On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Ellie.
On the topic of event safety, I am wondering if there is a standard
checklist that WMF uses when narrowing potential sites for Wikimanias and
if you could make that checklist public. Perhaps it is public already but I
don't know where to find it.
This is what we were using for the past few Wikimanias. It is public.
I reference it in the recent posting as well. I will be updating this
since we are no longer doing the competitive bidding process but it does
have a lot of information and is pretty accurate.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016_judging_criteria
Regarding Wikimania goals and strategy, I'd like to suggest that WMF take a
look at what our friends in WMDE have done with the
Wikimedia Conference to
increase focus on specific topics and to make conference outcomes a bit
clearer and more measurable.
WMF funds with a grant this conference and works closely with WMDE.
There was a proposal a couple of years ago to have a paid program and
events coordinator who would provide continuity year to year and liaise
with other conferences/groups. There is also paid meeting planner as well
as staff support from the WMDE itself.
I also like that WMDE devotes significant staff
support to the conference,
which decreases the burden on volunteers; I would like to see a similar
shift for Wikimania so the event is less dependent on heroic efforts from
volunteers. I realize that there is financial cost involved with increased
staff support for conferences; this is one area in which increased
expenditure makes sense to me.
We started that in London and Mexico City Wikimania with my position and a
paid local coordinator (Esino Lario was an exception where the local team
received a grant and handled pretty much everything.)
I look forward to hearing about further developments.
Thanks,
Pine
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