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:
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https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Edit_this_Museum_Exhib…
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http://etherpad.wmflabs.org/pad/p/Wikipedia_exhibition
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly#Wikimania_2013
-Andrew Lih
Associate professor of journalism, American University
Email: andrew(a)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(a)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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