Re: [Wikimania-l] Claims by BDS

2011-06-29 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2011/6/29 John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com: I don't have precise measurements of popularity of Palestinians' Wikipedia participation. It's not zero - there is a considerable number of user pages in the Arab Wikipedia with userboxes that say this user lives in Israel or this user lives in

Re: [Wikimania-l] Claims by BDS

2011-06-29 Thread dror1975
Hello, Just to clarify a few points - 1. The term Palestinian-Arabs refers to people who identify themselves as part of the Palestinian People, but they hold various nationalities. Many of them are Israeli citizens, so they can arrive at Haifa just as any other Israeli (and like other

Re: [Wikimania-l] Claims by BDS

2011-06-29 Thread WereSpielChequers
I suspect that at present Wikimedians in Gaza would have difficulty attending an event anywhere outside the Gaza strip - whether it was in Israel or not. The censorship article says that explicit sexual content is filtered out in Gaza, but it doesn't say whether that means just a minority of

[Wikimania-l] global south strategy meeting, 2011-08-02, wikimania preconf prog

2011-06-29 Thread dror1975
Hello, I asked two people from the Ben Gurion University's Africa Center to attend Wikimania for as much as they can, in order to talk with developers and other people involved in offline projects and devnations initiatives. These two students were part of the Israeli mission to Santchou,