Hi, Thanks for your great effort, Andrea. This really gives hope to the global Wikisource community.
Regards, Bodhisattwa On 3 May 2016 at 12:53, Alex Brollo <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > >
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