<div dir="ltr">Brian,<div><br></div><div>The obvious opportunity would be to take the fringe to the fringe. Every Wikimania needs some events for the day after Wikimania, why not make one option be to spend a few days at the fringe? I started <a href="http://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fringe">the category fringe </a>on the wikimania 2014 and am planning to do a free London museum trip for the day after Wikimania. But we will need several options for Wikimanaians for the 11th Aug onwards and it would be lovely if one could be the Edinburgh fringe. </div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 August 2013 07:22, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org" target="_blank">brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
We're looking a year ahead, so we should have plenty of time to sort things out. But, the UK has some particularly-talented Wikinewsies (I'm looking at Iain Macdonald, Tom Morris and Paul Williams in particular).<br>
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It would be short-sighted, in the extreme, not to ask the UK-resident Wikinewsies to get involved. Given the direction I've seen Paul heading off in (to Wikinews' great loss) I suspect he would make a great 'Head of Broadcasting' for next year's Wikimania; and, with Wikimedia UK's support, could help make sure Wikimania 2014 is the 'most-online' annual conference to-date. [All sessions webcast live, all recordings thereof online faster than the BBC does with iPlayer.]<br>
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The major snag for me, a Wikinewsie in Edinburgh, is it looks-like Wikimania 2014 clashes with the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe. (I already have interest from a local community Radio station, which might lead to free use of high-end gear, and a few other things in-the-works).<br>
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But, anyone who is planning to travel to the UK for Wikimania should bear that in-mind!<br>
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If you want to come up to The Athens of The North, post-conference, start looking at those accommodation bookings right now. Otherwise, you'll be camping somewhere in the vicinity of Arthur's Seat.<br>
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Regardless, and no-matter how hard Wikimedia UK tries to promote their London Wikimania, I can promise you "us lot up in Scotland" will keep knocking you off the front page when it comes to headlines in the press. Does anyone else have some 'creative ideas' about Wikimania 2014 having a 'token presence' in Edinburgh? (The Fringe venue I want to 'hijack' is close-enough to the Edinburgh Uni CS facilities I was hacking - 25 years ago - that, we could run an armoured fibre straight into JANET).<br>
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It's simply too-good an opportunity to miss. And, where I strongly agree with the broad-criticisms Jimmy made of mainstream media in his HK keynote, I know that "the news division of the WMF" (i.e. Wikinews) could wipe the floor with the Mainstream on the independence debate.<br>
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Brian.<br>
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