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

Thu Mar 16 10:32:08 UTC 2006

Theodoranian : cool; I hope to see you in Boston.  And best wishes for
a great event in HK.

> There seems to be a cultural gap which misleads the translator to regard "Wiki-meetup" as "wikimania".

Well, any time you get too many wikipedians together, something manic
is bound to happen...

SJ

On 3/16/06, THD <theodoranian at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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