On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Osmar Valdebenito <b1mbo.wikipedia@gmail.com

wrote:

I'm simply baffled in the way the Committee has just decided to explicitly reduce the participation from the so-called Global South, specially when we are supposed to promote the communities in those countries. Although I agree and understand that places with bigger communities should host Wikimania more often, the decided rotation is more unbalanced that in the past. Since 2009, Wikimania has rotated between the Global North and the Global South each year; now, the Global North will have 2 Wikimanias for each one hosted in the Global South (and I'm not considering the case of developed countries -such as Poland or Australia- hosting those years with the weird classification others have pointed out).

Considering this rotation system, one of 21 countries from Latin America will only have an opportunity to host in 2035, while the US will have the opportunity 7 times in the same timespan. Absurd.

.. and if Mexico, Eastern Europe, and North Africa hosts (because so far as accessibility goes - travel time/costs, etc - these practically are North America and European hosts) are chosen, then according to these rules it could easily go over 10 consecutive years without leaving those regions. Pushing areas like South America and the Asia-Pacific further down the priority list, and Australia from "almost never" to "never".

Regards, Charles / User:Chuq