Thank you 2016-01-18 19:47 GMT+04:00 Marc A. Pelletier <[email protected]>:
> On 2016-01-17 11:21 PM, Romaine Wiki wrote: > >> At the same time I sense something important is missing. I miss in the >> large plenary sessions the attention for specific users and their projects >> that are of most value for the movement. >> > > Yes, and no. I agree with you in principle (that is, the plenary sessions > tend to have too little focus on direct volunteer impact), but that is not > something that is missing by design but by lack of an actual session to > present. > > I made a presentation on the featured speakers track in London that was > all about specific users and projects and it was very enthusiastically > received - by the programme committee and the audience - so it's clear that > there is desire to have such presentations. But they first have to be > proposed (please do so!). > > That said, one idea I had been toying with for 2017 was to have an award > ceremony for the most impactful volunteers of the (2016) year - kinda like > Jimmy's Wikipedian of the year award, only selected by the community and > with a much wider scope. It's only half-baked, because it's a really > complicated and delicate thing to do *right* (who picks, how are > nominations made, how to avoid neglecting the non-english-Wikipedia > contributors, etc). If it can be made to work right, I'd make it a big > focus of the closing ceremony. And probably try to find where Philippe > found the actual physical barnstars to give out. :-) > > And I'd very much like this to become a yearly thing; not just a one-off > for 2017. > > -- Marc > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >
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