I am very excited for this conference and happy that we listen a lot to the request of others who show concern.
I remember making this suggestion at the WMCON 15 and am glad to finally see it coming to life. I however wish to say that upon reading the conference page on Meta, I added a new line to the curriculum for the beginners section for the program. I added Beginners Walkthrough. This is particularly important to me and i believe that was the main reason behind my suggestion or perhaps part of the reason for this conference. I thought it will be a perfect opportunity to train interested individuals who have no or little help finding their way around Wikisource. I have tried several times to contribute to Wikisource but have no idea where to start from. So i have resorted to proofreading texts. I think often than not this is the situation people face, and will appreciate a beginners walkthrough at its very basic level. Regards, Felix On Aug 7, 2015 2:40 PM, "Andrea Zanni" <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > thanks to Wikimedia Österreich we are organizing the first international > Wikisource Conference, which will be held in Wien, Austria, from November > 20 till 22, this year. > > We are finalizing the application for a WMF grant, and would like to > receive some feedbacks: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WCUG/Wikisource_Conference_2015 > > Hopefully, everything will go for the better and we will receive the money. > From there, a lot of work have to be done! > > Here there is the page for the conference on Meta: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_User_Group/Wikisource_Conference_2015 > > It's up to *you* to come up with a program for the conference :-) > Seriously: it's important that this will be a community event, and > community curated too. > We will have many things to discuss, and we hope it will be great event. > And yes: if everything goes as expected, there will be scholarships, but > it's crucial that we involve our Chapters. > More on this soon. > > Spend some time in the weekend to give us some honest feedback! > I hope you are excited about this as we are. > > Thanks > > Andrea, David, Claudia > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > >
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