[Wikimedia-l] conversations between WMF and non-English projects

[Deryck Chan]

Hire someone from the local Wikipedia community to do it. This can be
integrated into the proposed "language community and cultural translation"
WMF fellow's job description.

MediaWiki feature decisions are gruesome chores. In small language project
communities the active editors typically don't involve themselves with
feature decisions until the feature is rolled out and breaks an entire
Wikipedia with one commit. (eg.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30392 )

By hiring the local editor you can make sure they can be bothered to
involve themselves in feature decisions, and informing their local
communities about it.

Deryck

On 30 July 2012 16:11, Oliver Keyes <okeyes at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> As a very general point; working out how to include non-enlang editors in
> features decisions is right at the top of my "list of wicked problems to
> handle". If anyone has any ideas, please shoot me an email :)
>
> On 30 July 2012 14:07, Béria Lima <berialima at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > John, when those meetings happened, what they said was "we want to meet
> > people from Brasil" and when asked who they wanted to meet, the answer
> was
> > "anyone, doesn't matter how long you contribute or how much, we only want
> > to talk with the Brazilian community",so no, none of those meetings were
> > calls for top editors. They were called "meetups", they were  advertised
> > that way, and they were treated that way.
> >
> > And I can aso say no WMF people contact any Portuguese editor in
> regarding
> > to that (let's not say they travel there, but Skype and e-mail also
> exist,
> > and weren't used)
> > _____
> > *Béria Lima*
> >
> > *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
> > livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a
> > construir esse sonho. <http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos>*
> >
> >
> > On 29 July 2012 19:33, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Thomas Dalton <
> thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > On 29 July 2012 22:57, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >> Can your masters degree in mathematics point out where in
> Wikimedia's
> > > >> statement it said "all" or implied anything other than having met
> some
> > > of
> > > >> Portuguese Wikipedia's top contributors? Not sure what the big deal
> > is.
> > > >
> > > > The word "all" actually appeared in my email that Steven was replying
> > > > to. He claimed that a majority of Portuguese Wikipedians being from
> > > > Brazil contradicted my statement that not all (top) Portuguese
> > > > Wikipedians are from Brazil. That was a straw man argument, due to
> > > > "all" and "majority" not meaning the same thing.
> > >
> > > confirming.. there are residents of Portugal in
> > >
> > > http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaPT.htm#wikipedians
> > >
> > > but the 'majority' do appear to be Brazilian.  I cant easily see if
> > > those top contributors attended the meetups at
> > >
> > > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/22/brazil-meetups-march/
> > >
> > > --
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