[Wikimedia-l] WMF's New Global South Strategy

[Anders Wennersten]

Thanks for sharing this, giving me an insight into an area where I 
myself have little first-hand experience

For me the key finding are:
*We know now what approaches does NOT work. I am struck with how much of 
these findings are also relevant for work being done from chapter. 
Hopefully Frank S can summarize these learnings in his work
*Results from external resources only gives results when there exist an 
active community. And how and what type of resources make sense and how 
they should be provided is learned well by the new Grants organization.

But what about the key issue: What are the parameters that makes a 
active community to be created and also be sustainable? We have a lot of 
anecdotal stories and a lot of subjective opinions, but have there ever 
been done a professional study taking an analytical approach, using many 
different of our communities as input to find the critical parameters 
that creates success or hampers/disintegrate active communities?

Anders



Asaf Bartov skrev 2013-08-30 01:38:
> Hi, everyone.
>
> I have finally uploaded my Wikimania talk to Commons.  It took some time to
> add links and explanatory notes that were spoken aloud at Wikimania, hence
> the delay.
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF%27s_New_Global_South_Strategy.pdf
>
> If you have read it elsewhere (I had to upload my speaking copy to a
> temporary space for the venue computer to present from, but it was not
> meant for reading, and was not shared by me), I encourage you to read this
> expanded version -- it will make a lot more sense.
>
> If you have linked to the temporary copy somewhere, please do change the
> link or re-share with this full version.
>
> I welcome discussion and questions.
>
> Cheers,
>
>     Asaf