[Wikimedia-l] conversations between WMF and non-English projects

[Oliver Keyes]

As a very general point; working out how to include non-enlang editors in
features decisions is right at the top of my "list of wicked problems to
handle". If anyone has any ideas, please shoot me an email :)

On 30 July 2012 14:07, Béria Lima <berialima at gmail.com> wrote:

> John, when those meetings happened, what they said was "we want to meet
> people from Brasil" and when asked who they wanted to meet, the answer was
> "anyone, doesn't matter how long you contribute or how much, we only want
> to talk with the Brazilian community",so no, none of those meetings were
> calls for top editors. They were called "meetups", they were  advertised
> that way, and they were treated that way.
>
> And I can aso say no WMF people contact any Portuguese editor in regarding
> to that (let's not say they travel there, but Skype and e-mail also exist,
> and weren't used)
> _____
> *Béria Lima*
>
> *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
> livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a
> construir esse sonho. <http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos>*
>
>
> On 29 July 2012 19:33, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > On 29 July 2012 22:57, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> Can your masters degree in mathematics point out where in Wikimedia's
> > >> statement it said "all" or implied anything other than having met some
> > of
> > >> Portuguese Wikipedia's top contributors? Not sure what the big deal
> is.
> > >
> > > The word "all" actually appeared in my email that Steven was replying
> > > to. He claimed that a majority of Portuguese Wikipedians being from
> > > Brazil contradicted my statement that not all (top) Portuguese
> > > Wikipedians are from Brazil. That was a straw man argument, due to
> > > "all" and "majority" not meaning the same thing.
> >
> > confirming.. there are residents of Portugal in
> >
> > http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaPT.htm#wikipedians
> >
> > but the 'majority' do appear to be Brazilian.  I cant easily see if
> > those top contributors attended the meetups at
> >
> > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/22/brazil-meetups-march/
> >
> > --
> > John Vandenberg
> >
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Oliver Keyes
Community Liaison, Product Development
Wikimedia Foundation