What a great session, Britta! I'll be celebrating my 10th anniversary in January, so tales from the "real" old days will be super interesting.
Could you add this to the wiki page? If you are willing to plan it out, recruit storytellers, and make it happen yourself (I hope!), please just add it to the schedule. If you're looking for others/are not yet sure if you can commit, maybe put it in the "proposed" section below the schedule. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Wikipedia_Day_2...
I have an idea I'm working on -- just a thumbnail sketch for now, as many details are still forming. I'd like to interview 4 or 5 people who are well respected in areas like media, education, social justice, or collaboration. (Not necessarily "of the Wikipedia world.") I will ask them to reflect on the first 15 years of Wikipedia, or what they think the significance of Wikipedia is going forward. This could be a series of short live interviews, or I might do the interviews ahead of time to publish on YouTube, and then have a panel discussion at the event.
Anybody else? Pete
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Britta Gustafson brittag@gmail.com wrote:
I'd propose a time slot for collective storytelling about amusing weirdnesses from the first couple years of Wikipedia. I could contribute some stories, and I'm sure other people would have a lot of stories too - to remember that the idea of amateurs writing an encyclopedia from scratch was a wild idea and a strange chaotic experiment from the beginning.
Things like:
- UseModWiki and CamelCase, before MediaWiki.
- The uneven distribution of detailed articles in the early days: 9/11,
poker, philosophy, and the Simpsons.
- The unwieldy growth of Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense.
- The weird "carnal pleasure" logo (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#Evolution_of_logo).
Britta
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Pete Forsyth peteforsyth@gmail.com wrote:
Update:
I've talked with Richard in NYC, and Stephen at WMF. I'm interested contributing to the event. I put together a basic wiki page to plan/organize here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Wikipedia_Day_2...
I am intrigued by the idea of connecting with other cities, but I'd like to first focus on what we can do to make it worthwhile locally, before committing to extensive syncing. My suggestion: the 1pm to 2pm "Lightning Talks" part seems great, and as I understand it would be coordinated locally by Stephen LaPorte, and would be synced with (at least) NYC and Seattle to some extent. I also think it makes sense to do some kind of video check-in later in the day with other locations, IF we have an event that lasts several hours.
What would others like to do? Are there people on this list who want to, say, take a 30 or 60 minute time slot and put together a panel discussion? Anybody eager to cook up some special birthday food, or make a donation?
I am happy to seek out a sponsor or two to cover, say, pizza and birthday cake (which is what NYC is doing). I have some independent plans to do some video interviews about "Wikipedia at 15," which I could potentially repurpose into a 30 or 60 minute session. What other ideas are out there? Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]]
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Katherine Maher kmaher@wikimedia.org wrote:
Looks great! Thanks :)
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:31 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Ok. Please look at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_15/Events/List
Do the 2 events look ok?
We can adjust as needed.
Pine On Nov 17, 2015 8:40 PM, "Katherine Maher" kmaher@wikimedia.org wrote:
Whoops!
Hey Pine, I think we are still looking at a separate SF event on Friday night. Very supportive of an unconference event too! Do you mind boldly finding ways to list both?
mobile. On Nov 17, 2015 20:39, "Katherine Maher" kmaher@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey Pine,
mobile. On Nov 17, 2015 15:08, "Pine W" wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi SF Wikimedia folks, > > Would you be interested in having a joint unconference with your > northern neighbors via video to celebrate Wikipedia Day weekend? We could > have the event on Saturday, January 16th or Sunday, January 17th. > > This would be a nice opportunity for lightning talks as well as > discussions about software, Labs, GLAM, education, public policy, community > health, and everything else under the sun. > > Please let me know if you're interested. > > Pine > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-SF mailing list > Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf > >
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