On 8/17/06, George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
And yet all those US people whose involvement in
en.wikipedia.org is
significant and who should be allowed to come to a conference, if they
are interested.
The foundation has competing interests with the conference: one
predominantly huge-sized project, and the whole of everything
including the much smaller ones and the global picture.
If the interests of the two collide to some degree, there are
solutions: split the conference into World and US conferences,
dual-track the conference, etc.
I am not sure I understand you correctly, but I seem to read that you
are hinting at the fact that the English Wikipedia is predominantely
US contributors. If that is the case, and although I am not a
contributor there myself, I believe this is forgetting the diversity
of our biggest project. My take is there are enough international
contributors who contribute to the English Wikipedia to never fall
into a US/rest of the world kind of split, which at any rate, would
seem to be an ultimate failure of Wikimedia ever pretending to any
kind of international scope.
Rather than artificially constraining the size of
Wikimania,
structural solutions and a review of the goals of the conference and
foundation are in order.
I believe this is what I have proposed.
Delphine
PS. It might be that I have not exactly understood what you meant,
being an Englis as Foreign language pkind of person and all. In which
case, I thank you for making sure I get your point.
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