I can confirm that he is here. He's even giving a
talk about the EU
project at sunday afternoon :-)
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Betreff: Re: [Wikimania-l] WMEU
Hi Raul,
I'm interested in talking about this topic. Do you know about the EU
policy project?
I think Dimi is in Wikimania, but unfortunately I haven't meet him yet.
Micru
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Raul Veede <raul.veede(a)gmail.com> wrote:
A short clarification:
I did NOT mean to set up an organization of European chapters.
It's just that on a recent trip to European Commission I noticed that the
coverage of EU on wikiprojects is surprisingly lousy, yet it influences
millions of people and could be really important. A usual article on a
multimillion dollar program of EU is only present on English and French
Wikipedias, has no sources, doesn't mention implementation, media coverage
or influence, and dates from 2007 or 2009. Fairly, it sucks. But it doesn't
have to be like that.
EU institutions aren't any good in spreading neutral and objective
information directly to the people whose lives they influence, so
everything goes through the filters of local politicians and media which
all too often have their own agenda. (That's why there's a monthly panic
about "EU forbidding this or that".) To be honest, we're much better at
communication than the EU professionals are. So, maybe we could cooperate.
I'm not a missionary for this, I won't try to convince anyone. I'm
already exhausted by my current work. But I'd like to hear if anyone else
thinks we could (or should) do something about it.
Raul
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Raul Veede <raul.veede(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Is anyone interested in discussing a quite raw
idea: a possible thorg
for covering European Union in different Wikiprojects and languages? I'm
not even absolutely sure it would be a good idea, or how it should be
working, but I think it would be worth discussing.
I've already talked to some of us, so I hope they chime in and help us
find a time slot - maybe sometime tonight, before people start to leave.
Raul
WMEE
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