No problem. Fae On 19 Mar 2015 15:12, "Oliver Keyes" <[email protected]> wrote:
> My apologies; I should've said "have to pay their own way under any > and all circumstances", and further remembered that it's unreasonable > to expect people to attempt to put the final sentence of your comment > into the context of your entire comment before replying to it. > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Fæ <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 19 March 2015 at 14:55, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We have a vested interest, as a community, in having as diverse a > >> group of people behind our content as possible, because we have a > >> diverse group of readers. "People who can't afford a lunch out > >> whenever they want" is a demographic: a big one, depending on the > >> country in question. Coming up with statements that editathons go > >> great when the editor or newcomer in question covers all their > >> personal costs ignores the massive number of people who cannot afford > >> to do that and so will not attend. If your reaction to that is > >> discussions about studies or politically contentious plane tickets > >> then you've, at best, completely missed the point I was trying to > >> make. > > > > As the point you have made here is now factually different to: > >>>... editathons work well when attendees pay their own > >>> way - but they work /best/ when they don't. > > > > then yes, it is hard to guess which point you want to make. Funding > > cases of people who cannot pay for a sandwich (or bring their own) or > > would like to have a bus ticket covered, is entirely different from > > stating that editathons work best all attendees are offered funding. I > > was asking what evidence there was to support the first claim. I > > conclude there is none and it is likely that nobody believes this is > > true. > > > > Fae > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
