It would, however, significantly increase the work for the Wikimania
organisers. They didn't sign up to programme and organise an affiliate org
conference, so they shouldn't have to if they don't want to.
Guestlists cause all sorts of politics, but are a necessary evil when dealing
with
One additional nice benefit from having the affiliates conference be a
pre-Wikimania conference is that those who don't want to or are excluded
from the affiliate portions of the event can attend other portions like the
education pre-conference or the pre-conference hackathon.
Can we please move
Any time I have seen the proposal of a pre-conference in Wikimania, any
time I have seen nothing happening.
There are two hackathons per year, one as Wikimania pre-conference and a
second one as separate event.
In my opinion proposing a preconference will not solve the problem but will
add a
I was always a little surprised by the name Wikimedia Conference. After
all, that name would most logically belong to the big, open, week-long
event that draws over a thousand people together to talk about every aspect
of the movement.*
However, that event is already called Wikimania, which also
Wikimedia is a community of communities.
So basically Wikimania can be the unique Wikimedia Conference.
But we can come back to the first question. Would we really have a second
Wikimania in the first quarter of any year because the name Wikimedia
Conference should exclude no one?
Would we
Regional conferences are easier to attend for the locals, but...
* There would be less mixing of people and thematic organizations from
different regions
* WMF's travel costs would skyrocket if it tried to send the same number of
people to several regional events, and WMF would also likely have
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org
wrote:
I suggest we use 'the Oompa Loompa discussion meeting' and
be done with it.
Ah, but what COLOR are the oompa loompas?
*Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc.
T:
What I have said is simple.
Wikimania does its own job. A second Wikimania doesn't make sense.
Regional and thematic are important and can help a support the movement.
Regional conferences collect people around a region or continent and there
is no obligation to speak English (Iberoconf is an
Actually, I'd like to speak up on the name.
I imagine the name reflected the enthusiasm of its first attendees,
but Wikimania has all the wrong connotations in today's world. True
mania is marked by little control, commitment, and rest. It also
implies that attendees have to be dyed-in-the-wool,
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Wil Sinclair w...@wllm.com wrote:
Actually, I'd like to speak up on the name.
I imagine the name reflected the enthusiasm of its first attendees,
but Wikimania has all the wrong connotations in today's world. True
mania is marked by little control, commitment,
Hi,
It is nice that there are several official blogs. However it is hard to
navigate from blog to blog to discover what is going on at each chapter.
Would it make sense to link to all official blogs from
http://blog.wikimedia.org/ ?
Cheers,
Micru
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But Wikimania is not only a Wikimedia Conference.
It's a conference open to all people outside the Wikimedia movement.
If the name should be as much as possible explicative, the switch from
Wikimania to Wikimedia Conference is inappropriate.
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Wil Sinclair
I think they use http://en.planet.wikimedia.org/ for that purpose.
It's, ahh, not ideal.
Richard Symonds
Wikimedia UK
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Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered
Office 4th
It looks like a great homage to GeoCities :) But if that's the place, then
it should be linked from all official blogs.
Thanks,
Micru
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Richard Symonds
richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
I think they use http://en.planet.wikimedia.org/ for that purpose.
The word Conference doesn't in itself imply that an event is open or
closed.
C
On 12 Sep 2014 13:06, Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com wrote:
But Wikimania is not only a Wikimedia Conference.
It's a conference open to all people outside the Wikimedia movement.
If the name should be as much
It's not the word Conference, is the word Wikimedia that address people to
consider it as an event for the Wikimedia movement.
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com
wrote:
The word Conference doesn't in itself imply that an event is open or
closed.
C
On
The name of a conference is typically a descriptor of the contents of the
programme rather than of the attendees :)
*Edward Saperia*
Conference Director Wikimania London http://www.wikimanialondon.org
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http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia • twitter
For what its worth, I just added another 2 cents over at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Future_of_the_Wikimedia_Conference
From: e...@wikimanialondon.org
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 13:58:00 +0100
To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2015
http://www.dailydot.com/politics/internet-slowdown-fcc-net-neutrality/
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I think there’s two options:
- http://en.planet.wikimedia.org/ (which Richard mentioned) is for more for
individual wikimedians
- http://chaptersplanet.org is more for all of the Wikimedia organisations.
Thanks,
Mike
On 12 Sep 2014, at 13:43, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote:
It looks
David Cuenca, 12/09/2014 14:00:
However it is hard to
navigate from blog to blog to discover what is going on at each chapter.
There is http://www.chaptersplanet.org/
The Planet is linked from the Meta-Wiki sidebar so it certainly is the
place.
Nemo
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