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.
-- John Vandenberg