>
> Dear friends,
>
> One element of the discussions on "Movement Roles" was about other /
> new entities within our movement, aside the already existing
> Foundation and the Chapters, which I prefer to call "national
> Wikimedia organizations". I would like to present to you here my idea
> of "Lan
2011/8/16 Milos Rancic :
>
> realized that we have to elect our ambassadors to Meta [1]. So, the
> first three persons on the list were actually elected. Unfortunately,
> the idea of Embassy was never really alive.
>
Interesting! Actually, from the 5 persons on that list for Esperanto,
at least 2-
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 22:16, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
> == Language Contact Person (LCP) ==
> I would like to suggest a small solution to solve a part of the
> problems. Every language version of Wikipedia should designate a
> "Language Contact Person" for relations with the Foundation (and
> nation
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:05:37 +0200, Ziko van Dijk
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The name is not so important, of course, but I think that the old
> "Ambassador" is a little bit a big word.
>
> Why do the "ambassadors" not work? Because they don't feel
> responsible, if they can simply put themselves on a
Hello,
The name is not so important, of course, but I think that the old
"Ambassador" is a little bit a big word.
Why do the "ambassadors" not work? Because they don't feel
responsible, if they can simply put themselves on a list and then
forget about. It is important that they feel an obligation
> Let's do it! What's the best way to encourage embassies, especially on
> small
> projects that may have never had them before?
>
Obviously, to let a message in a relevant language (which is expected to
be understood by many of the users) on the village pump of the
corresponding project. The mes
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 7:58 AM, church.of.emacs.ml <
church.of.emacs...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 08/14/2011 11:41 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> > I support the idea of language contact persons, or ambassadors, but
> > their appointment shouldn't be as rigidly regulated as the appointment
> > of
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 16:58, church.of.emacs.ml
wrote:
> On 08/14/2011 11:41 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
>> I support the idea of language contact persons, or ambassadors, but
>> their appointment shouldn't be as rigidly regulated as the appointment
>> of administrators.
>
> There are already amb
On 08/14/2011 11:41 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> I support the idea of language contact persons, or ambassadors, but
> their appointment shouldn't be as rigidly regulated as the appointment
> of administrators.
I agree, instead of only two responsible persons there should be a group
of people who
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:43:13 +0400, "Yaroslav M. Blanter"
wrote:
>> == New entities?==
>> James Forrester and his group (sorry, I don't remember who was the
>> official primus inter pares) presented in/before Haifa a list of new
>> kinds of Wikimedia entities:
>> * Chapters not based on national b
> == New entities?==
> James Forrester and his group (sorry, I don't remember who was the
> official primus inter pares) presented in/before Haifa a list of new
> kinds of Wikimedia entities:
> * Chapters not based on national boundaries, but subjects such as
> railways, art, ethnic cultures, mathe
The subject matter "chapters" thing sounds quite a bit like en.wp's
Wikiprojects.
Dan Rosenthal
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On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 16:16, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
[...]
> == Language Contact Person (LCP) ==
> I would like to suggest a small solution to solve a part of the
> problems. Every language version of Wikipedia should designate a
> "Language Contact Person" for relations with the Foundation (and
Let me start by saying that Ziko's "Tell us about your Wikipedia"
project was wonderful and i really expect its second edition. If Ziko
or someone else doesn't beat me to it, i'll probably just create one
myself, with additional questions that interest me ;)
I support the idea of language contact
Hi Ziko
I am not sure if I see the point here. There are 2 issues getting conflated
here, one is representation of languages between national chapters which I
believe, is a much bigger issue. The second issue, where these Language
contact persons serve WMF and the movement in talking about local l
Dear friends,
One element of the discussions on "Movement Roles" was about other /
new entities within our movement, aside the already existing
Foundation and the Chapters, which I prefer to call "national
Wikimedia organizations". I would like to present to you here my idea
of "Language Contact P
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