Proposing "Paintball for the Olympics" is good for getting people to think about whether it is a sport.
Thats why I think the proposal to get Wikipedia as a World Heritage site is good ... because people may decide that yes, we are creating a world heritage.... and there I believe I would find many here who agree. That feeling is what drives our volunteers and therefore it is a good thing to raise the profile of.
On 24 May 2011 11:15, Deryck Chan
<deryckchan@gmail.com> wrote:
Longer shot than that - it's more like getting Counter-Strike onto Olympics. All current heritage site listings are currently tied to a geographical location; trying to get Wikipedia on will mean creating an entirely new category listing. Add to that Wikipedia's orders of magnitude younger than the heritage sites currently on the list.
On 24 May 2011 11:01, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 24/05/2011 09:19, Chris Keating wrote:
> Wikimedia DE is running a campaign to have Wikipedia recognised as a
> UNESCO world heritage site.
>
> I just wondered what peoples' views here on this were?
Long shot, like trying to get paintball included in the Olympics. Not a
bad idea to be talking to UNESCO, but who should be talking to whom
about what? Some of the sister projects are more about "heritage", in fact.
Charles
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