I see the primary point of Wikimania as an opportunity for the community to meet in person once a year. Many important initiatives for our movement have grown out of Wikimania including but not limited to: Wikivoyage, the copyright detection bot, our collaboration with the World Health Organization, our collaboration with Cochrane, our collaboration with the NIH, efforts at offline distribution, etc. That the events garner attention from local press is definitely a plus though :-)
James
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 7:15 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, In that case what is the point of Wikimania. Thanks, GerardM
On 10 November 2016 at 14:25, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:00 AM, Gerard Meijssen < gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi, You do not get it. Wikimania is first and foremost about spreading the
word
about what we do and who we are.
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The reality is Wikimania is largely a community event first, with the public outreach element an enhancement or afterthought.
The Wikimania meta page doesn’t include the words “spread”, “outreach”, “public”, or “educate” at all.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania
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