Movement roles/Working group meeting 2011-1-29/topic ideas

Brainstorming cards from the roles matrix discussion, roughly clustered. This was a quick exercise, and is not remotely complete.

education

• build partnerships with universities to increase participation by students and faculty
• develop lesson plans
• educational cooperations

business

• set employee salaries
• provide training for volunteers / staff / board members
• training, professionalisation
• develop partnerships with mobile phone companies to provide better mobile user experience
• dealing with partner organizations on the global level
• asking for sponsorship or donation
• keeping good relationship with companies, organizations and government
• partner with business
• form technical partnerships
• grants and partnerships
• business partnerships

data, innovation

• analyze WM performance to generate insights for improvement
• provide realtime data for tracking WM performance
• maintain knowledge sharing resources "we know what we know"
• encourage outside researchers to study WM
• document histories, experiences of WM projects for shared learning
• identify and foster innovation [new projects]
• fund crazy ideas that community members want to explore

advocacy, enlightenment

• global advocacy (literacy, net governance)
• lobby for better legal environment
• lobbying
• dealing with public institutions (television companies, national archives, ...)
• advocate to governments to increase availability of knowledge under free licence
• influencing law and society
• freeing hoarded knowledge
• advocacy activities
• advocate for free knowledge
• local advocacy (A2K [Access to Knowledge], free textbooks)
• lobbying for better copyright law
• defend Wikimedia ideals in public debate
• freeing content
• spread the idea of collaboration and cooperation
• solicit content donations (or use cc-by-sa)
• advocate the vision and mission
• enlightment about free content

relationships, identity

• inform the audience about wikip(m)edia
• respond to complaints about quality
• reeder relations (inbound)
• editor relationship
• reader relationship
• answering public or outside non-media queries

software, tools, usability

• software development
• empowering collaboration (tools)
• develop software and tools for editors
• support innovation
• give tools (technical) to the community
• upgrade the editing interface
• development of Mediawiki
• create new applications for WM projects that take advantage of mobile internet
• wikipedia apps for iPad/Android Pad
• add social functionality to WM user interface
• improving wikimedia projects usability
• improve the software
• improve usability
• usability and technical (make wm projects more accessible)

knowledge transfer

• improve knowledge transfer in the community
• share experiences (learned lessons)
• develop internal manuals (or processes)

branding, memes

• defend trademarks
• create swag
• trademarks / branding
• brand & meme development
• use of wikimedia trademarks for offline volunteer activities
• merchandizing (swag)
• trademark management and using
• develop and distribute WM-branded merchandize to build affiliation

legal

• protect wikimedia/pedia trademarks
• dealing with legal issues
• business inquiries
• business and legal risk assessment
• respond to legal challenges to project content
• protect brand from corruption
• manage libel lawsuits

governance

• make urgent global decisions
• set global goals for the movement
• have good relationship within wikimedia
• creating non-editing policies
• growth in member numbers
• global strategic development
• conducting/leading the movement
• act against movement entities harming the movement
• coordinate internal communication
• support startup organizations
• organizational growth assessment
• developing movement expertise
• building a base of affiliate volunteer experts worldwide

press

• getting media coverage / press represent
• press announcements
• represent wikimedia to public
• press inquiries

mission partnerships

• cooperate with non-chi likeminded organzations (OSM, Mozilla, CC ...)
• partner with other NGO
• associations and partnerships with external organizations and institutes
• GLAM partnerships
• involve cultural heritage institutions
• institutional linkages e.g. GLAM
• institutional partnerships (GLAM, govts ...)
• institutions (inbound/outbound)
• work with museums, universities to put content on wiki
• institutional sponsorship
• cultural cooperations
• partner with governments

general outreach

• project promotion/outreach
• outreach to mobilize new editors
• outreach (proselytism?)
• create outreach material
• nurture and grow base of volunteers
• convert readers to writers
• encourage new volunteers to edit
• get more people to edit the projects
• motivate local user groups
• point of entry into the movement for community / outside world
• Wikis (HEART)/Take <cityname>

editor diversity

• promote the wikimedia projects locally in local language
• encourage greater diversity of participants
• promoting wikimedia projects in regions with low-volunteer activities
• beginner's guide of wiki projects in local languages
• offline volunteer recruitment
• explain how WM works to new groups
• increase global participation
• encourage female participation
• support new communities of contributors (e.g. women, older people) to integrate into WM movement

community support and empowerment

• understand user needs
• understand what drives participation
• address questions of "culture" on English wiki
• maintain relationships with volunteers
• support "the community"
• mentor new users/contributors
• support of editing volunteers
• helping the users
• teach people how to edit
• teaching the correct use of wiki projects
• empowering collaboration and individuals (social norms)

event organziation

• Wikimania and large scale community events
• Organizing conferences and big-scale events (Wikimania)
• Organizing conferences
• organize gatherings
• organize community meetings
• Hosting events (chapters, mania, workshops)
• real life events
• small scale community events
• hold outreach events

educational impact

• help put wikipedia into schools worlswide
• expand reach
• fertilize the non-internet w/ knowledge
• educational impact
• provide access to Wikimedia projects for offline use cases
• create offline versions of Wikimedia projects for use in education
• making the internet not suck
• making the world editable

fundraising

• go after big donors
• fundraising
• fundraising
• donor relationships
• raise money
• individual donations

technical infrastructure

• secure the infrastructure
• run the website
• provide technical infrastructure
• improve site performance in the global south
• provide servers and connectivity
• server operations
• maintaining & running servers
• register domain names
• dealing with cyber squatters

spend money

• make grants
• allocate money to projects that members of the movement want to do
• ensure all money is spent wisely
• elaborate ideas to spend money

social responsibility

• troubleshooting in an extreme case, crisis management
• decide how to respond to censorship

community health

• buy stroopwaffels
• facilitate community discussions
• wikilove
• arbitrate disputes on wiki
• access to non-textual knowledge (databases, video, 4-D-models)
• access to non-notable verifiable/educational knowledge
• make wikipedia a better place

editing

• develop educational material (i.e. write wikipedia)
• editing

content quality

• quality of content of WM-projects
• QC over the projects' contents

movement definitions

• decide which entities are in or out of the movement
• recognizing (i.e. officially) WM chapters
• set local goals for chapters
• recognizing non-chapter organizations
• legitimize organizations (within Wikimedia)

language

• expand wikipedias from 250 to 1000 languages
• promoting specific languages
• translation
• ... in their own language

Brainstorming live

These are the cards we used to work on this brainstorming.

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  Movement roles meeting Jan. 2011 the bunch of cards, ideas galore
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  Movement roles meeting Jan. 2011 Roles matrix board
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  Movement roles meeting Jan. 2011 Roles matrix topics
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  Movement roles meeting Jan. 2011 Roles matrix players