I'm not sure what you mean by "knocked back," Gnangarra, but the WMF response to that grant proposal looks thoughtful and aimed at finding a viable solution at some point in the future.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:PEG/WM_AU/Wikiconference_Austral...
Andy Mabbett, your perspective is a valuable one. I agree that Wikimania in its existing form may not be of central importance to the movement, and I do think that treating it as such has the potential to unnecessarily elevate the emotional pitch of some of these discussions.
-Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]]
On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Gnangarra gnangarra@gmail.com wrote:
Why not organise WikiOz, or WikiOceana?
We tried that
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_AU/Wikiconference_Australia_20... and was knocked back for the funding needed to make it happen.
-- be fon
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