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@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 15, 2006 10:50 AM
Subject: Wikimania 2007 - Bidding cities shortlist
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <
foundation-l@wikimedia.org
>,
wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Translators
<
translators-l@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