[Commons-l] All about Wikimania, future projects, licenses, etc etc

[Florence Devouard]

Brianna Laugher wrote:
>> Note that I used the neat logo picture several times in talks, but fact
>> is, it is difficult to talk of a project one has never participated a
>> lot in, even if one think it is a great project.
> 
> Does that mean the Board will only talk about projects they are
> directly involved in? That should be about 10 at most. That would be
> disappointing. :P

tssss

Dunno for others, but I try to nearly anytime put a shot of all projects 
logos and quickly explain what each is about.

Once I did a presentation entirely about wikinews, but from my 
perspective, it was not a good talk :-( In the first year, I was rather 
regularly following the french wikinews, but not so well the english one.
I frequently talk about wikibooks and wikicommons. Several presentations 
I did this spring were almost exclusively about wikibooks actually, with 
a little bit of wikiversity. Mostly presentations focused on education.
Wikibooks and wikiversity raise a lot of attention.

I must admit I never really talked about wiktionary or wikisource, but 
for a few words of presentation, mostly when talking to librarians.

I have next to no idea what is going on wikispecies. Sorry :-)

And I... well, though I use it pretty frequently, I usually do not talk 
of wikiquote. I am aware that project is a legal spider nest in many 
countries. If you remember, we got into troubles with a french database 
on quote issues (the french wikiquote was basically a gigantic copy of 
this database and they did not like that :-)). The french wikiquote was 
since then restarted, with a good set of rules and much care from a few 
editors. So I guess it is okay. But I still hardly dare saying much 
about it publicly ;-) Maybe later.

But seriously Brianna, what is especially tricky is that in any 
presentation one does, there is always at least one very involved 
wikipedian. So, not only is that hard to "surprise" him, but he can spot 
mistakes ;-)
What would be real cool would be to try to keep a written state of each 
project, what is hot, what is working, what is not working, technical 
wish list, biggest issues, big figures etc....  so that all participants 
could "follow" what is going on. I know all this is actually available, 
but only in a very dispersed manner, so not so easy to find out.

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