Submissions/Wikimedia Chapters

This is an accepted submission for Wikimania 2012.

Submission no.

302

Title of the submission: Wikimedia Chapters - <some cool subtitle>

Type of submission (workshop, tutorial, panel, presentation): Presentation & discussion

Author of the submission: Lodewijk Gelauff and Deror Avi Lin

E-mail address: lodewijk at wmnederland punt nl; deror at wikimedia dot org punt il

Country of origin: Netherlands & Israel

Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.): Wikimedia Netherlands & Wikimedia Israel

Personal homepage or blog: not appliccable

Abstract (at least 300 words to describe your proposal): Wikimedia Chapters exist all throughout the world and pulled off a great diversity of projects. This presentation will try to give some introduction to what chapters are (very shortly) and then introduce a large number of these projects, based on a survey given to the chapters on beforehand. This presentation could give an introduction to other sessions around chapter projects, and will point to the relevant sessions.; The idea is not to give a relatively long presentations about a few very successful projects, but rather a lot of very short presentations of many cool ideas with 1-2 minutes per topic max. By having only one team of speakers for this introduction, there is little overheat time, and the audience can get a well structured overview. This presentation was also given in 2011 in Haifa by Lodewijk, and the slides and video are available here.

Track (Wikis and the Public Sector; GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums); WikiCulture and Community; Research, Analysis, and Education; Technology and Infrastructure): WikiCulture and Community (but there will be quite some 'GLAM' inside it and perhaps also some technology and infrastructure)

Length of presentation/talk (if other than 25 minutes, specify how long): will have to discuss, probably preferred 60-90 minutes. This is necessary because of the huge amount of terrain to cover. Considering the amount of chapters and the variety of topics we would like to discuss, I think it is fair enough to ask for an exception.

Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?: not purely dependent on this.

Slides or further information (optional): not available until July. To get an impression, look at the presentation with the same title in 2011 Haifa.

Special request as to time of presentations (for example - can not present on Saturday): Should be on day 1 - so that it can point to more detailed sessions later in the schedule.

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Resident Mario 00:32, 16 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Sumanah 22:28, 16 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Risker 04:36, 17 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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AroundTheGlobe (talk)
Definitely interesting --Juandev 14:29, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Haxpett (talk) 23:56, 10 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
True story: I wanted to go the wiki way and write <a cool subtitle> myself. I picked an English (paper!) dictionary and opened it randomly. My eyes fell on "creditable". I opened it on a different random page and my eyes fell on "foolishness". There you go: "Wikimedia Chapters - Creditable Foolishness". It's a really cool title, yet i was kinda reluctant to write it at the top. Amir E. Aharoni (talk)
CT Cooper · talk 19:59, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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