If anyone is subscribed to wikimania-planning-l, but not wikimania-l,
you may want to add yourself to the latter. Since it is the only list
the general public can join, it seems to be a good place to have
discussions about Wikimania '06.
++SJ
Since the jury has been speculating on why or why not people would go
to one or the other of the two shortlisted cities for Wikimania, a
page was started on meta to actually stop speculating and finding
reasons why *you* (not your neighbour, not your dog, not your
grand-mother) would go (or not go) to Boston or to Toronto. This is
not a vote, this is not even really a poll. Please help us by stating
your reasons on this page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Why_and_why_not%3F
[[m:Wikimania 2006/Why_and_why_not?]]
Thank you :-)
Delphine
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~notafish
(warning, cross post to many lists, thank you for not replying to all
- thank you for forwarding to the relevant lists)
Boston (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Boston) and
Toronto (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Toronto) have
been shortlisted to host the 2006 edition of Wikimania.
Wikimania 2006 will be the second international Wikimedia conference
and will gather members of the Wikimedia community acorss projects as
well as participants and speakers from different horizons to talk
about wikis and more. An overview of the 2005 edition can be found at
http://wikimania.wikimedia.org.
Contrarily to what was announced on the Wikimania page
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006), and due to tight
schedules of the jury from 3 corners of the planet, the jury might not
be able to meet and give its answer on the 15th october as was
planned.
This will only be delayed a day or two, please stay tuned for an update.
In the meantime, participants and others are free to ask/answer
questions on the talk pages of the Boston
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimania_2006/Boston) and
Toronto (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimania_2006/Toronto)
bid.
Best,
Delphine
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~notafish
Dear all,
The first deadline for Wikimania city is drawing to a close. As of
today, I count only 3 cities running officially, which will, I must
say, make it easier for the shortlist of 3 ;-), but which is sad
because the "unofficial locations sound pretty good.
See here at the bottom of the page for more info :
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Official_requirements_for_pot…
Well, if we have only three cities entering the contest, we might
decide to shorten the last round to about a week and make a decision
sometime next week.
I am waiting to hear from the "jury" about a possible time on Sunday
2nd October to have a chat/meeting with everyone involved, so please
keep reading this list to know more about what time. It will be on irc
on the #wikimania channel. The idea is to gather to ask questions
about possible missing information, discuss difficulties and
opportunities.
Stay tuned for more wikimania adventures.
Delphine
PS. "Jury" will be composed of the Board of the Foundation, Elian,
Akl, JeLuF, Austin, Sj and myself.
Cheers,
Delphine
--
~notafish
Dear all
what are a reasonable expected number for
a) total number of partecipant to next WikiMani (2006)
b) total number differenziating between wiki-users and external (visitors, press, etc.)
c) Number of the partecipant would partecipate for more than one day
?
What was these figure for the previous WikiMania?
AnyFile
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Hello there,
> We have been working up a bids for East London and Reading to bring
> WikiMania to UK in 2006, and I see Toronto have also put in a strong
> bid.
>
> But I can also see Cleveland on a different page! I have just
> discovered their bid today!
>
> Where are
> 1) the planned bids
> 2) the official bids
>
> exactly on WikiPedia? Should everything be moved to MetaWiki now??
>
> Also, what are the deadlines for Wikimania 2006? Where are they
> stated precisely?
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Gordon Joly, East London
> aka
> LoopZilla
The bidding process has started at the beginning of this month. (see
here: http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2005-September/004184.html)
All bids should be on meta and follow the rules explained here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Official_requirements_for_pot…,
that's also where you will find the official bids, if they are listed,
of course (I just added Cleveland to the list ;-) )
Thank you and hurray for the first European applications!
Best,
Delphine
--
~notafish
Greetings,
We have been working up a bids for East London and Reading to bring
WikiMania to UK in 2006, and I see Toronto have also put in a strong
bid.
But I can also see Cleveland on a different page! I have just
discovered their bid today!
Where are
1) the planned bids
2) the official bids
exactly on WikiPedia? Should everything be moved to MetaWiki now??
Also, what are the deadlines for Wikimania 2006? Where are they
stated precisely?
Many thanks!
Gordon Joly, East London
aka
LoopZilla
--
"Think Feynman"/////////
http://pobox.com/~gordo/
gordon.joly(a)pobox.com///
Dear Friends,
I'm writing to you (originally intended to some administrator os
wikimedia) after a suggestion by Luis Arias, of Xwiki.org.
We (Andrea Sterbini, Marco Temperini and myself) are researchers in
Italian universities (AS and MT are computer scientists in Rome, and I
am a physicists in Florence).
AS is collaborating in the development of TWiki, and with MT is
interested in collaborative software and lazy management. I am mainly
interested in self-organization but I'm also developing web tools for
teaching.
We all are interested in wikis, in how the wiki technology may be used
in enterprises, formation and education and in the patterns that arise
among users.
We were thinking in concretizing our interests (mainly developed
extra-work) in an European project, with the goal of to studying some
real test cases (we have contributed in setting up a few of them, others
may be easily found), expecially where the wiki concept is unknown (and
Italy is particularly full of such examples).
An abstract of the project may be found at
http://www.complex.unifi.it/twiki/bin/view/Projects/ProgettoALACRE
There is a call of the European Community well suited for this goal
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/workprogramme/wp0506_en/2_5_9.htm
(Collaborative Working Environments)
But we miss international partners and it is quite late (the deadline is
the 21th of september).
However, we are intersted in carrying on this investigation. Since all
of you have a large experience on wikis, you may have suggestions and
comments that are welcome.
Best wishes
--
Franco Bagnoli <franco.bagnoli(a)unifi.it>
Dipartimento di Energetica & Centro Dinamiche Complesse
Universita' di Firenze, via S. Marta, 3 I-50139 Firenze, Italy.
Tel. +39 0554796592, fax: +39 0554796342
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I've seen this ML listed a few times in the past 24 hours or so now, but
the archive protests its desolate emptiness; have there been no posts,
or is the ML script borked?
Anyway. Bids. In by the 14th of September, apparently? And should
contain travel/visa considersations, too? Hmm. Sounds fun. :-)
I hereby would also like to volunteer to help out in any effort,
regardless of city; though exhausting, it was very enjoyable helping out
(in my very minor way) at WM2005.
Yours sincerely,
- --
James D. Forrester
Wikimedia : [[W:en:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
E-Mail : james(a)jdforrester.org
IM (MSN) : jamesdforrester(a)hotmail.com
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James D. Forrester
Wikimedia : [[W:en:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
E-Mail : james(a)jdforrester.org
IM (MSN) : jamesdforrester(a)hotmail.com