The whole of next week, I’ll be amongst the world’s most passionate proponents of open knowledge congregating in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I’m participating in Wikimania, the annual international conference aimed at bringing together contributors of all the Wikimedia Foundation’s projects. The most popular is, of course, Wikipedia.
The conference allows the community and the general public to learn and share free knowledge initiatives and collaborative projects all over the world.
The 5th edition of the Conference is being held on August 26-28, 2009. The previous conferences were held in Frankfurt (Germany) in 2005, Boston (United States) in 2006, Taipei (Taiwan) in 2007 and Alexandria (Egypt) in 2008.
I hope to pick up some really important lessons that can be applied to many of the Wikimedia initiatives in India.
I almost didn’t make this trip. I had to go through a very traumatic visa process experience. First, there was confusion with the paperwork. Then followed confusion with the photos. Its amazing how the Mumbai Embassy and Delhi Embassy of Argentina can have two different policies about the angle of photos! As if this wasn’t enough, the courier guys mucked up my adddress and changed my gender. Now I had to prove that I’m Rupa, a girl living in Parrys Corner instead of Kiruba, a guy living in Virugambakkam.
After much hagling about my sex and all, I finally got hold of the blessed passport.
Phew!
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Haaaha.
have fun @ Argentina!
you are a girl?
Pics please
All the Best Kiruba
that was great fun, sex change i can imagine…
the sex change confusion is for the world to know that your personality is different
-INDU
All the Best, Kribs!
Hope you have a peaceful trip this time.
Btw, my voters ID still says I am female, son of John Mania (instead of Maria) and I my address is “Lawspet, Pondicherry”.
Yeah, you can come to Lawspet locality and shout my name, I’ll right there, huh…
say hi to messi for me if you see him
Have a nice trip!
they would have labeled you as a Coruba back here in NZ ( Coruba New Zealands favourite rum since 1967 )…he he atleast you are a human back in India ( only 2 coruba’s permitted per entry into India, while its 3 back here….. )
Kribs,
Your fascination with all things Wiki is puzzling. Have you read your own entries in the website? You edited the Club Mah page while being employed by CM — isn’t that a conflict of interest?
What a tangled web we weave….
You worship Jim, have you read about how is misusing Wikimedia for his own profit?
Take a nice journey! Why not fly to Rio Maan!!
I hope you have not booked ticket through cleartrip.
Make sure that you carry the passport, otherwise we end up reading another blog post beacuse of passport missing
All the Best Sir,Hope you have a nice trip.
Wikipedia has done is instituted a system whereby a trusted editor can flag a bio of a living person as being vandalism free. This means that vandalism-fighters can simply look at all the edits since the last vandalism-free certification as a means of quickly finding and reverting bad edits.
Is this true? read somewhere in the internet.
Best of luck Rupa
Have a nice day kiruba.
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