On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:12 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 11:09:42 -0700, Daniel Phelps <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The Wikimedia Foundation has hired four new staff members to guide the > new > > Public Policy Initiative. Annie Lin, LiAnna Davis, Sage Ross, and Amy > Roth > > will work with public policy programs at universities across the United > > States to incorporate improvements to Wikipedia articles into the > > professors' curriculum. The Public Policy Initiative will recruit > Wikipedia > ... > > Why is the team chosen to target specifically the US? I am not sure I am > comfortable with this choice. > > Cheers > Yaroslav > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > This is a pilot program for extending the educational purpose of the WMF. Not speaking for the staff, but I assume a primary reason is that is funded by a grant that will require travel for a lot of the staff for the program, so there's a money issue. Shuttling people across the country for a year and putting them up is pricey, doubly so world wide. The program, as mentioned, is a pilot and if successful in this it can be ported worldwide. The WMF will be tracking this effort and will scale for future development. -- ~Keegan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
