Talk:Wikimedia Conference Netherlands 2007 held on wikis and education

Original Reporting notes

I took the train up to Amsterdam on Friday night, was early arriving (and the signs on the way to where it was being held didn't have a big enough WMF logo on them).

I attended the opening, Cormac Lawler's session "Wikiversity - learning the "wiki way", "The Global Educators' Open Course given by Eliane Metni from Lebanon and then dug myself a grave by being totally unprepared to speak about Wikinews (asked 2 days ago). In the afternoon lightning talks I attended the speakers whose names I got were Bryan Tong Minh on Commons - with the comment that Commons now has more mainspace media files than Wikipedia has articles. 5,000 new files/day, approx 1,000 copyvio. Esther Hoorn spoke about JurisPedia, highlighting that law is ever changing and a wiki model is useful. Jasper de Grood (sp?) spoke about his work in Zambia substituting PCs for a library and using open source software to make up for a lack of books. Andre Engels had a more blue-sky topic, a "I have a dream" to get as many archives of records which may be useful for historical research scanned, put online, and using the wiki model transcribed from handwriting into machine-readable and searchable text. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 21:35, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

The Javanese wiki was discussed, a project in a language with 80,000 speakers yet only 5 active wiki contributors. Comments from the floor were that this was below the critical threshold to make a wiki self-sustaining. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 10:00, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

To-do

As the only Wikinewsie at the conference I couldn't cover everything, and "Mijn Nederlands is niet zo goed". The following are a list of points I need.

• Who were the speakers and what were their topics in the morning lightning talks?
• I understand one speaker was ill, what was the dropped/replaced speech/speaker?
• I didn't catch the name of the guy speaking about the Javanese Wikipedia.
• What was the actual attendance figure? I would have guessed at somewhere between 50-70.
• I was not present for any of the material after the 2nd lightning talks session, I can't write anything on that.
• PICTURES!!!!!

Any help other participants can give would be much appreciated. Add links if people have put presentations online (this was mentioned at one point), cover the nl. sessions you attended. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 10:25, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

And when you've done that, someone please translate a version of this over to the nl.wikinews.org site. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 10:27, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Good OR

This looks like a good OR article but I think it's lacking an ending, how about adding a final paragraph to summarise the event. How well did it go, how many people attended, that kind of thing. Adambro 19:22, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately I had to leave early to catch a train. The last high speed train from Amsterdam to Brussels is just after 4pm. It's that or the "stoptrein" which ... well ... stops. Lots.

Fortunately some of the other attendees have filled out the bits I missed, thanks folks! --Brian McNeil / ^talk 09:36, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Just great

The only time I leave my country there's a Wikimedia conference next door... Will do the translation part, sure. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:29, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Research at Wikiversity

From the current version of the article: "like Wikinews there is scope for original research, but as was admitted this is not yet clearly defined". It might be worth linking to the Wikiversity:Research guidelines. --JWSchmidt 20:56, 28 October 2007 (UTC)