Hoi, I have put myself forward as a candidate for the board of the Wikimedia Foundation. What I hope to achieve is that as a global community, as a movement, foundation, we will share more of "the sum of the knowledge that is available to us".
In my opinion this fits in perfectly with our stated objectives, what it takes is a reflection on what we can do with what we have for the other 250+ languages. I have a notion of what success will mean: it means that our traffic will increasingly be not for English projects and yes, I want our traffic in English to grow as well!
In a blogpost [1] I mention a few of the easy pickings. There could be so much more. When you have an idea post it on Meta and let me know as well.
Success has many fathers, one mother. Thanks, GerardM
[1] https://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2021/06/board-member-of-wikimedia-found...
On 6/13/21, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
https://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2021/06/board-member-of-wikimedia-found...
Good for you Gerard. However it would be better if your inputs would not consistently direct away from Wikimedia infrastructure for communication and publishing to the one that is owned and controlled by blogspot.com ;-)
Good luck! Z. Blace
Hoi, My blog has been mine for the last fifteen years and a bit. I have had no interference from Blogspot whatsoever.
What I aim to achieve is more inclusion by opening up the knowledge that we have. When we do, Commons will be approachable by children who can read in their own language and who will ook and find many pictures of a shumba https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shumba#Shona. When we do we gain a public for all the finished works in a Wikisource. To do this is a strategic choice because we have not done this so far.
When we consider inclusion, it makes sense to consider the people we do not reach and consider what is easy to do to change that. It starts with technical issues and outreach including marketing will follow quickly. A lack of inclusion exists on many levels, we should choose to pick these low hanging fruits as a priority. Thanks, GerardM
On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 at 11:41, Željko Blaće zblace@mi2.hr wrote:
On 6/13/21, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
https://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2021/06/board-member-of-wikimedia-found...
Good for you Gerard. However it would be better if your inputs would not consistently direct away from Wikimedia infrastructure for communication and publishing to the one that is owned and controlled by blogspot.com ;-)
Good luck! Z. Blace _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-leave@lists.wikimedia.org
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