Ah yes, some more context would have been good in my original post :-) The fellows decided to put together a monthly digest that rolls together all their updates from their projects in the past month, because we noticed that until now everyone in our group shares progress and learning in different ways for each fellowship project, it can take a lot of hunting to find it all, and isn't always as transparent as we would like. We wanted a way to start sharing as a group what the fellows "team" is doing. I also like the idea because those who are interested in the fellows program and browse our meta pages now have a place to sample what fellows actually do each month.
We do report some of this in the WMF metrics report each month, and that won't change (it will just make it easier for me to write, since the info will be compiled already!) - so to some degree, Lodewijk, I think the fellowship news has always been incorporated into a report with other cool stuff being done by staff and volunteers. I would love to see more updates from others on cool projects, though, and don't want this to be seen as a split. If this inspires someone to roll this all up together elsewhere that would be great! We've got to start somewhere still. If is not of interest to those on the mailing lists - I know there are a lot of things to read out there already - we don't need to announce each month though, they can be watched and subscribed to on-wiki. Confirming Maggie's thoughts, Richard, this report covers all projects being worked on by current fellows (which can, indeed, be a varied range of topics!). Siko > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 07:43:46 -0400 > From: Maggie Dennis <mden...@wikimedia.org> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing the > Fellowship News > Message-ID: > <CAMuth1wujQsOO6c6nKOZzxm+SStnOur9s5owu+= aydrq+lg...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I haven't spoken to Siko about this at all (first I'm hearing about it), > but I imagine, Richard, that it will focus on the work being done on > fellowships by WMF Fellows. > > Lodewijk, I think it would be great to have a newsletter about the cool > things people are doing around the Wiki World. :) If somebody chooses to > put something like that together, surely having material to incorporate > about Fellows would be useful? The content is freely licensed and can be > reused (and modified) like other material on the projects under the same > terms. > > Maggie > > On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Lodewijk <lodew...@effeietsanders.org >wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > while it is great that you do this responsibly, I am indeed also wondering > > how we can make this a worth while read. Because while it is a nice > > program, there are many other people around Wiki World doing similarly cool > > things (no offence) - as are "real" staff members. By splitting this off in > > a seperate news section (as we have been splitting off a lot) I'm afraid > > you might be putting the news actually on a bigger distance than you would > > otherwise. > > > > Lodewijk > > > > 2012/7/6 Richard Symonds <richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk> > > > > > Thanks Siko! > > > > > > Could you explain what exactly this covers? Teahouse, translations, small > > > Wikis and dispute resolution is a very wide net - and presumably it will > > > change according to which fellows are 'employed' at the time it's > > written. > > > Is there an overarching theme? > > > > > > Richard Symonds, Wikimedia UK > > > On Jul 6, 2012 11:54 PM, "Siko Bouterse" <sboute...@wikimedia.org> > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I am pleased to announce that the first monthly edition of the > > Fellowship > > > > News is now available on Meta-Wiki! > > > > > > > > Come learn what the Wikimedia Fellows have been working on in June: > > > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fellowship_News > > > > > > > > Projects covered in this edition include: > > > > *Dispute Resolution > > > > *Gender Gap > > > > *Help Pages Redesign > > > > *Small Wiki Editor Engagement > > > > *Teahouse > > > > *Translations > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Siko Bouterse > > > > Head of Community Fellowships > > > > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. > > > > > > > > sboute...@wikimedia.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately > > > > directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia > > > > community. 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