Hello dear Brazilian Wikipedians. My name is Matthew Roth and I'm part of
the fundraising team at the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco,
California. During fundraisers in past years, we've relied on Jimmy Wales to
do most of the fundraising with his banner and he's done very well helping
us achieve our yearly funding targets. This year, however, we're broadening
the scope and reach of the fundraiser by incorporating more voices and
different people on the funding banners and appeals that will start running
full-time on November 7th. We're testing new messages and finding some
really great results with editors and staff members of the Foundation. See
this page for more information:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011.
We've had quite a few editors and donors from North America, in large part
because of the size of Wikipedia in English and because our offices are in
the United States. We would like to do better outreach and more interviews
with editors in other languages, particularly in South America. My manager
recently proposed that I try to put together a trip where I fly down to
Brazil to conduct interviews in person, hiring translators and making sure
the interview process is as comfortable as possible. If this happens, I
would likely try to travel in the first or second week of November.
I wanted to first see what level of interest you might have in participating
in an interview with me. Logistically, I would travel to São Paolo and Rio
and want to conduct the interviews in a centralized location, either at a
university, a hotel, or a similar site. This effort is part of the
fundraiser, so we are trying to learn about your experiences with Wikipedia
and why you spend you volunteer time editing. We also want to know your
feelings about how Wikipedia is changing the way we relate to knowledge,
education and each other. So would you be interested in sitting down with
me for 60-90 minutes to tell me about yourself and your relationship to
Wikipedia? Please email me directly at mroth(a)wikimedia.org. If there is
enough interest, we will continue with organizing the trip.
Obrigadões,
Matthew
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Matthew Roth
Storyteller
Wikimedia Foundation
+1.415.839.6885 ext 6772
+1.917.825.3027 (mobile)
www.wikimediafoundation.org