Amir E. Aharoni, 29/07/2012 20:27:
In the 2012-13 WMF plan document I saw an interesting thing: "We’ve hosted key community stakeholders such as English Wikipedia’s ArbCom and Portuguese Wikipedia’s top contributors, in an effort to better understand and respond to issues they're facing." (page 41).
I was very happy to read this. In general, I hope that such focused meetings will be held with more language communities. I don't think that I need to explain why :)
I'm not sure I like the idea of "key community stakeholders", but I agree. The following passage is interesting as well, in fact I had forwarded it to WikiIT-l already:
«In response, in 2012-13 we intend to invest in more thoroughly understanding the non-en-WP communities, and growing our social and political capital. To that end, we will build a team of three community advocates inside the Legal and Community Advocacy department, with the goal of better understanding the non-English language communities, particularly German, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, French and Italian. We will also recruit an additional 5-10 experienced community members as short-term WMF fellows.»
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