Please go ahead and add it! Maybe whoever got in touch with UCL last
year could do so again, pointing out the 2007 bid page - 'you said
this last year, any chance of a repeat?'.
I think people want to work with and be associated with Wikimedia and
Wikimedia UK, and we should embrace that - this is our chance.
On 8/21/07, robbie.bremner(a)gmail.com <robbie.bremner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I live in London and theres definitely no lack of conference facilities or
> tourist activities, as well as an extensive if occasionally unreliable
> public transport system. If this is over a weekend of course, there is a
> large chance that several lines or sections of lines on the Tube will shut
> down for engineering work.
>
> Is there space for an external links section on the nomination page?
>
wikitravel.org/en/London, tfl.gov.uk and
visitlondon.com etc
>
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> > 1. Wikimania 2008 Official Bid - call to arms (Gary Kirk)
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> > Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:26:51 +0100
> > From: "Gary Kirk" <gary.kirk(a)gmail.com>
> > Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania 2008 Official Bid - call to arms
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> > I wasn't sure if I was "allowed" to make the unofficial bid
official bid
> > myself, but seeing as there are two other bids listed officially I thought
> > we should not let it slip us by. :)
> >
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/London is not very
> > informative
> > currently. I will try and add to it today - the Cape Town
> >
bid<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Bids/Cape_Town>[1]
> > has lots of sections and ideas to think about we can use ourselves. [2]
> >
> > If I read the stuff on Meta correctly, we have nine days to make an
> > official
> > bid into the running, then until the end of September to finalise.
> >
> > Let's do it people!
> >
> > --
> > Gary Kirk
> >
> > [1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Bids/Cape_Town
> > [2] *wakes up* Oh, I see they just copied the template. Well, it's useful,
> > whoever worked on that :P)
> >