[Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

Steven Walling steven.walling at gmail.com
Fri Sep 23 04:10:20 UTC 2011


On Sep 22, 2011 8:48 PM, "MZMcBride" <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:
>
> Steven Walling wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:04 PM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com>
wrote:
> >> I'm having a hard time remembering when a WMF led a project that had a
> >> primary stated objective to meet a need of a sister project.  It would
> >> be good to compile a list of any WMF projects of this kind.  maybe the
> >> WMF can have _one_ "sister projects support officer" (think how many
> >> dedicated _English_Wikipedia_ support staff the WMF has).
> >
> > There is an entire department -- Global Development -- whose current job
is
> > to support the growth of the many Indic language projects, Portuguese
> > Wikipedia, and Arabic Wikipedia (they call that Middle East, North
Africa)?
> >
> > Or how about the hundreds of hours spent in Tech on the new Commons
> > UploadWizard?
>
> Steven, you seem to have completely missed the mark.
>
> John was responding to my comment(s) about the focus of Wikimedia being
> Wikipedia (mostly the English-language version) and occasionally Wikimedia
> Commons. John said "I'm having a hard time remembering when a WMF led a
> project that had a primary stated objective to meet a need of a sister
> project." By this, he meant a project like Wikinews, Wikisource,
Wikiversity
> or any of the other sister projects of Wikipedia:
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikipedia%27s_sister_projects>.
>
> The examples you gave were a few other Wikipedias and Wikimedia Commons.
Is
> there an entire department working on Wikisource? What about Wikiversity?
> Wikinews? Is there a single staffer who's even thinking about any of them
as
> part of their work? I don't know of any. And, back to the original
thought:
> are there any Wikimedia initiatives to specifically (or "primarily")
improve
> any of these sister projects? I also don't know of any.
>
> MZMcBride

Bah. My mistake. Sorry if that sounded confused, I was just reacting to the
idea that there are any staff dedicated solely to English Wikipedia, which
isn't true.

Steven
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