The question would also be:
- is this a significant problem
- Do we wánt to solve this problem (what is our targeted audience)
- Are there other ways to achieve the same (When I had to pitch Wikimania as a conference with potential partners in the Amsterdam 2010 bid, we always used a subtitle - which worked fine. People actually appreciated a more unique brand/name)
- finally, are there any benefits to keeping Wikimania as a name

I see how one can make a case - but without addressing all these questions, such case is imho not complete. 

Lodewijk

2016-11-07 15:08 GMT+01:00 Luca Martinelli <martinelliluca@gmail.com>:

OK, now this is more of an argument I can consider as compelling.

Now the 1 million dollar/euro/pound/yen/yuan/rupee/peso/shekel/$you_name_it question (which unsurprisingly Asaf already posed): to whom do we address the task of eventually solving this?

L.


Il 07 nov 2016 15:05, "Edward Saperia" <edsaperia@gmail.com> ha scritto:
Agree with Andrew - when I was organising it in 2014 I usually called it "The Global Wikipedia Summit" because Wikimania doesn't sound important.
 
2. On first glance, the name isn’t very professional sounding. So it may be hard to convince one’s boss or academic head to fund travel or time off to attend the premier conference for the Wikimedia community.


On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 8:28 AM, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly@pobox.com> wrote:


Is it proper and correct to use the term "mania"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mania

Would we say "WikiMad" or WikiCrazy"?

Gordo

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