On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Ellie. > > On the topic of event safety, I am wondering if there is a standard > checklist that WMF uses when narrowing potential sites for Wikimanias and > if you could make that checklist public. Perhaps it is public already but I > don't know where to find it. >
This is what we were using for the past few Wikimanias. It is public. I reference it in the recent posting as well. I will be updating this since we are no longer doing the competitive bidding process but it does have a lot of information and is pretty accurate. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016_judging_criteria Regarding Wikimania goals and strategy, I'd like to suggest that WMF take a > look at what our friends in WMDE have done with the Wikimedia Conference to > increase focus on specific topics and to make conference outcomes a bit > clearer and more measurable. > WMF funds with a grant this conference and works closely with WMDE. There was a proposal a couple of years ago to have a paid program and events coordinator who would provide continuity year to year and liaise with other conferences/groups. There is also paid meeting planner as well as staff support from the WMDE itself. > I also like that WMDE devotes significant staff support to the conference, > which decreases the burden on volunteers; I would like to see a similar > shift for Wikimania so the event is less dependent on heroic efforts from > volunteers. I realize that there is financial cost involved with increased > staff support for conferences; this is one area in which increased > expenditure makes sense to me. > We started that in London and Mexico City Wikimania with my position and a paid local coordinator (Esino Lario was an exception where the local team received a grant and handled pretty much everything.) > I look forward to hearing about further developments. > > Thanks, > > Pine > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > -- Ellie Young Events Manager Wikimedia Foundation [email protected] c. 510 701 8649
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