On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Julien Dorra
<juliendorra(a)juliendorra.com> wrote:
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* Question for you all: do you have an example of this "consumer mode"
behavior on the software part of Wikimedia? How have you dealt with it in
the past?
* Bawolff a question just for you, could you elaborate on the idea of
"starting at home"?
Julien
Well it just seems that often outreach focuses on people outside the
Wikimedia community, well ignoring people already in the Wikimedia
community. In my opinions we're much more likely to get someone who
truley cares about MediaWiki if they use it every day (Like
Wikimedians do). Case in point, the Wikidata folks set up a page
asking for volunteers to help [1]. I have no idea in what venue they
advertised this in, but presumably somewhere meta-ish. 20 people
listed their name on this request for volunteers under the willing to
code section. Of those 20, only 3 of them are even remotely involved
in MediaWiki development as far as I can tell.
It seems like outreach sometimes concentrates on hard targets (people
who aren't involved) and ignoring the easy targets.
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Volunteers
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-bawolff