The annual plan 2012-13, published a couple of months after the announcement mid 2012, provided more explicitation; saying on p. 42:
"..we intend to invest in more thoroughly understanding the non-en-WP communities, and growing our social and political capital. To that end, we will build a team of three community advocates inside the Legal and Community Advocacy department, with the goal of better understanding the non-English language communities, particularly German, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, French and Italian." http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/4/4f/2012-13_Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan_FINAL_FOR_WEBSITE.pdf And the underlying reasoning also resurfaced in the narrowing focus effort in October 2012: "Wikimedia's success depends on successful two-way communication across projects and languages. ..[..]..We view this as a necessary core activity, and investments on this front as remedial." http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sue_Gardner/Narrowing_focus#How_do_Wikipedia_Zero.2C_the_Global_Education_Program.2C_and_the_Community_Advocacy_team_fit_into_this.3F On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemow...@gmail.com>wrote: > Philippe Beaudette, 28/04/2013 06:48: > >> Yep. Meta. >> >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/Legal_and_Community_** >> Advocacy/LCA_Announcement<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/LCA_Announcement> >> > > I don't remember reading anything like that in that page, and checking > again I find only something about "community advisory board"... confusion > increases. > > > Nemo > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.**org <Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l> > ___________________ Jan Eissfeldt Community Advocate Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
