Hoi,
What I know is that in India Wikisource has proven to be very effective and
important to promote the use of local languages. As a member of the
language committee I am in favour to have a Wikisource almost as easily as
a Wikipedia.
The one thing that the WMF fails to do is support the finished work with a
slick interface for consumers of books. This is imho true for any flavour
of Wikisource. We have not considered how to increase the number of readers
of freely licensed books and consequently we do both our readers and our
Wikisourcerers a disservice.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 28 June 2016 at 16:47, Anders Wennersten <mail(a)anderswennersten.se>
wrote:
I have been active in FDC and followed closely all
applicants. It works
very well when it comes to promote small affiliates to grow in a controlled
way and ensuring that money is spent wisely. The FDC, though, demand an
elaborate plan, and application, which can be (too) hard as a first step if
you still is an volunteer driven organisation. So since a year the Simple
annual plan grant now exist, and I have been part in this and its seven
applicants that has been through that process. And it works wonderfully
even if there has been quite complicated issues in the application. The
application formality is much easier and the applicant gets hands-on help
by both WMF staff and also by a peer from an existing affiliate. And the
feedback we have received has been very very positive, specially the
support from peers. And for you Milos who was in ChapCom at the same time
as me in 2008, you should rejoice as much as me that now also Brazil is on
track, so the "complicated" affiliates in 2008, Catala, Brazil an US, are
now all on track.
So we now have process in place that really help and support small groups
of enthusiastic Wikimedians to grow in a controlled way becoming well
functioning chapters. We have also since 2008 learnt, from experiences from
Brazil and India, that to try by "outsiders" to get a local organisation
in place that will grow in a good way, just has not worked. These
experiments just hindered (and delayed) natural good establishment.
So my learning is that it is counter productive to try as an outsider to
get something happen. We have to await until groups of clever Wikimedians
in India with the right ambition etc are ready to enter applications to
either of the grant programs, and then there are mechanisms in place to
help them evolve
Anders
Den 2016-06-28 kl. 13:36, skrev Milos Rancic:
And it seems I need one more note: The last
sentence was satirical.
On Jun 28, 2016 13:27, "Milos Rancic" <millosh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 28, 2016 09:58, "Milos Rancic" <millosh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
(Hint for American
Wikimedians: Trump supporters are your next target for positive
discrimination.)
It seems I have to clarify this sentence.
I didn't say Trump, I didn't say Cruz, I didn't say Cruz supporters, I
said Trump supporters.
I have in mind very specific population, genuinely scared by the
privileged Mexican illegal immigrants, working lazy for the American
agricultural industry for $5/h or less and supported by Bay Area hipsters
and Jewish lobby.
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