Pinging Zach in WMF Communications to ask for comment about branding in general, and Wikipedia vs Wikimedia in particular.
Pine On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 10:57 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[email protected]> wrote: > I apologize if this is a bit of a hand grenade in the discussion, but: > > If we are really concerned with third parties understanding what our > conference is about, we should really use "Wikipedia" in the title and > avoid the use of "Wikimedia". The general public really has no clue what > Wikimedia means. If you just use "Wiki-" they think "Wikileaks". That's > just the place we are at right now. > > I have no idea how to concisely include all the "Wikimedia projects" and > still mention "Wikipedia" in the title... which suggests perhaps that Ed's > version ("Wikimania: the global wikipedia summit") or whatever > subtitle Lodewijk used isn't too far off. > > I suspect that it's just plain hard to come up with a short name which > captures the entire intended scope of the conference (the "Wikipedia and > Related Projects Conference"?), and so a short name that tries instead of > capture the "fun" aspect (which is what -mania connotes to most of us) is a > reasonable alternative. > --scott > > On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Andrew Lih <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> - The Wikimania Committee with Ellie Young would be the most likely >> entity that could facilitate a process if we wanted to consider a name >> change. Full disclosure: I’m on the committee, but it may be getting a >> revamp in the near future. >> >> - We tend to not like voting on anything like this, especially since we >> don’t have very good findings of fact, or even a good sampling of anecdotes >> around the name. >> >> -Andrew >> >> >> -Andrew Lih >> Associate professor of journalism, American University >> Email: [email protected] >> WEB: http://www.andrewlih.com >> BOOK: The Wikipedia Revolution: http://www.wikipediarevolution.com >> PROJECT: Wiki Makes Video http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W >> ikipedia:WikiProject_Wiki_Makes_Video >> >> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Béria Lima <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> *Now the 1 million dollar (...) question: to whom do we address the >>>> task of eventually solving this?* >>>> >>> >>> Well, might not be the easiest answer, but: Why not run a vote? >>> >>> Have some period of "submissions of name", and an after vote open to all >>> community on it (with bots, sitenotice and etc to advertise it.) and let >>> the community decide. >>> _____ >>> *Béria L. de Rodríguez* >>> >>> *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter >>> livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a >>> construir esse sonho.* >>> >>> 2016-11-07 12:08 GMT-02:00 Luca Martinelli <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> OK, now this is more of an argument I can consider as compelling. >>>> >>>> >>>> Now the 1 million dollar/euro/pound/yen/yuan/rupee/peso/shekel/$you_name_it >>>> question (which unsurprisingly Asaf already posed): to whom do we address >>>> the task of eventually solving this? >>>> >>>> L. >>>> >>>> Il 07 nov 2016 15:05, "Edward Saperia" <[email protected]> ha >>>> scritto: >>>> >>>> Agree with Andrew - when I was organising it in 2014 I usually called >>>> it "The Global Wikipedia Summit" because Wikimania doesn't sound important. >>>> >>>> >>>>> 2. On first glance, the name isn’t very professional sounding. So it >>>>> may be hard to convince one’s boss or academic head to fund travel or time >>>>> off to attend the premier conference for the Wikimedia community. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 8:28 AM, Gordon Joly <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Is it proper and correct to use the term "mania"? >>>>>> >>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mania >>>>>> >>>>>> Would we say "WikiMad" or WikiCrazy"? >>>>>> >>>>>> Gordo >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >> >> > > > -- > (http://cscott.net) > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > >
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