Naturally, it's not my intention to be unfair to the organizers. I know
you're doing your best. I do want to know what I'm getting into when I
go to speak somewhere though!
(in case you're wondering:"Everything you know about Wikipedia is
wrong". Saturday, 09:00, together with mindspillage, ironholds, and
fluffernutter . It's going to be fun! Are you coming? :-) )
I think our main conclusion at the end of this will be that we need to
do more outreach in arab, north african, and west-asian countries.
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:39:59PM +0300, Harel Cain wrote:
> 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.
That is definitely a good idea. I'd try to generate statistics and graphs,
if someone can help me dig up existing attendence figures/records.
(I'd sign a lightweight NDA if required to maintain attendee
confidentiality.)
(Note that the content and format of the attendee databases will
determine whether it is viable to generate said statistics in a
reasonable amount of time.)
> I attended Wikimania in 2007 (Taipei) and 2010 (Gdansk) and I recall just a
> handful of attendees from Arab countries in each.
This is true by my recollection.
> I think those numbers will be teaching, and will put this discussion in the
> true perspective it deserves.
Well, I think we've learned that we need to do more outreach in arab
countries, and that possibly we need something other than wikimania.
This does not make wikimania useless however; wikimania serves a lot of
other functions besides outreach, of course!
sincerely,
Kim Bruning
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