The bidding timeline says:
"30 March 2012 (23:59 UTC): Bidding ends; all major information on the
bid pages must be final."
Some of the things you describe as still needing to be added sound
fairly major to me. Your bid page also says "This bid will lose its
draft status over the weekend of the 31st of March." and that it will
then be translated.
It sounds like you are a little behind schedule.
I think it is very unfortunate that the chapter has allowed two bids
to be developed without any support, rather than picking one and
getting behind it. We now have two bids that, to be honest, aren't
particularly good (I know there are people that have worked very hard
on both bids, but neither is really at the stage it should be by this
point or has the team behind it that it needs). If we had concentrated
on one bid and had had the support of the chapter, we could have had
one bid that was extremely good. I think the board has let us down by
failing to provide strong, decisive leadership.
I haven't looked in detail at what the other bids have produced, so it
is hard to say what the UK's chances of winning are, but they are
certainly lower than they could have been. If one of our bids does
win, I'm sure everyone will rally round and make it a success, but we
could have done much better.
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Division in the community is what we have now - we have some people
working on one bid and some people working on another. That's divided.
If the board had chosen one bid to support, we could have all worked
together on that bid. That's undivided.
On 31 March 2012 22:42, HJ Mitchell <hjmit...@ymail.com> wrote:Division in the community is what we have now - we have some people
> Without commenting on any other point or expressing any other opinions wrt
> either bid, I don't think the board has let us down at all (and I'm hardly
> known for speaking up in defence of the board!). Having to choose between
> two bids from cities with strong Wikimedia communities, one of which was
> built by a sitting trustee, would put the board in a very difficult
> position, and favouring one bid over the other risked creating division in
> the community (and even the board itself).
working on one bid and some people working on another. That's divided.
If the board had chosen one bid to support, we could have all worked
together on that bid. That's undivided.
If the deadline for bids has passed then the practical issue is moot,
but so far as paid employees of WMUK are concerned I would hope they
are above such rivalry.
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>> You make the assumption that the people who had worked on the rejected bid
>> would have shaken that rejection off to give their wholehearted support to
>> the chosen bid.
> If the deadline for bids has passed then the practical issue is moot,
> but so far as paid employees of WMUK are concerned I would hope they
> are above such rivalry.
Crikey, a win for any UK bid would be a win for WMUK!
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Paid employees of WMUK haven't been involved in either bid, that's
part of what I'm complaining about. (Richard has been working on the
London one in his spare time, but not as a WMUK employee).
Should WMUK not be involved in developing a Wikimania bid? (I don't
follow WM governance very closely, and may misunderstand that aspect
of the Chapter's purpose.)
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On 01/04/2012 02:20, Anthony (AGK) wrote:
> On 1 April 2012 01:11, Thomas Dalton<thomas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Paid employees of WMUK haven't been involved in either bid, that's
>> part of what I'm complaining about. (Richard has been working on the
>> London one in his spare time, but not as a WMUK employee).
> Should WMUK not be involved in developing a Wikimania bid? (I don't
> follow WM governance very closely, and may misunderstand that aspect
> of the Chapter's purpose.)
>
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>> Crikey, a win for any UK bid would be a win for WMUK!
> And the community?
Well, *yes*, really obviously. However, the post I was replying to
specifically concerned WMUK.
- d.
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