I can confirm that he is here. He's even giving a talk about the EU project at
sunday afternoon :-)
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Von: David Cuenca <[email protected]>
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An: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)"
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Betreff: Re: [Wikimania-l] WMEU
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
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