Hi Phoebe, The short answer is yes, we are interested in doing a botanical edit-a-thon but it is looking increasingly unlikely. :-(
Rossouw has been trying to organise a Wikimania edit-a-thon with the South African National Botanical (SANBI) society (the people that run Kirstenbosch) for some time now. They have indicated their interest to us in doing some thing but have been very elusive over the past few months. As such we have swiched focus to doing a Water Sustainability edit-a-thon instead but if SANBI gets back to us we are still very happy to include them in any edit-a-thon we organise. Regards, Douglas. 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(Lukas Mezger) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:17:25 -0400 > From: phoebe ayers <[email protected]> > To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" > <[email protected]> > Cc: Laura Soito <[email protected]> > Subject: [Wikimania-l] let's edit about plants! > Message-ID: > <CACXHzD55B-UQETUJnu0_RnBfg7KPx4pjOeppMKatpyzn7=faPQ > @mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi all, > > Like many attendees I expect, I am looking forward to visiting Kirstenbosch > Botanical Garden and other gardens in Cape Town! Laura (cc'd) and I were > wondering if there would be interest in an informal edit-a-thon about South > African plants during the conference? We could take pictures, add sources, > improve Wikidata items, etc etc. > > If there is interest, I can make a page and we can try to figure out a good > time. Perhaps as a thematic meetup, during the pre-conference, or just > afterwards as a field trip? > > cheers, > Phoebe > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/ > attachments/20180620/7d3f6b12/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 23:20:27 +0200 > From: Douglas Scott <[email protected]> > To: Anasuya Sengupta <[email protected]>, Siko Bouterse > <[email protected]>, Emna Mizouni <[email protected]>, > David Richfield <[email protected]>, Isla Haddow > <[email protected]>, Coenraad Loubser <[email protected]>, > Ivan > Martínez <[email protected]>, Felix Nartey <[email protected]>, > Liam > Wyatt <[email protected]>, Dumisani Ndubane < > [email protected]>, > Rossouw van Rooyen <[email protected]>, " > [email protected]" > <[email protected]>, Ian Gilfillan < > [email protected]>, > Andy Rabagliati <[email protected]>, Raymond Ellis > <[email protected]>, Peter Southwood > <[email protected]>, Michael Graaf > <[email protected]>, Mpho Sello <[email protected]>, Mervat > Salam <[email protected]>, Ellie Young <[email protected] > >, > Lukas Mezger <[email protected]>, Jean-Paul Van Belle > <[email protected]>, Edward Saperia < > [email protected]>, > Irene Tait <[email protected]>, Rachel Farrand > <[email protected]>, Louise Wo <[email protected]>, Tobias > Schonwetter <[email protected]>, Program committee list > <[email protected]>, > [email protected] > Subject: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2018: 30 days to go - general update > Message-ID: > <CAJ6y08G5E2LENT14phQ-qRHjHc8Yo=UPy-s9yJDapySPDV- > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hello Wikimania team, > > Wikimainia is only 30 days away now and things are getting very busy on our > side in Cape Town now. > > ==Updates== > Here are a couple of updates that have happened since my last email. As I > write this email it is raining hard which I feel is a great omen. > > ===Event program== > The program committee has released the program > <https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program> for the main event at > Wikimania. > > I want to thank the Program Committee and the co-chairs (Liam, Emna and > Felix) for managing and producing a great program for Wikimania this year. > You all did a great job! > > I want to send out an especially big thanks to Liam for taking the lead and > managing the Herculean task of wrestling with the ironically named Easy > Chair system and with AirTable to get the program organised. Liam also did > a great job as the main point person for organising the program team. > > We will get the pre-conference events up on the program soon as well. > > ===Voluneers=== > We have gotten a huge response for volunteers (103 responses) with a large > number of high quality applications (largely measured as the number of > people with past conference volunteer experience). Our contacts within the > University of Cape Town really came through and we also got some great > applications from there. Raymond and I have already done a preliminary > check of the list. Raymond and Erin Lacey (WMF) will be getting back to > successful applicants within the next week or two. > > ===Meetup locations=== > Due to a shortage of space for meetups at the conference venue and due to > the super abundance of very nearby locations to have events at we have > decided to encourage people to host their meetups at locations offsite. > There are a large number of restaurants, coffee shops, bars, within a > hundred meters from the venue. Some of them stay open late. I have made a > helpful map of such locations that you can see here > <https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Orientation>. > > ===Website redesign=== > I want to give another big thank you to Blanca Flores (WMF) and James Hare > (WMF) for helping out so much with the reworking of our website. Blanca > did a great job of working on the design aspects and James pulled it all > together. We have simplified the site and changed the look and feel. You > will also notice the new logo which pays homage to Zulu bead work. > > ==My current focuses== > * Getting locals to attend as part of our outreach efforts within South > Africa. My focus has been on a diverse group of people ranging from > Librarians, to university academics, government officials, copyright > activists, civil society, GLAM partners, educators, and students. > * Monitoring the 50% discount system for South African attendees > * Publicity for Wikimania - I am doing a number of press interviews to > publicise Wikimania in the South African media. > * Water sustainability event(s) - Given the water situation in Cape Town we > have decided to have water sustainability as a focus for a number of > Wikimania events. It is an issue that will very likely affect more cities > in the future so it would be same to 'waist' this crisis in the context of > Wikipedia. I am currently working on at least one edit-a-thon with a strong > water focus to be the Wikimania edit-a-thon that will take place on the > Thursday before the main conference begins on the Friday. I am already in > talks with the adviser who is in charge of the civil society aspect of the > City of Cape Town's water crisis outreach efforts to make this event > happen. We hope to organise multiple water focused events at Wikimania but > we will see how it evolves. Please let me know if you would like to get > involved in helping organise this or have any ideas. Once this has reached > a certain point of development I will be handing this project over to > Rossouw van Rooyen to implement it during the conference. > * Dealing with Plenary Speakers - all three speakers have given me their > speaking titles and I am just getting the last of their biography details > (pictures and written bios) as well as their speech descriptions. > * Opening and closing sessions at Wikimania. The closing session is > largely sorted out. As for the opening session I am just trying to sort > out a few details but otherwise it is also looking good. > > ==List of responsibilities== > An updated, non-exhaustive and current list of team point person > responsibilities can be found here > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aGDk_02UfsblM4ubGtbH_ > 4oRAJBAE1cwMqaCYYSdqoA/edit> > . > > ==General team requests== > One thing we all as team members need to focus on for the next week or two > is outreach and getting local (South African) attendance up. So please let > all of your South African, and especially Cape Town based, contacts know > about the event. We really want to see more locals attending Wikimania. > With this in mind 80 complementary tickets to local Wikimedians and key > partner groups have already been given out to attend Wikimania. We are > unfortunately out of complementary registrations but South Africans can > still claim a 50% discount when attending Wikimania this year. Lets push > this and let the world know. > > Overall everything so far seems to be on track and going well. > > Best regards, > > Douglas. > > -- > Douglas Ian Scott > 司道格 > Skype: douglas0scott > South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727 > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/ > attachments/20180619/a01eb3b6/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 15:00:19 -0500 > From: Jackie <[email protected]> > To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" > <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] let's edit about plants! > Message-ID: > <[email protected]. > com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Count me in! > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 11:17 AM phoebe ayers <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Like many attendees I expect, I am looking forward to visiting > > Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden and other gardens in Cape Town! Laura > (cc'd) > > and I were wondering if there would be interest in an informal > edit-a-thon > > about South African plants during the conference? We could take pictures, > > add sources, improve Wikidata items, etc etc. > > > > If there is interest, I can make a page and we can try to figure out a > > good time. Perhaps as a thematic meetup, during the pre-conference, or > just > > afterwards as a field trip? > > > > cheers, > > Phoebe > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimania-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > > > > -- > Jackie Koerner, Ph.D. > Researcher & Visiting Scholar > jackiekoerner.com > > I use a large font to aim for readability and accessibility for all, which > is in line with Universal Design (UD). For more information on UD, visit > http://www.udlcenter.org/. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/ > attachments/20180620/311ae181/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 12:05:33 +0400 > From: Lukas Mezger <[email protected]> > To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] let's edit about plants! > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > For those new to the topic: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Floristic_Region > > > Am 21.06.2018 um 00:00 schrieb Jackie <[email protected]>: > > > > Count me in! > > > >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 11:17 AM phoebe ayers <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Like many attendees I expect, I am looking forward to visiting > Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden and other gardens in Cape Town! Laura (cc'd) > and I were wondering if there would be interest in an informal edit-a-thon > about South African plants during the conference? We could take pictures, > add sources, improve Wikidata items, etc etc. > >> > >> If there is interest, I can make a page and we can try to figure out a > good time. Perhaps as a thematic meetup, during the pre-conference, or just > afterwards as a field trip? > >> > >> cheers, > >> Phoebe > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimania-l mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > > > > > -- > > Jackie Koerner, Ph.D. > > Researcher & Visiting Scholar > > jackiekoerner.com > > > > I use a large font to aim for readability and accessibility for all, > which is in line with Universal Design (UD). For more information on UD, > visit http://www.udlcenter.org/. > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimania-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/ > attachments/20180621/a9194e8d/attachment.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Wikimania-l Digest, Vol 146, Issue 16 > ******************************************** > -- Douglas Ian Scott 司道格 Skype: douglas0scott South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727
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