[Foundation-l] Contingency plans for Wikimania

Mon Apr 21 02:41:58 UTC 2008

That's you. I wouldn't mind, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who wouldn't.

Mark

On 20/04/2008, Austin Hair <adhair at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Mike Godwin <mgodwin at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> >  WP:SOFIXIT
>  >
>  >  It seems to me that this is a function that community members could
>  >  implement themselves, almost certainly better than the Foundation
>  >  could, especially if a significant number of community members care
>  >  about it. The Foundation would certainly be happy to coordinate with
>  >  such a volunteer-driven project.
>
>
> It's been my experience that Wikimedians are often unwilling (to the
>  point of disruption) to make public their own names, much less the
>  names, addresses, and phone numbers of their closest family members.
>  They'll reluctantly provide them to a trusted authority,
>  confidentially, if given a good reason (as with Wikimania
>  registration), but there's no way even I'd post them on an [[Emergency
>  Contact List]].  I wouldn't be much more confident in a database kept
>  by RandomWikipedian2048.
>
>  We're talking about one more optional field on the Wikimania
>  registration form, which an organizer can pull up and act on in the
>  unlikely event of an emergency.  This shouldn't be a big deal.
>
>
>  Austin
>
>
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