On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 5:58 AM, Chris Keating
<
chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Ellie! Sounds like a very productive step!
Chris
On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 12:26 AM, Ellie Young <eyoung(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Chris Keating <
> chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well this thread turned out bigger (and much more productive) than I
>> expected!
>>
>
>
>> To my mind, Wikimania continuing to happen every year is a minor
>> miracle, and one that's only possible with the hard work and
>> dedication of
>> lots of people.
>>
>> However, it's a miracle that isn't without its problems. The most
>> obvious problem to my mind is that there is a very mixed quality of
>> actual
>> conference programme, and without clear objectives (or at least not
>> consistent objectives). The Wikimedia Conference, by contrast, has a
>> much
>> clearer alignment of the programme with a set of goals, and work
>> happens to
>> follow up before and after the conference.
>>
>> The second problem is that the responsibilities for governance and
>> management of the conference are really very unclear. We have the
>> Wikimania
>> Committee, we have the local team (and in some cases a local chapter
>> who
>> may or may not be working closely with the bid team), we have the
>> Programme
>> Committee and we have the WMF. (Actually we have the WMF at least
>> twice, as
>> the priorities of the WMF team involved in organising the conference
>> don't
>> always seem to align with those of the rest of the organisation).
>>
>
>
>
>>
>> In my view, the most useful thing for all these groups to do is to
>> work out who is actually responsible for what, and document it, in
>> public.
>>
>
> T
> his is an excellent suggestion. It is not unclear to me how things
> work having been involved with coordination among the various 'players'
> for
> the past few years. The Handbook is out of date as well. So I will
> take
> an action item to start revising this and making it clearer to
> everyone
> about the structure, organization, etc for the community at large.
> This
> is especially necessary as we move forward with next steps for 2018 in
> the
> coming months (working on this with WMF and Committee so we are all in
> alignment about the future, and we can better enable prospective
> future
> hosts/organizers to engage with us.)
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>> Chris
>>
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