The Wikimania Steering Committee is in the process of discussing and making a proposal about our changing the process of how hosts are selected for future Wikimanias. We will be asking for the community's input. I didn't update the wiki pages to reflect this. There will be an announcement soon about this. We haven't forgotton about 2017!
Thanks for your patience and we expect to make an announcement in the next few weeks.
Ellie Young Events Manager, WMF
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Filip,
I would recommend directing these inquiries to Ellie Young (cc'd here). I have heard talk of process changes for future Wikimanias but have yet to hear of final decisions, or even of a public consultation, so it may be that the process changes are a work in progress.
Pine On Sep 30, 2015 2:02 PM, "Filip Maljkovic" dungodung@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone,
I noticed on [1] that we're a bit behind schedule when it comes to Wikimania 2017.
The Wikimania 2017 jury call for volunteers should have gone in August, but I don't think one was sent (or at least I missed it). September 2015 is the time when jury selection should be announced (which can hardly be done if there was no public call for jury members), and also the bidding is supposed to open. I see two unofficial bids so far: Bali and Perth. The former is filled with "Lorem ipsum" text and the latter is just plain empty.
Did we forget about Wikimania 2017? Do we still want it? Who is in charge of this process? Is this timeline accurate (since the only edit on that page was done by a non-WMF person; however, the process corresponds to the one from 2014 in terms of the timeline)? Is there an underlying problem that is causing bidding fatigue (since there are no valid bids so far)? Is it too early to go into this process altogether (and am I just being too dramatic)?
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2017
Cheers, Filip Maljković
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