Re: [Wikimania-l] Claims by BDS / Palestinian outreach

2011-07-19 Thread Kim Bruning
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 07:55:51PM +0200, Kim Bruning wrote: place_of_residence= (world AND NOT middle_east) OR(israel AND NOT (west_bank OR gaza)) For people who have trouble deciphering SQL-ish language ( small letters = sets AND = Intersection OR = Union AND NOT=Intersection )

Re: [Wikimania-l] Claims by BDS / Palestinian outreach

2011-07-19 Thread Harel Cain
As to whether this is correct or not, we'll know in a couple of weeks. I think it's not 100% correct (read my previous mails, and some things still brewing too), and I think it's mainly unfair to us organizers. You could have drawn the same drawing for previous years and the Middle East part

Re: [Wikimania-l] Claims by BDS / Palestinian outreach

2011-07-19 Thread Harel Cain
In fact, it would be really interesting to see just how many people from the Arab Middle East attended any previous Wikimania. For 2008, please check how many attendees came from countries that were not Egypt. I attended Wikimania in 2007 (Taipei) and 2010 (Gdansk) and I recall just a handful of