Hi,
Can anyone advise which rooms have power outlets? It doesn't seem like
the main concert hall has any outlets.
thanks
Brianna
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Hi
I am unable to attend Wikimania due to visa delay.
I have a talk scheduled on saturday afternoon.
http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule#Translation
"A Review on Google Translation: ..."
1. Can I do my talk remotely? (Skype, phone conference?)
2. Or may be I can send a PPT along with a recorded audio file? (since I am
not sure of electric power situation in my hometown during the event)
followed by a phone conference for questions from audience?
3. Another option is asking a fellow Tamil Wikipedian to present.
I will prefer option 2.
Please let me know. I miss Wikimania :(
ravi
Hi folks,
After tomorrow's keynote speech by Sue Gardner, the Wikimedia Board of Trustees, now with new officers and a new additional member, will participate in an open public question and answer session in the main hall of the Wikimania venue.
After introductions you will be welcome to use microphones to ask questions, but you can also submit your questions in advance on this meta page I've created for that purpose:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2010/BoardQA
We'll refresh the page through the session, but please consider posting a question before we get started.
Thanks!
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Hi,
now I'm sitting on bed along a chest besides my bed, since the line is
too short for me to work on the desk and
it's quite annoying in particular for me who need to make talks from right now.
While I'm happy to have a connection - it's really great - if I can
work on the desk and a stable chair,
not comfortable for lying but not for sitting because it's way soft
and unstable for sitting for hours -
it's triple-hyper-super-more than great. Really.
So back to the subject: is there wi-fi connection is or will be
available at Doms? Doms I'd say, because
there are two doms (both are quite near btw) and I guess everyone
lodging at dorms would love to know that.
A digression but another interest of many people still: are there two
and only two dorms for maniacs?
If so, many people will just be able to come to the Music Academy and
pay a visit to two dorms (Dom Sonata
and Dom Muzika) just in a few minutes, instead of trekking with
luggage from the Philharmonic.
Witam!
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Quote of the Day (English): http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/WQ:QOTD
Hello, all!
I am the author of http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Interlanguage_links_in_… ,
which was accepted and scheduled by Wikimania 2010 program committee,
and, I hope, will be performed.
It's not a time to discuss such problems now,
but I have one request, or proposal, quite urgent, you will find it below.
Despite the antidiscriminational stance of the Foundation,
not all our users can attend to Wikimania,
even if they are physically able to do it.
These possible troubles include immigration concerns of authorities of the venue site
(this is my case, see http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Incnis_Mrsi ),
politically motivated restrictions,
social suppressing or intimidation of particular groups or individuals,
hostile climate or environment (though I am not sure that such case is ever possible).
Two previous Wikimanias took place in counties
with not so strong immigration policy as in European Union.
So, my proposal follows.
At Wikimania wiki site, let us make some visual distinction
for nicknames of users, which have both a time and a will
to participate in Wikimania (of a particular year),
but can not attend because of troubles mentioned above.
For my own case I propose a solution on JS, in http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Incnis_Mrsi/standard.js ,
it italicizes links to my nick and may be used in MediaWiki:Commons.js .
I do now know whether somebody else was refused to get in,
but the code may easily modified to serve a list of several nicknames.
Such code should be used in all subsequent Wikimania-year wiki-sites
with list of italicized nicknames generated for each year.
This may serve as a feedback to choose Wikimania sites carefully
in the future.
Some readers may think that I am a rouge whose entrance to Schengen zone
was denied due to some offences. It is certainly false.
Indeed, I am ready to prove that I have not
any negative track in my country of origin, nor in some other ones.
Thank you for your attention!
Regards, Incnis Mrsi
Hello all:
I've just been informed of some news by the person in charge of
conference accommodations. Those registrants who are awaiting
accommodation information and who have not yet received it by email may
come to the conference venue (The Filharmonica) and receive those
details after 1700 CEST.
Information as to how to get to the venue is located here:
<http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Venue>.
Thank you for your attention.
Cary Bass
Hi guys,
I know the "matter of hours" in my last update turned into a matter of
days, but much to my dismay, the issue of payment still hasn't been
resolved.
While we're working on this, however, you can go ahead and register.
The public announcement will come in the next day or two, once we have
this sorted out; those of you who choose to register now will get an
e-mail at that time with instructions on how to pay.
The address is: https://wm10reg.wikimedia.org/
Sorry for the delay, folks. Things will hopefully go exponentially
more smoothly as we get caught up.
Austin
I know Aphaia asked about streaming earlier for her group and was told that
it was going to happen (
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/2010-July/002034.html ) I
was just wondering if we knew what was going to be available to be streamed/
where we would be able to get it etc. I poked around the wiki (and a few to
many people on IRC) but wasn't able to find it.
Always possible that it isn't figured out yet but getting close so thought
it was worth asking.
James Alexander
james.alexander(a)rochester.edu
jamesofur(a)gmail.com
Hi John,
We're planning to have wifi in the venue, yes. A pack of Wikipedians without
internet... is like football fans without vuvuzelas. Or something.
For everyone making a presentation, however, I would strongly urge you (just
as a general rule of thumb) to bring a copy of the presentation with any
screenshots you need on your laptop or on USB -- just in case the internet
goes down at the critical moment when you need it to present!
phoebe
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On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 11:54 AM, John Dove <john(a)credoreference.com> wrote:
> Please excuse me if this has been answered previously. Will there be good
> wifi connections in the meeting areas as well as the housing?
>
> -john dove
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> January 26, 2010, upon learning of Credo signing up for images from the
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Hi folks,
For those who might not know me - I manage communications for the Foundation, here for my third Wikimania!
Some of you may be aware that the Wikimedia Foundation is undertaking a small production here at Gdansk this year, largely to coincide with the presence of so many of our project representatives from around the world. The intention of this filming is to produce a bank of footage of our project participants, and more specifically to produce a series of short videos that will help show the faces and personalities behind our projects. Much photography and video exists of our community, but this is the first time we're working to produce something of significant, studio-style quality that everyone will be able to use. We'll be asking some basic questions about how the projects work, particularly Wikipedia, so we can have interesting perspectives and practical knowledge - first hand from the contributors - to use for a variety of purposes.
The final videos will be CCBYSA, of course, and the timing of their release (late August, early Sept) should help us with some major upcoming milestones, specifically the 10th anniversary of Wikipedia, our next major fundraiser, and efforts to both bring in new editors and to provide a short, simple, and very good video that portrays some of the people behind our movement. We hope the videos can also be subtitled and localized by and for chapters and other groups interested in supporting the Wikimedia projects.
Over the three days of Wikimania you might be approached by me or one of a few staff or volunteers to share 10-15 mins of your time to tell us about yourself and your involvement with the projects on camera. The questions will be very simple - no special prep needed, just your honest answers and enthusiasm.
This is of course 100% voluntary, and because we're filming just off-site of the main venue (we've set up a small studio at the adjacent Maritime Museum), it will only involve those who wish to be filmed. This isn't a video project focussed on Wikimania specifically, rather on the people of the projects, and why and how you participate. A few other visiting video/media crews may be shooting Wikimania itself (besides the many videographers amongst the contributors), but this project is completely studio-based. Obviously if you are not comfortable having your likeness, username/name, and nationality used in a public work like this, it probably isn't something you would want to participate in. The final videos will be hosted on Commons and other video sites.
Because we have limited time over three days, we won't be able to film everyone, but we'll try to film as many as possible. We're trying to cover a spectrum of people, projects, personalities, and nationalities. We'll shoot mostly in English, but you'll be encouraged to add responses in native or other languages as well.
Jelly Helm, who was working with the Foundation at last year's Wikimania as well, will be back to oversee and direct this production alongside the Foundation. We're also working with a small film crew from Hamburg who has done some work on the topic of Wikimedia's projects before.
You can get a sense of the kind of production that we're envisioning by seeing some of the earlier work Jelly has done with a non profit in the US called Oregon Humanities: http://www.youtube.com/user/oregonhumanities#
I'm really confident that the final videos and footage will be very good, and highlight the people and passion of our projects. No one is better at telling the story of why 'you' contribute than you - and without a doubt (obviously!) Wikimedians know and speak about their movement better than anyone else.
The filming will take place Friday, Saturday, and Sunday starting at about 11AM and running through 7 or 8 PM. If you'd like to participate you can reach out to me off-list, or you'll probably meet or hear from me or some of the other folks helping out with this project during Wikimania. Again, we won't be able to film everyone, but we'll try to get lots. If this proves successful we may try again next year as well - particularly for the big 10 year anniversary.
Please let me know if you have any questions! Thanks in advance for your interest - hope to see you take part.
Best,
jay
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Head of Communications
WikimediaFoundation.orgblog.wikimedia.org
+1 (415) 839 6885 x 609, @jansonw