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[Fwd: WIKIMEDIANS AROUND THE WORLD PREPARE FOR WIKIMANIA 2008]
by Jay Walsh 10 Jul '08

10 Jul '08

FYIs -------- Original Message -------- Subject: WIKIMEDIANS AROUND THE WORLD PREPARE FOR WIKIMANIA 2008 Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:07:32 -0700 From: Jay Walsh <jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org> Reply-To: jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: press-release(a)lists.wikimedia.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org *WIKIMEDIANS AROUND THE WORLD PREPARE FOR WIKIMANIA 2008* ''The fourth annual Wikimania conference takes place July 17 to July 19, 2008 at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt'' SAN FRANCISCO, CA – July 9 – Next week hundreds of Wikimedia volunteers and enthusiasts will converge at the historic center of global knowledge and wisdom, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, for the annual Wikimania conference. The Wikimania conference is the official conference of Wikimedia's free knowledge projects, which include Wikipedia, the largest free knowledge encyclopedia in human history. Presentations and discussions at this year's conference will address topics related to public collaboration, open source initiatives, free knowledge, wiki technology, open education, and the theme of this year's conference 'changing the shape of wisdom.' Since the first official gathering in 2005 in Frankfurt, Germany, Wikimania has served as the main opportunity for project volunteers, staff, and enthusiasts to meet and discuss the technology, impact, and future of wiki-based, free knowledge projects. Organized by a local team of Wikimedia volunteers, Wikimania also acts as the primary opportunity for local populations to explore free knowledge and public collaboration, and the growth of Wikimedia projects in local languages. "Wikimania is the one time each year when Wikimedia volunteers from all over the world gather together in a single location," said Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner from the Foundation's headquarters in San Francisco, California. "This year is particularly special, because we will be in Alexandria, at what was once the site of the largest library of the ancient world. It's an exceptional opportunity for us to explore topics around reach, participation, and quality of the Wikimedia projects in one of the world's most important centers for wisdom and knowledge." Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the entireplanning team from the library have been actively involved in development of Wikimania 2008 alongside the volunteer team. “Free-content projects such as Wikipedia are an essential tool for the collection and dissemination of knowledge, especially in the developing world," offered Dr. Serageldin. "We hope that Wikimania 2008 will raise local awareness of new possibilities and indeed take us towards changing the shape of wisdom. In hosting this event, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina upholds the values of its ancient namesake.” Alexandria volunteer organizing committee lead Mohamed Ibrahim has been leading efforts on the ground with the Wikimedia Foundation and the volunteers toensure conference attendees have an excellent experience. "We're hoping that ourmain goal of increasing awareness of free knowledge and the free software movement among Arabic speakers is going to be a success. The Arabic Wikipedia is getting a lot of attention, Wikimania is an ideal opportunity for all attendees to start thinking about how to improve both quality and quantity of our projects,"said Ibrahim. Highlighted speakers at this year's conference include: .Florence Devouard, Chair of the Wikimedia Board of Trustees .Schuyler Erle and Mikel Maron from Open Street Map - The free editablemap of the whole world, created by volunteers .Eliane Metni, director of the International Education Association on The Global Educators’ Open Course .Jimmy Wales - Founder of Wikipedia .Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina .Tim Spalding - Creator of LibraryThing .Usama Fayyad – Yahoo!’s Executive Vice President of Research and Strategic Data Solutions .As well as multiple sessions from Wikimedia Foundation staff, board oftrustees, and advisory board members including: Sue Gardner and Erik Möller- Executive Director and Deputy Director, with a forecast for the Wikimedia Foundation's upcoming year; Brion Vibber - Chief Technology Officer - discussing the current state of the MediaWiki software; and advisory board member Benjamin Mako Hill speaking on the topic of Free Network Services. For the complete Wikimania 2008 program, visit: http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule This year conference participants, as well as volunteers not able to attend the conference, will be encouraged to upload and share related video content on Kaltura's Wikimania video site. Kaltura's collaborative video-editing process allows users to create new videos, or edit, improve, re-organize other videos. http://www.kaltura.com/devwiki/index.php/Wikimania_Video_Site Principal sessions such as those of the keynote speakers and the invited speakers will be webcast live through the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Webcast website: http://webcast.bibalex.org Wikimedia Blog, the Foundation's official blog, will be updated frequently during the conference with ongoing podcasting information, participant activities, and media coverage: http://blog.wikimedia.org/ The Wikimania 2008 official wiki will be updated regularly with pictures, information, and logistical details: http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/ Wikimania 2008 is possible thanks to the generous financial support of this year's sponsors. Our sponsors subsidize a number of Wikimania scholarships to assist participants in covering the cost of attending and participating in the conference. Sponsors are also actively engaged in providing related support to Wikimania through use of their own open-source, collaborative tools. Guardians and Grants WikiHow, http://www.wikihow.com/ Open Society Institute, http://www.soros.org/ Benefactors CISCO, http://www.cisco.com/web/siteassets/contacts/offices/africa.html Kaltura, http://www.kaltura.com/ HP (Middle East), http://welcome.hp.com/country/emea_middle_east/en/welcome.html Microsoft (Egypt), http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/egypt/english/default.mspx Raya Corp, http://www.rayacorp.com/ Intel Egypt, http://www.intel.com/cd/corporate/middleeast/emea/english/364108.htm Advanced Computer Technology, http://www.act-eg.com/ Sun Microsystems, http://catalog.sun.com/index.xml?site=EG_ENG Friends Onkosh, http://www.onkosh.com/ Supporters Wikia Entertainment, http://entertainment.wikia.com/ Wikia Gaming, http://gaming.wikia.com/ eSpace, http://espace.com.eg/ About the Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. is a nonprofit, charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of its wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. It operates some of the largest collaboratively-edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, one of the world's 10 most-visited websites. All projects of the Wikimedia Foundation are collaboratively developed by volunteers using the MediaWiki software. Their content may be freely used, freely edited, freely copied and freely redistributed subject to the restrictions of that license. About the Bibliotheca Alexandrina The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the New Library of Alexandria, was inaugurated in 2002 and is dedicated to recapturing the spirit of the ancient Library of Alexandria, a center of world learning from 300 B.C. to A.D. 400, by serving as a center of excellence in the production and dissemination of knowledge through the use of digital technologies. Media contacts For the Wikimedia Foundation Jay Walsh Head of Communications jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org +1 415 839 6885 For the Bibliotheca Alexandrina wikimania(a)bibalex.org +2 03 4839999 -30- (To be removed from the Wikimedia Foundation press release email list, simply reply to this message with the words 'unsubscribe' in the subject line.) -- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609

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Flyer in Esperanto
by Ziko van Dijk 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Hello, some of you were so kind to give me advice about the Esperanto Wikipedia flyer, so I want to say thank you again and present this link: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Esperanto_Wikipedia I am now in Rotterdam at Universal Esperanto Association Headquarters. At the World Congress, here in Rotterdam in July 2008, everyone of the 1800 participants will have this flyer in his or her congress materials. Kind regards Ziko -- Ziko van Dijk NL-Silvolde

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Next meeting, topics for discussion
by Gerald A 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '08

Hi all, I'd like to throw out when our next meeting should be, and also what sort of things we should be discussing and doing. I want this to be a brainstorming thread, rather then a thread about the topic, if we can. Things that we touched on at the meeting: JA liaison project Small Wikipedia Help Wikimania Improving inter-wiki communications Is there anything anyone else thinks we should be doing? Once we have a few projects, we'll have to gauge interest and set some goals. I'm sure we can come up with some great ideas, and I'd like to try and facilitate turning them into great actions. I'll propose that we should have our next meeting in two weeks; I think that would be July 9. It gives us some time to work and discuss, and gives us a goal to work towards. Comments? Thanks, Gerald.

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Just for starters: Meta page manual for new and small Wikipedias
by Ziko van Dijk 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '08

Hello, At http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ziko-W/manualnsw you will find the beginnings of what may become a useful manual for new and small Wikipedias. Ziko -- Ziko van Dijk NL-Silvolde

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Meeting 06-11
by Casey Brown 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communication_Projects_Group/Meetings/2008-0… Please sign-up and add agenda items! :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost.

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Meeting Reminder
by Gerald A 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

Hi All, Just a reminder there will be a meeting this week, on June 25, 2008 at 20:30 UTC in #wikimedia-cpg <irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-cpg> Agenda/Signup for this meeting... < http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communication_Projects_Group/Meetings/2008-0… > If you have anything you'd like to add to the agenda, please feel free to do so on that page. Hope to see you there! Gerald

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New post - universal edit button
by Jay Walsh 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Hey all, Just posted on the new Universal Edit button functionality to the Wikimedia Blog. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/06/19/firefox-3-and-the-wiki-edit-button/ The developers are doing their best to publicize the extension. I've pinged out to a few reporters. I think the broader angle is 'edit' as a browsing function becoming as common as read/subscribe/respond. The other great angle is how much, and how well (imho) wikis collaborate on tech development. And increasingly I think we'll be able to gang a lot of resources and energy towards PR collaboration. If you've got the extension and like it, blog about it! Let's get the word out to more bloggers and media. -- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609

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Attending WIkimania?
by Jay Walsh 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

Hi all - I know there will be some overlap with ComCom. Who on this list is heading to Wikimania? Thanks -- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609

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Re: [ComProj] Meeting 06-11
by Casey Brown 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Gerald A <geraldablists(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Is this meeting still a go? (There are no agenda items) > I have some comproj stuff to chat about, but won't have it prepped for this > afternoon, and next week I'm away at a conference. I'll add to the next > meeting agenda if it's two weeks hence. :) > (I CAN attend today, if it's still happening -- just too busy to actually > have something together to take the floor about). Since no one else signed up, nor added any agenda items and none of us are really in the mood to do it today, we can cancel this meeting. Gerald can add his item to the "meeting agenda two weeks hence". :-) (I liked that line... :p) Agenda/Signup for next meeting... <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communication_Projects_Group/Meetings/2008-0…> -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost.

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Next meeting (28 May)
by Casey Brown 28 May '08

28 May '08

Agenda items and possible participants' signup can be found at <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communication_Projects_Group/Meetings/2008-0…>. Until we have more things to do, I was thinking we would have meetings every other week (which is why we skipped this Wednesday). Does that sound like a good idea? Please be sure to add agenda items to the above link. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost.

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