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(a)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(a)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(a)gmail.com> a
écrit
:
Valerie D'Costa, the new Chief of Community Engagement,
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