On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Julien Dorra juliendorra@juliendorra.com wrote: [snip]
- Question for you all: do you have an example of this "consumer mode"
behavior on the software part of Wikimedia? How have you dealt with it in the past?
- Bawolff a question just for you, could you elaborate on the idea of
"starting at home"?
Julien
Well it just seems that often outreach focuses on people outside the Wikimedia community, well ignoring people already in the Wikimedia community. In my opinions we're much more likely to get someone who truley cares about MediaWiki if they use it every day (Like Wikimedians do). Case in point, the Wikidata folks set up a page asking for volunteers to help [1]. I have no idea in what venue they advertised this in, but presumably somewhere meta-ish. 20 people listed their name on this request for volunteers under the willing to code section. Of those 20, only 3 of them are even remotely involved in MediaWiki development as far as I can tell.
It seems like outreach sometimes concentrates on hard targets (people who aren't involved) and ignoring the easy targets.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Volunteers
-- -bawolff