I concur with Asaf and Lodewijk's emails. For the past few years when I have had to 'pitch' Wikimania to potential sponsors and also when dealing with hotel, convention centers, tourism boards and the like, I have always emphasized that Wikimania (which is pretty puzzling for most outsiders...) is the international conference for the Wikipedia/wikimedia community. That always seems to satisfy/clarify it for most people (and a chuckle ...)
Not to change the subject ;-), but I get more questions about the Wikimedia Conference (which probably should have the word affiliate in it) as people are confused about it being Wikimania, how does it differ, that it is by invitation, etc. I know we've tried in the past to get some traction about changing its name, but that doesn't seem to go anywhere.... Ellie On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 6:50 AM, Lodewijk <[email protected]> wrote: > The question would also be: > - is this a significant problem > - Do we wánt to solve this problem (what is our targeted audience) > - Are there other ways to achieve the same (When I had to pitch Wikimania > as a conference with potential partners in the Amsterdam 2010 bid, we > always used a subtitle - which worked fine. People actually appreciated a > more unique brand/name) > - finally, are there any benefits to keeping Wikimania as a name > > I see how one can make a case - but without addressing all these > questions, such case is imho not complete. > > Lodewijk > > 2016-11-07 15:08 GMT+01:00 Luca Martinelli <[email protected]>: > >> OK, now this is more of an argument I can consider as compelling. >> >> Now the 1 million dollar/euro/pound/yen/yuan/rupee/peso/shekel/$you_name_it >> question (which unsurprisingly Asaf already posed): to whom do we address >> the task of eventually solving this? >> >> L. >> >> Il 07 nov 2016 15:05, "Edward Saperia" <[email protected]> ha scritto: >> >> Agree with Andrew - when I was organising it in 2014 I usually called it >> "The Global Wikipedia Summit" because Wikimania doesn't sound important. >> >> >>> 2. On first glance, the name isn’t very professional sounding. So it may >>> be hard to convince one’s boss or academic head to fund travel or time off >>> to attend the premier conference for the Wikimedia community. >>> >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 8:28 AM, Gordon Joly <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Is it proper and correct to use the term "mania"? >>>> >>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mania >>>> >>>> Would we say "WikiMad" or WikiCrazy"? >>>> >>>> Gordo >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikimania-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimania-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > -- Ellie Young Events Manager Wikimedia Foundation [email protected] c. 510 701 8649
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