Hi.
Is there a breakdown of who the Wikimedia Foundation sends to particular events or what events Wikimedia participates in? I know that Wikimedia sends a lot of people to a lot of conferences (and unconferences and hackathons and manias), so I assume there's some kind of record somewhere on Meta-Wiki. Does anyone know of such a list? I'm particularly curious about who's being sent to the upcoming Wikimania (which could be a question for the Wikimania 2011 organizers, I don't know).
A fine-grained list (listing particular people sent to particular events) or a broad list (listing all events that Wikimedia sends any number of people to) would be great.
MZMcBride
+1
I'd like to see this for more than just the Foundation - any event where wikimedians have a presence - but this is a great place to start.
If the long-contemplated Events Committee were to take form, it could help coordinate sharing and updating such lists.
SJ
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:21 AM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Hi.
Is there a breakdown of who the Wikimedia Foundation sends to particular events or what events Wikimedia participates in? I know that Wikimedia sends a lot of people to a lot of conferences (and unconferences and hackathons and manias), so I assume there's some kind of record somewhere on Meta-Wiki. Does anyone know of such a list? I'm particularly curious about who's being sent to the upcoming Wikimania (which could be a question for the Wikimania 2011 organizers, I don't know).
A fine-grained list (listing particular people sent to particular events) or a broad list (listing all events that Wikimedia sends any number of people to) would be great.
MZMcBride
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In the UK we coordinate using a wiki http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Events but it's not that great. I would love to see a WMF and Chapter-wide shared process for using event calendars that one can subscribe to (depending on what countries you want to see) in tools such as Google Calendar and that were so easy to maintain that no country would want to go off on a tangent to use their own system to coordinate what events they were involved with.
Cheers, Fae -- http://enwp.org/user_talk:fae Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/faetags
Fae, 01/06/2011 13:00:
In the UK we coordinate using a wiki http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Events but it's not that great. I would love to see a WMF and Chapter-wide shared process for using event calendars that one can subscribe to (depending on what countries you want to see) in tools such as Google Calendar and that were so easy to maintain that no country would want to go off on a tangent to use their own system to coordinate what events they were involved with.
Sadly, the most efficient way WMI has found in last years to keep track of all events is our own wiki page http://wikimedia.it/index.php/Diario_di_bordo; Google Calendar fails because only some people can "edit" it and if they forget there's no quick way to notice and fix it.
Nemo
I had in mind something like an independent site or open source tool that uses some easy way of updating an iCal format page per Chapter. This can then be actively pulled into many types of application that handle such feeds including Google Calendar.
Cheers, Fae -- http://enwp.org/user_talk:fae Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/faetags
On 1 June 2011 15:23, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Sadly, the most efficient way WMI has found in last years to keep track of all events is our own wiki page http://wikimedia.it/index.php/Diario_di_bordo; Google Calendar fails because only some people can "edit" it and if they forget there's no quick way to notice and fix it.
Nemo
Samuel Klein wrote:
I'd like to see this for more than just the Foundation - any event where wikimedians have a presence - but this is a great place to start.
I started a (very bad) page at Meta-Wiki for future events: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_in_meatspace.
If anyone else could give it some love, that would be appreciated. :-)
MZMcBride
On 2 June 2011 03:25, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Samuel Klein wrote:
I'd like to see this for more than just the Foundation - any event where wikimedians have a presence - but this is a great place to start.
I started a (very bad) page at Meta-Wiki for future events: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_in_meatspace.
If anyone else could give it some love, that would be appreciated. :-)
No reason that you couldn't scrape and push into an iCal format (or whatever) from that. Worth doing?
J.
James Forrester wrote:
On 2 June 2011 03:25, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Samuel Klein wrote:
I'd like to see this for more than just the Foundation - any event where wikimedians have a presence - but this is a great place to start.
I started a (very bad) page at Meta-Wiki for future events: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_in_meatspace.
If anyone else could give it some love, that would be appreciated. :-)
No reason that you couldn't scrape and push into an iCal format (or whatever) from that. Worth doing?
Absolutely worth doing, in my opinion. I'd first like to get the page/system a bit more established (and fill in some of the past years), but supporting iCal/gCal/etc. through a MediaWiki extension or a Toolserver tool would be awesome.
Casey Brown wrote:
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:25 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
I started a (very bad) page at Meta-Wiki for future events: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_in_meatspace.
What's the difference between that page and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Events? We should clarify what the difference is, if any. Then again, maybe it's okay if the two overlap. :-)
Err, didn't really know about the "Events" page. :-) It seems to list only current information, but the page history is probably ripe with good information that can be pulled out and stored in the subpages of the new system.
I know I did look at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup before creating "Wikimedia in meatspace," but the "Meetup" page had a note about being outdated and unmaintained at the top. At some point it probably makes sense to re-evaluate and/or merge some of these pages (the "beyond the web" series), though my intention is for "Wikimedia in meatspace" to be purely informational while subpages of "Meetup", etc. are more for active collaboration and coordination.
MZMcBride
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:32 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
James Forrester wrote:
On 2 June 2011 03:25, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Samuel Klein wrote:
I'd like to see this for more than just the Foundation - any event where wikimedians have a presence - but this is a great place to start.
I started a (very bad) page at Meta-Wiki for future events: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_in_meatspace.
If anyone else could give it some love, that would be appreciated. :-)
No reason that you couldn't scrape and push into an iCal format (or whatever) from that. Worth doing?
Absolutely worth doing, in my opinion. I'd first like to get the page/system a bit more established (and fill in some of the past years), but supporting iCal/gCal/etc. through a MediaWiki extension or a Toolserver tool would be awesome.
Casey Brown wrote:
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:25 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
I started a (very bad) page at Meta-Wiki for future events: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_in_meatspace.
What's the difference between that page and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Events? We should clarify what the difference is, if any. Then again, maybe it's okay if the two overlap. :-)
Err, didn't really know about the "Events" page. :-) It seems to list only current information, but the page history is probably ripe with good information that can be pulled out and stored in the subpages of the new system.
Actually, "Events" is not particularly focused on current stuff, the great majority of items are actually for past events over the last several years.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Events
Definitely there should be some kind of merge, and we'll figure out whatever the best format is and go with that.
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
I know I did look at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup before creating "Wikimedia in meatspace," but the "Meetup" page had a note about being outdated and unmaintained at the top. At some point it probably makes sense to re-evaluate and/or merge some of these pages (the "beyond the web" series), though my intention is for "Wikimedia in meatspace" to be purely informational while subpages of "Meetup", etc. are more for active collaboration and coordination.
MZMcBride
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On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:25 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
I started a (very bad) page at Meta-Wiki for future events: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_in_meatspace.
What's the difference between that page and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Events? We should clarify what the difference is, if any. Then again, maybe it's okay if the two overlap. :-)
-- Casey Brown Cbrown1023
MZMcBride wrote:
Samuel Klein wrote:
I'd like to see this for more than just the Foundation - any event where wikimedians have a presence - but this is a great place to start.
I started a (very bad) page at Meta-Wiki for future events: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_in_meatspace.
If anyone else could give it some love, that would be appreciated. :-)
MZMcBride
Nice!
I went ahead and created a little template for the Year-pages to avoid these "red" template calls and show a suddle "create me" link instead.
-- Krinkle
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