Wikimania 2008 bid organisers:
* We might want to consider revising that listing and adding on Brisbane (I definitely don't think this was purposeful, the list is probably from before Brisbane was a candidate). * We might want to get those sponsorships up... and a rough outline of the budget, I had noticed this was lacking too... :-(
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Zero zero1328@gmail.com Date: Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Who's supporting the Wikimania 09 Brisbane bid? To: Wikimedia-au wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org
That's not the only thing that's wrong with Toronto's bid page. It's been on my mind ever since the beginning, and I had a friend of mine (unrelated to wiki-whatever) look over the bid pages, and she noticed it too.
A fair amount of Toronto's bid page appears irrelevant to the suitability of being a host city. It's information on the city in general, with no indication on sponsorships. I was going to just be quiet on this and hope the jury picked up on this too, since I didn't want to appear biased or unfriendly.
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Craig Franklin craig@halo-17.net wrote:
On a related point, does anyone else think that the following statement on Toronto's page is a bit mean, considering that Brisbane is actually on that list, and well ahead of Singapore and the other cities cited?
"According to the 2007 World's Top 100 Most Livable Cities rankings, Toronto is 15th place, Singapore is 34, London is 39, Chicago is 44, Seattle is 49, Budapest is 74, Buenos Aires is 79, Cape Town is 85. Other Wikimania candidate cities don't rank. Surpassing Toronto are Zurich, Geneva, Vancouver, Vienna, Auckland, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Bern, Sydney, Copenhagen, Wellington, Amsterdam, and Brussels."
In the interests of friendly competition I have consciously desisted from putting down other entries, preferring instead to concentrate on Brisbane's advantages. However, this strikes me as a bit of a low blow. If anyone thinks I'm being over-sensitive I'll shut up, otherwise I might politely ask their bid team to remove or revise that little bit.
Regards, Craig F.
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