Thanks for the information. I've updated https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015_bids based on this information.
I agree with Aya that a public posting of the scoring matrix would be great as well. Kind regards, Christopher User: CT Cooper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CT_Cooper https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CT_Cooper https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CT_Cooper -----Original Message----- From: Richard Symonds [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 22 April 2014 10:33 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement regarding Host for Wikimania 2015 Christopher, Aya, Speaking as a jury member, the reason we disqualified Bali and Dar es Salaam was that those two bids were not really complete enough to score. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* On 21 April 2014 21:03, Aya Mahfouz <[email protected]> wrote: > Congratulations to Wikimedia Mexico and Mexico City! > > I add my voice to that of Cooper concerning the criteria of choosing > the winner for 2015. In addition to the cities that Cooper has > mentioned, I would like to know what happened with Bali's bid too. > > Kind Regards, > Aya Saif El-yazal Mahfouz > > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Christopher Cooper < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Congratulations to Wikimedia Mexico and all those that helped put > > the bid together. I believe Mexico City will turn out to be a great > > place to host Wikimania and I look forward to attending. > > > > Regardless, I hope when appropriate, the reasons Mexico City were > > chosen and where other bids could have done better will be posted > > somewhere for digestion as done in previous years. In particular, > > while the bid was clearly lacking, it would be helpful to have an > > official answer to why > the > > Dar es Salaam was disqualified. > > > > Kind regards, > > Christopher > > User: CT Cooper > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CT_Cooper > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CT_Cooper > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CT_Cooper > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
