On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:43 PM, bawolff bawolff+wn@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.
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