I also concur that best part of wikimania is get to know other wikimedians
and fascinating stories , but nevertheless the workshops are also very
useful. in each wikimania we enjoy both. I learnt a lot from them all.
Mardetanha
On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 12:51 AM, Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Most Wikimedians are very interesting people. However
Milos has hit the
nail on the head when he says the most interesting things happening at
Wikimedia events are 1-1 conversations.
In my view we don't have a "personality" problem (and if we did, we
couldn't fix it).
What we have, at least in the offline space, is an *event management* and
*meeting skills" problem.
We do not set up events to make anything *apart* from 1-1 conversations
effective. Events typically lack goals and focused programmes. Where issues
are being discussed, they lack common agreement about what problems are
trying to be solved and what voices need to be represented in the
solutions. Where skills are being shared, they lack a definition of what it
is people need to know and how to teach it to them effectively. And more or
less throughout, we have a low level of presentation and/or facilitation
skills as we don't actively train people in these.
We are groping towards success in a couple of areas I'm familiar with, e.g.
the Wikimedia Conference is more clearly focused year on year. But there is
still a long way to go!
Regards,
Chris
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think the term that I would use is
"serious". Of course we're serious
about the quality of our product. However that can involve plenty of
stress
and burn-out. We deal with a lot of serious
issues: conflicts of
interest,
harassment, finances, legal compliance,
reliability, privacy, safety, and
more. My personal experience is that there's little gratitude for good
work, and lots of complaints when things go awry. I would like to see us
foster an emotional environment that's a bit on the brighter side, and
would be interested in others' thoughts about how we can do that.
Pine
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