Hoi, Yes, people employed by the WMF working from outside the USA exis. They are very much part of what WMF does and, there is no "trickle back" to the local countries really. They are part of the WMF structure and their priorities are the WMF priorities.
There is a huge potential outside the USA and I am sorry but this is not reflected in the way priorities are set, programmes are developed, technology is assessed and implemented. While I do agree that many of the arguments made for programmes are sound, there is this lack of focus for what the relevance is outside of the USA/ English speaking world and it effectively prevents many things from happening on our shared globe. Thanks, GerardM
On 12 February 2014 18:01, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
On 2/11/14, 9:14 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
There are two areas where the Wikimedia Foundation is active; the USA where it is active through both chapters and the office in San Francisco. The rest of the world where it is active through chapters and whatever.
Well, you did leave out a few of the countries in the WMF is active,
mainly by paying staff located there to work on things ranging from the Visual Editor to core MediaWiki development to internationalization to analytics: Netherlands, Spain, Canada, Austria, Australia, UK, Czech Republic, Croatia, Israel, India, Finland...
-Mark
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