Barry Newstead wrote: > As I have mentioned in the past, we have a lot of momentum in India but we > have a long way to go to achieve our full potential as a movement. Indians > represent 4% of the world¹s Internet users today (and this share is > growing), yet they only represent 1.5% of page edits on Wikipedia. We should > be able to rapidly increase this share - across all projects - and expand > readership in a corresponding fashion.
To what end? What's the virtue of going after India? > Hisham¹s title will be Consultant, India National Programs. He will report > to me. His role will be to design and implement specific pilot programs > that encourage many more Indians to become contributors to our projects in > Indic languages as well as English. Is this position a staffer or a contractor? > As a newcomer to the Wikimedia movement, Hisham¹s first task will be to > deepen his understanding of us: our history, goals, values, culture and > mission. To that end, he will be spending the coming weeks (not months!) in > learning mode: Hisham and I will be meeting with community members in > Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore on Feb 23-25 and then Hisham will join community > meetings across the country as they occur. Hisham will also spend time in > San Francisco with the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as with > other like-minded individuals and organizations and he will attend the > chapter conference in Berlin. So Hisham has never edited a Wikimedia wiki? I'm curious how much of a factor "having a familiarity with Wikimedia" was in choosing an individual for this role. Can you elaborate? > Hisham will be creating a workspace on strategy wiki where he will share > what he is learning and develop the core elements of the action plan going > forward. We encourage active community engagement on this wiki. We aim to > move to action quickly and welcome input and guidance from across the > community. The strategy wiki was intended to be used to create a five-year strategic plan for Wikimedia. He should be using Meta-Wiki for cross-project coordination, right? MZMcBride _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
