On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Sven Manguard <svenmanguard(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Looking over the plans in the timeline section of that
page, it looks like
there isn't a general community input section, where people unaffiliated
with the bidding or judging process can say things as basic as "I would
attend the proposed London Wikimania but would not attend the proposed
Arusha one". In fact, there doesn't even appear to be a section in the
criteria that accounts for whether the community at large is interested in
or opposed to specific bids or bid locations. I realize that the bidding
process is not a democracy, and that such a selection criteria would convey
significant advantages to cities/countries that have a large number of
users or are especially effective at mobilizing users to comment, but if
many more users want to go to one location over another, shouldn't that be
taken into account?
Sven
Hi Sven,
Well, members of the community are more than welcome to comment on the talk
pages two bids -- some folks have been commenting, but more
opinions/questions/thoughts would be very welcome.
One truism of Wikimania is that every bid location is better for some
segment of the community and worse for others, either geographically or
geopolitically or both. That's a big part of why locations have rotated
around the globe. So rather than just a simple "I would attend/wouldn't
attend" it might be more helpful to have a specific discussion about how
any given bid would work for the community: for instance, noting that the
London bid is more convenient for Wikimedians in northern Europe, or that
we've never had a Wikimania in sub-Saharan Africa, or noting ease of travel
for various places, and so on.
thanks,
Phoebe
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