2015-10-04 21:37 GMT+02:00 Michał Buczyński <[email protected]>: > I am also surprised that e.g. Gdańsk is in "Eastern Europe". And you put it > in one venue bucket with Uzbekistan for some reason. > Or that you "want to ensure that, every third year, Wikimania will take > place neither in Europe nor North America." Combining these two would mean > we could wait for a Wikimania in Ukraine, Poland, Mexico (Northern America) > or some other "Eastern European" country (whatever it means here) forever. > > For the future, I would like to ask you and your committee for a more > careful wording and a careful definition of geographic terms you want to > use.
2015-10-04 21:44 GMT+02:00 Lodewijk <[email protected]>: > Michal's comments reflect part of what I'm thinking - and I think the exact > splits of the regions may require some further discussions. Given the notes > I've seen elsewhere, I trust that this is a first draft of the exact > outlines of the regions, and not necessarily definitive? For example, I was > also surprised to see your definition of 'North America' being US + Canada, > and not to include Mexico. While I do agree with the necessity of a reform of the Wikimania bidding process, I have to say that I totally quote those two passages from Michal and Lodewijk. My main concern is how the areas will be defined (and probably the UN macro-region division doesn't work that well), and secondly how the areas will rotate. At the moment, I do acknowledge that the "Western World" may have more users than other areas, but if our idea is (to quote James himself) "to support the movement worldwide", allowing countries that are not the US, Canada or just-any-European-country-that-is-not-a-Central-Eastern-Europe-country to organise just one in three Wikimania IMHO won't work. Anyway, let's just think of how to refine this draft. :) -- Luca "Sannita" Martinelli http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Sannita _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
