Hi Gereon;
"German communities are established and have strong chapters. I suppose the same applies to the French language communites." => Well, no. The situation is different because the WikiConvention Francophone is half African. African french-speaking affiliates are not strong, they are medium-sized or small User Groups, often struggling. And French-speaking Africans are left out of events like WikiIndaba because they don't speak English... so they actually never get to see the WMF. Also, as far as I know, the German community is way better established, has a lot of employees and has way stronger ties with WMF on a regular basis. And German people generally speak better English so they can access more information, go to Wikimania, etc.
Now I'm not sure about what should be done, but I just wanted to challenge this comparison because the communities are in fact very different and face very distinct challenges.
On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 8:45 AM Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
As far as Art+Feminism goes, this project concentrates on biographies of female artists. The English Wikipedia project "Women in Red" is open 24x7 all year round and concentrates on biographies of women on English Wikipedia, period. So you can take all of your local Wikipedia questions about A+F to your local WiR women for each non-English Wikipedia, and if there is no overlap yet, I suggest starting your own local A+F/WiR in your local Wikipedia. We should probably start a multi-lingual one for Commons, since it has proven so difficult to get pictures of female artists to illustrate articles about them.
On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 8:27 PM Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l < wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
Thank you Thierry. To be honnest a few of us were really waiting for Valerie D'Costa, the new Chief of Community Engagement because we had questions for her about the new rapid grant funding agenda which seems totally inadapted to volunteer’s need in terms of flexibility. One has to wait a soecific month for Art+feminism and very often the timing has not been adapted to when the events are actually taking place. For a
volunteer
this is way too procedural. We need more flexibility. We had other questions regarding the departure of several people which were very important for the gender gap. So ... Some of us were disappointed indeed. Kind regards, Natacha
Le 15 sept. 2019 à 20:02, Thierry Coudray tcoudray@gmail.com a
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Valerie D'Costa, the new Chief of Community Engagement,
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