Está na lista, alguém que participou desse "encontro" quer ir lá falar com ela? :P

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il Date: 29 July 2012 15:27 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] conversations between WMF and non-English projects To: wikimedia-l wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Hi,

In the 2012-13 WMF plan document I saw an interesting thing: "We’ve hosted key community stakeholders such as English Wikipedia’s ArbCom and Portuguese Wikipedia’s top contributors, in an effort to better understand and respond to issues they're facing." (page 41).

I was very happy to read this. In general, I hope that such focused meetings will be held with more language communities. I don't think that I need to explain why :)

I don't know how did the meeting with the Portuguese Wikipedians go; I suppose that it was good. I don't remember that I read anything about it in blogs or mailing lists, but I may have missed it. Maybe what I'm about to write is known already, but I'll say it anyway.

An important thing in such meetings is to have a community member who contributes to the Wikipedia in that language AND to the English Wikipedia. This is needed because the Foundation people are probably familiar with policies, customs and jargon in the English Wikipedia. Even simple terms, like "Village Pump", are not necessarily familiar to people who primarily edit in other languages; not all Wikipedias have ArbComs; not all Wikipedias prohibit voting; etc. Such a person will be able to "translate" between the English Wikipedia terms and the local Wikipedia terms. Without such a person misunderstandings will definitely happen, even if everybody knows the English language well.

That's it, hope it helps.

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