Hello all!
The past couple of days I have been working on collecting information
about each of the Wikimanias, as well as documenting the history of
bids and conference ideas, to produce a concise and complete "history
of Wikimania" page. It's on meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania
If you helped out with organizing, remember what went on at one or
more of the conferences, or are just willing to help copy information
over from one of the Wikimania-wikis, please help fill this page out!
I want to try and get our collective knowledge about five years of
Wikimania written down in one place. Please also add fields for
information I may have forgotten, translations, etc. etc.
And my apologies if there are any mistakes, I am doing this mostly from memory.
cheers,
phoebe
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- phoebe s. ayers | phoebe.ayers(a)gmail.com
The Library of Alexandria (and Moushira and Abdel Rahman in particular)
helped organize and host an Arabic Wikipedia day yesterday... if I read
correctly, people contributed roughly 685 new articles in a day, and 4200
this month (increasing the project size by almost 1% in a day! and 6% this
month). I looked at a selection from today, and nothing seemed scripted,
/many/ contributors added new articles, including a number of anons. And
it's good to see that the obligations imposed by the heavier volume is being
taken seriously:
http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86http://www.bibalex.org/english/media/NewsDetails.aspx?NewsID=2278
I think Khaled Hosny and EGLUG in Cairo helped put on their own Wikipedia
day(s?) earlier in August. There was certainly discussion of
Arabic-language editing drives at Wikimania in Alexandria, but it's pretty
awesome to see it taking place -- barnraisings are a good spectator sport
(and motivation to practice a new language :-). Congrats to everyone
involved, browsing the results made my night.
SJ
(who heard about the event but forgot during the day, and was reminded by
the sitenotice when browsing ar:wp for something quite different...)