---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Christophe Henner chenner@wikimedia.org Date: Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 1:04 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania - annually, with South Africa in 2018? To: "Wikimania General List, (open subscription)" wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org

My bad I forgot it already is on meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Statements/Chapter_chairs...

Le 9 juil. 2016 4:50 AM, "Pine W" wiki.pine@gmail.com a écrit :

Thanks Christophe. I, for one, have had difficulty figuring out what is going on with Wikimania in regards to varying decisions in different parts of WMF and the community, so I look forward to the clarifications.

Personally I am currently neutral on the decision of whether to have annual Wikimanias, or alternate Wikimanias with years in which there is emphasis on national or regional conferences. My hunch is that some research about costs and benefits is needed so that we have reliable data about a variety of scenarios before making a decision.

Thanks again for working on this.

To the board chairs: I would be interested in seeing that letter. In the spirit of transparency, would you please publish it on Meta? As you know I am an advocate for much more transparency from WMF, and I would like for the affiliates to also to be transparent about governance matters such as this one.

Thanks,

Pine

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