On Sep 22, 2011 8:48 PM, "MZMcBride" <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > > Steven Walling wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:04 PM, John Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm having a hard time remembering when a WMF led a project that had a > >> primary stated objective to meet a need of a sister project. It would > >> be good to compile a list of any WMF projects of this kind. maybe the > >> WMF can have _one_ "sister projects support officer" (think how many > >> dedicated _English_Wikipedia_ support staff the WMF has). > > > > There is an entire department -- Global Development -- whose current job is > > to support the growth of the many Indic language projects, Portuguese > > Wikipedia, and Arabic Wikipedia (they call that Middle East, North Africa)? > > > > Or how about the hundreds of hours spent in Tech on the new Commons > > UploadWizard? > > Steven, you seem to have completely missed the mark. > > John was responding to my comment(s) about the focus of Wikimedia being > Wikipedia (mostly the English-language version) and occasionally Wikimedia > Commons. John said "I'm having a hard time remembering when a WMF led a > project that had a primary stated objective to meet a need of a sister > project." By this, he meant a project like Wikinews, Wikisource, Wikiversity > or any of the other sister projects of Wikipedia: > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikipedia%27s_sister_projects>. > > The examples you gave were a few other Wikipedias and Wikimedia Commons. Is > there an entire department working on Wikisource? What about Wikiversity? > Wikinews? Is there a single staffer who's even thinking about any of them as > part of their work? I don't know of any. And, back to the original thought: > are there any Wikimedia initiatives to specifically (or "primarily") improve > any of these sister projects? I also don't know of any. > > MZMcBride
Bah. My mistake. Sorry if that sounded confused, I was just reacting to the idea that there are any staff dedicated solely to English Wikipedia, which isn't true. Steven _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l