[Wikimania-l] <-- WikiDragon alert

Orsolya Gyenes gyenes.orsolya at wiki.media.hu
Sat Oct 22 22:12:39 UTC 2011


I heard about France and India in Haifa.

*~Orsolya*
Wikimania 2011 Program Comm.

2011/10/22 Mateus Nobre <mateus.nobre at live.co.uk>

>  Something confirmed about the candidates to host Wikimania 2013?
>
> I've heard rumors about Kenya, U.K. and Portugal...
>
>
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> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:44:37 -0700
> From: peteforsyth at gmail.com
> To: wikimania-planning-l at lists.wikimedia.org;
> wikimania-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Wikimania-l] <-- WikiDragon alert
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm probably not the only one starting to think ahead to Wikimania 2013. So
> today, I did a rather massive overhaul of the Wikimania pages on Meta --
> trying to both wrap my head around the event's history, the process of venue
> selection, and existing documentation -- and also trying to organize it in a
> way that will make it more accessible as other try to educate themselves.
>
> I sort of wish I'd taken a screenshot or two of the Category structure
> before I started, because to be blunt, it was *awful*! I hope what I've left
> behind is an improvement. If you want to take a look at the havoc I've
> wreaked, you should probably look at:
>
> http://enwp.org/meta:Wikimania
> http://enwp.org/meta:Category:Wikimania
> http://enwp.org/meta:Wikimania_jury
>
> Or just pore over my (metaphorically) OCD-fueled recent contribs:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?limit=50&tagFilter=&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=Peteforsyth&namespace=&tagfilter=&year=2011&month=10<http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?limit=50&tagFilter=&title=Special:Contributions&contribs=user&target=Peteforsyth&namespace=&tagfilter=&year=2011&month=10>
>
> I hope this is viewed as a net positive. In hindsight, as I was getting
> deeper into this, I started to realize that I maybe should have stopped to
> seek consensus before making such extensive changes. But I am pretty
> confident you'll like what you see -- if not, please let me know, and I'll
> do my best to undo any damage :)
>
> -Pete
>
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