Agree with Liangent. if that is why you chose that date, fine. I am sure that some people would have gotten the reference. Using the mailing list to spread a political message, however, is not appropriate.
Sven Sven On May 10, 2014 11:02 AM, "Liangent" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 10:12 PM, Deryck Chan <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Dear Wikimaniacs, >> >> We would like to announce that the official wiki of Wikimania 2013, >> http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org , is scheduled to be closed on 4 June >> 2014. After this date, the contents of the wiki will locked from editing >> and preserved as a time capsule. >> >> Please feel free to make any final edits to the wiki. In particular, for >> those who made presentations in Wikimania 2013, please check the video >> links on your submission pages and add links to presentation slides. If >> you're making a follow-up submission to Wikimania 2014, feel free to link >> to that too. >> >> The date of the wiki's closure is chosen to commemorate the souls that >> perished on that day 25 years ago in their quest for freedom. >> > > Please do not tie Wikimedia things to some memorial events outside the > scope of Wikimedia's mission again, like sep11wiki, which has already been > considered a mistake. > > >> >> On behalf of the local team, we thank you for a great Wikimania in Hong >> Kong, and we hope to see many of you in London! >> >> With wiki-love, >> Deryck >> Global engagement coordinator, Wikimania 2013 >> >> [Bugzilla link] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59157#c12 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > >
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