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