Not a problem. Many east and south-east Asian countries' citizens enjoy
visa-free access to Hong Kong (
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HK_Visa_Policy.png ).
Visa-on-demand for business or leisure travel is also available for
residents of most major cities in mainland China and all of
Dear all,
It has come to the attention of the Wikimania 2013 Hong Kong organizing
team that there may be confusion over the situation of internet censorship
in China and whether it affects Hong Kong. [1]
We would like to clarify that, although Hong Kong has been nominally part
of the People's
Hi, Todd and all,
I don't think WMF support any regime implicitly which censor the online
speech.
I am from Mainland China, I hate the censorship, I had did some small steps
to against it just as lots of our friends on Chinese Wikipedia.
The only thing I want to talk is that small changes are
Todd,
I'm afraid you've mistaken. Hong Kong is fiscally independent from the rest
of China, and not a single cent of the Hong Kong government's income is
passed on to the PRC government in Beijing.
Deryck
On 10 May 2012 22:27, Todd Allen toddmal...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:39
This is a similar argument to those made against Egypt or Israel etc. It's
a facile and false notion that holding Wikimania in a particular city is an
implicit political endorsement for the national government of the host
city. You could just as easily interpret it in the opposite manner -
holding
+1. I totally agree with Nathan.
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
This is a similar argument to those made against Egypt or Israel etc. It's
a facile and false notion that holding Wikimania in a particular city is an
implicit political endorsement for the
It does, at least at some level, seem to be an argument (usually from
different people) every Wikimania. There just isn't a way to have it in a
place that everyone is happy with (especially if you want to rotate around
the world. I'd also point remind people that among all of the places
Wikimania
I must admit I had concerns, but they're allayed considerably by the
statement that HK is fiscally independent from the PRC. Hopefully having
such a free event in an area of the world where freedom of information is
in relatively short supply will do wonderful things for the movement and
the
On Thursday, 10 May 2012 at 22:49, Nathan wrote:
This is a similar argument to those made against Egypt or Israel etc. It's
a facile and false notion that holding Wikimania in a particular city is an
implicit political endorsement for the national government of the host
city. You could just as
On 11/05/2012 00:14, Tom Morris wrote:
In the bidding process, there rightly are some minimum standards,
specifically with regards to freedom of speech laws and whether or not
the cities in question are welcoming to religious and LGBT minorities.
If we wish to include anti-censorship as one
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