[Wikimedia-l] WCA Quest for the Cool Name

Pharos pharosofalexandria at gmail.com
Tue Aug 6 12:32:06 UTC 2013


A reminder that there's still some time to for cross-fertilization of "cool
name" ideas, for the artist formerly known as the WCA:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Quest_for_the_Cool_Name

Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)


On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Markus Glaser
<markus.glaser at wikimedia.de>wrote:

> Am 30.07.2013 00:48, schrieb Nathan:
>
>  The process for renaming the WCA is to be completed in two weeks?!
>> That seems totally at odds with its entire history, I wonder if it's
>> turning over a new leaf or if the selection will be subject to
>> criticism for not including enough people / giving sufficient months
>> or years for debate.
>>
> The WCA is on its way to become an agile organisation ;) The backdoor is:
> if we can't agree on a new name, we'll continue to operate as "WCA". So no
> harm is done either way.
>
> Seriously, I made the experience that people react to these kind of
> creative polls either at the beginning or at the end of the voting time. So
> we decided to just skip the time in between.
>
> Best,
> Markus
>
>
> --
> Markus Glaser
> WCA Council Member (WMDE), Chair
> Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
>
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