[Foundation-l] Announcing Hisham Mundol as WMF consultant for National Programs, India

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Oh Congratulations to Mr. Mundol.

Don't forget to pass on my regards to Mr. Achal Prabhala.


On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Barry Newstead <bnewstead at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:32 AM, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:
>
> > Barry Newstead wrote:
> > > As I have mentioned in the past, we have a lot of momentum in India but
> > we
> > > have a long way to go to achieve our full potential as a movement.
> >  Indians
> > > represent 4% of the world¹s Internet users today (and this share is
> > > growing), yet they only represent 1.5% of page edits on Wikipedia. We
> > should
> > > be able to rapidly increase this share - across all projects - and
> expand
> > > readership in a corresponding fashion.
> >
> > To what end? What's the virtue of going after India?
> >
>
> The end is the achievement of Wikimedia's vision and the movement's
> priorities of increasing participation and reach.  India represents a
> significant share of all human beings and a larger share of all human
> beings
> living in a relatively free and uncensored environment.
>
> >
> > > Hisham¹s title will be Consultant, India National Programs.  He will
> > report
> > > to me.  His role will be to design and implement specific pilot
> programs
> > > that encourage many more Indians to become contributors to our projects
> > in
> > > Indic languages as well as English.
> >
> > Is this position a staffer or a contractor?
> >
>
> Contractor/consultant
>
> >
> > > As a newcomer to the Wikimedia movement, Hisham¹s first task will be to
> > > deepen his understanding of us: our history, goals, values, culture and
> > > mission. To that end, he will be spending the coming weeks (not
> months!)
> > in
> > > learning mode: Hisham and I will be meeting with community members in
> > > Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore on Feb 23-25 and then Hisham will join
> > community
> > > meetings across the country as they occur. Hisham will also spend time
> in
> > > San Francisco with the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as
> with
> > > other like-minded individuals and organizations and he will attend the
> > > chapter conference in Berlin.
> >
> > So Hisham has never edited a Wikimedia wiki? I'm curious how much of a
> > factor "having a familiarity with Wikimedia" was in choosing an
> individual
> > for this role. Can you elaborate?
> >
>
>  We had very few candidates from the Wikimedia community apply, so in the
> end most of the candidates we were looking at had some familiarity, but
> that
> was limited and didn't differentiate them from each other in a way that was
> meaningful vs. other dimension such as the ability to design and implement
> national scale programs or the ability to work in an environment with a
> range of stakeholders.  These dimensions were big differentiators.
>
> >
> > > Hisham will be creating a workspace on strategy wiki where he will
> share
> > > what he is learning and develop the core elements of the action plan
> > going
> > > forward. We encourage active community engagement on this wiki. We aim
> to
> > > move to action quickly and welcome input and guidance from across the
> > > community.
> >
> > The strategy wiki was intended to be used to create a five-year strategic
> > plan for Wikimedia. He should be using Meta-Wiki for cross-project
> > coordination, right?
> >
>
> WMF has been using strategy wiki for some of our ongoing projects.  I'm
> open
> to alternatives, so long as we are on public wikis, which Meta is.
>
> >
> > MZMcBride
> >
> >
> >
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 Elizabeth

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