Talk:NEH Reference materials grant application/Staff
Add topicI'm not sure why the page suggest bureaucrats be included, but even if it is limited to those (which I don't think it should be), it certainly should not be limited to only those from the English Wikipedia. Here's a selection of non-en bureaucrats to start from if anyone wants to contact these people. Maybe just generally advertising this on the relevant mailing lists for all users, not just bureaucrats would be more appropriate.
A-giâu, Pektiong, Andre Engels, Walter, Meursault2004, Kowey, Suisui, Tomos, Shaihulud, ArnoLagrange, Fantasy, Karl Wick, Looxix, JorgeGG, Head, de:Benutzer:Sansculotte, Formulax, Shizhao, TUF-KAT, Daniel Mayer, Wolfram, Patrick, Fire, Mike, Tsca, DaB., Drbug, Spik dk, Untifler, Polyglot, ...
Also, the developer list seems to be missing at least Jamesday, JeLuF, Aoineko, TomK32, Jeronim, Magnus Manske, Evan Prodromou, Tarquin, Timwi, Hashar, Taw, Erik Zachte and maybe some more. Angela 00:13, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)
My main goal was to kick start this off. I started asking questions and nobody really knew who should be filling out these resumes. As of when I started this I had aboslutely no idea how WikiMedia was organized so I have done my best. (I learned a lot)
The mailing list idea sounds good. I am subscribed to the foundation-l mailing list but I can't post to it. Is there any way we can change that?
One thing I think we should be concerned about is the presentation of the organization of our upper echelon. NEH is going to expect structure, and our competition is going to have it. As far as I can tell we have the Board, Developers, Bureaucrats, Sysops, account holding contributors, and anonymous volunteers. Volunteers applying to all of course. That is a key word that we should focus on.
When we are doing these resumes, how are we going to present them? We certainly don't want them in a big unorganized stack. Perhaps using the organizational tiers listed above (please modify if needed) we can present a sampling of each level, including 100% of the Board, and minus Sysops, account holding contributors, and anonymous volunteers. Although we could surely reach into the depths of Wikipedia and ask for every PhD that has every created an article to fill out a resume, I think we should be more practical. We want NEH to feel like the central decision makers have some concrete experience and education to work off of. From reading the requirements it seems that they are very interested in the methodology of the technology so Developers are important as well.
If you can get my e-mail address posting status to the mailing list I can start working on this that way. reflection at gmail . com Alterego