Congratulation!!! All three candidates are great (hope to see Atlanta
and Cape Town join 2009 bidding!), and I believed that 2008 would be
even more fascinating and successful.
Alexandria team, the challenge is just now begin but you can make it,
we're all here to back you up, please do feel free to contact people
who might be helpful. Go wikimania! Go Alexandria!
Can't wait to next year!
regards,
TzuChiang
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Cary Bass wrote:
> The Jury for Wikimania 2008 bids have met and are pleased to announce
> that Wikimania 2008 will be held in Alexandria, Egypt.
>
> The Bids were assessed by a Jury[0] which included community members
> representing various geographical areas, and organisers of the previous
> conferences. The Jury used 12 criteria[1] to judge the bids, which were
> drawn up based on the Jury's previous experiences organising the
> conference and with input from a wide range of community concerns.
>
> Alexandria was found to be particularly strong in the areas of
> reflecting the Wikimedia Foundation's roots in geo-diversity and
> multi-lingualism, of the very exciting nature of the proposed venue
> and its local facilities, and of the particularly advanced nature of
> the financial planning.
>
> All three Bids were very strong in differing ways, each with stronger
> and weaker points. We would like to draw particular attention to the
> efforts of the team behind the Atlanta bid, which came in second place
> and was particularly commendable in the areas of providing in-facility
> accommodation and social space, and for doing great outreach to local
> Wikimedians. Their efforts could serve as an example to any team
> hoping to get the local community involved. The Cape Town bid was
> marked strongly by the Jury for cultural diversity, a particularly
> benign local environment, and efforts to secure local recognition and
> facilities. We'd especially like to congratulate Cape Town on
> providing our very first strong bid from the Southern Hemisphere.
>
> A table of the results is given below. Each member of the jury had up
> to 60 points to allocate to the bids in each of the 12 categories,
> which they did after a period of discussion and careful deliberation.
>
> Category Alexandria Atlanta Cape Town
>
> Accommodation 251 298 71
> Funding 264 224 152
> Location 294 154 182
> Internet Access 204 263 133
> Local Laws 155 253 222
> Press 232 235 153
> Organizing Team 244 206 163
> Rotation 305 55 260
> Social Areas 222 258 140
> Cost 289 206 125
> Venue 323 158 139
> Visas 243 109 263
>
> Total 3026 2419 2003
>
> Note that a 13th category, on personal preference, was polled but is
> not included as it had no significant effect on the result.
>
> The Jury would like to thank all of those involved in bids, including
> those whose bids did not go forward to the final selection, for their
> efforts which combined to produce a competitive field.
>
> We strongly encourage all those who bid this year, and those of you
> wondering whether your city could have done the same, to consider
> bidding for Wikimania 2009, for which the decision will begin very
> shortly. See the Wikimania 2009 page on meta[2] for further updates
> within the next few days.
>
> We are especially looking forward to the Wikimedia Foundation
> collaborating with one of the most famous repositories of knowledge in
> the world, and emphasising the newly developing Wikimedia projects in
> Africa and the Middle East. We would like to encourage the entire
> community to support the Alexandria team over the coming year in
> producing an outstanding conference, and look forward to meeting as
> many of you as possible there.
>
> On behalf of the Wikimania 2008 bid Jury.
>
> [0] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Jury
> Sue Gardner and Jan-Bart DeVreede abstained from voting.
> [1] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania 2008/Judging criteria
> [2] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2009
>
Brion is continuing to review the FlaggedRevs extension for security
and scalabilty. (He's already made several fixes.) Meanwhile, I've set
up a small demo of the extension in the configuration which I propose
we should use for the English Wikipedia. Please don't hit the server
too hard or I'll have to take it down. :-)
http://wikixp.org/qa/
(This is courteously hosted by the University of Bamberg in
collaboration with Open Progress.)
The page should pretty much be self-explanatory.
Thanks once again to the two main developers of the extension, Aaron
Schulz and Jörg Baach.
--
Toward Peace, Love & Progress:
Erik
DISCLAIMER: This message does not represent an official position of
the Wikimedia Foundation or its Board of Trustees.
Hi,
How can anybody say that Yury Tarasievich and his project is about
language, not about politics, after such a letter? No facts, just
insults and speculations.
> You are an entity, yes, set out to destroy the existing Belarusian
> language and culture and replace it with your version -- okay, your
> right. But get yourself your own blessed language code for that.
This speculation with such aggressive words doesn't help your case, it
can only make your case worse. I don't even hope any more that you
understand that your outrageous insults are absurd. You just dig a pit
for yourself by your own hands.
> P.S.
> Some years ago I witnessed a creation of one of such sites you call
> "proofs". So, there was 1 tech and 1 editor, who re-edited everything
> incoming (like 90+% or even 99% in standard Belarusian and Russian)
> into his flavour of "classic". It was politics. Thousands pages (and I
> mean real thousands, there was sort of 4800 or so) of pages. And...
> grant money. I could add -- near to zero interest, excepting the
> indexing bots.
Another great example of lies. Where could they get any incoming in
"norm" if people just don't write in it?
Monk.
>Ah. It appears quite a lot of it is explained here:
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Pseudoscien…
>
>Probation, repeated violations, apparent inability to work with
>others. Appeal to the arbitration committee is the way back.
Yes, that's where I was found guilty of having an "orientation", and
an Arbitrator condoned the use of incivility with Ad hominems against
me. Again, no examples of improper editing.
But if you have an indefinite ban, you are not allowed to appeal for
a year. In other words, IF you are banned improperly, but
indefinitely, there is no way back for at least a year.
Regards,
Ian Tresman
www.plasma-universe.com