Hi Marc,
After our big success in the Dutch Wikipedia, and also the success of our
German colleagues, we thought of organising and shortly analysed the
situation and we came to the conclusion that it's mostly a scale problem.
In other words, tech support is needed.
We are very much aware of the delicacy it has.
I think however that it should not focus on only one person/project as
there are certainly multiple each year that should get attention. To me it
would sound better if there will be a video shown with the largest and/or
most successful projects of the past year so that we all can learn and get
inspired by all those successful projects.
Greetings,
Romaine
Op maandag 18 januari 2016 heeft Marc A. Pelletier <marc(a)uberbox.org> het
volgende geschreven:
On 2016-01-17 11:21 PM, Romaine Wiki wrote:
At the same time I sense something important is
missing. I miss in the
large plenary sessions the attention for specific users and their projects
that are of most value for the movement.
Yes, and no. I agree with you in principle (that is, the plenary sessions
tend to have too little focus on direct volunteer impact), but that is not
something that is missing by design but by lack of an actual session to
present.
I made a presentation on the featured speakers track in London that was
all about specific users and projects and it was very enthusiastically
received - by the programme committee and the audience - so it's clear that
there is desire to have such presentations. But they first have to be
proposed (please do so!).
That said, one idea I had been toying with for 2017 was to have an award
ceremony for the most impactful volunteers of the (2016) year - kinda like
Jimmy's Wikipedian of the year award, only selected by the community and
with a much wider scope. It's only half-baked, because it's a really
complicated and delicate thing to do *right* (who picks, how are
nominations made, how to avoid neglecting the non-english-Wikipedia
contributors, etc). If it can be made to work right, I'd make it a big
focus of the closing ceremony. And probably try to find where Philippe
found the actual physical barnstars to give out. :-)
And I'd very much like this to become a yearly thing; not just a one-off
for 2017.
-- Marc
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