Over the next three months I will be providing as many details regarding the
wikimania bid as possible.
The idea being that as events unfold with the bid, those involved with
wikimedia uk can be kept
informed as chapter support and involvement is key. Any tasks that need doing
on and off wiki will
be posted here as well, any time that be given to complete these will be
greatful.
1) Bidding Date
2) Jury Announcement
3) Travelwiki content
4) Other Bids
1) Cary Bass recently moved the start of the bidding to 28th January so for the
time being it seems
thats the closest thing so far to having an official start date.
2) Several days ago the voting members of the jury were selected, along with 3
advisors from the foundation office
and board and one moderator. The voting members are below. The full jury can be
found
@ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2010/Jury
Ting Chen (Wikimedia Foundation Board - community elected member)
Delphine Ménard (Wikimania 2005, 2006 & 2008 organisation, chapters)
Samuel Klein (Wikimania 2005 & 2006 organisation)
Austin Hair (Wikimania 2005 & 2006 organisation, chapters)
Mohammed Ibrahim (Wikimania 2008 organisation)
Frank Schulenburg (Wikimedia Foundation Head of Public Outreach)
Teemu Leinonen (Advisory Board)
3) To assist in gathering information for the bid i suggest using content from
the Travelwiki page on Oxford.
Not everything on that page should be included in the bid, but alot of it is
useful. As far as i am aware the GFDL
allows CCBYSA contribs but not vice versa. Hence why info from Knol can be used
on wikipedia but not the other
way around. An attribution page will be created as well to ensure compliance.
If someone wishes to check that my
understanding of this is correct i would appreciate it.
4) Work on the other bids has now got underway. So far the two active bids are
amsterdam and gdansk, the
latter being created off site right now and i assume will be copied over. The
amsterdam bid is someway off but
the gdansk is practically complete. I have been told that the language of the
bid is not a factor in the bidding process.
Hope this is helpful
User:Seddon @en-wiki
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