-----Original Message----- From: wikimania-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikimania-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of j Baumgart Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 16:08 To: Wikimania general list (open subscription) Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania: name of a conference...
On Jan 3, 2006, at 4:56 PM, Ivan Krstic wrote:
mysekurity wrote:
Should it be formal or informal? Who is our target audience?
There seems to be a lot of interest in attracting strong academic participation, so we might want to think about aiming for a more conventional name.
So I guess WikiInsanity is out, then ...
j -- It's well and good to foster academic participation, but if the academics are going to be so high brow as to be put off by the name of a conference, are they really worth having there? If part of the goal is to try and get more people interested in the goals of the Foundation (...to maintain and develop free-content, wiki-based projects and to provide the full contents of those projects to the public free of charge) and to help bring in donations, going with a high brow name is not a good marketing move, in my humble opinion. Is it always necessary to cloak things in language that people cannot understand in order to keep out the hoi palloi?
Darren.