Talk:Wikimania jury chooses Alexandria for 2008 location

Original Reporting

I am subscribed to the Wikimania-l mailing list, and recieved the message as soon as it was posted. Thunderhead - (talk - email - contributions) 03:07, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Should also mention the controversy this is causing on foundation-l. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 07:56, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Date

You could mention the dates the actual event will be occurring ... you know, if you wanted to. Mdotley 05:56, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your suggestion! When you feel an article needs improvement, please feel free to make whatever changes you feel are needed. Wikinews is a wiki, so anyone can edit any article by simply following the Edit This Page link at the top. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes—they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills. :-) Matt | ^userpage | ^contribs 00:18, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Uh, yeah. Right. So, you think I'm some sort of nitwit who knew the answer, and just decided to make a smart-aleck comment about the fact that it's not in the story. Did it occur to you that maybe I came here to look for that information? That, maybe, just maybe, I pointed out your lack because I didn't have the information, and came to WikiNews b/c, oh, I don't know, Wikimania is run by the WikiMedia Foundation, which also owns this website, and was irritated b/c the info isn't here?

I guess not. Mdotley (talk) 16:10, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

The date was not set or known at the time of this article. The event did open on July 17. You can read about it here. Wikimania 2008 opens at Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt--SVTCobra 16:33, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

I appreciate the info, but that's completely irrelevant. I suggested that it might be a good idea to include the date in the article, and he replied "So, fix it!" That kind of snarky response is not the way to make friends for the project. (And if the exact date had not been set, yet, then that would have been good info to include, don't you think?) Mdotley (talk) 22:49, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Sarcasm gets you nowhere. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 22:58, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

The point is that we don't update stories with information that becomes later available. That is the job of an encyclopedia. Cheers, --SVTCobra 23:23, 7 January 2009 (UTC)