[Foundation-l] "Chinese Wikimania 2006 to be held in Hong Kong"

Thu Mar 16 08:33:31 UTC 2006

I hope we'll also see some chinese in Boston as well :-)
I could not see the information in the news. Do you have any idea how 
many people you could gather ?

ant

R.O.C wrote:
> what if using "wikimedia", for example. "chinese wikimedia conference"?
> 
> just to clarify that "chinese" here means ethnic chinese around the world,
> not limited to the people's republic of china or mainland china, as what
> "china" nowadays often refers to. a number of users of zh.wikipedia (along
> with other wikimedia projects in chinese language) from mainland china,
> taiwan, hong kong, malaysia, canada, united states, germany, etc. have
> expressed interests to attend.
> 
> the chinese community decided to hold the conference in hong kong, which
> enjoys convenient transportation and high degree of autonomy from the
> central government in beijing. among other candidate cities were beijing,
> shanghai, and taipei. blocking of wikipedia in PRC poses
> concerns/difficulties for promoting wikimedia and organizing a conference
> within mainland china. taipei has a highly devoted local community but there
> is a difficulty also from politics that entry permits generally are not
> issued to mainland chinese.
> 
> -roc (User:R.O.C)
> 
> 2006/3/16, Angela <beesley at gmail.com>:
> 
>> I'm pleased to see a conference in China is being planned, but this
>>and similar events really need to use a different name, both to
>>prevent confusion with the actual Wikimania, and to avoid the need for
>>each event to get permission from Wikimedia to use the name.
>>
>>Angela.
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