Hi, Ladies and all,
I am Theodoranian from zh.wikipedia. I went to Frankfurt last year, and
now I am thinking to go to Boston to join the 2006 wikimania.
I want to explain the "2006 Chinese wikimania" to you.
Actually, this annual conference is first-time-held this year, since
Zh.wikipedians from
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and else places thought that there should be a
meetup.
The formal name of this meetup is "中文維基年會" in Chinese (which literally means
"Chinese Wikimedia Annual Conference"), and we don't have an appropriate
English
name for it yet. Now, we are still thinking what would be good. However,
somebody
translated the "CWAC" into English as "Chinese wikimania". There
seems to be
a cultural
gap which misleads the translator to regard "Wiki-meetup" as
"wikimania".
Just for your information.
Theodoanian
2006/3/16, Anthere <Anthere9(a)yahoo.com>om>:
I hope we'll also see some chinese in Boston as well :-)
I could not see the information in the news. Do you have any idea how
many people you could gather ?
ant
R.O.C wrote:
what if using "wikimedia", for example.
"chinese wikimedia conference"?
just to clarify that "chinese" here means ethnic chinese around the
world,
not limited to the people's republic of china
or mainland china, as what
"china" nowadays often refers to. a number of users of zh.wikipedia(along
with other wikimedia projects in chinese language) from mainland china,
taiwan, hong kong, malaysia, canada, united states, germany, etc. have
expressed interests to attend.
the chinese community decided to hold the conference in hong kong, which
enjoys convenient transportation and high degree of autonomy from the
central government in beijing. among other candidate cities were
beijing,
shanghai, and taipei. blocking of wikipedia in
PRC poses
concerns/difficulties for promoting wikimedia and organizing a
conference
within mainland china. taipei has a highly
devoted local community but
there
is a difficulty also from politics that entry
permits generally are not
issued to mainland chinese.
-roc (User:R.O.C)
2006/3/16, Angela <beesley(a)gmail.com>om>:
> I'm pleased to see a conference in China is being planned, but this
>and similar events really need to use a different name, both to
>prevent confusion with the actual Wikimania, and to avoid the need for
>each event to get permission from Wikimedia to use the name.
>
>Angela.
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