FWIW, I always liked the term "emerging communities" because it's very broad, and it can be applied not just to countries but also cultures, minorities, sub-communities of any sort.
For example, I would very much like to call the Wikisource community an "emerging" one, because it needs the exact care/attention/incubation that the WMF is trying to provide with this program. I know it's a bit stretched, but maybe it's a sort of helpful frame for sister project communities. Aubrey On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Strainu <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to thank the Community Resources team for dropping the highly > discriminatory division into North and South and for proposing a more > nuanced approach. > > I would also urge the remaining teams within the WMF that still use the > terms to consider less offensive alternatives suitable for their particular > purposes. > > Strainu > > În 27 septembrie 2017 20:28:52 EEST, Asaf Bartov <[email protected]> > a scris: > >Dear Wikimedians, > > > >Years ago, as part of the first Strategy process of 2009-2010, a > >distinction entered our lives, between Global North and Global South > >countries. That distinction was borrowed from a United Nations agency > >named ITU, and it was used as shorthand to refer to communities the > >Foundation considered to need additional resources and help to achieve > >impact on our mission of creating and sharing free knowledge. > > > >However, the distinction was never a very good fit for us. It was > >based on > >UN notions like the Human Development Index, and gave much weight to > >nation-wide economic conditions. Its binary nature did not allow for > >distinguishing between countries where Wikimedia work is possible and > >happening, albeit with difficulty, and ones where no Wikimedia work, or > >next to none, is happening, or possible. It also looked only at > >geography, > >whereas much of our work is defined by language communities and not by > >geographies. And it was political and alienating to many people. > > > >In short, it was both not as useful as we needed it to be as well as > >unloved and rejected by many. > > > >The Community Resources team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been > >thinking > >about replacing that distinction with a more nuanced one, that would be > >a > >much better fit with our needs, would take into account the actual > >state of > >editing communities, would consider multiple axes beyond geography, and > >would be less controversial. > > > >We began using the term "emerging communities" two years ago, first as > >a > >replacement for the term Global South, but it has always been our > >intention > >to define Emerging Communities ourselves. Finishing the proposed > >definition took a back seat for a while due to other priorities, but we > >are > >ready to share the proposed definition today: > > > >https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/ > Defining_Emerging_Communities > > > > > >We welcome your thoughts, on the talk page (ideally) or on this thread. > >The definition is already our working definition, but we are open to > >incorporating changes to both wording and substance through October > >31st. > > > >Be sure to take a look at the FAQ supplied at the bottom of the page, > >too. > >:) > > > >Cheers, > > > > Asaf > >_______________________________________________ > >Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > >https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > >https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > >New messages to: [email protected] > >Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > ><mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > -- > Trimis de pe dispozitiv Android cu K-9 Mail. Rog scuzati mesajul scurt. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
