Thank you for the report, Romaine. Please allow me a small, though
important correction: the WikiCon has always been an event organized
from within the community and not by the chapter itself. Wikimedia
Deutschland assists and supports the event-committee in every way as
wanted and needed, changing year by year from pure grantmaking to strong
organizational support.
Wikimedia Deutschland understands this event, where this year approx.
250 people met and worked collaboratively, as a climax of the German
communities' calendar. The amount of ideas, projects, discussions, and
real-life-interaction is overwhelming and very inspiring. Thanks to all
volunteers making this wonderful event possible now for the fourth time.
Best regards,
Denis Barthel
Am 25.11.2013 23:49, schrieb Romaine Wiki:
The past three days (22-24 Nov) there was in the south German city of Karlsruhe
near the French border a conference organised by Wikimedia Germany and a whole
group of volunteers. The conference, WikiCon, was held for the fourth time as
German language conference, with many users from Germany, Switzerland, and
Austria, but also users from Poland, Czech Republic, Italy, and the
Netherlands. I was there too and was asked to give a presentation and tell
about about bots and about Wiki Loves Monuments. The conference was held in the
buildings of the complex of the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), with
there the rooms for presentations and talks, a university cafeteria and a hall.
The conference took three days to enable the users to travel here from longer
distances to come here. Friday was the day of arrival. In the afternoon almost
everyone arrived. Those who were early could join the excursion to the
Bundesverfassungsgericht [1], an important court in Germany. At the beginning
of the evening everyone was welcomed and a buffet was arranged. After that a
Entzücklopädischer Abend (entzücken = delight), in what humor and music where
used to have a look at the going ons in Wikipedia. After a long night everyone
went to their hotel.
On the second day there were seven tracks - seven simultaneous series of
presentations - about a wide range of subjects with attention to all kinds of
aspects of Wikipedia and the things that accompany it. See for the program in
German on https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiCon_2013/Programm
At noon a lunch was arranged for the attendees in the cafeteria. At the
beginning of the evening followed the ceremony of Wiki Loves Monuments in
Germany. Then there was a buffet arranged for the attendees, after which people
lingered long and talked until midnight.
On the third day, there was a barcamp [2], the visitors had indicated the day
before what topics they wanted to talk about and/or give a presentation and who
was interested. There was also room for discussion on some issues. Around noon
we moved to the main hall for closure. There the motivation awards were handed
out: which projects over the past year contributed most to the development of
(mainly) the German Wikipedia. Also everyone was thanked who helped to make
this conference a success.
I personally I liked the most talking to users to exchange our experiences on
Wikipedia and learn from each other, what subjects people are working on and
what they encounter working on the various projects. There is a huge
overlapping with what users encounter on the German Wikipedia compared to other
wikis, but we actually know so little about each other.
Other ingredients were big Wikipediabeanbags, Wikipedia seating cubes,
wikichocolate, wikipuzzles, free internet, nice users on an interesting
conference.
Also I should mention that the KIT is active with open access as publication
model.
See for images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiCon_2013
Greetings,
Romaine
From a poster there:
Many Wikipedia article on meals have no photo yet.
What could be more natural than the court to prepare myself to photograph, and
involve them in the Wikipedia?
-- http://wikifeedme.openthesaurus.de/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Constitutional_Court_of_Germany
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp
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