On 5 July 2011 16:35, Harel Cain <[email protected]> wrote: > It has to be said that If Palestinians don't want to attend (it doesn't have > necessarily to be for political reasons, it can be for a multitude of other > cultural, economic and sociological reasons), nobody can force them to do > so.
While that is certainly true, it is very disappointing. A lot of people raised concerns about Palestinian attendance when you first started bidding. The Q&A page for your bid says "Wikimania in Haifa should be appealing to Palestinian and Jordanian participants[...]"[1]. It seems that has proven incorrect. In hindsight, some work should probably have been done during the bidding stage to gauge interest from Palestinians. I wonder if the jury would have looked so favourably upon your bid had it been known then that Arab attendance would be so low. 1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2011/Bids/Haifa/Q%26A#Participants _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
