On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 09:58, Florence Devouard <Anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
On 7/31/10 5:21 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
I am thinking about making Wikimania 2011 as
awesome as possible and
here's a little something that bothered me.
Wikimania 2010 was my first. It was a lot of fun to meet Wikimedians
from around the world. I also think that a lot of new ideas were born
thanks to the personal meetings in Gdansk, at least some of which may
grow to successful projects. Maybe it will be smarter use of machine
translation, maybe outreach to underprivileged languages, maybe
accessibility improvements. Maybe other things.
But all of the above are nice dreams about the future. Is there any
proven experience from the past that demonstrates why personal
meetings between Wikimedians are not just fun for them, but actually
beneficial to the Wikimedia community, the Internet, the Humanity? Can
anyone here give me solid examples of successful projects that were
born thanks to past Wikimanias?
Children...
I know that for a fact :)
Delphine met Arne whilst going to Germany to prepare first Wikimania
ever. Look now: two children. Our future :)
* A fix for a missing patrolling feature for the Dutch wikipedia in
2005, Frankfurt; mainly because I met people who 'figuratively' held
my hands while figuring out how to fix the last part.
* for years, wikimania gave me the energy to do things again
henna
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"Maybe you knew early on that your track went from point A to B, but
unlike you I wasn't given a map at birth!" Alyssa, "Chasing Amy"