On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 16:17, Alex Stinson <stinsoad(a)dukes.jmu.edu> wrote:
Also, since Chris raised the idea of us hosting
Wikimania - personally I'm
not sure what the benefits to WMUK of hosting would be - can someone spell
them out?
Here are some benefits off the top of my head. I am sure there are more too,
but these seem to be the most important:
Builds enthusiasm amongst local Wikimedia community both because of the
planning process and the chance to easily, at low cost to them, go to the
conference and learn about cool things other people are doing
Chance to showcase the chapter and its approach to stuff, because of the
high number of in country attendees
Chance to invite partners to observe the amazingness (both in diversity and
in variety of projects) of the global community
Chance to create media hype that might draw in people who had otherwise not
participated in Wikimedia stuffs
Chance to get other Free Knowledge communities more engaged, or at least in
better contact, with Wikimedia
The other reason: Wikimedians in the UK could attend for a lot less
money than if it were elsewhere. ;-)
But that's not quite such a good reason as the ones Alex listed.
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Tom Morris
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