Wikinews:Water cooler/miscellaneous/archives/2016/January


Wikimania 2016: call for proposals is open!

Dear users,
the call for proposals for Wikimania 2016 is open! All the members of the Wikimedia projects, researchers and observers are invited to propose a critical issue to be included in the programme of the conference, which will be held in Italy, in Esino Lario, from June 21 to 28.
Through this call we only accept what we call critical issues, i.e. proposals aiming at presenting problems, possible solutions and critical analysis about Wikimedia projects and activities in 18 minutes. These proposals do not need to target newbies, and they can assume attendees to already have a background knowledge on a topic (community, tech, outreach, policies...).
To submit a presentation, please refer to the Submissions page on the Wikimania 2016 website. Deadline for submitting proposals is 7th January 2016 and the selection of these proposals will be through a blind peer-reviewed process. Looking forward to your proposals. --Yiyi (talk) 10:22, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The deadline for the call for proposals for Wikimania 2016 has been moved on 17th January 2016, so you have 10 days to submit you proposal(s). To submit a presentation, please refer to the Submissions page on the Wikimania 2016 website. --Yiyi (talk) 09:36, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Local oversighters

Hello,
I want to notify you that I have just removed Bawolff's oversight rights, since he indicated that he wished to resign from them. Consequently, also Cspurrier's access had to be removed, as there must always be at least 2 local oversighters per the global policy. Cspurrier's rights can be re-granted if a second oversighter is elected by the community, of course. --MF-Warburg (talk) 22:59, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

16:59, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

17:55, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

16:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)