Proposing "Paintball for the Olympics" is good for getting people to think about whether it is a sport.
Thats why I think the proposal to get Wikipedia as a World Heritage site is good ... because people may decide that yes, we are creating a world heritage.... and there I believe I would find many here who agree. That feeling is what drives our volunteers and therefore it is a good thing to raise the profile of. On 24 May 2011 11:15, Deryck Chan <[email protected]> wrote: > Longer shot than that - it's more like getting Counter-Strike onto > Olympics. All current heritage site listings are currently tied to a > geographical location; trying to get Wikipedia on will mean creating an > entirely new category listing. Add to that Wikipedia's orders of magnitude > younger than the heritage sites currently on the list. > > > On 24 May 2011 11:01, Charles Matthews <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On 24/05/2011 09:19, Chris Keating wrote: >> > Wikimedia DE is running a campaign to have Wikipedia recognised as a >> > UNESCO world heritage site. >> > >> > I just wondered what peoples' views here on this were? >> >> Long shot, like trying to get paintball included in the Olympics. Not a >> bad idea to be talking to UNESCO, but who should be talking to whom >> about what? Some of the sister projects are more about "heritage", in >> fact. >> >> Charles >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > -- Roger Bamkin (aka Victuallers)
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