As per latest update: from India 4 Indian, 3 Armenian and 3/2 African rejected.
Regards, Jayanta Nath On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 10:34 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas <[email protected]> wrote: > Can we please not keep this thread dedicated to the discussion that the > subject suggests? What European medias has shown and what any individual's > belief for any country of the world could be fun to discuss on social media > where more people can join. These kind of personal views can hurt feelings > of citizens/residents of those countries. > > This thread started with the issues faced in getting visa to this year's > Wikimania, let us stick to that please. > > Thanks, > Dhaval > > On 3 Jul 2017 17:18, "DaB." <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > Am 03.07.2017 um 04:41 schrieb Asaf Bartov: > > DaB.: Wikimania has already been held in a military dictatorship (Egypt, > > 2008), without particular problems. > > that’s not a reason to repeat the mistake. If you held an event > (especially such a big one as the Wikimania) in a dictatorship, you > support this dictatorship. You support the suppression of free speech > and other human rights. > > And cs, just to quote enwp: > > “Since May 2014 Thailand has been ruled by a military junta, the > National Council for Peace and Order, which has partially repealed the > 2007 constitution, declared martial law and nationwide curfew, banned > political gatherings, arrested and detained politicians and anti-coup > activists, imposed internet censorship and taken control of the media.” > > The conflicts of the yellow- and the red-shirt-people were so bad you > even got reports in European news-programs on TV, and so was the > conflict of the Preah Vihear Temple. So please try not to fool me. > > Thailand is surely a great country, but it has many problems > (dictatorship, civil uprisings, corruption, police-corruption, high > number of deaths on road traffic, and so on) that makes it unsuitable > for a conference. > > Sincerely, > DaB. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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