On the great things: - There are so many forms of volunteer contribution, you don't need to be an expert to be able to contribute to English Wikipedia (how can I contribute, everything is there already). You can fight vandalism, you can take pictures, you can write code, you can help other languages. - In less developed countries, in depth-reading of Wikipedia is more prevalent, the likely explanation is that in lack of resources we take for granted in Europe/US, people turn to Wikipedia to learn and develop
This is not great fact but it's sorta funny how extensively we cover everything. Last week I learned Wikipedia even has list of people who died on the toilet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_on_the_toilet HTH On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 11:25 PM Aboubacar Keïta <[email protected]> wrote: > Bonjour et merci du message > > J'aimerais vivement que les pays du sud ont plus de moyens financiers pour > réaliser des projets concrètement. > > Le financement des concours baisse, mais la couverture des objectifs de ces > concours reste quasiment incomplet en Afrique. > > Exemple Wiki Loves Monuments, en Guinée 99% des sites sont ni illustré sur > Wikipédia en articles, ni en image sur commons mais qu'on supprime le > financement pour les longues voyages diminuer nos forces d'améliorer > qualitativement les articles Wikipédia vue qu'on a moins de bénévoles > encore. > > Vivement une relativisation des ressources en fonction de l'avancée des > projets et plus de douceur dans l'obtention des subventions. > > Le mer. 27 nov. 2019 à 22:08, Joseph Seddon <[email protected]> a > écrit : > > > Hey all, > > > > (reposting due to filter rejection) > > > > > > Fundraising are looking for ideas and suggestions for our writing team to > > explore for our messaging in this years fundraiser. I only need a minute > of > > your time to answer the following question: > > > > > > --- What’s your favorite thing about Wikipedia that you wish our readers > > and donors knew? --- > > > > > > We'll use the responses to generate new test ideas > > > > Post your answers on list or directly to me :) Thanks in advance > > > > -- > > Seddon > > > > *Community and Audience Engagement Associate* > > *Advancement (Fundraising), Wikimedia Foundation* > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- Amir (he/him) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
