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_…
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(a)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(a)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_…
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
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Katherine Maher <kmaher(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Looks great! Thanks :)
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:31 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)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(a)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(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
>
>> Hey Pine,
>>
>> mobile.
>> On Nov 17, 2015 15:08, "Pine W" <wiki.pine(a)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
>>>
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