Last weekend (August 26-27), the Chinese wikimedia conference was held in Hong Kong. The two-day conference included a keynote address by Mr Jimmy Wales, founder and chairman of the Board of Trustees of Wikemedia Foundation, and other panels and sessions by noted speakers from the region. Topics included the content, technology, policy and social science issues around the Wikimedia project. Other invited speakers include Legislative Councilor Mr Sin Chung-Kai, Ms Christine Loh, etc.
Chihiro from inmediahk.net lists out local newspapers which chose to report and not to report on the conference, and tries to read into their nature: most of which have pro China government background (zh).
Yeahayeah blogs about his impression on the participants and his disappointment with the conference:
總括而言，見到的有幾類人：一是認為wiki之類的事物已把世界的屁股調上頭頂（反之亦然），甚至對免費的東西都閃出了business model光芒而激動不已；二是沉醉在wiki和相關技術有無限熱情的科技孩子；三是對百科全書的世界和維持百科全書秩序有高度要求甚至苛求的管理者。
He was particularly frustrated about the panel on censorship issue as the speakers were just explaining the absolute authority of China governemnt, in the end:
有個天真無邪只求wiki横掃中原的小朋友，提議不如把政治敏感的內容都刪掉…
Charles Mok, one of the speakers from Hong Kong, blogs some photos and links without much comments.
Chiao, from Taiwan, blogs some facts that he got from Jimmy Wales and his impression on Hong Kong Wikipedians:
HK Wikipedian is very, very young. High school kids, many of them.
