To all,
I think anyone can see there is no chance we are going to win this. We are
in no position to host a tea party let alone an international conference. I
have tried to co-ordinate a bid as best I can with only sparse access to a
local library computers and email access on a mobile phone. I have spent
many minutes on the phone to people. Do not be fooled: this is not a moan; I
enjoyed it. I thought it was what people wanted and they were prepared to
help. Actions speak louder than words. Yes, it's nice some of you put your
names on that co-ordination page; it's less nice that you then did nothing.
I know you have jobs, lives, and families. So do I. But a bit here, a phone
call there, a bit of research there. It's what I did.
I've made some contacts, and sure I can help out next year if anyone feels
like making a bid, but there is no way I am taking the lead on it like I
seem to have this time. Nobody forced me, this is true; I enjoyed it - but
not when the realisation I was the only one doing anything sank in.
--
Gary Kirk
What do they have to do with it? Wikimania bids are not necessarily managed
by the local chapters. Gary is one who has been working on the bed,
technically, he is the one who has the say.
On 9/14/07, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote:
>
> At 13:57 +0100 14/9/07, Gary Kirk wrote:
> >I think we should withdraw like Karlsruhe did. There is no way we can
> >hope to host Wikimania next year as it is. I am not prepared to do any
> >more work for the bid at this time - I've written a long-ish email
> >about it but it's not yet ready. Like our bid :).
> >
>
>
> What says the UK Chapter directors?
>
> Gordo
>
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From: Titan Deng <theodoranian(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sep 13, 2007 4:33 PM
Subject: [Foundation-l] For Wikimania 2008 bidders
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)"
<wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
<foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi, Wikimania 2008 bidders,
I was informed by an Alexandria bidder that it is necessary for bidders to
take a look of the WM07 budget, for your better imagination and calculation.
I would love to share these information with you, and I have already started
to write a summary report in detail for better organization of Wikimania.
(Though it is still in Chinese currently)
As a member of the Wikimania 2008 bidding jury, I hope every bidding team
are on the same ground. So, there's nothing I have already told to
Alexandria.
The budget is in my Google docs and spreadsheets. I think it will be good
that every bidding team could let one person to read the WM07 budget.
However, we had signed some agreements with confidential obligations, so I
hope that the person who I share the budget with could help me on this.
Don't show it to people not related to your bidding. If it is not hard for
you to follow, then please inform me the person's email. :)
Titan Deng | Theodoranian
Wikimania 2007 Coordinator
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The date of the meetup has been decided as 20th October. Anyone who can
come, please register your interest and take part in the discussion on the
page. Thanks, and hope to see you there! :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Birmingham_2
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Alex (Majorly)
At 07:33 +1000 12/9/07, Sandy Dorotheo wrote:
>Dear guys,
>
>I hope you don't mind this approach. Rather than contributing to
>separate elists, I've put a message on a bulletin board hosted at
>OCLC. They're the largest non profit for librarians in the world.
>They also have a tool - the Dewey Decimal Code - which could help
>wikimedians associate their content with their projects (and
>communications).
>
>I've started a thread and offered a poll if you'd like to offer an
>opinion.
><http://forums.oclc.org/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=11732>http://forums.oclc.org/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=11732
>
>So far as a little background on me. I'm a fifty something who has
>worked in media for a lot a years and would like to help by getting
>a bunch of sponsors on board the wiki train - both for the
>conference and also for the equipment which supports
>wikimediafoundation (non profit) stuff.
>
>I also have a bunch of mates who have run conferences for Rotarians
>in the past E.g. 64,000 in Chicago a few years ago.
>
>My best regards,
>Simon Fenton - Jones
>
Welcome aboard.
But has the train already left the station?
Gordo
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gordon.joly(a)pobox.com///
Dear guys,
I hope you don’t mind this approach. Rather than contributing to separate
elists, I’ve put a message on a bulletin board hosted at OCLC. They’re the
largest non profit for librarians in the world. They also have a tool – the
Dewey Decimal Code – which could help wikimedians associate their content
with their projects (and communications).
I’ve started a thread and offered a poll if you’d like to offer an opinion.
HYPERLINK
"http://forums.oclc.org/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=11732"http://forums.oclc.or
g/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=11732
So far as a little background on me. I’m a fifty something who has worked in
media for a lot a years and would like to help by getting a bunch of
sponsors on board the wiki train – both for the conference and also for the
equipment which supports wikimediafoundation (non profit) stuff.
I also have a bunch of mates who have run conferences for Rotarians in the
past E.g. 64,000 in Chicago a few years ago.
My best regards,
Simon Fenton - Jones
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1:24 PM
I had a glance at the history on [[Short story]] and couldn't spot the
alleged edits. Anyone else got any ideas? A public call to vandalism
deserves a reply.
- d.
Sunday Times (London) June 10, 2007
Online disinformation
WICKEDLY INACCURATE? As a member of the Society of Authors, I felt it
my duty to correct Wikipedia creative-writing articles which stated "a
short story can be anywhere between 5,000 and 50,000 words" or had
grammatical errors, such as "Mary laid on her bed". The originator had
included the following invitation: "I hope someone would (sic) feel
free to add concepts and examples." I took him at his word, and
edited. The next day all my edits had been reversed.
Anyone dismayed by this "dictatorship of idiots" should not waste time
on futile attempts to turn Wikipedia into a reliable source. Instead,
help it to self-destruct by adding misinformation. Wikipedia has no
mechanism to deal with this other than the army of itchy-fingered
know-it-alls who know nothing.
Margret Geraghty Chandlers Ford, Hampshire
- d.
I have spoken to the Mayor of London's advisor on Culture and
Community, who advised me to contact people at VisitLondon, who got
back to me this evening and look forward to working with us - 3 people
there have been copied in on this :).
Regards,
On 9/6/07, James Hardy <wikimediauk(a)weeb.biz> wrote:
> I would suggest that even when contacting "global" sponsors, you would
> really only be contacting the local arm of the global corporation, eg
> Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd (in Uxbridge) rather than The Coca-Cola Company
> (Atlanta)
>
> (Though since Atlanta is the home of coke, that is probably why the atlanta
> bid put them at the top of the list)
>
> On 05/09/07, Florence Devouard <Anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thomas Dalton wrote:
> > >> 1) every year, we contact the sponsors of the previous years. The
> > global
> > >> ones are often willing to give again.
> > >
> > > Shouldn't global sponsors being contacted once by WMF, rather than
> > > individually by each bid? If I were Coca-Cola I would get very annoyed
> > > at lots of requests for sponsorship by the same people, only one of
> > > which actually happens.
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
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> > > wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org
> > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK
> > > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
> > >
> >
> > probably.
> > it certainly makes more sense for you to focus on local sponsors.
> >
> > Ant
> >
> >
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> >
>
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On 02/09/07, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote:
> So, like the Queen of England, both an official and a real birthday?
Not the first time dearest Jimbo has been referred to as being like
the Queen of England. Unfortunately, the comparison is not at all
appropriate.
Generally, if Jimbo celebrates his birthday on, say, August 5th or
6th, it wouldn't necessarily be different from many other people
celebrating their birthdays slightly ahead of or after schedule.
(While we're on the subject, my birthday falls comfortably inside of
the Wikimania period.)
Rob Church
I just spoke to somebody in the Culture and Community section of the
Mayor's press office, who advised me to call the mayor's C&C advisor,
whose answerphone advised me to call her PA, whose answerphone said to
leave a message, which I did not as I am no good at them :).
I assume they're at lunch, I will check back soon.
--
Gary Kirk