<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ooh, I like that! Thank you, Phoebe!<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: phoebe ayers <brassratgirl@gmail.com><br>To: Wikimania general list (open subscription) <wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org><br>Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 1:16:52 AM<br>Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Open Wikimania 2008 website?<br><br><div>You can always turn your statement on its head -- linking to a really<br>nice wiki page might be *exactly* the message we want to send. It is,<br>after all, a conference about wiki based sites and about the power of<br>wikis as a content creation medium :)<br><br>-- phoebe<br><br>On 9/11/07, Mike Halterman
<haltermannews@yahoo.com> wrote:<br>><br>> I understand that, however, my main concern is utmost professionalism in<br>> presentation to people we have to convince to help us. To me, linking to a<br>> wiki doesn't exactly have that quality, not 100%. And there's only so much<br>> you can say before they want to see something, and I'm afraid a wiki page<br>> does not have the best statement that it can.<br>><br>> -Mike Halterman<br>> Atlanta Bid<br>><br>><br>> ----- Original Message ----<br>> From: THD <theodoranian@gmail.com><br>> To: Wikimania general list (open subscription)<br>> <wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org><br>> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 11:08:42 PM<br>> Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Open Wikimania 2008 website?<br>><br>> I think it is better to open the Wikimania 2008 website after the host city<br>> get chosen.<br>> Meta is a place to coordinate
biddings, but Wikimania website is for the<br>> official use of the event.<br>> Since there will be only one city get chosen as the host, I am afraid that<br>> other bidders' proposals on the same website would confuse people.<br>><br>> Regards,<br>> Theodoranian<br>><br>> 2007/9/12, Mike Halterman <haltermannews@yahoo.com>:<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > We were discussing in our IRC meeting a more professional and easier to<br>> navigate place to present our bid to prospective press and sponsors. Can the<br>> Wikimania 2008 website on Wikimedia be opened for all of us to present our<br>> big aims there instead of having to direct people to different pages on<br>> Meta, which they may not be 100% aware of navigating?<br>> ><br>> > -Mike Halterman<br>> > Atlanta Bid<br>> ><br>> > ________________________________<br>> Got a little couch potato?<br>> >
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