Wikimania-l February 2016

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Call for posters, discussions and trainings at Wikimania opened
by Ginevra Sanvitale 29 Feb '16

29 Feb '16

(Sorry for the crossposting) Hi people, the calls for posters, discussions and trainings for Wikimania 2016 are officially opened, you can find all the relevant links on the conference wiki: https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions The calls will be closed on March 20. Posters will be reviewed just to make sure that there aren't things which are too much out of scope. Since we have a whole village we will surely find places to attach them, even if we they will be a lot! Discussions will be managed by a guiding committee who will work on the wiki to meld all the proposals and suggestions. Trainings will be reviewed by the programme committee. Please note that we request that each training has at least 3-5 interested attendees in order to be put in the programme. By the beginning of April we will have a first list of all the accepted proposals. If you have questions we suggest you to ask them on the discussion pages on wiki, so that everyone will be able to see them (and their answers, of course). We are looking forward to read your ideas! Ginevra Wikimania 2016 Programme Committee

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Wikimania 2016 - Notifications of acceptance and rejection for "Critical issues" presentations
by Michele Lavazza 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

Dear all, this is just to inform you that the notifications of acceptance and of rejection for the Wikimania 2016 "Critical issues" talks were issued yesterday. In the next few days, we will work to upload the submissions and the evalutations to the Wikimania 2016 wiki. Thank you very much, best regards, Michele Lavazza (Wikimania 2016 Programme Committee Deputy Chair)

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Outcomes from the Consultation on Wikimedia movement conferences/Wikimania
by Ellie Young 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

The Community Resources team at the WMF recently held a consultation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Towards_a_New_Wikimania> on articulating the value of Wikimedia movement conferences overall, the unique value of Wikimania, and what new form Wikimania could take to better serve the movement going forward. We have completed analysis of these results and have prepared this report: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Towards_a_New_Wikimania/Outc… I will be working with the community, organizers, committees, and WMF in 2017 to begin set up and planning for an experimental model for Wikimedia movement conferences, including Wikimania, starting in 2018. Feedback and comments are welcome at the discussion page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IdeaLab/Towards_a_New_Wikimania…> Thanks to all who participated! Ellie -- Ellie Young Events Manager Wikimedia Foundation eyoung(a)wikimedia.org

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Wikimania "critical issues" submissions published
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 14 Feb '16

14 Feb '16

See https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Submissions The committee decided not to publish the detailed reviews. It's still a wiki and the talk pages are open as usual! I also added categories for the keywords proposed by the submitters, so you'll soon be able to create a wonderful category tree with the help of https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WantedCategories (once the cache is updated). Nemo P.s.: As you noticed, I addressed the doubts about the time required for copy-and-pasting and did the import by bot. This means that if you want to augment/change the imported data and practise http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/ you can do so with a patch: https://github.com/nemobis/bots/blob/master/easychair-submissions-scraper.py

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future of WIkimania
by Lodewijk 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

OK, it seems the WMF is decided - based on a (imho biased and pushing) survey of 119 people, without waiting for the experiments that Esino Lario is executing right now, the WMF has decided the future of WIkimania. You can find the info here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Towards_a_New_Wikimania/Outc… Given the three options offered, all suboptimal, it is unsurprising that people choose something like this. But if you want a fair survey, the 'outcome' should still be compared with the status quo (which may be preferable to people): semi-rotational scheme, every year with some level of bidding possibility. Because even when you take this survey as your basis, the differences were not that big (61 vs 52% in favour for biannual vs fixed rotation every year). Anyway, check out the page, there are some interesting thoughts out there, and I'm looking forward to step two after Esino Lario, when we know the outcomes of the experiments there. Lodewijk (not connected to this survey)

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Wikiradio
by Wilfredor 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

*Wikiradio* is a real-time audio service transmitted via the Internet. This service offers various stations, covering all genres of music and even including recordings of Wikipedia articles on different languages, all of which are available on Wikimedia Commons. Each sound is chosen by the community to be highlighted as some of the finest work on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commons. What is Wikiradio? Rather than listening to several audio files in Wikimedia Commons, which require clicking "play" one after another on each one, the wikiradio <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiradio> tools works not as a radio streaming service, but instead as a synchronized (with UTC time) set of tracks so that everybody can hear at the same time, simulating a radio. How I can add my station?[edit <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiradio_(tool)&action=edit&s…> ] 1. Create a page in meta with your dayparting <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayparting> with your music list like *[[Wikiradio (tool)/playlist/<my_Station>]]*ej: for clasic music station we have Wikiradio (tool)/playlist/classic <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiradio_(tool)/playlist/classic> 2. Edit the Template:Wikiradio (tool)/stations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikiradio_(tool)/stations> and add your station like *{{RadioUrl|<my_station>|<My_station>}}*,ej, for classic music we have {{RadioUrl|classic|Classic}} 3. Ready, now you can listen your music in wikiradio <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiradio> !! *Note:* Alternatively, you can archive your dayparting and ask for an administrator to protect those pages.How work Wikiradio software? Wikiradio load javascript pages dynamically from meta pages to make the dayparting. This is thus in order that the community can choose the music to be placed in these pages. Please edit the page of the station when you want hear your music. Some ideas for stations include the spoken Wikipedia <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/spoken_Wikipedia> audios, music by genre <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Audio_files_of_music> and topics like ambient audio <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sounds_of_nature>. But we can do it better. Hourly, a signal is heard <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Busy_tone_(France).ogg> to warn about o'clock hours, like a real radio :p. Even better we could add a "You are listening wikiradio, the free radio" spoken message every half hour, and other stuff. Each radio station load a dayparting from a wikipage in meta like "Wikiradio (tool)/playlist/<my_radio_station>" (ej: Wikiradio (tool)/playlist/classic <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiradio_(tool)/playlist/classic>) and it could be archived. Finally, the main station could use music to fill the gaps of a daily radio programming based on Wikimania conferences, wiki podcasts, etc. So, what do you think? Your help is welcome, picking new tracks for any station or suggesting your ideas. Thanks. (Soure here <https://github.com/emijrp/wikiradio>) See also - WikiRadio stations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiRadio_stations>

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