[Foundation-l] "Chinese Wikimania 2006 to be held in Hong Kong"

[R.O.C]

what if using "wikimedia", for example. "chinese wikimedia conference"?

just to clarify that "chinese" here means ethnic chinese around the world,
not limited to the people's republic of china or mainland china, as what
"china" nowadays often refers to. a number of users of zh.wikipedia (along
with other wikimedia projects in chinese language) from mainland china,
taiwan, hong kong, malaysia, canada, united states, germany, etc. have
expressed interests to attend.

the chinese community decided to hold the conference in hong kong, which
enjoys convenient transportation and high degree of autonomy from the
central government in beijing. among other candidate cities were beijing,
shanghai, and taipei. blocking of wikipedia in PRC poses
concerns/difficulties for promoting wikimedia and organizing a conference
within mainland china. taipei has a highly devoted local community but there
is a difficulty also from politics that entry permits generally are not
issued to mainland chinese.

-roc (User:R.O.C)

2006/3/16, Angela <beesley at gmail.com>:
>  I'm pleased to see a conference in China is being planned, but this
> and similar events really need to use a different name, both to
> prevent confusion with the actual Wikimania, and to avoid the need for
> each event to get permission from Wikimedia to use the name.
>
> Angela.
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