On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
.. Bah. My mistake. Sorry if that sounded confused, I was just reacting to the idea that there are any staff dedicated solely to English Wikipedia, which isn't true.
replace 'solely' with 'predominately' and, afaics, it becomes true. The WMF staff to directly assist English Wikipedia and Commons. They rarely do the same for other projects.
What percentage of your 9-5 job, on avg, is non - English Wikipedia+Commons?
Please look at the percentage of your edits which are on English Wikipedia and Commons.
http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/sulinfo/Steven_%28WMF%29
8 of 2,636 edits (0.3%) are on a content project other than ENWP, and four of them are edits to your userpage.
33% of your edits are on English Wikipedia, and those edits are direct community engagement and support. I dont see you directly engaging in any other content project.
http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/sulinfo/Mdennis%20%28WMF%29
not much better, especially if we consider Maggie's image filter work to be an ENWP related task.
http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/sulinfo/Philippe_%28WMF%29
a lot worse, given the strategy work result was: "Spend US$180 million over five years mostly on initiatives to increase Wikipedia statistics"
http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/sulinfo/Jalexander
afaics, most of the non-English Wikipedia edits are to support the fundraiser, which is great work, but that is the "Wikipedia Fundraiser" to fund the strategy created to increase Wikipedia statistics.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_fundraiser_surp... http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Seventh_Annual_Campaign_to_Support_Wikip... http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Half_a_Million_People_Donate_to_Keep_Wik...
Someone who does have non-English language skills and non-English project experience, and they arnt in use:
http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/sulinfo/Melamrawy_%28WMF%29