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Op-ed Wikimania—can volunteers organize conferences?

2015-08-26

Should paid event staff supplement the work of volunteers?

Wikimanía report Wikimanía 2015 report, part 1, the plenaries

2015-07-22

WMF's Executive Director, Lila Tretikov, gave the opening plenary address.

News and notes The Wikimedia Conference and Wikimania

2015-07-15

Wikimania 2015 is underway in Mexico City, and one of its sessions—a scheduled follow-up to the annual Wikimedia Conference that was held in Berlin in May—is good reason to provide a retrospective of that Conference.

In the media Students' use and perception of Wikipedia

2015-02-18

The Australian ("Wikipedia not destroying life as we know it", February 11) and Times Higher Education ("Wikipedia should be 'better integrated' into teaching", February 10) reported on a recent study performed at Monash University, titled "Students’ use of Wikipedia as an academic resource – patterns of use and perceptions of usefulness".

In the media Turkish Twitter outrage, medical translation, audience metrics

2014-09-17

The Hürriyet Daily News reports on a series of posts on Twitter from Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism Ömer Çelik.

Special report 2014 Wikimedia Conference—what is the impact?

2014-04-23

The annual Wikimedia Conference wound up last Sunday, 13 April—a four-day meeting costing several hundred thousand dollars, hosted in Berlin by Wikimedia Germany and attended by more than 100 Wikimedians.

Special report On the cusp of the Wikimedia Conference

2014-04-02

The annual Wikimedia Conference is about to start in Berlin, hosted by Wikimedia Germany, which won the bid to hold the event over three others. This will be the fifth time the chapter has hosted the Wikimedia Conference—it did so from 2009 to 2012, with attendance ranging from 100 to 180 Wikimedians. This year 160 people are expected at the four-day event, which is mainly for representatives of affiliated Wikimedia organisations. The conference has been built around two themes: Organisation, structures, and grants and Success and impact.

News and notes Wikimedia conferences—soul-searching about costs, attendance, and future

2014-04-02

The run-up to the conference has seen the unfolding of two fractious threads on the Wikimedia public mailing list, both of which may serve as background for the last session at Berlin: "Future of the Wikimedia Conference".

Discussion report Musical scores, diversity conference, Module:Convert, and more

2013-12-04

Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

News and notes Milan conference a mixed bag

2013-04-22

The Wikimedia Conference, for the first time, included groups that wish to be considered for WMF affiliation as thematic organisations.

Technology report Developers get ready for FOSDEM amid caching problems

2013-01-28

As reported in last week's "Technology Report", the WMF's data centre in Ashburn, Virginia took over responsibility for almost all of the remaining functions that had previously been handled by their old facility in Tampa, Florida on 22 January. The Signpost reported then that few problems had arisen since handover. Unfortunately that was not to remain the case, with reports of caching problems (which typically only affect anonymous users) starting to come in.

News and notes Berlin reforms to movement structures, Wikidata launches with fanfare, and Wikipedia's day of mischief

2012-04-02

WikiProject report Having a Conference with WikiProject India

2011-11-14

Wikimania Seventh annual Wikimedia conference concluded in Haifa, Israel

2011-08-08

Recent research Talk page interactions; Wikipedia at the Open Knowledge Conference; Summer of Research

2011-07-25

News and notes Berlin conference highlights relation between chapters and Foundation; annual report; brief news

2011-03-28

News and notes Foundation's finances, geodata milestone, interim counsel, museum conference

2010-11-01