Dear all,
Wikimedia Argentina, in collaboration with the Wikimedia Foundation,
is pleased to announce that Wikimania 2009 will take place in Buenos
Aires on August 26th, 27th and 28th. We invite the worldwide Wikimedia
and free-knowledge community to attend to the event in which we will
be discussing the present and future of our projects, other wikis,
open-source software and free content.
The conference will run for 3 days, with an optional welcome dinner on
August 25th, and the special closing Wikimania party on Augusts 28th.
Besides the exciting conferences, we are planning a set of activities
for those who also want to enjoy Buenos Aires renowned nightlife. So
don't forget to polish your shoes to dance tango and reading your eyes
for a lot of sightseeing!
We will be opening the call for speakers and scholarship applications
during the following weeks, and the assistance registration in March.
News about the event will be published in the Wikimania 2009 web site
[wikimania2009.wikimedia.org]
See you in Buenos Aires!
On behalf of the organizing team,
Patricio Lorente
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Patricio Lorente
Mensajería Instantánea: patricio_lorente(a)jabber.org
Blog: http://www.patriciolorente.com.ar
When does bidding open for the 2010 Wikimania?
Last year at this time, bidding had opened for the 2009 Wikimania. Bidding
closed on February 3, and the selection was announced on March 28.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2009/Bids#Timeline
-Aude
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Aude
Hello
can anyone please give stats of Wikimania 2008?
I would like to get it for my presentation on a local conf on November 7.
I would like to get:
* Attendee stats
- the total attendee number
- attendees by continent
- attendees by nationality (top 5 or so)
- if missed on the above, local attendees (i.e. of Egypt)
- if possible, the number of attendees who got scholarship
* Budget
- Total budget
- The sum of scholarship, if possible
URLs will be appreciated, if available.
Thanks!
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KIZU Naoko
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Britty (in Japanese)
Quote of the Day (English): http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/WQ:QOTD
To announce the dates of next Wikimania: August 25 - 28, 2009.
Thanks Phoebe to remind me :)
Patricio
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Patricio Lorente
Mensajería Instantánea: patricio_lorente(a)jabber.org
Blog: http://www.patriciolorente.com.ar
Hello all!
The past couple of days I have been working on collecting information
about each of the Wikimanias, as well as documenting the history of
bids and conference ideas, to produce a concise and complete "history
of Wikimania" page. It's on meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania
If you helped out with organizing, remember what went on at one or
more of the conferences, or are just willing to help copy information
over from one of the Wikimania-wikis, please help fill this page out!
I want to try and get our collective knowledge about five years of
Wikimania written down in one place. Please also add fields for
information I may have forgotten, translations, etc. etc.
And my apologies if there are any mistakes, I am doing this mostly from memory.
cheers,
phoebe
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- phoebe s. ayers | phoebe.ayers(a)gmail.com
The Library of Alexandria (and Moushira and Abdel Rahman in particular)
helped organize and host an Arabic Wikipedia day yesterday... if I read
correctly, people contributed roughly 685 new articles in a day, and 4200
this month (increasing the project size by almost 1% in a day! and 6% this
month). I looked at a selection from today, and nothing seemed scripted,
/many/ contributors added new articles, including a number of anons. And
it's good to see that the obligations imposed by the heavier volume is being
taken seriously:
http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86http://www.bibalex.org/english/media/NewsDetails.aspx?NewsID=2278
I think Khaled Hosny and EGLUG in Cairo helped put on their own Wikipedia
day(s?) earlier in August. There was certainly discussion of
Arabic-language editing drives at Wikimania in Alexandria, but it's pretty
awesome to see it taking place -- barnraisings are a good spectator sport
(and motivation to practice a new language :-). Congrats to everyone
involved, browsing the results made my night.
SJ
(who heard about the event but forgot during the day, and was reminded by
the sitenotice when browsing ar:wp for something quite different...)
I woudl like to dedicate this thread to the Wikimania of your dreams.
No argument, no debate, just ideas, a giant brainstorming of what the
Wikimania of your dreams would be. Please throw your stuff in, and try
to make it only positive things (ie.write "something that's green"
rather than "something that's not blue or red".)
here is the Wikimania of my dreams:
-It would be in a city easy to reach, with a big airport and cheap
flights incoming because it's a huge hub, or it would be next door
(Frankfurt airport ;-) )
- It would be in a top-notch conference facility, with tons of plugs
everywhere, air conditionned if needed, modular conference rooms, all
in one place and close to the accommodation building (a mix of
Cambridge, Alexandria for the conference facility, Taipei and
Frankfurt for access).
- It would have a great outdoor and indoor community area, with wifi
that works all the time, with comfy couches as well as ground mats for
the yoga-types, with coffee, cookies, juices and fresh water available
at all times. (a mix of Frankfurt and Taipei)
- It would have all the accommodation in one place, close to the
conference grounds, or even actually _on_ the conference grounds, and
it would be cheap but practical, clean and modern accommodation, with
different possibilities - share a room, not share a room, share a dorm
etc. (a mix of Frankfurt and Taipei)
-It would have an amazing range of food for lunches, which would be
served in a big room where annoucements and meetings can take place (a
mix of Taipei and Cambridge).
- It would take place in a really "wow" place so that we get speakers
to *want to come* to speak (Harvard or Bibliotheca Alexandrina)
- It would be close to sightseeing stuff for social evenings as
"discovery trips".
- It would have an amazing party location and an amazing party with
dancers with rotating hat-thingies (just like Alexandria!)
- It would host up to 500 people, not more, so I can get to meet
almost all of them. :-)
- And finally, to steal Sj's idea, it would have a giant rotating
Wikipedia globe that people could get into and make roll around like a
hamster wheel, just for the fun of it.
Cheers,
Delphine
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~notafish
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Ceci n'est pas une endive - http://blog.notanendive.org
Dear Moushira and all,
With reference to Moushira's note below, I believe that you and your team really did a wonderful job. Believe me, I have been to four other conferences this last year--2 of them were international--and, in my view, the Wikimania one was better than the four of them in terms of organization, among other things. I and other presenters were not even able to access the wireless network except rarely in one of these. So, good job, and I am sure that those Wikipedians who have seen the Pyramids, Sphinx, and temples in Luxor, etc. have very much enjoyed them. For me, it was a great venue where I met many people who are working on Arabic open source stuff, translation, etc. whom I could never have met elsewhere.
Cheers,
--Muhammad
>I just signed up to the list to drop a few lines to the long thread of
> emails entitled: Re:Comments :). I believe I do not have much to say after
> all that was said, I can just clarify few points, but first: Majorly, I am
> sorry to hear that your experience in the country that hosted Wikimania 2008
> was that harsh, and I wish you a pleasant experience in the future
> Wikimanias. I wish the team could have made it better to you by any means,
> but I am afraid we have no control over Egyptian culture! I am sorry. Hint:
> The families that you used to see near by BA premises; they do not live or
> reside there and they are not homeless. They are patients and patients
> families that make it early to the public hospital that is next doors to the
> library. They are mostly from country side, travel long miles to reach their
> early, and they are too many that mostly the hospital does not occupy them.
> A local debate has long been taking place on the relocation of the hospital,
> but after all they are patients, they are harmless, and this is mostly how
> things are in our side of the world..
>
> On Wi-Fi: I am sorry if anyone had problems with getting connected, this is
> mostly for the uneven distribution of users; the access point of B1 was
> mostly occupied, while the one on entrance level and the level before had
> room for plenty of IPs. Relocating could have helped..I am sorry if that was
> not made clear on site, and I apologize and am sorry if anyone suffered with
> getting connected.
>
> Effeietsanders: Press Conference video is available along with other
> sessions here<http://www.bibalex.org/isis/Frontend/archive/Archive_Movie.aspx>
>
> Wishing Patricio and his team all best of luck with Wikimania2009..
>
> Best Regards,
> Moushira
>
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Muhammad Abdul-Mageed,
PhD Student
Dept. of Linguistics,
Indiana University, Bloomington,
USA
www.mumageed.blogspot.com
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