On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:43 PM, bawolff <[email protected]> wrote: > Well it just seems that often outreach focuses on people outside the > Wikimedia community, well ignoring people already in the Wikimedia > community. In my opinions we're much more likely to get someone who > truley cares about MediaWiki if they use it every day (Like > Wikimedians do). Case in point, the Wikidata folks set up a page > asking for volunteers to help [1]. I have no idea in what venue they > advertised this in, but presumably somewhere meta-ish. 20 people > listed their name on this request for volunteers under the willing to > code section. Of those 20, only 3 of them are even remotely involved > in MediaWiki development as far as I can tell. > > It seems like outreach sometimes concentrates on hard targets (people > who aren't involved) and ignoring the easy targets. > > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Volunteers
Hi :) We advertise that page on meta:Wikidata and wikidata-l. I think I also mentioned it a few times on @wikidata on identi.ca and Twitter. It likely reached people who are not necessarily close to MediaWiki simply because Wikidata reaches quite a few people who are not close to MediaWiki. I didn't reach out to any group in particular for this. Hope that info helps. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
