania-l] please arrive early to the airport

2011-07-30 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
season and the airports all over the world are very busy. Harel Cain Wikimania 2011 local team On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 13:52, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: A couple of people commented privately and told me that i may be exaggerating. I am not exaggerating: on all my

Re: [Wikimania-l] Sherut Sharing

2011-07-30 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Haifa Central (a.k.a Haifa Merkaz) is near the Tiltan college, which is the venue of the Wednesday evening party. It is the third station in Haifa, after Hof HaCarmel and Bat-Galim. Go to Haifa Central/Merkaz in these two cases: 1. You arrive to Haifa on Wednesday between 19:00 until 22:00.

Re: [Wikimania-l] Sherut Sharing

2011-07-30 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
option? On Jul 30, 2011 11:25 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Haifa Central (a.k.a Haifa Merkaz) is near the Tiltan college, which is the venue of the Wednesday evening party. It is the third station in Haifa, after Hof HaCarmel and Bat-Galim. Go to Haifa Central/Merkaz

Re: [Wikimania-l] Shipment receiving in Haifa

2011-07-31 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
I'll reply personally. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2011/7/31 KIZU Naoko aph...@gmail.com: Hi, I've got insomnia since this June and use sleeping pills, and unfortunately I

Re: [Wikimania-l] Sherut Sharing

2011-07-31 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Just to clarify things: Sharing a Sherut taxi means that you share the ride, but not the price. Each passenger pays 80 sheqels. I was preparing myself today for the trip. The only sense for sharing taxi is to share taxi from the Haifa train

[Wikimania-l] taking a taxi to the Technion

2011-08-01 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
If you are taking a taxi to the Technion dorms, demand that the driver take you inside the campus to the dorm itself and not leave you at the gate of the Technion campus. If the driver insists, tell him that the manager of the taxi station, Shlomo, said that the drivers are supposed to take

Re: [Wikimania-l] Presentation format / software / OS?

2011-08-02 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Short answer: PDF is probably best. ODP, PPT, Keynote and Google Docs are probably fine, too, but each of them will have its issues. (For example, if you use any special fonts, it may be a problem.) The organizers are not providing a computer. There are plenty of people with functional laptops

Re: [Wikimania-l] Welcome Some press cover

2011-08-03 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Ahem, the hashtag is #wikimania It is quite active, but make it even more active :) 2011/8/3 Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il: and web version... http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=232179 On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il wrote: Good morning everyone!

[Wikimania-l] vegetarian and vegan food

2011-08-05 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, If you need vegetarian food, please ask the catering staff for it. There's more than just salads - there are hot vegetarian and vegan main courses. If the waiter doesn't know this, please the waiters' manager. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com

[Wikimania-l] lost and found

2011-08-05 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
A couple of lost items are at the Staff room on the second floor of Beit-Hecht. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ ___ Wikimania-l mailing

Re: [Wikimania-l] vegetarian and vegan food

2011-08-05 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
anything other than the salads so far. -Alolita On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Hi, If you need vegetarian food, please ask the catering staff for it. There's more than just salads - there are hot vegetarian and vegan main courses

Re: [Wikimania-l] Thanks for all the fish... and lessons learned

2011-08-09 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
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

Re: [Wikimania-l] holidays around Wikimania

2011-08-24 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2011/8/24 Peter Meyer pbmeyer22...@yahoo.com Regarding [[The Three Weeks]] and the Orthodox fasting period below I'm not getting a sense that there is a specific benefit from avoiding an overlap, or what actions the conference organizers should take if an overlap is going to happen. As the

Re: [Wikimania-l] Anyway with downloaded pagecount-raw dumps?

2014-07-27 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
You probably wanted to send it to to some other list, like wikitech-l or wikimedia-l :) -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2014-07-27 1:47 GMT+03:00 Osama Khalid osa...@gnu.org:

[Wikimania-l] lost umbrella

2015-07-15 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, If you took your Wikimania bag from the hackathon room today and found an umbrella in it, then there's a chance that it's mine ;) Yes, I know that umbrellas are one of the most frequently lost and least frequently found items, but I decided to give it a shot anyway. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni ·

Re: [Wikimania-l] lost umbrella

2015-07-16 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Believe it or not, a kind person found it for me. It was worth trying :) -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2015-07-15 23:26 GMT-05:00 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il

Re: [Wikimania-l] Visa rejections

2017-07-02 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2017-06-22 13:57 GMT+03:00 Lodewijk : > > I wonder, do we keep track of the number of visa rejections year over year, so that we know in comparison? > > There are of course many factors that go into venue selection - one of them is visa (another is security, political

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2017 Social Telegram group

2017-08-08 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
My understanding is that "Wikimania2017" is the serious "please no unnecessary off topic messages" group, and "Wikimania2017Social" is the "have fun and write whatever" group. (And in both, of course, the Code of Conduct is in effect.) -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי

Re: [Wikimania-l] Volunteers needed for the "Learn to edit" desk at Wikimania

2018-06-25 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
You'll be surprised how much help you can give to other people who want to write in their language if you just try. The languages are different, but the buttons are mostly the same :) בתאריך יום ב׳, 25 ביוני 2018, 21:26, מאת Justice Okai-Allotey ‏< owulakpa...@gmail.com>: > Hello Ceil, > > I am

Re: [Wikimania-l] Sensory overloads

2018-08-15 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Thank you for sharing this, Romaine. Our experiences are so different, and we should acknowledge it and cherish it, and we need to respect all people and accommodate all people. My experience is related and opposite at the same time. I sometimes tell people that Wikimania is my social life. It's

Re: [Wikimania-l] Celebrating Wikimania 2018 online

2018-07-24 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
In Cape Town I bought a Northern Sotho–English dictionary,[1] and used it to improve the article about the Northern Sotho language a bit. I'm very far from being an expert however, so if you know anybody who knows this language well, please point them to the many questions on the talk page:

Re: [Wikimania-l] Local Wikipedias of Cape Town/ South Africa

2018-07-11 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Afrikaans and Xhosa are the most relevant local languages to Capetown. Afrikaans is not huge, but fairly active. Xhosa has a tiny number of contributors, but they are dedicated, and I think that at least one will be at the Wikimania. Other languages of South Africa in which there is a Wikipedia

Re: [Wikimania-l] scholarships app

2019-03-25 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
12 on, such app has never been used. I think I haven't even heard of >> this before. >> >> Best, >> Martin >> >> Am Freitag, 22. März 2019, 16:29:53 MEZ hat Bryan Davis < >> bd...@wikimedia.org> Folgendes geschrieben: >> >> >> On Fri

[Wikimania-l] scholarships app

2019-03-22 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, I have a vague recollection of a Wikimania Scholarship mobile pp. Is it still used in any way? -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ ___