Dear Wikimedians,
We are delighted to inform you that the registration for the Wikimedia
Conference 2016 [1], which will be held in Berlin from Friday, April
22, through Sunday, April 24, is now open!
Following Christian’s invitation and Nicole’s email regarding the
Program Design Process [2], we would like to provide you with
important information regarding the eligibility for participation,
participant number regulation, registration procedure, specifics in
regards to the travel and hotel booking as well as the visa
application process.
== Eligibility criteria ==
The eligibility criteria for participating in the Wikimedia Conference
2016 are aligned to the Affiliates’ Agreements with the Wikimedia
Foundation. Chapters, Thematic Organizations and User Groups must have
been officially recognized by the Wikimedia Foundation by today
(December 1, 2015), must have shown signs of recent activity and be
up-to-date on their reporting, latest by January 1, 2016 to be
eligible to participate.
Before registering, please check the eligibility and status of your
affiliate[3]. Only affiliates with the status “ready to register” can
proceed with the registration process. For all others, we recommend to
catch up on your reports before January 1, 2016.
==Participant number regulation==
Chapters and Thematic Organizations can send two delegates; or up to
four, if they have paid staff; User Groups can send one delegate. The
eligibility table on meta lists each affiliate and the respective
number of delegates that can be sent to the Wikimedia Conference 2016
[3].
==Registration information==
To make the conference a success, it will be essential for the invited
affiliates to deliberately choose their delegates. We recommend to
follow the “How to select the delegates” information, which is
published on meta [4].
Persons who are selected by their organization to represent them at
the conference need to register via the registration form [5]. The
registration deadline is Friday, January 15, 2016. Please note that we
won’t be able to accept and process registrations after this deadline.
We also hope that several members of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of
Trustees and staff, the Funds Dissemination Committee as well as the
Affiliations Committee will participate in the conference. We see a
huge advantage in having their representatives on site and encourage
them to take part in a range of talks and discussions. Please also
register via the registration link.
In addition to the core-conference, pre-conference workshops on
program design, evaluation, and community learning on Wednesday and
Thursday, April 20-21, are organized by the Learning and Evaluation
team of the WMF [6]. Should you be interested in participating in
these workshops, you can indicate your interest in the registration
form as well.
For the purpose of helping affiliates to check that only their
selected representatives have registered and enable participants to
connect before the conference and stay in involved afterwards, we will
publish all participants’ names on the meta page [7] shortly after
registration.
Further information on the registration process can be retrieved from meta [8].
==Hotel and travel booking==
WMDE has blocked a number of hotel rooms at Motel One Leipziger Platz,
which is in walking-distance to the conference venue as well as the
WMDE office.
Representatives of affiliates with an annual plan grant (group 1) will
need to book and pay for their hotel rooms as well as travel
individually. The hotel booking form and price information can be
found on meta [9].
Affiliates which don’t receive funding via an annual plan grant (group
2) will be supported by WMDE for their hotel needs and WMF for their
travel booking.
Members of the WMF Board, FDC, AffCom or WMF staff (group 3) receive
travel and hotel booking support by the WMF Travel department.
We advise you to check meta [3] to which group you belong to.
==Visa information==
In case you are in need of a visa, WMDE will assist you with the
application process. All relevant information and necessary steps to
undertake are described on meta [10].
Wikimedia Deutschland is looking forward to welcoming you in Berlin in April!
Please do not hesitate to reach out to us any time via
wmcon(a)wikimedia.de should you have any questions or comments.
Best regards,
Wenke and Daniela
--
Organizing Team WMCON
Wikimedia Deutschland
wmcon(a)wikimedia.de
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016/Program_Design_Pr…
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016/Eligibility_Crite…
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016/Program_Design_Pr…
[5] http://wmde.org/WMCON16-registrationform
[6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/News/Pre-conference_for_W…
[7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016/Participants%27_L…
[8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016/Registration
[9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016/Travel_and_Hotel#…
Hi everyone,
The Community Tech team's Wishlist Survey is now open for voting; come on
over and upvote your favorites. We're looking for the most important
features and fixes that our team can work on to help the core contributors
on Wikimedia projects.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey
We've got more than 100 proposals to choose from, organized on
easy-to-browse category pages. As a taster, some of the contenders include:
* Improve diff compare screen
* Migrate dead links to the Wayback Machine
* Enhanced per-user, per-article blocking
* Cite : Share : Export tools
* Improve SVG rendering
* Cross-wiki watchlists
* Pageview Stats tool
And if anything on that list makes you excited, outraged or -- well,
honestly, any reaction besides a blank stare -- then you need to come and
vote for the ideas you like best. Once the voting is over, the prioritized
list becomes the Community Tech's backlog of projects to investigate and
address.
We'll be posting invites to as many village pumps as we can find tomorrow,
to make sure that everyone has the chance to vote. All of the voting pages
are marked for translation, and we would welcome any volunteers to help
translate a proposal into a language of their choice.
Thanks for checking it out; I'm looking forward to seeing your votes.
Danny
Product Manager, WMF Community Tech
(I'm cross-posting this to Wikimedia-l, Wikitech-l, and the WMF staff list
-- apologies to people who subscribe to all three for the duplicate spam.)