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by abraheem bin-hosain 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

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FAQs and planning for wikimania
by phoebe ayers 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

Hello all, Wikimania is less than a month away, and I thought I'd point out again the great guide to local information about Taipei that the local team has produced: * http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Local_information It is quite comprehensive and useful, especial the info on local travel which tells you how to get from the venue to the airport: * http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Local_transportation Also the WikiTravel page about Taipei has lots of info on various attractions: * http://wikitravel.org/en/Taipei Finally, Andrew Lih and I are working on an FAQ page: * http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions Hopefully this will be a useful "one-stop-shop" for all your pressing questions about Taipei and the conference. Local information goes into more depth. Please add your questions to the list! And please chip in with answers if you are on the local team. best, Phoebe

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[Fwd: Visa on Arrival - for those who came across difficulties while you apply Visa to Taiwan]
by TzuChiang Liou 08 Jul '07

08 Jul '07

Dear all, As our previous notification, for those who have problem when applying visa to Taiwan, we're negotiating with MOFA to provide Visa on Arrival service, please take a look at this page, thanks. http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Visa_On_Arrival Two things that we need you help before you apply this service: 1.You should submit the documents to secretary Ms.Babemaco before 7/10 (the final deadline, we need some time to finish the procedure) 2.You must finish the whole registration process before you apply for this help, please attached your registration number when you mail to Ms.Babemaco regards. TzuChiang -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Visa on Arrival - for those who came across difficulties while you apply Visa to Taiwan Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:10:51 +0800 From: TzuChiang Liou <tcliou(a)iis.sinica.edu.tw> To: wikimania-planning-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Internal Wikimania discussion list <wikimania(a)lists.wikimedia.de>, wm07prepare(a)googlegroups.com Dear all, This's TzuChiang from Wikimania 2007 preparation team, I'm also working in the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, a governmental institute in Taiwan, we understand that there're some participants had came across difficulties while you applied Visa to Taiwan. To solve this problem, we, the Academia Sinica, will and right now negotiating with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) to regard Wikimania 2007 as a Special Case, and issue "Visa on Arrival" to those who have visa problems. If we success, most of the participants that have problems while you apply Visa could use "visa on arrival". The procedure will be: -- TzuChiang Liou, Project Manager, Institute of Information Science,Academia Sinica, Taiwan E-mail: tcliou(a)iis.sinica.edu.tw Mobile: +886-937835052 MSN: tcliou(a)msn.com Skype: tcliou -- TzuChiang Liou, Project Manager, Institute of Information Science,Academia Sinica, Taiwan E-mail: tcliou(a)iis.sinica.edu.tw Mobile: +886-937835052 MSN: tcliou(a)msn.com Skype: tcliou

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Saturday: Tourism coordination?
by effe iets anders 28 Jun '07

28 Jun '07

Hello all, Maybe it would be cool to have a brainstorm meeting on irc this saturday? We could think of what would be fun to do when peopel stay some longer in taiwan, and have maybe some Q&A with some people of the Taiwanese organization? I would like to suggest a session on the #wikimania channel, freenode network, on coming saturday 1400h UTC (that is 1600 CEST and please add the taiwanese time etc yourself)? I sincerely hope that a bunch of people who want to stay after the conf will come to the channel, share ideas and maybe make some appointments. I *also* hope very much that some people of the WIkimania organization can attend. Best regards, Lodewijk / Effeietsanders

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Wikimania 2007: Note for registrars
by Littlebtc 25 Jun '07

25 Jun '07

NOTE FOR REGISTRARS * Accommodation booking has been re-opened on 7th June, and will be closed again on 30th June. The beds left are limited, the organizing office will try to provide enough beds for attendees during Wikimania 2007. But if you miss the date of booking an accommodation, there won't be any guarantee for accommodations. Please notice the date and new booking policy. *Attendees registered during 15th May to 7th June who need accommodations, please send a message, mail to wikimania-registration at wikimedia.org with your name and how many nights you wish to stay at CTOYAC. Important: please indicate if you are a speaker or scholarship awardee in this message. *Each one who will attend the conference no matter you will need accommodation or not, PLEASE REGISTER NOW. (Including the speakers and scholarship awardees.) This will help the organizing office provide the best service for all participates during the conference. * NEW REGISTRATION and ACCOMMODATION BOOKING POLICY since 7th JUNE: for registration with accommodation, PAYMENT SHOULD BE MADE WITHIN 48 HOURS . Otherwise, registration and accommodations will be canceled by system automatically. Accommodations will be arranged according to the order of the time you pay. This is a waiting list, so there's no guarantee. The organizing office will try to do our best for all participates. *If you miss the timing to book accommodation, please contact with CTS-Travel. (http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tour) Thanks for your cooperation. -- Littlebtc / 笨笨的小B / 小犬 (Xiaoquan) http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%E7%AC%A8%E7%AC%A8%E7%9A%84%E5%B0%8FB

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Small posters advertising for Wikimania
by Guillaume Paumier 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

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. -- Guillaume Paumier [[m:User:guillom]] "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." Henry David Thoreau

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Film: Don't Get Lost
by KaurJmeb 19 Jun '07

19 Jun '07

I made a short film, Don't get Lost, to show how to go to wikimania 2007 venue from airport. I hope it useful for everyone. http://youtube.wikia.com/wiki/Don%27t_Get_Lost

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Wikimania 07 local information pages are completed
by THD 12 Jun '07

12 Jun '07

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

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Collaborative real-time translation at WikiMania?
by Desilets, Alain 11 Jun '07

11 Jun '07

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? ---- 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/

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Re: [Wikimania-l] [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2008 and reflecting on what Wikimania is all about
by Guillaume Paumier 07 Jun '07

07 Jun '07

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"...) -- Guillaume Paumier [[m:User:guillom]] "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." Henry David Thoreau

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