Wikimania-l July 2007

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[Fwd: Dinners]
by Florence Devouard 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Dinners Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:59:36 +0200 From: Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org> To: wikimania-planning-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hello Quick question ('cause I did not find the information on the website). Normally, there should be two special dinners planned. One is the general wikimania party and one is the vip party. I understood VIP party is on the 5th; Can you confirm ? Which date is the wikimania party? Is there anything special planned on the third day ? Ant

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Reasonably urgent - getting IRC set up for mass connections
by Sean Whitton 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

Hello, As I understand it Wikimania intends to make reasonably heavy use of IRC. In any case, having more than twenty-odd connections is not permitted on freenode without getting special authorisation. They will be quite happy to give this - they just need a list of the IP addresses the conference will be connecting to the Internet from. Unless this gets done there will be problems, so please, let me know those IP addresses and I can get it sorted out :-) Thanks, [[m:Sean Whitton]] Liaison between freenode and Wikimedia -- Regards, —Sean Whitton (seanw) http://seanwhitton.com/

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Set xml:lang dynamically by each translated subpage of Template:Languages for Wikimania sites
by Tian-Jian "Barabbas" Jiang 29 Jul '07

29 Jul '07

Currently xml:lang is set by $wgContentLang only. It's not good to search engines to determine the real content language of a specific page. The worse thing is, Wikimania 2007 site set xml:lang incorrectly to "wikimania2007". By helps from Ping Yeh <ping.nsr.yeh(a)gmail.com>, the patch checks available language codes of Template:Languages to set xml:lang dynamically. It's particularly important to http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org or other sites used Template:Language to retain the impact of search engine optimizations. Please refer to http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10736 for the patch. Thank you! Cheers, /Mike Tian-Jian "b6s" Jiang/

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open conference systems
by phoebe ayers 25 Jul '07

25 Jul '07

Hey all, I just found this: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs an "Open conference system" from the Public Knowledge Project. It might be worth checking out for Wikimania '08. -- phoebe ----- " Open Conference Systems (OCS) is a free Web publishing tool that will create a complete Web presence for your scholarly conference...." * create a conference Web site * compose and send a call for papers * electronically accept paper and abstract submissions * allow paper submitters to edit their work * post conference proceedings and papers in a searchable format * post, if you wish, the original data sets * register participants * integrate post-conference online discussions OCS version 2.0 is now available. New features include: * manage conferences that occur more than once (e.g. yearly) * an expanded, multiple-round review system * e-mail template system * localization & translation tools * credit card payment for registrations * automated "thanks-for-submitting" messages * accept login/password for participants * Creative Commons licensing of presentations * more customizable, scalable and secure code * ...and much more.

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One-stop Wikimania information/participation
by Cormac Lawler 20 Jul '07

20 Jul '07

Hi all, I've been given the opportunity to write a short article for the Guardian Weekly about Wikimania, which will be put up on the GW website on August 1st (ie before the conference). What I want to know is whether there is a place I can add a link to which will act as the place that people reading the article can go to find out more about Wikimania, to read/comment on the conference blog (will there be a blog this year?), and possibly to participate remotely (or even in person). Does such a place exist? Or is the best thing to do to give the link as the Wikimania wiki main page, and then to post these particulars to that page as quickly and prominantly as possible? What do you think? Cormac

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Photos
by Wikinews Markie 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

Going to Wikimania? Taking a camera? Upload your photos to the Flickr group. The group can be seen and joined at - http://www.flickr.com/groups/wikimania2007/ Cheers mark ps - sorry for the spam like message - shameless!!

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by abraheem bin-hosain 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

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FAQs and planning for wikimania
by phoebe ayers 09 Jul '07

09 Jul '07

Hello all, Wikimania is less than a month away, and I thought I'd point out again the great guide to local information about Taipei that the local team has produced: * http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Local_information It is quite comprehensive and useful, especial the info on local travel which tells you how to get from the venue to the airport: * http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Local_transportation Also the WikiTravel page about Taipei has lots of info on various attractions: * http://wikitravel.org/en/Taipei Finally, Andrew Lih and I are working on an FAQ page: * http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions Hopefully this will be a useful "one-stop-shop" for all your pressing questions about Taipei and the conference. Local information goes into more depth. Please add your questions to the list! And please chip in with answers if you are on the local team. best, Phoebe

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[Fwd: Visa on Arrival - for those who came across difficulties while you apply Visa to Taiwan]
by TzuChiang Liou 08 Jul '07

08 Jul '07

Dear all, As our previous notification, for those who have problem when applying visa to Taiwan, we're negotiating with MOFA to provide Visa on Arrival service, please take a look at this page, thanks. http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Visa_On_Arrival Two things that we need you help before you apply this service: 1.You should submit the documents to secretary Ms.Babemaco before 7/10 (the final deadline, we need some time to finish the procedure) 2.You must finish the whole registration process before you apply for this help, please attached your registration number when you mail to Ms.Babemaco regards. TzuChiang -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Visa on Arrival - for those who came across difficulties while you apply Visa to Taiwan Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:10:51 +0800 From: TzuChiang Liou <tcliou(a)iis.sinica.edu.tw> To: wikimania-planning-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Internal Wikimania discussion list <wikimania(a)lists.wikimedia.de>, wm07prepare(a)googlegroups.com Dear all, This's TzuChiang from Wikimania 2007 preparation team, I'm also working in the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, a governmental institute in Taiwan, we understand that there're some participants had came across difficulties while you applied Visa to Taiwan. To solve this problem, we, the Academia Sinica, will and right now negotiating with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) to regard Wikimania 2007 as a Special Case, and issue "Visa on Arrival" to those who have visa problems. If we success, most of the participants that have problems while you apply Visa could use "visa on arrival". The procedure will be: -- TzuChiang Liou, Project Manager, Institute of Information Science,Academia Sinica, Taiwan E-mail: tcliou(a)iis.sinica.edu.tw Mobile: +886-937835052 MSN: tcliou(a)msn.com Skype: tcliou -- TzuChiang Liou, Project Manager, Institute of Information Science,Academia Sinica, Taiwan E-mail: tcliou(a)iis.sinica.edu.tw Mobile: +886-937835052 MSN: tcliou(a)msn.com Skype: tcliou

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