Talk:Wikimedia Belgium/September 2011 proposal

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My remarks on the current proposal (sept. 2011):

  • I propose avoid using rules based on languages roles that are too strict. This won't work:
    • it should be "the right man on the right place", and not "the right language"
    • switching every year won't work, it will break the continuity. We should try to have a board that functions multiple years
    • will get complicated with four language roles (dutch, french, german, english)

I would opt for a very light organisation, with four board members (on at least two language roles) and a mainly online presence. Our goal should not be to hold weekly meetings, to open an office, to hire an assistant, to maintain websites, to write articles or blogs, ... . We're not ready for that (limited number of participants, language difficulties, no experience irl, ...)

We want to be "enablers" of wikistuff. We gather the interested people, manage the mailing list, we set up a seperate multilingual website, we get into contact with government organisations, organise media contacts, organise a wiki conference, seperate scholarschips for Wikimania, ... . The most important task should be to get funding (WMF, government, companies, ...), to let everybody know they can file a project proposal. The board then votes if the money is awarded. MADe 20:20, 14 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  • I like your thoughts much, but I just want to be sure that working together between the languages is something everyone want to. Of that is the case, then the proposal is to restricted and is yours better in my opinion. Greetings - Romaine 00:17, 15 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    • About the structure: We need to have a kind of language-based structure, otherwise I don't think we will succeed as in the 2009 proposal. If anyone has a better idea, sure. About office/employees/websites/...: Of course we are not ready yet for that, I said it was for the future. About the languages used: I just said EN, NL, FR (and maybe DE) are used, which is de facto already the case, there's nothing special there. SPQRobin (talk) 18:15, 15 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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