On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Hisham
<hisham@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Story-telling for Community Building is the work that Noopur just announced (and as illustrated by the profile on Netha) - where we want to celebrate the diversity and magic in our community.
The Wikimedia India Chapter already runs a section call "Featured Wikipedian" on the chapter wiki. Is this pilot designed to replicate the work that is being already done?
More importantly, why do you believe that the story-telling effort will ultimately motivate more editors to contribute? Sure, I see some potential there for interested Internet users who come across Wikimedia's blog sites, but apart from that? Have you done a cost-benefit analysis on whether the story telling initiative is worth spending the time and efforts of your team?
From my own experience, some of the long-term editors are anonymous while most of the long-term and established editors are quite private to the extent that they would not wish to link their real life with what they do on Wikipedia. I think your efforts are better directed elsewhere "identifying high-potential opportunities, design & implement high-quality pilots".
I am quoting one of the emails you sent as an explanation to the Foundation-l
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Hisham
<hmundol@wikimedia.org> wrote:
The advantage that Trust brings to the table is speed and intensity. I think the nature of the Trust's operations will be to identify high-potential opportunities, design & implement high-quality pilots and transfer learnings to the Chapter, other community groups and the community at large. As and when the Chapter and/or other community bodies have built the capacity to take over projects from the Trust, the Trust will fully facilitate this.
From what I can see, you are simply undertaking projects which can be organized by Wikimedia India Chapter once it receives funding and engages a part-time employee to help it with that.
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Pradeep Mohandas
<pradeep.mohandas@gmail.com> wrote:
I also think this idea of the community defining the framework must be extended to the Chapter as well.
Let's have this discussion on a separate thread. Thanks.