On 19 March 2015 at 14:55, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote: > We have a vested interest, as a community, in having as diverse a > group of people behind our content as possible, because we have a > diverse group of readers. "People who can't afford a lunch out > whenever they want" is a demographic: a big one, depending on the > country in question. Coming up with statements that editathons go > great when the editor or newcomer in question covers all their > personal costs ignores the massive number of people who cannot afford > to do that and so will not attend. If your reaction to that is > discussions about studies or politically contentious plane tickets > then you've, at best, completely missed the point I was trying to > make.
As the point you have made here is now factually different to: >>... editathons work well when attendees pay their own >> way - but they work /best/ when they don't. then yes, it is hard to guess which point you want to make. Funding cases of people who cannot pay for a sandwich (or bring their own) or would like to have a bus ticket covered, is entirely different from stating that editathons work best all attendees are offered funding. I was asking what evidence there was to support the first claim. I conclude there is none and it is likely that nobody believes this is true. Fae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
