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> > Dear all,
> > Well as you know, Brazil is a priority, but when spending is a waste.
> > We have a volunteer group that operates in Brazil since 2008 in direct
> > contact with the problems of Brazil, know much about the free national
> > culture, know a lot about education in the country, and their projects, they
> > can tell the reasons why Brazil has poor performance on Wikipedia.
> > Wikimedia Foundation conducted several interviews with the group, I was
> > interviewed three times and had several conversations with several different
> > employees. Also recently a person was hired to do a search on this, already
> > operating in Brazil.
> > And yesterday they announced the arrival of two more employees to ask only
> > that, again. [1] They already have the answer to these interviews, what
> > they are asking again?
>
> > And what I find worse is the fact that there is a prohibitive message for
> > explanation of other Wikimedia projects. As for the local group that
> > Wikipedia is not central. And there will be an office of WMF, only to
> > activities for Wikipedia. And many Brazilians criticize the model of the
> > WMF, and that centralization in Wikipedia. Wikipedia is only the tenth
> > seventh most visited site in the country. Need better, yes, but the
> > problem is the community that is not healthy, and that the WMF does not
> > interfere on that. So it's skating, and spending resources unnecessarily.
>
> > Several staff members say the Wikipedia impact is larger than the other
> > projects.
> > Which has more impact for you?
> > "The Movement Wikimedia projects through education, created free
> > educational resources available in Wikibooks, and classes on Wikiversity,
> > this could change the lives of thousands of poor children" or
> > "The Movement Wikimedia succeeded in creating an encyclopaedia in
> > Portuguese high quality "
>
> > Unfortunately I live in a country that 38% of teens lives in extreme
> > poverty [2], how they want to create a program just with universities, to
> > share knowledge if people that never walk inside one university? Or not
> > be able to read the contents of Wikipedia because they were not properly
> > literate. I'm not talking to literate Brazilians, I'm talking to create free
> > educational resources, and create classes, and encourage businesses and organizations
> > to do that change, this is a collaborative work.
>
> > With the money spent to keep three people six days in Brazil from the U.S.A.,
> > we could fund a fellow to start a social work with teachers to create this
> > material.What is the interest of the WMF on this? "Our priority is
> > Wikipedia"
>