On 11 September 2014 10:52, Ilario Valdelli <valde...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11.09.2014 18:42, James Forrester wrote: > >> On 11 September 2014 09:27, Anh Chung <anh.chung.w...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Dear all, >>> >>> Wikimania has been over for a month now and it is already time to discuss >>> the next Wikimedia event, the Wikimedia Conference. >>> >>> Though I'm sure the event is worthy, I will repeat yet again the request >> from the Wikimania Committee for people to please stop calling it "the >> Wikimedia Conference" when it isn't about Wikimedia, just some Wikimedia >> organisations, and isn't an open conference, against the ethos of >> Wikimedia. >> >> "Wikimedia Associations Meeting 2015" is much less misleading, and closer >> to reality. >> > > Against the funds of WMF. > > A second conference open to the public would be a second yearly Wikimania, > and to open it means to have a budget more or less equal to Wikimania. > Indeed, which is why we keep asking for the name to stop being a lie. J. -- James D. Forrester jdforres...@gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal capacity) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
