2013/8/26, Jake Orlowitz <[email protected]>: > I'm sensitive to concerns about the Library's location. It is partly a > legacy issue: The Wikipedia Library partnerships started on English > Wikipedia, and that's where the Credo, HighBeam, Questia, JSTOR, and > Cochrane account donations were coordinated. This made some sense at the > time because these were English language source being donated (although the > donations were promoted to and open to all global editors and projects). > That > will remain--global notifications about account donations and organizing > will be sent using Global Message Delivery, Wikimedia Foundation blog posts > and Signpost mentions will make other announcements. > > This is always a tricky issue for our movement but the intent is very much > to benefit all projects and conduct outreach to all regions. For > neutrality, META is obviously best, but for overall convenience, English > Wikipedia remains the largest and most active project, with the highest > concentration of English language speakers. So in that sense it's a > question of maximizing convenience versus equalizing inconvenience. If > hosted on Meta, everyone has to switch wikis to get there. If hosted on > ENWP, all non-ENWP still editors have to switch wikis to get there, but the > huge chunk of ENWP editors do not. > This will hopefully become much less of an issue with interface changes > like Flow and Global Watchlists. Meta did just get notifications, so > that's helpful, but I still feel collaboration is somewhat limited by our > current infrastrcutre. > > There are other concerns such as turning Meta into a true hub for all of > our editors, and representing our global nature by hosting global projects > there. These are important, and I want to give it more thought. > > So, in the meantime going to look into hosting this on Meta, and I will > definitely at least mirror a portal there. It may take some time while we > continue to organize and get set up > > I'd like to continue talking more about this. Cheers, > > Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi) > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
Good day, Thanks for your reply and input. I never intended to imply that this project was closed to the global community, because I'm certain that this is not the case. This is more than just a question of "having to switch wikis to get to the Library", there is also an important perception factor. True that all non-enWikipedians have to switch wikis anyway, but there is something different from switching from your wiki to a global one, i.e. Meta, and switching from your wiki to another one that you may not contribute to. Even if it's not the case, there is a perception that if a project is hosted on a local wiki it is intended for the local community. Thanks, JP Béland aka Amqui _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
