I was always a little surprised by the name Wikimedia Conference. After all, that name would most logically belong to the big, open, week-long event that draws over a thousand people together to talk about every aspect of the movement.*
However, that event is already called Wikimania, which also doesn't make sense to me. In James F's phrase , it's a bit of a lie, as it doesn't deal with mania or other mental health issues, and it isn't exclusively attended by men (except to a very broad approximation).
Therefore I propose we start by renaming Wikimania to the Wikimedia Conference.
That leaves open what we call the slightly boring get-together where we talk about how movement organisations can improve their governance and programme measurement. As an interim step I suggest using the now-unused term Wikimania until a suitable committee can determine the correct name for the event, hopefully before the event occurs.
So I am just heading over to Meta to move all Wikimania pages to the name Wikimedia Conference and vice versa. I trust this will clarify the matter.
*NB please ignore the rest of the post from this point forward. On 12 Sep 2014 07:31, "Pine W" wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
One additional nice benefit from having the affiliates conference be a pre-Wikimania conference is that those who don't want to or are excluded from the affiliate portions of the event can attend other portions like the education pre-conference or the pre-conference hackathon.
Can we please move this discussion to Meta?
Thanks,
Pine
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Ed Saperia edsaperia@gmail.com wrote:
It would, however, significantly increase the work for the Wikimania organisers. They didn't sign up to programme and organise an affiliate
org
conference, so they shouldn't have to if they don't want to.
Guestlists cause all sorts of politics, but are a necessary evil when dealing with limited resources. Choices must be made, and it's up to the hosts to decide who gets to come. A mission statement for the conference might help alleviate some of the bad feeling, but there will inevitably
be
some as long as there are fewer places than people.
Ed Saperia Conference Coordinator Wikimania London
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On 12 Sep 2014, at 01:44, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I like the idea of having this event be a pre-conference for Wikimania. That may reduce total travel costs and travel time for the people who usually attend both events. This may also simplify planning for people
and
thorgs.
Pine
On Sep 11, 2014 5:25 PM, "Pete Forsyth" peteforsyth@gmail.com
wrote:
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Richard Symonds < richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
What I'm saying is, let's plan a conference before we argue over the
name.
But, most of the people on this list wouldn't have anything to do with
this
conference -- surely there's a better resource for
conference-planning.
The thing most of us have a stake in is the name of the conference,
and
--
perhaps -- nothing more.
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