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What is the purpose of the quote(?) at the start of the 'friendly space' section? Richard Nevell (talk) 08:56, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

• This piece is so overtly opinionated that it should be titled as an op. ed, not a "Special report". Is it journalism or a mouthpiece for some individual? Tony (talk) 10:15, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
• Thank you for covering parts of the Friendly Space Policy improvement debate over the last couple of weeks. Two minor points: Readers might be interested in the upcoming community consultation on Wikimania’s Friendly Space Policy that was announced on August 2nd and will explore the issues and ideas noted in the article as well as other items discussed on that mailing list. Unfortunately, Maggie is no longer the team’s director as of early this calendar year. Best regards,--Jan (WMF) (talk) 18:50, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
  • The information has been corrected. —Nøkkenbuer (talk • contribs) 10:31, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
• I see that factual information has been changed in the article without a note to that effect at the bottom. Tony (talk) 06:05, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
  • I added a correction note at the bottom. I hope that is satisfactory. —Nøkkenbuer (talk • contribs) 10:31, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

The example of Asaf's talks show that simply counting the number of talks given by Foundation members says nothing about whether it's a community or Foundation conference. Asaf's talks were of very broad interest to the community. Two of them were technical talks about how to get the most out of WikiData (I attended them, and they were excellent), and the other two were about community building. The talks presented at the conference were selected by a team of community members based on their perceived relevance to the theme of the event, without any reference or, as far as I know, knowledge, about whether the presenter is on the WMF staff or not. --Slashme (talk) 18:37, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Slashme, this was far from the first, and likely not be the last article in the long history of The Signpost suggesting that Wikimania is top-heavy in WMF participation - both from the management and organisation as well as the number of presentations. Probably, at a rough guess, 10% of the attendees are, or have been WMF employees. Note also, that I did not criticise Asaf's performances. I will not dwell on your position as a founder, and/or director of Wikimedia S.A. or the heavy presence of Wikimedia Germany. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 22:52, 14 October 2018 (UTC).

I'm just a member of Wikimedia South Africa, and haven't been on the board for about 5 years. --Slashme (talk) 08:05, 18 October 2018 (UTC)