On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:23, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8 January 2012 09:09, Milos Rancic
<millosh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Structural help is not Wikimedia's task
[yet]. There are a lot of
other institutions which could give them money for daily operations or
artifacts preservation and not require from them knowledge liberation.
In other words, it's presently better for Wikimedia and regional
cultural institutions to be separated until new generations of
management come. Said so, any articulated action of knowledge
liberation should be welcomed; and we should work on them. But, the
scale difference between structural help and particular project is
huge.
So it sounds like the first thing we (in this case, local Wikipedians)
should do is approach them and say "We don't have money, but is there
anything else we can positively help with? What's the programme?"
I think that they would treat such offer as one problem more. They
want money for their salaries and artifacts preservation, not
volunteers, who would prove that they could do the job with less
money.