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

Thu Mar 16 09:04:29 UTC 2006

Hi, Ladies and all,

I am Theodoranian from zh.wikipedia. I went to Frankfurt last year, and
now I am thinking to go to Boston to join the 2006 wikimania.

I want to explain the "2006 Chinese wikimania" to you.
Actually, this annual conference is first-time-held this year, since
Zh.wikipedians from
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and else places thought that there should be a
meetup.

The formal name of this meetup is "中文維基年會" in Chinese (which literally means
"Chinese Wikimedia Annual Conference"), and we don't have an appropriate
English
name for it yet. Now, we are still thinking what would be good. However,
somebody
translated the "CWAC" into English as "Chinese wikimania". There seems to be
a cultural
gap which misleads the translator to regard "Wiki-meetup" as "wikimania".

Just for your information.

Theodoanian

2006/3/16, Anthere <Anthere9 at yahoo.com>:
>
> 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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