*cough* there *is* a Wikimania-l, you know... (please keep it CCed at the very least)
That being said, your idea is very interesting. On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wikimania 2011 has come, yet again another location in the middle-east. > > It seems to me that every major populated geographic region has a > multitude of sites which could create viable wikimania candidacies— > and this has certainly been supported by the past applications. > > A leading application takes an enormous amount of work, expenditure of > political energy, etc. on the part of the proposing team— work that > could perhaps be applied to advancing the Wikimedia mission in other > ways for candidacies which are ultimately fruitless. > > I believe that if you were to take the best candidate from each region > and compare among them you'd find them all to be excellent options and > ultimately end up choosing based little details and preferences, often > ones mostly outside of the control of the applicants. > > Accordingly I believe it would be better if we pre-announced a > preferred geography for the candidacies each year. > > Effort could then be conserved for producing really excellent > proposals in those years when a candidacy is most likely to be > successful. This could also be expected to result in better > applications. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
