Chris,
Just to followup on two points in your last communication:
We are doing a post-conference feedback survey and report this year with
the Learning & Eval
people here so that we can measure impact and also have more data year to
year going forward.
Stay tuned for that later this year.
The
Hi Andrew,
I think your conclusions are largely the same as the points I'm trying
to make, so all is good! Don't get me wrong, I do think Wikimania has
an important impact, and don't actually want to stop having it every
year, I'm just curious about the silence that has followed that WMF
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 4:31 AM Chris Keating
wrote:
> Hi Lodewijk,
>
> If Wikimania was an entity rather than an event, it would be in the
> top 5 entities in the movement - a smaller budget than WMF, Wikimedia
> Deutschland and the Wiki Education Foundation but larger than anything
> else...
>
Hi Lodewijk,
If Wikimania was an entity rather than an event, it would be in the
top 5 entities in the movement - a smaller budget than WMF, Wikimedia
Deutschland and the Wiki Education Foundation but larger than anything
else...
And yet it doesn't have any objectives (or at least, not
Perhaps stating the obvious, but please remember there were some
significant flaws with the consultation by the WMF that you refer to
(especially with regards to the way questions were phrased and options were
limited beforehand, if I recall correctly).
Wikimania's purpose is mostly pluriform and
> > So it seems that the main rationale for an annual Wikimania brought up in
> > the 2016 meeting was that Wikimania was vital for movement governance and
> > accountability. Which wasn't particularly stressed in the WMF's
> > consultation, but I can see why that kind of issue was very fresh in
>
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 1:10 PM Andrew Lih wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 3:40 AM Chris Keating
> wrote:
>
> > So it seems that the main rationale for an annual Wikimania brought up in
> > the 2016 meeting was that Wikimania was vital for movement governance and
> > accountability. Which
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 12:46 PM James Heilman wrote:
> The Wikimedia Conference is "closed" in that only those who are invited are
> allowed to attend. Wikimania is an open conference meaning basically anyone
> can attend, including those currently outside the movement.
This is a great point
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 3:40 AM Chris Keating
wrote:
> So it seems that the main rationale for an annual Wikimania brought up in
> the 2016 meeting was that Wikimania was vital for movement governance and
> accountability. Which wasn't particularly stressed in the WMF's
> consultation, but I can
The Wikimedia Conference is "closed" in that only those who are invited are
allowed to attend. Wikimania is an open conference meaning basically anyone
can attend, including those currently outside the movement. I view a global
conference as critical to our long term success. Well most of what we
So it seems that the main rationale for an annual Wikimania brought up in
the 2016 meeting was that Wikimania was vital for movement governance and
accountability. Which wasn't particularly stressed in the WMF's
consultation, but I can see why that kind of issue was very fresh in
peoples' minds in
Full disclosure: I’m a member of the Wikimania Committee but I am not
speaking on behalf of that body in this mail.
The current custom is that Wikimania happens every year and that while the
selection is made by the Wikimania Committee, the WMF has final approval
over the selection and the
Hi Ellie,
is there an official statement by the WMF that explains why Wikimania 2020
is happening and that the funding for this event is secured? Wikimania does
cost quite a lot of money and I was under the impression that it was
unclear as to if, how and why Wikimania should take place 2020. But
No. We are looking more at rotating regions if we can, and excellent
proposals/teams.
On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 3:31 AM Joseph Seddon wrote:
> Hello Ellie,
>
> Is Wikimania still on its programme of "1 EU/US Wikimania" followed by an
> "Away Wikimania"?
>
> Seddon
>
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at
Hello Ellie,
Is Wikimania still on its programme of "1 EU/US Wikimania" followed by an
"Away Wikimania"?
Seddon
On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 11:44 PM Ellie Young wrote:
> The Wikimania Steering Committee and Wikimedia Foundation are seeking
> expressions of interest from interested parties for
>
The Wikimania Steering Committee and Wikimedia Foundation are seeking
expressions of interest from interested parties for
hosting
Wikimani
a 2020.
Please see the following for more information:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2020
If you are interested in discussing the possibilities
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