Hi Marc, After our big success in the Dutch Wikipedia, and also the success of our German colleagues, we thought of organising and shortly analysed the situation and we came to the conclusion that it's mostly a scale problem. In other words, tech support is needed.
We are very much aware of the delicacy it has. I think however that it should not focus on only one person/project as there are certainly multiple each year that should get attention. To me it would sound better if there will be a video shown with the largest and/or most successful projects of the past year so that we all can learn and get inspired by all those successful projects. Greetings, Romaine Op maandag 18 januari 2016 heeft Marc A. Pelletier <m...@uberbox.org> het volgende geschreven: > 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 > Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >
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