To be honest: I am not surprised at all.
Wikimedia Foundation is becoming moor and moor centralized. They no longer care about the community, even if there is huge community consensus about something.
Why is there a secret committee needed? It is easier to ask the community.
I am disappointed
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 18:13:13 -0400 From: nawrich@gmail.com To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by Signpost
Evidently the Signpost has scooped the WMF by revealing that Montreal has been selected for the 2017 Wikimania host city in a secret process that completed this past August. [1]
It seems like the community could have been looped into this new method before it was a done deal.
~Nathan
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-09-30/News_a... _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe