[Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions > Shutting Down

[Milos Rancic]

On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:23, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 January 2012 09:09, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Structural help is not Wikimedia's task [yet]. There are a lot of
>> other institutions which could give them money for daily operations or
>> artifacts preservation and not require from them knowledge liberation.
>> In other words, it's presently better for Wikimedia and regional
>> cultural institutions to be separated until new generations of
>> management come. Said so, any articulated action of knowledge
>> liberation should be welcomed; and we should work on them. But, the
>> scale difference between structural help and particular project is
>> huge.
>
> So it sounds like the first thing we (in this case, local Wikipedians)
> should do is approach them and say "We don't have money, but is there
> anything else we can positively help with? What's the programme?"

I think that they would treat such offer as one problem more. They
want money for their salaries and artifacts preservation, not
volunteers, who would prove that they could do the job with less
money.