Hey,
Poor volunteers of all the global Wikipedia communities,
WMF in principle will allow you to have a staff to develop your Wikipedia
for doing following work:
- Act as a community liaison for the respective language community
- Build institutional partnerships as outlined in the language area
plans. This is a time consuming activity and is aimed at either one or all
of these: cultivating new editors, creating content, content
donation/re-release under CC-BY-SA 3.0/other libre licenses.
- Constantly be in touch with the existing community over multiple
channels (on-wiki, mailing list, IRC, over telephone, one on one meetings)
to understand their needs and challenges and find ways of addressing them
to the best possible extent.
- Design and undertake outreach, if the community is unable to do it, to
grow new editors.
- Retaining new editors through editor engagement.
- Help the community with necessary resources in executing projects. For
instance, filing RTI or collecting relevant information that could benefit
an existing on-wiki project
- Providing Press, Media & Social Media visibility to the community and
the projects.
- Help support nurture projects that could be taken up by the community.
- Introduce cross-community learning.
- Help in organizing community events and meet-ups.
- Technical support
- Actively take part in creating resources for the community that could
last beyond the CIS-A2K program
- Any other need from a volunteer or community that could help in the
growth of projects.
So, stop wasting your time volunteering and start applying for grants and
jobs.
For more details, see:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/…
Ravi