(a translation in zh-hant)
「為維基狂」維基媒體國際會議（Wikimania）審議團已經開會，現欣然宣布：2007為維基狂將在台灣台北舉行。台北的勝出原因，綜合了多個方面：專注而具奉獻精神及經驗的競投團隊；優秀的會場，本身亦具備住宿及社群交流場地；強勢的贊助機會。台北也提供機會，（使我們）關注正在成長中的各亞洲語言計畫和維基媒體基金會的國際面向，同時也了解亞洲地區在自由開放知識的其他工作及計畫。
取得這個決定是非常困難的。今年進入候選名單的每一個城市都是傑出的。杜林以微小差距落居第二；他們的團隊花費大量心力，取得兩個優秀的會場以及大量的政府支持，並集合了義大利維基社群共同進行這一出色的競投。亞莉山卓將埃及及阿拉伯語維基社群帶到前臺，並在亞莉山卓圖書館找到卓越的會場，這些都值得嘉許。倫敦的競投也非常強勢，他們有優秀的會場、注重於教育界外聯、倫敦的多元性、以及維基媒體英國分會的強勢團隊。
感謝所有參與競投的城市，包括那些未能進入候選列表的，感謝各位花費於競投工作的時間與精力。我們希望今年參與的各團隊能夠找到方法加強已在競投過程中建立的聯繫人及贊助人，從而競投2008年或主辦地區性會議。
我們強烈鼓勵所有參與2007競投的，以及那些躍躍欲試的，考慮準備2008及2009的競投。非正式的2008競投現在就應開始，因為今年的北半球冬天將會決…
現在，勝選城市的工作將要開始，他們在為明年北半球夏天的會議做出規劃。我們鼓勵全體維基社群在今後這一年支持台北辦出傑出的會議。
謹致感謝，
2007為維基狂審議團
--
2006/9/24, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com>:
> The Wikimania jury has met and are pleased to announce that Wikimania
> 2007 will be held in Taipei, Taiwan. Taipei had the winning
> combination of a dedicated and experienced bidding team, a great venue
> with centralized accomodation and community areas, and strong
> sponsorship opportunities. Taipei also provides the opportunity to
> focus attention on the growing Asian language projects and the
> international aspect of the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as learning
> about other free knowledge efforts and projects in the region.
>
> This was a very difficult decision. Every one of the shortlisted bids
> this year were outstanding. The Turin bid came in a close second; their
> team made a great effort to procure two strong locations and extensive
> government support, and gathered the Italian community together to
> develop an outstanding bid. Alexandria deserves recognition for
> bringing the Egyptian and Arabic-language community into the spotlight,
> and for finding a remarkable venue partner in the Library of Alexandria.
> London also produced a very strong bid, with a great venue, focus on
> educational outreach, the diversity of London, and the strong Wikimedia
> UK team.
>
> Thank you to all of the bidders, including those who did not make
> the shortlist, for your time and energy in developing these bids.
> We hope this year's city teams will find ways to build on the contacts
> and sponsors developed in the bid process for a 2008 bid or for hosting
> a regional event.
>
> We strongly encourage all who bid this year, and those of you wondering
> whether your city could have done the same, to consider preparing city
> bids for Wikimania in 2008 or 2009. Unofficial bids for 2008 should be
> started now, as the decision on that city will be made this winter
> (more details on 2008's bid process coming soon; watch
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Bids
> for updates).
>
> Now the work for the winners will begin, as they develop plans for the
> conference next summer. We encourage the entire community to support
> Taipei over the coming year in producing an outstanding conference.
>
> With thanks,
> The 2007 Wikimania bid jury
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http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-eastasia.asp?parentid=53107
CHINA: No end in sight for Wikipedia restrictions in China
Online encyclopedia has some entries about Tibet, Taiwan, but
officials block all five million articles
Dawn
Friday, September 15, 2006
Hong Kong --- Shi Zhao slides the computer mouse, making rapid-fire
clicks and in the space of a minute or so finds about a dozen minor
errors to be tweaked on Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia
that anyone can edit.
"There's really nothing to it," the 33-year-old Beijinger said with a
grin after fellow 'Wikipedians' at a conference in Hong Kong goaded
him into an impromptu demonstration of how he became king of edits on
the Chinese-language edition.
Since he discovered Wikipedia four years ago, Shi has become something
of a celebrity in the community, having made some 70,000 edits,
averaging nearly 50-a day.
Shi's feat is even greater given that technically, he should not have
access to the site. Last October, the Chinese government blocked
access to Wikipedia, which has more than five million articles in 229
languages.
In a sense, the fate of the massively popular website is nothing new.
The ruling Communist Party routinely denies access to sites it deems
subversive and filters internet pages for sensitive words.
But experts believe the block highlights a head-on clash between what
Wikipedia stands for -- free knowledge created by the people -- and
the party's obsessive control over the production and flow of
information.
The site's founder, Jimmy Wales, is outwardly hopeful that this is all
just one big misunderstanding.
"Even if you agree that some blogs should be blocked or some kinds of
propaganda should be blocked -- which I don't agree with -- but even
if you do agree with that, it still strikes me that blocking all of
Wikipedia is a huge mistake.
"It's a simple error, or a failure to understand what we're doing," he said.
Of course, Wikipedia has entries on subjects like Tibet and Taiwan
independence, the banned Falun Gong spiritual group and the bloodily
suppressed pro-democracy protests of 1989.
But China experts, internet analysts and, deep down, Wales himself
think the block probably runs deeper than an effort to censor a
handful of sensitive articles on a largely innocuous online
encyclopedia that is the world's 16th most visited website, according
to Alexa Internet, which monitors traffic.
Date Posted: 9/15/2006
各位维基人好，
首先，评审团希望感谢所有曾经为申办「维基狂2007」而付出过时间及努力的维基人。
我们现在选出了最后四个候选城市：
亚历山大港、伦敦、台北以及都灵
奥兰多、香港以及伊斯坦堡的申办由于未能提供确切的资料（尤其是场地方面），所以就很可惜地落选了。新加坡几乎可以入选最后名单，但因未能提供住宿资料亦落选。
评审团将会在以上四个城市的申办页的讨论页面上就主办事宜的各方面发问，所以请大家要及时回答。同时如果大家有问题，我们亦欢迎大家随时找我们。
我们鼓励未能进入最后评选的城市去准备未来申办的可能性。我们预计在几个月内亦会进行2008年大会主办城市的遴选，所以如果有意角逐而又未开始准备的话，现在就要开始认真考虑了。已经开始准备的维基人，现在亦要在建立机遇及联络上多下功夫。
再次感谢各位为申办努力过的参与者，就如我们用法语说"que le meilleur gagne!"，希望最好的胜出！
我们将会与各个申办团队进行IRC公开会议（freenode的#wikimania频道），时间是9月23日星期六15:00 UTC。
请密切注意最新发展，也希望大家申办得开心！
Cheers,
Delphine
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Delphine Ménard < notafishz(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sep 15, 2006 10:50 AM
Subject: Wikimania 2007 - Bidding cities shortlist
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org >,
wikipedia-l(a)wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Translators
<translators-l(a)wikimedia.org>
Dear Wikimedians,
first an foremost, the jury would like to thank all the people who
have worked on putting together those bids. We all know it is a hard
task and that it takes both time and ressources that volunteers
already give for Wikimedia altogether.
We have chosen 4 cities for the shortlist:
Alexandria, London, Taipei, Torino
The bids of Orlando, Hong-Kong and Istanbul were unfortunately not
precise enough in what opportunities there are especially for
conference venues. Singapore's bid almost made it to the shortlist but
the lack of opportunities for common accommodation made it fall
through.
The jury will be asking questions on the talk pages of the chosen
bids, please do make sure that you answer them. And do not hesitate to
ask us questions too.
We also encourage the cities that have not made it to the shortlist,
and even those who have, to start thinking about opportunities for the
coming years and especially 2008. We expect to be chosing the city for
2008 within a couple of months, so for those who are already at it,
work your contacts and opportunities, for those who have not started
thinking, it's time to come up with fresh ideas!
Again, thanks to all of you who have worked hard on these bids, and as
we say in French, "que le meilleur gagne!" (May the best win!).
We will have a public meeting with the bidding teams, the jury and and
whoever wants to join on IRC in the #wikimania channel on freenode on
Saturday 23rd September at 15.00 UTC.
Stay tuned for more and happy further bidding!
Cheers,
Delphine
PS. Merci to the translators in advance for forwarding this to the
appropriate lists.
--
~notafish
--
Larry Lo
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lorenzarius
Tel: +852 95825791
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Delphine M��nard <notafishz(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sep 15, 2006 10:50 AM
Subject: Wikimania 2007 - Bidding cities shortlist
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org>,
wikipedia-l(a)wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Translators
<translators-l(a)wikimedia.org>
Dear Wikimedians,
first an foremost, the jury would like to thank all the people who
have worked on putting together those bids. We all know it is a hard
task and that it takes both time and ressources that volunteers
already give for Wikimedia altogether.
We have chosen 4 cities for the shortlist:
Alexandria, London, Taipei, Torino
The bids of Orlando, Hong-Kong and Istanbul were unfortunately not
precise enough in what opportunities there are especially for
conference venues. Singapore's bid almost made it to the shortlist but
the lack of opportunities for common accommodation made it fall
through.
The jury will be asking questions on the talk pages of the chosen
bids, please do make sure that you answer them. And do not hesitate to
ask us questions too.
We also encourage the cities that have not made it to the shortlist,
and even those who have, to start thinking about opportunities for the
coming years and especially 2008. We expect to be chosing the city for
2008 within a couple of months, so for those who are already at it,
work your contacts and opportunities, for those who have not started
thinking, it's time to come up with fresh ideas!
Again, thanks to all of you who have worked hard on these bids, and as
we say in French, "que le meilleur gagne ! " (May the best win!).
We will have a public meeting with the bidding teams, the jury and and
whoever wants to join on IRC in the #wikimania channel on freenode on
Saturday 23rd September at 15.00 UTC.
Stay tuned for more and happy further bidding!
Cheers,
Delphine
PS. Merci to the translators in advance for forwarding this to the
appropriate lists.
--
~notafish
--
Larry Lo
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lorenzarius
Tel: +852 95825791
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Delphine M��nard <notafishz(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sep 15, 2006 10:50 AM
Subject: Wikimania 2007 - Bidding cities shortlist
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org>,
wikipedia-l(a)wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Translators
<translators-l(a)wikimedia.org>
Dear Wikimedians,
first an foremost, the jury would like to thank all the people who
have worked on putting together those bids. We all know it is a hard
task and that it takes both time and ressources that volunteers
already give for Wikimedia altogether.
We have chosen 4 cities for the shortlist:
Alexandria, London, Taipei, Torino
The bids of Orlando, Hong-Kong and Istanbul were unfortunately not
precise enough in what opportunities there are especially for
conference venues. Singapore's bid almost made it to the shortlist but
the lack of opportunities for common accommodation made it fall
through.
The jury will be asking questions on the talk pages of the chosen
bids, please do make sure that you answer them. And do not hesitate to
ask us questions too.
We also encourage the cities that have not made it to the shortlist,
and even those who have, to start thinking about opportunities for the
coming years and especially 2008. We expect to be chosing the city for
2008 within a couple of months, so for those who are already at it,
work your contacts and opportunities, for those who have not started
thinking, it's time to come up with fresh ideas!
Again, thanks to all of you who have worked hard on these bids, and as
we say in French, "que le meilleur gagne ! " (May the best win!).
We will have a public meeting with the bidding teams, the jury and and
whoever wants to join on IRC in the #wikimania channel on freenode on
Saturday 23rd September at 15.00 UTC.
Stay tuned for more and happy further bidding!
Cheers,
Delphine
PS. Merci to the translators in advance for forwarding this to the
appropriate lists.
--
~notafish
--
Larry Lo
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lorenzarius
Tel: +852 95825791
FYI - silly headline for a self-serving (for The Observer) article.
Yes, Wikipedia is defying Chinese censors by... er... well... doing
nothing and being itself.
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)
----
Wikipedia defies China's censors
David Smith and Jo Revill
Sunday September 10, 2006
The Observer
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1869006,00.html