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(a)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(a)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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