Oops I forgot to insert some words. Let me correct: On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:24 AM, KIZU Naoko <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I don't recall any Arabic participants in Boston, in Taiwan either > (they decided not to show from their own reason), many in Alexandria > but not so many from outside of Egypt, no Palestinians but two > Israelis, in Gdansk, one Syrian and one Irani (our steward) ...... iirc there > were some Jordanian somewhere, iirc in several Wikimanias but not sure > in which ones. > > And from time to time, as Transcom member, I heard there were no or > very a little Palestinian contributors to Arabic Wikipedia. It is sad > we haven't successful to get them in Wikimedia universe, and there > will be some reasons but I presume it'll be more complicated than a > certain organization hinders or whatever. > > Cheers, > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 6:01 AM, WereSpielChequers > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I don't remember meeting any Palestinians at the last two Wikimanias >> either, so if there are no Palestinians coming despite the geography >> then that is unfortunate. But if we can honestly say that no >> Palestinians tried to come but were unable to get visas then I am >> somewhat reassured, and thanks for trying to find some. >> >> However I am worried at the attendance from the wider Islamic world, >> and of course attendance in general. How does this compare to previous >> years? >> >> WereSpielChequers >> >> >> On 28 June 2011 20:53, Kim Bruning <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:20:11PM +0300, Harel Cain wrote: >>>> Rather read it as "we looked for Palestinian wikimedians all over the place >>>> for over a year; apparently they're not very easy to find". >>> >>> Ok, that's definitely a very different narrative than either BDS's claims, >>> or what I was hoping myself (to wit, that local people just tend to >>> register pretty >>> late, because they don't need to plan ahead as far.) >>> >>> <scratches head> >>> >>> Thanks for answering my questions so far! >>> >>> sincerely, >>> Kim Bruning >>> >>> -- >>> [Non-pgp mail clients may show pgp-signature as attachment] >>> gpg (www.gnupg.org) Fingerprint for key FEF9DD72 >>> 5ED6 E215 73EE AD84 E03A 01C5 94AC 7B0E FEF9 DD72 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimania-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> > > > > -- > KIZU Naoko / 木津尚子 > member of Wikimedians in Kansai / 関西ウィキメディアユーザ会 http://kansai.wikimedia.jp >
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