I feel Wikimania is big enough that we could put a generic “Wikimania is happening, stream it over here” thing up as a notice without too many complaints. My concerns would lie in that we’re trying, to the best of my knowledge, to prevent this becoming an enwiki-focused affair, which in honesty has threatened to be the case over the past few years.

best,
Joe

On 15 April 2014 at 02:03:06 pm, Andrew Gray (andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk) wrote:

Among other issues, pretty much anything in a CentralNotice leads to someone being very vocally upset with what they see as spam. It's hard to predict quite how large or vocal that number will be in this case, as we haven't done it before :-)

(Are you thinking of some kind of specific message - "watch XYZ speaking about the future of Wikipedia" - or a generic "Wikimania is now on; watch here"?)

A.


On 15 April 2014 10:49, Edward Saperia <ed@wikimanialondon.org> wrote:
It isn't TED, but from the get go I've had outreach as a primary goal with this event, and I've been planning and programming with that in mind. This doesn't have to set a precedent for future Wikimanias. Technical concerns aside, what negative outcomes are you imagining?

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On 15 April 2014 10:28, James Alexander <jalexander@wikimedia.org> wrote:
To be honest I'm not completely sure I'm comfortable with that level of advertising (in fact it makes me very very uncomfortable) even if it works technically. This isn't TED....and I would hate to see it turn into that especially given the wide variety in organizers each year.

James

James Alexander
Legal and Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation


On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Philippe Beaudette <philippe@wikimedia.org> wrote:

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Edward Saperia <ed@wikimanialondon.org> wrote:
The livestreams will be promoted via a centralnotice

My understanding is that this is far from a decided thing.  There are still some massive concerns about your servers rolling over and dying with the traffic we send from this - particularly for streaming video which is already a bandwidth hog.  I'd want to see some testing first.

pb


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