Hello,
I don't recall any Arabic participants in Boston, in Taiwan either (they decided not to show from their own reason), many in Alexandria but not so many from outside of Egypt, no Palestinians but two Israelis, one Syrian and one Irani (our steward) ...... iirc there were some Jordanian somewhere, iirc in several Wikimanias but not sure in which ones.
And from time to time, as Transcom member, I heard there were no or very a little Palestinian contributors to Arabic Wikipedia. It is sad we haven't successful to get them in Wikimedia universe, and there will be some reasons but I presume it'll be more complicated than a certain organization hinders or whatever.
Cheers,
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 6:01 AM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequers@gmail.com wrote:
I don't remember meeting any Palestinians at the last two Wikimanias either, so if there are no Palestinians coming despite the geography then that is unfortunate. But if we can honestly say that no Palestinians tried to come but were unable to get visas then I am somewhat reassured, and thanks for trying to find some.
However I am worried at the attendance from the wider Islamic world, and of course attendance in general. How does this compare to previous years?
WereSpielChequers
On 28 June 2011 20:53, Kim Bruning kim@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:20:11PM +0300, Harel Cain wrote:
Rather read it as "we looked for Palestinian wikimedians all over the place for over a year; apparently they're not very easy to find".
Ok, that's definitely a very different narrative than either BDS's claims, or what I was hoping myself (to wit, that local people just tend to register pretty late, because they don't need to plan ahead as far.)
<scratches head>
Thanks for answering my questions so far!
sincerely, Kim Bruning
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