It's impressive to realize that it.source is a tiny community inside a larger, but nevertheless "tiny community" (the whole wikisource community)...
Alex brollo 2016-05-02 17:53 GMT+02:00 Andrea Zanni <[email protected]>: > Dear all, > last week I represented the Wikisource Community user Group at the > Wikimedia Conference, in Berlin. > > As usual, it has been a great opportunity to talk and meet fellow > wikimedians, especially after the turmoil of the recent months in our > movement (Lila and the other multiple resignations from WMF; Denny and > James leaving the Board, etc.). > > The atmosphere was quite calm and friendly, and this was a good sign. > I've spoken with many WMF employees and they all said "we're in a better > place now". There is hope for the future and they want to do a lot of > things. All this is positive, IMHO, especially after the things I'll > explain now. > > I've spoke with many people; especially > * Danny Horn and Ryan Kaldari of Community Tech team > * Alex Stinson, "The Wikipedia Library" > * Asaf Bartov, which all of you know well :-D > * Katy Love, Director of Resources > * Katherine Mayer, interim ED (!!) > > I'll start from this last one. > Unfortunately I had my flight scheduled right after the meeting, so I was > in a rush. But I met with Katherine and other 2 members of other user > groups: it was the first time (that I know of) that the ED of the WMF took > the time to speak with such tiny groups, and that says something. > She was *genuinely* interested in knowing about Wikisource, and I hope our > conversation will continue in the future. > > But a general "interest" in WS was all that I hoped for. > > Discussions (separate and collective) with Alex, Danny and Asaf were much > more fruitful. > > * Alex Stinson is really interested in promoting Wikisource in the context > of GLAM-WIKI, which makes perfectly sense and has been don already. > Wikimedia Italia use Wikisource a lot in his talks with libraries and > archives, and we are seeing good results. GLAM-WIKI has a "political" > priority in the Wikimedia world, so we should harness that. > > * Asaf is the "Head of Emerging Communities", and I don't see why not we > should *not* be see an emergent community! I don't really know what is the > daily job of Asaf but if he's the person to speak to for the Wikisource > community, we are in great hands. > > * Probably the best discussion I had was with Danny Horn, from Community > Tech. > Danny is one of the guys behind the Community Wishlist Survey. > He was really astonished (he said it many times) by the response from the > Wikisource community in that survey, and was the first to understand that, > if they are bound to count absolute votes to proposals, our tiny community > needs will never be addressed. They have that in mind and will change > things for the following surveys. > > Danny spent *a whole hour* with me looking at Wikisource. > I should him the Proofread Page extension, the phe stats, the EPUB > generator. He was really shocked but what we do, how "details-oriented" we > are (I used less politically-correct adjectives :-), and how much work we > put into things. > > He also saw a bunch of things who could really get some quick help (for > example, incresing the size of the radio buttons, or changing some icons, > or stuff like that) which I think would be great. > > In the end, he was really excited and wanted to do stuff. Of course, he > didn't promise anything because his schedule is full, but there is maybe > the chance to finally push Wikisource into the agenda of the WMF. > > All in all, > I was pretty happy with how people were interested in the project and I > think there is concrete room for improvement. > > Let me know what you think :-) > > Andrea > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > >
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