(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
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)
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
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)
*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>