I understand that, however, my main concern is utmost professionalism in presentation to people we have to convince to help us. To me, linking to a wiki doesn't exactly have that quality, not 100%. And there's only so much you can say before they want to see something, and I'm afraid a wiki page does not have the best statement that it can.
-Mike Halterman Atlanta Bid
----- Original Message ---- From: THD theodoranian@gmail.com To: Wikimania general list (open subscription) wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 11:08:42 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Open Wikimania 2008 website?
I think it is better to open the Wikimania 2008 website after the host city get chosen. Meta is a place to coordinate biddings, but Wikimania website is for the official use of the event. Since there will be only one city get chosen as the host, I am afraid that other bidders' proposals on the same website would confuse people.
Regards, Theodoranian
2007/9/12, Mike Halterman haltermannews@yahoo.com: We were discussing in our IRC meeting a more professional and easier to navigate place to present our bid to prospective press and sponsors. Can the Wikimania 2008 website on Wikimedia be opened for all of us to present our big aims there instead of having to direct people to different pages on Meta, which they may not be 100% aware of navigating?
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Hi, Mike,
Please clarify that to open a website of the Conference is a request from you, or Atlanta Bid, or Atlanta Bid's sponsor (which needs to be convinced). Thank you.
Regards, Theodoranian
2007/9/12, Mike Halterman haltermannews@yahoo.com:
I understand that, however, my main concern is utmost professionalism in presentation to people we have to convince to help us. To me, linking to a wiki doesn't exactly have that quality, not 100%. And there's only so much you can say before they want to see something, and I'm afraid a wiki page does not have the best statement that it can.
-Mike Halterman Atlanta Bid
----- Original Message ---- From: THD theodoranian@gmail.com To: Wikimania general list (open subscription) < wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 11:08:42 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Open Wikimania 2008 website?
I think it is better to open the Wikimania 2008 website after the host city get chosen. Meta is a place to coordinate biddings, but Wikimania website is for the official use of the event. Since there will be only one city get chosen as the host, I am afraid that other bidders' proposals on the same website would confuse people.
Regards, Theodoranian
2007/9/12, Mike Halterman haltermannews@yahoo.com:
We were discussing in our IRC meeting a more professional and easier to navigate place to present our bid to prospective press and sponsors. Can the Wikimania 2008 website on Wikimedia be opened for all of us to present our big aims there instead of having to direct people to different pages on Meta, which they may not be 100% aware of navigating?
-Mike Halterman Atlanta Bid
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Hi there,
On 9/12/07, THD theodoranian@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, Mike,
Please clarify that to open a website of the Conference is a request from you, or Atlanta Bid, or Atlanta Bid's sponsor (which needs to be convinced).
Good point, THD. I would like to add Wikimania official website have been always a wiki - even the Foundation official website is. So you bring up two different request - opening the 2008 website and opening not-a-wiki website. The matter may bring difficulty for further organizations regarding content management.
Cheers,
Thank you.
Regards, Theodoranian
2007/9/12, Mike Halterman haltermannews@yahoo.com:
I understand that, however, my main concern is utmost professionalism in
presentation to people we have to convince to help us. To me, linking to a wiki doesn't exactly have that quality, not 100%. And there's only so much you can say before they want to see something, and I'm afraid a wiki page does not have the best statement that it can.
-Mike Halterman Atlanta Bid
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Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 11:08:42 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Open Wikimania 2008 website?
I think it is better to open the Wikimania 2008 website after the host
city get chosen.
Meta is a place to coordinate biddings, but Wikimania website is for the
official use of the event.
Since there will be only one city get chosen as the host, I am afraid that
other bidders' proposals on the same website would confuse people.
Regards, Theodoranian
2007/9/12, Mike Halterman < haltermannews@yahoo.com>:
We were discussing in our IRC meeting a more professional and easier to
navigate place to present our bid to prospective press and sponsors. Can the Wikimania 2008 website on Wikimedia be opened for all of us to present our big aims there instead of having to direct people to different pages on Meta, which they may not be 100% aware of navigating?
-Mike Halterman Atlanta Bid
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You can always turn your statement on its head -- linking to a really nice wiki page might be *exactly* the message we want to send. It is, after all, a conference about wiki based sites and about the power of wikis as a content creation medium :)
-- phoebe
On 9/11/07, Mike Halterman haltermannews@yahoo.com wrote:
I understand that, however, my main concern is utmost professionalism in presentation to people we have to convince to help us. To me, linking to a wiki doesn't exactly have that quality, not 100%. And there's only so much you can say before they want to see something, and I'm afraid a wiki page does not have the best statement that it can.
-Mike Halterman Atlanta Bid
----- Original Message ---- From: THD theodoranian@gmail.com To: Wikimania general list (open subscription) wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 11:08:42 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Open Wikimania 2008 website?
I think it is better to open the Wikimania 2008 website after the host city get chosen. Meta is a place to coordinate biddings, but Wikimania website is for the official use of the event. Since there will be only one city get chosen as the host, I am afraid that other bidders' proposals on the same website would confuse people.
Regards, Theodoranian
2007/9/12, Mike Halterman haltermannews@yahoo.com:
We were discussing in our IRC meeting a more professional and easier to
navigate place to present our bid to prospective press and sponsors. Can the Wikimania 2008 website on Wikimedia be opened for all of us to present our big aims there instead of having to direct people to different pages on Meta, which they may not be 100% aware of navigating?
-Mike Halterman Atlanta Bid
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