On 23/02/2008, Ben McIlwain cydeweys@gmail.com wrote:
Sweet Christ, can anyone remind me how in the hell we ever decided on Egypt in the first place? Was that when the probability of being killed by terrorists was equally rated with the desire to not host Wikimania on the same continent two years in a row?
The Egyptian government is not going to allow tourists to get killed by anyone. Have you any idea what it would do to their economy?
Face it, Egypt shares very little of the same values that we do (especially the whole "not censored" part). There is a significant chance of violent protests breaking out, potentially bringing harm to our conference and our participants.
In Egypt? Peaceful protests maybe. Wahhabism hasn't really caught on in the Egyptian population and the government doesn't exactly support it's growth.
Torino doesn't look so bad anymore, huh?
Because of course wikipedia has never done anything to upset the mafia or the red brigade.