Dear Wikimaniacs.
Please excuse the provocative title. As you might know Wikimania2014 is over
right now. And it was a great event and a big success. The program was very
comprehensive and had something for almost every taste. But meta themes,
technical and abstract topics imho played a dominant role.
I think the most important part is still missing: program offers of (and for)
contributors. There were some, but very few. The reason is undoubtedly not that
there is a lack of submissions. There were a lot, but most of them were
rejected. This is exactly what I do not want, and I believe it to be a
development in the wrong direction. A welcome exception to this was Diego
Delsos lecture "How Commons made a quality photographer out of me". Hopefully
there are more such events in Mexico. In London we had a lot of sections, such
as Education, GLAM, Technology, Open Data and Free Culture. Maybe we should add
a fixed "Contributors Area" if only to ensure that events of (and for)
contributors become an integral part of a Wikimania and have a guaranteed place
at future events.
Let's go back to the roots. I would be delighted if it were possible for Diego
to hold his lecture again next year. It would imho also be an excellent idea if
there were events like
-how to take cheap images with a quality camera erm - I mean, how to take
quality images with a cheap camera.
-How to adopt a foreign country
-Creating a bot for dummies
-my first edit in Wikipedia ever. How people come to Wikipedia and why they
stay.
Workshops for Wikipedia editors, photographers, cartographers, illustrators and
so on to mention only a few.
Many people I spoke with demonstrated great enthusiasm, but they had the same
questions as I. What do you think?
Yours,
Matthias Süßen
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