On 31 July 2010 16:27, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 31 July 2010 16:21, Amir E. Aharoni
<amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
But all of the above are nice dreams about the
future. Is there any
proven experience from the past that demonstrates why personal
meetings between Wikimedians are not just fun for them, but actually
beneficial to the Wikimedia community, the Internet, the Humanity? Can
anyone here give me solid examples of successful projects that were
born thanks to past Wikimanias?
Most of the chapters.
Are you sure? Don't chapters come out of local meetups more than
Wikimanias? Three chapters pre-date the first Wikimania and one was
founded a week after (so I don't think Wikimania can take credit for
that). Can you give some examples of chapters you know were founded as
a result of a Wikimania? I can imagine some people being inspired to
form chapters after meeting people from other chapters, but I don't
know any definite examples of it actually happening.
In 2006 Wikimania in Boston there was a brief, informal meetup of
chapter committee, existing chapters boards members and people thinikg
to establish their own chapters. I don't know if it was the results of
only this meeting but several weeks/months after this meeting
Wikimedia Israel, Wikimedia Taiwan and Wikimedia Netherlands were
established mainly by people who attended this meeting.
See us 4 years younger: