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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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Traveling to Shenzhen
by Filip Maljković 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

Hi there, I was wondering if the Hong Kong locals can give us some advice on traveling to Shenzhen after the conference this year, since it's so close to HK. When I contacted the Chinese embassy in Serbia, they told me that I'd need a regular tourist visa for China (which is somewhat tedious to obtain) or, if I want to visit Shenzhen Special Economic Zone only, I can get a "group Shenzhen visa" (whatever that is). However, About.com [1] says that for Shenzhen SEZ, one can just buy the visa at the border. Can some of you tell me what the reality is and whether you are perhaps planning on organizing a tour after the conference (say, on Monday)? [1] http://gohongkong.about.com/od/traveltochina/a/Shenzen_visa_main.htm Cheers, Filip

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2013 scholarships update
by Katie Chan 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

On 08/04/2013 17:50, Andrew Gray wrote:> On 8 April 2013 14:25, Katie Chan < ktc(a)ktchan.info> wrote: > >> That means you are eligible for scholarship being offered by one or more >> chapters, and have indicated in your application that you are okay with your >> application to be considered by said chapters. You will receive a decision >> when the relevant chapters have made their decision. > > Thanks Katie. Putting your other hat on, any idea when that might be? > > ;-) > For WMUK, days rather than weeks. :) Katie -- Katie Chan Volunteer Support Organiser Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0990 +44 (0) 7885 980 534 Wikimedia UK is a Charitable Company registered in England and Wales. Registered Company No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office: 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.

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Wikimania 2014 - Public meeting, Arusha #1 (2013-04-07) log
by James Forrester 07 Apr '13

07 Apr '13

All, The public meeting with Arusha happened just now; for those that missed it or want to review, the log is posted on meta at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2014/IRC_meeting_2013-04-07 Yours, -- James D. Forrester jdforrester(a)gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal capacity)

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Wikimania 2014 - Public meeting, London #1 (2013-04-06) log
by James Forrester 06 Apr '13

06 Apr '13

All, The public meeting with London happened just now; for those that missed it or want to review, the log is posted on meta at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2014/IRC_meeting_2013-04-06 Yours, -- James D. Forrester jdforrester(a)gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal capacity)

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Wikimania 2014 bid meetings: this weekend, IRC
by phoebe ayers 06 Apr '13

06 Apr '13

Hi all, Sorry this didn't go out sooner -- I meant to send a note to the list last week but forgot. Jury meetings with the two bids for Wikimania 2014 are scheduled for this weekend, April 6 & 7. London: April 6, 16:00UTC Arusha: April 7, 16:00UTC #wikimania These meetings are mainly for the jury to talk to the bid teams, but everyone is welcome to attend. Feel free to also post questions and comments to the two bid talk pages: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2014_bids/London http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2014_bids/Arusha details on process: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimania_2014_bids/London#Process_stat… thanks, Phoebe -- Phoebe Ayers - phoebe.ayers(a)gmail.com support Wikimedia: http://donate.wikimedia.org

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