WikiCamp
Today attended the WikiCamp and it was an great experience. Learned a lot of stuff in general and as well about Wiki and Wikipedia. Although it is a unconference, Undoubtedly the star of the show was Mr. Jimmy Wales. Quite surprisingly his session was at the start of the show ( a presentation and a Q&A section). It was very good, but since this is the highlight of the show, a few members left after his session was over. (But It was very small say probably 10-20 on a crowd of around 180). Lot other sessions were interesting as well. There were quite number of live blogger at the event check. There was a interesting session about wikipedia entries in Tamil language. Very few takers here (not more than 30) was a sad issue. But since there was a spilt in the sessions after lunch, could not expect more than this. A sad thing at the end of day is that I had misplaced by notes which I have taken all day :-(.
Trying to recollect things happened today. The two things which I remembered very well are
a) Two Leg Principle - If you are uncomfortable at a position, please use your legs and move to a new position.
b) Wikipedia Editors - What you feel does not matter for wikipedia, what is the actual fact matters for wikipedia. Do write what you feel in your blog, but write/edit what is the actual fact in the wikipedia.
At the end of the unconference, spoke to Jimmy Wales on the wikipedia donation for India.Earlier in his speech at the start of the day he has mentioned most of the donations in wikipedia is small in numbers 50 or 100 dollars.I was mentioning to him, in India even 50 or 100 dollars is a big amount, and many cannot afford it. The best method which would work for India, is having a INR currency account in India. He accepted it was a nice idea, but make take a longer time to implement, as they may to need to register in India and do other legal formalities.
Though using wikipedia for almost 2 years, not yet created an account there. But now I am definitely going to create and account and start giving back something it.
Trying to recollect things happened today. The two things which I remembered very well are
a) Two Leg Principle - If you are uncomfortable at a position, please use your legs and move to a new position.
b) Wikipedia Editors - What you feel does not matter for wikipedia, what is the actual fact matters for wikipedia. Do write what you feel in your blog, but write/edit what is the actual fact in the wikipedia.
At the end of the unconference, spoke to Jimmy Wales on the wikipedia donation for India.Earlier in his speech at the start of the day he has mentioned most of the donations in wikipedia is small in numbers 50 or 100 dollars.I was mentioning to him, in India even 50 or 100 dollars is a big amount, and many cannot afford it. The best method which would work for India, is having a INR currency account in India. He accepted it was a nice idea, but make take a longer time to implement, as they may to need to register in India and do other legal formalities.
Though using wikipedia for almost 2 years, not yet created an account there. But now I am definitely going to create and account and start giving back something it.
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