Brian, I'm not as interested in the logistics of streaming every session, but the idea of having a daily dispatch from Wikimania with Wikinewsies, following on the tradition of Wikipedia Weekly podcasting from the conference and Signpost write-ups could be really interesting. A daily video roundup perhaps, with team coverage.
To your second point -- how to use this as an outreach opportunity to raise Wikipedia awareness not just in London but elsewhere.
We came up with an idea of a "Wikipedia Traveling Exhibit" at the Wikimania session on museum exhibits, and encourage more thinking along these lines. What if we could have a portable 10 ft x 10 ft display that tells Wikipedia's story, with an adjoining area where people could learn to edit Wikipedia, alongside volunteer editors.
Here is a link to the Wikimania session and the Etherpad notes from the session.
Also, below are the two Wikipedia Weekly podcasts episodes from Wikimania 2013:
* https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Edit_this_Museum_Exhibi...
* http://etherpad.wmflabs.org/pad/p/Wikipedia_exhibition
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly#Wikimania_2013
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On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:22 AM, brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org wrote:
We're looking a year ahead, so we should have plenty of time to sort things out. But, the UK has some particularly-talented Wikinewsies (I'm looking at Iain Macdonald, Tom Morris and Paul Williams in particular).
It would be short-sighted, in the extreme, not to ask the UK-resident Wikinewsies to get involved. Given the direction I've seen Paul heading off in (to Wikinews' great loss) I suspect he would make a great 'Head of Broadcasting' for next year's Wikimania; and, with Wikimedia UK's support, could help make sure Wikimania 2014 is the 'most-online' annual conference to-date. [All sessions webcast live, all recordings thereof online faster than the BBC does with iPlayer.]
The major snag for me, a Wikinewsie in Edinburgh, is it looks-like Wikimania 2014 clashes with the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe. (I already have interest from a local community Radio station, which might lead to free use of high-end gear, and a few other things in-the-works).
But, anyone who is planning to travel to the UK for Wikimania should bear that in-mind!
If you want to come up to The Athens of The North, post-conference, start looking at those accommodation bookings right now. Otherwise, you'll be camping somewhere in the vicinity of Arthur's Seat.
Regardless, and no-matter how hard Wikimedia UK tries to promote their London Wikimania, I can promise you "us lot up in Scotland" will keep knocking you off the front page when it comes to headlines in the press. Does anyone else have some 'creative ideas' about Wikimania 2014 having a 'token presence' in Edinburgh? (The Fringe venue I want to 'hijack' is close-enough to the Edinburgh Uni CS facilities I was hacking - 25 years ago - that, we could run an armoured fibre straight into JANET).
It's simply too-good an opportunity to miss. And, where I strongly agree with the broad-criticisms Jimmy made of mainstream media in his HK keynote, I know that "the news division of the WMF" (i.e. Wikinews) could wipe the floor with the Mainstream on the independence debate.
Brian.
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