http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4686 <pre>_______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l </pre> luhigoa< at >yahoo.com 2013-05-22T07:48:23 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4685 <pre>Dear Rexford, I experienced many times of HK visa application. I suggest you to try apply the visa from Hong Kong Immigration Department directly instead of Chinese embassy. I think HK Immigration Department does not require such documents. You have to mail (or let someone in Hong Kong to submit ) the application form with necessary documents to the Immigration Department at following: Receipt and Despatch Unit Hong Kong Immigration Department 2/F, Immigration Tower 7 Gloucester Road Wan Chai, Hong Kong Refer: http://www.immd.gov.hk/en/services/hk-visas/visit-transit/guidebook.html The necessary documents are listed on Section VI. Note: 1. If possible, I suggest to have someone who living in Hong Kong (must actually living in HK now) to be your sponsor, let him/her to submit the documents, pick up the visa and pay the fee at the counter in Wan Chai. 2. If no one in Hong Kong can help you to submit and pay, a HK$160 cheque from HK bank may be necessary for payment. You have to put the cheque into the envilope with your documents. 3. The application takes 4-6 weeks. If urgent, fax the document to +852 2824 1133 prior to you mail it. If you have any questions, you can ask me at ka360&lt; at &gt;live.hk Kevin On 2013/05/22 0:27, Nkansah Rexford wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l </pre> Doraemon 2013-05-22T04:33:27 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4684 <pre>Hi, I'm from Ghana. I'm rexford. I'm sorry this comes off lengthy, but its something i've faced before so wanna bring it up. *Bank Statements* To enter many countries ( I don't know yet for Hong Kong), the embassy requires the bank statement of the inviting organization or the organization funding the scholarship awardee aside the awardee's personal bank statement. The bank statement is basically required so the embassy knows that the organization taking you out of your base country is worthy of caring for you during the timespan of your stay in the new country of stay. Irrespective of how big or small the inviting organization is, the bank statement is really essential for the consulars Last year, I that wasn't available for me from WMDC for 2012 Wikimania. I want to learn if WMHK has any arrangement for releasing banks statements - if not their global bank statement - at least with respect to the awardee, indicating specifics (eg, allocated funds for the person with respect to accommodation food, transport, sightseeing(if any) etc) Some countries are very critical about that (UK, US and other developed countries (I presume Hong Kong is similar) - Though they won't tell you directly that's why you were not accepted for Visa, in their eyes, it counts a lot. *Invitation Letter* I'm sure WMHK will send to the scholarship winners who wish for visa application assistance some letter(s). Seriously, such letters in certain parts of the globe, like my country, hardly counts. I will emphasize that, consulars in certain parts of Africa, including Ghana don't take letters seriously, after all, letters are today writable and signable by anyone anytime from anywhere. To that effect, such types of letters sometimes loose their weight and intent though they might be/or are legitimate. Its is very critical because of the number of fraudulent cases reported at such embassies. I ask, is there no other authoritative means whereby the WMF or WMHK can directly correspond with the local embassy from where the awardee is coming from other than just a sheet of white paper with black ink? Their corresponding with the local embassy is NOT to decide for them as to allowing their invitee to come around, but rather, to *re-emphasize the fact that* its true the invitee is really invited by an organization for blah blah blah. I believe that will rather be a practical visa assistance, if one will wanna call it that. Many organizations intercede for their invitees when they lose acquisition of a visa to travel. Their follow ups aren't meant to challenge with the local embassy, rather to impress on them and try to explain in clear and direct means what their inviting the person all has to do. It happened to me last year, thus my concerns. I couldn't attend WMDC 2012 I wish to be enlightened more. Thanks. rexford </pre> Nkansah Rexford 2013-05-21T15:27:14 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4683 <pre>Hi Samuel, Thanks for your support and hope to see you in August. Best Regards, Calvin W.F. Siu Online System Coordinator, Wikimanin 2013 Hong Kong Organization Team 2013/5/17 &lt;wikimania-l-request&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org&gt; _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l </pre> Calvin W.F. Siu 2013-05-18T19:43:53 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4682 <pre> Wikimedia CH already set up a videoconference tools for the movement, we use it during the Education meeting in Milan and it works well. Like all videoconf system, the bottleneck is the bandwidth of each participant. Manuel already publish a list of the material needed for a perfect videoconf, but actually you only need a computer, a webcam and an headset (a mobile phone bluetooth headset make a perfect wireless mic). The tools wkimedia CH choose is intend for on line teaching, it means that we have recording possibility, that box , desktop sharing (need java browser) and presentation display (open format or pdf are the most efficient) It would be really easy to broadcast any talks or workshop during wikimania, we only need at the minimum: -one volunteer per conf/workshop to broadcast with a computer, a mic and a webcam (not a built in, not convenient). If there is a real demand for broadcasting the Wikimania , Wikimedia CH can coordinate the effort. As a side note, wikimedia CH is asking from any recipient of a scholarship to provide a report about their "Wikimania" in order to share the experience with those who not attend. I think that in the future it may be fair to ask to all scholarship recipient to participate to a joint effort to make wikimania available for everyone in the wikimedia movement (broadcasting or taking minutes on ether pad) Cheers Charles ___________________________________________________________ I use this email for mailing list only. Charles ANDRES, Chairman "Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge – www.wikimedia.ch Skype: charles.andres.wmch IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch_______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l </pre> Charles Andrès 2013-05-18T08:01:36 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4681 <pre>Hungary seems ideally situated to host a Conference for Eastern Europe in 2015? If you organize it properly, it could be pretty big. 2013/5/17 Samuel Klein &lt;meta.sj&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l </pre> Lodewijk 2013-05-17T07:40:17 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4680 <pre>Dear Wikimania team, I really appreciated the simple, smooth registration and housing setup - the smoothest process to date, imo. SJ -- Samuel Klein &lt; at &gt;metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l </pre> Samuel Klein 2013-05-17T05:21:44 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4679 <pre>(regional events are usually not called 'wikimania' but something else, however - like Wiki Conference India :) On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Samuel Klein &lt;meta.sj&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; wrote: </pre> Samuel Klein 2013-05-17T01:06:39 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4678 <pre>I recommend trying to sell them on organizing a regional event if they don't win the bid for a global one. There have been many successful regional 'manias, and after London 2014 there are some rotation reasons why it would not be an ideal year for a bid in Europe. SJ On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) &lt;nemowiki&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; wrote: </pre> Samuel Klein 2013-05-17T01:06:06 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4677 <pre>Balázs Viczián, 14/05/2013 23:30: In practice this has already happened, so it doesn't seem particularly strange. Nemo _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l </pre> Federico Leva (Nemo 2013-05-14T21:59:46 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4676 <pre>Hello everyone, Wikimedia Hungary has recieved an interesting "sales pitch" today if we can call a two liner that. One of the largest Hungarian travelling agency's department (or subsidiary?) for conference tourism have expressed interest in organizing a Wikimania in Budapest, Hungary in 2015 in cooperation with WMHU. (My understanding is that WMHU would be a content advisor or similar in it) They've expressed interest in individual workshops as well (of course). They've emailed us the bidding page for Wikimania 2015 [1] and the blog entry about the Program Evaluation Workshop that will be held in June in Budapest [2] (I guess) to underline their interest (and inadvertently highlight they're actively monitioring these events) I believe you already have the questions in your mind about this; here are my ones: 1) What if a third party applies to create an event? (like a workshop or Wikimania) It is not prohibited for a for profit company to create a bid, nor they have the necessity to consult or cooperate with any of the chapters (though it is almost certain that they'll get some wikip/medians to help with the content). There are many workshops and meetups where Wikipedia is being discussed or being the topic without having any wikim/pedians speaking or attending, but something like a workshop, or Wikimania would be an "internal event" (even if maximum possible outreach is the ultimate goal in the latter) 1/b) What if their bid is the best overall? Would they be allowed to execute it (a.k.a. being announced winners)? note these bids would not be coming from the local communities as they are coming now, but from outside. 1/c) What if such a bid comes from a country where is no chapter formed yet (or a non active or too small /or etc./ exists)? Given the fact that Wikimania is so far the best local outreach tool of the movement, creating one in a country with small, or struggling (for whatever reasons) communities/chapters could result in a huge boost of that community/chapter. (it would be nice to know btw the aftereffects of the previous Wikimanias on the organizing chapters if it was ever measured) 2) Could it be an option for future bidders to outsource some or (almost) all parts of the organization/catering/other tasks to a third party (outside of the movement) keeping only the content management to themselves ? The (future?) Wikimania Committee is in broader terms an officially not registered - internal - project company to help creating future Wikimanias in general. Feel free to add your questions, while answering mines and others' :) Cheers, Balázs [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015_bids [2] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/09/program-evaluation-workshop-budapest/ _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l </pre> Balázs Viczián 2013-05-14T21:30:15 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4675 <pre>I confirm that no passport is needed except when boarding, but they (Qatarairways) only check that you are the same passenger whose name is written on the boarding pass. I transited on 22 April and 5 May 2013. 2013/5/11 &lt;derfussi&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l </pre> Ruslan 2013-05-11T08:59:12 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4674 <pre>Hi Deryck, I used Qatar Aiways the last two years. My Passwort was not checked by the authorities while Transit. Somebody looked Inside my Passwort while Boarding only.. Gesendet von Windows-Mail Von: Takashi OTA Gesendet: ‎Samstag‎, ‎11‎. ‎Mai‎ ‎2013 ‎09‎:‎07 An: Wikimania general list (open subscription) Jeromyu, thank you for your efforts as always :-) As you know, as JPY has been getting weeker day by day, I hope to have fix my flight booking(s) as soon as possible. --Takashi On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:04 AM, Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan &lt;yuyu&lt; at &gt;wikimedia.hk&gt; wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l_______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l </pre> derfussi< at >gmail.com 2013-05-11T07:16:23 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4673 <pre>Jeromyu, thank you for your efforts as always :-) As you know, as JPY has been getting weeker day by day, I hope to have fix my flight booking(s) as soon as possible. --Takashi On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:04 AM, Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan &lt;yuyu&lt; at &gt;wikimedia.hk&gt; wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l </pre> Takashi OTA 2013-05-11T07:07:57 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4672 <pre> Hi folks, All this discussion is great, but I just want to remind you to leave any last comments on the proposal for a wikimania committee above if you have them. So far there has only been a small amount of discussion on the charter about staggered terms, which I tried to incorporate. It seems like most of the discussion that's happening now is about the structure of Wikimania which is bigger than the proposal to create an oversight committee? I think it would be good to try and get this proposal wrapped up fairly soon and sent off to the Board for their consideration, so if you do have any specific comments on the charter proposal or the resolution please do leave them on the talk page. Thanks! </pre> phoebe ayers 2013-05-09T17:59:54 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4671 <pre>As far as I know, none, as they will only refuse entry to Israeli passport holders (though Dubai allows Israelis to transit, if I'm not mistaken). Josh   JAMES JOSHUA G. LIM Block I1, AB Political Science Major in Global Politics, Minor in Chinese Studies Class of 2013, Ateneo de Manila University Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines Trustee (2010-2013), Wikimedia Philippines Member, Ateneo Debate Society Member, The Assembly jamesjoshualim&lt; at &gt;yahoo.com | +63 (927) 531-8301 Friendster/Facebook/Twitter: akiestar | Wikimedia: Sky Harbor http://akira123323.livejournal.com ________________________________ From: Deryck Chan &lt;deryckchan&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; To: Wikimania general list (open subscription) &lt;wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 1:20 AM Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] [Wikimedia-asia-chapters] Flights for Wikimania 2013 Hong Kong Talking about middle-eastern airlines, does anyone know if I'll have difficulty transiting through Dubai or Doha if I have an Israel stamp in my passport? (from Wikimania 2011, obviously) Deryck On 9 May 2013 18:16, Teemeah . &lt;teemeah.wikiposta&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; wrote: FYI Qatar Airways is currently the cheapest option for flying from Europe. Any other airline offers tickets with almost a 200 Euro difference or more! _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l_______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l </pre> Josh Lim 2013-05-09T17:23:17 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4670 <pre>Talking about middle-eastern airlines, does anyone know if I'll have difficulty transiting through Dubai or Doha if I have an Israel stamp in my passport? (from Wikimania 2011, obviously) Deryck On 9 May 2013 18:16, Teemeah . &lt;teemeah.wikiposta&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l </pre> Deryck Chan 2013-05-09T17:20:22 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4669 <pre>FYI Qatar Airways is currently the cheapest option for flying from Europe. Any other airline offers tickets with almost a 200 Euro difference or more! Kind regards Teemeah 2013/5/9 Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan &lt;yuyu&lt; at &gt;wikimedia.hk&gt; _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l </pre> Teemeah . 2013-05-09T17:16:35 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4668 <pre>Hi I know it is May already and I have let our General Manage (he self-proclaimed aka Chief Party Manager) to push the relevant parities to get the code soon we need some time to work on the code for Cathay (in theory you can also get the flights from One World, the alliance it belongs to) on the other hand we don't have any other connection with other airlines so I don't think we can get to the discount from those like Qatar Airlines also please check the price if it is include tax or not, tax in Qatar airport can be really high (as some previous experience, correct me if I am wrong) Jeromy-Yu "Jerry" Chan, ARAD User:Yuyu | zh.wikipedia Coordinator-in-Chief, Wikimania 2013 also Jeromyu on twitter, plurk and most of places http://plasticnews.wf| http://about.me/jeromyu Tel (Mobile): +852 9279 1601 *Lend us a simple edit, you're a Wikipedian!* On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Takashi OTA &lt; supertakot+wikimania&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l </pre> Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan 2013-05-09T17:04:09 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4667 <pre>I think Jeromyu should have known for this. (I heard Cathay will be the carrier...) And I too am the one who would like to know further details! :-) --Takashi On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 2:19 AM, Orsolya Gyenes &lt; gyenes.orsolya&lt; at &gt;wiki.media.hu&gt; wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l </pre> Takashi OTA 2013-05-09T16:07:08 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4666 <pre> On May 5, 2013, at 3:59 AM, Simon Shek &lt;simon.shek&lt; at &gt;wikimedia.hk&gt; wrote: Simon: I thought it went pretty smoothly this year, and agree about WMF taking up more of the followup. I want to get your and Jessie's feedback on how we can improve things for next year. Yes. _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l </pre> Ellie Young 2013-05-05T17:47:03 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania