Hi all,
- The Wikimania Committee with Ellie Young would be the most likely entity
that could facilitate a process if we wanted to consider a name change.
Full disclosure: I’m on the committee, but it may be getting a revamp in
the near future.
- We tend to not like voting on anything like this, especially since we
don’t have very good findings of fact, or even a good sampling of anecdotes
around the name.
-Andrew
-Andrew Lih
Associate professor of journalism, American University
Email: andrew(a)andrewlih.com
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On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Béria Lima <berialima(a)gmail.com> wrote:
*Now the 1 million dollar (...) question: to whom do
we address the task
of eventually solving this?*
Well, might not be the easiest answer, but: Why not run a vote?
Have some period of "submissions of name", and an after vote open to all
community on it (with bots, sitenotice and etc to advertise it.) and let
the community decide.
_____
*Béria L. de Rodríguez*
*Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a
construir esse sonho.*
2016-11-07 12:08 GMT-02:00 Luca Martinelli <martinelliluca(a)gmail.com>om>:
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(a)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(a)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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