Talk:Wikimedia Conference Netherlands 2007 held on wikis and education

Original Reporting notes
I took the train up to Amsterdam on Friday night, was early arriving (and the signs on the way to where it was being held didn't have a big enough WMF logo on them).

I attended the opening, Cormac Lawler's session "Wikiversity - learning the "wiki way", "The Global Educators' Open Course given by Eliane Metni from Lebanon and then dug myself a grave by being totally unprepared to speak about Wikinews (asked 2 days ago). In the afternoon lightning talks I attended the speakers whose names I got were Bryan Tong Minh on Commons - with the comment that Commons now has more mainspace media files than Wikipedia has articles. 5,000 new files/day, approx 1,000 copyvio. Esther Hoorn spoke about JurisPedia, highlighting that law is ever changing and a wiki model is useful. Jasper de Grood (sp?) spoke about his work in Zambia substituting PCs for a library and using open source software to make up for a lack of books. Andre Engels had a more blue-sky topic, a "I have a dream" to get as many archives of records which may be useful for historical research scanned, put online, and using the wiki model transcribed from handwriting into machine-readable and searchable text. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:35, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
 * The Javanese wiki was discussed, a project in a language with 80,000 speakers yet only 5 active wiki contributors. Comments from the floor were that this was below the critical threshold to make a wiki self-sustaining. --Brian McNeil / talk 10:00, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

To-do
As the only Wikinewsie at the conference I couldn't cover everything, and "Mijn Nederlands is niet zo goed". The following are a list of points I need. Any help other participants can give would be much appreciated. Add links if people have put presentations online (this was mentioned at one point), cover the nl. sessions you attended. --Brian McNeil / talk 10:25, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Who were the speakers and what were their topics in the morning lightning talks?
 * I understand one speaker was ill, what was the dropped/replaced speech/speaker?
 * I didn't catch the name of the guy speaking about the Javanese Wikipedia.
 * What was the actual attendance figure? I would have guessed at somewhere between 50-70.
 * I was not present for any of the material after the 2nd lightning talks session, I can't write anything on that.
 * PICTURES!!!!!
 * And when you've done that, someone please translate a version of this over to the nl.wikinews.org site. --Brian McNeil / talk 10:27, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Good OR
This looks like a good OR article but I think it's lacking an ending, how about adding a final paragraph to summarise the event. How well did it go, how many people attended, that kind of thing. Adambro 19:22, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately I had to leave early to catch a train. The last high speed train from Amsterdam to Brussels is just after 4pm. It's that or the "stoptrein" which ... well ... stops. Lots.
 * Fortunately some of the other attendees have filled out the bits I missed, thanks folks! --Brian McNeil / talk 09:36, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Just great
The only time I leave my country there's a Wikimedia conference next door... Will do the translation part, sure. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:29, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Research at Wikiversity
From the current version of the article: "like Wikinews there is scope for original research, but as was admitted this is not yet clearly defined". It might be worth linking to the Wikiversity:Research guidelines. --JWSchmidt 20:56, 28 October 2007 (UTC)