Participants other than scholarship recipients and reimbursed
representatives are one group we heard very little from, but we think they
are important because: 1) they have financial resources and help make the
Wikimania budget sustainable; 2) they have motivation to share and ideas on
what makes Wikimania valuable.
I agree. People attending on their own expense are really important,
especially for next year. It will be easier/cheaper for communities in
Europe and MENA regions which are of the most active communities on
Wikipedia. I think the number of attendees would be bigger next year.
Thanks for creating this survey, Nemo!
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think it might have been useful to ask questions
about what might make
people not attend a Wikimania (e.g., location, dollars, not interested in
programming, poor cost to potential benefit ratio).
Risker/Anne
On 11 September 2015 at 10:35, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
John Mark Vandenberg, 11/09/2015 11:51:
I found the last question a bit confusing, as it
talks about "how much
more...", but it isnt clear what 'more' is relative to. More than the
'actual cost to the organisation'? Or, if the survey participant
self-funded their Wikimania, how much more should they spend to attend
Wikimania? So I put '0'.
Thanks for going through the questions. You are right, that question is
ambiguous; but it's intentionally so, to avoid forcing a single
interpretation of where the "more" starts. (I have my opinions, but there
is no rule; and past Wikimanias were very different.)
We'll see how well it works; this is just the beginning of a
conversation. :)
Nemo
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