Hi all, - The Wikimania Committee with Ellie Young would be the most likely entity that could facilitate a process if we wanted to consider a name change. Full disclosure: I’m on the committee, but it may be getting a revamp in the near future.
- We tend to not like voting on anything like this, especially since we don’t have very good findings of fact, or even a good sampling of anecdotes around the name. -Andrew -Andrew Lih Associate professor of journalism, American University Email: [email protected] WEB: http://www.andrewlih.com BOOK: The Wikipedia Revolution: http://www.wikipediarevolution.com PROJECT: Wiki Makes Video http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wiki_Makes_Video On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Béria Lima <[email protected]> wrote: > *Now the 1 million dollar (...) question: to whom do we address the task >> of eventually solving this?* >> > > Well, might not be the easiest answer, but: Why not run a vote? > > Have some period of "submissions of name", and an after vote open to all > community on it (with bots, sitenotice and etc to advertise it.) and let > the community decide. > _____ > *Béria L. de Rodríguez* > > *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter > livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a > construir esse sonho.* > > 2016-11-07 12:08 GMT-02:00 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 > >
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