Hi Pine,
I hope you are doing well. ☺️
It's nice to see your attention for more diversity, thank you for being a voice on
this concern.
Here are the few suggestions that come to my mind regarding what could be done to make
people feeling more at ease in contributing on that list :
- explicitly state in the list description that anyone can contribute in any language, and
conversely provide way to access /contribute to translation of each message (this could go
on Meta for example), we could also provide links to automated translations were such a
tool exists for the implied pair of language
- actively promote the list in misc. village pumps, either through a global message that
summerize recent active threads, with a distribution method similar to technews, or making
sure that a permanent link with an attractive punchline in some main discussion place of
each wiki.
I don't feel like those feedback have any chance to be given any resource by anyone
reading the list, so publishing there don't seem of any use to my mind. But since
reading your message made these ideas pop in my head, I prefer to at least share them with
you. Feel free to do whatever you feel appropriate with that. 😉
Cheers
Le 7 novembre 2018 22:58:11 GMT+01:00, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> a écrit :
Hello Wikimedia-l,
One subject that continues to be a source of concern for me is that I'd
like to have a greater quantity and greater diversity of participants
on
Wikimedia-l. I have heard that some people feel that their English
skills
are not good enough to participate here, and I don't know what more we
can
do to help with them to feel welcome to participate regardless of their
choice of language or their level of English skills.
Also, I sometimes wonder whether some of our more pointed or stressful
discussions on this list make good-faith newbies and quieter people
feel
too intimidated to post when I think that no one intends to make them
feel
unwelcome.
I hope that this will not sound selfish, but I would like to encourage
people to comment on what could be done to facilitate greater and more
diverse participation in discussions here, and that includes feedback
on
how those of us (including me) who frequently post here could do better
at
helping people to feel that they have an opportunity to be heard.
Although
I would encourage public discussion of these subjects, I also welcome
comments off-list. I realize that it is difficult to balance being
candid
with being hospitable, and I am hoping that we can be both.
Thanks,
Pine
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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