[Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
When the Wikimedia Foundation is to be the centre of a movement, then it has
challenges as an enabler. The first most obvious thing to do is make it
visible. This means that we do not only reach out to people but also to
organisations. When GLAM (gallereies, libraries, archives and museums) are
natural partners, such partnerships need to be recognised. We have to take
pride in such partnerships. In a partnership, there is a meeting of equals
and as there are so many GLAM and only so few in the Office, it needs to be
something self organising, something where the interested members of our
community can play a role as well. When an important man like Wayne
Macintosh is made an advisory member of our advisory board, it is his
educational organisation and project that make him this relevant. They use
MediaWiki but they do not take full benefit from what we have to offer in
our MediaWiki, our SVN and our translatewiki.net. While they provide a "best
of breed" example of educational use of MediaWiki, they could do better from
a "best practices" point of view.

When the WMF is to be this centre, it has to make visible the partnerships
it has, it has to work together with the GLAM and the educational
organisations. It has to make this visible, it has to make us aware that
organisations can be and are part of our movement.
Thanks,
      GerardM

2009/7/30 Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com>

> When I say "world of WP" I mean "world post-WP" -- the world we live
> in, in which certain businesses are failing now that basic reliable
> information and data are available freely...
>
> It would be healthy to see compatibly-licensed projects that use
> different sets of core principles; not just wikinfo (for instance) but
> also POV specialist reference works.  There is an audience for that,
> and they should also be encouraged to contribute to free knowledge.
> And if someone can find a way to keep professional encyclopedists from
> dying out as a breed, that would be good.  I don't want to see other
> reference works go out of business; I do want to see them adopt free
> licenses -- data, overviews, and reference-style knowledge should all
> be free.
>
> SJ
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Kul Takanao
> Wadhwa<kwadhwa at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >
> >>  - experienced professional reference-work writers (and we should help
> them
> >> find ways to sustain themselves, particularly in niche markets -- one
> way is
> >> by distributing the underlying work needed to find and organize data).
> >> there is room in the world-of-WP for effective, sustainable POV and
> >> specialist works
> >
> > SJ - Just curious...where in WP do you think POV and specialist works
> > could fit?
> >
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