On 26/07/2011 18:03, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 26 July 2011 16:47, WereSpielChequers<werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I rather fear that hosting Wikimania is a bit like the Olympics or the >> Eurovision song contest, a dubious honour that saps more from the host >> organisation than it generates. That said if there are a keen group of >> people who want to organise a UK Wikimania I have no objection to it >> being here in 2014 or 2015. > There may be some truth in that. I think if we're going to host it > here we need the chapter to play a major role in the more tedious > parts of the organisation and implementation.
My two cents would be that the big events should not be allowed to drive out the more grassrootsy things. Charles _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
