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.
)
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(a)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(a)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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Thomas Dalton <
thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On 29 July 2012 22:57, Nathan <nawrich(a)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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