Sure - but still, the nations in question are still much larger than Malta, so a meeting is a semi-big deal and you have to plan for it a bit more than in Malta, where everybody just goes to a café which is pretty close to everybody. Also, the meets were only recent concepts in those cases, whereas on mt.wiki the idea arose almost instantly.
Mark
On 23/04/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
Jimmy Wales (jwales@wikia.com) [050423 22:49]:
This is one of the disadvantages that en has compared to many other languages -- there is no realistic hope of ever getting together all the most famous people on en at the same time. (Unless someone wants to donate a huge amount of money to sponsor a conference where the travel for them is paid!)
Meets have made the UK side of things feel slightly more cohesive. Though it would be Bad for it to fall into national clumps.
- d.
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