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"?)
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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
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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.orgwrote:
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.
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