Re: [Foundation-l] MENA Education Program?

2011-11-16 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi Katie, Just to build on Moushira's response to tackle your questions a bit further. On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 5:26 AM, aude aude.w...@gmail.com wrote: Erik, Sue, Frank, et al, Can you please say more about

Re: [Foundation-l] MENA Education Program?

2011-11-16 Thread aude
On Nov 16, 2011, at 3:04 AM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Katie, Just to build on Moushira's response to tackle your questions a bit further. Thank you Moushira and Barry for the replies.

Re: [Foundation-l] MENA Education Program?

2011-11-16 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, For reasons that are not in line with the policies of the language committee, the board has refused to allow new projects in any of the Arabic languages. The Language policy allows for this; the WMF board will decide if it will allow a new project when there are issues, any issues. The

Re: [Foundation-l] MENA Education Program?

2011-11-16 Thread Theo10011
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Katie, Just to build on Moushira's response to tackle your questions a bit further. On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 5:26 AM, aude

Re: [Foundation-l] MENA Education Program?

2011-11-16 Thread Muhammad Yahia
Relying on a group to tutor as well as maintain a website doesn't work very well when we branch from an internet forum to an encyclopedia. The Public Policy Initiative team did an amazing job in setting up standards for education programs and has expanded well in North America and

Re: [Foundation-l] MENA Education Program?

2011-11-16 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Muhammad Yahia shipmas...@gmail.comwrote: I don't want to open a hornet's nest, but as someone who has actually lived most of his life in the middle east, I couldn't disagree more. Local dialects/languages have not been formally adopted in any Arabic speaking

Re: [Foundation-l] MENA Education Program?

2011-11-15 Thread Barry Newstead
Hi Katie, Just to build on Moushira's response to tackle your questions a bit further. On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 5:26 AM, aude aude.w...@gmail.com wrote: Erik, Sue, Frank, et al, Can you please say more about the plans for a Middle East education program? (yes I have read notes from the recent

Re: [Foundation-l] MENA Education Program?

2011-11-15 Thread Abbas Mahmood
Some brief notes about the MENA trip can be found here: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Education_Program/MENATrip //Abbas. Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:39:14 -0800 From: bnewst...@wikimedia.org To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] MENA Education Program

Re: [Foundation-l] MENA Education Program?

2011-11-13 Thread Moushira Elamrawy
Hi Aude, Hope all is well. Glad to see your interest in Arabic Wikipedia, and I have a couple of comments to some of your questions: 1) The issue with flagged revisions and handling a massive influx of articles should ideally be addressed to the Arabic Wikipedia community. It has already been

[Foundation-l] MENA Education Program?

2011-11-12 Thread aude
Erik, Sue, Frank, et al, Can you please say more about the plans for a Middle East education program? (yes I have read notes from the recent trip on outreach wiki) What is the timeframe? Who is going to run it? Will you establish a trust there? Where will the office be? If the program is to