[Wikimedia-l] Announcement: Jan Eissfeldt joins Wikimedia Foundation as Community Advocate

[Jan Eissfeldt]

The annual plan 2012-13, published a couple of months after the
announcement mid 2012, provided more explicitation; saying on p. 42:

"..we intend to invest in more thoroughly understanding the non-en-WP
communities, and growing our social and political capital. To that end, we
will build a team of three community advocates inside the Legal and
Community Advocacy department, with the goal of better understanding the
non-English language communities, particularly German, Japanese, Spanish,
Russian, French and Italian."

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/4/4f/2012-13_Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan_FINAL_FOR_WEBSITE.pdf

And the underlying reasoning also resurfaced in the narrowing focus effort
in October 2012:

"Wikimedia's success depends on successful two-way communication across
projects and languages. ..[..]..We view this as a necessary core activity,
and investments on this front as remedial."

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sue_Gardner/Narrowing_focus#How_do_Wikipedia_Zero.2C_the_Global_Education_Program.2C_and_the_Community_Advocacy_team_fit_into_this.3F


On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki at gmail.com>wrote:

> Philippe Beaudette, 28/04/2013 06:48:
>
>> Yep. Meta.
>>
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/Legal_and_Community_**
>> Advocacy/LCA_Announcement<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/LCA_Announcement>
>>
>
> I don't remember reading anything like that in that page, and checking
> again I find only something about "community advisory board"... confusion
> increases.
>
>
> Nemo
>
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