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://comments.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://comments.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 cooperat</pre> Balázs Viczián 2013-05-14T21:30:15 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4656 <pre>Submissions for Wikimania are now closed, and there are lots and lots of good ones: http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Submissions Attendees are encouraged to go through and indicate what sessions are of interest to them, to provide feedback to the program committee. Please do so ASAP as the committee is now in the process of rating and sorting submissions! </pre> phoebe ayers 2013-05-03T14:49:22 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4642 <pre>Dear Wikimedians, On behalf of the Wikimania 2014 selection Jury, after review and evaluation of the two final bids, we have awarded the conference to London. Congratulations to the London team, and to the Arusha team who also put forward a solid effort. We were concerned this year to see that both bidding teams put forward proposals which were costly and complicated, in contrast to the Wikimania tradition. The Jury briefly considered re-opening the bid for other teams, and asked both bids to present a simpler core budget and lower-cost options for attendees. The London team took our comments to heart and decreased their core budget to 20% of their initial proposal, and have committed to finding ways to reduce the cost for community attendees. We encourage future bidding teams to not give up their dreams, to keep aiming for the stars, but at the same time, to not forget the spirit of Wikimedia: a volunteer movement that makes creative use of limited resources. We look forward to the proposed Wikimania Co</pre> James Forrester 2013-05-01T17:10:54 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4639 <pre>Dear Wikimaniacs &amp; Non-Wikimaniancs Learning from our experiences from previous Wikimanias &amp; Wikimedia conferences we think that we shall provided a good online map, [1] to help you to familiarized yourself before you get to Hong Kong. We actually started this map during our bidding process, and we have made some updates recently, deleted some not related and out-of-date info Also considering the accommodations will probably be really scattered around HK, so we would also like to pin out the places where WM entities already reserved for their members or a place we know a number of Wikipedians will stay in, in order to make you easier to locate each other and find a place to meet. [2] A recent addition on the map is about food, the local team's choice. These are actually some local restaurants even the local team will visit regularly and they are not so expensive and with some stories behind so do read the description on the map. [1] http://goo.gl/maps/SfAog [2] in case you had booked a hotel/place to </pre> Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan 2013-04-23T23:40:10 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4638 <pre>Dear Wikimaniacs and non-Wikimaniacs As most of you may aware that the CFP for this year will end soon, just almost exactly one week later So if you're planing to have your submission, and not yet finish yours please take your time to get it done. We would also like you to express if you are interested in attend any of the submission. [1] Such input will be really helpful for our Program committee members to decide accepting which proposals and also where should we facilitate these sessions, if it is accepted. Thx v much! [1] http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Submissions </pre> Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan 2013-04-23T22:57:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4629 <pre>For a long time the video links on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2005_Presentations have been broken, pointing to some abandoned server in Amsterdam. It looks like the videos were never uploaded to Commons, perhaps due to file size limits or other limitations in place at the time. I just noticed that the Wayback Machine has copies of most of them: http://web.archive.org/web/20070720024828/http://www.knams.wikimedia.org/wikimania/ Any takers for getting these up on Commons? I noticed that unfortunately files &gt;100MB seem cut off including the higher quality copies, so unless there's other copies of these around, it'll be hard to recover them. (This may be a limit on archive.org's crawler, or it may be a limit on how much content they serve. I suspect it's the former, but will ping them as well.) Erik _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l </pre> Erik Moeller 2013-04-23T05:43:05 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4627 <pre>Dear all, A small group of long-time Wikimaniacs have been working on the perrenial plan to produce a "Wikimania Committee" - a community group who would help steer Wikimania from year to year, advising each local hosting team and ensuring that the processes are open, transparent and community-led. Here are our drafts of what we think we'd want the committee to be like, a charter, and the resolution which we're submitting to the WMF Board: * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Committee * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Committee/Charter * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_resolutions/Wikimania_Committee Comments are very welcome; we're trying to get this done fairly quickly, and of course we will iterate these plans as we get feedback and hopefully more forward on the oft-stalled next steps. J. -- James D. Forrester jdforrester&lt; at &gt;gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal capacity) _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l m</pre> James Forrester 2013-04-23T05:17:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4621 <pre>Hi, I spoke in January of a Wikitrain from Europe to Hong Kong [1,2]. Now it’s time to precisely plan the travel and request visas. I am no more sure I will be able to travel given external constraints and will know it in some weeks (depending of the date of my PdD defense). But if other people are interested to travel, you can begin planning the travel and I will try to join if I can. Shujen Chang and Park1996 prepared a nice table with train options and they can provide assistance for the Wikitrain passengers (Wikitrainers?) in China. At the very least, the travel from Europe lengths 12-13 days (1 day to Berlin, 4 days to Moscow, 6 days to Beijing, 1 day to HK). Seb35 [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/2013-January/004435.html [2] https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitrain _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l </pre> Seb35 2013-04-16T08:15:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4607 <pre>Hi Manuel, et al., On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Manuel Schneider &lt;manuel.schneider&lt; at &gt;wikimedia.ch&gt; wrote: +1, I can think of one recent deployment I worked on where they kept changing the date and then once they finally decided on a date I was left out of the notification loop! On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) &lt;nemowiki&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; wrote: You could build up gradually to the desired weight. But that's hard to do if they're going to show up because of a deadline rather than showing up because they just saw the banner. I'm not sure I agree. (and don't necessarily disagree either) But, I think the question of whether they needed some custom work or something different than what they ended up getting is a small detail. Maybe there was some public planning or discussion (or even something on the -team list) that I missed or somehow wasn't subscribed to. But maybe this is one more an example of how I wish Wikimania were more like DebConf (debconf.org). Typically I've wanted to apply the</pre> Jeremy Baron 2013-04-14T14:48:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4597 <pre>The registration website crashed in time for the last day of "Early Bird Registration" Too many people accessing the website at this time. Please try later. </pre> Butch Bustria 2013-04-14T12:21:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4592 <pre>Hi there, I was wondering if the Hong Kong locals can give us some advice on traveling to Shenzhen after the conference this year, since it's so close to HK. When I contacted the Chinese embassy in Serbia, they told me that I'd need a regular tourist visa for China (which is somewhat tedious to obtain) or, if I want to visit Shenzhen Special Economic Zone only, I can get a "group Shenzhen visa" (whatever that is). However, About.com [1] says that for Shenzhen SEZ, one can just buy the visa at the border. Can some of you tell me what the reality is and whether you are perhaps planning on organizing a tour after the conference (say, on Monday)? [1] http://gohongkong.about.com/od/traveltochina/a/Shenzen_visa_main.htm Cheers, Filip _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l </pre> Filip Maljković 2013-04-10T07:16:28 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4578 <pre>All, The public meeting with Arusha happened just now; for those that missed it or want to review, the log is posted on meta at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2014/IRC_meeting_2013-04-07 Yours, -- James D. Forrester jdforrester&lt; at &gt;gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal capacity) _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l </pre> James Forrester 2013-04-07T19:03:21 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4577 <pre>Hi all, All Wikimania 2013 scholarships phase two applicants were notified on 7 April 2013 about their applications finial result. If you have any questions, please contact the Wikimania 2013 local team at wikimania-p [at] wikimedia.hk or the scholarship team at wikimania-scholarships [at] wikimedia.org . Simon Shek Community coordinator, Wikimania 2013 / Wikimedia Hong Kong On behalf of the Wikimania 2013 local team and scholarship committee _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l </pre> Simon Shek 2013-04-07T17:19:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4576 <pre>All, The public meeting with London happened just now; for those that missed it or want to review, the log is posted on meta at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2014/IRC_meeting_2013-04-06 Yours, -- James D. Forrester jdforrester&lt; at &gt;gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal capacity) _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l </pre> James Forrester 2013-04-06T19:14:14 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4574 <pre>Hi all, Sorry this didn't go out sooner -- I meant to send a note to the list last week but forgot. Jury meetings with the two bids for Wikimania 2014 are scheduled for this weekend, April 6 &amp; 7. London: April 6, 16:00UTC Arusha: April 7, 16:00UTC #wikimania These meetings are mainly for the jury to talk to the bid teams, but everyone is welcome to attend. Feel free to also post questions and comments to the two bid talk pages: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2014_bids/London http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2014_bids/Arusha details on process: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimania_2014_bids/London#Process_status thanks, Phoebe -- Phoebe Ayers - phoebe.ayers&lt; at &gt;gmail.com support Wikimedia: http://donate.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l </pre> phoebe ayers 2013-04-04T16:32:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4571 <pre>Looking over the plans in the timeline section of that page, it looks like there isn't a general community input section, where people unaffiliated with the bidding or judging process can say things as basic as "I would attend the proposed London Wikimania but would not attend the proposed Arusha one". In fact, there doesn't even appear to be a section in the criteria that accounts for whether the community at large is interested in or opposed to specific bids or bid locations. I realize that the bidding process is not a democracy, and that such a selection criteria would convey significant advantages to cities/countries that have a large number of users or are especially effective at mobilizing users to comment, but if many more users want to go to one location over another, shouldn't that be taken into account? Sven On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Sumana Harihareswara &lt; sumanah&lt; at &gt;wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.or</pre> Sven Manguard 2013-03-31T20:33:45 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4570 <pre>本年度的維基媒體國際會議 Wikimania，將於8月7日至11日期間假香港九龍司地界內一處舉行。 為鼓勵本地參與，香港維基媒體協會特別宣佈，將為通常在港居住的香港維基人，提供出席提供全費旅費資助。有興趣申請的本港維基人，請將申請書在截止時間2013年4月1日23:59UTC前電郵到 wm13scholarship&lt; at &gt;wikimedia.hk，黃維基先生收。 申請者須為年滿18歲或以上通常在港居住的香港永久性居民，而且前往會議的出發地必須為香港境內任何地方。 申請者須確認並申明並沒有接受其他維基媒體或相關機構或實體的資助前往會議，如有發現，可能會被取消資格，並需退還有關資助。 Wikimedia Hong Kong is offering full traveling allowance for local Wikimedians to attend Wikimania 2013 on 7-11 August 2013. Applications for such allowances should be sent to Mr. Vviki Wong at wm13scholarship&lt; at &gt;wikimedia.hk before 1 April 2013 23:59 UTC. App</pre> Simon Shek 2013-03-31T16:31:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4552 <pre>Dear Wikimaniacs &amp; Non-Wikimaniacs This is your local team lead for this years conference in Hong Kong. As the local team pretty understands everyone's anticipation to the conference so we will try to keep you informed about the latest update of the conference whenever they can be release to the public Here are a few piece of info I think you will be interested to know *a. Hostel accommodation* One thing I am sorry to tell you that, the dorm of PolyU is not available due to renovation in this summer. So we have arrange the dorm of another university in Kowloon, Baptist University for scholarship recipients (whether WMF or Chapter scholarship) However, the BU dorm is not in the walking distance to PolyU, but it is still in a very convenient location, just two MTR stations away from PolyU and we will also arrange shuttle in the morning, to getting most people to the venue. We estimate there are still a number of beds that can be available as hostel options, so the local team will start accepting reservat</pre> Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan 2013-03-22T08:45:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4546 <pre>Dear Wikimaniacs, Hello again from the 2013 local team for a break from the Wikimania 2014 bid discussions! Every candidate applying for Wikimania 2013 scholarships should have received an email in the past two weeks saying either their application was unsuccessful, or their application is still being considered. Commiserations to all unsuccessful candidates - we hope we can still see you at Wikimania and around the Wikimedia projects. This year we received over 1200 applications for scholarships; about 700 made it past the first round. It is expected that a total of about 125 WMF scholarships and 75 chapter scholarships will be allocated to the best applicants among applicants who advanced past the first round. Candidates should hear about the decisions regarding their applications by the end of April. Don't hesitate to contact the Wikimania 2013 local team at *wikimania-p [at] wikimedia.hk* or the scholarship team at *wikimania-scholarships [at] wikimedia.org* . With best wishes, Deryck Chan Global en</pre> Deryck Chan 2013-03-20T18:59:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania/4541 <pre>Dearest Wikimaniacs, (this is mostly for past organizers, but also attendees and information-gatherers...) I am once again (still?) on a drive to organize information about past Wikimanias in a comprehensible, easy-to-find format. Please help! See the bolded pages here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/past lots of information is missing from all of the years. Links to reports are fine; I'm just trying to make everything findable in one place. If you see fields that need to be added please do so as well. Thanks, Phoebe </pre> phoebe ayers 2013-03-12T21:04:22 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikimania