I concur with Asaf and Lodewijk's emails.
For the past few years when I have had to 'pitch' Wikimania to potential
sponsors and also when dealing with hotel, convention centers, tourism
boards and the like, I have always emphasized that Wikimania (which is
pretty puzzling for most outsiders...) is the international conference for
the Wikipedia/wikimedia community. That always seems to satisfy/clarify it
for most people (and a chuckle ...)
Not to change the subject ;-), but I get more questions about the Wikimedia
Conference (which probably should have the word affiliate in it) as people
are confused about it being Wikimania, how does it differ, that it is by
invitation, etc. I know we've tried in the past to get some traction about
changing its name, but that doesn't seem to go anywhere....
Ellie
On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 6:50 AM, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>
wrote:
The question would also be:
- is this a significant problem
- Do we wánt to solve this problem (what is our targeted audience)
- Are there other ways to achieve the same (When I had to pitch Wikimania
as a conference with potential partners in the Amsterdam 2010 bid, we
always used a subtitle - which worked fine. People actually appreciated a
more unique brand/name)
- finally, are there any benefits to keeping Wikimania as a name
I see how one can make a case - but without addressing all these
questions, such case is imho not complete.
Lodewijk
2016-11-07 15:08 GMT+01:00 Luca Martinelli <martinelliluca(a)gmail.com>om>:
OK, now this is more of an argument I can
consider as compelling.
Now the 1 million dollar/euro/pound/yen/yuan/rupee/peso/shekel/$you_name_it
question (which unsurprisingly Asaf already posed): to whom do we address
the task of eventually solving this?
L.
Il 07 nov 2016 15:05, "Edward Saperia" <edsaperia(a)gmail.com> ha scritto:
Agree with Andrew - when I was organising it in 2014 I usually called it
"The Global Wikipedia Summit" because Wikimania doesn't sound important.
2. On first glance, the name isn’t very
professional sounding. So it may
be hard to convince one’s boss or academic head to fund travel or time off
to attend the premier conference for the Wikimedia community.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 8:28 AM, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com>
wrote:
Is it proper and correct to use the term "mania"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mania
Would we say "WikiMad" or WikiCrazy"?
Gordo
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