Well, almost everything we do leads to *someone* being very vocally upset :)
I haven't drafted what it would say yet, but I guess something along the lines of: "Wikipedia is having its annual conference, Wikimania, where the community convene to discuss the future of the project - click here to watch a livestream." *Edward Saperia* Chief Coordinator Wikimania London <http://www.wikimanialondon.org> email <[email protected]> • facebook<http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> • twitter <http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia> • 07796955572 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG On 15 April 2014 13:02, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > Among other issues, pretty much anything in a CentralNotice leads to > someone being very vocally upset with what they see as spam. It's hard to > predict quite how large or vocal that number will be in this case, as we > haven't done it before :-) > > (Are you thinking of some kind of specific message - "watch XYZ speaking > about the future of Wikipedia" - or a generic "Wikimania is now on; watch > here"?) > > A. > > > On 15 April 2014 10:49, Edward Saperia <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It isn't TED, but from the get go I've had outreach as a primary goal >> with this event, and I've been planning and programming with that in mind. >> This doesn't have to set a precedent for future Wikimanias. Technical >> concerns aside, what negative outcomes are you imagining? >> >> *Edward Saperia* >> Chief Coordinator Wikimania London <http://www.wikimanialondon.org> >> email <[email protected]> • >> facebook<http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> >> • twitter <http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia> • 07796955572 >> 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG >> >> >> On 15 April 2014 10:28, James Alexander <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> To be honest I'm not completely sure I'm comfortable with that level of >>> advertising (in fact it makes me very very uncomfortable) even if it works >>> technically. This isn't TED....and I would hate to see it turn into that >>> especially given the wide variety in organizers each year. >>> >>> James >>> >>> James Alexander >>> Legal and Community Advocacy >>> Wikimedia Foundation >>> (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Philippe Beaudette < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Edward Saperia <[email protected] >>>> > wrote: >>>> >>>>> The livestreams will be promoted via a centralnotice >>>> >>>> >>>> My understanding is that this is far from a decided thing. There are >>>> still some massive concerns about your servers rolling over and dying with >>>> the traffic we send from this - particularly for streaming video which is >>>> already a bandwidth hog. I'd want to see some testing first. >>>> >>>> pb >>>> >>>> >>>> *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia >>>> Foundation, Inc. >>>> T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | [email protected] | : >>>> @Philippewiki<https://twitter.com/Philippewiki> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikimania-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimania-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> >> > > > -- > - Andrew Gray > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > >
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