> > Participants other than scholarship recipients and reimbursed > representatives are one group we heard very little from, but we think they > are important because: 1) they have financial resources and help make the > Wikimania budget sustainable; 2) they have motivation to share and ideas on > what makes Wikimania valuable.
I agree. People attending on their own expense are really important, especially for next year. It will be easier/cheaper for communities in Europe and MENA regions which are of the most active communities on Wikipedia. I think the number of attendees would be bigger next year. Thanks for creating this survey, Nemo! On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think it might have been useful to ask questions about what might make > people not attend a Wikimania (e.g., location, dollars, not interested in > programming, poor cost to potential benefit ratio). > > Risker/Anne > > On 11 September 2015 at 10:35, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemow...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> John Mark Vandenberg, 11/09/2015 11:51: >> >>> I found the last question a bit confusing, as it talks about "how much >>> more...", but it isnt clear what 'more' is relative to. More than the >>> 'actual cost to the organisation'? Or, if the survey participant >>> self-funded their Wikimania, how much more should they spend to attend >>> Wikimania? So I put '0'. >>> >> >> Thanks for going through the questions. You are right, that question is >> ambiguous; but it's intentionally so, to avoid forcing a single >> interpretation of where the "more" starts. (I have my opinions, but there >> is no rule; and past Wikimanias were very different.) >> >> We'll see how well it works; this is just the beginning of a >> conversation. :) >> >> Nemo >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > >
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