Wikimania-l July 2012

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AUTO: Nathan Brewer is out of the office (returning 07/30/2012)
by n.w.brewer＠ieee.org 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

I am out of the office until 07/30/2012. Note: This is an automated response to your message "[Wikimania-l] Keeping in touch" sent on 7/27/2012 10:16:08 AM. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

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Keeping in touch
by Charles Gregory 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

Hi everyone, I couldn't find a suitable page on the wm2012 wiki for this .. but I thought I would invite people who I met during Wikimania to connect on various social media platforms: http://facebook.com/chuqtas http://twitter.com/chuqtas http://www.linkedin.com/in/chuqtas http://gplus.to/chuqtas http://identi.ca/chuq Please add me on whichever you deem appropriate. Note if I don't recognise you I might not accept the request, so please send me a note telling me who you are if you think it might not be obvious! In case anyone isn't sure, I was the slightly bald Australian, who you may have met at: - Wikipedia Takes Manhattan (6th-8th) including Wiki Worlds Fair (7th) - WCA meeting (11th) - Google Reception (11th) and subsequent city walk with Katie - Wikia Party (12th) - Wikimedia Asia lunch (13th) - Buffalo Billiards (14th) - Unconference - Session with Andrew Lih which became a "newbies discussion" (15th) - Dinner with WMUK people (15th) If there is somewhere else I should be posting this, please let me know :) Regards, Charles

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Wikimania Scholarships process
by Jessie Wild 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

Hello everyone! We are in need of revamping the Wikimania Scholarships Process, and your help is needed! Please participate in the discussion on meta[1]: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/Scholarships Talk to you on meta - Jessie BACKGROUND: Every year, the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Chapters, and outside organizations sponsor the attendance of individuals to the international Wikimania conference. In 2012, over 150 scholarships were awarded to recipients from over 60 countries. These scholarship recipients were chosen from 1,113 applications. Each recipient was selected primarily on the basis of his/her participation in the Wikimedia projects and his/her future goals for participating in the Wikimedia movement. The scholarship recipients were chosen through a confidential application and selection process run by the Wikimania Scholarship Review Committee. The committee was composed by Wikimedia volunteers and one Wikimedia Foundation staff.[2] [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/Scholarships [2] For more information on the 2012 scholarship process, see the April blog post: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/25/wikimania-2012-scholarships/ -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation* * * Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Donate to Wikimedia <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>

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Call for Participation: WikiSym 2012
by Brian Keegan 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

*8th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym)* August 27-29 -- Linz, Austria Call for Participation: Early Registration Deadline is July 29 The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym) is the premier conference on open collaboration and related technologies. In 2012, WikiSym celebrates its 8th year of scholarly, technical and community innovation in Linz, Austria. We are excited this year to be collocated with Ars Electronica, the premier digital art and science meeting that attracts over 35,000 attendees per year. WikiSym will take place in Linz, Austria at the Ars Electronica Center. More details about attending can be found at: http://www.wikisym.org/ws2012/bin/view/Main/Attending or by following the @WikiSym twitter account. Wikisym is a leading conference in understanding how individuals, groups, organizations and society can use information and communication technology to enable novel and meaningful collaboration and collective action. Researchers and practitioners from all over the world have gathered together in these meetings to discuss and display their insights into this important area of inquiry. The conference program will include a peer-reviewed research track, experience reports, workshops, posters, demos, a doctoral consortium, invited keynotes and panel speakers. As always, the participant-organized Open Space track will run throughout the conference. Evening social events will follow, becausewiki folks know the value of a good party for sparking conversation and collaboration. Finally, WikiSym co-occurs with Ars Electronica, and we are arranging experiences where conference attendees can enjoy this innovative and unusual event. Topics include all aspects of the people, tools, contexts, and content that comprise open collaboration systems. For example: - Collaboration tools and processes - Social and cultural aspects of collaboration - Collaboration beyond text: images, video, sound, etc. - Communities and workgroups - Knowledge and information production - New media literacies - Open source software development and use - Education and Open Educational Resources - E-government, open government, and public policy - Law/Intellectual Property (including Creative Commons) - Journalism (including participatory journalism) - Art and Entertainment (including collaborative and audience-involved art) - Science (including collaboratories) - Publishing (including open access and open review models) - Business (including open and collaborative management styles) -- Brian C. Keegan Ph.D. Student - Media, Technology, & Society School of Communication, Northwestern University Science of Networks in Communities, Laboratory for Collaborative Technology

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DO NOT FORGET UPLOAD MORE PHOTOS OF WIKIMANIA TAKES MANHATTAN!
by Shujen Chang 22 Jul '12

22 Jul '12

There're still few photos about Wikimania Takes Manhattan on Commons. Please upload more photos! And also expect for our group photos on WTM. -- Sincerely, Shujen Chang

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Thank you!!!
by Claire 20 Jul '12

20 Jul '12

This is a shout out to all the planners and volunteers and speakers, etc who worked so hard to bring us Wikimania 2012 -- Thank you!! It was great!

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Who took our group photos on Wikimania Takes Manhattan?
by Shujen Chang 19 Jul '12

19 Jul '12

I think we have some group photos at Wiki World's Fair and United Nation, who took these photos? Please upload them to Commons. -- Sincerely, Shujen Chang

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Off-Broadway Circus-Cabaret on Thursday Night
by Pharos 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

Hi post-Wikimaniacs in NYC, I would like to share tickets to this awesome Circus-Cabaret thing on Thursday night in NYC at 9:30pm (right after the Wikidata event): http://spiegelworld.com/empire.html I belong to a local theatre club thing, which means I can get these tickets for $5 each, rather than $59 each. I can get up to four tickets, which means the first three people who reply will be in with me. Locals are welcome too, but priority goes to out-of-town visitors! Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)

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Donate burner phone, metro smartcard?
by Kim Bruning 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

I currently have an AT&T prepaid phone with $3 balance remaining (balance rechargable), that I bought as a "burner". This phone is not very useful to me anymore, because the account will expire before I ever use it again. However, the phone might be useful to some wikimedia chapter in .us for guests? Who wants this as a donation? In other news, I still have a total of $30+ on a metro pass and smartpass, which I assume is not recoverable. Would wikimedia wasington like to have these as a donation? sincerely, Kim Bruning --

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in New York City this week?
by Sumana Harihareswara 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

If you're in New York for your post-Wikimania tourism this week: * Wednesday, 6-8pm, NYU bookstore: "Open House: Introducing the Espresso Book Machine" (demonstration, Q&A, & refreshments) http://www.bookstores.nyu.edu/events/ * Wednesday at sunset: Watch an old movie outdoors for free: http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2012/07/18/detail/lemonade-joe * Thursday at 6:30pm: See the Wikidata team present at the New York Times building http://www.meetup.com/semweb-25/events/72930342/ (hurry to register, only 9 spots left!) * Friday and Saturday nights, 10:30pm, whirlwind theatrical act "Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind", USD 12-18 http://www.nyneofuturists.org/ * Any daytime: stroll along The High Line elevated park: http://www.thehighline.org/ * Anytime: great view from the Roosevelt Island tram/funicular for USD2.25, the cost of one MetroCard swipe: http://www.rioc.com/transportation.htm (the south half of Roosevelt Island itself is a fun walk) * Evenings: Ward III, a bar with awesome bespoke cocktails (including nonalcoholic drinks): http://www.ward3tribeca.com/ -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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