[Wikimedia-l] Overloaded with CentralNotices (Tilman Bayer)

[Frans Grijzenhout]

Hi everyone, this is just to point out that we organized 4 meetings with
WMNL members (july - sept) in order to get as much input as possible for
our Annual Plan and Budget 2014. We also welcomed ideas and feedback on
draft documents in our Newsletter and on the Dutch chapter's wiki.
We received lots of input, valuable ideas were raised and inserted in the
final plan. As a result of this procedure the Annual Plan 2014 and its
budget (for the larger part FDC funded) was unanimously approved during the
General Assembly of Sept 21.
Regards, Frans Grijzenhout (secretary WMNL)



2013/10/31 Tilman Bayer <tbayer at wikimedia.org>

> Hi Jane,
>
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Jane Darnell <jane023 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > @Sue, I understand the idea behind doing this and applaud the idea -
> > it would be so much easier to make strategy decisions in WMNL if we
> > had more input from more involved people in the Dutch Wikipedia
> > community. I get that it is really a conflict of interest for WMNL
> > insiders to be the only ones to comment and approve the funds request
> > made by WMNL insiders. The problem with this central sitenotice, as
> > Romaine pointed out, is that it is in English and points to the WMNL
> > fund request in English.
> >
> Actually, the banners are available in Dutch, and Romaine had said so
> as well. If you see them in English, one possible reason could be that
> your browser's interface language is set to English.
>
> The main (global) FDC banner has been translated into over 70
> languages, and the general community review page that it points to is
> available in over 10 languages:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/FDC_portal/Proposals/Community/Review
> .
>
> Comments on the funding requests can be made in languages other than
> English, too. As for the funding requests themselves, yes, they are in
> English. I guess it would be too much of a burden for the either
> fund-seeking organizations or volunteer translators to provide the
> entire proposal form in several languages. But one idea for the future
> might be to make at least the shorter "overview" section of each
> request translatable (e.g.
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals/2013-2014_round1/Wikimedia_Nederland/Proposal_form#Overview_of_grant_request
> ).
>
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> Tilman Bayer
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> Wikimedia Foundation
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