Thanks for the feedback. I think I will definitely try to do a presentation which can be used as a generic talk about our work. I guess it's the first time we've done that and it was the festival's first year so my expectations were suitably low. I'll see if we can get food/drink in the budget for next week's election editathon to tempt people.
John On Sat, 3 Jun 2017 at 02:00, geni <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26 May 2017 at 19:45, geni <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes please. There appear to be people there we need better photos of. > > > > -- > > geni > > Quick thoughts on the festival (well the Friday anyway). Apologies > since I'm tired and still feeling somewhat ill from too much festival > coffee. > > > Ended up hastily googleing before I went to check it wasn't fyre festival > MkII > > > Free festival tickets aren't enough to get wikipedians to turn up. In > fairness it was rather remote by south east England standards (I'd > hate to see the thing's carbon footprint). > > > Wikipedia is less sexy that hacking. In fairness the hour long delay > did mean you ended up competing against Julie Bindel which may not > have done wonders for your audience. > > > We need a sexy 15-20 minute talk that can be thrown at pretty much any > audience. > > > A depressing number of people want to know how to get articles on > themselves and aren't prepared to become pro-wrestlers. > > > Micro four thirds would be a much more convient camera size for this > kind of thing > > > They festival wasn't enforcing its terms and conditions on telephoto lenses > > > There were quite a few people appearing there that we didn't have photos of > > > Department S were less popular than expected. > > > The Members won the difficult to photograph due to lighting effects > award (also I'm pretty sure the photo on their article is a copyvio). > > > > -- > geni > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
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