Hey guys! I'd be more than happy to grab a beer with you and talk about Wikimedia and the EU.
Meet under the big screen (food court) at 18:00? Dimi On 10.08.2013, at 13:56, Raul Veede <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I know and initially, we were considering having a chat with Dimi and > Nicole about it. I just thought we could grab a chance to draw a larger crowd. > > Raul > > > On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Tobias Lutzi <[email protected]> wrote: > I can confirm that he is here. He's even giving a talk about the EU project > at sunday afternoon :-) > > -- TL > > > -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- > Von: David Cuenca <[email protected]> > Datum: > An: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" > <[email protected]> > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > > > > -- > Etiamsi omnes, ego non > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
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