to avoid such either/or discussions, would it be possible to fund rodrigos proposal with a similar amount of money? make the money flow to projects conducted by local people seems to be a very well accepted strategy ... even if not everything will be flawless.
rupert On Jan 25, 2012 9:42 PM, "Steven Walling" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > For people who didn't follow every single piece of the Brazilian WMF > > activities, could you please explain how these meetups are «very > different > > than past staff meetups or interviews that have happened in Brazil»? > > > Sure! > > Just to recap: to my remembrance the meetups that have included staff in > past include... > > * Barry, Jessie, Kul and perhaps others who are working on the Brazil > Catalyst Project [1] have spent the most time in Brazil recently in support > of that work. (We aren't a part of that team, and will not be duplicating > any discussions about how to organize outreach in the country.) > * Matthew Roth, who was a Storyteller gathering interviews in support of > the last fundraiser, interviewed several individuals in Brazil in 2011. > * Carolina Rossini also interviewed community members as part of the > Catalyst Project, and from my reading on them they focused not just on > people's experience as editors, but also broadly about their feelings when > it comes to outreach and a chapter.[2] > > The basic gist here is that we starting a series of small meetups focused > on editor retention issues,[3] and we wanted to start with Brazil because > Portuguese is a very important Wikipedia community for a lot of reasons. In > the past we've also done quite a bit of research on this topic,[4] but the > most important way to learn what's really different about Portuguese > Wikipedia in this regard is to go and ask people. > > Steven > > 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Brazil_Catalyst_Project > 2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global/Brazil/Community_Interviews > 3. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_convenings > 4. > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Portuguese_Wikipedia_trends_and_behavior > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
