Wikimania-l April 2013

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by C C 05 Oct '15

05 Oct '15

Dear Wikimania, Are we allowed to bring guests along with us to the Conference? Thanks,Cornelieus Chen

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Re: [Wikimania-l] [Wikimedia-asia-chapters] Flights for Wikimania 2013 Hong Kong
by Butch Bustria 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

Hello, We would like to know how we can get a discount code on Dragonair or any carrier for flights within the conference period? Manila or Clark to Hong Kong. -- Roman "Butch" Bustria Jr. Vice President (2012-2013) Wikimedia Philippines Inc. ------------------------------ The information contained in this message is privileged and intended only for the recipients named. If the reader is not a representative of the intended recipient, any review, dissemination or copying of this message or the information it contains is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender, and delete the original message and attachments. Please consider the environment before printing this email. On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan <yuyu(a)wikimedia.hk > wrote: > yes, of course we will try in later stage > > however, I am not sure if you can asks for support for local > (as we did this year, and some ppl in the opensource industry willing to > support a few of us go to DC this year :) > > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Butch Bustria <butch(a)wikimedia.org.ph>wrote: > >> Jeromy, >> >> I hope you can extend asking similar support to budget carriers for those >> travelling short distance like us. >> >> >> -- >> Roman "Butch" Bustria Jr. >> Wikimedia Philippines Inc. >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> >> The information contained in this message is privileged and intended only >> for the recipients named. If the reader is not a representative of the >> intended recipient, any review, dissemination or copying of this message or >> the information it contains is prohibited. If you have received this >> message in error, please immediately notify the sender, and delete the >> original message and attachments. >> >> Please consider the environment before printing this email. >> >> >> >> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:07 PM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> The DC organisers havent done a good job of providing useful >>> information or services to other chapters. >>> >>> When scholarships are announced close to the event, e.g. like WM 2012, >>> the flights are very expensive. Donor money is wasted. When do you >>> expect registration will open? >>> >>> Also if WMAU chapter is providing scholarships, it would be good to >>> know how much discount Cathy Pacific provide, so we can check the >>> discounted price means they are the cheapest carrier, e.g. compared >>> with Qantas. If we can get cheaper rates, it means we can send more >>> people. >>> >>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan >>> <yuyu(a)wikimedia.hk> wrote: >>> > Well, the mechanism will work similarly as DC this year >>> > >>> > that when you registered the conference, you will receive a discount >>> code >>> > then you can buy from the Cathay Pacific website with discount >>> > >>> > that's generally how the thing work >>> > >>> > actual procedure may be a little bit difference >>> > so we will keep you posted >>> > >>> > (as actually I talked about the bid and the offer we got with DC team >>> in >>> > Berlin >>> > and they pick up and do it) >>> > >>> > >>> > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:17 AM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> is there someone who will be looking at/organising bulk flight >>> >> discounts with carriers who service many countries in this region? >>> >> >>> >> we should try to estimate numbers of attendees from each country. >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> John Vandenberg >>> >> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >>> >> Wikimedia-asia-chapters mailing list >>> >> Wikimedia-asia-chapters(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-asia-chapters >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Jeromy-Yu "Jerry" Chan, ARAD >>> > User:Yuyu | zh.wikipedia >>> > Advisor, Wikimedia Hong Kong >>> > ChapCom/ComCom, Wikimedia Foundation >>> > Communications Co-Head, Wikimania HK Bidding Team >>> > also Jeromyu on twitter, plurk and most of places >>> > http://yuyu.be/txt | http://about.me/jeromyu >>> > >>> > Tel (Mobile): +852 9279 1601 >>> > Lend us a simple edit, you're a Wikipedian! >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Wikimedia-asia-chapters mailing list >>> > Wikimedia-asia-chapters(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-asia-chapters >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> John Vandenberg >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-asia-chapters mailing list >>> Wikimedia-asia-chapters(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-asia-chapters >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Roman "Butch" Bustria Jr. >> Wikimedia Philippines Inc. >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> >> The information contained in this message is privileged and intended only >> for the recipients named. If the reader is not a representative of the >> intended recipient, any review, dissemination or copying of this message or >> the information it contains is prohibited. If you have received this >> message in error, please immediately notify the sender, and delete the >> original message and attachments. >> >> Please consider the environment before printing this email. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-asia-chapters mailing list >> Wikimedia-asia-chapters(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-asia-chapters >> >> > > > -- > Jeromy-Yu "Jerry" Chan, ARAD > User:Yuyu | zh.wikipedia > Advisor, Wikimedia Hong Kong > ChapCom/ComCom, Wikimedia Foundation > Coordinator-in-Chief, Wikimania 2013 > > also Jeromyu on twitter, plurk and most of places > http://yuyu.be/txt | http://about.me/jeromyu > > Tel (Mobile): +852 9279 1601 > *Lend us a simple edit, you're a Wikipedian!* > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-asia-chapters mailing list > Wikimedia-asia-chapters(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-asia-chapters > >

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Creating a Wikimania Committee
by James Forrester 10 May '13

10 May '13

Dear all, A small group of long-time Wikimaniacs have been working on the perrenial plan to produce a "Wikimania Committee" - a community group who would help steer Wikimania from year to year, advising each local hosting team and ensuring that the processes are open, transparent and community-led. Here are our drafts of what we think we'd want the committee to be like, a charter, and the resolution which we're submitting to the WMF Board: * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Committee * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Committee/Charter * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_resolutions/Wikimania_Committee Comments are very welcome; we're trying to get this done fairly quickly, and of course we will iterate these plans as we get feedback and hopefully more forward on the oft-stalled next steps. J. -- James D. Forrester jdforrester(a)gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal capacity)

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Maps for attendees & Local team's Choice (on food!)
by Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

Dear Wikimaniacs & Non-Wikimaniancs Learning from our experiences from previous Wikimanias & Wikimedia conferences we think that we shall provided a good online map, [1] to help you to familiarized yourself before you get to Hong Kong. We actually started this map during our bidding process, and we have made some updates recently, deleted some not related and out-of-date info Also considering the accommodations will probably be really scattered around HK, so we would also like to pin out the places where WM entities already reserved for their members or a place we know a number of Wikipedians will stay in, in order to make you easier to locate each other and find a place to meet. [2] A recent addition on the map is about food, the local team's choice. These are actually some local restaurants even the local team will visit regularly and they are not so expensive and with some stories behind so do read the description on the map. [1] http://goo.gl/maps/SfAog [2] in case you had booked a hotel/place to stay for an entity or a group of Wikipedians, please let us know by sending e-mail to wikimania-hq(a)wikimeida.hk, so we can pin your place on the map. We may later also add some local team's choice on Bar & drinking, if we can find a consensus on this as well. Thank you for you kind attentions -- Jeromy-Yu "Jerry" Chan, ARAD User:Yuyu | zh.wikipedia Coordinator-in-Chief, Wikimania 2013 also Jeromyu on twitter, plurk and most of places http://plasticnews.wf| http://about.me/jeromyu Tel (Mobile): +852 9279 1601 *Lend us a simple edit, you're a Wikipedian!*

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Call for participation ends soon & relevant input request
by Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

Dear Wikimaniacs and non-Wikimaniacs As most of you may aware that the CFP for this year will end soon, just almost exactly one week later So if you're planing to have your submission, and not yet finish yours please take your time to get it done. We would also like you to express if you are interested in attend any of the submission. [1] Such input will be really helpful for our Program committee members to decide accepting which proposals and also where should we facilitate these sessions, if it is accepted. Thx v much! [1] http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Submissions -- Jeromy-Yu "Jerry" Chan, ARAD User:Yuyu | zh.wikipedia Coordinator-in-Chief, Wikimania 2013 also Jeromyu on twitter, plurk and most of places http://plasticnews.wf| http://about.me/jeromyu Tel (Mobile): +852 9279 1601 *Lend us a simple edit, you're a Wikipedian!*

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Wikimania 2005 videos
by Erik Moeller 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

For a long time the video links on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2005_Presentations have been broken, pointing to some abandoned server in Amsterdam. It looks like the videos were never uploaded to Commons, perhaps due to file size limits or other limitations in place at the time. I just noticed that the Wayback Machine has copies of most of them: http://web.archive.org/web/20070720024828/http://www.knams.wikimedia.org/wi… Any takers for getting these up on Commons? I noticed that unfortunately files >100MB seem cut off including the higher quality copies, so unless there's other copies of these around, it'll be hard to recover them. (This may be a limit on archive.org's crawler, or it may be a limit on how much content they serve. I suspect it's the former, but will ping them as well.) Erik

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Wikitrain
by Seb35 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

Hi, I spoke in January of a Wikitrain from Europe to Hong Kong [1,2]. Now it’s time to precisely plan the travel and request visas. I am no more sure I will be able to travel given external constraints and will know it in some weeks (depending of the date of my PdD defense). But if other people are interested to travel, you can begin planning the travel and I will try to join if I can. Shujen Chang and Park1996 prepared a nice table with train options and they can provide assistance for the Wikitrain passengers (Wikitrainers?) in China. At the very least, the travel from Europe lengths 12-13 days (1 day to Berlin, 4 days to Moscow, 6 days to Beijing, 1 day to HK). Seb35 [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/2013-January/004435.html [2] https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitrain

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[Wikimania 2013] Too many people accessing the website at this time. Please try later.
by Butch Bustria 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

The registration website crashed in time for the last day of "Early Bird Registration" Too many people accessing the website at this time. Please try later. -- Roman "Butch" Bustria Jr. Vice President (2012-2013) Wikimedia Philippines Inc. ------------------------------ The information contained in this message is privileged and intended only for the recipients named. If the reader is not a representative of the intended recipient, any review, dissemination or copying of this message or the information it contains is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender, and delete the original message and attachments. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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Wikimania organization structure/style
by Jeremy Baron 14 Apr '13

14 Apr '13

Hi Manuel, et al., On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Manuel Schneider <manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch> wrote: > The question at hand is why people don't think about the consequences > before they act, why central notices are created linking to directly to > pages full of business logic without talking with the people who run > that page first. +1, I can think of one recent deployment I worked on where they kept changing the date and then once they finally decided on a date I was left out of the notification loop! On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Only > destinations tested for the load should be linked. You could build up gradually to the desired weight. But that's hard to do if they're going to show up because of a deadline rather than showing up because they just saw the banner. > Sorry, this discussion is totally off-topic. We have done this for a > while and it was never neccessary to have another extra IT just for > Wikimania. I'm not sure I agree. (and don't necessarily disagree either) But, I think the question of whether they needed some custom work or something different than what they ended up getting is a small detail. Maybe there was some public planning or discussion (or even something on the -team list) that I missed or somehow wasn't subscribed to. But maybe this is one more an example of how I wish Wikimania were more like DebConf (debconf.org). Typically I've wanted to apply the DebConf model to organization in general and video recording/streaming/etc. but I imagine this applies just as well to setting up a registration server. Not saying we should copy everything exactly nor are they perfect as is but I think they have a good model to learn from. With DebConf, more work is typically done in house by volunteers that are interested in what they're working on. (Much like the way enwiki works, things are typically done by people interested in making them happen because otherwise they're not done at all. There's rarely or never any paid staff involved and rarely anyone assigning work for someone else to do. People are given opportunities to find out about how something will work early and when someone wants to do something differently or thinks there's a problem with the something they are often invited to join in that work themselves.) Some work is necessarily done out of the public eye (e.g. some negotiations with potential fiscal sponsors or handling of private personal info about attendees) but that's the exception rather than the rule. Most work is planned and discussed in public and the organizing teams (which are essentially defined as whoever shows up regular and takes on some work) have regularly scheduled and widely announced public meetings. (for IRC meetings logs are published very soon after the meeting. for public meatspace meetings there is usually no recording but some basic notes are taken and published.) Some examples: http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20120703.022020.76785594.en.html http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20120701.233202.64f18798.en.html http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20120701.234402.d6ae00ac.en.html http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20130408.200353.623deacf.en.html Thanks! -Jeremy [[user:jeremyb]] Wikimedia NYC && Wikimania 2012

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Wikimania 2013 scholarships update
by Simon Shek 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

Hi all, All Wikimania 2013 scholarships phase two applicants were notified on 7 April 2013 about their applications finial result. If you have any questions, please contact the Wikimania 2013 local team at wikimania-p [at] wikimedia.hk or the scholarship team at wikimania-scholarships [at] wikimedia.org . Simon Shek Community coordinator, Wikimania 2013 / Wikimedia Hong Kong On behalf of the Wikimania 2013 local team and scholarship committee

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