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Latest comment: 9 years ago by Adamw in topic Appealing registration issue?

Customary on Wikimania wiki's is to have submissions for program items to be added as subpages of this page, that is Submissions and not in a separate namespace, for example Proceedings:. Customary also is to end each submission with a section "Interested Attendees". People interested in attending the program item being submitted are asked to enter their signature on the list. VisualEditor has a button to insert "Your signature" but not on main space / article namespace articles like (sub)pages of Submissions. I would like to add next year my signature to the lists of Interested Attendees using VisualEditor. That will requires changing a setting to allow entering of signatures with VE in the main space, or having all submissions entered in a separate namespace in which entering of signatures is allowed, or any other method that would allow me to push a buttion or use VE to note my interest in a submissions without having to enter four tildes ~~ ~~ in source code mode. Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 12:04, 16 July 2014 (UTC) Reply

I am willing to volunteer to evaluate the program submissions as a member of the team. I was a volunteer on the program committee for the 2014 Wikimania. Please contact me. Geraldshields11 (talk) 16:19, 30 December 2014 (UTC)Reply
As of 6 March 2015, I was only told my services as a volunteer on the program committee were not needed. I understand. I still hope I can take photographs of the event. Geraldshields11 (talk) 02:56, 7 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

Timezone for deadline

Hi Wikimania organizers! I was interested in submitting a talk proposal but seem to have guessed wrong about what timezone you had in mind for "end of day February 28th" - there was no timezone listed on the page, and I had assumed it was midnight local time for Mexico City instead of midnight UTC. It's ok for me, but I would like to suggest next time to specify timezone on your deadlines. Thank you! Dreamyshade (talk) 06:05, 1 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

It was midnight wherever you where and not UTC. Deror avi (talk) 16:50, 7 March 2015 (UTC)Reply
Hmm, where did it say that? That wasn't written anywhere I could see it. At midnight UTC, the Submissions page got changed to say "Call for submissions are closed now." Dreamyshade (talk) 23:39, 8 March 2015 (UTC)Reply
It appears that it did not specify that anywhere. Apologies for that, and an effort will be made to not repeat that mistake next year. --Varnent (talk) 00:20, 9 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

IP status changes

User:77.127.172.209 has marked a bunch of submissions not accepted. These should be confirmed buy a member of the submissions committee. Rich Farmbrough (talk)

Appealing registration issue?

@Deror_avi:

https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Submissions/Collaborative_drafts&type=revision&diff=39019&oldid=32394

This is very disappointing, I'd like to check whether it's too late to confirm my attendance and find a spot in the schedule. I've registered for the conference, please let me know how else I can help. Adamw (talk) 23:17, 15 June 2015 (UTC)Reply