Greetings!
I have also added my 2 cents to the Meta page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AFuture_of_the_Wikimedia_...
Regards, Nicole
On 12 September 2014 15:31, Leigh Thelmadatter osamadre@hotmail.com wrote:
For what its worth, I just added another 2 cents over at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Future_of_the_Wikimedia_Conference
From: ed@wikimanialondon.org Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 13:58:00 +0100 To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2015
The name of a conference is typically a descriptor of the contents of the programme rather than of the attendees :)
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On 12 September 2014 13:49, Ilario Valdelli valdelli@gmail.com wrote:
It's not the word Conference, is the word Wikimedia that address people to consider it as an event for the Wikimedia movement.
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com
wrote:
The word "Conference" doesn't in itself imply that an event is open or closed.
C On 12 Sep 2014 13:06, "Ilario Valdelli" valdelli@gmail.com wrote:
But Wikimania is not only a Wikimedia Conference.
It's a conference open to all people outside the Wikimedia movement.
If the name should be as much as possible "explicative", the switch
from
Wikimania to Wikimedia Conference is inappropriate.
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Wil Sinclair wllm@wllm.com wrote:
We can be both more sensible and sensitive by calling this conference something else. As has been suggested, Wikimedia Conference (maybe WikiCon for short) would be more appropriate.
,Wil
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 1:41 AM, Ilario Valdelli <valdelli@gmail.com
wrote:
> I would really appreciate if the discussion can move in other
questions
> concerning for instance the cost saving and the participation
instead
of
> speaking of a name.
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