[Foundation-l] Taipei chosen to host Wikimania 2007

[valdelli at bluemail.ch]

For Turin, IMHO, could be interesting also to have a defined rule to 
choose the bids.

I have followed three years of candidatures and each year different 
rules.

My question is... in this choice what is the role of the 
communities?

Last year the final bidders (Toronto e Boston) have been choosed 
after a poll (IMHO unnecessary because the two towns are in the same 
continent with a little bit difference of proposal)... and this 
year?

Who has a limited knowledge of marketing knows that a poll is 
important to investigate the crowd of wikipedians. It's not a must, 
but it's important because the board of examiners could take a choice 
with impartial data without taking in charge the weight of an 
important choice.

Without a poll *seems* that the choice has been already taken 
previously.

I ask for more importance of Wikipedians.

Regards

Ilario


----Messaggio originale----
Da: jwales at wikia.com
Data: 28.09.06 10.57
A: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"<foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
Oggetto: Re: [Foundation-l] Taipei chosen to host Wikimania 2007

Not that it is up to me, nor should it be, but I intend to be a 
strong 
personal supporter of Turin for 2008, and encourage the concept 
that we 
should settle this fairly soon.

Gianluigi Gamba wrote:
> I congratulate with Taipei team and I'm sure they'll organize a 
memorable 
> event.
> 
> As a member of the Turin bidding team, let me voice a choral "too 
bad".
> We had a sort of incredible "astral conjunction" of sponsors 
*really eager* 
> to have the Wikimania event, the enthusiasm of the whole 
community, the 
> honeymoon with the media and the commitment of many people from 
national 
> (and not only) institutions.
> I wonder if such combination will return in a future. I hope so.
>