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Boston (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Boston) and Toronto (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Toronto) have been shortlisted to host the 2006 edition of Wikimania.
Wikimania 2006 will be the second international Wikimedia conference and will gather members of the Wikimedia community acorss projects as well as participants and speakers from different horizons to talk about wikis and more. An overview of the 2005 edition can be found at http://wikimania.wikimedia.org.
Contrarily to what was announced on the Wikimania page (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006), and due to tight schedules of the jury from 3 corners of the planet, the jury might not be able to meet and give its answer on the 15th october as was planned.
This will only be delayed a day or two, please stay tuned for an update.
In the meantime, participants and others are free to ask/answer questions on the talk pages of the Boston (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimania_2006/Boston) and Toronto (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimania_2006/Toronto) bid.
Best,
Delphine -- ~notafish
Well... The jury has gathered, argued, fought...and has not come to a conclusion. Decision has been postponed until next week-end.
Sorry about the delay.
Delphine
On 10/13/05, Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.com wrote:
(warning, cross post to many lists, thank you for not replying to all
- thank you for forwarding to the relevant lists)
Boston (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Boston) and Toronto (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Toronto) have been shortlisted to host the 2006 edition of Wikimania.
Wikimania 2006 will be the second international Wikimedia conference and will gather members of the Wikimedia community acorss projects as well as participants and speakers from different horizons to talk about wikis and more. An overview of the 2005 edition can be found at http://wikimania.wikimedia.org.
Contrarily to what was announced on the Wikimania page (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006), and due to tight schedules of the jury from 3 corners of the planet, the jury might not be able to meet and give its answer on the 15th october as was planned.
This will only be delayed a day or two, please stay tuned for an update.
In the meantime, participants and others are free to ask/answer questions on the talk pages of the Boston (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimania_2006/Boston) and Toronto (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimania_2006/Toronto) bid.
Best,
Delphine
~notafish
-- ~notafish
Sorry, but I apologize the choice to have ISO and Ethnologue like main references about new wikipedias.
ISO and Ethnologue are not scientific and authoritative sources about languages. They have a lot of strange or arbitrary statements.
I exhort you to compare ISO and Ethnologue with http://www.eurolang.net/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=43 or with http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/policies/lang/languages/langmin/euromosa..., you can see a lot of differences. Perhaps ISO and Ethnologue dont recognize the difference between dialect and language, for example, or they have a confused distinction between the languages. Ethnologue has this problem because it born with the target to save minor tongues, but it exceed with some ridiculous cases.
I think that if my friends and I choice to speak something like our natural language but with some differences, for example changing the order of syntax, between ten years we can have our Ethnologue code at first, and ISO code (this is a consequence) at second.
The problem is that I read a lot of strange argumentations, some studies made by an author that has never spoken the idiom that he is studying, supported by ISO and Ethnologue and I think: "...oops at moment I have thought to have only spoken three languages, but I am polyglot: I speak ten languages!".
But the problem is not this. Wikipedia is strongly supported by community, but if the community spoke something strong differently to language (or dialect) of his Wikipedia: this is the paradox.
Ilario
Hallo,
Ik ben van e-mailadres veranderd. Mijn nieuwe adres is:
marjonbakker@xs4all.nl
Gelieve dit te veranderen in je adresboek. Mijn oude adres zal per 31-1-2006 niet meer geldig zijn.
Vriendelijke groet,
Marjon Bakker
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