New subject: WMEU

10 Aug 2013

I can confirm that he is here. He's even giving a talk about the EU project at sunday
afternoon :-)

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Von: David Cuenca &lt;dacuetu(a)gmail.com&gt; 
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Betreff: Re: [Wikimania-l] WMEU 

Hi Raul,

I'm interested in talking about this topic. Do you know about the EU policy project?
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/16/our-man-in-brussels-dimitar-dimitrov/

I think Dimi is in Wikimania, but unfortunately I haven't meet him yet.

Micru

On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Raul Veede &lt;raul.veede(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
A short clarification:

I did NOT mean to set up an organization of European chapters.

It's just that on a recent trip to European Commission I noticed that the coverage of
EU on wikiprojects is surprisingly lousy, yet it influences millions of people and could
be really important. A usual article on a multimillion dollar program of EU is only
present on English and French Wikipedias, has no sources, doesn't mention
implementation, media coverage or influence, and dates from 2007 or 2009. Fairly, it
sucks. But it doesn't have to be like that.

EU institutions aren't any good in spreading neutral and objective information
directly to the people whose lives they influence, so everything goes through the filters
of local politicians and media which all too often have their own agenda. (That's why
there's a monthly panic about "EU forbidding this or that".) To be honest,
we're much better at communication than the EU professionals are. So, maybe we could
cooperate.

I'm not a missionary for this, I won't try to convince anyone. I'm already
exhausted by my current work. But I'd like to hear if anyone else thinks we could (or
should) do something about it.

Raul

On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Raul Veede &lt;raul.veede(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
Is anyone interested in discussing a quite raw idea: a possible thorg for covering
European Union in different Wikiprojects and languages? I'm not even absolutely sure
it would be a good idea, or how it should be working, but I think it would be worth
discussing.

I've already talked to some of us, so I hope they chime in and help us find a time
slot - maybe sometime tonight, before people start to leave.

Raul
WMEE

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