Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: Jan Eissfeldt joins Wikimedia Foundation as Community Advocate

2013-04-28 Thread Jan Eissfeldt
The annual plan 2012-13, published a couple of months after the
announcement mid 2012, provided more explicitation; saying on p. 42:

"..we intend to invest in more thoroughly understanding the non-en-WP
communities, and growing our social and political capital. To that end, we
will build a team of three community advocates inside the Legal and
Community Advocacy department, with the goal of better understanding the
non-English language communities, particularly German, Japanese, Spanish,
Russian, French and Italian."

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/4/4f/2012-13_Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan_FINAL_FOR_WEBSITE.pdf

And the underlying reasoning also resurfaced in the narrowing focus effort
in October 2012:

"Wikimedia's success depends on successful two-way communication across
projects and languages. ..[..]..We view this as a necessary core activity,
and investments on this front as remedial."

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sue_Gardner/Narrowing_focus#How_do_Wikipedia_Zero.2C_the_Global_Education_Program.2C_and_the_Community_Advocacy_team_fit_into_this.3F


On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
wrote:

> Philippe Beaudette, 28/04/2013 06:48:
>
>> Yep. Meta.
>>
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/Legal_and_Community_**
>> Advocacy/LCA_Announcement<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/LCA_Announcement>
>>
>
> I don't remember reading anything like that in that page, and checking
> again I find only something about "community advisory board"... confusion
> increases.
>
>
> Nemo
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: Jan Eissfeldt joins Wikimedia Foundation as Community Advocate

2013-04-26 Thread Jan Eissfeldt
Moin,

Thank you for the warm welcome. I'm looking forward to work with you in
improving our mutual understanding across this diverse movement we have
created.

See you in the institute, Tobias ;)


On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Tobias
wrote:

> On 04/25/2013 10:39 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
>
>>
>> Congratulations Jan!
>
> See you in the lecture on tuesday ;)
>
> -- Tobias
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