Steven Walling wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:04 PM, John Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm having a hard time remembering when a WMF led a project that had a >> primary stated objective to meet a need of a sister project. It would >> be good to compile a list of any WMF projects of this kind. maybe the >> WMF can have _one_ "sister projects support officer" (think how many >> dedicated _English_Wikipedia_ support staff the WMF has). > > There is an entire department -- Global Development -- whose current job is > to support the growth of the many Indic language projects, Portuguese > Wikipedia, and Arabic Wikipedia (they call that Middle East, North Africa)? > > Or how about the hundreds of hours spent in Tech on the new Commons > UploadWizard?
Steven, you seem to have completely missed the mark. John was responding to my comment(s) about the focus of Wikimedia being Wikipedia (mostly the English-language version) and occasionally Wikimedia Commons. John said "I'm having a hard time remembering when a WMF led a project that had a primary stated objective to meet a need of a sister project." By this, he meant a project like Wikinews, Wikisource, Wikiversity or any of the other sister projects of Wikipedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikipedia%27s_sister_projects>. The examples you gave were a few other Wikipedias and Wikimedia Commons. Is there an entire department working on Wikisource? What about Wikiversity? Wikinews? Is there a single staffer who's even thinking about any of them as part of their work? I don't know of any. And, back to the original thought: are there any Wikimedia initiatives to specifically (or "primarily") improve any of these sister projects? I also don't know of any. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
