Also, since Chris raised the idea of us hosting
Wikimania - personally I'm
not sure what the benefits to WMUK of hosting would
be - can someone spell
them out?
Here are some benefits off the top of my head. I am sure there are more too,
but these seem to be the most important:
- Builds enthusiasm amongst local Wikimedia community both because of the
planning process and the chance to easily, at low cost to them, go to the
conference and learn about cool things other people are doing
- Chance to showcase the chapter and its approach to stuff, because of
the high number of in country attendees
- Chance to invite partners to observe the amazingness (both in diversity
and in variety of projects) of the global community
- Chance to create media hype that might draw in people who had otherwise
not participated in Wikimedia stuffs
- Chance to get other Free Knowledge communities more engaged, or at
least in better contact, with Wikimedia
Alex Stinson