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Friday was the original deadline for voting on SXSW proposals, but voting has been extended through today. May I direct your attention to two proposals:
* “Too Small, Too Open: Correcting Wikipedia’s Local Failure” — a panel that if accepted I will be on! It’s about the LocalWiki project and how we can build many community [...]

Today I was talking with Eugene, a Wikimedian friend of mine. He was telling me about all the Wikipedians he talked to who don’t edit anymore, or who spend their time working on institutional things like outreach instead of editing.
“Man, I never have time to edit either!”  I said.
We agreed this was ridiculous. There’s an [...]

Contrary to popular and malicious rumors, I am not dead. I was just very tired after Wikimania
The conferences (plural) went well. I feel relieved and happy that the first conference I have ever chaired (WikiSym) came off without major hitches. It was a rush, checking on every session, solving every registration problem, ending [...]

Late yesterday afternoon I was seated on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees as one of the two chapter-selected seats. I am still a bit in shock. I was up on stage at the Board panel this morning; I am looking forward to conversatons all weekend.
I have also been closing out WikiSym, which has been [...]

I’m going to the airport in a couple hours to go to WikiSym. My packing is complicated by bringing all sorts of random things with me that I wouldn’t generally bring on an international flight: signs, packing tape, conference badges, etc.
So anyway, I’m packing away, trying to figure out all the last minute details. I [...]

This is the last week for the formal strategic planning process for the Wikimedia Foundation. There are three newish summary pages worth noting:

An overview of movement priorities, which the project asks for help editing and refining
A call for action, or continued involvement in the process
And a page about the role of the Wikimedia Foundation in [...]

Philip Neustrom and Mike Ivanov created the DavisWiki back in 2004, as UCD students — and it is now one of the most vibrant city wikis in the world, with amazing local participation. In their words:
On a given day, about 1 in 6 residents visits the site. Over the course of one week, nearly half [...]