Hey Gnagarra, (changing topics here as we're going on a tangent) in an attempt to avoid/limit additional work for organizers that are totally worn out at the end of a cycle: - What would be your intended use for such document/journal? - What would be the intended readership - Would you imagine volunteering to organize such journal, even if you're not on the organizing team? After all, anyone could collect such information together.
Best, Lodewijk 2016-10-22 12:06 GMT+02:00 Gnangarra <[email protected]>: > It would be nice to see past events wrapped up into one journal covering > all aspects from original discussion until the final reporting of the event > including financials, attendee reports and media reports at the moment > everything is spread across chapter, foundation, event pages which means > lessons, pitfalls, successes, the work involved over time arent where > people can find easily > > On 22 October 2016 at 17:56, rupert THURNER <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> the points lodewijk mentioned with styles, and independent user groups >> working on it are quite valid points imo. additionally the purpose of a >> wiki is to collaborate on a purpose. if the purpose is gone, no wiki >> software is necessary. following that logic, one could argue to dump a past >> wikimania wiki into a static html page is best. search could be done via >> standard web search. if the wikis are not disturbing one could let them >> just sit where they are. >> >> rupert >> >> >> On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Lodewijk <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> The discussion has now been moved to https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >>> wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Wikimania_wikis apparently, where it will probably >>> also get archived not too distant in the future. I hope someone will post a >>> link here to that archive page. >>> >>> Lodewijk >>> >>> 2016-10-22 11:07 GMT+02:00 Rehman Abubakr <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> (cross-posting to Wikimania-l and Wikimedia-l) >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> >>>> As earlier discussions on this topic received relatively little >>>> response from the community, I'm sending this email to let you know about >>>> the new topic posted at https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >>>> wiki/Meta:Babel#Wikimania_wikis, with regards to having a single >>>> unified Wikimania wiki. >>>> >>>> I have copied the original post below for ease of reading. Please post >>>> your comments on the meta page. >>>> >>>> >>>> ********** >>>> >>>> Hi. I was looking at Special:SiteMatrix >>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix> and couldn't help >>>> noticing the whopping 14 separate wikis (and growing) for all the different >>>> Wikimanias, including a separate wiki for a "Wikimania team". Is there any >>>> current plans of a more sustainable or streamlined approach to running >>>> these wikis? >>>> >>>> I am aware that this has been discussed a few times before, but no >>>> significant effort was put into it. Wikimania project domain >>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_project_domain> is the most >>>> significant discussion which I could find, but participation was quite low >>>> on that, with no(?) WMF staff comments. >>>> >>>> From what I understand from the above linked discussion, some key >>>> points against a unified Wikimania wiki was that: >>>> >>>> 1. We will not be able to preserve old Wikimania wikis as a "time >>>> capsule" >>>> 2. Older Wikimania organizers may face new organizers "steamrolling" >>>> over their pages >>>> 3. Organizers will not have complete control over the site as old >>>> admins might interrupt for whatever reasons. (or vice versa) >>>> >>>> My though for these points was: >>>> >>>> 1. Why not have each Wikimania project branch their pages as >>>> wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016/Main page, or alternatively, have >>>> separate namespaces for each project (i.e. 2016:, 2017:, etc). We could >>>> then protect all pages under a project (i.e. 2016/ or 2016:) once a project >>>> is over. >>>> 2. This could be avoided by protection, as stated above. >>>> 3. Make it much less complicated. Once the project is over, all >>>> previous admin rights will be revoked, and the new organizers will get the >>>> rights. New admins can be advise to not modify previous project namespaces, >>>> or if better, if we can block previous projects' namespaces from editing? >>>> Furthermore, there could be a bot logging all changes made to old project >>>> namespaces, for transparency. >>>> >>>> Is there any other views on this? Did I miss something obvious? Looking >>>> forward to your comments. Cheers, Rehman. >>>> >>>> ********** >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks and regards, >>>> >>>> User:Rehman <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >> >> > > > -- > GN. > President Wikimedia Australia > WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra > Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > >
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