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Official Wikimania Logo Unused
by Nkansah Rexford 17 Aug '14

17 Aug '14

I couldn't spot the use of the official Wikimania logo in any part of this year's event in London, from signs to booklets to social media. As far as I know, this is the official Wikimedia foundation copyrighted logo for Wikimania: https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_logo_with_text.svg Didn't see any bit of this logo totally anywhere whatsoever! Any rationale behind? The logo used (or I saw) throughout this year's event is this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2014_Shard_logo_v3_with_l… authored by Edward. rexford | google.com/+Nkansahrexford| sent from smartphone

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Newsletter GLAM after Wikimania: today
by Romaine Wiki 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

Hello all, We are all getting back from Wikimania searching for things to do, in about 7 hours I would like to send out the newsletter This Month in GLAM, about the month of July. If any of you has done/organized in July, and hasn't written about it, please do so and add a view lines to the newsletter. You can start here: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/Newsroom Think also about the GLAM calendar: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Calendar/August_2014 http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Calendar/September_2014 It was great to meet many of you in London! Greetings, Romaine

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Is Wikimania for contributors?
by Matthias Süßen 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

Dear Wikimaniacs. Please excuse the provocative title. As you might know Wikimania2014 is over right now. And it was a great event and a big success. The program was very comprehensive and had something for almost every taste. But meta themes, technical and abstract topics imho played a dominant role. I think the most important part is still missing: program offers of (and for) contributors. There were some, but very few. The reason is undoubtedly not that there is a lack of submissions. There were a lot, but most of them were rejected. This is exactly what I do not want, and I believe it to be a development in the wrong direction. A welcome exception to this was Diego Delsos lecture "How Commons made a quality photographer out of me". Hopefully there are more such events in Mexico. In London we had a lot of sections, such as Education, GLAM, Technology, Open Data and Free Culture. Maybe we should add a fixed "Contributors Area" if only to ensure that events of (and for) contributors become an integral part of a Wikimania and have a guaranteed place at future events. Let's go back to the roots. I would be delighted if it were possible for Diego to hold his lecture again next year. It would imho also be an excellent idea if there were events like -how to take cheap images with a quality camera erm - I mean, how to take quality images with a cheap camera. -How to adopt a foreign country -Creating a bot for dummies -my first edit in Wikipedia ever. How people come to Wikipedia and why they stay. Workshops for Wikipedia editors, photographers, cartographers, illustrators and so on to mention only a few. Many people I spoke with demonstrated great enthusiasm, but they had the same questions as I. What do you think? Yours, Matthias Süßen |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Matthias Süßen Yorckstraße 115 28201 Bremen t 0421 69 64 21 68 c 0179 7 04 27 31 info(a)pixelfehler.de www.pixelfehler.de ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

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Wikimania 2015 video
by Ivan Martínez 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

Dear all: Here is our presentation video of Wikimania 2015: http://youtu.be/VRM-QDkfm1o Sooner will be available at Commons. Enjoy it!

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Is Wikimania for contributors?
by Matthias Süßen 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

Dear Wikimaniacs. Frst of all I would like to thank you for the discussion which has just taken place. Every human being is unique and thus has different requirements. For example, I am sure that it is extremely important for the contributors of an international movement to share their knowledge and experience with others. I think local conferences can't afford this. Some might not agree or have a different perspective. But imho the discussion showed that of these approaches have their place and their advocates. Thats why I suggested a fixed "Contributors Area" in the conference programme - with the knowledge that it will be very comprehensive. But today, too, we have to decide, which events we wish to attend. Yours, Matthias Süßen |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Matthias Süßen Yorckstraße 115 28201 Bremen t 0421 69 64 21 68 c 0179 7 04 27 31 info(a)pixelfehler.de www.pixelfehler.de ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

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The Wikimania Games Corner and My Takeaways
by Adi Khajuria 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

Hello everone, I hope all is well and you have all recovered from Wikimania 2014. In thinking about "The Wikimania Games Corner". I have a request to ask of everyone. I was wondering if we could make this a tradition that continues for future Wikimanias to come. I know that it's a tough asked, but here at we've proved that anything is possible when people come together to help out. Also, in thinking about it, I also have some takeaways that also apply not just to wikimedia, but to everything in life: Takeaway number 1: Be excellent to each other. (Yes, I realise that this is a "Bill and Ted" reference). Takeaway number 2: Encourage positivity and kill off negativity. Takeaway number 3: If you have an idea, don't just think about it. Plan it out and do it. I look forward to hearing about your takeaways from Wikimania 2014. Kind regards, Adi Khajuria -- My website: http://adistechsite.co.uk My twitter: http://twitter.com/Adiman423 My podcast: http://mhftech.net

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Some awesome presentations you should watch on video
by Lodewijk 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

In the evening/morning following Wikimania, I talked with over 50 Wikimedians, and took the liberty of jotting down their single favorite session. I would like to share with you the four presentations/discussions they thought you should definitely watch back on video. A more complete tally is available on this page at wikimaniawiki <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Effeietsanders/tally> with some more recommendations. The four most mentioned sessions were: - Maryana Pinchuk & Steven Walling, "Creative ways to alienate women online: a how-to guide for Wikipedians" (7 votes): *"Diversity I" video not yet available.* - Ralph Koster, "Wikipedia is a Game" (6 votes): *Featured speakers V on livestream* <http://new.livestream.com/wikimania/saturday2014/videos/58725492> - Tobias Lutzi, "Which law applies to Wikipedia" (4 votes): *Free Culture II on youtube* <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFX6xoeKtQE&list=UURXe4cgJPTVHcDH6ZGwOT3A> - Dimitar Dimitrov (panel discussion), "Liquid lobbying - how could Wikimedia change EU copyright" (3 votes): *"Free Culture VI" video not yet available.* All 'featured track' speakers are available on http://new.livestream.com/wikimania/ , for other speakers you will have to look at youtube and be lucky. I hope the organizers will be able to give these most popular sessions some priority while uploading videos, and can add the missing links. Looking forward to watching some of them myself, Best, Lodewijk

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Thank you for Wikimania!
by phoebe ayers 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

Thank you so much to the London Wikimania organizers for putting a wonderful Wikimania 2014. I want to recognize everyone who helped out: the core team who proposed the bid and worked for over a year organizing a vision and a team to carry it out; the staff at Wikimedia UK and WMF who worked on organization; the international volunteer teams who put together the program and multiple scholarship programs; the tech staff in-person and online; the on-the-ground volunteers who made the event go; all the speakers, and everyone who contributed. Thank you! Pulling off a major international conference isn't easy, and this one rocked. This was the tenth Wikimania (!), and we had a small session reflecting on each of the Wikimanias to date. They have all been different, but they have certainly all had commonalities too: each Wikimania is a chance to meet other people who are doing intriguing, wonderful things; to sit up late into the night brainstorming and arguing about ideas; to learn from each other about techniques for educating and talking about our projects; to hack together. More than anything, Wikimania is a way to recognize that we are part of a real community of passionate and dedicated people -- people who love to take pictures and write and code and learn new things and drink and dance and eat stroopwafels and talk and talk and talk. So, a huge thank you to the London team for holding a great event both for long-time Wikimaniacs and for a whole new group of people (this was the first Wikimania for hundreds of people, going by the opening session). I encourage you all to watch the videos of the talks, and to keep the "Wikimania spirit" alive this year by learning about new initiatives, reaching out to people you don't already know who are doing cool stuff, visiting a project that you're not familiar with and seeing what they're up to, and experimenting with new things. And I hope to see you all in Mexico next year! [[<3]], Phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers <at> gmail.com *

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Category for monkey selfie of Wikimedians!
by Subhashish Panigrahi 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

" <wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Hi all, Since yesterday, my Facebook wall has been flooded with monkey selfies. It i= s that media has hyped, there is a need for creating a category. I am propos= ing this and requesting someone to create a campaign that also keeps the lic= ense as CC0. Feedbacks welcome. Best! Subha=

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Session videos
by Andy Mabbett 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

I've just seen the video of one of my sessions, posted to YouTube. I'm surprised to find that the camera was running while we set up, and that this hadn't been edited out. I hope that will happen for the remaining recordings, and hopefully retrospectively - in some cases, people might have made unguarded comments, for instance Ideally, when these videos are transferred to Commons each presentation will be uploaded as a separate file. That said, it's great to have these videos available, and I'm looking forward to catching up with the sessions I couldn't attend. Presenters who have or are about to register for an ORCID <http://orcid.org> should include the video (and/ or their slides, if online) of their session as a "work" in their ORCID profile. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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