On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:43 PM, bawolff <bawolff+wn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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
Hi :)
We advertise that page on meta:Wikidata and wikidata-l. I think I also
mentioned it a few times on @wikidata on identi.ca and Twitter. It
likely reached people who are not necessarily close to MediaWiki
simply because Wikidata reaches quite a few people who are not close
to MediaWiki. I didn't reach out to any group in particular for this.
Hope that info helps.
Cheers
Lydia
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