Back to the original question (which is an interesting and worthwhile one, surely applicable to many events across the movement), I would hope that the WMF has some ability to provide guidance on these matters, or failing that, the committees who have put together other conferences (e.g., WikiCite, WikiConference, etc. etc.) The WMF used to do some detailed work on this, though my information is now nearly a decade out of date, I'm pretty confident they still do. I'd suggest reaching out to the grants folks at WMF and asking if they can pull something together.
Pete -- User:Peteforsyth
On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 8:20 AM Isaac Olatunde reachout2isaac@gmail.com wrote:
I completely agree with Risker here. In the recent time, most (if not all) Wikipedian of the year award recipients now have a Wikipedia article.
One would wonder if Wikipedia of the year award confers notability.
This is not to disrespect our WOTY but I do honestly feel that users who are not notable apart from receiving the award does not merit a Wikipedia article.
Regards,
Isaac
On Wed, Oct 9, 2019, 4:10 PM Risker <risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
I've never created a Wikidata profile about anyone, not even someone who
is
widely known. I've never created or edited a biographical article about someone who isn't really obviously notable, and who has a broad and
widely
known profile as verified in multiple non-Wikimedia (or Wikipedia/Wikimedia-related) sources.
No, I would never create an article about a Wikimedian - or a Wikidata profile either - unless they are clearly and obviously notable outside of our little microcosm. Frankly, with very few exceptions, almost nobody whose "notability" is primarily related to this movement is actually notable in the strictest reading of the policies of most of our Wikipedia projects. As far as I'm concerned, most of the Wikipedia/Wikimedia/other project-related articles on most of our projects are a prime example of navel-gazing rather than actual notability.
Further, I think it's terrible use of Wikidata to use it to store what
are
essentially the personnel records of Wikimedia volunteers.
Risker/Anne
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 09:52, Henry Wood henry.wood.1869@gmail.com
wrote:
Risker
I'm pretty shocked at this idea; in fact, if someone created a
Wikidata
profile about me, I'd have it taken down under applicable
legislation.
... and yet you are an energetic volunteer for projects that assert the right to do that to other people?
Henry
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