It is not civil to spam people relentlessly about your inability to find
your way from the airport to your hotel, particularly in a place like
Singapore, and especially when you haven't even bothered to ask the
organisers where your hotel is located.
Unlike you, I arranged my own accommodation and figured out for myself how
to get there, as I always do when I visit Singapore.
Please now be civil enough to refrain from spamming me any further.
-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, 7 August 2023 5:06 AM
To: Wikimania general list (open subscription)
<wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Re: Arrival and travel to hotel
On Sun, 6 Aug 2023 at 20:41, effe iets anders <effeietsanders(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
In previous years, volunteer organizers went out of
their way to
describe in extreme detail how to get to the accommodation/venue
Indeed so - and such information has also in previous years been generously
provided by Wikimedia volunteers who were not Wikimania organizers, but who
were local to the event. Nobody complained when such questions were asked on
this list.
An exemplary example is the thread archived here:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org/
thread/2XF5VNDYJYSSZXTRXM7HJUVCOBLD5BUN/#CUJKPB6XIMR5M32GXMXITHU3WLSVBZLZ
That was great, but should not set an expectation for
future
organizers to do the same
I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I have no such expectations.
The only pertinent expectation I have is that discourse on this and our
other mailing lists will be conducted with more civility than I was shown
today.
Whenever there are specific questions, it's of
course always welcome to
ask people - for example through this list.
Recent evidence suggests, sadly, otherwise.
It looks like a straight metro ride with a short walk
along two streets.
Apparently not; the links provided suggest a change of trains is required.
Andy, if there's anything specific that you need
beyond that link,
feel free to clarify what that is
I think my originally, carefully worded query was explicitly clear, as in
the context of that query, which it quoted, was my follow-up.
[Readers will note that it does not include a request for the location of
any of the hotels to which I referred]
Overall, I hope that as a community we can lower what
we "expect" from
the organizers to take care of
Again, I have no expectations such as those to which you refer.
My request was for "someone with local knowledge" to give an answer.
[My only request to an organiser, when they said they would reply privately,
was to do so here instead, so that others may benefit]
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