Hi all -- I just signed up to this list and was looking atht e
archives a bit. I noticed the discussion about the Wikimania German
site, and was curious after reading this comment:
> Part of their logo, however, is a distorted version of the Wikipedia
logo, which I believe is not kosher; whoever contacts them to request
they change their logo should also press them to change the name of the
project.
I went to the site and it did look a lot like our logo. But I found a
little section on their page about themselves which talks about their
logo:
http://www.wikimania.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Wikimania:Über_Wikimania
See the "Unser LOGO" section. My German isn't that great anymore but
they basically say they got theirs from a book which came out in 2001
and that it is very sad that we picked a similar logo (if I'm not
reading it wrong, they are subtlely claiming that we stole in from
them).
The book: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~gutsche/ideen-werkstatt/Ssingh2.jpg
This is from 2001, our current logo didn't evolve until 2003 according to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Logos_and_slogans
So... yeah. Looking over the logo discussion, I don't see any evidence
that our current logo was influenced by that book or the German
website:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_talk:Paullusmagnus-logo_%28small%29.png
Our progression was:
1. Text on a ball
2. Ball made of puzzle
3. Text on puzzle
4. Individual letters on puzzle
It seems like an independent visual genealogy, unless I'm missing
something. Very odd. Anyway, I don't think we have a strong claim
about them copying us.
So.. beyond that.. hi! Glad to be here!
FF
Hello all,
in order to try and allow as many people as possible to come to
Wikimania, I would like to put together a "sponsorship" application to
be filled in by interested speakers/individuals, who could not come if
they are not helped so that we can
Does any of you have any previous experience with something like this?
Any templates, any grand ideas of what to ask from the people who are
seeking sponsorship?
If yes, please contact me in private at dmenard AT wikimedia PUNTO org
so we can put a team on this and work on a sample application.
Thank you,
Delphine
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~notafish
Dear all,
I am happy to announce that submissions are currently being accepted
for the second annual Wikimedia Conference. The primary deadline for
submitting an abstract is April 15, 2006. The conference will be held
from August 4-6, 2006 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on the Harvard
Law School campus.
http://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_papers <-- full text of the CfP
http://cfp.wikimania.wikimedia.org/ <-- where to submit abstracts
If you have an idea for speakers, tutorials, or panels, please add
them to the list:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Program_ideas
=== Please translate this notice and distribute it widely. ===
Looking forward to an amazing conference,
SJ
Hello Wikimanians
"Poor us, Europeans", I thought when it became clear that wikimania (or how
we'll call it this year) will be held in Boston. So far away, and só
expensive... A ticket costs soon €500,--, and then we have to sleep, eat,
drink, and have some fun. a lot more then I spend usually on my hollidays :P
So I wanted something else for the poor people who can't afford it to buy a
ticket etc. Something in here. And I thought up some kind of own, a lot
shorter conference, in the Netherlands. Organized by the Vereniging
Wikimedia Nederland (Dutch Chapter) I hope to have a conference of one (or
maybe two, but probably not) day(s) with some lectures of Wikimania, but
also, very important, discussiongroups ''about'' the subjects that were
mentioned during Wikimania. Some workshops (how to bot etc) and these
small-scaled discussiongroups should make the conference different from the
Wikimania in Boston, especially because it will be for the largest part in
Dutch :) This way I hope to get a bunch of people together, to let the
community get to know eachother, to make friends irl, but also not to kill
Boston in its number of visitors because we attract a lot of people.
It will become a conference with a very different character if it's up to
me, however it will have a link with the Boston-conference. The link will on
my behalf exist mostly in the subjects and some speakers, and of course I
hope to get the Dutch and Flemish enthousiastic for both events. It will be
a great impuls for the Dutch community (and as you probably already all
know, we NEED THAT ;-) ) and for the Vereniging.
As you are all working very hard on getting a program together for Boston,
and orginizing a great event in Boston, I would like to hear your opinion
about this. I can take those advises into the plans to create something
approaching perfect :P Please give your comments on this and (i need that
really) keep me somehow please informed about the growing of the program (as
long as it is not discussed on this list) because unfortunately MetaWiki is
a true MazeWiki. Thank you in advance.
greeting from the Netherlands, Effeietsanders
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