WereSpielChequers, 21/08/2011 23:10:
but clearly holding our annual conference in Israel during Ramadan was not the best way to encourage people from Islamic countries to attend. I hope that in future we can make sure that Wikimania is more inclusive than that.
It was also during Shabbat, by the way (which is a traditional problem even for Wikimedia Italia general assembly...). I don't know how big an impact Ramadan has had. I think that Meir Sheetrit has done more to explain us why the participation of arab israelis and palestinians in Wikimedia is so low, than the associations protesting against Israel[1]; I mean, when he said how expensive Internet connections are in Israel, and why this must change.
Nemo
[1] That might be because I'd normally agree with them so I knew the things they said.