Steven Walling wrote:
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:04 PM, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
I'm having a hard time remembering when a WMF led a project that had a primary stated objective to meet a need of a sister project. It would be good to compile a list of any WMF projects of this kind. maybe the WMF can have _one_ "sister projects support officer" (think how many dedicated _English_Wikipedia_ support staff the WMF has).
There is an entire department -- Global Development -- whose current job is to support the growth of the many Indic language projects, Portuguese Wikipedia, and Arabic Wikipedia (they call that Middle East, North Africa)?
Or how about the hundreds of hours spent in Tech on the new Commons UploadWizard?
Steven, you seem to have completely missed the mark.
John was responding to my comment(s) about the focus of Wikimedia being Wikipedia (mostly the English-language version) and occasionally Wikimedia Commons. John said "I'm having a hard time remembering when a WMF led a project that had a primary stated objective to meet a need of a sister project." By this, he meant a project like Wikinews, Wikisource, Wikiversity or any of the other sister projects of Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikipedia%27s_sister_projects.
The examples you gave were a few other Wikipedias and Wikimedia Commons. Is there an entire department working on Wikisource? What about Wikiversity? Wikinews? Is there a single staffer who's even thinking about any of them as part of their work? I don't know of any. And, back to the original thought: are there any Wikimedia initiatives to specifically (or "primarily") improve any of these sister projects? I also don't know of any.
MZMcBride