Mal wieder ein Artikel, dessen weitere Lebensdauer in der Wikipedia sich wohl in Minuten messen lässt. Deshalb hier:
Louis-Victor de Broglie entdeckte, dass alle Teilchen durch Materiewellen beschrieben werden können. (siehe Wellenlänge) In Umkehrung dazu müssten, falls Eineindeutigkeit herrschen sollte, auch alle Materiewellen durch Teilchen beschrieben werden können. Dieses würde dann vereinfacht bedeuten, dass die Zeit wie bei der Sanduhr durch die Frequenz der in mehr oder weniger gleichmäßigem Abstand fallenden Sandkörnchen bestimmt werden kann, d. h. wie die Zeit auch gemessen werden sollte, in Wirklichkeit handelt es sich dabei immer um die Messung von Frequenz.
Mit dem Begriff des pulsierenden Äthers verbindet sich damit eine besondere Modifizierung, welche der enormen Bedeutung des scheinbar nicht nachweisbaren Äthers gerecht wird, ohne dass die vielen Probleme der Äthertheorien in den Vordergrund gelangen.
Eine Raumzeit-Krümmung muss wegen der immer richtungsabhängigen Beeinflussung durch die individuelle Verteilung von Masse, Strahlung oder Druck im Raum ebenfalls richtungsabhängig sein, soweit diese sich messbar unterscheiden, muss sie auch selbst messbar unterschieden werden können. Wie soll aber ein pulsierender Äther nachgewiesen werden können, wenn die Zeit selbst nichts anderes ist als der Kehrwert der Frequenz desselben. Alle Uhren von der Standuhr bis zur Atomuhr messen also in Wirklichkeit nur richtungsabhängige Frequenzen eines pulsierenden Äthers.
Da es sich bei der Sonne um eine verhältnismäßig große Masse handelt, müssen selbst Sonnenuhren vom pulsierenden Äther "angetrieben" werden, denn wenn die Sonne die Zeit "krümmen" kann, so doch auch Richtungsabhängig, bewegt sie sich doch dank ihrer trägen Masse nicht in alle Richtungen mit gleicher Geschwindigkeit. Da sich auch in Zukunft die Zeit von gestern nicht mit der Zeit von heute vergleichen lassen wird, kann sie in der uns vertrauten Form und innerhalb unseres Sonnensystems allgemeingültig für dieses selbst nur aus der Bewegung des Baryzentrums bestimmt werden.
Weitergehende Angaben zum Autor und zum Thema siehe Ethik/Leseprobe
Mal wieder ein Artikel, dessen weitere Lebensdauer in der Wikipedia sich wohl in Minuten messen lässt. Deshalb hier:
Louis-Victor de Broglie entdeckte, dass alle Teilchen durch Materiewellen beschrieben werden können. (siehe Wellenlänge) In Umkehrung dazu müssten, falls Eineindeutigkeit herrschen sollte, auch alle Materiewellen durch Teilchen beschrieben werden können. Dieses würde dann vereinfacht bedeuten, dass die Zeit wie bei der Sanduhr durch die Frequenz der in mehr oder weniger gleichmäßigem Abstand fallenden Sandkörnchen bestimmt werden kann, d. h. wie die Zeit auch gemessen werden sollte, in Wirklichkeit handelt es sich dabei immer um die Messung von Frequenz.
Mit dem Begriff des pulsierenden Äthers verbindet sich damit eine besondere Modifizierung, welche der enormen Bedeutung des scheinbar nicht nachweisbaren Äthers gerecht wird, ohne dass die vielen Probleme der Äthertheorien in den Vordergrund gelangen.
Eine Raumzeit-Krümmung muss wegen der immer richtungsabhängigen Beeinflussung durch die individuelle Verteilung von Masse, Strahlung oder Druck im Raum ebenfalls richtungsabhängig sein, soweit diese sich messbar unterscheiden, muss sie auch selbst messbar unterschieden werden können. Wie soll aber ein pulsierender Äther nachgewiesen werden können, wenn die Zeit selbst nichts anderes ist als der Kehrwert der Frequenz desselben. Alle Uhren von der Standuhr bis zur Atomuhr messen also in Wirklichkeit nur richtungsabhängige Frequenzen eines pulsierenden Äthers.
Da es sich bei der Sonne um eine verhältnismäßig große Masse handelt, müssen selbst Sonnenuhren vom pulsierenden Äther "angetrieben" werden, denn wenn die Sonne die Zeit "krümmen" kann, so doch auch Richtungsabhängig, bewegt sie sich doch dank ihrer trägen Masse nicht in alle Richtungen mit gleicher Geschwindigkeit. Da sich auch in Zukunft die Zeit von gestern nicht mit der Zeit von heute vergleichen lassen wird, kann sie in der uns vertrauten Form und innerhalb unseres Sonnensystems allgemeingültig für dieses selbst nur aus der Bewegung des Baryzentrums bestimmt werden.
Weitergehende Angaben zum Autor und zum Thema siehe Ethik/Leseprobe
So epochal die Wikimania-Beach-Party auch war. Noch besser wäre sie natürlich unter der Hinzuziehung von Traktoren gewesen. Aber die schleswig-holsteinische Nordseeküste weist den richtigen Weg:
So epochal die Wikimania-Beach-Party auch war. Noch besser wäre sie natürlich unter der Hinzuziehung von Traktoren gewesen. Aber die schleswig-holsteinische Nordseeküste weist den richtigen Weg:
Route: (noch in Arbeit): Wir umrunden ein Wunderwerk Westberliner Verkehrs- und Stadtplanung, und besichtigen dabei ebenso Ergebnisse aktueller Gesamtberliner Entwicklungen. Die Route geht grob einmal gegen den Uhrzeigersinn um das Autobahnkreuz A 100/103. Wir sehen das Stummelende der 103, das Denkmal für die ehemalige Radrennbahn, den autofreundlichen Bahnhof Südkreuz, Möbelhäuser Reformsiedlungen der 1920er, das Sportzentrum Schöneberg, ebenso wie wir einen Kurzabstecher zur Baustelle am Gasometer Schöneberg machen. Und natürlich jede Menge Autos und Autobahnen. Diese Stadt ist in Bewegung, und it ain't pretty, aber interessant.
Route: (noch in Arbeit): Wir umrunden ein Wunderwerk Westberliner Verkehrs- und Stadtplanung, und besichtigen dabei ebenso Ergebnisse aktueller Gesamtberliner Entwicklungen. Die Route geht grob einmal gegen den Uhrzeigersinn um das Autobahnkreuz A 100/103. Wir sehen das Stummelende der 103, das Denkmal für die ehemalige Radrennbahn, den autofreundlichen Bahnhof Südkreuz, Möbelhäuser Reformsiedlungen der 1920er, das Sportzentrum Schöneberg, ebenso wie wir einen Kurzabstecher zur Baustelle am Gasometer Schöneberg machen. Und natürlich jede Menge Autos und Autobahnen. Diese Stadt ist in Bewegung, und it ain't pretty, aber interessant.
Was dabei rauskommt, wenn man zuviele Stunden am Flughafen Ben Gurion/Tel Aviv bei koscherem Döner von McDonalds verbringt. Ich kopiere mal aus Wikipedia:
Am Sonntag Abend nach der Wikimania in Haifa brachten ich und Southpark und DerHexer und ein paar andere auf dem Flughafen in Tel Aviv die Nacht zu. Dabei kam es zu überaus interessanten Gesprächen über den Verein, die Foundation, die Wikipedia in Deutschland und anderen Ländern und über andere Projekte. Diese Gespräche wollen wir gern öffentlich fortsetzen.
Dazu treffen wir uns am Freitag, den 12. August 19:00 im Fire Club in der Zionskirchstr. 5 in 10119 Berlin-Mitte (http://fire-club.de/)
Kommen kann ein jeder, der sich für Wikipedia, Wikimedia und Freies Wissen interessiert und gute Gespräche zu schätzen weiß. --[[Benutzer:Sebastian Wallroth|Sebastian Wallroth]] 06:12, 10. Aug. 2011 (CEST)
Keine Ahnung ob es was bringt, und was es wird, aber ich bin recht sicher, es wird lustig, und danach sind wir alle in eine Richtung schlauer. Anmeldungen hätte Sebastian bitte per Wp oder per facebook oder per xing.
Was dabei rauskommt, wenn man zuviele Stunden am Flughafen Ben Gurion/Tel Aviv bei koscherem Döner von McDonalds verbringt. Ich kopiere mal aus Wikipedia:
Am Sonntag Abend nach der Wikimania in Haifa brachten ich und Southpark und DerHexer und ein paar andere auf dem Flughafen in Tel Aviv die Nacht zu. Dabei kam es zu überaus interessanten Gesprächen über den Verein, die Foundation, die Wikipedia in Deutschland und anderen Ländern und über andere Projekte. Diese Gespräche wollen wir gern öffentlich fortsetzen.
Dazu treffen wir uns am Freitag, den 12. August 19:00 im Fire Club in der Zionskirchstr. 5 in 10119 Berlin-Mitte (http://fire-club.de/)
Kommen kann ein jeder, der sich für Wikipedia, Wikimedia und Freies Wissen interessiert und gute Gespräche zu schätzen weiß. --[[Benutzer:Sebastian Wallroth|Sebastian Wallroth]] 06:12, 10. Aug. 2011 (CEST)
Keine Ahnung ob es was bringt, und was es wird, aber ich bin recht sicher, es wird lustig, und danach sind wir alle in eine Richtung schlauer. Anmeldungen hätte Sebastian bitte per Wp oder per facebook oder per xing.
English translation of this blogpost. Deshalb liebe deutsche Leser, gibt es zwar ein paar neue Fotos, aber keinen neuen Text.
No Happiness No Glamour: In my application for a scholarshop (thanks, WM Deutschland for the possibility to attend this conference!) I did write: Because my presentation: "The strange tale of Chiara Ohoven and German work ethics" will rock the conference. And, what can I say, even as humble as I am, I did make good on this promise. What a discussion: intense, emotional but fair, on topic, and for the rest of day several compliments for this presentation. Even though moderating the discussion felt like riding a wild bull.
Woow: What an organization. Nearly perfect. From now on all my parties and events will be organized by Wikimedia Israel. Maybe we can have the next Chapter meeting of Wikimedia Deutschland in Haifa? I have seen dancing Wikipedians, Israel, land of wonders. And they even had enough forethought to include somtimes a small glitch, so the rest of us normal people don't feel too bad about our normality.
Hotel: to tell you something about my fascinating Mount Carmel hotel - every day the room is cleaned in another fashion, and it is always a surprise in which way the bed is made, where my water bottles stand, and where they put the remote control. Visiting the bathroom it was the first time in many years that I have seen a toilet with no water-saving-functionality. Here, inmidst of dry stones and desert where there is no rain whatsoever in several months. On the other hand, I'm really thing about skipping some sessions to use the wonderful swimming-pool of the hotel in which it is actually possible to swim.
Israel/Palastine-conflict: should be mentioned. And even though Haifa seems to be the most unlikely place in Israel to anything to do with it, it still is there. On the other hand, I still have to fly back with El Al, so maybe I should wait for Germany to write about it ;-)
The Mayor of Haifa: don't know why, but I did actually read the greeting of the mayor Yona Yahav and I was actually touched. Read like he had written it himself and like it was even written for this audience and opportunity. He said some introductory words at the beginning of the party, and again, probably for the first time in my life that such a speech got honest applause from non-politicans.
Great accomplishment, small glitch: Wifi Worked all conference, but was slow. The longest time of yesterdays morning session I was occupied staring at the progress bar of my 30 MB presentation download. After the first failed attempt this was for me highly energetic and cost a lot of nerves, but is rather boring to blog about.
So I can tell a bit what others were experiencing: the Dorms are three mountains away, and it is only possible to reach them by bus. While one dorm seems to be new and stylish and air-conditioned, the other seem to be more reminiscent of Eastern block old school dorms, with bare lightbulbs, plain stone walls and the old kind of israeli powerplugs that don't work with some European electronics.
If you ever wanted to know: while the Wikipedia meetup Stockholm is twice a months and consists of talking and drinking, the Americans and Indians seem to have a real agenda, presentations etc - but almost no meetups, because nobody will attend them for fun.
Agenda and presentations: yes, even the offical program was worth attending. My personal highlight: Ory Amitays Teaching the Humanities in a Wiki Environment. Amitay just knows a lot about wikis and how to use them in a university classroom, still is enthusiastic, but without being naive or superficial. At the end I was just happy and did remember why I like Wikis in general and esspecially Wikipedia so much. Everyone who tries to talk to teachers about Wikis and Wikipedia should watch this presentation to get some inspiration. Also nice: Frank Schulenburg about the public policy initiative and Sue Gardner opening talk.
The not-so-great-presentations where still worthwhile but would have probably been better as a printed text than spoken words - there are better ways to communicate large chunks of complicated text than to read them aloud from your own powerpoint-slide in smallprint. These talks were an israeli teacher who teaches others teachers to use Wikipedia, a Wikipedian from Croatia who said something about categories, and a Wikipedian from Spain(?) who talkes about how much different Wikipedias talk about the country where their language is spoken natively. The Board of Trustees Question and Answer was nice, because afterwards I did recognize every boardmember in the hallways, not so nice, because with 9 boardmembers on a panel I can't remember who said what.
Pictures and Video: Does anybody know where the most pictures actually are? Flickr or commons or somewhere else? As far as I have seen all presentations were taped on video, so look at the Youtube-Channel, maybe they will be there some day.
The Gap: I did have a presentation which basically (and of course over-dramatized) said, that all Wikipedians are grumpy old educated man, sitting in a library, and thinking that fun and glamour is not serious enough for Wikipedia. Now Sue Gardner holds a talk full of love and kittens and mobile internet and communication and I am thinking: but the dust? the books? the seriousness? I understand why Sue and foundation want in the direction they are heading, and I think most of it, is really necessary - but if the foundation is not very careful, I see a big emotional and cultural conflict between the values of the article-writing community and the Foundation.
Numbers: interesting how much the Foundation seems to be focused on number and evalutation. "Monthly meetrics meeting" is such an amazing word, and to actually say "article quality improved by 140%" shows some serious beief in the magic of numbers. And although numbers tell at least a third of the truth, this is more than no truth at all, and the no-evaluation-at-all method Wikipedia employs way to often.
Mobile: one of the topics where I am not sure, if they foundation is headed in the right direction. Yes, they are right, mobile usage in general is increasing, and right now it is nearly impossible to contribute to Wikipedia in a mobile environment. But even when it is easy technically: mobile environment still means normally: lost of distractions, not much time, far away from any resources. I'm not sure, if it is possible to contribute meaningful through a mobile interface, just because of the circumstances where these interfaces are normally used.
Israel: Peaceful talks during Lunch, where the really nice old lady just tells happily, that her parents are from Berlin, and arrived at Israel in January 1940. As a German I have problems to just talk on, but don't want to use the Holocaust as a small-talk-lunch-topic neither.
Coffee: always there, always hot. It takes some time to get used to the mix-hot-water-and-powder form it has at the venue, but one can drink it, it has coffeine and is hot.
Beach: Seems to be dangerous: some Wikimanias seem to have already bad sunburns, people who live here tell happily stories of tourists who burned themselves straight into hospital.
Wikimania 2012: The people from Washington seem to get more nervous by the hour, because in Washington everybody will remember how great Haifa was. Also: i think I have an idea for a presentation in Washington: free licenses are product and enabler of the exploitation of turbocapitalism.
English translation of this blogpost. Deshalb liebe deutsche Leser, gibt es zwar ein paar neue Fotos, aber keinen neuen Text.
No Happiness No Glamour: In my application for a scholarshop (thanks, WM Deutschland for the possibility to attend this conference!) I did write: Because my presentation: "The strange tale of Chiara Ohoven and German work ethics" will rock the conference. And, what can I say, even as humble as I am, I did make good on this promise. What a discussion: intense, emotional but fair, on topic, and for the rest of day several compliments for this presentation. Even though moderating the discussion felt like riding a wild bull.
Woow: What an organization. Nearly perfect. From now on all my parties and events will be organized by Wikimedia Israel. Maybe we can have the next Chapter meeting of Wikimedia Deutschland in Haifa? I have seen dancing Wikipedians, Israel, land of wonders. And they even had enough forethought to include somtimes a small glitch, so the rest of us normal people don't feel too bad about our normality.
Hotel: to tell you something about my fascinating Mount Carmel hotel - every day the room is cleaned in another fashion, and it is always a surprise in which way the bed is made, where my water bottles stand, and where they put the remote control. Visiting the bathroom it was the first time in many years that I have seen a toilet with no water-saving-functionality. Here, inmidst of dry stones and desert where there is no rain whatsoever in several months. On the other hand, I'm really thing about skipping some sessions to use the wonderful swimming-pool of the hotel in which it is actually possible to swim.
Israel/Palastine-conflict: should be mentioned. And even though Haifa seems to be the most unlikely place in Israel to anything to do with it, it still is there. On the other hand, I still have to fly back with El Al, so maybe I should wait for Germany to write about it ;-)
The Mayor of Haifa: don't know why, but I did actually read the greeting of the mayor Yona Yahav and I was actually touched. Read like he had written it himself and like it was even written for this audience and opportunity. He said some introductory words at the beginning of the party, and again, probably for the first time in my life that such a speech got honest applause from non-politicans.
Great accomplishment, small glitch: Wifi Worked all conference, but was slow. The longest time of yesterdays morning session I was occupied staring at the progress bar of my 30 MB presentation download. After the first failed attempt this was for me highly energetic and cost a lot of nerves, but is rather boring to blog about.
So I can tell a bit what others were experiencing: the Dorms are three mountains away, and it is only possible to reach them by bus. While one dorm seems to be new and stylish and air-conditioned, the other seem to be more reminiscent of Eastern block old school dorms, with bare lightbulbs, plain stone walls and the old kind of israeli powerplugs that don't work with some European electronics.
If you ever wanted to know: while the Wikipedia meetup Stockholm is twice a months and consists of talking and drinking, the Americans and Indians seem to have a real agenda, presentations etc - but almost no meetups, because nobody will attend them for fun.
Agenda and presentations: yes, even the offical program was worth attending. My personal highlight: Ory Amitays Teaching the Humanities in a Wiki Environment. Amitay just knows a lot about wikis and how to use them in a university classroom, still is enthusiastic, but without being naive or superficial. At the end I was just happy and did remember why I like Wikis in general and esspecially Wikipedia so much. Everyone who tries to talk to teachers about Wikis and Wikipedia should watch this presentation to get some inspiration. Also nice: Frank Schulenburg about the public policy initiative and Sue Gardner opening talk.
The not-so-great-presentations where still worthwhile but would have probably been better as a printed text than spoken words - there are better ways to communicate large chunks of complicated text than to read them aloud from your own powerpoint-slide in smallprint. These talks were an israeli teacher who teaches others teachers to use Wikipedia, a Wikipedian from Croatia who said something about categories, and a Wikipedian from Spain(?) who talkes about how much different Wikipedias talk about the country where their language is spoken natively. The Board of Trustees Question and Answer was nice, because afterwards I did recognize every boardmember in the hallways, not so nice, because with 9 boardmembers on a panel I can't remember who said what.
Pictures and Video: Does anybody know where the most pictures actually are? Flickr or commons or somewhere else? As far as I have seen all presentations were taped on video, so look at the Youtube-Channel, maybe they will be there some day.
The Gap: I did have a presentation which basically (and of course over-dramatized) said, that all Wikipedians are grumpy old educated man, sitting in a library, and thinking that fun and glamour is not serious enough for Wikipedia. Now Sue Gardner holds a talk full of love and kittens and mobile internet and communication and I am thinking: but the dust? the books? the seriousness? I understand why Sue and foundation want in the direction they are heading, and I think most of it, is really necessary - but if the foundation is not very careful, I see a big emotional and cultural conflict between the values of the article-writing community and the Foundation.
Numbers: interesting how much the Foundation seems to be focused on number and evalutation. "Monthly meetrics meeting" is such an amazing word, and to actually say "article quality improved by 140%" shows some serious beief in the magic of numbers. And although numbers tell at least a third of the truth, this is more than no truth at all, and the no-evaluation-at-all method Wikipedia employs way to often.
Mobile: one of the topics where I am not sure, if they foundation is headed in the right direction. Yes, they are right, mobile usage in general is increasing, and right now it is nearly impossible to contribute to Wikipedia in a mobile environment. But even when it is easy technically: mobile environment still means normally: lost of distractions, not much time, far away from any resources. I'm not sure, if it is possible to contribute meaningful through a mobile interface, just because of the circumstances where these interfaces are normally used.
Israel: Peaceful talks during Lunch, where the really nice old lady just tells happily, that her parents are from Berlin, and arrived at Israel in January 1940. As a German I have problems to just talk on, but don't want to use the Holocaust as a small-talk-lunch-topic neither.
Coffee: always there, always hot. It takes some time to get used to the mix-hot-water-and-powder form it has at the venue, but one can drink it, it has coffeine and is hot.
Beach: Seems to be dangerous: some Wikimanias seem to have already bad sunburns, people who live here tell happily stories of tourists who burned themselves straight into hospital.
Wikimania 2012: The people from Washington seem to get more nervous by the hour, because in Washington everybody will remember how great Haifa was. Also: i think I have an idea for a presentation in Washington: free licenses are product and enabler of the exploitation of turbocapitalism.
The informal language poll for postings about Wikimania is closed. English got 5 votes, German got 3 votes, so now it is English.
Day 3, some important talks, a closing statement, creepy people with guns,
Shabbat: Okay, I had to take the shuttle because I didn't trust the public buses, but at the venue itself everything was mostly normal.
Creepy people with guns: I am not too fond of guns in a civil settings. Especially not when worn openly by people in civil clothing, who wear big sunglasses, act a bit like drunk and try to high-five me for no apparent reason. Who were these guys? And what were the doing at the venue?
Talks: Interestingly, on day three I saw the worst, the strangest, the most enigmatic, and the most important talk. The worst (won't give a name): some guy, mainly reading banalities from a 10-year-old en-User page and saying "we should think about it." Strangest: several guys from en who actually did say mostly interesting things about notability, living people, commerce and what Wikipedia hast lost, but without any regard for their audience. Unknown abbreviations all the time, internal en-jokes, obvious zero-preparation, and a lot of emphasis on things that are good for other audiences but for any experienced Wikipedian plainly trivial. Could have been interesing.
Enigmatic talk: Stu talking about fundraising and how it should be divided between Foundation and chapters. There was a (public!) letter by the Board of Trustees of WMF at the beginning of the conference, which most of the people in the room hadn't read yet. For some reasons Stu (or anybody else) was not able to tell what is actually written in this letter, but gave long explanations why this is not so important, and why the Board wrote what could not be talked about in this room. So we had a phantom discussion based on information most people in the room didn't have and were not able to gather from the other ones.
Important talk: Brandon Harris (who I may consider as proxy of Sue Gardner with less wikipolitical implications) talking about Wikipedia as social network and why it will never be like facebook. Said a lot of important and meaningful things about gratitude and empathy, and how Wikipedia should center on its community. Otherwise in some time we'll have a lost, dusty desert city of information. But still, this will be centered on a common goal and collaborative work, not on Farmville. I'm really looking forward until this talk is on the youtube-channel, and right now can only give a link to the slides: Identity, Reputation, and Gratitude.pdf
Deutsche Bahn: Seems to be underestimated in its attempts to build a new image of Germany in the world. Met two people whose impression of Germany was shattered after their first train in Germany was more than half an hour late.
Beach party: Epic. I have seen Wikipedians dance. (Almost) all Wikipedians.
No time for shopping: The most exotic thing I bought was flavored water with peach taste.
German: Quite a lot of Germans there (thank you, Wikimedia Deutschland, Österreich und Schweiz!), but even more amazing: you talk to an Israeli and he is fluent in German, to a Dutch and she can of course knows the language, somebody from South Africa who has no problems communicating in German, somebody from Slovak Wikipedia who lives in Dortmund; somebody from Greece who works at the Universität Oldenburg. I was glad for everybody who would talk English to me :-)
Jerusalem: definitely worth its own post. What a city. I guess for the first time in my life I was in a group of Wikipedians and thought "wow, we actually belong to the most normal down-to-earth-people around here." And, a bit reassuring for normal people like me, even the hyperperfectionists of Wikimedia Israel had slight problems to coordinate 250 people in 5 buses.
Wikisource/Wiktionary/Wikiquote: Nobody there, no talks about them. As far as I heard, actually because nobody offered a talk or applied for a scholarship.
Closing ceremony with Jimmy: too much glamour for me. Did not attend.
Real man user paper: but they still can have technical problems. Thanks, Sebastian (W) for the new pen!
El Al: Boring. While I had an intensive personal interrogation coming from Berlin this was just a strict routine. But the nightlife at Tel Aviv airport is amazing. But still: this was the first airport security control ever that could stop some determined person. All the others seem more like charades where everybody pretends it could help, so that everybody feels a bit better in case somethings happens.
Awesome: Wikimedia Israel. So so so so.
The informal language poll for postings about Wikimania is closed. English got 5 votes, German got 3 votes, so now it is English.
Day 3, some important talks, a closing statement, creepy people with guns,
Shabbat: Okay, I had to take the shuttle because I didn't trust the public buses, but at the venue itself everything was mostly normal.
Creepy people with guns: I am not too fond of guns in a civil settings. Especially not when worn openly by people in civil clothing, who wear big sunglasses, act a bit like drunk and try to high-five me for no apparent reason. Who were these guys? And what were the doing at the venue?
Talks: Interestingly, on day three I saw the worst, the strangest, the most enigmatic, and the most important talk. The worst (won't give a name): some guy, mainly reading banalities from a 10-year-old en-User page and saying "we should think about it." Strangest: several guys from en who actually did say mostly interesting things about notability, living people, commerce and what Wikipedia hast lost, but without any regard for their audience. Unknown abbreviations all the time, internal en-jokes, obvious zero-preparation, and a lot of emphasis on things that are good for other audiences but for any experienced Wikipedian plainly trivial. Could have been interesing.
Enigmatic talk: Stu talking about fundraising and how it should be divided between Foundation and chapters. There was a (public!) letter by the Board of Trustees of WMF at the beginning of the conference, which most of the people in the room hadn't read yet. For some reasons Stu (or anybody else) was not able to tell what is actually written in this letter, but gave long explanations why this is not so important, and why the Board wrote what could not be talked about in this room. So we had a phantom discussion based on information most people in the room didn't have and were not able to gather from the other ones.
Important talk: Brandon Harris (who I may consider as proxy of Sue Gardner with less wikipolitical implications) talking about Wikipedia as social network and why it will never be like facebook. Said a lot of important and meaningful things about gratitude and empathy, and how Wikipedia should center on its community. Otherwise in some time we'll have a lost, dusty desert city of information. But still, this will be centered on a common goal and collaborative work, not on Farmville. I'm really looking forward until this talk is on the youtube-channel, and right now can only give a link to the slides: Identity, Reputation, and Gratitude.pdf
Deutsche Bahn: Seems to be underestimated in its attempts to build a new image of Germany in the world. Met two people whose impression of Germany was shattered after their first train in Germany was more than half an hour late.
Beach party: Epic. I have seen Wikipedians dance. (Almost) all Wikipedians.
No time for shopping: The most exotic thing I bought was flavored water with peach taste.
German: Quite a lot of Germans there (thank you, Wikimedia Deutschland, Österreich und Schweiz!), but even more amazing: you talk to an Israeli and he is fluent in German, to a Dutch and she can of course knows the language, somebody from South Africa who has no problems communicating in German, somebody from Slovak Wikipedia who lives in Dortmund; somebody from Greece who works at the Universität Oldenburg. I was glad for everybody who would talk English to me :-)
Jerusalem: definitely worth its own post. What a city. I guess for the first time in my life I was in a group of Wikipedians and thought "wow, we actually belong to the most normal down-to-earth-people around here." And, a bit reassuring for normal people like me, even the hyperperfectionists of Wikimedia Israel had slight problems to coordinate 250 people in 5 buses.
Wikisource/Wiktionary/Wikiquote: Nobody there, no talks about them. As far as I heard, actually because nobody offered a talk or applied for a scholarship.
Closing ceremony with Jimmy: too much glamour for me. Did not attend.
Real man user paper: but they still can have technical problems. Thanks, Sebastian (W) for the new pen!
El Al: Boring. While I had an intensive personal interrogation coming from Berlin this was just a strict routine. But the nightlife at Tel Aviv airport is amazing. But still: this was the first airport security control ever that could stop some determined person. All the others seem more like charades where everybody pretends it could help, so that everybody feels a bit better in case somethings happens.
Scheinen gerade zu erscheinen. Da mein Schlafmangel mittlerweile dramatisch geworden ist, dauert es hier bis zum echten Rückblick noch etwas, ich möchte doch aber mE zwei Hauptstränge der Diskussionen erwähnen:
(1) Und für die Außenwelt wohl auf die Dauer wichtiger: Empathie, Freundlichkeit, Zusammenarbeit. Will die Foundation und Sue Gardner verschärft hin + die gehen davon aus, dass ohne Änderungen am Diskussionsklima, WP keine Zukunft hat.
(2) Verhältnis Foundation -> Chapter, reiche Wikim/pedias (D, UK..) und Global South. Eher untergründig und so immer mal wieder angesprochen und vermutlich eher intern wichtig, aber nicht zu vernachlässigen.
(3) Was für eine Beach-Party.
Scheinen gerade zu erscheinen. Da mein Schlafmangel mittlerweile dramatisch geworden ist, dauert es hier bis zum echten Rückblick noch etwas, ich möchte doch aber mE zwei Hauptstränge der Diskussionen erwähnen:
(1) Und für die Außenwelt wohl auf die Dauer wichtiger: Empathie, Freundlichkeit, Zusammenarbeit. Will die Foundation und Sue Gardner verschärft hin + die gehen davon aus, dass ohne Änderungen am Diskussionsklima, WP keine Zukunft hat.
(2) Verhältnis Foundation -> Chapter, reiche Wikim/pedias (D, UK..) und Global South. Eher untergründig und so immer mal wieder angesprochen und vermutlich eher intern wichtig, aber nicht zu vernachlässigen.
