At this rate, I think the communities could run some of these sites better than the WMF. It's better than letting them sit forever.
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Andrea Zanni <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm kind sad to see the my personal view of the Wikimedia movement > increasingly distant from Sue's view... > > I believe sister projects are deeply important and potential (we have a > Universal Library (Wikisource), a Universal Media Archive (Commons), a > Universal Dictionary (Wiktionary), etc.) They are worth some attention and > WMF has never given it to them. > I believe WMF should understand that his job focus it's not English > Wikipedia. There are other Wikipedias and there are other projects. Oh, > there are other languages too. > I believe the Movement to be deeply international and diverse, and that > keeping and enjoying this diversity is hugely hard but hugely important. > Both fellowships, attention to developing countries and Wikimania cover > that. > I believe Wikimania is a awesome occasion to become a WikiMedian, and to > fell being part of a Movement. It is wonderful to get new ideas, to talk to > people, to understand and learn, and to take back this experience in > Chapters and Wikiprojects. Ask anyone who participated in a Wikimania > event. > I feel that keeping the Fellowhip Program open would be a way to let the > community express itself, propose original and innovative ideas and focused > projects. I do believe that some of them had an impact (GLAM, anyone?), and > will have for years. We just scratched the surface. > I regret deeply the distance between WMF and Chapters: they were not > allowed to participant in the fundraiser, put in the uncomfortable > situation to ask the grants in a burocratic way staying under stricts > agreements (ie, California laws AND national laws). It is a complex topic > (accountability and so on), but could have be dealt with much better. > I believe that money should be much better distributed that centralized, I > believe that ''no one, neither the Chapters nor the Foundation, is really > entitled to get the money.'' No one really deserve the donations we get as > Wikimedia. We did not earn them. They are for Wikipedia, and Wikipedia is a > commons, and is common-produced. If we could distribute the money to all > the editors around the globe, as a reward, we should do it.. It's > impossible, so it's OK, but, still, I hope you get the idea that we are not > entitled, we just get them. And we should be aware of that. > > Aubrey > > PS: full disclosure: I had in mind to ask for a fellowship about > Wikisource, and I'm a chapter member. So there is some personal > disappontment, going exactly in the opposite direction of WMF. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
