[Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2008 will happen in Alexandria, Egypt

Wed Oct 10 01:36:52 UTC 2007

On 10/9/07, Mark Ryan <ultrablue at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/10/2007, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Arguing to change the selection criteria after
> > selection, without having already used the opportunity present to make
> > statements or recommendations before selection, is poor process.
>
> Why is it poor process? Bidding is about to commence in an accelerated
> fashion for Wikimania 2009. Some people are obviously concerned about
> the result the existing criteria (and weighting) produced, and want to
> work to improve the criteria. I'm not sure what your complaint with
> that is.

I have no problem with a discussion about changing selection criteria
for WM2009.

I do object to retroactively changing them to exclude the final winner
of the 2008 process...

-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com