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Just one question; why 2014? 2013 isn't bid until the end of this year, if I am reading it correctly, so we still have a decent amount of time to put together a bid for that...? No rush of course, just wondering on the reason :)
There are a several reasons why I would prefer that we did not bid for 2013. The first is geography, if you hold to the view that Wikimania should move around the globe, then whilst the UK is a longhaul flight from Washington DC it really isn't that far from either Haifa or Gdansk. I'm a supporter of the view that each Wikimania should be a longhaul flight from either of the last two, so I'd feel a tad hypocritical if I argued that the UK should be an exception. Though I concede that some of the 9 current bids for 2013 are a medium haul flight from Haifa or DC.
Another reason is that holding back and not bidding for 2013 would give us time to develop a Wikimania team by getting them involved in helping make 2012 and 2013 successful.
Of course if there were already a team of enthusiastic UK Wikimania organisers in place then I wouldn't want to discourage them. But I haven't noticed a huge rush on this list of people wanting to organise things.
And both http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013/Bids/United Kingdom and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2014/Bids/United Kingdom are currently redlinks. But there are 9 bluelinks for 2013 so far, and some of those potential bids are quite advanced.
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On 27 July 2011 10:57, Thomas Morton morton.thomas@googlemail.com wrote:
My two cents would be that the big events should not be allowed to drive out the more grassrootsy things.
^^ This. On the other hand - hosting Wikimania might a) raise the profile of Wikimania UK in non-Wikimedia circles (i.e. lead to more grass roots opportunity) and b) be an opportunity/platform to launch/integrate more grass roots projects. In fact it could be an integral part of the pitch - and we could incorporate (perhaps) some of the GLAM opportunities (and other related ideas) into the full event. I think a Wikimania bid is a great idea for WM-UK, and I'd be happy to help out with it! Just one question; why 2014? 2013 isn't bid until the end of this year, if I am reading it correctly, so we still have a decent amount of time to put together a bid for that...? No rush of course, just wondering on the reason :) Tom _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org