geni wrote:
On 8/17/06, Delphine Ménard
<notafishz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On the subject of size. I am personally not in
favour of an
*international Wikimedia conference* (keywords international and
Wikimedia) that will hold more than 500 people, ever. The reason for
this were clear last year, but even clearer this year, ie. opening the
conference to 1000 people makes it, in my opinion, lose the
"Wikimedia" touch, by bringing many people in who have in the end
nothing to do with Wikimedia.
With the number of contributers we have (heck we have well over 1000
admins across the various project) 1000 does not seem to be an
illogicaly high number in future.
The barrier to entry to edit in your pajamas is far different from the
barrier to entry of international travel for many, if not most,
contributors or admins. We also skew heavily towards students. The
difference among people from our different pockets of interest was
obvious from this year's conference, and our international delegations
were tiny. We must do a much better job of international visitation,
scholarships, and the like.