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.
Brian -
Is the fact that Wikimedia UK is currently supporting a Wikimedian in Residence at the National Library of Scotland of any relevance to developing your idea? See http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/08/a-month-as-wikimedian-in-residence-at-t...
More than this, I'd be very interesting in supporting you and/or any other volunteers in Scotland (or anywhere in the UK for that matter) to explore ways to bring journalism students at all levels to Wikinews. I'd be more than happy to strike up a conversation about this on this mailing list, or any other way that's appropriate -- there's even room for a possible roundtable discussion about this at the upcoming EduWiki conference. Just let me know.
Incidentally, this idea I'm proposing is greatly inspired by the wonderful work that Dr. Chad Tew, who is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Southern Indiana. See http://en-wp.com /wiki/User:Crtew -- it would be really great if something like this was developed in Scotland and/or anywhere else in the UK
Kind regards,
Toni
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On 20 August 2013 07:22, brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org wrote:
Brian,
The obvious opportunity would be to take the fringe to the fringe. Every Wikimania needs some events for the day after Wikimania, why not make one option be to spend a few days at the fringe? I started the category fringe http://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fringeon the wikimania 2014 and am planning to do a free London museum trip for the day after Wikimania. But we will need several options for Wikimanaians for the 11th Aug onwards and it would be lovely if one could be the Edinburgh fringe.
Regards
Jonathan Cardy GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) Organiser/Trefnydd GLAM (Galeriau, Llyfrgelloedd, Archifdai a llawer Mwy!) Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0990
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On 20 August 2013 07:22, brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org wrote:
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
-Andrew Lih Associate professor of journalism, American University Email: andrew@andrewlih.com WEB: http://www.andrewlih.com BOOK: The Wikipedia Revolution: http://www.wikipediarevolution.com PROJECT: Wiki Makes Video http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wiki_Makes_Video
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:22 AM, brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org wrote:
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