Hi Raul, I'm interested in talking about this topic. Do you know about the EU policy project? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/16/our-man-in-brussels-dimitar-dimitrov/
I think Dimi is in Wikimania, but unfortunately I haven't meet him yet. Micru On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Raul Veede <[email protected]> wrote: > A short clarification: > > I did NOT mean to set up an organization of European chapters. > > It's just that on a recent trip to European Commission I noticed that the > coverage of EU on wikiprojects is surprisingly lousy, yet it influences > millions of people and could be really important. A usual article on a > multimillion dollar program of EU is only present on English and French > Wikipedias, has no sources, doesn't mention implementation, media coverage > or influence, and dates from 2007 or 2009. Fairly, it sucks. But it doesn't > have to be like that. > > EU institutions aren't any good in spreading neutral and objective > information directly to the people whose lives they influence, so > everything goes through the filters of local politicians and media which > all too often have their own agenda. (That's why there's a monthly panic > about "EU forbidding this or that".) To be honest, we're much better at > communication than the EU professionals are. So, maybe we could cooperate. > > I'm not a missionary for this, I won't try to convince anyone. I'm already > exhausted by my current work. But I'd like to hear if anyone else thinks we > could (or should) do something about it. > > Raul > > > On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Raul Veede <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is anyone interested in discussing a quite raw idea: a possible thorg for >> covering European Union in different Wikiprojects and languages? I'm not >> even absolutely sure it would be a good idea, or how it should be working, >> but I think it would be worth discussing. >> >> I've already talked to some of us, so I hope they chime in and help us >> find a time slot - maybe sometime tonight, before people start to leave. >> >> Raul >> WMEE >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > -- Etiamsi omnes, ego non
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