Recently there was a discussion on the Advocacy Advisors list about
the difference between empowering editors as per the Foundation's
mission, and merely enabling them. In trying to understand the
feedback, I took a look at the subjects listed on the Wikimedia EP
Election Questionnaire from the recent German/EU Policy Issues Survey:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1vSrFiYCAN-RPXdikdkkHmT_ZzWPdD5DcDpMye9uAiH…
There is more information about the survey at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Survey
My concern is that the topics listed, while legitimate concerns all of
which I have been active on over the past year and past several years,
include far fewer categories which can be construed as actually
empowering people to edit, as opposed to merely altering various
technical and social systems which enable them to edit or perform
various editing-related tasks.
I strongly recommend countering this very likely source of survey
outcome bias by asking the community about specific ways to empower
more editors, such as linking to fixmyjob.com from a banner and
supporting the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the
Child and its protocols without reservation.
Best regards,
James Salsman
Hi all,
Just a reminder that the below meeting will take place today at 4pm AEDST
in the #wikimedia-au IRC channel on Freenode.
There's no set agenda but it's your chance to ask questions, provide
feedback, give ideas or just chat with other Wikimedians.
Hope to see you then.
Steven Zhang
President - Wikimedia Australia
Hope to see you there.
On 28/11/2013 9:03 PM, "Andrew Owens" <orderinchaos78(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just to notify all that there will be a public meeting in the
> #wikimedia-au IRC channel on the freenode network this coming Sunday 1
> December at 4PM AEDST (1pm in WA, 3pm in QLD, 3:30pm in SA).
>
> A reminder will be sent on the day. I'd welcome suggestions on when
> the notices and reminders should be sent out / what works best for
> people, seeing as there'll be at least 10 more of these during the
> term :)
>
> kindest regards
>
> Andrew Owens
> Secretary
> Wikimedia Australia
>
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