Dear Harry,
Wikimedia select a rotativity between Canada, the US and Europe for the simple reason that it is easier to justify the exorbitant payment (relative to other countries) of Wikimanias in these places where wikimedia has presence as fundation.
I'm not against that are carried out, these expenses are easier to justify in these countries, however, seems to me a great hypocrisy that donations are being used to pay for hotel accommodations in the most expensive cities world and forgetting and leaving aside the minority community countries who can not get easily visa to visit these countries.
I'm afraid that Wikimania is starting to lose some Community to become some kind of commercial gain.
2015-10-06 21:48 GMT-03:00 Gnangarra gnangarra@gmail.com:
very irony of all of this is that the Australian chapter had scheduled a national-semi regional conference this past weekend but was that abandoned when the funding request was decline
On 7 October 2015 at 08:11, John Mark Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 7:57 AM, Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org wrote:
.. as a side note, of course I strongly support the regional conferences,
and I
am thrilled to see that the WikiArabia conference is seeing a second edition!
When looking for parts of a new process for Wikimania selection, I think it is worth building in a requirement that a 'regional' conference has been held in the city, or at least the country, and was successful at getting the locals ('casual' editors and non-editors alike) to walk in the doors.
This would provide a clearer path towards hosting a Wikimania, allowing a lower cost event to provide a testing ground of both the organisers capabilities and local communities interest.
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