On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:32:17 -0700, Steven Walling <[email protected]> wrote: > When the Wikimedia Foundation runs a project, it should be obvious that > such > a project can be easily understood from its perspective. For me the WMF is > a > worldwide organisation and consequently its actions should be acceptable > from that perspective. When the WMF runs a "pilot" project like the current > public policy project, it should therefore conform with its global > perspective. Given that it is about SUBJECT MATTER whose appreciation > differs from country to country it is weird that no "foreign" universities > are part of this project. It is also easy to argue that from a cost point > of > view, this project requires less funding when it is run in many other > countries. The fact that it is run only in the USA also has NPOV > implications. >
I raised similar objections on this list when the project has been announced, and I received a reply that the choice of four US universities was somehow related to the conditions on which the grant was extended. I find this explanation to be fair enough. Cheers Yaroslav _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
