Pete We realise what the foundation was thinking in its response, I wasnt looking to be negative about the reasonings rather just pointing out that the community has already gone the path of a National event, and we'll be doing so again.
The problem isnt just the connections within our community they always need improving, the issue we face is that our community is physically isolated from the rest of the global community as well that is as critical for its future development as anything. Wikimanias are still the best way to share information across the whole of the community every project that I have run here in Australia has been as a result of the information I learnt while attending Wikimanias, I must say that I learnt alot thanks to WMUK when I was in London for the Wikimania both practical and how important the personal connections we make within the community are. Having experienced that I want to get that same opportunity to Australia given how few of our contributors get the chance to attend them even more so given that no one from Australia was given the opportunity to connect in Mexico where this decision was taken is even more distasteful. On 10 October 2015 at 09:06, Pete Forsyth <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean by "knocked back," Gnangarra, but the WMF > response to that grant proposal looks thoughtful and aimed at finding a > viable solution at some point in the future. > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:PEG/WM_AU/Wikiconference_Australia_2015#WMF_comments > > Andy Mabbett, your perspective is a valuable one. I agree that Wikimania in > its existing form may not be of central importance to the movement, and I > do think that treating it as such has the potential to unnecessarily > elevate the emotional pitch of some of these discussions. > > -Pete > [[User:Peteforsyth]] > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Gnangarra <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Why not organise WikiOz, or WikiOceana? > > > > > > > > > > > > > We tried that > > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_AU/Wikiconference_Australia_2015 > > and > > was knocked back for the funding needed to make it happen. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > be fon > > > > > > Andy Mabbett > > > @pigsonthewing > > > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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> > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > GN. > > Vice President Wikimedia Australia > > WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra > > Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com > > _______________________________________________ > > 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> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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> > -- GN. Vice President Wikimedia Australia WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com _______________________________________________ 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>
