You can always turn your statement on its head -- linking to a really
nice wiki page might be *exactly* the message we want to send. It is,
after all, a conference about wiki based sites and about the power of
wikis as a content creation medium :)

-- phoebe

On 9/11/07, Mike Halterman <haltermannews@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I understand that, however, my main concern is utmost professionalism in
> presentation to people we have to convince to help us. To me, linking to a
> wiki doesn't exactly have that quality, not 100%. And there's only so much
> you can say before they want to see something, and I'm afraid a wiki page
> does not have the best statement that it can.
>
> -Mike Halterman
> Atlanta Bid
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: THD <theodoranian@gmail.com>
> To: Wikimania general list (open subscription)
> <wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 11:08:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Open Wikimania 2008 website?
>
> I think it is better to open the Wikimania  2008 website after the host city
> get chosen.
> Meta is a place to coordinate biddings, but Wikimania website is for the
> official use of the event.
> Since there will be only one city get chosen as the host, I am afraid that
> other bidders' proposals on the same website would confuse people.
>
> Regards,
> Theodoranian
>
> 2007/9/12, Mike Halterman <haltermannews@yahoo.com>:
> >
> >
> >
> > We were discussing in our IRC meeting a more professional and easier to
> navigate place to present our bid to prospective press and sponsors. Can the
> Wikimania 2008 website on Wikimedia be opened for all of us to present our
> big aims there instead of having to direct people to different pages on
> Meta, which they may not be 100% aware of navigating?
> >
> > -Mike Halterman
> > Atlanta Bid
> >
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