Hire someone from the local Wikipedia community to do it. This can be integrated into the proposed "language community and cultural translation" WMF fellow's job description.
MediaWiki feature decisions are gruesome chores. In small language project communities the active editors typically don't involve themselves with feature decisions until the feature is rolled out and breaks an entire Wikipedia with one commit. (eg. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30392 )
By hiring the local editor you can make sure they can be bothered to involve themselves in feature decisions, and informing their local communities about it.
Deryck
On 30 July 2012 16:11, Oliver Keyes okeyes@wikimedia.org wrote:
As a very general point; working out how to include non-enlang editors in features decisions is right at the top of my "list of wicked problems to handle". If anyone has any ideas, please shoot me an email :)
On 30 July 2012 14:07, Béria Lima berialima@gmail.com wrote:
John, when those meetings happened, what they said was "we want to meet people from Brasil" and when asked who they wanted to meet, the answer
was
"anyone, doesn't matter how long you contribute or how much, we only want to talk with the Brazilian community",so no, none of those meetings were calls for top editors. They were called "meetups", they were advertised that way, and they were treated that way.
And I can aso say no WMF people contact any Portuguese editor in
regarding
to that (let's not say they travel there, but Skype and e-mail also
exist,
and weren't used) _____ *Béria Lima*
*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 29 July 2012 19:33, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Thomas Dalton <
thomas.dalton@gmail.com>
wrote:
On 29 July 2012 22:57, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
Can your masters degree in mathematics point out where in
Wikimedia's
statement it said "all" or implied anything other than having met
some
of
Portuguese Wikipedia's top contributors? Not sure what the big deal
is.
The word "all" actually appeared in my email that Steven was replying to. He claimed that a majority of Portuguese Wikipedians being from Brazil contradicted my statement that not all (top) Portuguese Wikipedians are from Brazil. That was a straw man argument, due to "all" and "majority" not meaning the same thing.
confirming.. there are residents of Portugal in
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaPT.htm#wikipedians
but the 'majority' do appear to be Brazilian. I cant easily see if those top contributors attended the meetups at
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/22/brazil-meetups-march/
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