[Foundation-l] Waste of money, Wikipediacentrism. - Brazil

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Steven Walling, 25/01/2012 19:33:
> We want this to be very different than past staff meetups or interviews
> that have happened in Brazil. We are not interested in the university
> program, the chapter, the Brazil office, or the fundraiser. That is not
> what Maryana and I do in the movement.
>
> We only care about hearing from the authors of Portuguese Wikipedia about
> what their community is like. To lump together all the projects in that
> discussion would be unfair, because it assumes that Wikipedia, Commons,
> Wikibooks, and Wikiversity are all the same. I don't have to tell you they
> are very different, and I think it would be impossible to talk about all of
> them in just a few hours at a meetup. That is why we suggested that we most
> want to hear about Portuguese Wikipedia and why we posted our meetup
> information on Portuguese Wikipedia, not any other project.
>
> If you feel it's a waste of time to get together with us and other
> Wikipedians just to talk about Portuguese Wikipedia, then that's okay. I
> don't feel that way, and I think people will be glad to have a meetup where
> we can focus on the encyclopedia, instead of anything else.

For people who didn't follow every single piece of the Brazilian WMF 
activities, could you please explain how these meetups are «very 
different than past staff meetups or interviews that have happened in 
Brazil»?

Nemo