On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:12 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod@mccme.ruwrote:
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 11:09:42 -0700, Daniel Phelps dphelps@wikimedia.org wrote:
The Wikimedia Foundation has hired four new staff members to guide the
new
Public Policy Initiative. Annie Lin, LiAnna Davis, Sage Ross, and Amy
Roth
will work with public policy programs at universities across the United States to incorporate improvements to Wikipedia articles into the professors' curriculum. The Public Policy Initiative will recruit
Wikipedia ...
Why is the team chosen to target specifically the US? I am not sure I am comfortable with this choice.
Cheers Yaroslav
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This is a pilot program for extending the educational purpose of the WMF. Not speaking for the staff, but I assume a primary reason is that is funded by a grant that will require travel for a lot of the staff for the program, so there's a money issue. Shuttling people across the country for a year and putting them up is pricey, doubly so world wide. The program, as mentioned, is a pilot and if successful in this it can be ported worldwide. The WMF will be tracking this effort and will scale for future development.