Dear all,
A general note -- please remember that our peers and colleagues are working
hard to organize this conference on behalf of the Wikimedia movement, and
many volunteers and staff have been working on the event for a very long
time. Please be kind to one another both here and at the event. Your
conference organizers are entering the very most stressful time of
conference planning right now - the week before the event! - and many of
your fellow attendees will be going to Singapore and perhaps to Wikimania
for the first time. So please be thoughtful and helpful in all of your
messages and assume good faith of your colleagues.
My other request for the Wikimania community is to please share helpful
information on the wiki when you know or discover it. You can also share in
other ways; in addition to this mailing list, there's also an active
telegram channel that might be of interest to join:
. Wikimania is a
collaborative and participatory event and it will take all of us to make it
a great experience.
Thanks Lodewijk for your great reminder as well that each conference - and
city! - is different. Let's be bold, collaborative and kind in building
this event together. I can't wait to see many of you soon!
Phoebe
On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 3:42 PM effe iets anders <effeietsanders(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Thank you Butch for the helpful information on the
wiki.
It sounds like there's some misalignment as to how much to guidance/detail
to expect written out. In previous years, volunteer organizers went out of
their way to describe in extreme detail how to get to the
accommodation/venue, even with recorded video walkthroughs. That was great,
but should not set an expectation for future organizers to do the same:
it's hard enough to organize a conference like this, without meeting all
these expectations.
Whenever there are specific questions, it's of course always welcome to
ask people - for example through this list. Perhaps the Rome2Rio link in
the wiki
<https://www.rome2rio.com/map/Changi-Airport-MRT-Station/PARKROYAL-on-Beach-Road-Singapore>
page linked earlier will give you this kind of 'walking instructions' - but
indeed entering the address in Google Maps may also be helpful. I can
imagine that relying on live access to internet is a bit scary (will your
phone work?) so looking into it in advance sounds helpful. It looks like a
straight metro ride with a short walk along two streets.
Andy, if there's anything specific that you need beyond that link, feel
free to clarify what that is, and what gives you uncertainty about this.
I'm going to assume that the MRT station inside the airport is easy to
find, and that the walk is acceptable. If you do find information lacking
on the wiki and you figure it out (with or without help), I hope you'll
feel free to either edit the page, or suggest it on the talkpage as an
improvement.
Overall, I hope that as a community we can lower what we "expect" from the
organizers to take care of - because the increasing list of things they
have to arrange make it nearly impossible for future conferences to be
organized in an affordable manner.
Warmly,
Lodewijk
On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 10:16 AM Peter Southwood <
peter.southwood(a)telkomsa.net> wrote:
This is the kind of information one might
reasonably expect for a well
organised event.
Cheers,
P
-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Mabbett [mailto:andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk]
Sent: 06 August 2023 16:38
To: Wikimania general list (open subscription)
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Re: Arrival and travel to hotel
On Sun, 6 Aug 2023 at 15:08, <jludlow(a)globaldial.com> wrote:
There's more than one Park Royal in Singapore.
I was, as my original post implied ("the useful 'Scholar attendee
Guide'... what I can't find in that document"), referring to the Park
Royal where rooms ahve been booked for scholarship attendees.
To find out which MRT station is nearest your
hotel, google the hotel's
name
[...]
It's not that hard.
Thank you. I know how to use Google.
Also, in Singapore most people speak English, and
are very polite. So if
you
get lost you can ask for directions.
That is exactly what I have asked for. So far, no-one has given them
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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