There have also been threads on Meta http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimania_2011/Bids/Haifa
However rather than rehashing the decision to hold Wikimania in Israel during Ramadan, or even trying to send out some last minute invitations, may I suggest that we start focussing in on some of the lessons to be learned from this?
I'd particularly like to see a commitment that future Wikimanias won't clash with Ramadan or certain other "culturally sensitive" dates. It will be difficult to list which ones we can't clash with and which we can accommodate by having two hours break in a sports bar (Gdansk clashed with some sort of sporting event). But we should at least try.
Oh and I think there is still time to get more virtual involvement.
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On 20 July 2011 16:17, Harel Cain harel.cain@gmail.com wrote:
Most of them are in the archive of wikimania-l, some in the archive of foundation-l, and even fewer in the archive of wikimania-planning-l. The first two are publicly available. Simple Ctrl-Fing of the threads since about June 2010 will find most of the stuff if not all of it.
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On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 17:29, Kim Bruning kim@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:39:59PM +0300, Harel Cain wrote:
I think those numbers will be teaching, and will put this discussion in the true perspective it deserves.
Speaking of putting things in perspective, I've been told off-channel that there have been several previous debates on this topic.
For the record, could someone link me to (some of) these old debates? It's probably more efficient for me to RTFArchive and come back with any remaining questions.
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