*The major program initiative undertaken by Hisham's team so far is the
India Education Program.*
Because if was in a "for-profit" organization things like that would lead
to a demission in 2 seconds.
*WLM is a wonderful project, one which WMF actively supported (most
importantly by improving Upload Wizard to directly
support the management
of the upload campaigns).
*
Or so the people who spend lots and LOTS of time in Commons, creating,
updating and localizing the Upload campaigns for WLM had WMF support?
Because we didn't saw any during the time we were doing it. Create the
Upload Wizard (thanks for it - despite the fact I preffer the old
commonist) don't make you "supportes" because the UW was not created for
WLM or even thinking about it.
_____
*Béria Lima*
<http://wikimedia.pt/>(351) 925 171 484
*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 12 November 2011 07:18, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:04 PM, rupert THURNER
<rupert.thurner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
to get a feeling about the size, the number of
readers, contributors,
and a
trend in it, i tried to find the india country
statistics on editing and
reading:
The major program initiative undertaken by Hisham's team so far is the
India Education Program. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:India_Education_Program/Courses
So far there's been a pilot program, which uncovered lots of serious
issues with the quality of content contributed by the participating
courses. This is now driving further iteration of the program, as it
should.
The pilot very much built on, and was informed by, the lessons learned
in the Public Policy Initiative, which was the largest and most
successful student engagement program ever undertaken in the Wikimedia
movement (!). Both the India Education Program and the PPI have been
led by Frank Schulenburg, who is an experienced and accomplished
Wikipedian.
at the same time, another part of the world, a
foto competition, no
trust,
no consultants, no KPMG involved, but a lot of
volunteers and chapters.
it
gave 160'000 images for wikimedia commons, in
one month. and, 30% new
contributors. [2]
WLM is a wonderful project, one which WMF actively supported (most
importantly by improving Upload Wizard to directly support the
management of the upload campaigns). It really is credit to all the
people who developed it, and built on the lessons from last year's WLM
in the Netherlands.
It's also a photo competition, which by its very nature is a very
different kind of program than something like the IEP, with very
different risks and opportunities. It's easy to compare apples and
oranges and say "those apples are rotten, my oranges are so much
nicer". But they are very different fruit entirely. :)
I don't think anyone is served by stereotyping people or programs.
We're all pulling towards the same goal. That doesn't mean constantly
patting ourselves on the back, but let's focus on the the substance of
the work rather than on peddling stereotypes about ignorant
consultants and "outsiders".
--
Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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