[Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

[Steven Walling]

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?

Those are just two examples, but more importantly: there are actually *no
people at all* at the Foundation whose job description is "dedicated"
English Wikipedia support. There are some people (like myself) who do not
speak other languages, but that is a problem rather than an advantage in my
work.

Steven