Talk:WikiConference UK 2012

Can the morning session be talks about WMUK supported projects - QRpedia, GLAM outreach etc. --Filceolaire 13:20, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Why the morning, in particular? The Land 22:29, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

So we know a bit about what WMUK has been doing before the AGM --Filceolaire 23:47, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Ah, fair enough. The Land 18:27, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Dear all, please be aware that the venue comprises of one main room and it would be best if we did not have parallel sessions on the agenda. Daria Cybulska (talk) 16:13, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Apologies for absence

• I won't be able to make it due to my sister getting married that day. --Tango 23:01, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

I can't make it either because Im travelling to the Isle of Arran that day. Hope it goes well. JulieR

Ideas for subjects/ speakers

Please add to this list

• Someone to talk about QRpedia
• A GLAM Wikipedian in Residence - BL?
• Creative Commons - Joscelyn agreed - Victuallers
• MicroFormats - Andy Mabbett
• Hacking
• Europeana - David Haskiya
• MonmouthpediA - Trying to get snr person from Monmouthshire CC to give a view
• SOPA and the press - Steve Virgin is supplying
• "When did you stop adding "Wifebeater" to Wikipedia? (Links to PR)
• Leading Wikimedia project innovation
• Anonymity - NTBA?
• How I made a million pounds - CK
• Domesday Project - Anna Powell Smith
• Is it time for WikiUni?

This is my brain dump - it would look much more impressive if you added to it? If you pass by then can you make one small change so we know you have seen it? Victuallers 11:04, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Someone from the UK GLAM task force could lead a "State of GLAM in the UK" presentation/session. Then people could get up and talk about their individual GLAM projects. (See the State of the GLAM: DC presentation at Wikimania 2011.) Regards, Rock drum (talk • contribs) 11:24, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Sounds good, it's the most visible project. If the BL WIR is in place by then, it would be nice to give them a slot of a few minutes. --Fæ 12:44, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

DiffDeck

At a Manchester meetup, Mike Peel asked if I had any ideas for a presentation. I suggested I could talk about a technical idea that has been going around in my head for a bit, which I have called DiffDeck. The general idea is that it is a bit like TweetDeck in that it uses columns to show you lots of information at once, allowing you to scroll backwards and forwards. In this case, each column is a diff of a particular edit of an article. Allowing you to scan across and see which edits have been undone, and so on.

Everyone listening at the meetup thought it would be useful and I have lots of ideas for features that would make it even more useful.

Does this sound like a good topic for a talk? If I have a concern, I guess it is that I have no way to put this idea into practice myself. But then again, maybe I'll meet some interested parties at the conference!

Yaris678 (talk) 20:32, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Richard Sennett

I think it would be cool if we could get Richard Sennett to speak at the conference. I am currently reading his book "Together: The Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics of Cooperation". He has some very interesting thoughts on cooperation... which is, after all, what a wiki is all about. For example, I think that his distinction between dialogical and dialectical thinking could really help us to improve how we deal with decisions that are prone to wikidrama. I don't know to what extent he has participated in wiki stuff, but he seems pretty tech-aware. In the introduction to the book, he talks about how he was involved in a trial of Google Wave and why he thinks that software was ultimately discontinued. Apparently, in his book "The Craftsman" he has talked about how people work together on both Linux software and Wikipedia.

Sennett is a professor of sociology at the London School of Economics. If we would like him to give a talk then I would suggest that someone on the board of WikiMedia UK should contact him. Yaris678 (talk) 13:37, 12 March 2012 (UTC)