Dear all,
Summary: Please share which topics you would like to discuss at Wikimania!
(feel free to forward this email to relevant mailing lists)
At Wikimania, I would like to try to increase the number planned and
facilitated discussions directly relating to the wikimedia projects (rather
than meta-discussions). For that we have (Thanks Ed!) set up the
'Discussion Room' as an experiment.
For a full day, we will dedicate one room to current, relevant and
facilitated round table discussions. However, to make sure we have current
and relevant topics, I need your help! These discussions will be round
table discussions, involving everyone in the room (ideally), so no panel
discussions where you can lean back and let a happy few do all the heavy
lifting. Therefore, it is important that you care about the topics!
*What topics*, directly relating to the Wikimedia projects, *would you like
to discuss at Wikimania*? Would you like to talk about 'Original Research
on Wikipedia'? Or maybe you would like to discussion about the perceived
hostility of the Wikimedia Commons community? Perhaps the way notability is
handled in different languages is more to your taste? Or mentoring
programs?
If you're interested, please do two things:
1) sign up as interested on the session page
<https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Discussion_Room>
(updates will be posted there too)
2) tell us the topics that would make you participate the discussion!
Finally, I am also looking for a little help in the organization - I need
one or two people to help with facilitation (if you know someone good, just
email me offlist), and it would be awesome if we could have one or two
people each session who can help with taking notes effectively - so that we
can summarize some discussion outcomes.
Thanks for your help!
Best,
Lodewijk / effeietsanders
Hi all,
Last year, I joined "translathon" session on a hacking day.
That session was, unfortunately, not so long one, but I could
enjoy MediaWiki translation with developers and other translators.
After that, even at a bar, we were debugging VisualEditor with
Japanese-specific bug on a laptop :-p
If there's anybody interested in "translathon" session, I wonder
if we could have a room or space for that.
Welcome, Wikipedia App, MediaWiki, Thank You Letter,
VisualEditor and more!
--Takashi [[U:Takot]]
Hi all,
Having reviewed capacity, I've released some more tickets for the
hackathon.
1. Hackathon only-tickets designed primarily for those that couldn't
register until the Paypal site was up, but then missed the first round
of conference + hackathon tickets.
2. Full conference + opening ceremony + hackathon tickets.
These are available on both sites, links can be found here
<https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration>
We are carefully monitoring capacity of the hackspace and trying to give
as many people a chance to be involved as possible.
Watch this space for more releases.
Best
Stuart
--
Stuart Prior
Wikimania Liaison
Wikimedia UK
+44 20 7065 0990
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----- Original Message -----
> Any update on this? There is a hackathon option on the PayPal page, but
> unfortunately not the credit card version, which is what I just used.
I realized after sending this that I could register my team for the Hackathon only on the PayPal version of the page. It took a bit of work to re-enter all that info, but it is an otherwise okay workaround. Hopefully the duplicate registrations don't make things too confusing for conference staff!
(And I noticed during this process that the set of questions on the forms is not quite identical. PayPal version doesn't ask for first line of the badge, for one thing.)
-Ck
----- Original Message -----
> We are working on increasing capacity for the hackathon (which is the
> principle issue here) and hope to make an announcement soon.
Any update on this? There is a hackathon option on the PayPal page, but unfortunately not the credit card version, which is what I just used.
I'm bringing a small group of Mozilla contributors and we are really counting on being able to attend the hackathon.
-Ck