"video in Introduction to Partnership Building (computer-graded exercises) - Basics of partnership building for Wikimedia volunteers, with computer-graded exercises."
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"WikiLearn - Introduction to Partnership Building (computer-graded exercises) - video: Saying no"
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"Saying no"
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"As we mentioned, we should we should be ready to not partner with people if we find"
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"that what they want, we cannot actually deliver, because we don't have enough"
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"capacity. If what they want us to work on isn't attractive or interesting to our few"
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"volunteers and we literally won't be able to do what they want, or if they show us some"
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"really strong warning signs, like they refuse to accept that they cannot control"
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"articles, or they refuse to release under a free license, and yet want us to include the"
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"images, or they give us impossible deadlines that they insist on."
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"Or they want to immediately benefit from our brand."
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"They want to immediately have a press release saying "we are partners with"
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"Wikimedia" before we've actually done anything together."
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"That's a warning sign."
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"Or if their own work conflicts with our mission significantly, like censorship or"
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"government propaganda or something like that."
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"That's true too strongly against our own mission to partner with them."
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"And then if that's the case, we say politely, no, we say why we cannot partner."
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"And if we realize after the meeting that this is not going to work, we should let them"
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"know. We shouldn't just abandon it."
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"We should be professional about it."
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"Pick up the phone or write an email and explain why this is not possible."
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"And ideally, we should let people know in advance."
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"If we're talking, for example, about writing articles about your museum's objects, we"
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"should say the people who would write the articles are volunteers, and volunteers write"
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"about what they care about and what motivates them."
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"So we're not guaranteeing any particular object, any particular article will be"
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"written. We're going to do a contest."
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"We're going to have publicity."
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"We're going to encourage people to write articles."
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"But you need to understand, volunteer interest is a condition here."
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"That's something that's worth saying in advance so that there are not unpleasant"
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"surprises. And this is where assignment seven with the assumptions section comes in"
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"handy. You need to make sure that these assumptions are understood and shared by your"
