[Foundation-l] Taipei chosen to host Wikimania 2007

[valdelli at bluemail.ch]

IMHO at least two other bids has had "the venue and accommodation on 
a single site".

If people are looking for another reason it could because there is 
not a simple reason like this.

Regards

Ilario


----Messaggio originale----
Da: beesley at gmail.com
Data: 25.09.06 14.20
A: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"<foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
Copia: <translators-l at wikimedia.org>, <wikipedia-l at wikimedia.org>
Oggetto: Re: [Foundation-l] Taipei chosen to host Wikimania 2007

> It was almost certain that a decent bid from Asia would be 
successful.

No it wasn't and I wish people didn't have this misconception.

All of the bids were considered against a range of criteria, not 
only
location. Amongst many other factors, Taipei offered the venue and
accommodation on a single site, and their organizing team had 
prior
experience from running the Chinese Wikimania this year. It's 
unfair
to them to suggest they only won because they're in Asia.