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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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Proposed prohibition of local uploads and deletion of non-free-licence working documents of Wikimedia events
by Deryck Chan 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

Dear Wikimania community, There are currently two discussions on Meta which will have a fundamental impact on the technical logistics of all future Wikimania bids. As many of you would know, working documents of Wikimania bids, such as letters of support and venue information, are conventionally uploaded to Meta locally because they don't come with a Commons-compatible free licence. However, currently there's no explicit "exemption doctrine policy" on Meta, so two discussions are ongoing, with the aim of deleting all Wikimania-related non-free files which have been uploaded in the past years[1], and to ban future uploads of non-free media to Meta including Wikimedia events' working documents[2]. [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Requests_for_deletion#All_files_in_Cate… [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Babel#Restrict_or_abolish_local_file_up… Since this would mean future Wikimania bids may not include copies of third-party working documents on Meta, these proposals will change the logistics of Wikimania bids completely. I therefore urge all of you to scrutinise the proposed changes and comment as appropriate. Deryck WM2013 local team PS. To those of you who also run chapters: the proposed changes will mean that chapter financial statements may not be uploaded to / will be deleted from WMF-hosted wikis since they're have an implicit no-derivative requirement.

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Accommodation
by Teemeah . 30 May '13

30 May '13

Hi everyone! For the dorms, is checkout on the 12th or the night on the 12th is included (and checkout is on 13th)? It was not entirely clear from the registration form. Thanks in advance! Kind regards Timea (Teemeah)

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[Press] : The Hindu : "Indian Wikipedians look forward to Hong Kong meet "
by CherianTinu Abraham 28 May '13

28 May '13

This article on Wikimania was published in one of the national newspapers of India, "The Hindu". http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/indian-wikipedians-look-forward-to-ho… It came on the rear cover page in many of the editions http://twitpic.com/ctib6k Regards Tinu Cherian On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India) < tinucherian(a)wikimedia.in> wrote: > > *The Hindu :* *"Indian Wikipedians look forward to Hong Kong meet "* > > > http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/indian-wikipedians-look-forward-to-ho… > > * It sounds like a motley group — a septuagenarian from Chennai, a > mother-daughter team from Salem, a computer engineer from Pune and a > medical student from Kozhikode. But the commonality these people share is > that they are among the 11 Indian Wikipedians — persons who contribute > articles to and/or edit for the online encyclopaedia — who will be > attending Wikimania, 2013. > > Wikimania is an annual conference centred on Wikipedia and similar > projects. It will be held in Hong Kong in August (9 to 11) this year. > > The website on the event (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania) says > it “… features presentations on Wikimedia projects, other wikis, > open-source software, free knowledge and free content, and the social and > technical aspects which relate to these topics”. > > At Wikimania, 300 to 720 people from 50 countries — including writers, > editors, programmers, photographers and Wikimedia Foundation staff — meet. > It is “organised by local volunteer teams, with support from international > volunteers, and the Wikimedia Foundation and other sponsors.” > > Sengai Podhuvan, the 75-year-old Tamil Wikipedian, who earlier edited a > journal on sports in Tamil, told The Hindu he had submitted a paper, > ‘Improvements to Wiki editing process’, for Wikimania. > > Mr. Podhuvan has added as many as 2,350 articles on Tamil literature and > science to the Tamil Wikipedia. He has placed in a chronological order > 2,000 books from the 17th century and before. He has added information on > 200 rural games that were played in the last century till 1950 or 1960 from > various States. “My own experience, my service, my childhood, these are my > source,” he said. > > Mr. Podhuvan said: “My hands are shivering. I can’t hold a tumbler or make > a cup of tea without help from my wife. But I can type.” > > Netha Hussain, the MBBS student, is a “pilot volunteer” for Wiki Women’s > Collaborations, a worldwide women-driven initiative which concentrates on > creating women-relevant content online. Ms. Hussain, who attended the Wiki > Women’s Camp in Argentina last year, said: “Not more than 22 per cent of > the articles [on Wikipedia] are by women. Articles on women’s health are > neglected because of fewer number of women editors. We want more women.” > > She has made 10,000 “edits,” of which 3,500 are for the Malayalam > Wikipedia and 3,500 for the Wikipedia. Though she has written on topics > such as the medical uses of saffron, mostly, she said, “I translate > articles from English, which is easy. But it is tough to find the exact > words in Malayalam. The dictionaries are not updated. So we have to use > English, Tamil or Sanskrit words [in the Malayalam script].” > > Arnav Sonara, the student of computer engineering, is looking forward to > meeting new people — especially those with whom he has been working online > at Wikimania. He has made 5,000 edits, including 2,000 for the Gujarati > Wikipedia. He keeps adding articles as the Gujarati Wikipedia has “only > 22,500” entries and needs more content. He keeps a check on vandalism of > articles. “I do speedy deletions. If new articles not conforming to > Wikipedia norms appear, I mark them for deletions. I keep an eye on them.” > Parvathi, a teacher in the Government Middle School, Kandhampatti, Salem, > said she would like to discuss many subjects, in Tamil, at Wikimania. She > has added 10,500 edits to the Tamil Wikipedia since September 2011. The > additions are to Tamil literature, scientists and “Divya Desams” — the 108 > Vaishnava temples. She contributed 30 articles to the first page and 700 > photos in a Wiki Tamil Contest for which she got a “Continuous > Participation” award. Her daughter, who has been editing for the past one > month, will accompany her. > > Wikimanias have been held since 2005 in Germany, the United States, > Taiwan, Egypt, Argentina, Poland, Israel and last year in Washington, says > the website. * > > > Regards > Tinu Cherian > press(a)wikimedia.in > http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news > > Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes > only. The publisher (The Hindu ) of the above news article owns the > copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. > > > >

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Bank statement from WMHK? Letter of Invitation?
by Nkansah Rexford 25 May '13

25 May '13

Hi, I'm from Ghana. I'm rexford. I'm sorry this comes off lengthy, but its something i've faced before so wanna bring it up. *Bank Statements* To enter many countries ( I don't know yet for Hong Kong), the embassy requires the bank statement of the inviting organization or the organization funding the scholarship awardee aside the awardee's personal bank statement. The bank statement is basically required so the embassy knows that the organization taking you out of your base country is worthy of caring for you during the timespan of your stay in the new country of stay. Irrespective of how big or small the inviting organization is, the bank statement is really essential for the consulars Last year, I that wasn't available for me from WMDC for 2012 Wikimania. I want to learn if WMHK has any arrangement for releasing banks statements - if not their global bank statement - at least with respect to the awardee, indicating specifics (eg, allocated funds for the person with respect to accommodation food, transport, sightseeing(if any) etc) Some countries are very critical about that (UK, US and other developed countries (I presume Hong Kong is similar) - Though they won't tell you directly that's why you were not accepted for Visa, in their eyes, it counts a lot. *Invitation Letter* I'm sure WMHK will send to the scholarship winners who wish for visa application assistance some letter(s). Seriously, such letters in certain parts of the globe, like my country, hardly counts. I will emphasize that, consulars in certain parts of Africa, including Ghana don't take letters seriously, after all, letters are today writable and signable by anyone anytime from anywhere. To that effect, such types of letters sometimes loose their weight and intent though they might be/or are legitimate. Its is very critical because of the number of fraudulent cases reported at such embassies. I ask, is there no other authoritative means whereby the WMF or WMHK can directly correspond with the local embassy from where the awardee is coming from other than just a sheet of white paper with black ink? Their corresponding with the local embassy is NOT to decide for them as to allowing their invitee to come around, but rather, to *re-emphasize the fact that* its true the invitee is really invited by an organization for blah blah blah. I believe that will rather be a practical visa assistance, if one will wanna call it that. Many organizations intercede for their invitees when they lose acquisition of a visa to travel. Their follow ups aren't meant to challenge with the local embassy, rather to impress on them and try to explain in clear and direct means what their inviting the person all has to do. It happened to me last year, thus my concerns. I couldn't attend WMDC 2012 I wish to be enlightened more. Thanks. rexford -- +Rexford <https://plus.google.com/107174506890941499078> | +Blender Academy<https://plus.google.com/b/103109918657638322478/103109918657638322478/posts> | +233 266 811 165 l BFCT<http://www.blendernetwork.org/member/nkansah-rexford-nyarko/>

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania-l_Digest,_Vol_86,_Issue_19
by luhigoa＠yahoo.com 22 May '13

22 May '13

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Contents of Wikimania-l Digest, Vol 86, Issue 16
by Calvin W.F. Siu 18 May '13

18 May '13

Hi Samuel, Thanks for your support and hope to see you in August. Best Regards, Calvin W.F. Siu Online System Coordinator, Wikimanin 2013 Hong Kong Organization Team 2013/5/17 <wikimania-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 01:21:44 -0400 > From: Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> > To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" > <wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wikimania-l] Thanks for a very smooth registration! > Message-ID: > < > CAAtU9WLT1b7bfq4BNyYvCZC1JLA16-8OvUV_HX7qzys5N7S-Lw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Dear Wikimania team, > > I really appreciated the simple, smooth registration and housing setup > - the smoothest process to date, imo. > > SJ > > -- > Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 >

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Broadcasting Wikimania 2013?
by Charles Andrès 18 May '13

18 May '13

>> another criticism is that it should be equalized for all Wikimedia- >> sponsored trips... last time, I believe it was Sue who mentioned >> that this would simply result in much less travel and participation. > > Less travel need not mean less participation. Take the money you were > going to spend on jet fuel and hotel salaries, and invest it in > videoconf infrastructure (some mix of software, better cameras and > mics, and even timeshare access to video meeting rooms in hundreds of > cities around the world). The whole movement would benefit from that, > not only those with time to fly. > Wikimedia CH already set up a videoconference tools for the movement, we use it during the Education meeting in Milan and it works well. Like all videoconf system, the bottleneck is the bandwidth of each participant. Manuel already publish a list of the material needed for a perfect videoconf, but actually you only need a computer, a webcam and an headset (a mobile phone bluetooth headset make a perfect wireless mic). The tools wkimedia CH choose is intend for on line teaching, it means that we have recording possibility, that box , desktop sharing (need java browser) and presentation display (open format or pdf are the most efficient) It would be really easy to broadcast any talks or workshop during wikimania, we only need at the minimum: -one volunteer per conf/workshop to broadcast with a computer, a mic and a webcam (not a built in, not convenient). If there is a real demand for broadcasting the Wikimania , Wikimedia CH can coordinate the effort. As a side note, wikimedia CH is asking from any recipient of a scholarship to provide a report about their "Wikimania" in order to share the experience with those who not attend. I think that in the future it may be fair to ask to all scholarship recipient to participate to a joint effort to make wikimania available for everyone in the wikimedia movement (broadcasting or taking minutes on ether pad) Cheers Charles ___________________________________________________________ I use this email for mailing list only. Charles ANDRES, Chairman "Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge – www.wikimedia.ch Skype: charles.andres.wmch IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch

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Wikimania, or other events done by a third party?
by Balázs Viczián 17 May '13

17 May '13

Hello everyone, Wikimedia Hungary has recieved an interesting "sales pitch" today if we can call a two liner that. One of the largest Hungarian travelling agency's department (or subsidiary?) for conference tourism have expressed interest in organizing a Wikimania in Budapest, Hungary in 2015 in cooperation with WMHU. (My understanding is that WMHU would be a content advisor or similar in it) They've expressed interest in individual workshops as well (of course). They've emailed us the bidding page for Wikimania 2015 [1] and the blog entry about the Program Evaluation Workshop that will be held in June in Budapest [2] (I guess) to underline their interest (and inadvertently highlight they're actively monitioring these events) I believe you already have the questions in your mind about this; here are my ones: 1) What if a third party applies to create an event? (like a workshop or Wikimania) It is not prohibited for a for profit company to create a bid, nor they have the necessity to consult or cooperate with any of the chapters (though it is almost certain that they'll get some wikip/medians to help with the content). There are many workshops and meetups where Wikipedia is being discussed or being the topic without having any wikim/pedians speaking or attending, but something like a workshop, or Wikimania would be an "internal event" (even if maximum possible outreach is the ultimate goal in the latter) 1/b) What if their bid is the best overall? Would they be allowed to execute it (a.k.a. being announced winners)? note these bids would not be coming from the local communities as they are coming now, but from outside. 1/c) What if such a bid comes from a country where is no chapter formed yet (or a non active or too small /or etc./ exists)? Given the fact that Wikimania is so far the best local outreach tool of the movement, creating one in a country with small, or struggling (for whatever reasons) communities/chapters could result in a huge boost of that community/chapter. (it would be nice to know btw the aftereffects of the previous Wikimanias on the organizing chapters if it was ever measured) 2) Could it be an option for future bidders to outsource some or (almost) all parts of the organization/catering/other tasks to a third party (outside of the movement) keeping only the content management to themselves ? The (future?) Wikimania Committee is in broader terms an officially not registered - internal - project company to help creating future Wikimanias in general. Feel free to add your questions, while answering mines and others' :) Cheers, Balázs [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015_bids [2] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/09/program-evaluation-workshop-budapest/

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