Wikimania 2016 - random thoughts

Wikimania! The world Wikipedia conference. Every year in a different place on changing continents. Organised by locals but with basically a lot of the same people always attending. A highlight in the Wikipedia year. So much to see and to comprehend. In case you missed it, here is my live twitter feed (and thanks to Sucomo for the support). But what happened there of course lasts longer than just for the moment,

Just to get some thinking going and pin down some notes from Wikimania as long as I still remember. Some random thoughts about Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario, close to Lake Como, Lomardy, Italy.

1200 Wikipedians in a small village with about 800 inhabitants. Sleeping in every free bed the village had to offer, attending workshops in discussions in a school, the local museum, the local gym and the theater. The Wikimania was down to earth. Literally, as this was outdoors and the environment played a big part in Wikipedia, but also metaphorically. Much less about "we save the world" and "why we are important" and a lot more about "The How". Stuff for daily activities one can work with.

So just for some random thought before I did more thorough thinking and analysis: