On 19 March 2015 at 14:55, Oliver Keyes <ironholds(a)gmail.com> wrote:
We have a vested interest, as a community, in having
as diverse a
group of people behind our content as possible, because we have a
diverse group of readers. "People who can't afford a lunch out
whenever they want" is a demographic: a big one, depending on the
country in question. Coming up with statements that editathons go
great when the editor or newcomer in question covers all their
personal costs ignores the massive number of people who cannot afford
to do that and so will not attend. If your reaction to that is
discussions about studies or politically contentious plane tickets
then you've, at best, completely missed the point I was trying to
make.
As the point you have made here is now factually different to:
>... editathons work well when attendees pay their
own
> way - but they work /best/ when they don't.
then yes, it is hard to guess which point you want to make. Funding
cases of people who cannot pay for a sandwich (or bring their own) or
would like to have a bus ticket covered, is entirely different from
stating that editathons work best all attendees are offered funding. I
was asking what evidence there was to support the first claim. I
conclude there is none and it is likely that nobody believes this is
true.
Fae