Hello,
I work in a French academic lab where some people could be interested in
attending Wikimania. Is there an advertising public notice I could print and
hang in the lab? Thanks.
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Guillaume Paumier
[[m:User:guillom]]
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have
imagined." Henry David Thoreau
Dear Wikimedians,
The local information pages (including "about Taipei", and "local
transportation") have been completed on the official website of Wikimania
2007. Please take a look and I think many questions will be solved after you
read them.
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Local_information
Translation to other languages is welcome too.
Cheers,
Theodoranian
Hello all,
Attended the Recent Changes Camp in Montreal last May. This was a bilingual event (French and English). During the camp, there was some discussion about how to leverage the fact that many of the attendees spoke both languages and might be able to provide real-time translation for those who don't.
I wonder if we could do something like that for WikiMania, say to provide Chinese <-> English translations?
Here's a scenario that illustrates how this might work.
There are two projectors in the conference room.
One projector displays the slides of the speaker, the other one displays a web browser with a session of SynchEdit opened.
Note: SynchEdit is a web-based collaborative synchronous editor. Many people can simulataneously edit the same document using no more than a web browser. Changes made by any of those users appear in the copies seen by all other users.
The speaker, let's call him Jin-Hai, starts speaking in Chinese. Immediately, a person in the room who speaks Chinese and English, let's call her Yu-Bi, spontaneously starts typing the English translation of the first sentence into SynchEdit (she has a laptop connected to this SynchEdit session using the wireless connection provided at the conference).
After a few seconds, Yu-Bi is running behind. So another person in the room, call him Ming-Li, spontaneously starts typing the translation of the second sentence below the text that Yu-Bi is typing. Two other volunteer translators join it. The four of them are able together to keep up, and still follow the talk.
Then, John from the audience asks a question in English. Louise who is fluent in Chinese, starts typing the Chinese translation into SynchEdit. She's spontaneously joined by Yan-Yu and Xiao-Jian. Jin-Hai, the speaker, who is not that fluent in English looks at the screen in order to make sure he has understood the question well. He then answers back in Chinese, and Yu-Bi, Ming-Li type translation into English.
Could this actually work? I must admit, I don't know the answer. But it would be neat to findout. It's a very wikiesque approach to simultaneou translation.
Maybe it's not realistic to expect that people in the room will spontaneously start doing this and coordinate in real time. Maybe we need to recruit a number of volunteers ahead of time so that they could practice ahead of time?
Also, I'm not sure how well SynchEdit supports chinese characters.
Opinions, suggestions anyone?
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Alain Désilets, National Research Council of Canada
Chair, WikiSym 2007
2007 International Symposium on Wikis
Wikis at Work in the World:
Open, Organic, Participatory Media for the 21st Century
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/
Hello
On 8/17/06, Delphine Ménard <notafishz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have read the numerous comments on the fact that we should be
> planning Wikimania well in advance, and I fully agree that choosing
> the city for Wikimania 2008 sometime at the end of 2006 or beginning
> of 2007 makes perfect sense, and we have started working on it.
This email was sent in august 2006. We said it would be better to start
planning Wikimania 2008 in advance, and before Wikimania 2007 happens. As
far as I know, not much has been done yet. For the record, there are current
bids, but not many seem to be serious:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Bids
So, maybe "we" should think about it :) (call this email a "friendly
reminder"...)
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Guillaume Paumier
[[m:User:guillom]]
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have
imagined." Henry David Thoreau
Hi all,
there will be a meeting to discuss audio/visual streaming/recording
during Wikimania, including about remote participation for those
unable to attend the conference - this meeting will be in irc.freenode
#wikimania @ 23:00 UTC Wednesday (which is Thursday, 7am, Taiwan
time).
Details at: http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Audio/Video_Streams/Meeting
- please add ideas or suggestions - especially if you will not be able
to make the meeting. (Also, if the #wikimania IRC channel is
inconvenient, please suggest another.)
Cheers,
Cormac
Hello,
Are there any news about the acceptance of submitted papers and the
programming of the conferences?
Thanks,
Cheers,
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Guillaume Paumier
[[m:User:guillom]]
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have
imagined." Henry David Thoreau
Hello folks,
could someone please explain to me what a wiki is? And why
wikimania2007.wikimedia.org is a wiki? Because the reaction on
initiatives seems to deny the idea i have of a wiki...
(like [[events]] and [[tourism coordinations]] ... )
Just a quick note: If you want something new, I'd suggest to try meta,
and not wikimania2007... Meta *is* a wiki. :P
Thanks,
Lodewijk
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Ashley Wu