Dear all,
It has come to the attention of the Wikimania 2013 Hong Kong organizing
team that there may be confusion over the situation of internet censorship
in China and whether it affects Hong Kong. [1]
We would like to clarify that, although Hong Kong has been nominally part
of the People's Republic of China since 1997, the city-state of Hong Kong
retains complete independence over civilian affairs. This, of course, means
that internet regulation in Hong Kong is completely separate from that of
Mainland China, and therefore internet censorship in Mainland China (the
"Great Firewall of China", [2]) does not apply to Hong Kong.
We would like to reassure all Wikimedians, especially those considering to
attend Wikimania 2013, that *Wikipedia has never been censored in Hong Kong*.
Visitors to Hong Kong will enjoy, among other things such as exuberant
local cuisine and efficient public transport, uncensored internet
connection and unhindered access to Wikimedia projects.
We hope to see you all at Wikimania 2012 in Washington DC and Wikimania
2013 in Hong Kong.
With best wishes,
Deryck Chan
Global engagement coordinator
Wikimania 2013 organizing team / Wikimedia Hong Kong
[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-07/N…
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall
(cross-posted to wikimania-l, internal-l and wikimedia-l)
Dear All,
We have just published a blog post on Irene Lynch, a 78-year-old great
grandmother, artist, and storyteller who loves Wikipedia and has
donated $5,000 to Wikimania 2012. She's very passionate and plans on
attending Wikimania in July, so hopefully you will all get a chance to
meet her.
http://blog.wikimediadc.org/2012/05/youre-never-too-old-for-wikipedia/
Sincerely,
Nicholas Michael Bashour
President
Wikimedia District of Columbia
Washington, DC, USA
I want to live in university dormitory during the conference. It is said "We
are currently looking into reserving university dormitories. We'll keep you
posted!" on the
Accommodation<http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Accommodation>page.
I wonder more information about it, and if there're some limits (such
as only to WMF or chapter scholarship recipients). Thx~
Dear All,
Wikimedia District of Columbia is pleased to announce that we have
obtained a travel discount on Amtrak for travel to Wikimania 2012 in
Washington, DC, this July. Amtrak offers a 10% discount off the lowest
available rail fare to Washington, DC between July 07, 2012 – July 18,
2012. This offer is not valid on the Auto Train and Acela service.
Offer valid with Sleepers, Business Class or First Class seats with
payment of the full applicable accommodation charges. Fare is valid on
Amtrak Regional all departures seven days a week, except for holiday
blackouts, which do not affect Wikimania dates.
Amtrak joins United Airlines and SkyTeam Global Meetings in offering
travel discounts to Wikimania attendees. A discount of up to 13% is
available for travel to and from Washington, DC-area airport between
July 9, 2012 and July 18, 2012 on United Airlines, Continental
Airlines or and flights operated by other airlines and branded United
Express and Continental Express, and United codeshare flights operated
by Lufthansa and All Nippon Airways. A discount of up to 10% is
provided off published airfare for travel to and from Washington,
DC-area airports between Monday, July 2, 2012 and Saturday, July 21,
2012 by Delta Airlines, Air France, Aeroloft, KLM, Alitalia, and
Korean Air.
To obtain travel discount codes, please contact WikimaniaTravel[at]wikidc.org.
Sincerely,
Nicholas Michael Bashour
President
Wikimedia District of Columbia
Washington, DC, USA
And of course, thank you also to the Jury for your hard work!
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> > Awesome!!!
> >
> > Congratulations!
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> > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:52 PM, James Forrester <jdforrester(a)gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> On behalf of the Wikimania 2013[0] selection Jury[1], I can announce
> >> that we have awarded the conference to Hong Kong. Congratulations to
> >> the bidding team, and to the London team who also did a particularly
> >> excellent job.
> >>
> >> There were five official bids: Bristol, Naples and Surakarta, as well
> >> as the two finalists of Hong Kong and London[2]. The Jury and the
> >> bidding teams discussed them in three public IRC meetings in April. We
> >> determined that Hong Kong and London were the strongest contenders,
> >> and decided to focus on these two as the finalists. After further
> >> e-mail enquiries, and considering evaluation by Wikimedia Foundation
> >> staff, a final, private meeting was held to reach a final decision.
> >>
> >> The Jury was pleased by the high quality in both the final bids, and
> >> required over three hours' discussion to reach the final verdict. We
> >> considered each bid according to the criteria[3], focussing on
> >> following factors: Venue, Program, Geo-location & Logistics, Local
> >> Opportunities, Accommodations, Team & Chapter, and Budget & Finances.
> >> We found consensus that the Hong Kong bid was the stronger, especially
> >> because of their strong advance planning; solid support by the local
> >> Wikimedia Chapter, the community, local government, and a partner
> >> organisation that is experienced in planning conferences; and their
> >> good combination of venue and accommodation.
> >>
> >> The Jury has confidence that the Hong Kong bidding team will pull off
> >> a magnificent Wikimania, and we are pleased for our global community
> >> to return to Asia once again. With a motivated group of volunteers who
> >> have experience in organizing smaller Wikimedia activities, and a
> >> partner with experience in organizing larger-scale events, they have
> >> found a good mix to create a successful conference. The Jury did also
> >> identify some weaker points in each the bids, and will be happy to
> >> share those privately with the teams so that the Hong Kong team can
> >> use that to their advantage in organizing Wikimania 2013, and the
> >> other teams can use the feedback to improve their bids for a future
> >> year.
> >>
> >> We thank all candidate teams - the process is gruelling and requires a
> >> very substantial time investment. They are all to be commended for
> >> their submissions.
> >>
> >> To use this soap-box for a moment, as Moderator I would like to remind
> >> the community that we hope that this time was the last that we use
> >> this ad-hoc process to decide on the Wikimania venue, and encourage
> >> everyone to engage with the discussion on Meta[4] about how we might
> >> select Wikimania 2014 and beyond in a more open, community-led way.
> >> Please, do join in the discussions.
> >>
> >> Yours,
> >>
> >> James Forrester
> >> Moderator, Wikimania 2013 Jury
> >> For the Wikimania 2013 Jury
> >>
> >> [0] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013
> >> [1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_jury
> >> [2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_bids
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On behalf of the Wikimania 2013[0] selection Jury[1], I can announce
that we have awarded the conference to Hong Kong. Congratulations to
the bidding team, and to the London team who also did a particularly
excellent job.
There were five official bids: Bristol, Naples and Surakarta, as well
as the two finalists of Hong Kong and London[2]. The Jury and the
bidding teams discussed them in three public IRC meetings in April. We
determined that Hong Kong and London were the strongest contenders,
and decided to focus on these two as the finalists. After further
e-mail enquiries, and considering evaluation by Wikimedia Foundation
staff, a final, private meeting was held to reach a final decision.
The Jury was pleased by the high quality in both the final bids, and
required over three hours' discussion to reach the final verdict. We
considered each bid according to the criteria[3], focussing on
following factors: Venue, Program, Geo-location & Logistics, Local
Opportunities, Accommodations, Team & Chapter, and Budget & Finances.
We found consensus that the Hong Kong bid was the stronger, especially
because of their strong advance planning; solid support by the local
Wikimedia Chapter, the community, local government, and a partner
organisation that is experienced in planning conferences; and their
good combination of venue and accommodation.
The Jury has confidence that the Hong Kong bidding team will pull off
a magnificent Wikimania, and we are pleased for our global community
to return to Asia once again. With a motivated group of volunteers who
have experience in organizing smaller Wikimedia activities, and a
partner with experience in organizing larger-scale events, they have
found a good mix to create a successful conference. The Jury did also
identify some weaker points in each the bids, and will be happy to
share those privately with the teams so that the Hong Kong team can
use that to their advantage in organizing Wikimania 2013, and the
other teams can use the feedback to improve their bids for a future
year.
We thank all candidate teams - the process is gruelling and requires a
very substantial time investment. They are all to be commended for
their submissions.
To use this soap-box for a moment, as Moderator I would like to remind
the community that we hope that this time was the last that we use
this ad-hoc process to decide on the Wikimania venue, and encourage
everyone to engage with the discussion on Meta[4] about how we might
select Wikimania 2014 and beyond in a more open, community-led way.
Please, do join in the discussions.
Yours,
James Forrester
Moderator, Wikimania 2013 Jury
For the Wikimania 2013 Jury
[0] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013
[1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_jury
[2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_bids
[3] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_judging_criteria
[4] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Advisory_Group
--
James D. Forrester
jdforrester(a)wikimedia.org | jdforrester(a)gmail.com
[[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
Congratulations to Hong Kong on your successful bid.
Sent from my iPhone
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> On behalf of the Wikimania 2013[0] selection Jury[1], I can announce
> that we have awarded the conference to Hong Kong. Congratulations to
> the bidding team, and to the London team who also did a particularly
> excellent job.
>
> There were five official bids: Bristol, Naples and Surakarta, as well
> as the two finalists of Hong Kong and London[2]. The Jury and the
> bidding teams discussed them in three public IRC meetings in April. We
> determined that Hong Kong and London were the strongest contenders,
> and decided to focus on these two as the finalists. After further
> e-mail enquiries, and considering evaluation by Wikimedia Foundation
> staff, a final, private meeting was held to reach a final decision.
>
> The Jury was pleased by the high quality in both the final bids, and
> required over three hours' discussion to reach the final verdict. We
> considered each bid according to the criteria[3], focussing on
> following factors: Venue, Program, Geo-location & Logistics, Local
> Opportunities, Accommodations, Team & Chapter, and Budget & Finances.
> We found consensus that the Hong Kong bid was the stronger, especially
> because of their strong advance planning; solid support by the local
> Wikimedia Chapter, the community, local government, and a partner
> organisation that is experienced in planning conferences; and their
> good combination of venue and accommodation.
>
> The Jury has confidence that the Hong Kong bidding team will pull off
> a magnificent Wikimania, and we are pleased for our global community
> to return to Asia once again. With a motivated group of volunteers who
> have experience in organizing smaller Wikimedia activities, and a
> partner with experience in organizing larger-scale events, they have
> found a good mix to create a successful conference. The Jury did also
> identify some weaker points in each the bids, and will be happy to
> share those privately with the teams so that the Hong Kong team can
> use that to their advantage in organizing Wikimania 2013, and the
> other teams can use the feedback to improve their bids for a future
> year.
>
> We thank all candidate teams - the process is gruelling and requires a
> very substantial time investment. They are all to be commended for
> their submissions.
>
> To use this soap-box for a moment, as Moderator I would like to remind
> the community that we hope that this time was the last that we use
> this ad-hoc process to decide on the Wikimania venue, and encourage
> everyone to engage with the discussion on Meta[4] about how we might
> select Wikimania 2014 and beyond in a more open, community-led way.
> Please, do join in the discussions.
>
> Yours,
>
> James Forrester
> Moderator, Wikimania 2013 Jury
> For the Wikimania 2013 Jury
>
> [0] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013
> [1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_jury
> [2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_bids
> [3] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_judging_criteria
> [4] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Advisory_Group
> --
> James D. Forrester
> jdforrester(a)wikimedia.org | jdforrester(a)gmail.com
> [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
>
>
>
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> Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 20:02:19 -0400
> From: Osmar Valdebenito <osmar(a)wikimediachile.cl>
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> Congratulations to Hong Kong!
>
> El 02-05-2012 19:52, "James Forrester" <jdforrester(a)gmail.com> escribi?:
>
> On behalf of the Wikimania 2013[0] selection Jury[1], I can announce
> that we have awarded the conference to Hong Kong. Congratulations to
> the bidding team, and to the London team who also did a particularly
> excellent job.
>
> There were five official bids: Bristol, Naples and Surakarta, as well
> as the two finalists of Hong Kong and London[2]. The Jury and the
> bidding teams discussed them in three public IRC meetings in April. We
> determined that Hong Kong and London were the strongest contenders,
> and decided to focus on these two as the finalists. After further
> e-mail enquiries, and considering evaluation by Wikimedia Foundation
> staff, a final, private meeting was held to reach a final decision.
>
> The Jury was pleased by the high quality in both the final bids, and
> required over three hours' discussion to reach the final verdict. We
> considered each bid according to the criteria[3], focussing on
> following factors: Venue, Program, Geo-location & Logistics, Local
> Opportunities, Accommodations, Team & Chapter, and Budget & Finances.
> We found consensus that the Hong Kong bid was the stronger, especially
> because of their strong advance planning; solid support by the local
> Wikimedia Chapter, the community, local government, and a partner
> organisation that is experienced in planning conferences; and their
> good combination of venue and accommodation.
>
> The Jury has confidence that the Hong Kong bidding team will pull off
> a magnificent Wikimania, and we are pleased for our global community
> to return to Asia once again. With a motivated group of volunteers who
> have experience in organizing smaller Wikimedia activities, and a
> partner with experience in organizing larger-scale events, they have
> found a good mix to create a successful conference. The Jury did also
> identify some weaker points in each the bids, and will be happy to
> share those privately with the teams so that the Hong Kong team can
> use that to their advantage in organizing Wikimania 2013, and the
> other teams can use the feedback to improve their bids for a future
> year.
>
> We thank all candidate teams - the process is gruelling and requires a
> very substantial time investment. They are all to be commended for
> their submissions.
>
> To use this soap-box for a moment, as Moderator I would like to remind
> the community that we hope that this time was the last that we use
> this ad-hoc process to decide on the Wikimania venue, and encourage
> everyone to engage with the discussion on Meta[4] about how we might
> select Wikimania 2014 and beyond in a more open, community-led way.
> Please, do join in the discussions.
>
> Yours,
>
> James Forrester
> Moderator, Wikimania 2013 Jury
> For the Wikimania 2013 Jury
>
> [0] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013
> [1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_jury
> [2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_bids
> [3] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_judging_criteria
> [4] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Advisory_Group
> --
> James D. Forrester
> jdforrester(a)wikimedia.org | jdforrester(a)gmail.com
> [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
>
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Hello!
I have posted links to the room reservation forms for our two hotel
options in DC: <http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Accommodation>.
The two hotels we have group deals with are the Dupont Circle Hotel
and the State Plaza Hotel. The Dupont Circle is an incredibly cool
hotel with everything a traveling Wikimedian could want. The State
Plaza Hotel is not as awesome, but it is three blocks away from the
venue and costs less. (It's still a good hotel, all things
considered.) With both hotels, you are allowed to have a second person
stay with you for no additional cost—that way, you can split the costs
with someone.
We also have a sizable reservation at Hostelling International, but
due to the many people receiving scholarships we cannot open that
option up to the public right now.
We will be adding more options later, including more low-cost rooms as
well as links to cheap hotels in the suburbs. I understand that cost
is an issue for many attendees, so we are working to find
accommodations that will work for everyone.
Regards,
James Hare
Coordinator, Wikimania 2012
Hi,
http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule
Great to see that Wikimania 2012 schedule is almost complete..
But I wonder, 7 simulating session is not too much (specifically on the
last day)? what can make session half empty when all the participation
split to 7 different rooms...
But great work!, can wait for D.C 2012!
Itzik