Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Findings

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Synthesis[edit]

Themes are interconnected

Process[edit]

Touchy-feely-sectarian stuff

The sum of all knowledge[edit]

Why create free knowledge?[edit]

The original promise of the internet[edit]

"The greatest potential given by Internet is the diversity possibility -- to confront knowledge, ideas and perspectives different from our own"[6]

Quality, verifiability, neutrality[edit]

Why create free knowledge? References to organize[edit]


Communities of knowledge[edit]

Representation, knowledge gaps, systemic biases[edit]

  • "Content, practices and understandings still seem American-centric to users"[171]
  • "Without healthy and inclusive communities, content becomes irrelevant in the short term"[172]
  • "If there is only one specific group, it doesn't meet the goal of being a broad-based source of knowledge and to report different world views and linguistic diversity."[173]
  • "It is the way to ensure diversity of content approaches for all voices to be represented."[174]

Challenges of diversity

  • "articles written by people with different backgrounds aren't cohesive and easy to comprehend"[175]
  • "There will always be tension between quality and inclusiveness."[176]
  • [177]

Narrow definition of knowledge[edit]

  • "This is a global publication, but editors often become narrow in their focus"[178]
  • "too much effort is spent on deleting content rather than improving or creating content"[179]
  • "We have become increasingly viewed as gatekeepers, especially in the social and human domains"[180]
  • "Less deletion battles"[181]

Personal and timely relevance; discovery[edit]

Partnerships for integrating, developing, verifying content[edit]

Quality and quantity of content[edit]

This leads to "more and better content"[183], notably by recruiting subject matter experts and increasing diversity

  • [184]
  • [185]
  • [186]
  • [187]
  • [188]
  • [189]
  • [190]
  • "closing the current knowledge gaps by including a truly diverse set of contributors"[191]
  • Patience and understanding of knowledge that is unfamiliar to old-timers[192]
  • [193]
  • "only a means to an end for ultimately supporting improved content"[194]
  • "If there is no community behind, improving and curating, the content loses value because it is obsolete or replaced."[195]
  • "Biased information is incomplete, or even wrong. Without members of the community able to recognise bias, Wikipedia just becomes an echo chamber, at best ignoring and at worst actively damaging minority groups and ideas"[196]
  • "We can only create a trusted source of knowledge if we are a good community"[197]

This enables us to do more, more quickly

  • "cover many projects effectively and on time"[198]
  • "a larger number of contributors allows for a larger amount working on specific topics"[199]

Necessary for the sum of all knowledge

  • "Broaden people's thinking"[200]
  • "Wikimedia projects are a direct reflection of its users and volunteers. […] If we want to keep to the mission of the project to accumulate all of humanity's knowledge then we need to reflect that in our communities. "[201]
  • [202]
  • [203]
  • "the platform/database for the knowledge of all mankind"[204]
  • "To be the most respected source of knowledge requires many other types of editors" [205]
  • "You can't fix the data without including communities."[206]

Knowledge diversity; oral knowledge

  • "Collecting different kinds of knowledge is one of our goals in the community"[207]
  • "include peoples who predominantly have an oral tradition"[208]
  • "We will include more sources of information that include different types of history (e.g., oral histories) in various cultures."[209]

Biases and neutrality[edit]

Diversity, openness to points of views, awareness of bias

  • "A community that is healthy can accept divergent points of view in a respectful, helpful way"[210]
  • "Biases that exist in Wikipedia propagate outward, infecting the world in myriad small ways"[211]
  • "We would be able to incorporate knowledge from various communities around the world into Wikimedia"[212]
  • "The more inclusive Wikipedia is the more balanced and neutral the Wikis will get."[213]
  • [214]
  • [215]
  • "It is necessary to raise the community's ability to deal with different opinions and ideas"[216]
  • [217]
  • "it will neutralize various biases"[218]
  • [219]
  • [220]
  • [221]
  • “see the world through others’ eyes”[222]
  • "We don’t have homogeneity in a single monoculture, but instead "agree to disagree" with respect."[223]
  • "the content will reflect differing points of view and be more neutral"[209]
  • "without community we are an empty shell. With a deranged community, we could be […] a non-neutral encyclopedia that poses as neutral." [224]

[community health] Essential for neutrality

Communities of knowledge: References to organize[edit]


Infrastructure for knowledge[edit]

Technological platform & innovation[edit]

Knowledge formats, multimedia[edit]

Beyond the encyclopedia[edit]

Dissent:

Becoming the essential infrastructure for free knowledge, verifiable information, and learning[edit]

Language support[edit]

Infrastructure for knowledge: References to organize[edit]


Participation: Freely sharing in[edit]

Why radically open participation?[edit]

Collaboration and the wiki spirit[edit]

  • "An inclusion of communities, and therefore of individuals, will make community collaboration easier."[493]
  • "if we have a strong community, we will have the human resources to do anything"[494]
  • "it is the engine/heart of everything Wikipedia was and should be"[495]
  • "It makes us unique, human-based, diverse and sustainable"[496]
  • "It's the community aspect that strengthens the Wikimedia Movement, the set of contributors who build something together."[497]
  • "key to the success of the others. In order to make the other advancements, you need the workforce to achieve it"[498]
  • "only a functioning community can guarantee a future for Wikipedia. A precondition for this is not that we all 'love' each other. This is not possible. But it should work better. "[499]
  • "only a functioning Wikipedia community can guarantee a future. […] the community should be more harmonious for the motivation of the authors."[500]
  • "Safe, healthy communities lay the groundwork for all future work on Wikipedia; it is the gatekeeper and the enabler."[501]
  • "the community is the critical success factor"[502]
  • "Without a healthy community, nothing else would work."[503]
  • "without it, Wikipedia will stagnate"[504]
  • "culture eats strategy for breakfast. without a healthy community, you will not be able to implement other goals"[505]
  • "Credibility lies in exchanges and debates"[497]

Openness, inclusion and diversity[edit]

"one of the basic principles of wikipedia […] is the inclusion of communities"[506]

tempting to be less open"become less democratic"[507]

Distributed governance, equity[edit]

  • "it provides the opportunity for the minority to share their knowledge"[508]
  • "The marginalized communities that are most affected by some current policies and practices are the communities whose perspectives are most needed."[509]
  • "people from the “global south” are not a problem to be resolved but people with valuable resources to share with the Wikimedia movement"[510]

Equity / efforts to support minorities

  • "We should stop excluding the minority"[511]
  • "the catalyzing of marginalized communities is done from a top down approach"[512]

Integration is more difficult for newcomers who are different from the majority of the current group

  • "It is much easier to be included if you are a white man in a white-man environment, but if you are different it costs a lot"[513]

Ideals, values and wikimedian culture[edit]

Transparency and openness, compared to private companies

  • "Transparent and open knowledge accumulation"[514]
  • "Transparent practices that show why decisions are made (and by who)"[515]

Representation

  • "more representative of the global population"[516]
  • "The writers of Wikipedia are more representative of the readers"[517]

Self-understanding, identity

  • know better what's happening on various wikis[518]
  • [219]
  • "understand the encyclopedic needs of the world"[519]
  • "change the movement towards a true community"[520]

[community health] Contributors will feel that they are part of a movement that cares about people, not just content."[521]

Make the world a better place

"people always need to be part of a community, of a society - it brings them hope, future, ideas, aim"[525]

Impact beyond Wikimedia sites[edit]

Being a leader, a model for others to follow

  • "lead the way in collaborative, online digital humanities"[526]
  • [527]
  • "The community will be respected better"[528]
  • [529]
  • "coffee clubs changed England"[530]
  • [531]
  • [532]
  • "a leader in global, collaborative environments"[533]
  • "an authentic model"[534]
  • paragon of inclusion, modeling effective inclusion in all aspects of our work[535]
  • Reputation brings in more contributors[536]

Healthy discourse online

  • "how to structure factual, polite discourse online at a global scale"[537]
  • [538]
  • "Decreasing the toxicity of the Internet"[539]
  • "a cooperative approach to the web"[540]
  • [541]
  • "create the utopia that the internet was originally intended to be"[542]
  • "Our wikis could be a light beacon"[543]
  • [544]
  • [545]
  • "an important impact on how people perceive the internet as something they can co-create"[546]

Focusing on healthy communities would make the world a better place

  • "making the world a better place"[547]
  • [548]
  • "enable scientific discoveries on a global scale"[549]
  • [550]
  • "helping individuals forge genuine social connections"[551]
  • [552]
  • [553]
  • If we follow this theme, it will directly reflect on our world, when people hear that there's no division in gender, socioeconomic status, physical abilities, etc in the Wikimedia projects, it'll be easier for them to imagine a world where that is true as well.[201]
  • [554]
  • "the movement has the potential to fulfill the utopian ideals many of us have for it"[555]
  • [556]
  • [220]

Fill gaps in social education

Growth; uniqueness

  • [558]
  • "so the volunteers will stay […] and help us grow"[559]
  • "The added value that distinguishes Wikimedia from other platforms in this community"[560]
  • "we can’t grow if there is no unity in the community"[561]

Why radically open participation? References to organize[edit]

  • "we are a living example of democracy - everybody is allowed to be part of this and the only demand is 'Stick to the rules'"[562]
  • [563]
  • [564]
  • "Developing awareness in societies around the world for the Wikimedia projects being a shared responsibility of all humankind"[565]
  • [566]
  • [567]
  • [568]
  • "People do not trust a source because it is accurate; they trust it because they see that they have a chance to fix errors"[569]
  • [570]


Communities of participants[edit]

Vibrant, close-knit communities; support; safety[edit]

Language barriers blur

It requires intentional action, focus; it's the real threat

  • "Any threat to the community could jeopardize its projects"[571]
  • "Enforcement of power by cultivating a bullying culture on productive editors equals to editor and contribution loss. […] community health is not self sustainable if not specially taken care of"[572]
  • [573]
  • "This theme has the power to make or break our movement "[574]
  • "This theme is relevant today"[575]
  • "we would need to focus"[576]

Hedgehog syndrome; isolationism; "health"[edit]

Root cause and barriers

  • "It is also problematic that the community finds it easier to punish the newcomers than to deal with misbehaviors by experienced users. "[577]
  • "As long as some "old guard", real or imagined, refuses to cooperate or engages in behavior characteristic of ownership, improvements will be stifled and lost, and editors will be turned away."[578]
  • "Acknowledge openly that people who are skilled at finding and synthesizing information are not always skilled in social interactions, and vice versa."[579]
  • [580]
  • [581]
  • [582]

Internal and external challenges that are preventing more people from contributing[edit]

Partnerships for unhindered participation, hard-to-get knowledge, underserved communities[edit]

A prerequisite / core to who we are[edit]

Healthy communities are a prerequisite for any direction.

  • "a necessary foundation for any of the other themes"[583]
  • "Goals without a healthy community is empty rhetoric."[584]
  • "Within an environment of disinformation, harassment, and exclusion, there's no progress."[585]
  • This theme is essential and conditional for the impact of the other themes.[586]
  • "all others depends on it"[587]
  • "it would be hard to reach any of the other goals"[588]
  • [190]
  • "A toxic environment kills participation, making all the rest of the themes impossible to achieve."[589]
  • "The underlying reason of growth of the Wikimedia movement is its thriving contributors community"[590]
  • "Any tool is only as good as those who wield it; if the community is not healthy, Wikimedia will be poisoned from within."[591]
  • [592]

This is a prerequisite

This is the highest priority / the most important

This is very important

This is somewhat important

There's nothing that we need to stop doing / no trade-offs

Intrinsic to our movement

  • "the heart of all what we do in the movement"[665]
  • "Investing in the growth of small communities is vital"[666]
  • [667]
  • "the core of our movement"[668]

There is a sense of urgency

  • "When I think of all of the untapped talent globally[…], it seems like burning the Library of Alexandria every hour." [669]
  • Change is necessary[670]

Sustainability and productivity

  • "ensuring a broader legacy for future generations" [671]
  • "keep an important source of knowledge alive"[672]
  • "A healthy, inclusive community is a growing and adaptable community"[673]
  • "Healthy communities are more productive and survive"[674]
  • [675]
  • "the most crucial theme as long as we want a very sustainable and thriving Wikimedia movement. The community or the volunteers are the ones who keep this movement alive."[676]

Increasing contributors; retaining newcomers[edit]

"The environment of Wikipedia is becoming more and more hostile." Newcomers are intimidated and "long-time editors are leaving the project"

  • "the way we treat newcomers will increasingly define the life or death of the site"[638]
  • "The environment of Wikipedia is still becoming more and more hostile."[677]
  • "bettering the community will allow more projects and people to contribute and thrive"[678]
  • "A lot of the shields we have in community process will hopefully be rendered moot, lowering the barrier for participation"[679]
  • "some Wikipedians feel like that they are excluded from the community"[680]
  • "the level of newbie-biting is very high"[644]
  • "there are clear trends for pushing out users, […] making use of hostile and aggresive stands by people who represent the supposed "good and righteous" users"[626]
  • "Stop driving out others, especially experts"[681]
  • "Users who make many personal attacks should be banned even if they are experienced users"[682]

Humility, forgiveness

  • "make clear that haughtiness is not a behavior that pays and stop tolerating it from anyone"[683]
  • "stop considering the opinion of some people as the opinion of the community"[684]
  • "give up being right all the time"[685]
  • "we will have to be more complacent with mistakes, not only mistakes made by newbies, but also those made by experienced users"[686]

Protecting contributors from "disruptive and abusive editors"

Attracting editors is difficult, and "A good environment for newcomers is fundamental"

  • [688]
  • "A good environment for newcomers is fundamental if we want to increase significantly the number of active wikipedians"[689]
  • "We need to dedicate more time to people who sincerely want to contribute but may have some difficulties"[690]
  • "experienced users can help them rather than having high expectations of policy implementation" "a series of friendly mini-tutorials for the moment an account is created."[691]
  • "they wouldn't feel like noobs"[692]
  • "An "outbreak of niceness" is required"[693]
  • "The Wikimedia movement suffers from the "eternal September" problem of having to socialize large numbers of newcomers."[694]
  • "a motivated and diverse community, enabling newbies an easy start and leading to more editors"[695]
  • "a more welcoming and safe environment for new collaborators, so we can foster a stable growth in the community."[696]
  • [221]
  • [697]
  • [698]
  • [699]
  • [700]
  • "a support network when they sign up"[701]
  • mentoring[702]
  • "technical methods to connect patient/friendly/experienced editors, with newcomers and with editors seeking help"[703]
  • "it helps new users gain confidence"[704]
  • "Everyone needs a friendly environment to enter the ecosystem and maintain collaboration over time."[174]
  • "long-time wikimedians have to express themselves clearly"[705]
  • "Tutorials for new users"[706]

New and future contributors are as important as current ones

  • "community members that we do not yet have"[707]

Assume good faith / Don't bite the newcomers

  • "these actions are sometimes made due to ignorance rather than vandalism"[708]
  • [685]
  • [709]

"increase the number of editors collaborating on the project"; congeniality; fun; joy; retention

  • [710]
  • "More fun -> more people"[711]
  • [188]
  • "An inclusive and healthy community would increase the number of editors collaborating on the project"[712]
  • [713]
  • [714]
  • [715]
  • "essential", "Everyone should be able to contribute with joy"[716]
  • [219]
  • "increasing participation and growing new contributors"[717]
  • [668]
  • fun "come[s] out of healthy, safe and inclusive community"[718]
  • "With better representation, the interests of new editors are served better"[719]
  • [533]
  • "the barrier for low-level participation is lower"[517]
  • "stronger and more expansive community"[209]
  • [720]
  • "Each contributor should talk correctly and be polite during discussions."[721]
  • "Give up the non-productive behaviors that we do because they are easy, and adopt the productive behaviors that we do not do because they are hard"[722]

Don't reward abusive editors

[community health] "We need valid Wikipedians"; "We have to continue to exclude people who want to damage the project"

  • "We have to continue to exclude people who want to damage the project, wasting less time on them"[725]
  • "We need valid Wikipedians, who have the sources and study them."[726]
  • "It's not easy to fight those who manipulate sources."[727]
  • "include only those who come at Wikipedia to write articles by studying sources", and not "promote their unsourced ideas, sell their products or discuss without sources"[728]

Productive conflict, avoiding internal in-fighting

  • "improve morale by avoiding internal politics and in-fighting between subsections of the community" [729]
  • "maintain harmony in the community so that editor retention stops being an issue"[730]
  • "The problem right now is not that not everyone loves each other, but that we don't have a culture of productive dissent"[731]
  • [732]

Less bureaucracy / Rethink our policies

  • [733]
  • "lay off a bit on file deletions"[734]
  • "Overfocussing on policy compliance"[735]
  • "stop allowing wikilawyering to be used as a shield for protecting biased attitudes"[736]
  • "Administrators and editors lost sight of the spirit of the rules. […] It has detrimental effects. Kick out editors with a negative influence. Those that are not assuming good faith and reverting"[737]
  • "The renunciation of existing and cumbersome procedures"[738]
  • "Reconsider the secondary sources dogma in order to make room for non-secondary sources"[739]
  • "Reducing the the complexity concerning legal and financial processes around grant making or the usage of Wikimedia trademarks would decrease the overhead costs on the side of the WMF, save volunteer time and decrease the hurdle for many volunteers to get involved in first place. We are an online movement and should be careful not to loose the power and strengths that come with that by overinstitutionalizing things in a way the offline world works."[740]
  • Policies and norms adapted to culture and local context[741]

Focus more on languages that are not English[edit]

Dissent and concerns[edit]

[community health] Avoid community pressure and allow for individual expression and motivation

  • "an explicit threat to individualism"[748]
  • Our sites will become a social network among others[749]

[community health] There is no deadline, therefore decline in contribution is not an issue.

"We do need to be inclusive" but "This theme does not explain how to get new users"[751] This is included in other themes

Communities of participants: References to organize[edit]


Infrastructure for participation[edit]

Local opportunities and presence everywhere; paths to participation (beyond editing)[edit]

[community health] Way of life; normalization

  • "Creating a world population that is accustomed to contributing."[979]
  • "Contribut[ing] to free knowledge is something you do naturally, because it is a natural part of how you learn things"[980]
  • "get people involved at an earlier age"[981]

More frequent offline communication

  • "Expand participation in events to the maximum number of contributors"[747]
  • "start socializing offline more"[982]

Decentralization[edit]

Decentralization

  • [983]
  • "Radically reduce the size of central organization in favor of local organizations"[984]

Spreading across more continents

  • "Wikimedia movement will spread across the continents such as Africa, Middle East, South Asia and Latin America"[986]
  • [676]
  • [532]
  • [987]

"the sustainable and inclusive community would result in a better and more effective affiliates ecosystem"[590]

Structures and governance[edit]

  • "The important question instead is the power structure of WMF. Even communities that work reasonably well don't have any influence on what the WMF is doing."[988]

Infrastructure and tools for participation (UX, AI)[edit]

  • "technological solutions will not solve social conflict"[627]
  • "the human factor is always more relevant than technology or processes"[632]

Focus on human interaction / less automation

  • [990]
  • Template-based communication doesn't work[991]
  • "data mining techniques to identify and report personal attacks"[992]
  • "wary of the "progress" brought by computers and automation"[993]

Identifying/addressing personal attacks is difficult

Real names

  • "De-prioritize pseudonymity in favor of real names"[996]
  • [997]

Low barrier to participation in infrastructure; experiments and pilots[edit]

How[edit]

  • "Thematic WikiProject could attract more people to contributing"[998]
  • "make the contributors feel very clearly that their contribution is appreciated"[999]
  • "give special attention to accessibility of Wikipedia"[1000]
  • [1001]
  • "yearly overview of main language editions and readiness from the global community to involve itself into local activities"[1002]
  • "Offline legislation will have caught up with online activity and will no longer focus on what's legal, but also on what behavior encourages productivity"[1003]
  • technology increases efficiency and frees up time for thoughtful interactions with newcomers[1004]
  • "find better ways to communicate, like facebook, what’s app"[1005]

Research

  • "Wikipedia community is aging, therefore we should perform more studies to understand better why young people do not join"[1006]
  • "The most important issue is to find and answer why the number of editors is not growing"[1007]
  • "we have limited knowledge about real trends in retention"[1008]

It is difficult for the Wikimedia Foundation to influence community health.

  • [583]
  • [623]
  • concern that the Foundation will "call dibs" and others won't have an opportunity to influence this[621]

"Wikimedia Foundation and chapters should be more integrated with the community of editors", notably in their outreach and recruiting activities

  • "Wikimedia Foundation and chapters should be more integrated with the community of editors."[1009]
  • Better decisions and collaboration[1010]

Outreach projects favor quantity over quality.

Impact on other goals[edit]

[community health] A larger community has a larger reach[1012]

[community health] Related to Global movement

  • "We're missing out on so many perspectives that could help shape our communities to be more healthy and inclusive."[1013]
  • "It is not possible to build a healthy and inclusive community without adapting to the circumstances of [emerging and underdeveloped communities]."[1014]

[community health] Related to respect

[community health] Related to technology

Infrastructure for participation: References to organize[edit]


Reach: Every single human being[edit]

Why reach every single human being?[edit]

Freedom[edit]

Threats to information, copyright reform, censorship[edit]

Why reach every single human being? References to organize[edit]


Communities to reach[edit]

Awareness[edit]

Changing behaviors in terms of information access and use[edit]

Local relevance[edit]

Partnerships for unhindered access, policy, advocacy[edit]

Communities to reach: References to organize[edit]


Infrastructure for reach[edit]

Interfaces, APIs, and experiences[edit]

Access & accessibility[edit]

Beyond the website and the connected world[edit]

Infrastructure for reach: References to organize[edit]


Sources to organize[edit]

Healthy, inclusive communities[edit]

Healthy, inclusive communities: What impact would we have on the world if we follow this theme?[edit]

Parking lot[edit]

Healthy, inclusive communities: How important is this theme relative to the other 4 themes? Why?[edit]

Healthy means…

Inclusive means…


Parking lot

Healthy, inclusive communities: Focus requires tradeoffs. If we increase our effort in this area in the next 15 years, is there anything we’re doing today that we would need to stop doing?[edit]

To sort

Parking lot

Healthy, inclusive communities: What else is important to add to this theme to make it stronger?[edit]

Healthy, inclusive communities: Who else will be working in this area and how might we partner with them?[edit]

Healthy, inclusive communities: Other[edit]

Parking lot[edit]

The augmented age (Advancing with technology)[edit]

The augmented age (Advancing with technology): What impact would we have on the world if we follow this theme?[edit]

The augmented age (Advancing with technology): How important is this theme relative to the other 4 themes? Why?[edit]

The augmented age (Advancing with technology): Focus requires tradeoffs. If we increase our effort in this area in the next 15 years, is there anything we’re doing today that we would need to stop doing?[edit]

The augmented age (Advancing with technology): What else is important to add to this theme to make it stronger?[edit]

The augmented age (Advancing with technology): Who else will be working in this area and how might we partner with them?[edit]

The augmented age (Advancing with technology): Other[edit]

A truly global movement[edit]

A truly global movement: Parking lot[edit]

A truly global movement: How important is this theme relative to the other 4 themes? Why?[edit]

A truly global movement: Who else will be working in this area and how might we partner with them?[edit]

A truly global movement: Other[edit]

The most respected source of knowledge[edit]

The most respected source of knowledge: Parking lot[edit]

The most respected source of knowledge: How important is this theme relative to the other 4 themes? Why?[edit]

The most respected source of knowledge: Who else will be working in this area and how might we partner with them?[edit]

The most respected source of knowledge: Other[edit]

Engaging the knowledge ecosystem (Participating in the knowledge network)[edit]

Engaging the knowledge ecosystem (Participating in the knowledge network): What impact would we have on the world if we follow this theme?[edit]

Engaging the knowledge ecosystem (Participating in the knowledge network): How important is this theme relative to the other 4 themes? Why?[edit]

Engaging the knowledge ecosystem (Participating in the knowledge network): Focus requires tradeoffs. If we increase our effort in this area in the next 15 years, is there anything we’re doing today that we would need to stop doing?[edit]

Engaging the knowledge ecosystem (Participating in the knowledge network): What else is important to add to this theme to make it stronger?[edit]

Engaging the knowledge ecosystem (Participating in the knowledge network): Who else will be working in this area and how might we partner with them?[edit]

Engaging the knowledge ecosystem (Participating in the knowledge network): Other[edit]

Other[edit]

References[edit]

  1. "I believe they all Co relate to one another. As our bodies are made of many parts, providing different functions, the parts together firm one body working closely and sensitively together." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §172
  2. "[This theme] contains C, D and E themes. Tolerance, respect and diversity → link with theme D." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §4
  3. "Inclusion both depends on and facilitates everything else. We need to be global to be inclusive to everyone, and we need to be inclusive if we want to have competent answers to the challenges of going global. We need to be inclusive to be free of systematic bias and so become [theme D]; we need to have respectable content to not drive people away in the first place." Wikimedia Foundation staff §46
  4. "Theme B -- increased capability to remove language barriers. Theme D -- the idea of a “single truth” will be under increased pressure if we are successful in integrating diverse viewpoints. Theme E -- more diverse forms of organization/learning ecosystems will make it harder to engage and/or harder to ensure that engagement is not biased." Wikimedia Foundation staff §38
  5. ""Healthy, Inclusive Communities" sounds somehow sectarian. Instead of an encylcopaedia project we are supposed to have a "healthy community"? Was somebody playing a bad joke on us?" German Language Wikipedia §10
  6. "The greatest potential given by Internet is the diversity possibility -- to confront knowledge, ideas and perspectives different from our own, and which we would hardly have otherwise accessed." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §2
  7. a b c "Our readers is humanity. People can be interested in every topic. Every article deserves attention because it is a little part of knowledge. We need to write clearly and to make our project more readable. We need to make our project easy to use and search. We need to give our best both to the student and to the professor. While we need to be free to contribute in whichever way we prefer, we could work better with better coordination." Italian Wikipedia §63
  8. "Our way of considering the readers should be writing article of the best possible quality. We should ask readers their opinion whether small stubs are good articles or not." Italian Wikipedia §72
  9. "Wiki[p/m]edia is an example of how freedom of knowledge enriches the internet ecosystem with free and open premises, which contributes to create a healthy and necessary counterweight to the data growth and accumulation model that leads the Internet "big players", which record, accumulate and monetize the people's data and human knowledge for the purpose of economic exploitation." Spanish Wikipedia §31
  10. "If our voices with the supports of reasonable knowledge can be assembled to a sea of our own, our expressions can be heard one day, which will contribute to the sustainability of globalized civilization in many channels." Wikimedia Commons §5
  11. a b "We should think about how we can extend and expand Wikipedia to include the diversity of opinions and information, and to preserve local culture in every language? As we can see, what was not uploaded on the Internet and Wikipedia, comes to less people and slowly disappear." Hebrew Wikipedia village pump §5
  12. "We'll be the light that shines in the Cosmos." English Wikipedia §30
  13. "Let's do another Enlightenment, for the whole world." Meta §38
  14. "We must have, as a movement, a minority languages preservation role, and we should appoint language ambassadors to achieve representativeness at the organizational level." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §13
  15. "People in underdeveloped are enabled to make the world better" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §266
  16. "Intelligente Menschen lassen sich nicht so leicht unterdrücken. Manchen politischen Bewegungen und Strömen (Türkei) könnte entgegengewirkt werden." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §270
  17. a b "Correct systemic bias in Wikipedia, improve access" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §282
  18. "Free shared knowledge is important for progress, especially from as many varied regions as possible. By making sure Wikipedia is equally accessible and usable among all people, we create a shared history that is representative of all people." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §286
  19. "enhance knowledge access to monolanguage user" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §319
  20. "This would be a great initiative to enhance the unaware and unprivileged people with the touch of knowledge to the greater truth of their existence, life and the world." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §568
  21. "By establishing a truly global movement we may establish a social globally connected society, possibly becoming a viable, desirable alternative to a increasingly polarized and unequal society." Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §19
  22. "We need to listen to people from other places" Wikimedia Israel §18
  23. "It is necessary to act in favor of preserving local knowledge in local languages, and also to allow European languages to integrate local knowledge" Wikimedia Israel §19
  24. "If we focus on this theme then the world will have a better encyclopedia." Hindi Community Whatsapp discussion §12
  25. "Aggregating communities, overcoming language barriers, so "every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge"" Affiliations Committee §23
  26. "We can ensure that people all around the world have access to a shared compendium of knowledge, erasing barriers and promoting understanding and collaboration across borders." Affiliations Committee §24
  27. "We would actually become able to get closer to our vision to provide free access to the sum of all human knowledge." Affiliations Committee §26
  28. "Following this theme will help in actual globalization of knowledge." Hindi Wikipedia §19
  29. "Save cultures, using their primary language and wording." Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §15
  30. "Wikimedia should not simply increase the basic social conditions but be a transformative force to improve access to culture for small cultures." Albanian Wikipedia §14
  31. "Emphasizing a global movement helps us have content that is diverse and broad, representing the world as a whole." Wikimedia District of Columbia §16
  32. "Collaboration between cultures is a major global need. Some global trends are making international collaboration difficult, such as government crackdowns and an emphasis or borders, but Wikipedia is dedicated to overcoming these challenges." Wikimedia District of Columbia §18
  33. "International, multilingual nature of Wikimedia project is an asset that may help to overcome current separatist tendencies in the world, by bringing knowledge to more people, so they can better understand others and the world." Polish Wikipedia §1
  34. "Worldwide representation allows all people to test knowledge. More people discussing knowledge leads us closer to the truth. As Wikipedia's usage expands, its factuality increases. Increased factuality and representation leads to more users of all backgrounds excited to work towards an equally shared database of information. Access to information for all people allows everyone to share knowledge, but also gives us a first hand look at truth which allows people of all nations to understand and help each other." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §287
  35. "Is Wikimedia a place for language preservation? We can help with cultural identity." Wikimedia Foundation staff §169
  36. "We will build awareness of the power of free knowledge and overcome barriers to access - I wouldn't phrase it like this, but we do need to think beyond Wikimedia. We're not going to be focusing on the identity of our movement as a series of websites, but beyond that. This statement doesn't really speak to that right now." Wikimedia Foundation staff §179
  37. "The subject of fake News has recently hit headlines. Wikipedia must preserve knowledge and make sure knowledge is reliable. In addition, Wikipedia has the ability to be a bridge to information found in scientific articles, some of which are hidden behind a payment wall, and make them accessible to the general public." Hebrew Wikipedia village pump §6
  38. "If Wikipedia succeeds in positioning itself as a reliable source of high standards, which is acceptable to quote and use in the academy, we will also be able to promote information and knowledge, while simultaneously struggling with false data and truths." Hebrew Wikipedia village pump §7
  39. "In recent years, more and more scientific journals have removed the payment wall, while more and more journals and articles are published under an open license. In such a situation, Wikipedia can and should be the main body that mediates between scientific literature and the general public. The mediation should be reliable and accurate on the one hand, and accessible to the general public on the other." Hebrew Wikipedia village pump §8
  40. "It would move the world towards the dream of a universal library of information." English Wikipedia §37
  41. "Wikipedia will become an acceptable, respectable form of tertiary literature, and its editing will be prestigous." English Wikipedia §38
  42. "Trying to chase after the top position will demoralize us, when simply providing the best information that we can will get us acceptably close." English Wikipedia §39
  43. "We need to improve the quality and reputation of Wikipedia so that Wikipedia will become accepted as a cited source." English Wikipedia §41
  44. "By 2030, the whole world should understand the value of Wikipedia's role in the alleviation of thorny topics." English Wikipedia §42
  45. "Our societies are increasingly divided and they need a source of unbiased knowledge." English Wikipedia §43
  46. "Wikipedia has to become a reliable source. There is enough fake news even in scientific publications." German Language Wikipedia §18
  47. "If we follow and focus our efforts on this topic, we would make Wikipedia and its sister projects to inspire more confidence towards the rest of ordinary people, and they could help us to encourage others to participate and trust in Wikimedia." Spanish Wikipedia §10
  48. "Become the most respected source of broad-based knowledge suited for the general public." Wikidata §20
  49. "Host high quality knowledge instead of focusing on relative respect in comparison to other sources." Wikidata §22
  50. "We give the world neutral view on everything, make misundertanding less likely to happen and therefore reduce violence in global scale." Vietnamese Wikipedia §5
  51. "It is fundamental for Wikipedia being the most respected source of knowledge, not only because it is the most famous one but also because of the impact it has/will have on our future generations, being the most precious tool of our future." Spanish Wikipedia §23
  52. "Most authoritative source of knowledge in the sea of junk information. Lights in the world." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §332
  53. "The impact would be the largest, most neutral internet-based source of information." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §337
  54. "Providing a respected source of neutral information on so many items will foster a sense of stability in the worldwide population, which may foster peace by reducing misunderstandings" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §342
  55. "we will be a counterbalance to all fake news being spread" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §352
  56. "If Wikipedia became universally trusted, it would become the ultimate, universal source of knowledge. It would be easier for everyone to focus on one single project that is recognized as trusted." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §360
  57. "Help create a unified initial source for serious research, with further sources only being required for more in depth study." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §363
  58. "A universal multimedia encyclopedia." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §366
  59. "Schools would not be restricted by a rudimentary block of using wikipedia for sources." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §371
  60. "Fake News and "Alternative Facts" are common words in the 21st century. Wikipedia can fight this and reveal the truth. The Wiki contributor community can continue to act as Data integrity checkers to make sure Wikipedia only contains real information." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §372
  61. "The way research is done for k-12 Education as well as Higher Education, will change. While there will be resistance from those who have worked in K-12 and Higher Education for years, this will bring about a necessary change to how we view the accuracy, and relevancy of sources found here." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §377
  62. "Centralised virtual library, a go-to for self-education for everybody" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §382
  63. "Probably arouse suspicion as having a monopoly on knowledge" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §385
  64. "TRUTH in the ability of correct information to exist even if people wish to perform a cover up. JUSTICE in preventing untruths being used to deceive others for either harm or profit. ACCURACY in information so that people learning things will have Wikipedia not only as a summary of info but a bibliographic source to continue further researches. TIME SAVINGS results from having a practical "one stop shop" for the common person to look up information. This savings in time allows people to not waste time." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §390
  65. "Knowledge for all - unlimited, yet it won't be easy - example of the Chinese "Wikipedia"" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §407
  66. "we would have one source, easily accessible, just like google is the go-to place today" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §415
  67. "We will gain loyalty of the encyclopedia as a reliable source of information." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §420
  68. "Wikipedia would become a reliable source, one that people would consider to be objective and useful." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §434
  69. "Help freedom and human rights! Free access to facts-based, verified and as much as possible unbiased information is fundamental to help people defend themselves from any form of manipulation based on false information. Free access to all the knowledge accumulated by humanity across history should be a fundamental human right." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §439
  70. "Further expansion of the free knowledge base already available online." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §444
  71. "We would have more people using this website if it the "most reliable" we have to make sure the website doesn't crash and we have to have reliable resources used." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §449
  72. "Become a more trustworthy source" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §454
  73. "Half a billion or more people who consult Wikipedia every month for leisure, study or work." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §464
  74. "Una mejor fuente de informacion donde cualquiera podria tener acceso sin preocuparse de la veracidad de este, tendria un impacto positivo en mi opinion." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §469
  75. "It would be possible to resolve the negative aspects of copyright manipulations that are in play today for the profit or enrichment of a few. The need to protect knowledge as an asset is harmful when investments in book, academic and historical archive collections all stand in the way of improving published works becoming outdated. Too often new material is lost or hidden away." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §474
  76. "Quite a lot, including possibly getting major institutions to accept Wikipedia as a reliable source." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §479
  77. "If the current idea that Wiki-anything is unreliable, then it does not matter what content is actually available, true or otherwise. I think that this is perhaps the most important initiative because without basic trust in the verity of the content, no one will want to visit Wikipedia in the first place. One major effect would be use in schools which is currently intentionally prohibited. Wikipedia could become a powerhouse home of educational content, which is at least at the current moment presented well, and leads deeper throughout different articles, until the reader has learned however much they want to learn." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §484
  78. "Wikimedia projects will forever be regarded as unscientific unless a greater effort is made to ensure the correctness of the content." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §572
  79. "Wikipedia would be the go-to for research questions" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §574
  80. "Regarding citations, it is important to reflect to the readers what consensus is on each topic, as well as what are the different alternatives, and what is the source on which they are based. Even if we can not accurately reflect each one, we can faithfully reflect the sources within the text." Hebrew Wikipedia village pump §15
  81. "Wikipedia needs trustworthy information to survive and thrive, and to further become "where facts go to live" for the benefit of our entire species." English Wikipedia §101
  82. "I think we would have a great impact, by becoming the world leaders in reliable information." Spanish Wikipedia §39
  83. "If we follow this theme Wikimedia will be the simplest and the most trusted source of knowledge." Bengali Community §4
  84. "Wikipedia is not being regarded as a reliable source by some internet users, especially by academicians; by focusing on this theme our projects would be respected more and therefore both its usage and contributions to it would increase." Cycle 2/Turkish Wikipedia §1
  85. "By making available reliable, neutral and relevant knowledge we support individuals in self-development and making well-considered choices. This will inevitably bring us into conflcit with authorities." Wikimedia Nederland §1
  86. "Wikipedia in general is already a great platform containing lots of useful and good quality content which is well structured and linked; there is no any other such platform in Internet. This is the biggest advantage of Wikimedia movement which already has great impact on knowledge dissemination; it is enough to simply continue the current progress." Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §5
  87. "Reliability is critical to Wikipedia. This is usually the first argument against Wikipedia." Wikimedia Israel §31
  88. "Our primary goal is to make a good encyclopedia and by following this theme we will ensure that we strengthen our primary goals." Hindi Wikipedia §1
  89. "We will be able to ensure credibility, better consumer satisfaction and Wikipedia will be used as a source of reliable citations." Hindi Wikipedia §2
  90. "It will be in our best interests to follow this theme as we will not be able to attain our objectives until we make Wikipedia credible." Hindi Wikipedia §24
  91. "Really the first place for everyone to stop, when searching information. The impact of it will be tremendous." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §16
  92. "The reliable information will help people: researchers, students, teachers, to get attracted to contribute to Wikipedia, rather than avoid it. The trust and the usage of Wikipedia will increase with the reliable sourcing of the information." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §47
  93. "With objective and fact-checked information, Wikipedia can fight the dissemination of rumours, false news." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §49
  94. "Wikipedia and the other projects will be sources in other more complex clusters of information." Swedish Wikipedia §13
  95. "Having quality content is perhaps the most obvious of the themes, but it is our core deliverable and all the other themes are in support of this." Wikimedia District of Columbia §24
  96. "Wikipedia's human-curated, crowdsourced approachseems to be a good counterweight to the "fake news" that other online platforms have been prone to." Wikimedia District of Columbia §31
  97. "We will have an information repository that has a superior quality, neutral and possibly verified by experts in the different areas of human knowledge." Wikimedia Chile - Interviews with members §10
  98. "Wikimedia will be the most respected open and accessible platform for knowledge products: We filter the most relevant and reliable content out of the constantly growing information supply and make it accessible in a consumable form." Wikimedia Deutschland (discussion at the general meeting of members) §14
  99. "To strength Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects as an object of academic studies." Iberoconf 2017 §50
  100. "Increase the existence of open and free access sources." Iberoconf 2017 §52
  101. "Something must be changed for our audience to admit that they use Wikipedia as a useful jumping-off point for research." English Wikipedia §44
  102. "Wikipedia must be reliable, that's why people read it." English Wikipedia §46
  103. a b "This is the most important theme, and ff our information is useless, then we are useless." English Wikipedia §48
  104. a b "This is by far the most important theme, because it proves our legitimization and effectiveness." English Wikipedia §49
  105. "Respect and quality is most important, because a despised Wikipedia would not be read and would be quite useless, however it's not clear what precisely 'quality' means." Meta §46
  106. "Encyclopedia shouldn't be the only prophet on knowledge market, but rather starting point for further studies, therefore it is not necessary to be the "most respected source" it is enough to be "good source"; "the most" sounds like a kind of "knowledge imperialism", which we should rather avoid, therefore this topic shouldn't be a strategy goal." Polish Wikipedia §12
  107. "This goal is impossible to combine with NPOV - as there always be people criticizing Wikipedia for not following their POV and trying to discredit Wikipedia, so there is no chance to be "the most respected" by all." Polish Wikipedia §13
  108. "Although all themes are important, this is especially important because it is a recurrent topic for people who do not know the movement, since many of them ignore the policies that rule the content (notability, neutrality)." Spanish Wikipedia §11
  109. "Focus on fighting with fake news." Wikidata §24
  110. a b "This theme is the second most important, only after the community health. This is what attracts new editors to Wikimedia sites." Vietnamese Wikipedia §6
  111. "It is important put a strong emphasis on credibility of our information in order to preserve projects against communication and political propaganda." French Wikipedia §25
  112. "Relevancy and credibility of information is the key to the success of Wikipedia and its sister projects." French Wikipedia §26
  113. a b "This is the most important theme. If Wikipedia is not reliable and trusted it has lost its purpose. Who cares about any of the other themes if our information is junk or promotional?" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §328
  114. "Once people realize how "safe" (for lack of a better term) Wikipedia actually is, it will start attracting people to the website, who will help in the other four themes." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §338
  115. a b "In my opinion, it is the most important, because if we focus on making Wikipedia worthy of everyone's attention, other changes will be able to come more easily." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §361
  116. a b "Possibly the most important theme. One of the key stumbling blocks for Wikimedia is a lack of general acceptance of the Wikimedia projects as trustworthy and consistent sources of information. Once Wikimedia is perceived as a viable source, the other 4 themes can be addressed as necessary. The theme "Engaging in the knowledge ecosystem" will be easier once organisations and institutions recognise more fully the increased value of Wikimedia at that time." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §364
  117. a b "The most important. Without data integrity and reliability, wikipedia will no longer be a valuable resource for humanity." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §373
  118. a b "I see this as one of the most important of the 5 themes. If we are going to rely on this for global knowledge, we must be able to trust its accuracy, reliability, and relevancy. Knowledge is only as good as the truth that it bares." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §378
  119. "Completeness of information is important. Very often, negative information is not available or even scrubbed in order to hide it from public scrutiny. Except for entertainment purposes, having untrue information opens the door to many other problems including cover ups, fraud, deception, misrepresentation, incorrect conclusions, and bad decisions created by use of incorrect information. Because many people make decisions based in part (or wholly) upon info contained in Wikipedia, it is important that Wikipedia not eliminate material that is negative in nature. Very often, it is the negative information that is the most important factor in decisions." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §391
  120. "Wikimedia'nın hayatta kalıp daha çok insana hizmet edebilmesinin ön koşulu güvenilirliğidir." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §426
  121. "This one would expand Wikipedia by being known as one of the more trustworthy sites on the internet." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §455
  122. "Continue what we are doing. This has been accomplished. Wikipedia is now quite academic. There is a lot of vocational knowledge absent." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §465
  123. "Todos los temas son importantes, pero el conocimiento es algo que merece su atencion, el conocimiento es lo que ha hecho que la humanidad haya llegado hasta aqui, por lo que hay que mejorar el acceso a este y su veracidad." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §470
  124. "I think that this theme is the most important, because without trust there are no visitors." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §485
  125. a b "Very important. Without Wikipedia being seen as reliable or trustworthy why would it be used?" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §570
  126. a b "D is the most important theme: it is the reason why Wikipedia was born, developed, succeeded over other encyclopedias and people donate. If we stop being respected, experienced wikipedians would leave and readers would abandon us for other encyclopedias that will able to grant a certain quality" Italian Wikipedia §100
  127. a b "This is the most important issue. Cultivating the editorial community, expanding it and making technology accessible are important, but if the source of knowledge is not credible all articles will carry a suspicious label." Hebrew Wikipedia village pump §16
  128. a b "This is the most important theme, because it focuses on what the people are actually looking for." Arabic Community §8
  129. a b "This topic is the most important of which have been raised. We can not be satisfied with providing knowledge in a free way, we also have to make sure that the knowledge we give is accurate and unbiased." Spanish Wikipedia §37
  130. "Wikipedia is a source of references where to find a summary about a topic and the sites to find more information about it, rather than a (more respected) "source of knowledge", which is inconsistent. How will I respect a source of knowledge whose compilers are anonymous? And although the "editors" are multitude, knowledge is not democratic. It seems to me that is a point to ignore." Spanish Wikipedia §40
  131. "The wiki is a source of references, is what it should be, but I don't think its obvious subjectivity is something negative -- Everyone has seen how "prestigious" journalists and locutors commit spelling mistakes, how they don't know using verbs and having a tiny view of reality." Spanish Wikipedia §41
  132. a b "This topic is not that important, because reliability of information in Wikipedia is already one-of-the-kind and we can’t be more reliable than our sources." Russian Wikipedia §15
  133. a b "Most important because it directly impacts millions of readers every month" Wikimedia Hackathon §10
  134. "I think our main focus should be on the quality of our content as properly written and referenced content will give satisfaction to our readers." Hindi Community Whatsapp discussion §7
  135. "Focus on content will create a more engaging environment for our readers." Hindi Community Whatsapp discussion §8
  136. "Quality content will help in establishing faith in Wikipedia." Hindi Community Whatsapp discussion §9
  137. "Becoming a trusted source of knowledge might help in bringing more editors." Hindi Community Whatsapp discussion §10
  138. "For us Theme D provides the foundation for all the other themes. Wikimedia projects are as strong as the information provided and our reputation for reliability" Wikimedia Nederland §2
  139. "An important theme to defend the movement against its detractors, those who express reserves, those who are reticent and those who don't trust on Wiki platforms as reliable sources." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §1
  140. a b "This is the most important theme, because if there is no trust in Wikipedia, all the rest is irrelevant." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §50
  141. "Scientists and scientific publications should be the most respected sources of knowledge, not Wikipedia. But we should come close and make the knowledge more easily accessible." Swedish Wikipedia §17
  142. "We shall give an overview in all topics, not replace scientific litterature." Swedish Wikipedia §18
  143. "Wikipedia should be The most trusted source of knowledge in the world" Albanian Wikipedia §10
  144. "In my opinion, we have already achieved this – at best this theme is a "preserving status quo"-thing" Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §62
  145. "Project sustainability depend on the quality positioning of it." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §16
  146. "The neutral point of view is one of the great challenges of Wikipedia in its search for quality. The proliferation of paid accounts and the post-truth phenomenon of the future jeopardise the neutral point of view proposed by Wikipedia." Spanish Wikipedia §51
  147. "It is very relevant, because if we generate a source of knowledge that has validations in its contents and format, we can be recognized with an additional value by the community and the people who access the projects." Wikimedia Chile - Interviews with members §11
  148. "[Theme B] could be an aid to this topic by using better technology to find the areas that need work and the expertise that people have and match them up. This topic is a prerequisite to being [theme C]. We can expand without being seen as accurate and reliable, but it’s much harder to explain our value in new places without that reputation. By working to ensure that the projects are a trusted source of knowledge and are seen as such, we make the case for becoming a truly global movement much stronger and easier to share." Wikimedia Foundation staff §201
  149. "Wikimedia projects will probably never be totally "respected" by everyone if only because different countries and cultures treat the concept in different ways ([theme C]). It allows for a neutral source which to many means not focusing on the "correct" side (e.g. Turkey situation).Theme B applies here as well, since this goal speaks about finding the information that's relevant to certain people at certain times which would require more work on machine learning and content discovery." Wikimedia Foundation staff §202
  150. "Endorses the knowledge ecosystem, but when we say “we want to be the most respected source of knowledge”, it seems to supplant knowledge creation in other spaces. But if you think about the projects as a platform for accessing relevant and high quality information, you don’t have to supplant the knowledge ecosystem and you risk alienating people in the other knowledge creation zones (experts, indigenous knowledge, etc)." Wikimedia Foundation staff §212
  151. "Be the middlemen of knowledge." Wikimedia Foundation staff §214
  152. "If we lose society's trust in the neutrality/reliability of our content, this would be Wikimedia's end." Wikimedia Deutschland (discussion at the general meeting of members) §15
  153. "Wikipedia is supposed to be only a first step to knowledge. The most relevant source of knowledge should be in specialized encyclopedias, written by professionals. That will not happen, but we should have only good summaries of specalist content." Dutch Wikipedia §25
  154. "This is important because right now Wikipedia is not regarded as a respected source." Russian Wikipedia §28
  155. "It coincides with the idea of Wikimedia as well - an independent, reliable and neutral source of all knowledge." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §19
  156. "The wording of this theme emphasizes others' perception of us rather than the actual quality of our content." Wikimedia District of Columbia §23
  157. "Wikipedia is not a "source" of information strictly defined, since we are indexing rather than creating knowledge. A better working might be "most comprehensive general resource for sharing knowledge"." Wikimedia District of Columbia §25
  158. "The theme seems to emphasize competition, when we should focus on absolute measures of our quality," Wikimedia District of Columbia §26
  159. "The theme compares us with a very broad range of content providers, including news outlets and academic journal publishers, but we have different goals and strengths than these classes of publishers." Wikimedia District of Columbia §27
  160. "One of Wikipedia's strengths is its tolerance for being a "good enough" source of knowledge, rather than requiring all content to be authoritative." Wikimedia District of Columbia §28
  161. "A preoccupation with "legitimacy" in the eyes of others is damaging to the community." Wikimedia District of Columbia §29
  162. "The focus should be on the high-quality content being useful for people, even despite being a respected or relevant source. Wikimedia projects should not just been seen as the most relevant source of knowledge, but actually contain the most high-quality and neutral knowledge there is." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §66
  163. "We should work towards free knowledge. Wikipedia and the other projects are (currently) the way to achieve that, not the end goal." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §67
  164. ""Most" respected is problematic. We can have our conventions and structure of knowledge, and we can be respected, but we shouldn’t tell people we’re the “most” respected." Wikimedia Foundation staff §223
  165. "We should not be the source, but rather a platform for understanding the experts and communities that create this knowledge. There’s an opportunity to clarify our movement is about verifiability. Rather the headline be focused on the idea that we are the “Most effective platform for providing access to high quality knowledge” -- this is where we can get experts engaged in our project." Wikimedia Foundation staff §224
  166. "The most understandable source of high-quality knowledge." Wikimedia Foundation staff §225
  167. "We’re the gateway to any knowledge. We’re the first place anyone goes to start learning about anything. “Most high-quality, neutral, and relevant source of knowledge” seems more critical than “respected”." Wikimedia Foundation staff §226
  168. "Language - across all languages - should be added as implicit." Wikimedia Foundation staff §227
  169. "It’s not just passive - part of what we need to do is make the projects better AND promote that as such." Wikimedia Foundation staff §240
  170. "We could be better messaging that this is a priority for us and part of our process." Wikimedia Foundation staff §244
  171. "Content, practices and understandings still seem American-centric to users, the Americanization of content and processes seems relevant even now as an issue." Australian Community §5
  172. "Without healthy and inclusive communities, content becomes irrelevant in the short term." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §3
  173. "Wikipedia pretends to be a source of knowledge, which can only grow from different visions. If there is only one specific group, it doesn't meet the goal of being a broad-based source of knowledge and to report different world views and linguistic diversity." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §21
  174. a b "It is the way to ensure diversity of content approaches for all voices to be represented. Everyone needs a friendly environment to enter the ecosystem and maintain collaboration over time." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §1
  175. "Diversity is important, but articles written by people with different backgrounds aren't cohesive and easy to comprehend." English Wikipedia §8
  176. "There will always be tension between quality and inclusiveness. Resolving that is one of the biggest and most interesting challenges." Wikimedia Foundation staff §53
  177. "This theme works against the other themes. To the degree that we are successful at creating a diverse community other things are harder (it's harder to be a trusted source if we have to engage with a larger variety of of cultures and styles etc.)" Wikimedia Foundation staff §55
  178. a b "Number one. This is a global publication, but editors often become narrow in their focus and try to delete articles involving subjects they have disagreements with." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §182
  179. "On English wikipedia, too much effort is spent on deleting content rather than improving or creating content." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §219
  180. "We have become increasingly viewed as gatekeepers, especially in the social and human domains. It is very easy to add science articles to wikipedia, even those with little more than speculative research. It has become increasingly hard to add socially relevant entries to Wikipedia (as if we live in an era of scarcity where to store bits and bytes). Criteria such as notability have been interpreted by humans, rather than by algorithms. I.e. xyz might have lots of search engine searches associated with their name, yet are not take in because of a human induced notability factor. Why? Its not like we are running out of encyclopedia shelf space or we a running out of byte space?! We should reconsider this whole approach. I am very afraid that communities will only serve as more gate-keeping. And creating an artificial scarcity effect. The difference between a small contributor to humankind (say Tatjana Bezjak) and a huge contributor to human kind (say Pablo Picaso) should be in the body and quality of the text explaining their significance and contributions - and not in the fact whether they deserve or not a wikipedia entry (byte counting). The quality of the source is precisely in that it is Alexandria in a way and stores all of the known vetted information." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §149
  181. "Less deletion battles. Articles already deemed to be notable continue to be targets of deletion efforts. If an article survives an AfD, notability should be presumed indefinitely and only extreme circumstances should justify a future deletion." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §183
  182. "There are a lot of things that could block our way to inclusivity. It would require a lot less deletionism (a pretty bad thing now) and some reworking, but most of it is being done now." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §210
  183. "More and better content from a more diverse group of editors." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §217
  184. "In the world of post-truth Wikipedia should be both independent and accountable (to people) source of verifiable and reliable information about this world. Because of this Wikipedia should be user-friendly for all people." Russian Wikipedia §25
  185. "We would have the diversity and quality of our data improved." Wikidata §1
  186. "A more complete, neutral, and rich collection of knowledge" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §112
  187. "En Çok Saygı Gören Bilgi Kaynağı olunması sağlanacak. Bilgiye ulaşımın özgürleşmesindeve sağlıklılaşmasında önemli görüyorum. Sağlıklı, Kapsayıcı Topluluklar oluşturulması, aynı zamanda "En Çok Saygı Gören Bilgi Kaynağı" olunmasını da sağlayacağından hedeflerin içinde en önemlisidir. Bunun için de üniversitelerle temasa geçilmeli, akademisyenler ve öğrencileriyle işbirliği çalışmaları yaygın biçimde gerçekleştirilmelidir." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §132
  188. a b "The result would be a more active volunteer crew and more impartial, useful results." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §176
  189. "By having the inclusive community, the small groups (Minority) can also share their knowledge with the others, and it will increase the quantity and quality of the resources on Wiki." Chinese Community - Individual interviews §2
  190. a b "Hard to argue againt. It is a pre-condition and absolutely necessary in order to achieve our primary goals. We need more participants in order to increase diversity and the quality of our projects." Swedish Wikipedia §1
  191. "Every language Wikipedia has deep information about all notable topic areas, closing the current knowledge gaps by including a truly diverse set of contributors." Wikimedia Foundation staff §5
  192. "People in Wikipedias in big languages don’t reject edits from people for whom that language is not native, especially when they write about things that are unique to their culture. These edits are improved and published. Discussions about sources in foreign languages, about newbies’ contributions, and notability being limited only to certain countries, and about translation move from rejection to tolerance." Wikimedia Foundation staff §30
  193. "The growth of the communities to reach near-parity between the top 50 languages has been staggering. Chapters now exist in major cities in every country. There's an article from a journalist describing their experience as a new Wikipedia contributor. Friendly editor stepped in to provide feedback made them feel comfortable in continuing to edit. Instant-translate tools allow to work across barriers." Wikimedia Foundation staff §33
  194. a b "It is foundational to achieving the other objectives, but is only a means to an end for ultimately supporting improved content." Meta §7
  195. a b "The theme is important, and it is similar in OpenStreetMap. How to grow the community? If there is no community behind, improving and curating, the content loses value because it is obsolete or replaced." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §20
  196. a b "Honestly I can't think of a more important theme than this one. Biased information is incomplete, or even wrong. Without members of the community able to recognise bias, Wikipedia just becomes an echo chamber, at best ignoring and at worst actively damaging minority groups and ideas." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §213
  197. "We can only create a trusted source of knowledge if we are a good community." Australian Community §2
  198. "We will be able to cover many projects effectively and on time." English Wikipedia §84
  199. a b "A sizeable number of contributors will allow for more resources to be allocated towards each of the other themes, as a larger number of contributors allows for a larger amount working on specific topics" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §192
  200. "Broaden people's thinking by including articles that cover a broader range of people holding different values, philosophies, and ways of expressing them." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §181
  201. a b "Most Wikimedia projects are a direct reflection of its users and volunteers. If we want to keep to the mission of the project to accumulate all of humanity's knowledge then we need to reflect that in our communities. We can't just be english speaking or only men or only abled people. We must include all visions of this world that we live in so that we can promote inclusivity not only in the Wikimedia projects, but so that it is also reflected in the world we live in. We should be able to promote absolutely no discrimination, obstacles for less abled people, etc." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §186
  202. "More domain specific and local content, unlimited in depth will make Wikipedia more useful and contributed to." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §203
  203. "Probably similar to now, there would just be a wider range of topics (not that it isn't wide now)." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §208
  204. "With more knowledge on Wiki, then Wikipedia can be the platform/database for the knowledge of all mankind." Chinese Community - Individual interviews §3
  205. a b "This is the most important theme. It's required to have any success in the other categories. To be the most respected source of knowledge requires many other types of editors." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §204
  206. a b "Without theme A all others are impossible. You can't fix the data without including communities." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §25
  207. "Collecting different kinds of knowledge is one of our goals in the community. By having a healthy and inclusive community, then we can include different kinds of knowledge." Chinese Community - Individual interviews §23
  208. "We [will] have finally figured out a way to include peoples who predominantly have an oral tradition." Wikimedia Foundation staff §20
  209. a b c "Achieving this goal will create a stronger and more expansive community. Editing on Wikimedia projects will be more meaningful and educational. We will accept diversity, and the content will reflect differing points of view and be more neutral. We will have different types of technology so people of all backgrounds can participate at their comfort and ability level. We will include more sources of information that include different types of history (e.g., oral histories) in various cultures. Finally, by achieving Healthy, Inclusive Communities, we will build the world’s first source of collective, inclusive, unbiased human knowledge, an historic achievement for humans." Wiki in Education §2
  210. "A community that is healthy can accept divergent points of view in a respectful, helpful way. Health communities are aware of bias and will not be as likely to allow bias to affect their decisions." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §161
  211. "Wikipedia is already used by so many as a resource, but with great power comes great responsibility. Biases that exist in Wikipedia propagate outward, infecting the world in myriad small ways. To reduce this bias is to reduct that propagation. It's a nudge, in the economic sense of the word - small things leading to big changes." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §212
  212. "We would be known as a friendly yet rigorous community around the world. We would be able to incorporate knowledge from various communities around the world into Wikimedia. We would have the right infrastructure and processes in place for inviting new voices into our communities. We would have created social traditions and structures that are globally recognized as being an inclusive, international, global environment. This includes social structures to allow for collaboration in technology." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §571
  213. "Wikipedia is made for facilitating access to knowledge for everyone. The more people contribute in the world the more international it becomes. Wikipedia is improvable in many languages. Healthy and inclusive communities are the right way to improve this. The more inclusive Wikipedia is the more balanced and neutral the Wikis will get." German Language Wikipedia §44
  214. "More women involved: more than men, they do not tolerate being addressed with depreciation, and leave." Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §2
  215. "We must take into account and act to expand diversity in the community" Wikimedia Israel §1
  216. "It is necessary to raise the community's ability to deal with different opinions and ideas" Wikimedia Israel §2
  217. "Diversity in the community can increase our ability to deal with people, beliefs and other perceptions" Wikimedia Israel §3
  218. "The range of opinions will be greater - so that they will not be attracted only in one direction - it will neutralize various biases" Wikimedia Israel §5
  219. a b c "Community health is a major concern. Every Wikipedian have same motive and yet conflicts of interest arise due to difference of opinion. If community health is not taken into consideration, this might create problems in the long run. If we work on community health, in next 15 years we would see: 1) less conflicts of interest 2) better understanding 3) new editors with frequent contributions" Hindi Community Whatsapp discussion §18
  220. a b "A healthy and inclusive community is the basis for all the work we do in the movement and guarantees a diversity of people and perspectives to be included in the knowledge that we co-create. As a result, the world would have access to a greater depth and breadth of knowledge in our projects." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §2
  221. a b "It has to be a friendly and motivating space, where people are motivated to enter and captivated to stay, not insecure, that peers reactions don't demotivate. How to include "different" people, perhaps before was not subject because they were less contributors, but as it grows becomes more sensitive. (María Paz Canales)" Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §22
  222. a b "Our projects begin to bifurcate based on culture more than language. We have pan-language wikis. It is easy to flip back and forth between these cultural projects, so no reader of a given topic is unaware of the other perspectives. It's easier to “see the world through others’ eyes”." Wikimedia Foundation staff §15
  223. a b "Lots of people have friends they met while contributing who share an interest in some specific area. Language barriers disappear while working on the projects, although cultural differences are still seen and acknowledged. We don’t have homogeneity in a single monoculture, but instead "agree to disagree" with respect." Wikimedia Foundation staff §16
  224. a b "It's fundamental, because without community we are an empty shell. With a deranged community, we could be another 4chan or Reddit. Or, worse, a non-neutral encyclopedia that poses as neutral. As all online communities, we need to be careful, as we are dangerously vulnerable to trolling, harassment, vandalism, and burn out of our most vulnerable members." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §223
  225. "It is essential to ensure a neutral representation of all points of view." French Wikipedia §44
  226. "This is an important way to achieve our goals of neutrality and expression of diversity of views." French Wikipedia §45
  227. "Dynamic and diverse communities are essential to maintain neutrality" Wikimedia Nederland §10
  228. "A problem of Wikipedia is that contributors don't put themselves in readers' shoes when they write. Since many of them write for more for personal motivations than for others, we give a lot of things for granted." Italian Wikipedia §49
  229. "We don't give much attention to readers, to the point that Italian Wikipedia "user" is used to refer to those who contribute to projects, and not to those who just "use" them readers. Many template messages are there for contributors but are of no interest for readers. We gave it for granted that it is easy for a reader to become a wikipedian, and that when one clicks "edit" he's able to do everything and he knows all the rules." Italian Wikipedia §50
  230. "We write for the readers but they have no right to pretend we [write] some particular articles: we write about what we want to write about." Italian Wikipedia §58
  231. "We need good statistics about readers." Italian Wikipedia §61
  232. "Punish deletions when it's not a vandalism revert. Deletions can only happen after a net positive of contributions. Allow other sources for things from digital only origins. e.g. fan communities" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §206
  233. a b "Harassment is a major issue in the process of creating power boundaries among contributors. We have been able to understand harassment in deep dimensions, including knowledge formation: some knowledge won't stick, as they do not fit the general, dominant epistemological perspective that runs through the projects. This knowledge bias is harassment as it limits the contribution of the marginalized." Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §10
  234. a b "We cannot develop healthier community with online activities any more. Current approach is not enough to diversify the community. We need to cooperate with outer organization to widen the range of knowledge. We also need to protect manorities more actively. Thesedays, discussions in the projects are too aggressive. Depending on volunteer will is not enough to solve this problem, so we need to search for other approaches ouside of the Internet." Wikimedians of Korea User Group §1
  235. "One thing that's interesting is that a lot of these are about processes. What we will have at the end? On all language Wikipedias, there aren't these content gaps that appear because there are a truly diverse set of contributors. How will we get there?" Wikimedia Foundation staff §73
  236. "Outcome and process. In 2030 Wikimedia communities are larger and more global. Maintaining the high-quality bar but more global. More flexible policies as the communities grow." Wikimedia Foundation staff §74
  237. "In order to strengthen transparency and trust we could highlight the authors of articles. This could also be a motivating factor for editors." Wikimedia Deutschland (discussion at the general meeting of members) §11
  238. "We should make the creation and evolution of articles more transparent and easy to understand - e.g. by providing new tools. At the momement, people would have to look up the history and every single edit to assess an article's evolution." Wikimedia Deutschland (discussion at the general meeting of members) §12
  239. "The world is a very complex place, 'one size fits all' material in content and categorisation does not reflect this complexity" Australian Community §1
  240. "Accelerate the development and coverage of areas on Wikipedia greatly deprived of such coverage" English Wikipedia §29
  241. "Make the culture and knowledge of Global South noticeable and more accessible." Meta §32
  242. "Reconsider the stance of supporting only "self-starting volunteers and communities"." Meta §33
  243. "Collaborate with ethnographers, anthropologists etc. who could help us with writing down the unique knowledge of the Global South cultures." Meta §37
  244. "This aspiration is very attractive at a theoretical level, but hard and slow to achieve in practice, due to the existing (and future) inequalities in the world." Spanish Wikipedia §7
  245. "More people who are not American in the top of our organisation." Wikidata §13
  246. "We get a more balanced viewpoints from many languages and people" Vietnamese Wikipedia §8
  247. "The impact would be the gaps reduction, such as gender or geographical ones, which we inherited from traditional encyclopedias but, unlike these, we are aware of and we are working to reduce those gaps." Spanish Wikipedia §28
  248. "It's impossible to know, as this "theme" is too general to have any definition. Wikipedia stay honest and stay true to its wiki roots, which entails recognizing that different cultures have different dominant practices about cultural expression. Wikipedia exists as a product of Western, pluralistic culture. It could not exist in cultures dominated by other values, whether they are statist or Islamist. It would be absurd to deny that such regimes pose an existential threat to Wikipedia." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §276
  249. "We as a community would expand globally and get more more accurate translations on topics already created and would most likely gain some region specific information." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §289
  250. "Potentially very significant, but only if knowledge on these parts of the world is primarily generated by by people living in those areas who should not only be users of information which presently does not always reflect their values and understanding of their own past and potential." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §296
  251. "This theme is not that important. The creation of encyclopedia is a kind of luxury for which only people in richer areas of world can afford. Therfore focusing efforts on poorer areas in hope to find volunteers willing to edit is meaningless. Wikipedias without communities of real, devoted editors will turn into bilboard with local adds or free space to keep personal files." Polish Wikipedia §29
  252. "Focus our efforts to communities that we haven't yet reached don't mean imposing our criteria/history, but fundamentally listening to them. That all the voices are represented in articles." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §49
  253. "The movement is quite inclusive, with certain exceptions. It seems to me that it reaches quite interesting extremes trying to get people to participate regardless of their particular characteristics." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §51
  254. "I think the movement is global, and if not is not because of the movement itself. WMF or volunteers can't avoid the social and economical inequalities existing in the world -- I just hope that this gaps will be reduced by 2030." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §54
  255. "Encyclopedic knowledge is an westernish idea, therefore there is a problem to overcome basic cultural barriers especially for Arabic countries and provide a knowledge in other than encyclopedic formats - story telling, movies, how-to-do instructions?" Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §12
  256. "We should focus on becoming a truly global movement by engaging more and more communities." Hindi community one on one discussions §2
  257. "If we aren't a truly global movement, we are excluding someone, and that will lead to our irrelevance. If we are a global movement, we’ll have additional participants who are able to assist with the other goals, e.g. shared workload" Affiliations Committee §25
  258. "The primary focus of the Wikimedia movement is to enable every human being to access knowledge and this theme is directly related with it. We haven't reached all part of the globe, we still need to better spread across Middle East, Africa and Asia to leverage the contributors community as well as have enough resources to serve them. Without this, we wouldn't be a truly global movement that we aspire to become." Affiliations Committee §27
  259. "In these regions (Asia, Middle East, Africa, Latin America) lives the biggest part of the world population. It is important to include them." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §43
  260. "We would end up with poorly- or low-managed small wikis. Must more low-managed local wikis be created to achieve diversity?" Meta §80
  261. "The fact that many wikis are not growing and not well managed is a problem that must be resolved." Meta §81
  262. "Global participation is a particular strength of the Wikimedia movement; not all organizations can or want to do this." Wikimedia District of Columbia §17
  263. "This would be a theme with great impact, if the Wikimedia movement would understand itself and act like one, increasing collaboration and dialogue." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §43
  264. "Openness to a broader variety of contributions and new forms of knowledge is essential to come closer to our vision as a movement and not limited to currently ‘not well served’ regions. If we follow this theme for all regions of the world, we might be able to increase the diversity and depth of knowledge available to all, everywhere." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §44
  265. "On the subject of global movement, if we have more global participants, it is easier to have a better understanding of notability and not to generate deletion problems." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §31
  266. "Inclusion for the community." Iberoconf 2017 §29
  267. "Strive for balance between established and new points of view." Iberoconf 2017 §32
  268. "Efforts to reduce gaps." Iberoconf 2017 §34
  269. "Provide the opportunity for the peoples to represent themselves." Iberoconf 2017 §39
  270. "We will add the voices who still don't have voice or representation in the projects, and this will allow the inclusion on the Internet era of people who are in the gaps which we haven't worked yet." Wikimedia Chile - Interviews with members §7
  271. "Wikipedias in local languages should not focus on translating from English but rather create their own input to the knowledge, which should be translated to major languages, so the local voice can be heard globally." Polish Wikipedia §2
  272. "Suport for emerging communities in underdeveloped countries is important, but there is the issue how to do it; if there is no good idea, all efforts, including financial will be wasted." Polish Wikipedia §10
  273. "Including the minority can bring us new knowledge." Chinese Community - Individual interviews §15
  274. a b "This is the least important thing, because Wikimedia can't fix the world yet, and it does not have the resources to connect half of the world to the Internet, certainly not free internet. One should also be wary of exploiting free surfing in Third World countries, as happens in Angola and Morocco, where dozens of trolls exploit Wikipedia zero to share illegal files, including porn. In order to stop (or rather reduce) this phenomenon, a very large global range was required. Therefore, with experience from what happened, one has to be very careful about the subject." Hebrew Wikipedia village pump §24
  275. "The challenge is to assume a vision that in fact the sum of all knowledge in the world should adopt an inclusive practice and with groups and individuals from areas and backgrounds that are not like our current members'. To achieve this vision, the process of globalization and generalization of our community is an unavoidable condition, we need to open ourselves to the conditions of participation of those who are not in our movement so that these groups and individuals are accepted and can participate." Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §20
  276. a b "This theme is the most important themes of all because it is the best way to cover more articles from around the world." English Wikipedia §91
  277. "This theme is central to Latin America and our community. I believe that many of us don't agree with the movement being inclusive for a variety of reasons." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §50
  278. a b "The movement is inclusive in its foundational basis, and it is strategically important to defend such characteristics in a changing environment as internet, which tends to the closed models and excessive monetization. Defending the "anyone-can-edit" openness and anonymity should be a non-negotiable principle." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §57
  279. "Indian community should focus on all the Indian languages to make it a truly global movement. It is easier for community members from India to work for Indian languages." Hindi Community Whatsapp discussion §3
  280. "Focusing on all the language communities according to their needs will help all the language communities." Hindi Community Whatsapp discussion §11
  281. "I think Hindi Wikipedia will grow faster if we help in growing communities in other languages." Hindi Community Whatsapp discussion §14
  282. "Is important because we have much things to do for inclusivity (gaps, bias, language and cultural obstacles)." Affiliations Committee §34
  283. "Developing countries are not sufficiently represented within the movement; the theme presupposes that they will be better represented." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §2
  284. "The theme of having a truly global movement is important but unfortunately, we do not start from the same starting point. In many regions of the world there is not enough understanding of what encyclopedic (neutral, fact-checked, referenced) content is, because before producing it, they need to have been exposed to it as end users. Efforts and resources have to be invested in overcoming this difference, but in some regions of the world, this problem are more urgent problems that need to be solved first." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §45
  285. "This is important when we disseminate the funds, so that development is done for all languages." Swedish Wikipedia §11
  286. "Sustainability of the movement is maintained by small projects, when the primary big projects (like english Wikipedia) are saturated in content and search for new ways to stay productive." Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §17
  287. "The production of a diverse knowledge is subject to the possibility that (almost) all participate, or at least have the possibility to participate." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §9
  288. "If Wikipedia is only based in the North, it is not open knowledge and much remains to be done." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §10
  289. "Make room for contributions related to local contexts. Free and inclusive knowledge focused on accessibility in languages and support for disabled people." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §11
  290. "It is important that Wikipedia make room for cultural diversity of the world. This can only be achieved with a truly diverse group in the editing work. It is important in the movement legitimacy." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §12
  291. "A truly global movement allows, but doesn't ensure, the generation of specific local content that even foreign experts may not know." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §13
  292. "It is one of the most important themes since listening to all non-represented voices we can build a better encyclopedia for everyone." Wikimedia Chile - Interviews with members §8
  293. a b "Efforts regarding "giving contributors better tools to contribute" will not really expand our content in places where no contributors exists because the community is not aware of the existence of Wikipedia. [Theme D] assumes there is a variety of sources and in many categories/areas/languages that is just not the case." Wikimedia Foundation staff §106
  294. "If we focus on being the [theme D] it is likely we lose focus on being broadly available is a wide range of topics in languages/regions and collectives in which Wikipedia is not known." Wikimedia Foundation staff §107
  295. "We are one of the main player in [theme E]. We are not engaging with it, we are leading it. We need to boldly go to places where there's no school or library, partner with organizations that are experienced with going to exotic places. We need to create cultures of knowledge in places where no such culture exist and not just wait for it to get created. If we don’t do this, these cultures might just disappear before we get the chance to document them." Wikimedia Foundation staff §110
  296. "Theme D - we need to better understand how different cultures and regions treat the core concept of open knowledge - is there censorship, or just disdain, around the concept? Theme B will become more relevant as translation tools become better, which we may be able to tap into as a movement to allow for much easier communication across borders." Wikimedia Foundation staff §115
  297. "We will not be able to bring in new knowledge without bringing in new people. People will not want to join our movement if they see it as an unhealthy place. Some of the knowledge gaps we have on WM exist in other forms and on other platforms. The most respected source of knowledge will be extensive, vast, and vibrant. We will need to address these knowledge gaps to fulfil this goal." Wikimedia Foundation staff §119
  298. "[Theme A] is the prerequisite to a truly global movement. This theme is the one that will require a great deal of time, energy, and resources to achieve, and must be purposefully pursued. It’s far too easy to maintain the status quo than to make sure that marginalized communities have the opportunity to contribute to and learn from Wikimedia projects." Wikimedia Foundation staff §121
  299. "In order to become a truly global movement we should absolutely and showily invest more resources in emerging countries and less in rich countries." Italian Wikipedia §5
  300. "Consensus should be based on in-depth study of sources." Italian Wikipedia §36
  301. "Reduce various projects that only target content addition in languages that already have an active community, like GLAM and Wikipedian-in-Residence projects." Meta §39
  302. "Reduce the relative weight of projects that address problems that are irrelevant for small or not-yet-existing communities, like "anti-harassment" initiatives" Meta §40
  303. "We may have to spend less on technical improvements." Vietnamese Wikipedia §9
  304. "To be truly global, we must combat localism (as the establishment of peculiar norms according to language versions) -- There should be no excluded topics for language reasons, because we have to recieve (and be able to distribute) all knowledge." Spanish Wikipedia §27
  305. "Although English Wikipedia is the most developed one, it is a mistake to assume that all of its contents are superior to other languages." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §11
  306. "A difficult one, but if wikipedia is to b e truly relevant to user in presently under-represented regions it needs to discourage/disincentivise people from outside of a region from writing about it. Only in this way will Wikikpedia become truly useful and relevant in areas of present low penetration." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §298
  307. "We need to re-prioritize what makes the front page in terms of news. Too often do I see elections being overshadowed by sports." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §303
  308. "We should stop focusing on English Wikipedia only. Right now the Foundation is spend way too much time and money and resources for the development of the English Wikipedia. Some other groups need resources as well." Chinese Community - Individual interviews §16
  309. "If we want a significant impact on global knowledge WMF should spend at least half its budget in developing countries. Remaining money would be enough for the others." Italian Wikipedia §98
  310. "There is a very strong implicit exclusion for different reasons, mainly for linguistical and technical skills (we assume that we all understand the intricacies of wiki navigation). Other are more obvious issues, such as discrimination against women or minorities. This movement is anglo/eurocentric, white, masculine, and people with high levels of digital literacy." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §52
  311. "I don't share the idea that exclusions are due to reasons unrelated to the movement. In my experience discrimination is permanent and is not the fault of a group of "rotten apples". The most paradigmatic case is the gender gap. Wikipedia is sexist and in many occasions -not always- misogynistic." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §55
  312. "A Wiki in all languages and dialects is not possible because of the reality of life of some tribes (lack of internet, electricity)." Dutch Wikipedia §15
  313. "Oral history as a source does not improve the quality of Wikimedia projets." Dutch Wikipedia §16
  314. "Go beyond the elitist contributor, target the not yet served populations." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §8
  315. "English Wikipedia community has been using the non-free content criteria to anglicize multimedia content on non-English topics. Editors should stop using "fair use" rules and rules limiting non-free content to westernize or anglicize multimedia content, especially images." Meta §85
  316. "Look for new, unreached niches for active inclusion." Iberoconf 2017 §33
  317. "To demand greater efforts in the projects to confront gaps of lack of (geographical, gender, age, idiomatic) diversity." Iberoconf 2017 §38
  318. "Encourage editors in the Indian Subcontinent to create articles in their native languages." English Wikipedia §35
  319. "There's a bias in our approach towards various languages - stop caring about our own." Wikidata §19
  320. "Preservation of all people's history is important for the most accurate information." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §288
  321. "try to get more minorities in the world to use wikipedia so we can have as close to full cultural diversity as possible" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §292
  322. "It needs to encourage locals to generate local content that is relevant to their region and takes a local perspective." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §299
  323. "We should also aim to work with Amerindian groups, especially in the Amazon. They have exclusive books about the local flora that would be prime WikiBooks material." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §304
  324. "We can incorporate many cultures' wisdom and knowledges into Wikipedia by being open, humble and acquisitive." Vietnamese Wikipedia §24
  325. "The geographical distribution is wrong − the global movement is not about continents, its about rare languages and endangered cultures." Russian Wikipedia §32
  326. "The quality of Wikipedia as an encyclopedia is priority. More users means a better project, while ‘cultural and linguistic diversity’ is a secondary goal." Russian Wikipedia §33
  327. "I don’t think it is a goal of Wikimedia movement to support endangered languages, especially if all they are writing about are local customs." Russian Wikipedia §34
  328. "Professional chauvinism and deeming writing about local customs as ‘unimportant’ is unacceptable in international encyclopedia which strives for having the sum of human knowledge in it, not having ‘Theory of relativity’ translated in as many languages as possible." Russian Wikipedia §35
  329. "The theme is worded to emphasize developing countries, but we should not leave behind people in rural areas in developed countries, who often also lack access to quality education and the opportunities that come with it." Wikimedia District of Columbia §22
  330. "It will be a huge challenge for the movement, as we're currently phrasing the current identify of the movement. These regions will / might have a different understanding of it, so we might end up just repeating a "digital colonization" process." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §55
  331. "Thesedays, all of us, esepcially Koreans, count on only English Wikipedia, because it is so huge. Local wikis like Korean Wikipedia would grow when it strengthen its own capability. Localization could be one of solustions. For example, we can collect informations about Korean local plants and monuments in cooperation with local history researchers. We don't need to develop partnership with only governments but also private organizations." Wikimedians of Korea User Group §6
  332. "Our mission is best served by providing sufficient coverage of medical topics in all languages than by focusing in extremely in-depth coverage of medical conditions." Wikimedia Foundation staff §126
  333. "The phrase “sum of all knowledge” is often interpreted in the enlightenment mindset. There’s an assumption that any small group of individuals could produce that if they worked hard enough. That’s not true. The sum of all knowledge can only be created by the sum of all people." Wikimedia Foundation staff §128
  334. "Because English is so ubiquitous, people are sometimes told to participate in their local language even though it may not be what they want to contribute in." Wikimedia Foundation staff §134
  335. "Hoping for a more permeable movement. If machines translate everything we lose the cultural nuances. Imagine a world where being a community member may be annotating knowledge, celebrating cultural differences while still having a common base" Wikimedia Foundation staff §135
  336. "“Regions/cultures” are interesting. People who have been excluded aren’t really regions; e.g. diaspora of Nigerians in the US. Cultural flows rather than regional flows. Also true for socio-economic strata, regardless of the region." Wikimedia Foundation staff §143
  337. "“Who is marginalized today” isn’t just a discrete geographical thing." Wikimedia Foundation staff §144
  338. "The first draft of this was very PC and people in Africa had no idea what it was about. The people we’re talking about should be the ones writing about this. We can only write from that perspective so well." Wikimedia Foundation staff §145
  339. "In cycle 1, a keyword was “information justice”. It was about removing all barriers in participating. Not just region and class, but also age, disability." Wikimedia Foundation staff §146
  340. "There are groups that we have underserved and have been marginalized for various reasons today. Those groups don’t exactly map into just regions; we might be thinking in terms of regions because that’s how we organize today offline. But there are many ways to intersect, slice and dice these various groups. To be a truly global movement, there is a balance we need to strike between what we can do (i.e. where we want to focus our attention and resources) and how inclusive we can be." Wikimedia Foundation staff §147
  341. "Wikipedia literacy about who creates it, what’s behind it, what’s a good article, the human connection and humanity is all pretty crucial." Wikimedia Foundation staff §159
  342. "Solve social issues with communities to open them to the idea of having different ways to share knowledge." Wikimedia Foundation staff §163
  343. "Involve local people, not foreign people to describe things, or define what is important. Have other cultures to perceive a culture as equal." Wikimedia Foundation staff §164
  344. "Focus on high-priority communications - we will need to make high-priority decisions. Someone will need to make a call on how to prioritise languages." Wikimedia Foundation staff §168
  345. "partnering with regions "we have not yet served well enough" - some of them we haven't served at all. We need to be honest with our progress and recognise that we've missed some people out." Wikimedia Foundation staff §175
  346. "Once the word is out and we identify what we want to focus on, we can work on partnerships and provide as much help as we can." Wikimedia Foundation staff §177
  347. "Breaking down the barriers of isolationism - Reforming policies of the more prominent communities, facilitate access for all people, to all sources of knowledge" Wikimedia Foundation staff §183
  348. "Regional aspect could change - don’t limit to these geographies." Wikimedia Foundation staff §190
  349. "This discussion seems very broad. You can forget illiterates in US (south for example). We don’t want to expand into new countries but we have to be careful about gender and class. We don’t want to perpetuate the same issues." Wikimedia Foundation staff §191
  350. "Maybe it should talk to segments not served - to broaden and capture those without privilege (less socio-economic, impairments, illiteracy, etc.)." Wikimedia Foundation staff §192
  351. "We shouldn’t limit ourselves with just geographies. Also literacy rates, genders, races being oppressed, etc. Such a wide array of things." Wikimedia Foundation staff §195
  352. "Revise what it means to “Make Space” - “Make space” is not universal terminology, and does not translate well. Small voices in a big global community get lost, we should enable all to participate. This means not identifying regions, but identifying marginalized communities all over the world." Wiki in Education §9
  353. "We need to recruit academic editors who are knowledgeable enough not only to understand the technical issues, but also to review an entire field. For this purpose, students who write articles in the framework of courses and seminar papers are not enough, and there is a need to increase the recruitment of senior editors (at the doctoral level and above)" Hebrew Wikipedia village pump §9
  354. "Our challenge is how to maintain this status, rather than achieving it. Readers should have a way to tell us about missing content." English Wikipedia §93
  355. "It has also been proposed to improve the Wikipedia interface so that it is clear where the information was taken from. An interface that will show readers how they can add information and how the mechanism works." Wikimedia Israel §34
  356. "Experts must be recruited." Wikimedia Israel §35
  357. "How reliable are the footnoted references without help from experts? Not following the theme well would illustrate how lacking our expertise is and how we may be driving out experts who are very knowledgeable at topics." Meta §87
  358. "This theme is important because it is the basis of the reason of being of Wikipedia. For this, editors must be well trained. Therefore the key would be in the creation of didactic materials that teach the encyclopedic writing keys and the selection of reliable reference sources as main axes." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §62
  359. "Look for strategies to engage our critics (and that they don't stay in criticism)." Iberoconf 2017 §42
  360. "Experts will never comes to edit Wikipedia as they have different habits, attitudes and expectations than are needed to collaboratively create a knowledge, so engaging too much effort to this theme is waste of time. WMF should rather focus on technology and support of existing community" Polish Wikipedia §16
  361. "Another user disagreed with the above statement [PLWP §16] claiming that experts are very important and Wikipedia community should rather follow the habits of main-stream academy people than pushing strange and non-welcoming regulations which in fact do not support quality but are rather an unnecessary obstacles for newbies." Polish Wikipedia §17
  362. "There are limitations to how good we can be. Some types of content, and some content creators, do not have a place in the Wikimedia universe." Australian Community §5
  363. "This topic is closely related to Theme 1 with respect to the importance of attracting more new editors, especially with scientific backgrounds, and make the environment tolerant and attractive for them to contribute." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §52
  364. "Engaging with and being validated by the scientific community is important. Science is not the only way of knowing, but it is a powerful one, and has a huge amount of pragmatic success." North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians User Group §13
  365. "We aren’t curators, we aren’t librarians, we aren’t researchers. We are not the expects in every field. Without those people we cannot achieve what this theme sets out." Wikimedia Foundation staff §200
  366. "The one that stands out the most is Theme E. There’s a bias toward Wikipedia from old guard academics. How do we approach and work with more traditional organizations? How do we help them adapt for the future on the way to 2030?" Wikimedia Foundation staff §203
  367. "The demystification part of this (external communication/explanation, highlighted transparency), will help all the other themes to succeed. It will: make the actual editing work easier (clearer documentation, and identifying problems with workflows); make onboarding newcomers easier; reduce editor confusion; make external outreach smoother; make interacting with sister communities (who differ in subtle ways) easier." Wikimedia Foundation staff §205
  368. "Further engagement with the existing knowledge ecosystem will push us towards greater respect as a knowledge source. "Serious" publications give us more clout by association, while we in turn can help those organizations to find new ways to gather and share knowledge. Fostering healthy and inclusive communities is also critical, since people will avoid contributing if they do not feel welcome or if there is too high of a barrier for entry to begin improving the projects." Wikimedia Foundation staff §207
  369. "The most important part was helping people understand how it is reliable… highlighting transparency will help the others succeed. That will make interacting with sister communities easier, as well as external outreach. Need to demystify what makes us us. This is the first place we start the conversation, so a good starting place." Wikimedia Foundation staff §215
  370. "If we want to become more respected as a source of knowledge we should be less inclusive." Italian Wikipedia §35
  371. "As it is right now, decision making at Wikipedia is heavily dominated by people with a decidedly leftist political agenda. They may truly believe that anything to the right of their far left agenda is not objective or reasonable, but they are deluding themselves. As a result, Wikipedia is viewed as leftist propaganda, to a large extent. Whatever the current power structure is, Wikipedia will have to begin letting its content contributors have a voice, rather than having someone at the top overruling anything to the right of Karl Marx." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §436
  372. "I encourage Wikipedia to take an "inclusionist" stance to prevent loyal contributors from giving up on Wikipedia. Deleting articles because they cater to a specific interest group decreases the knowledge base, and that knowledge base is the primary purpose that Wikipedia exists. Do not destroy Wikipedia by trying to make it better, by deleting good articles, often not available nowhere else." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §446
  373. "Get away with delitionists. Get away with the whole 'Articles for Deletion' system. Focus on Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata. Migrate the other projects to wikifarms outside Wikimedia." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §466
  374. "Make sure ideological groups are kept in check. They must prevented from forcing their ideologies on the project. This is especially true of ideologies that are currently popular or trendy, many of whose precepts seem to have been incorporated into some Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia and Wikinews come to mind)." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §552
  375. "This theme is not necessarily an alternative to the others but goes hand in hand with some of them. For example, a way to improve the quality of our content is to involve more and better to individuals and groups that don't currently contribute (theme E), as well as to extend the editors community to people from underrepresented communities in terms of gender, profession or geography (theme C)." Spanish Wikipedia §38
  376. "We need at least 2 experts in each field as otherwise there is a danger that one expert can force his/her own POV; when there is only one available he/she should be very carefully screened towards pushing their own POV." Wikimedia Polska 2017 meeting §14
  377. "We should stop creating articles using unreferenced content." Hindi Wikipedia §4
  378. "We should also stop focusing on quantity and rather focus on quality." Hindi Wikipedia §5
  379. "We should stop writing unreferenced and incomplete articles." Hindi Wikipedia §26
  380. "Educate contributors to source and use especially good sources." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §8
  381. "We have to improve tools and efforts for anti vandalism and we need to improve our reliable sources. All unreliable information should be deleted/marked/tagged and action should be taken to handle it." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §18
  382. "The public and press interest for the number of articles of certain Wikipedia versions has made the community forget about the quality and maintenance of the contents that already exist." Spanish Wikipedia §50
  383. "Reduce the influence of conflicts of interest with commercial entities." Iberoconf 2017 §51
  384. "Wikidata should be more reliable: every statement should have a source, which should not be just Wikipedia." Italian Wikipedia §40
  385. "One way to promote our projects as reliable information sources is by teaching (either through editatons or workshops) our policies related to the content created and published, such as reliability, NPOV, copyright, notability, etc." Spanish Wikipedia §13
  386. "Wikimedia should be a much more respected organization but it is not, largely because of traditional media which criticize and blame Wikimedia with false affirmations (superficiality, anarchy, etc.) by ignorance or simple snobbery. They probably see it as a threat." Spanish Wikipedia §15
  387. "Contributing should be the coolest thing you do at least once in your life. It is therefore necessary to open other possibilities for people to share knowledge ː genealogy, tutorial, etc." French Wikipedia §29
  388. "Publicize efforts and promote Wikipedia as a true encyclopedia and a trusted source, "Better than Brittania", "More Worldly than Worldbook"" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §345
  389. "seen as being reliable," Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §359
  390. "A GLOBAL effort- subject specialists are needed from everywhere, according to different perspectives on a topic" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §384
  391. "Consistent effort in making sure information is complete by not having articles scrubbed or edited by reputation management firms. I am not just talking about biographical entries, but about geographical places with severe pollution, companies that have released products containing proven carcinogens, and scientific information which may have political opposition." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §393
  392. a b "Wikipedia needs to include people who represent different or diverse world views, and content contributors need to be made to feel as if their time and effort is valued." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §437
  393. "Make efforts to increase the participation of experts that will improve the quality of the information." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §442
  394. "Get a gargantuan amount of information to get people across the world to trust us." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §452
  395. "Making it globally inclusive" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §553
  396. "The "engaging the knowledge ecosystem" theme would have great synergy with this theme. Use the ecosystem to make more source material available to Wikimedians, which in turn helps improve the content." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §563
  397. "The community should seek for cooperation with other organisation, which share the same mission and value as Wiki." Chinese Community - Individual interviews §20
  398. "Work with partners who are already facing the challenges of trustworthy sources and information." English Wikipedia §102
  399. "Expert's role might not be necessary absolute decisive; they might however play a role of external advisors or reviewers, but this roles should be somehow defined and organized to be really useful." Wikimedia Polska 2017 meeting §12
  400. "Experts can be attracted by doing common projects with their mother institutions, so they can be slowly and gradually transformed into wikimedians during cooperative work with regular wikimedians." Wikimedia Polska 2017 meeting §13
  401. "We should first recognize the most important content gaps and then focus on finding and engaging experts in these fields" Wikimedia Polska 2017 meeting §15
  402. "We need to better understand how we compare to other trusted sources, and why people use other sources, so that we can improve where possible." Wikimedia Hackathon §2
  403. "Articles and talkpages are an important combination, because you can see how the article developed. It's an equalizing system, where everyone has the same status and possibility to contribute." Wikimedia Hackathon §5
  404. "Reliable and verifiable data are a cornerstone of all our projects" Wikimedia Nederland §7
  405. "The issue is the gradation of importance of content, more important topics and people should have longer and better written articles than the less important" Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §7
  406. "The above [WMPL Dinner §7] was denied by other experts expressing problems who and how should decide what is more and what less important; there is no universal points of reference to decide it." Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §8
  407. "The editing process should be changed. The content gaps should be first found with help of experts and then all efforts should be focused on filling them" Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §9
  408. "Support is needed for under-developed content areas to encourage work on these." Australian Community §2
  409. "Anyone specialized and reknown in his field: archivist, librarian, teacher-researcher, scientist..." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §9
  410. "It is necessary to have a strategy for attract expert knowledge (universities, educational institutions), which is relation with Theme E. Wikipedia can be considered the sum of all knowledge, i.e. the scope and the depth of its content have to be increated, to attract more experts and educated people." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §53
  411. "It is better to take expert's help in special cases. In some practical cases, various projects can be made with the help of experts." Bengali Community §10
  412. "Thinking outside the box: Differentiated rule statute to generate content that is more difficult to create. Don't apply the same levels of exigency for people who want to include and not demand the same level of sources for subjects that are not represented." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §34
  413. "Needs to include a commitment to diversity of contribution and environment for access." Wikimedia Foundation staff §231
  414. "Multiple POVs represented and discussed to show how the most accepted content was derived. Not only just experts, but everyone’s POV." Wikimedia Foundation staff §235
  415. "I want to make sure we still allow for low-quality articles as starters. So anyone can begin. Maybe have quality ratings that people can use to see the state articles are in." Wikimedia Foundation staff §242
  416. "When we focus on quality, some of the smaller wikis don’t have processes for quality standards. Also have different cultural influences. Also - the time in the US right now is a focus on verifiability. This desire to cite things is an added behavior right now. Do we want to call this out explicitly as part of getting to this end point? To be a cultural norm?" Wikimedia Foundation staff §243
  417. "Does the expert part matter? The good current parts are independent of expertise. It may or may not have been written by an expert, but that isn't highlighted anywhere. Would changing that be harmful? Would expertise be linked to blind-trust?" Wikimedia Foundation staff §246
  418. "Demystification is a core part of what we do, and needs expansion." Wikimedia Foundation staff §249
  419. "This is a key topic, and the biggest barrier (besides technical skills) in the conversations with educators. The bet on open has had a great return. We are already a key component of the knowledge ecosystem, but there is no question that eternal vigilance to deliver the best quality of knowledge is required." Wikimedia Foundation staff §250
  420. "Communicate Wikipedia mechanisms to avoid fake news. Reinforce these mechanisms." Iberoconf 2017 §47
  421. "It may help to focus in on Wikipedia vs. the numerous Wikimedia offshoots" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §168
  422. "We will be a counterfoil to those who actively spread disinformation, propaganda and fake news. There are many entities that will use machine learning to shape the knowledge landscape to their own ends." Wikidata §36
  423. "One that brings about a general association of cleanliness and professionalism with what is becoming one of the most trusted and accepted sources/collections of human knowledge in the world." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §35
  424. "This is key theme, especially going in the direction of better multimedia support. Otherwise we will become boring walls of texts in the era of multimedia world." Polish Wikipedia §30
  425. "How to make technological progress translate into access to knowledge." Iberoconf 2017 §19
  426. "Users will find the concept of Wikimedia being a reliable and trustworthy source of information, data, and historical documents more believable if the content is streamlined and accessible, and that fits this theme into the others relatively well." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §36
  427. a b "This theme is the top priority because we need to abandon old encyclopedic format and do interactive learning courses." Russian Wikipedia §8
  428. "[The movement has to work in] technological upgrade, Wikipedia semantics, machine translation, local alphabets." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §8
  429. "Integrate automatic and easy-to-use means to ensure transparency and neutrality of content." French Wikipedia §16
  430. "Develop tools that would provide data mining in our sources and check compatibility between sources and content." Wikidata §9
  431. "Projects like Wikisource could make use of some sort of "time capsule" to host in some hidden way content which is now copyrighted. This content will be made available when copyright expires and it enters the public domain. (Silvio Gallio at Italian Wikisource Village Pump)" Italian Wikipedia §64
  432. "Otázka je, jak si vstup do rozšířené reality představují zástupci WMF. Pro mě osobně, zatím není moc co plánovat. Snad jen umožnění vkládat na Commons 3D objekty, které se pak dají vnořit do projektů WMF a třeba pohybem myši si je obracet. To by umožnilo nový, pro mnohé jistě zajímavý a zjedodušující model studia. Například v článku barokní sochařství si budete moci různé sochy otáčet a natáčet podle potřeby a pochopit tak tuto oblast." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §28
  433. "An integrated bibliographic database (like WikiCite) is essential and is currently lacking" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §45
  434. "For historical and political articles timelines and maps would help. Those are difficult to make, so it's more like a mid-term or long-term project." Dutch Wikipedia §6
  435. "More people will require non-text content incluing music, voice, and video. It taks too long to upload vedio files on Commons. We need faster and more convient envirnment for mutimedia files." Wikimedians of Korea User Group §3
  436. "Expand the admission of free formats in Commons" Iberoconf 2017 §18
  437. "The Wiki technology has worked well for Wikipedia as an encylopedia but we shouldn't tie our projects to it if other technologies suit other projects better." Wikimedia Deutschland (discussion at the general meeting of members) §13
  438. "Create a wiki tool for language preservation. Instead of opening Wikipedia for languages to preserve, open a new tool in the Wiki for Language Preservation" Wikimedia Israel §20
  439. a b "This intersects with the healthy communities theme as we cannot be welcoming to diversity in a world wide movement without being inviting and kind to each other and to newbies. Also with Augmented Age and Trusted Source of Knowledge - bringing on all this content and contributors will require adequate tech tools for scaling with assurance of quality." Affiliations Committee §36
  440. "This intersects with themes B and D as bringing on all this content and contributors will require adequate tech tools for scaling with assurance of quality." Wikimedia Foundation staff §120
  441. "Failed projects like Wikinews should not receive resources and should be closed." Italian Wikipedia §29
  442. "We should not waste human and financial resources on very minor projects." Italian Wikipedia §30
  443. "Every wiki project is important and precious, has value and positive sides. We should not concentrate all our resources on some projects and abandon the others. We should not close projects but understand what can be improved." Italian Wikipedia §66
  444. "We should import (translate) content from small Wikipedias to big Wikipedias to fight cultural colonialism." Italian Wikipedia §97
  445. "To be more global and incorporate knowledge from all over the world, we have to be less local. Projects like Wikisource and others should be multilingual as Wikimedia Commons." Spanish Wikipedia §48
  446. "We should import (translate) content from small Wikipedias to big Wikipedias, for better coverage and to fight cultural colonialism." Albanian Wikipedia §9
  447. "Flexibilize criteria for the use of oral sources." Iberoconf 2017 §41
  448. "Make policies like OR more friendly to regions where oral tradition is much stronger than any publication coverage." English Wikipedia §34
  449. "We should look into revisiting the oral citations project" English Wikipedia §83
  450. "My question is, are we in danger of getting ahead of donors on this issue? ; Do we have research into current donors' motivations? Do donors in the countries where we have the most financial backing understand that the are supporting efforts elsewhere? Most people I know who donate do so because they use the encyclopedia and want to improve it—primarily for themselves. They are unaware of our international efforts. I'm not saying donors in North America and Europe will object to transferring their dollars and Euros to other parts of the world. But there might be a point, a percentage of expenditures, beyond which they would object, and it seems like an issue we need to anticipate and take seriously. This could be an issue our critics might exploit, and we don't want our support base to feel like they've been the victims of a bait-and-switch." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §295
  451. "A big step forward for my needs as a technician working internationally could be a visual encyclopedia, such as the visual dictionary by Merriam Webster (http://www.visualdictionaryonline.com). We should have this new Wikimedia project in many different languages." German Language Wikipedia §45
  452. "It might benefit the argument if it was backed with strong data/evidence. Is there evidence for the claim that people in the above-mentioned regions of the world need different products than people in the rest of the world? If so, please explain." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §51
  453. "Generate a Wikimedia project focused on traditional knowledge to link it to other Wikimedia projects." Iberoconf 2017 §37
  454. "More a congress of knowledge than an archive of knowledge. Living, breathing. There is a bias towards printed material. Let’s be radical about the formats of knowledge. Maybe oral history." Wikimedia Foundation staff §129
  455. "“We’ll make space for new contributions that reflect these regions (references, citations, and more)” - particularly the parenthetical - is very Wikipedia-centric. In order to be welcoming, it may be the case that Wikipedia isn’t necessarily the place where there are new joiners - it may be new products or sites." Wikimedia Foundation staff §148
  456. "The movement is strong beyond Wikipedia and leverages other, complementary projects to support the world’s learning and documenting histories that are kept in other types of sources, such as oral histories, paintings, and other expression." Wikimedia Foundation staff §149
  457. "The matter of “oral citations” can be resolved nicely if we help universities to have programs that document the oral history of different cultures for which there are no such programs now and encourage the professors and the students in these programs to upload their work to Wikimedia projects." Wikimedia Foundation staff §154
  458. "There does seem to be agreement that oral citations can become acceptable within an academic context. But there are some It would make sense to focus upon cultures where academic programs that accept oral citations are non-existent." Wikimedia Foundation staff §155
  459. "The "identity" is Wikimedia but free knowledge as a concept. We need to inherently value free knowledge, not necessary Wikimedia. IF that’s true, does our work continue to focus on Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects? Do we move onto hosting free knowledge in other ways?" Wikimedia Foundation staff §181
  460. "There is a need for a friendly and automatic mechanism for standardized citations of articles in scientific databases such as Google Skuller and Pubmed" Hebrew Wikipedia village pump §10
  461. "We have to decide on the criteria for selecting articles for a quote on Wikipedia, for example: Should we prefer more cited articles? Of authors more quoted? In more prestigious journals? Review articles? Open articles? Peer-reviewed articles?" Hebrew Wikipedia village pump §12
  462. "Guidelines and mechanisms should be devised to ensure that sources cited in articles do contain the information quoted" Hebrew Wikipedia village pump §13
  463. "We need to establish a way to ensure that all the articles cited do indeed fairly reflect the scientific consensus as well as the relevant scientific controversies." Hebrew Wikipedia village pump §14
  464. "With Wikidata, we can promote the networked model of verification, and confront inconsistent factual claims more easily." Wikidata §23
  465. "Effective impact requires a strong support and emphasis on projects other than Wikipedia, for example Wikiversity which remains a vast parcel unexplored. TgH" French Wikipedia §24
  466. "Strong correlation with copyright issues, politics" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §402
  467. "We must stress the importance of sources, and neutrality." Wikimedia Israel §36
  468. "We need a clear mission with very strict and high standard of quality and content." Swedish Wikipedia §14
  469. "If we want to be a truly global movement, we will have to determine criteria for reliability and quality that are relevant for types of knowledge we do not cover at the moment (e.g. oral history and traditional/non-academic knowledge systems)" Wikimedia Nederland §3
  470. "AI could help with of this. Moving things forward. Better translations, better analysis for healthy communities. Connecting to other knowledge bases. So much knowledge available, not to downplay the potential power of this." Wikimedia Foundation staff §220
  471. "Leaving referencing or attribution to editors' will alone. New tools must be developed from already available analytic tools." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §461
  472. "If we want to maintain high standards for quality and relevance of information, we should reassess Wikimedia-projects to determine whether or not they can be maintained" Wikimedia Nederland §4
  473. "Enforce quality models and criteria (form and content) for any contribution." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §5
  474. "Stop making too many local wikis, especially ones using very obscure languages, and start revising the closing projects policy to make closures easier. Poorly-run wikis and/or poor-quality wikis should be either closed or improved." Meta §92
  475. "Requring references too srictly could drive new comers out and demage heathy community. We should not force to cite source. We should provie more convinient envirnment to find reliable sources and make footnotes technically." Wikimedians of Korea User Group §7
  476. "Encourage using open-access high-quality peer-reviewed sources, and discourage unsourced or "self-sourced" information as much as possible." English Wikipedia §60
  477. "We need better tools to be more reliable." Italian Wikipedia §38
  478. "The rules need to guard against propaganda (mass disinformation, disruptive editing, ad hominem attacks)." Meta §48
  479. "Separate citation data from its presentation, and attach references explicitly to text areas." Wikidata §26
  480. "A focus on expanding the Wikipedia Library and access to quality academic sources for the volunteers is a must. For BLPs this is less of a concern, but for anything that is not a BLP, academic sourcing remains the most reliable and highest quality material, and is needed to help improve the quality of the articles." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §330
  481. "Automation of fact checking ?" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §335
  482. "Sources, lots of sources" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §482
  483. "We need to add a control mechanism to each article that will bring the sources of information to the article" Hebrew Wikipedia village pump §19
  484. "Wikipedia will be trusted when articles are based on trustworthy sources, therefore teaching wikipedians which sources are trusted and which one are not is the core task." Polish Wikipedia §32
  485. "I think a deep discussion about what is a reliable source and which sources should Wikipedia accept is needed. There are always discrepancies about reliability and verifiability over sources and no agreement." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §64
  486. "The topic of use of the sources is important, considering that Wikipedia is a tertiary source. This means that you should not write about things published only by a primary source, but should wait for a secondary source to address it." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §66
  487. "Incorporate primary sources directly into articles to show how the facts were arrived at - provide the scientific community a way to communicate to the public" Wikimedia Foundation staff §237
  488. "Challenges around: soliciting new types of knowledge. Types of sources, formats of content. New processes and policies will be needed." Wikimedia Foundation staff §248
  489. "We should develop mechanisms to remain an open system while we will have to resolve the conflict between reliability of our content and openness of our content creation processes, e.g. through application of quantitative quality indicators (quality rating, quality ranking)." Wikimedia Deutschland (discussion at the general meeting of members) §16
  490. "Wikimedia's trustworthiness could be measured against the TRUST criteria: Transparent, Reliable, Unselfish, Safe, Two way communication." Wikimedia Deutschland (discussion at the general meeting of members) §17
  491. "Expansion of Wikipedia Library, and more regional alliances with allied organizations/universities." Iberoconf 2017 §44
  492. "Filters and controls to have more and better content sources." Iberoconf 2017 §45
  493. "Working in a tense atmosphere is not easy. An inclusion of communities, and therefore of individuals, will make community collaboration easier." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §4
  494. a b "This theme is the most important because if we have a strong community, we will have the human resources to do anything, including other themes' work." Vietnamese Wikipedia §2
  495. a b "Healthy, inclusive communities is the most important theme because it is the engine/hearth of everything Wikipedia was and should be." Italian Wikipedia §4
  496. a b "It’s an underlying theme for all the other themes and a main asset for all of what Wikimedia can do to advance free knowledge in the world. It makes us unique, human-based, diverse and sustainable, thus it’s the most important among these 5 themes." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §9
  497. a b c "It's the community aspect that strengthen the Wikimedia Movement, the set of contributors who build something together. The greater the community is, the greater will be the weight and credibility of the movement. Credibility lies in exchanges and debates." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §1
  498. a b "Most important, it's key to the success of the others. In order to make the other advancements, you need the workforce to achieve it." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §557
  499. a b "For me this is strategically the crucial theme, because only a functioning community can guarantee a future for Wikipedia. A precondition for this is not that we all 'love' each other. This is not possible. But it should work better. Otherwise the motivation of the authors evapores faster than it needs to." German Language Wikipedia §25
  500. a b "This theme is the most important one strategically. Because only a functioning Wikipedia community can guarantee a future. The prerequisite for this is however not that we all "love" each other (which btw is not possible), but just that the community should be more harmonious for the motivation of the authors." German Language Wikipedia §1
  501. a b "This theme is the absolute first condition of the other 4 themes. Safe, healthy communities lay the groundwork for all future work on Wikipedia; it is the gatekeeper and the enabler. For example: Why will others in the knowledge ecosystem partner with us if we are unwelcoming, toxic, and exclusive? How will people respect Wikipedia if they only know it’s created by a small group of people? How can we be global if people continuously leave or never even join our community? Who cares if it’s an augmented experience if we have no users?" Wiki in Education §3
  502. a b "This theme is the most important, because the community is the critical success factor." English Wikipedia §2
  503. a b "Without a healthy community, nothing else would work." Affiliations Committee §11
  504. a b "This is perhaps the most important because without it, Wikipedia will stagnate. As it is right now, a large percentage of the population does not consider Wikipedia to be an objective source, given that its content has been dominated by a clique operating from a leftist political agenda." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §177
  505. a b "most important - culture eats strategy for breakfast. without a healthy community, you will not be able to implement other goals." Wikimedia Commons §2
  506. a b "Wikimedia is first and foremost a strong community. The importance of this theme lies in one of the basic principles of wikipedia which is the inclusion of communities." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §3
  507. "Maybe Wikipedia should become less democratic so that newcomers will have some probation period before they can work in the project and that there is more expertise in relevant fields, especially in politics and science topics." Russian Wikipedia §26
  508. a b "It is important as it provides the opportunity for the minority to share their knowledge. Their knowledge is also important to us!" Chinese Community - Individual interviews §4
  509. a b "This is the most significant area to focus on. The marginalized communities that are most affected by some current policies and practices are the communities whose perspectives are most needed." North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians User Group §1
  510. "People from many different backgrounds need to feel welcome to fully participate in all aspects of the Wikimedia movement. (for example, people from the “global south” are not a problem to be resolved but people with valuable resources to share with the Wikimedia movement.)" Wikimedia Foundation staff §45
  511. "We should stop excluding the minority. Now some wikipedians think that the Foundation only focuses on North America and Europe, as the Foundation has invested so much money and effort to develop in these regions, and they should include the minority as well." Chinese Community - Individual interviews §7
  512. "It sometimes seems that the catalyzing of marginalized communities is done from a top down approach, that can infantilize volunteers from those communities and can have weak results in medium and long term." Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §6
  513. "The problem with new users interfere with diversification. It is much easier to be included if you are a white man in a white-man environment, but if you are different it costs a lot." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §27
  514. "Transparent and open knowledge accumulation. Instead of Facebook or Baiduk Baike" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §153
  515. "Transparent practices that show why decisions are made (and by who)." Wikimedia Foundation staff §4
  516. "In 2030, Wikimedia communities are larger and more representative of the global population. Leadership within the communities has evolved to support and nurture emerging voices and areas of content while maintaining a high quality bar." Wikimedia Foundation staff §6
  517. a b "The writers of Wikipedia are more representative of the readers and the barrier for low-level participation is lower." Wikimedia Foundation staff §25
  518. "With sufficient editor participation and translators, we could know better what's happening on various wikis." Meta §70
  519. "If the community works as a team then we will be able to understand about the encyclopedic needs of the world. Community health is important for the success of the movement." Hindi Wikipedia §9
  520. "Achieving that would deeply change the movement towards a true community." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §3
  521. a b "Contributors will be protected from abuse and hate speech. They will have clear policies around behaviour to reference, and clear processes to rely upon if those policies are being broken. Contributors will feel that they are part of a movement that cares about people, not just content." Wikimedia Foundation staff §14
  522. "The world needs the wiki culture, because with more wiki culture, id would be better, a more democratic and forward-looking place." Meta §8
  523. "We need the world to be more inclusive, perhaps to survive as a human race in the future." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §90
  524. "This is because social inclusion of all, especially for the vulnerable and minorities is integral for democratic and better well-being of future generation." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §128
  525. a b "Second place (only to The augmented age), because people always need to be part of a community, of a society - it brings them hope, future, ideas, aim." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §2
  526. "We could lead the way in collaborative, online digital humanities." English Wikipedia §1
  527. "If we succeed in having beautiful, healthy, welcoming and inclusive communities we could also be a good political example for others." Italian Wikipedia §3
  528. "The community will be respected better, if it is considered healthy by others." Meta §4
  529. "model on how to collaborate" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §70
  530. ala coffee clubs changed England & ushered in industrial revolution Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §123
  531. "Our influence on the world will grow in the future. Wikipedia can be the leading role model of volunteering, shared knowledge and the power of togetherness. Justine.toms (comments at the offline wiki seminar on 10 June in Sofia)" Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §26
  532. a b "Emerge as a model of decentralised politics, as those still contributing do so as one unit. This allows the Wikimedia projects to grow into comprehensive, multilingual banks of knowledge and resources, covering all areas of the globe. Currently, there are many undervalued voices." Wikimedia Foundation staff §3
  533. a b "In 2030, we'll be a healthy community that crowd sources for effective change and content development. Wikimedia is a leader in global, collaborative environments. People are positive, happy, and helpful to each other." Wikimedia Foundation staff §21
  534. "In 2030 we'll be a leader in how we run a lean, robust operation with positive global impact. We are innovators in every space of our work as a Foundation. We are an authentic model that and allows the practice, development and long game in how we lead and allocate resources in the world." Wikimedia Foundation staff §22
  535. "We should be considered the paragon of inclusion, modeling effective inclusion in all aspects of our work - particularly in areas that are historically not inclusive (eg STEM, especially open source software communities)." Wikimedia Foundation staff §27
  536. "We're well known in the student developer communities & open source world for our projects. Currently, there is ambiguity around how some of our open source software projects are related to Wikipedia. More awareness of our movement, of the values we share and of the fact that contributing to these projects will impact a large ecosystem, will draw newcomers and get them involved." Wikimedia Foundation staff §35
  537. "We could learn, and then teach, so much more about how to structure factual, polite discourse online at a global scale. We could learn about how to build healthy communities and network them." Meta §60
  538. "more powerful dialoges for our system and Internet in general" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §120
  539. "Decreasing the toxicity of the Internet" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §166
  540. "We have the potential to globalize a cooperative approach to the web." Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §1
  541. "We can practice in a radical way an unprecedented associative 2.0 web experience" Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §2
  542. "If Wikimedia follows the "healthy inclusive communities" theme it can create the utopia that the internet was originally intended to be;(…) more and more people will be drawn into the safe haven of its community, growing stronger and stronger, and together we will be able to tackle whatever the future holds. Together we can help fix the internet." English Wikipedia §103
  543. "Internet communities (wikis, too) suffer from bad behavior and team bullying. Our wikis could be a light beacon." Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §3
  544. "Set the standards for modern (net) workplace behavior (eliminate workplace bullying and toxicity)." Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §5
  545. "The Wikimedia movement would make clear that communication culture is paramount which would set an example for other online-communities on the internet." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §4
  546. "We would have an important impact on how people perceive the internet as something they can co-create, as a place for sharing knowledge, as something that can empower communities." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §5
  547. "The impact would be positively hugeː making the world a better place." French Wikipedia §1
  548. "We can make the world come closer in the pursuit of free sharing knowledge" Vietnamese Wikipedia §1
  549. "We would make information sharing easier for everyone and this would enable scientific discoveries on a global scale" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §97
  550. "A healthy community impacts the projects, and these impact the world. It's an indirect impact." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §107
  551. "Ideally shape the progression towards a more inclusive society without discrimination, and helping individuals forge genuine social connections and never rely on paying or capitalist systems for knowledge." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §115
  552. "For international community (like United Nations or Council of Europe) and developed nations to improve policy toward more democratic with full respect of rule of law and minorities' rights." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §127
  553. "following this theme Would , to My mind , greatly assist in Creating a Community, all Communities , Global Communities , to appreciate , Respect, tolerate, inspire and build from the microcosm to the macrocosm, macroeconomic, social well being of our communities and diverse socities. ; It would hopefully create an awareness of small and larger communities' demographics. To encompass with understanding, mercy and compassion for All people. ; This would go a long way to include all people, regardless of race, colour, creed, physical or psychological needs. Helping to achieve forums, communitities who CARE about All people. To invite and include all who desire a harmonious and peaceful society and communities." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §171
  554. "We can shape new social environment, new type of communities and relations, better world.--Vodnokon4e (talk) 12:09, 10 June 2017 (UTC)" Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §1
  555. "If we follow this theme, the movement has the potential to fulfill the utopian ideals many of us have for it." North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians User Group §2
  556. "If this secures the existence of Wikipedia as community-driven project, then people all over the world would have free access to knowledge that could change their lives, make them smarter, hopefully make them give back to others, and eventually make the world a more equal, creative, peaceful and resourceful place." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §1
  557. "Standard education does not include soft skills and communities health. Our wikis could have an inside role." Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §4
  558. "Only a healthy community will commit and progress" Wikidata §2
  559. "It is important to have a healthy environment, so the volunteers will stay , and we as a community can have them contribute to us, and help us grow." Chinese Community - Individual interviews §6
  560. "The added value that distinguishes Wikimedia from other platforms in this community. The issue of technology refers to another 30 years. The issue of a real global community comes out of this issue. That's the added value" Wikimedia Israel §7
  561. "I think Theme A is important because we can’t grow if there is no unity in the community." Hindi community one on one discussions §6
  562. "Emphasize that we are a living example of democracy - everybody is allowed to be part of this and the only demand is 'Stick to the rules'." Meta §12
  563. "The claim that people first and foremost contribute to free knowledge projects because they are looking for relations and networking, has been challenged in the past and should be dropped. Take a recent focus group analysis of newbie editors that has been commissioned by Wikimedia Deutschland: It strongly suggests that potential and actual new contributors are not “in it” for the community aspect. In fact, being part of a community is rather off-putting to them and leading to self-doubt or hesitation to contribute." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §12
  564. "People start to contribute out of different reasons (intrinsic and extrinsic). The community experience rarely is one of them. But it is a strong reason that people keep on volunteering." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §15
  565. a b "A healthy and inclusive community does not exist in a vacuum. It interacts with the society it is surrounded by on a daily basis, influencing and learning from each other. Developing awareness in societies around the world for the Wikimedia projects being a shared responsibility of all humankind should therefore be an essential goal of of this theme. What is implicit in the current statement is that an inclusive culture which makes contributing fun requires to fight toxic environments. This is a cultural shift as currently an indivdual’s amount of contributions to the projects or years of service weigh more than his or her behaviour towards others. The prefered way to do this is positive reinforcement: As a movement we should celebrate those who successfully manage to bring in and mentor newcomers. However, in some instances a tough stance against toxic behaviour will be necessary and should have the same importance and consequences as other violations of the core values of Wikimedia." Wikimedia Austria (Board and ED) §4
  566. "If the community organizes and continues to grow, it seems possible to move forward simultaneously on all these major themes." French Wikipedia §15
  567. "If the themes of inclusiveness and expansion are successful, there will hopefully be sufficient numbers of volunteers added to the project base to allow for additional work to be undertaken without the need for sacrificing current projects." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §67
  568. "Bring people from all language backgrounds together to work out consensus in a centralized knowledge repository." Wikidata §21
  569. "People do not trust a source because it is accurate; they trust it because they see that they have a chance to fix errors (and so they know it’s not a POV that’s outside of their control and being forced on them by some external power)." Wikimedia Foundation staff §209
  570. "We need more users to be more reliable." Italian Wikipedia §37
  571. "Communities are the last protection barrier for projects. Any threat to the community could jeopardize its projects, and more particularly the projects that are already in bad shape. TigH" French Wikipedia §6
  572. "It is the only of the five that can break the movement to pieces and shrink it. Enforcement of power by cultivating a bullying culture on productive editors equals to editor and contribution loss. Our movement can naturally grow on technology, globalness, respect for its good content and participation in the knowledge network. But community health is not self sustainable if not specially taken care of." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §233
  573. "All other themes naturally grow positively, except community health. This is a real threat, compared to 2,3,4,5." Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §6
  574. "This theme has the power to make or break our movement - without healthy and inclusive communities, none of the four other themes would be viable approaches and would heavily jeopardize our place within society. Volunteers are at the heart of Wikimedia projects and will be in future. Hence, how well we will do in this regard has an impact on the other themes, as we need the man- and womanpower to come up with bold technological innovation, grow globally, partner up with like-minded communities and organizations, and to deliver high-quality information and knowledge. The importance of this can therefore not be overstated und should be of the highest priority. The fact that we already face severe challenges in welcoming new contributors and not too many good practices and working processes to change that also shows that this aspect within this theme deserves special attention and joint effort." Wikimedia Austria (Board and ED) §2
  575. "The other themes looks a lot forward - you can't know what will be in 15 years. This theme is relevant today" Wikimedia Israel §6
  576. "We would need to stop throwing stuff to the wall to see what sticks. We would need to focus." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §109
  577. a b "This is not supposed to be the Movement's number one priority, but it is an extremely important theme to work on. It is obviously more important than many other issues: because the community is the Wikimedia's core, and without it, there would no Wikimedia sites in the first place. It is also problematic that the community finds it easier to punish the newcomers than to deal with misbehaviors by experienced users. Another related issue is the communicating on social media (outside of Wikipedia) is making it easier for admins to make coordinated bad decisions which negatively affects the community." Arabic Community §2
  578. "As long as some "old guard", real or imagined, refuses to cooperate or engages in behavior characteristic of ownership, improvements will be stifled and lost, and editors will be turned away." English Wikipedia §4
  579. "Acknowledge openly that people who are skilled at finding and synthesizing information are not always skilled in social interactions, and vice versa." English Wikipedia §5
  580. "The concept of "consensus" is at odds with inclusion of new views, because established cliques of editors can make their own overriding "consensus" on any particular decision" English Wikipedia §64
  581. "An important paragraph, but it's not the present reality. And if the whole situation is developing like it is that won't change. To make it real everything should be welcome. Nobody claims that vandalism and insults ought to be endured, but the en:Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle is extremely demotivating. The most important aspect of the text: we are supposed to encourage. But who? And how? If everyone has a different approach and does like he/she always did nothing will change. My proposal: endure changes, be bold, explain changes (summary and user/article discussion pages, reach a consensus). The revert button is useful, but it's not only used to avert damage, but to retain states of things. Which of the 2 is vandalism?" German Language Wikipedia §22
  582. "Incivility is difficult to define in a way that allows us to draw a clear line; it is better to stay well clear of gray areas" English Wikipedia §65
  583. a b "This is a necessary foundation for any of the other themes, but seemingly difficult for the WMF to directly influence." Meta §1
  584. "We need to do the touchy-feely work to build healthy teams. The teams are the ones who deliver the strategic goals. Goals without a healthy community is empty rhetoric." Wikidata §34
  585. "Within an environment of disinformation, harassment, and exclusion, there's no progress." Meta §58
  586. Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §227
  587. "I think that Healthy and inclusive communities is our primary goal; all others depends on it." Affiliations Committee §1
  588. "Without a healthy community, it would be hard to reach any of the other goals" Affiliations Committee §3
  589. "A toxic environment kills participation, making all the rest of the themes impossible to achieve." Wikimedia District of Columbia §1
  590. a b "The underlying reason of growth of the Wikimedia movement is its thriving contributors community. So the sustainable and inclusive community would result in a better and more effective affiliates ecosystem." Affiliations Committee §7
  591. a b "The most important. Any tool is only as good as those who wield it; if the community is not healthy, Wikimedia will be poisoned from within." English Wikipedia §104
  592. "When you stand up for this theme successfully Wikipedia will have more authors. Then you will have more time for other themes, not less." German Language Wikipedia §26
  593. "This is the fundamental issue, that will help all other themes along." Meta §9
  594. "Without healthy community, we won't be able to deliver any other goals." Wikidata §4
  595. "The 4 others cannot proceed without healthy and inlusive communities" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §76
  596. "Without it the others are meaningless." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §94
  597. "Community is the core of everthing" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §154
  598. "Very important. Without a healthy community, other projects cannot reach their full potential." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §162
  599. "I would argue it's the ideological underpinning of three of them (all but augmented age)" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §167
  600. "I believe that all the other four themes will be enriched if we have a diverse community first. It's not about making Wikipedia easy for a specific demographic to use, for example, it's about including everyone so that they themselves will make those ideas possible. So, people who want something more interactive can make that a reality, people who want to include people from countries not included so far will also make that a reality, etc." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §187
  601. "The other themes wouldn't happen without this one." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §564
  602. "I think community health is the most important theme because it is a prerequisite to talk about other themes with the whole community and work to achieve them." Hindi community one on one discussions §1
  603. "This theme is the base for all others, it should have priority over all else." Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §4
  604. "A healthy and inclusive community is an essential condition for Wikimedia projects, today and in the road to 2030." Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §5
  605. "If community health is ensured then the rest will happen automatically." Hindi Community Whatsapp discussion §1
  606. "Better community health will ensure sufficient work in all the other aspects." Hindi Community Whatsapp discussion §2
  607. "Healthy, inclusive communities would also would effect the other themes such as making it possible to become a more trusted source of knowledge. And this would be possible by promoting using/contributing Wikipedia among students and academicians with education programs." Cycle 2/Turkish Wikipedia §2
  608. "Healthy and diverse communities are preconditions for all the other themes." Wikimedia Nederland §9
  609. "Healthy and organized communities should be the main theme that we should be focusing on because other themes such as becoming the most trusted source of knowledge and spreading the movement globally would only be possible if there is a healthy and organized community to work on those. All themes are related with each other; i.e to become a trusted medical source it's neccessary to include some medical experts in the community first. It appears that including people from every background is essential for other themes." Cycle 2/Turkish Wikipedia §4
  610. "This theme is important because everything else will not be possible without ensuring good community health." Hindi Community Whatsapp discussion §13
  611. "Without them, none of the others can be achieved to the greatest extent possible." Affiliations Committee §6
  612. "This is the most important theme in relation to the other themes because we won't be able to successfully reach our goals." Hindi Wikipedia §10
  613. "I think that this is the most relevant goal in our strategy, because without a strong, large and healthy community, we cannot achieve any of the rest of the goals. A lot more can be done about our inclusivity." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §28
  614. "This is the most important goal as it is an enabler for other goals." Swedish Wikipedia §2
  615. "Because without healthy communities all other themes become impossible, especially B --because the data are compromised now-- and C -- because it doesn't have the voices of the majority." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §5
  616. "I choose a truly global movement and healthy, inclusive communities in the first place. Because without them the rest would be meaningless; those are the starting point for accessing the others." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §73
  617. "If this goal isn’t achieved, it will be difficult (impossible?) to achieve other goals. Community health is the gatekeeper (and/or enabler) to every other achievement of the community. The other 4 statements can only happen inasmuch as this first statement has become true." Wikimedia Foundation staff §39
  618. "We can be [theme C and D] if we successfully foster healthy communities, who will then go on to create more partnerships with other key groups and create more knowledge, utilizing the tools at their disposal." Wikimedia Foundation staff §43
  619. "We can get a global reach but if we keep our digital ambiences as toxic or rejecting new people and thoughts, we won't arrive so far." Affiliations Committee §9
  620. "prior condition" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §71
  621. a b c "In fact the 5 themes sum up our problems, but on the most abstract level. Personally I would have prefered a strategy for the next 5 years instead of 13 years, or rather a strategy for an even shorter period. Actually I think that's what they will be doing, in the sense of maybe en:Operational planning. Personally I see theme 1 as essential and many will agree. But how do you reach this goal? The Foundation will be reserving this and in the end our influence will be zero." German Language Wikipedia §3
  622. "Deffinitelly the most important. Wikimedia stays on active participants, but Wikimedia is still techy and hostile to certain needs of people." Meta §62
  623. a b "I don't see what leverage the foundation might have to act on this topic. This theme is of course the most important of the five but means nothing in itself." Meta §63
  624. "This is the most important" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §98
  625. "Most important" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §116
  626. a b "This is the most important, as there are clear trends for pushing out users, (unfortunately successful at times), making use of hostile and aggresive stands by people who represent the supposed "good and righteous" users (at least in their opinion). This trend would leave Wikimedia with a conforming 10% of its existing users, with all the negative effects of such one-sided group (not to mention the much smaller participation). Proof of that is the violent pushing out of at least five users of elwiki and continued attempts for another 3-4. Please note that the active users are about 40, so we are talking abourt two digit percentages of the active users." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §197
  627. a b "This is number one priority - and please understand that technological solutions will not solve social conflict." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §228
  628. "It is the most important theme because it is concerned with the health of all Wikimedia communities, which are the core of Wikiprojects." Arabic Community §12
  629. "This theme is the most important one because Healthy, inclusive communities are needed to spread the word of our movement in all languages and cultural communities." Bengali Community §2
  630. "This theme is the top priority, because since we have managed to get the main body of knowledge, the conflicts about different perspectives and approaches are steadily increasing, so we need to resolve them timely to improve user experience." Russian Wikipedia §14
  631. "I think is the most important. A healthy community assure all diversities (by gender, by language, by culture) & inclusion, participation of expert and new wikipedians, helps to resolve the conflicts, create a serene atmosphere etc." Affiliations Committee §10
  632. a b "This is the most important theme because the human factor is always more relevant than technology or processes. Thus, “Augmented age” (technology/means to an end) and “knowledge ecosystem” (process/how, working with others) are not as important, by definition." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §7
  633. "This one is the most important theme. A positive communication culture on the internet is currently at stake and the Wikimedia spirit (which represents the description above) is the core of the idea of Free Knowledge. Both aspects must be actively nourished to keep up motivation of the volunteers." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §10
  634. "It is the most important theme, since these are the future bases for the construction of all this collective effort." Wikimedia Chile - Interviews with members §2
  635. "I agree that theme A is the most important. This point seems to me to be the main one in order to continue." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §74
  636. "It is most important as it can influence directly individual contributors, especially through ill defined mechanisms and expectations. And it already shows signs of this ill definition. Look at the use of the word "fun", it is ill defined, it is subject to a lot of interpretation and misinterpretation. This attitude especially when coupled with social pressure or even coercion in the form of communities can turn the best of intentions into a road to hell. Extreme caution, and possibly research into constitutions and other forms of organized well being of humans should be advised. There is one thing often quoted about law and government, it sometimes moves with glacial pace, for changes in human relations this is a good thing, not a bad thing. For changes of how wikipedia values individuals and their contributions in relations to groups of individuals (where politics and leadership often emerge) is of critical importance. As can be witnessed by wikipedia's own often turbulent history." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §148
  637. "In the community it's observed that the amateur spirit is diminished; many experienced users left the platform and they are not being replaced by new users since the newcomers are being "bited". Therefore, the theme of healthy, inclusive communities theme should have priority." Cycle 2/Turkish Wikipedia §5
  638. a b "This issue is very important because the way we treat newcomers will increasingly define the life or death of the site." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §16
  639. "This theme is not as important as "The Augmented Age", but it is more important than the other three. The Foundation should always welcome everyone of any occupation, age, sexual orientation, race, gender, etc. It should also welcome experienced, inexperienced, new, retired, semi-retired, etc." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §81
  640. "Very. Having a toxic community threatens the project's essence." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §108
  641. "unless people meet & interact, things don't shape up... So, this is key" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §124
  642. "Critical" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §218
  643. "Besides "Augmented Age" and the "Knowledge Ecosystem(KE)", its the most important. Even if computers might do most of the work, we still need communication. Someone to tell someone else about the KE, someone to learn from and someone to help accuratly." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §543
  644. a b "This theme is important because the level of newbie-biting is very high and it kills Polish Wikipedia as the user shown on his own experience. [3]" Polish Wikipedia §24
  645. "A healthy community is vital and, apart from being seen as important data source, I think this is the second most important part of strategy." Wikidata §49
  646. "Focusing on community health is important so that Hindi Wikipedia can have better policy debates." Hindi Community Whatsapp discussion §6
  647. "The topic is important because it is necessary that the community has a large number of people." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §2
  648. "This theme is very important: If it is taken by its words, then the other 2 themes of acting globally and being respected for content follow logically from this first theme." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §8
  649. "This theme is very important." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §11
  650. "Pretty. It's important to consider as many perspectives as possible when evaluating truth." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §138
  651. "I'd say this is the third most important. Having a growth of Wikipedia into as much human knowledge as possible can only be done with great communities for each topic." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §249
  652. "Not as important as having accurate information not matter political leanings." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §159
  653. "This theme do not have tradeoffs because community work do not takes much time and efforts." Vietnamese Wikipedia §3
  654. "I can't think of anything. It would bring life back, which should enhance the others." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §95
  655. "No this does not require you to do less in other areas. The community should grow independently and not artificially. Offer more, diversify, connect articles better." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §117
  656. "no" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §122
  657. "none that I can tink" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §125
  658. "No." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §139
  659. "Don't believe so, generally" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §144
  660. "The way I see it, no other programs would have to be sacrificed for the sake of this one." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §193
  661. "I don't see any drawbacks by pursuing this one in relation to current or future needs." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §250
  662. "not that i know of" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §560
  663. "I don't think our effort towards a healthy and inclusive community would result in considerable tradeoffs. It might happen that some large affiliate would get lesser fund (in their APG or other grant processes), as more emerging and thriving affiliate would be provided with funds in a pragmatic sense to realize their potential. But it's probability is much since by that time, we would have a bigger budget to meet the overall demand of the affiliates. Other aspects of tradeoff would affect the movement, since the investment in healthy community would definitely pay off in some aspects or the other i.e. spread of the movement, more sustainability etc." Affiliations Committee §12
  664. "No. (talk) 12:09, 10 June 2017 (UTC)" Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §3
  665. "I believe Healthy and Inclusive communities are the most important component and the heart of all what we do in the movement." Affiliations Committee §2
  666. "Communities will remain fundamental to the movement. Investing in the growth of small communities is vital." Albanian Wikipedia §1
  667. "This is the most important of all [themes]. Wikipedia, like all Wikimedia projects, was conceived as a free, open, decentralized encyclopedia that was, and still is, fully dependent on the community to run it. CreationFox" English Wikipedia §118
  668. a b "Healthy and inclusive communities are the core of our movement - by further nurturing them, we enable more people to participate in our endeavours and make our movement an integral part of society." Wikimedia Austria (Board and ED) §1
  669. "When I think of all of the untapped talent globally—the lost insights in math, science, engineering, literature, comedy, psychology, history—to me, it seems like burning the Library of Alexandria every hour." Meta §59
  670. "If we want to change the situation, we have to try something differently. Any particular thing might not help, but nothing will change if we try nothing." English Wikipedia §68
  671. "Build an open digital commons for the future, ensuring a broader legacy for future generations." Meta §61
  672. "We'd keep an important source of knowledge alive." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §93
  673. "An healthy, inclusive community is a growing and adaptable community: if we reach that, we'll automatically gain diversity, expertise, quality, coverage, including communities of experts that right now are scared or ignorant of Wikipedia (at least, from the "inside"). Of course, a inclusive community with a 20-years old interface is crippled. But community is paramount, and we need to take care of that." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §222
  674. "Healthy communities are more productive and survive, when the work product there is not based in the excellence of knowledge but in the excellence of cooperation. This emotional intelligence is rarely cultivated through standard education across the globe but Wikis live on this. Taking care of community health is not good only for wiki communities but also spreads to the planet." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §232
  675. "Content: Productivity is growing more if there is excellence in cooperation, than excellence in knowledge." Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §1
  676. a b "Healthy and inclusive communities' is the most crucial theme as long as we want a very sustainable and thriving Wikimedia movement. The community or the volunteers are the ones who keep this movement alive. We haven't reached every part of this world in a robust way and many communities are yet to be part of our movement. Since we want to see the movement to be spread across the world more than ever before, we need to have a healthy community that is inclusive as well." Affiliations Committee §5
  677. "The environment of Wikipedia is still becoming more and more hostile. Newcomers would be intimidated by bureaucratic editors and administrators. More and more long-time editors are leaving the project. Meanwhile, Wikipedia's sister projects do not have the same attention as Wikipedia." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §80
  678. "Only the most resilient develop in an unhealthy community, bettering the community will allow more projects and people to contribute and thrive." Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §3
  679. a b "in 2030, legislation in advanced countries will just be beginning to catch up with IP and copyright in relation to the internet in a realistic manner. A lot of the shields we have in community process will hopefully be rendered moot, lowering the barrier for participation." Wikimedia Foundation staff §23
  680. "At this moment, some Wikipedians feel like that they are excluded from the community, due to the lack of inclusiveness." Chinese Community - Individual interviews §5
  681. "Stop driving out others, especially experts, and start befriending and collaborating with them." Meta §74
  682. "Users who make many personal attacks should be banned even if they are experienced users." Italian Wikipedia §68
  683. "In order to have a healthy community we would have to make clear that haughtiness is not a behavior that pays and stop tolerating it from anyone. In the long run such a change of mind would benefit the projects." Italian Wikipedia §2
  684. "We should stop considering the opinion of some people as the opinion of the community." Hindi Wikipedia §11
  685. a b "we will have to give up being right all the time; we will have to give up biting people in an unhealthy way; we will have to give up exclusivity of "not invented here club". we will have to give up prioritizing vandal fighting and copyright wars. Slowking4" Wikimedia Commons §3
  686. "By focusing on this theme we will have to be more complacent with mistakes, not only mistakes made by newbies, but also those made by experienced users." Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §8
  687. "Protect new and existing editors from other, disruptive and abusive editors" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §75
  688. "Attracting new readers is easy, but persuading readers to become editors either is not or may vary, depending on projects." Meta §3
  689. "A good environment for newcomers is fundamental if we want to increase significantly the number of active wikipedians, which is the reason for having good introductory courses to Wikipedia." Spanish Wikipedia §1
  690. "We need to dedicate more time to people who sincerely want to contribute but may have some difficulties. We need to proactively search for new users with targeted campaigns, not at random." Italian Wikipedia §62
  691. "We need to make newcomers more aware of the platform, so the experienced users can help them rather than having high expectations of policy implementation. We should also recommend a series of friendly mini-tutorials for the moment an account is created." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §17
  692. "People would feel more confident and able while still new members. In other words, they wouldn't feel like noobs." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §102
  693. "An "outbreak of niceness" is required — we need to be more welcoming to new users." Australian Community §3
  694. "The Wikimedia movement suffers from the "eternal September" problem of having to socialize large numbers of newcomers." Wikimedia District of Columbia §40
  695. "The impact would be a motivated and diverse community, enabling newbies an easy start and leading to more editors." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §6
  696. "We will have a more welcoming and safe environment for new collaborators, so we can foster a stable growth in the community." Wikimedia Chile - Interviews with members §1
  697. "Ensure welcoming protocols." Iberoconf 2017 §1
  698. "Newcomers increase and retention." Iberoconf 2017 §3
  699. "Acquainted newcomers: create in-person and virtual support groups in their communities." Iberoconf 2017 §8
  700. "Someone who comes onto the projects and openly claims their identity gets a majority supportive response. New editors are finding like-minded editors, but also are greeted warmly and asked for their perspective by editors who may not be like-minded as well." Wikimedia Foundation staff §12
  701. "New users have a support network when they signup: they are assigned three mentors that can coach them in the beginning and throughout the new user’s wiki journey. They have regular check-ins (once a week with a different mentor each time), to see how the experience is going, and to trouble-shoot through any problems or error messages the new user got. Depending on how often this person contributes, after a year or after two years, they become a mentor for someone else." Wikimedia Foundation staff §28
  702. "New, good-faith contributors are recognized as such, and explicitly welcomed and mentored. A 'mentoring' wing of the community rivals the vandal-fighting and deletionist wings for size and enthusiasm." Wikimedia Foundation staff §29
  703. a b "By 2030, we will have technical methods to connect patient/friendly/experienced editors, with newcomers and with editors seeking help. By 2030, we will have excellent technical communication systems, that allow everyone to get as much push/pull communication information as they desire, and allow many people to interact on a single topic, giving anything from long prose contributions to micro-endorsements (in order to not overwhelm signal-to-noise ratios)." Wikimedia Foundation staff §32
  704. "Again, it helps new users gain confidence." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §103
  705. "To gain more newcomers, we should have in mind that nobody is born wise and the long-time wikimedians have to express themselves clearly." Spanish Wikipedia §25
  706. "Tutorials for new users should be improved, because they are not as user-friendly as they should be." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §18
  707. "Support for community members that we do not yet have is as important as the current users." Meta §10
  708. "Some warning templates that are aggressive to many users should be modified (mainly editing test or vandalism templates, since these actions are sometimes made due to ignorance rather than vandalism)." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §19
  709. "Immediate response to problematic edits or vandalism is to remove them on the spot. Would be great to see shift towards trying to figure out what the editors goal is (for example, trying to do something productive like adding a source to an article) and see if we can see past the bad result of their effort and instead help them get to a good result. Assume more good faith, perhaps?" Wikimedia Foundation staff §54
  710. "The utopia 'Healthy, inclusive communities' would contribute to more authors becoming involved in Wikipedia, because fewer authors would turn their backs on the project. We all would have friendly relations. We would meet regularly (some do that already)." German Language Wikipedia §24
  711. "More inclusive. More fun -> more people" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §89
  712. "An inclusive and healthy community would increase the number of editors collaborating on the project, expanding the userbase to the result of a larger amount of constructive content added." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §191
  713. "We wll provide an excellent way of making people productive and happy. By people I mean all people who want to contribute, not just the nice sociable folk but also the ones who do not like to much (or any) interaction, people who are otherwise aggressive, people who in the real world as shunned as weird or even people who are considered unfit to do any work. Some of these people find their way in Wikimedia projects and it is up to us to keep them and help them be productive, as well as to be happy due to their creative work. In my experience, even some of the most productive editors are scolded and pushed to stop, even if they do one little, repeating, mistake or ommission." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §196
  714. "As the world consumes Wiki content this would bring the world into the community of developing the content." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §248
  715. "Encouraging and helping nurture newcomers and veterans with respectful engagement and incentivizing participation with gamification." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §546
  716. "This theme is essential for Wikipedia. Everyone should be able to contribute with joy. Only like this Wikipedia can grow." German Language Wikipedia §43
  717. "This could be great in terms of increasing participation and growing new contributors." North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians User Group §3
  718. "We don't need to prioritize “fun” or “great”, but hopefully those are things that come out of healthy, safe and inclusive community." Wikimedia Foundation staff §2
  719. "True inclusion only happens when minorities hold some kind of power. With better representation, the interests of new editors are served better, and new editor retention is not a problem anymore." Wikimedia Foundation staff §8
  720. "With these themes we are working in the core of our movement creating a friendly space capable of receiving new people that won’t leave in a few months after joining. Besides, we keep a charismatic community where everyone works and stays happily." Affiliations Committee §4
  721. "Avoid being discourteous. Each contributor should talk correctly and be polite during discussions." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §7
  722. "Give up the non-productive behaviors that we do because they are easy, and adopt the productive behaviors that we do not do because they are hard, i.e. stop vandal fighting and start community welcoming." Meta §11
  723. "Stop fundng abusive editors and user groups through Wikimania's, conferences, projects" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §77
  724. "Wikimedia Foundation need to stop funding people and organizations who take hostile stand against users. The Foundation must visibly do that and fund people and organizations who care for people and make them welcome. We need to lead in the creation of strong pillars within as many as existing policies possible which will specifically mention that all users are welcome, even if they make frequent mistakes, even if they can contribute in specific ways, even if they do not cite sources, even if they make small stub articles." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §198
  725. "Wikipedia is exclusive and it should remain so because you have to respect 5 pillars in order to participate. We have to continue to exclude people who want to damage the project, wasting less time on them." Italian Wikipedia §62
  726. "We need valid Wikipedians, who have the sources and study them." Italian Wikipedia §74
  727. "It's not easy to fight those who manipulate sources. We need precise discussion rules." Italian Wikipedia §78
  728. "We should include only those who come at Wikipedia to write articles by studying sources. Those who come to promote their unsourced ideas, sell their products or discuss without sources are here to destroy the project and should be removed, as well as those who defend them." Italian Wikipedia §43
  729. "We need to improve morale by avoiding internal politics and in-fighting between subsections of the community (e.g. between topical groups of users, or between projects)." Australian Community §6
  730. "It is important to maintain harmony in the community so that editor retention stops being an issue." Hindi Community Whatsapp discussion §5
  731. "Problematic about the text is that it only adresses positive aspects of the community of 2030. As if there was nothing to fight about in 2030. The problem right now is not that not everyone loves each other, but that we don't have a culture of productive dissent, for example in AIV-discussions. Authors get hurt instead. Furthermore we will still have obsolete articles that are not updated, even with a higher number of editors. So if the goal is wrong, how can the strategy leading there work?" German Language Wikipedia §13
  732. "We should stop arguing. Arguments will do no good in the whole community, and we can try to work on the issues, instead of arguing and blaming the others. It is very unhealthy for the development of the community." Chinese Community - Individual interviews §9
  733. "There have been too much bureaucracy and too much incivility, especially in Wikipedia. The Wikipedia community is working on lessening the bureaucracy and improving civil manners and behaviors. Also, it should stop alienating potential newcomers and start welcoming them. Also, it should stop driving off editors into retirements. ; Also, editors have been criticizing each other too much. Maybe they have been there too long and have been tired of people doing the same old routine behaviors and such, like disruption and incivility." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §82
  734. "I am a new user, so I don't know much about the Wikimedia community. However, you could lay off a bit on file deletions." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §104
  735. "Overfocussing on policy compliance which is understood best by the existing editors which repells new authors. A growing WP should be again the main goal, like before 2006." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §155
  736. "We would need to stop allowing wikilawyering to be used as a shield for protecting biased attitudes." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §163
  737. "Being too anal about rules and guidelines. Administrators and editors lost sight of the spirit of the rules. Misinterpretation of the rules. It has detrimental effects. Kick out editors with a negative influence. Those that are not assuming good faith and reverting." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §205
  738. "The renunciation of existing and cumbersome procedures will allow for development towards other communities. At the moment, the vision is very Western" Wikimedia Israel §10
  739. "Reconsider the secondary sources dogma in order to make room for non-secondary sources. As for now, there are several communities where secondary sources are non-existent." French Wikipedia §49
  740. a b "We need to stop catering to high performance users who are also high maintenance. Despite our best efforts, it is often impossible to integrate them into a healthy and inclusive community, because they make our communities less inclusive and therefore less healthy. Volunteer work should be easy – support for volunteers needs to be flexible and adaptable. Reducing the the complexity concerning legal and financial processes around grant making or the usage of Wikimedia trademarks would decrease the overhead costs on the side of the WMF, save volunteer time and decrease the hurdle for many volunteers to get involved in first place. We are an online movement and should be careful not to loose the power and strengths that come with that by overinstitutionalizing things in a way the offline world works. As an affiliate organization we are aware that this line is not always easy to draw, but would still encourage to constantly question such developments and where possible favour flexibility over security." Wikimedia Austria (Board and ED) §3
  741. "Stop trying to import policies and cultural norms between projects." Wikidata §7
  742. "It is true that there must be a common language that allows fluent communications, but it should not be a language imposed to the community." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §5
  743. "We should stop admitting that English is the official language in the community. Even though many people in the Community speak English, and communicate in English, there are many languages spoken in the community as well. We should admit that the other languages are also important, and try to encourage people to embrace their own language. (Maybe we can admit that Chinese is one of the official languages as well?)" Chinese Community - Individual interviews §8
  744. "The priority to English must be stopped because the other languages remain lagged." Spanish Wikipedia §47
  745. "Do not use only English as the main language of the movement. It poses certain difficulties, for example during international meetings. It is therefore necessary to try to diversify the working languages." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §5
  746. "It should have at least two working languages, at least for international events, if it's not possible to use all languages present on Wiki. Or choose 5 major languages: English, French, Spanish, German and Chinese (for example)." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §6
  747. a b "Expand participation in events to the maximum number of contributors and diversify languages during international meetings." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §8
  748. "While community is certainly important there are two risks to the strategy which should be controlled for. The largest is an explicit threat to individualism. In the end it is individual authors who make individual contributions. Surely guided by their own social experiences within and outside of wikipedia. While building communities is a great tool, and can achieve many important things, we need to specify clearly the individual rights, responsibilities and their protection from community pressure or even violation from community corruption. Surely we will have mechanisms in place to make communities inclusive, balanced and applying of the same criteria to everyone, but we should still implant protections for the individual contributor and their contributions (when within the established wikipedia customs and guidelines." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §147
  749. "We'll be just another social network." French Wikipedia §5
  750. "We do not have to reach any particular target, so why should we be scared by the decline in users, articles and edits?" Italian Wikipedia §70
  751. "Theme A is not important. Users are not born already educated and capable of writing. This theme does not explain how to get new users. Wikipedia world is not just a place in which everyone loves each other. We do need to be inclusive but the sub-themes do not fit." Italian Wikipedia §48
  752. "It is kind of obvious and a part of the other topics, so it's of lower importance. It's also very similar to "A truly global movement"." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §209
  753. a b "A potential tool to help increase community's health could be to unify policies across wikis. These policies should be made as to protect newcomers more thoroughly, and to organize users interactions with each other. Wikimedia should support research on emerging communities around the globe, in order to understand the specific needs of each community. That is because generalized surveys (just as this Strategy discussion is) produce little results." Arabic Community §3
  754. "The word 'connected' should be added to the title of this theme, because a lot of communities remain very separate." English Wikipedia §9
  755. "The behavior of editors towards other editors may be more important than any edits they make to articles." English Wikipedia §10
  756. "Build tools to track changes and learn how various policies change the healthiness of our community." English Wikipedia §11
  757. "Get wikimedia projects to know each other better." French Wikipedia §2
  758. "Make projects more inter-connected." French Wikipedia §3
  759. "Know more about other languages and cultures." French Wikipedia §4
  760. "Make communities healthier and more inclusive both internally and externally." French Wikipedia §8
  761. "There will always be editors who get hurt. We have to find solutions on how to deal with this. The way the theme is phrased will simply lead to the well known Jimmy-Wales-solution of excluding toxic users." German Language Wikipedia §15
  762. "No any technical tricks can change the community attitude toward newbies, some internal work is rather needed such as real life meetings and trainings." Polish Wikipedia §15
  763. "We have to improve language diversity, because it is difficult for non English-speaking communities to share data or engage new people if most of the information is only in English." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §2
  764. "Add a code of conduct, standards of practice, improve leadership, provide training in human resource management." Wikidata §8
  765. "Some message template could be hidden to the readers. Readers should be able to rate articles and easily comment them. We need readers to be healthy. Reading experience has to be satisfactory and enjoyable." Italian Wikipedia §55
  766. "If readers thinks an article is poor they can improve it; if they don't agree with it they can discuss it, but there is no point to allow them to criticize it in a potentially non neutral way and without sources." Italian Wikipedia §59
  767. "If we find out that readers would like to have articles about topics for which we don't have editors maybe we can do something about it." Italian Wikipedia §60
  768. "A decline in the number of users is physiological and is not an emergency." Italian Wikipedia §73
  769. "Research whether allowing unregistered users to edit helps or harms the community, then consider disallowing unregistered access if the answer is "harm"" English Wikipedia §69
  770. "A protocol should be created for harassment victims can know what to do. I don't think a committee could be so effective." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §15
  771. "There is a problem with language used in Wikimedia projects which contains a lot of terms and acronyms knows only to devoted Wikimedians; therefore a project clarifying the language we communicate to each other is need as it is big barrier for newbies." Polish Wikipedia §20
  772. "Community of editors won't solve such problems as gender gap. It needs support of professional experts in sociology and volunteer management who should sometimes even force needed changes from outside. This is a role for WMF" Polish Wikipedia §21
  773. "Wikipedia will never be without dissent. As long as we have Wikipedia as an open system (and it should stay this way) people will get together here that have fundamentally different opinions. This will always cause friction and dissent. And we shouldn't pretend that this does not and will not exist. And there will always be people, now and in 2030, that are not compatible with what Wikipedi stands for. Now and in 2030 we will have to expel those." German Language Wikipedia §20
  774. "We had the project Grants:Project/Mental health within the community, but there's not much going on there anymore, small surprise. I am afraid that all these desperate attempts to make Wikipedia with its monstrous buerocracy somehow future-proof resp. sustainable will fail. Because they're only based on speculations and assumptions by the narrow view of the Wikimedia buerocracy. The term 'movement" alone is misleading. There is no Wikimedia movement besides a certain administration, functionaries and software technician circle, who are all without article contribution worth mentioning. Authors got nothing to do with that." German Language Wikipedia §21
  775. "focus on relationships" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §73
  776. "Train users to which behaviour is accepted and which not. Make it clear by removing all funding from people who make Wikipedia a bitter place to contribute" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §78
  777. "What about changing the word "Healthy"? I don't know which is healthy for the Foundation and its community. Also, making the Foundation "inclusive" isn't easy. ; If "healthy" and "inclusive" are impossible to change, what about common sense? Unfortunately, a universal "common sense" is not easy to define. Multiple cultures define their own "common sense" differently, making their common ground less likely. Perhaps "multicultural" and "diverse" should be added to this theme. Hmm... "diverse" is overrated as communities have been divided as often.; I'm almost out of thoughts for this question. What about "respectful" and "tolerant"? Gotta form a very tolerant community before becoming "respectful". People should tolerate each other's differences, even when they disagree with each other's customs. Also, they should respect each other's viewpoints rather than descend into pointless contests about who's right or wrong." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §83
  778. "centering the individual user and facilitating their growth and development as a new wikipedian" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §87
  779. "Multi-lingualism is the key to inclusion. We need good bi-lingual (English + native language) wiki-citizens in each language community who can translate needs and trends back and forth across the global community. We need to remain a volunteer movement, but in order to effectively share knowledge we will need to foster the bi-lingual and multi-lingual players in their areas of interest." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §100
  780. "Not much that isn't already being done." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §105
  781. "Working with educational institutions" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §113
  782. "Far, far better ways to interact with other Wiki editors and LIVE, real-time conversations, not awful talk pages." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §118
  783. "Mutual cooperative with international organizations especially on human rights and humanitarian issues." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §130
  784. "Hem üniversitelerle yapılacak, hem mevcut işbirliği projelerinin banner üzerinden tanıtılması yerinde olur." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §135
  785. "Emphasize the importance of fact. Above all else, truth and objectively empirically true bits of information are of the utmost importance to a -pedia that aims to be the ultimate source of knowledge." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §140
  786. "see "follow the times" , don´t make plans 13 years ahead, look backwards instead. What and where has anything gone wrong. Learn from that." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §145
  787. "Note that communities can pop in and pop put of existence, and individual might be member from 0 to n communities." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §150
  788. "Jedna věc je zdravá komunita. To souvisí se snížením počtu osobních útoků, ale i neúcty k práci jednotlivých editorů. Zatím se tato problematika nechávala na komunitách, ty ale zatím nedokázaly tato negativní jevy odstranit. Proto by se mělo pracovat na jejich odstranění. Druhá věc je inkluzivní komunita, která zahrnuje dvě složky: technologickou a společenskou. Je potřeba tvrdě pracovat a konečně dokončit zejdnodušení editovanání (např. na Wikimedia Commons). Kdyby nebylo přispívání do Commons tak časově náročné, je možné, že by přispívalo daleko více lidí, kteří již pracují. Kdyby byla dostupná online literatura (a dnes již existují fulltextové knihovnice), třeba by přispívalo více lidí, kteří již pracují a nemají tolik času, jako když studovali. Dále se dá pracovat s komunitama, aby byly tolerantnější k lidem, kteří si rádi povídají, vzdělávají se, nebo dělají kariéru. Měla by se najít rovnováha mezi množstvím přidaného obsahu z jejich strany a naplnění jejich potřeb. S tím může pomoci WMF." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §152
  789. "less policy and bureaucratic talk & action." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §156
  790. "Education about how to be a respectful and healthy community member is important. Recognizing and accepting differences is important." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §164
  791. "Emphasize the engagement and support of new users, especially those who are not the demographic norm on Wikipedia and out in society at large" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §169
  792. "To BELIEVE positive all inclusivs change is possible if we work together" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §174
  793. "I am unsure as to answer this one, other than to suggest that you need to allow the Wikipedia community to have more of a voice in decision making. As long as contributors are repeatedly overruled by a clique, only those who agree with the clique's political agenda will find it productive to contribute to the project. I used to contribute far more to Wikipedia than I have lately because I am not going to waste my time working on things only to be overruled by what can only be described as a leftist clique." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §179
  794. "Growing" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §184
  795. "Let's just remember that the volunteers make the wikimedia projects possible. We just need to let everyone know that they are welcome and that they have knowledge that's vital for the projects. It's not about us helping them, it's about opening Wikimedia's doors to any and all who wish to enter." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §189
  796. "Expanding the amount of users editing the project, allowing them to grow to become more adept at work on the project." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §194
  797. "Work top to bottom and bottom up at the same time. Issue statements making clear that all and especially the not so "good" users are welcome. Urge users to add to existing policies tolerance in as many places are possible. A very small example in enwiki Verifiability: "Any material lacking a reliable source directly supporting it may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source" It would be much better to add something like: "If and only if material is deemed to be false, then ...." Otherwise, this important and reasonable policy is abused by a few people removing material just because it is not supported by inline citations and abusing other editors, wiping out their reasonable and useful contributions." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §199
  798. "Banning (at least temporarily) those who strongly/repeatedly violate policies. Block vandals" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §202
  799. "When I started writing for English wikipedia two years ago, I did not feel welcome, so I stopped, and I know focus on the Swedish and Spanish wikipedias, which were much more welcoming. English wikipedia would improve if there was more focus on improving contributions and new pages created by newcomers rather than simply reversing contributions and deleting new pages that are not yet perfect. I think the English wikipedia would benefit if administrators have to be reelected at regular time intervals as is the requirement on Swedish wikipedia." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §220
  800. "Probably we should try to connect all the dots and understand if we have a single, crucial theme that is the gateway of all the others. Or, on the contrary, a bottleneck. Is "healthy, inclusive community" the ring to rule them all? Maybe it is." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §225
  801. "Wikipedia is NOT a technology firm. Do more to develop the people of flesh and blood who edit Wikipedia do less to develop software" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §230
  802. "Wikipedia communities are workplaces. Moral harassment and mobbing is a strong part of Wiki communities culture. At work this behavior becomes legally unacceptable." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §235
  803. "following anti bullying campaign projects to align with wikimedia" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §240
  804. "Fewer bans/blocks?" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §242
  805. "Just an additional note: Look to bringing on people with the time, such as the disabled, or beneficiaries of universal basic income programs." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §251
  806. "Decision-making processes and structures. A community needs to have rules, guidelines, processes, standards, and expectations for it to work well, and I think we need to state this out loud." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §545
  807. "Maybe Healthy, [Productive], and inclusive communities. Because if the key is to generate high quality content, and a lot of it, then maybe the goal should be incentivization/rewarding to encourage that." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §554
  808. "Everybody should be more friendly to each other. You might have a controversial debate, but you should never offend somebody personally. If you treat each other more peacefully others will be inspired by this (hatred creates hatred). The thank you function is recommendable. Once could think of more functions like this. This would be interesting for theme 2 as well. I think competitions are very useful, like for instance the Template-Message-Cleanup-Competition (de:Wikipedia:Wartungsbausteinwettbewerb/Frühling 2017). Deletion requests are very demotivating. Something not notable should be deleted, for everything else we should help the writer. Before nominating an article for deletion we should talk to the writer of this article." German Language Wikipedia §28
  809. "For some it's a toxic user, for others just a troublemaker. Demarcations like that are difficult in an open project such as Wikipedia." German Language Wikipedia §29
  810. "Should we emphasise the idea of having Friendly Space Policy? Not only for the offline community (Meeting/Conference), but also for the Internet." Chinese Community - Individual interviews §10
  811. "Should we also emphasise the diversity of the whole community, to attract the newcomers to join us?" Chinese Community - Individual interviews §11
  812. "A new special role in wiki is suggested - an ombudsman for newbie editors, who can have a right and duty to protect them from angry actions of toxic users.[2]" Polish Wikipedia §23
  813. "To solve the problem with newbie-biting there should be terms of office for admins, and the admins should be allowed to maintain the articles about which they have good knowledge/expertise." Polish Wikipedia §25
  814. "We cannot let everyone to edit and add to Wikipedia; in the future, some kind of an evaluation system should be adopted to ensure that Wikipedia users are capable of living up to their responsibility." Arabic Community §9
  815. "We need to pay attention to the documentation of the basic software features and of community processes; many users are afraid to edit, and those that do despite the lack of good documentation are reverted and get frustrated. An inclusive process requires a reorganization and simplification of the help pages." Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §9
  816. "To be globally relevant and internally democratic is compatible with being exclusionary: only the few privileged who can play according to the rules are able to enjoy this restricted democracy, while this general structure marginalizes other groups. A key dimension is to be able to bring diversity and build bridges to empower the chronically marginalized." Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §11
  817. "Answering the above question it was found that: people think that Wikipedia already contains everything so why to add anything new." Wikimedia Polska 2017 meeting §2
  818. "Answering the above question it was found that: editing is hard due to unfriendly and hierarchical community of current editors." Wikimedia Polska 2017 meeting §4
  819. "Answering the above question it was found that: people are leaving projects due to problems to make progress inside community - such as lost admin elections" Wikimedia Polska 2017 meeting §5
  820. "Instead of blocking toxic users some sort of organized "therapy" of them might be implemented" Wikimedia Polska 2017 meeting §9
  821. "There should be created a technical or social methods to give newbie users an initiation time during which they would be protected from toxic users' actions." Wikimedia Polska 2017 meeting §10
  822. "Wiki communities are workplaces. Workplace moral harassment is legally unacceptable." Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §8
  823. "We need more research and recommendations on the role of WikiProjects − whether they should help with work in articles, form a mini-community amongst themselves or somehow balance it out." Russian Wikipedia §1
  824. "We need to treat newcomers and the content created by them more carefully." Russian Wikipedia §24
  825. "Striving for a healthy community may imply for some that there exists an undesired state, and people become defensive. We need to learn to co-exist." Wikimedia Hackathon §9
  826. "Communities should be open to 'professional' editors, i.e. staff of GLAMs who contribute to the WIkimedia projects as part of their professional role (while adherring to all rules). Staff of GLAMS should be considered part of the community" Wikimedia Nederland §11
  827. "We have to replace deletionism with human-friendly contact with newbies. More tutoring and mentoring is needed." Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §1
  828. "It is vital to organize contacts between current users and potential users of similar interests - for example workshops on selected departments of universities for both wikipedians, and potential newcomers - students and staff" Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §3
  829. "New users should be encouraged where at all possible." Australian Community §1
  830. "Languages and culture of Indigenous Australians are open to be incorporated through relationships with partner institutions." Australian Community §4
  831. "Strong community also comes from personal, social interaction in real life." Australian Community §3
  832. "Increase capacity for feedback from readers and interaction with new users." Australian Community §6
  833. "Transient populations in some cities/universities/etc. make it hard for the wider Australian Wikimedia community to effectively support contributors." Australian Community §3
  834. "Many former editors who have retired or edit less due to issues from years ago need to be encouraged to be listened to, and become active again" Australian Community §3
  835. "Problems with dealing with new users, more appropriate help in starting editing." Australian Community §1
  836. "We need to locate disadvantaged communities - battered women, Arab schools, Ethiopian immigrants, immigrants from the Soviet Union and people with disabilities" Wikimedia Israel §11
  837. "There is currently an emphasis on editing in Wikipedia. One has to think about involvement in the community. Get closer to the community. It is something that can not come from above, but from within the community" Wikimedia Israel §12
  838. "With the growth of Wikimedia communities, this is also crucial to ensure they are provided with sufficient knowledge and training to have adequate capacity to further the movement. We have to ensure that they receive proper skill-building training, so that they can be empowered." Affiliations Committee §16
  839. "Participation from outside of our movement too." Affiliations Committee §17
  840. "It would be appropriate, I think, to target the groups of people who are underrepresented within the contributors community and decide where actions need to be taken." French Wikipedia §54
  841. "A first step can consist in communicating around vandalism, even contacting former known vandals and expose what led them to change." French Wikipedia §63
  842. "Against vandalism, it may be necessary to train patrollers and recruit more, have a patrol exercise included in the wikiMOOC curriculum?" French Wikipedia §64
  843. "Take into account childcare costs in the budget of our events, just like the Art+Feminism campaign did, will allow more women to join us." French Wikipedia §65
  844. "Safe places for women : consider learning spaces reserved for women where they can make their first steps and master the basics of contributing before embarking on the discussion with a community which is sometimes unconsciously aggressive." French Wikipedia §66
  845. "We need to ensure the protection of those who take risks to report what is wrong about society (ex: whistleblowers)." French Wikipedia §67
  846. "Better communication and collaboration among the community." Hindi Wikipedia §12
  847. "The Wiki movement must be less nerdy, and be more attractive. It should not be reserved to seniors with often difficult words to understand." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §9
  848. "Update the selection criteria for international meetings. Prioritize commitment and competitiveness, rather than seniority. In order to improve the quality of exchanges, a watchdog committee should be set up to sensitize and call disrespectful people to order. All communities must be represented in this monitoring committee." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §10
  849. "Build a more open and culturally representative community." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §11
  850. "Introduction of a mentoring system among community members." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §12
  851. "Teach the wiki codes to pupils and students from an early age and anticipate the 2030 projects." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §13
  852. "Learn the functioning mode of other communities to fit it within the wiki community." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §16
  853. "The Wikimedia movement is a community of different kind, it has a lot of room to enlarge, different places to go, different possible directions. It is an opportunity other movements dont have." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §4
  854. "Our community needs to become more tolerant, patient towards the newbie editors, especially those coming from likeminded educational and cultural partners. Inclusivity requires that we do not tolerate the old editors with hundreds of thousands of edits to mistreat the newcomers." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §30
  855. "On one hand, we need to heal and strengthen our communities, and then to try to expand them. Live meetings can help a lot in this respect. There are vast opportunities for collaboration with many volunteering organizations, institutions (GLAM), NGO and civil organizations." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §31
  856. "Attracting more volunteers." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §32
  857. "Increasing co-operation between communities to be in the same spirit will be ideal." Albanian Wikipedia §2
  858. "Organizers of events for seniors will have knowledge of the obstacles faced by elderly newcomers." Meta §76
  859. "To be an inclusive community to allow more collaborative and better participation." Wikimedia Portugal Grupo de Estrat%C3%A9gia §2
  860. "a code of conduct; a standard of practice." Wikimedia Commons §4
  861. "Things that might help overcome challenges: More focus on conflict resolution. Ways of keeping people engaged while promoting discussion of different points of view. Getting experienced contributors to not scare off newbies as quickly. Shaping expectations that there will be a learning process to get good at making contributions." North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians User Group §4
  862. "We really need to put some kind of protective fence around new good-faith users, and restrict those who can react to them to people who are willing to commit to "not biting" newcomers and try and help them rather than just revert them." English Wikipedia §117
  863. "WMF has not been dealing with the toxic aspects of the movement effectively so far." Wikimedia District of Columbia §4
  864. "We need to define what we mean by "inclusive", so that it does not cover people of groups acting in bad faith. We need to consider who judges this, and who says who shouldn't be welcome." Wikimedia District of Columbia §6
  865. "Include (and differentiate between) the perspectives of online and offline." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §13
  866. "Include a definition of “community health” aspects that does not focus primarily on fun but on being motivating, appreciative, inclusive, rewarding, non-discriminatory, non-racist, a positive experience." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §14
  867. "replace "healthy" with a better word" Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §16
  868. "Generate protocols to identify and manage harassment scenarios." Iberoconf 2017 §2
  869. "Build bridges with networks that don't necessarily share our values." Iberoconf 2017 §4
  870. "Promote the [Wikipedia's] 5 pillars." Iberoconf 2017 §6
  871. "Proposal: admin accountable for events that affect the creation of contents and a formulation of more explicit/direct official policies." Iberoconf 2017 §9
  872. "Include something about the makeup of the Foundation itself, potential to affect makeup of broader community." Wikimedia Foundation staff §60
  873. "In 2030, no one will make the “I tried that once and it was AWFUL” face when they hear the name of Wikipedia." Wikimedia Foundation staff §61
  874. "Distinctions between groups (WMF, chapter, project) should dissolve and not be a source of hostility." Wikimedia Foundation staff §62
  875. "We’ll be more conscious about recognizing what internal forces set us back and set up governance functions to prevent it." Wikimedia Foundation staff §63
  876. "Wikimedia Foundation struggles with a lack of minorities in position of leadership. In order to achieve better outcomes with inclusiveness, we need to elevate minorities into positions of leadership at the organization." Wikimedia Foundation staff §64
  877. "AOL summer; old timers insisted that the newcomers use the internet they way the old timers were used to; we don’t want to reject the influx of newcomers from new countries/cultures as internet access spreads." Wikimedia Foundation staff §66
  878. "“Fun” doesn’t need to be there; “rewarding” captures this; perhaps “Safety” should be explicit instead; safety in balance with transparency (vandalism, etc)." Wikimedia Foundation staff §67
  879. "Moving to other geographies, languages, emerging communities; middle class contributor base may be harder to find." Wikimedia Foundation staff §68
  880. "Groups taking responsibility for members’ edits may be one way to allow new types of contributions. Eg, Tor edits. Also possibly a way to mitigate harassment by having a larger group stand between the specific contributor and the “identity” revealed to the potential harasser." Wikimedia Foundation staff §70
  881. "Everyone edits all the time, as though it were Facebook. We can't do this unless it's a welcoming environment. It's not something *you* do, but *we* do." Wikimedia Foundation staff §71
  882. "Group of diverse people who spend a lot of time - more diverse, more time on content. Helping to support a larger and more diverse group who feel comfortable contributing sporadically and randomly." Wikimedia Foundation staff §72
  883. "People can play different roles. They are interested in different things in different places. In 2030 there will be so many new roles for people to fill. Participation in the movement will be different than it is now. We need to be more supportive to new definitions of contribution which will make communities look very different - public policy, etc. These changes foster the diversity of participation." Wikimedia Foundation staff §76
  884. "There is a middle ground between "fun" and "rewarding" and we should fit there." Wikimedia Foundation staff §77
  885. "You're not just here because you're altruistic, there's a factor here keeping people contributing even when it's difficult." Wikimedia Foundation staff §79
  886. "Editing Wikipedia can be a political act in the frame of Turkey - sometimes it's serious." Wikimedia Foundation staff §80
  887. "There's an emphasis on new people. People coming are the first step. Is this something that should remain as a main focus?" Wikimedia Foundation staff §81
  888. "Keeping people around begins at the start - if you can make them feel welcome immediately they'll stick around." Wikimedia Foundation staff §82
  889. "We need a real willingness from real people to engage with people on reverts of good faith edits." Wikimedia Foundation staff §83
  890. "If we stay static, we’re probably going to stay stable. If we don’t adapt, we’ll become redundant or obsolete." Wikimedia Foundation staff §84
  891. "One of the things we need is to stop framing it as an issue or a problem that needs to be solved "by us" and instead framing it as something that we need to do with the partners and community members around the world." Wikimedia Foundation staff §85
  892. "We decided to welcome newbies. This decision will be backed up by tech choices that support and enable it. We tend to reproduce the behaviors we participate in society online. It is up to the Community to decide which behaviors are acceptable, and which are intolerable. To go beyond the current results, we need actual training and capabilities development for all participants." Wikimedia Foundation staff §86
  893. "If we increase our effort in this area in the next fifteen years we should acknowledge that Wikimedians can contribute in several ways. Community members improve Wikimedia projects in many different ways: initiating conversations with new partners, training students and new users to contribute to Wikipedia, mentoring program leaders, speaking to outsiders about how Wikipedia fits into our existing knowledge ecosystem, being kind and inclusive to another editor (giving them a sense of community), etc." Wiki in Education §4
  894. "Volunteers should not be evaluated or valued by the number of edits they make to the Wikimedia projects. We must stop rewarding bad behavior. Even if an individual has 100,000 contributions to Wikipedia or founded a project does not mean they should be excused for harassment and toxic behavior or welcomed to conferences/participate in offline events." Wiki in Education §5
  895. "If we want to establish and enforce values that foster a positive culture within our communities, these values have to be practised by community leaders (e.g. experienced users, power users, admins). We have to establish a "leadership culture" based on positive, shared values." Wikimedia Deutschland (discussion at the general meeting of members) §2
  896. "We should acknowledge the creation of a safe environment as an essential task and responsibility of the Wikimedia organizations. We should not leave it up to the communities alone to find solutions." Wikimedia Deutschland (discussion at the general meeting of members) §3
  897. "Should we enforce a zero-tolerance-policy against personal attacks and apply strict sanctions?" Wikimedia Deutschland (discussion at the general meeting of members) §4
  898. "Controversial thought: Wikimedia should consider to work with paid community managers who enforce a safe and welcoming environment throughout the Wikimedia projects." Wikimedia Deutschland (discussion at the general meeting of members) §5
  899. "We should define more precisely who our communities are: online communities only or offline-communities / activists too?" Wikimedia Deutschland (discussion at the general meeting of members) §7
  900. "We should integrate more positive feedback into our projects - not only by editors but by readers too." Wikimedia Deutschland (discussion at the general meeting of members) §8
  901. "We should conduct studies to find out what really motivates or frustrates our editors." Wikimedia Deutschland (discussion at the general meeting of members) §10
  902. "The commitment for everyone to promote a healthy community." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §110
  903. "If we plan to actively interact with other language editions, we need to have a cultural expansion so our cultural distinctions can be blurred out for productive collaboration." Russian Wikipedia §12
  904. "Both closed and open training, supplementary or extension activities should be developed, and a scholarship program for students to achieve a continuous training." Spanish Wikipedia §5
  905. "It is important to preserve anonymity, it is easier to avoid some prejudices and the tracking the online activities that happens in many places." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §44
  906. "Wikipedia is one of the internet projects that demonstrate how anonymity is an enabler of freedom and knowledge. It must be preserved and defended in the coming years." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §45
  907. "Wikipedia should, in the next 15 years, defend the anonymity election of his/her collaborators and editors. It should also further ensure the privacy issues in difficult contexts or in issues that an independent community body could consider that jeopardize the integrity of some contributor." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §46
  908. "Anonymity also limits liability. The WMF is one of the most transparent and accountable internet organizations and details of the processes behind a probable release of information from judicial authorities that need it." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §47
  909. "We put at risk our encyclopedia's advantages which is the contribution of divergent visions and versions that would be difficult to contrast/visibilize in a physical space, if we end up repeating only the official truths for fear of local censorship -- That is why anonymity is so useful." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §48
  910. "We need to establish an 'agile crowd thinking and decision process' to cope with constantly changing environments." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §36
  911. "Many people in West would enjoy wiki editing but have never had the idea of doing it." Meta §29
  912. "I think that from forms to conferences help the WMF tries to make visible that we are different but we can work together -- without it being perfect." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §56
  913. "We are also not yet thinking of those who are not in the digital world - we need to make alliances and partnerships with movements for social justice and working with these folks who are not connected to learn how Wikimedia can reach them" Affiliations Committee §28
  914. "Generate / share documentation." Iberoconf 2017 §28
  915. "In Russian Wikipedia we are too focused on our own survival in the modern world to worry about some Africa." Russian Wikipedia §13
  916. "Prosperous communities will strengthen small communities" Wikimedia Israel §28
  917. "We still have important gaps and biases in the projects, strategies, decisions and many other conceptual tools that doesn't allow us to observe ourselves as a world-based movement. We still look like an American-based organization." Affiliations Committee §30
  918. "Because we need to be one body with infinite souls. We need to work with each other, especially now that our projects are opened to the other languages. We can share experience, we can ask for help on those things we don't know what/how to do. Together we can become a force that can change many things (partnering with institutions, fighting for free knowledge, changing laws)" Affiliations Committee §32
  919. "The theme is important because it suggests a dynamic, progressive and non-static movement." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §1
  920. "We need to be more welcoming towards new users, by changing the mentality of experienced users." Italian Wikipedia §11
  921. "We should remember that Wikiquette is a pillar, and - while some mistakes can be pardoned - we have to grant a relaxed working environment for our volunteers, so serious and repeated violations cannot be tolerated." Italian Wikipedia §12
  922. "Users should stop talking by themselves and start really discussing." Italian Wikipedia §13
  923. "Wikipedia should become an enjoyable and fun place again. We are here to write an encyclopedia, but it should be also a good social experience." Italian Wikipedia §14
  924. "Nearly 10% of personal attacks seem to come from experienced users: in order to have a more welcoming community we need to stop this." Italian Wikipedia §42
  925. "Today, those who speak better English in the movement have more representativeness and greater privileges than the others. This has to be changed." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §3
  926. "It is pretty unfair that the information on meta has to be first published in English to be translated to other languages later." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §4
  927. "English remains as a de facto language because that is comfortable for many First World participants who are in a privileged position." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §7
  928. "Be more international, less US-centric." Wikidata §17
  929. "There must also be a greater effort from the WMF staff to speak plain and simple English, so all those who speak medium English can understand without feeling intimidated. While it is understandable that the language of communication is the English, this attitude does not help those who do not have English proficient skills." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §9
  930. "Even when affiliates make the effort to request grants in English, the WMF staff sometimes has criticized the writing, especially for being "too metaphorical"." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §10
  931. "be harder on vandals and scooll scribbling" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §268
  932. "Wikipedia Education Foundation needs to stop limiting its support only to North America" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §284
  933. "Stop merging communities of wikipedia even if they speak same language, as people living under different political environment might not actually understand the way how people on the other side describe the world." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §321
  934. "Just as English can be an enabler of a great movement and an effective vehicle of communication, it can also be a big reason of participation's exclusion/inhibition, in both face-to-face and online events." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §59
  935. "I also consider as a priority to create a program of equity promotion in the Wikimedia movement. I have done a list of how many women and men have leadership roles in organizations. As you can see, much remains to be done." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §61
  936. "Lack of clear relationships with neighbouring countries. Australian Wikimedians should have more of a relationship with neighbouring countries" Australian Community §8
  937. "We can stop trying to "help". Help doesnt work - we can show and teach, but not "nursing" all the time. We can advise, but we dont have time to wait for the slowest vessel in the convoy. Whoever want to be part of it, should keep up to the pace." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §13
  938. "Build emotional intelligence / soft skills of new area contributors, before editing skills." Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §18
  939. "Harassment and availability of art images are not a priority for the greatest majority of Wikipedias' communities." Meta §84
  940. "Share the realities of each country." Iberoconf 2017 §30
  941. "Having different social groups in the projects doesn't mean that there should be ghettos. A truly global movement should be integrated, not segregated." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §264
  942. "Collaborations and negotiations at the international level." Hindi Wikipedia §22
  943. "Encourage experience sharing among communities in terms of editing practice and organizational standard" Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §13
  944. "It is not only about connecting existing communities with emerging communities, but also working together as readers, contributors, affiliates and partners from all regions of the world we would improve existing and develop new forms of contributions." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §52
  945. "It would be good to encourage the training of new users, leveraging with education activities. There should be more global work, not just on communities. You have to work on good tutorials that allow to form new users, facilitating the work for many interested parties." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §32
  946. "When Wikimedians start becoming community organizers, they start getting a better sense of the global movement. Each reader, contributor etc. should have a sense of the global movement." Wikimedia Foundation staff §136
  947. "There’s less soloing; you have a sense of your space and place relative to something much larger. And we’re facilitating people knowing where they are and the larger thing. Sense of belonging to a global movement. Sense of something greater and you can contribute to it. Also like how we went from diversity to unity, greater collective. It’s not just for the sense of diversity, but building something bigger" Wikimedia Foundation staff §137
  948. "The more people we are, the more unity we should have. Paradox." Wikimedia Foundation staff §138
  949. "Users should be able to keep in touch with people everywhere around the world. They should be able to talk to them in real time and understand their nuances and demystify their otherness." Wikimedia Foundation staff §157
  950. "The project(s) makes people able to connect instantly. The long form encyclopedia may be appropriate, using the analogy of it being something that people circle and discuss." Wikimedia Foundation staff §158
  951. "We will want to welcome all people, love the focus on VIBRANCY and INCLUSIVITY." Wikimedia Foundation staff §167
  952. "There is a contradiction between high quality and low barriers for newcomers." Swedish Wikipedia §15
  953. "There are risks with inviting experts to contribute, as they might not accept that amateurs change their texts." Swedish Wikipedia §16
  954. "It is impressive how the content improves gradually without guidance, and I think it would be much better if everyone received some tutorial, with the possibility to ask more questions and learn more. This is directly related to "the augmented age"." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §63
  955. "Expand the editors number and train them." Iberoconf 2017 §48
  956. "Greater connection between Wikipedias in different languages." Iberoconf 2017 §49
  957. "Less openness towards editors, more protectionism, vet editors more scrupulously." English Wikipedia §51
  958. "Lack of contribution is more of a problem than low-quality contribution, which causes the patchy and inconsistent coverage that can be bad for our reputation." English Wikipedia §52
  959. "Create a workflow for new users so that they feel welcome and get acclimated to Wikipedia." English Wikipedia §53
  960. "Openess and reliability are incompatible, so we need to stop anonymous edits and review first edits before we let a newbie to edit articles." English Wikipedia §54
  961. "At the current state of contributors' communities of Wikimedia projects it is hard to engage experts due to egalitarian methods of decision making; therefore current contributors should somehow resign from part of their normal "editing powers" to make room for experts." Wikimedia Polska 2017 meeting §11
  962. "The most desirable strategy is to significantly reduce amount of current policies that we have. And we should focus on more traditionally encylopedic subjects. In 2030 nobody will be interested in some flashs in the pan from the entertainment world that are forgotten a year after they were famous. We should focus on making the articles better that we have instead of always getting more, more and more articles." Dutch Wikipedia §19
  963. "Really improving articles would be a full time job. But it should not be done by radically pruning, not with a 'blunt axe'." Dutch Wikipedia §20
  964. "We should even have more patience for newcomers. That would increase the quality." Dutch Wikipedia §22
  965. "Collaborate more and expand partnerships with GLAM." English Wikipedia §56
  966. "Focus on educating the common man to be a better editor." English Wikipedia §57
  967. "Welcome and encourage new editors more regularly, give them attention of more people." English Wikipedia §58
  968. "Motivate and engage users in order to increase the amount of information shared." French Wikipedia §33
  969. "A valuable asset would be the involvement of recognised professionals/academics in the creation of content. This of course in addition to the existing "unrecognised" editors/creators." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §365
  970. "More good editors (contributors). More free sources." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §369
  971. "The academic's need to contribute more. Maybe building the capabilities for better collaboration among higher learning institutes is valuable?" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §375
  972. "Fact checkers." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §457
  973. "Gaining some core group of editors to go through articles flagged with problems." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §487
  974. "Once found and engaged important experts should be under special care preventing them from community hate and harassment." Wikimedia Polska 2017 meeting §16
  975. "Setting standards for quality of content can also impliy setting standards for quality of contributors" Wikimedia Nederland §5
  976. "Improvement of sister project relationships, for greater collaboration and cooperation." Australian Community §5
  977. "Interested contributors, if they benefit from a certain mentorship can produce adapted and quality pedagogical contents on Wikiversity." French Wikipedia §72
  978. "We can add some aspects from the knowledge ecosystem into this theme such as educational collaborations." Hindi Wikipedia §7
  979. "Students everywhere will learn how to research and to cite sources through using Wikipedia. Creating a world population that is accustomed to contributing. Wikipedia as a part of Science, History, PoliSci, etc. courses everywhere." Wikimedia Foundation staff §10
  980. "Contribute to free knowledge is something you do naturally, because it is a natural part of how you learn things. Share and collaborate is trendy. As so many people are part of our community, parts of our policy/essays like ‘be bold’, NPOV etc will become part of popular lingo, maybe even popular culture." Wikimedia Foundation staff §18
  981. "We will need to get people involved at an earlier age. Making Wikipedia a part of schools across the globe will help to tie all of the themes together." Wikimedia Foundation staff §37
  982. "Stop treating online communication as the only method, and start socializing offline more." Meta §75
  983. "More dispersed offices or less main office and more powerful chapters. Giving more diverse power base. More localized meetings." Wikimedia Foundation staff §9
  984. "Radically reduce the size of central organization in favor of local organizations." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §229
  985. "Drop the hierarchy-power control tree model." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §234
  986. "If we follow this theme Wikimedia movement will spread across the continents such as Africa, Middle East, South Asia and Latin America where Wikimedia movement is less recognized." Bengali Community §1
  987. "More awareness, involvement and engagement with and from people of Asia, Africa and South America and they will feel welcomed in the community and the movement." Wikimedia Foundation staff §11
  988. ""Great experience" for every new editor? What terrible language. The important question instead is the power structure of WMF. Even communities that work reasonably well don't have any influence on what the WMF is doing. I'm not suprised that this simple question that has been voiced quite often during the strategy process is not part of it." German Language Wikipedia §11
  989. "Strengthen the presence of human and reduce the automation and machine impact so as to make the projects rely more human being communities." French Wikipedia §7
  990. "Theme B is a dangerous barrier to inclusiveness. Increasingly both contributors and readers will come to us via external channels or through ever more technological moderation. That reduces our power to influence culture and community among both contributors and readers." Wikimedia Foundation staff §52
  991. "The templates texts are received as cryptic messages that slow participation. Some people have commented that they entered on a continous loop because they didn't understand what was asked and finally they abandoned because the experience was too unpleasant." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §23
  992. "We could use data mining techniques to identify and report personal attacks." Italian Wikipedia §77
  993. "I am wary of the "progress" brought by computers and automation." French Wikipedia §53
  994. "It's not always easy to identify personal attacks from experienced users to newbies." Italian Wikipedia §75
  995. "There is a lack of agile community response and of specialized mechanisms and protocols to harassment/abuse complaints and internal alerts related to gender issues. There should be a specialized committee to address these issues." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §14
  996. "De-prioritize pseudonymity in favor of real names associated with accounts (even if those names are only visible to trusted Checkusers, etc), to prioritize accountability." English Wikipedia §67
  997. "We should abandon using pseudonyms. Many of my bad experiences here have been with anonymous users. There might be users who cannot reveal their real name for a reason, but then they should not be able to hold a high positon here." Dutch Wikipedia §9
  998. "Thematic WikiProject could attract more people to contributing, that's why they should be resurrected." Meta §68
  999. "The community and/or the readers have to make the contributors feel very clearly that their contribution is appreciated." Meta §69
  1000. "We need to give special attention to accessibility of Wikipedia, because right now community does too little on this part. Losing of sight should not be a problem for receiving knowledge, we need both our content and visual editor to be accessible to blind people." Russian Wikipedia §23
  1001. "We need to have external monitoring from Wikimedia to the situation with neutrality of information in Wikipedia, systemic biases and other internal problems." Russian Wikipedia §29
  1002. "There should be yearly overview of main language editions and readiness from the global community to involve itself into local activities to prevent having a project turned to a force of government propaganda, establishment of censorship or expulsion of authors because of their ‘non-patriotic’ views. 192749н47" Russian Wikipedia §30
  1003. "Offline legislation will have caught up with online activity and will no longer focus on what's legal, but also on what behavior encourages productivity. There will be one worldwide authority, holding transparency and community health as their mission, that will oversee activity and will help online communities effectively and expeditiously handle matters of abuse." Wikimedia Foundation staff §13
  1004. "Technical tools and AI agents increase efficiency and leverage so that the people who maintain content quality no longer have a siege mentality and are able to be more patient and thoughtful in their interactions with these new contributors." Wikimedia Foundation staff §19
  1005. "Maybe we will find better ways to communicate, like facebook, what’s app, etc, doesn’t happen on wiki, maybe we can figure that out better." Affiliations Committee §13
  1006. "The real threat is that there is very few young people starting editing; Wikipedia community is aging, therefore we should perform more studies to understand better why young people do not join" Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §8
  1007. "The most important issue is to find and answer why the number of editors is not growing; then we should focus on solving the main problems preventing people to join Wikimedia projects." Wikimedia Polska 2017 meeting §1
  1008. "Current metrics about retention are not precise, therefore we have limited knowledge about real trends in retention; current metrics should be replaced by more deep studies in order to find real reasons for low retention" Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §7
  1009. "Events like edit-a-thons and GLAM projects need to have experienced users involved. Wikimedia Foundation and chapters should be more integrated with the community of editors." Italian Wikipedia §62
  1010. "Wikimedia decisions [will be] supported by a higher quantity, quality and diversity of contributors thanks to a) well publicized opportunities to contribute basic pieces of quantitative feedback via microsurveys; b) good translation coverage of basic information and surveys, and c) good outreach and publicity of specific issues to contributors with expertise on that specific matter, inviting them to join in deeper evaluations and discussion." Wikimedia Foundation staff §24
  1011. "Some outreach projects do not have great results from the quality point of view. Why do we do initiatives that promote an increase in quantity (and not in quality), sometimes allowing promotions?" Italian Wikipedia §70
  1012. "This is a way to increase our influence - a broad community increases the ability to influence decision makers. It will reach all sorts of places - in the media and among decision makers" Wikimedia Israel §4
  1013. "The biggest interconnected theme is theme C. We're missing out on so many perspectives that could help shape our communities to be more healthy and inclusive." Wikimedia Foundation staff §44
  1014. "There are strong connections to the theme C. Capacity to contribute and use Wikimedia projects is holistically different in emerging and underdeveloped communities compared to more active regions. It is not possible to build a healthy and inclusive community without adapting to the circumstances of these regions." Wikimedia Foundation staff §36
  1015. "Healthy, inclusive communities brings respect on all over the world, which is the other most important theme." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §133
  1016. "Theme B could play a role in increasing inclusivity, etc - improving tools for curation, cultivation, access, etc." Wikimedia Foundation staff §47
  1017. "Theme B can support this as well." Wikimedia Foundation staff §48
  1018. "[Theme B] can go either way: be better for inclusiveness or work against it." Wikimedia Foundation staff §49
  1019. "Link with Theme B -- more ways to engage with people can help to build a more diverse and inclusive group of volunteers. Difficult crossover with theme D -- we have to balance input from experts & input from a diverse set of contributors (ie, non-experts). In fact, we need both experts and non-experts working together, but we’ll need to shift our thinking away from “including more people lowers the quality” to “including more people raises the quality”." Wikimedia Foundation staff §42
  1020. "Technology will allow us to scale up reception, mentoring, and recommendations to new people, helping them to find places where their particular background and experience make them effective and able to do good work. Having a healthy, diverse community is the necessary background to being a successful [theme C and E]. It’s difficult to get involved those who don't feel that they themselves are represented in doing the work." Wikimedia Foundation staff §40
  1021. "Make easier and faster the process for creating new Wikimedia communities, languages, and projects." French Wikipedia §9
  1022. "Have the MediaWiki strings managed directly by a WMF project instead of a third-party tool, TranslateWiki for now, will tremendously make easier the creation process for new languages." French Wikipedia §10
  1023. a b "The Thanks notifications are a helpful software feature in regard to the question, as are the attemps of WMF to increase the number of editors, for example with the visual editor and GLAM cooperations. But unfortunately specific suggestions are unwanted in the strategy process. The text of this theme ought be be restructured, structured into single measures." German Language Wikipedia §16
  1024. "We need more Wikipedia interaction in the social networks (e.g. Facebook)" Vietnamese Wikipedia §4
  1025. "If fighting vandalism and similar activities took less time thanks to better resources we would have more time to write articles readers look for." Italian Wikipedia §57
  1026. "I guess the technology needs to support inclusivity." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §215
  1027. "Better communication, making sozialising easier. Maybe an App and a Chat/Forum" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §544
  1028. "Answering the above question it was found that: writing is hard due to templates, syntax of references and other technical obstacles" Wikimedia Polska 2017 meeting §3
  1029. "There should be a semi-automatic system to list the most "toxic" users (for example by finding those who makes most reverts and deleting) and then screen their behaviour and asking community to remove their wiki-functions or blocking if needed." Wikimedia Polska 2017 meeting §8
  1030. "Newbies have difficulty with meaningful participation because they don't understand how talk pages work." Meta §71
  1031. "The current methods of contact of users is very poor and unclear to newbies; if they are contacted via discussion pages they quite often do not spot it, so other forms of contacts are needed - pop up windows, tailored to them banners, etc." Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §2
  1032. "Volunteer editors tend to stay in their comfort zone. Here it is the job of the affiliate - to initiate and continue the activities that the volunteers have started" Wikimedia Israel §13
  1033. "In my opinion inclusion necessarily implies to improve the design of the site. The current look is not bad, but its look is tailored for a typical Western male audience." French Wikipedia §55
  1034. "We have to put an end to what makes our communities unhealthy: vandalism, which forces our patrollers to perform an exhausting work, a work of Sisyphus." French Wikipedia §61
  1035. "We should restrict access only to registered contributors, whose administrators have contact information, and if they engage in vandalism, can be suspended or excluded" [...] "I do not share the idea of restricting Wikipedia to registered users only as assuming good faith seems to me an important pillar of inclusiveness." French Wikipedia §62
  1036. "More breathing room for vandal-fighters and other quality-maintenance people." Wikimedia Foundation staff §57
  1037. "Access to the network? Ways to contribute without access?" Wikimedia Foundation staff §58
  1038. "Technology will bring people together to collaborate." Wikimedia Foundation staff §65
  1039. "Open source contribution (or gift economy) is to some degree a luxury of the rich." Wikimedia Foundation staff §69
  1040. "More pragmatic. How do we get to Wikimedia itself. There are diverse avenues of getting to it. Thinking about people who don't have / might have mobile phones, less electricity, barriers to access, challenges to consider. We're doing well with Wikipedia Zero." Wikimedia Foundation staff §75
  1041. "Gamification has its place, but we shouldn't have everything designed for shininess etc. The black-and-white, newspaper style feels more newsworthy and rewarding. It's also important to be fun. As a volunteer your hobby is to edit Wikipedia. It's an odd thing. But it's "fun", not always - it may be a little more than "rewarding"." Wikimedia Foundation staff §78
  1042. "We should make use of artificial intelligence to amplify positive developments within the community (i.e. feedback loops) while still considering the human factor (apply empathy and social norms)." Wikimedia Deutschland (discussion at the general meeting of members) §1
  1043. "New editors can be demotivated by automated, harsh bot notifications if they do mistakes without knowing better (e.g. copyright infringement notifications when uploading images). We should aim for a more friendly, constructive wording." Wikimedia Deutschland (discussion at the general meeting of members) §6
  1044. "We should make it possible to rate the "friendliness" of postings on talk pages." Wikimedia Deutschland (discussion at the general meeting of members) §9
  1045. "Wikipedia is a product of technological development and technology promotion is the development of Wikipedia. This is the infrastructure of everything. The promotion of certain technologies will advance certain segments of the project: the promotion of technologies to identify the vandalists will enhance Wikipedia's immunity to vandalism, and the promotion of technologies to correct spelling errors will improve the standard spelling in Wikipedia." Hebrew Wikipedia village pump §1
  1046. "With automation, we could drive out inadequately sourced content, provide better sourced content, and be more reliable." English Wikipedia §13
  1047. "Allow people from all dimensions to access, add, and change the information, don't let "someone" input information into a computer/program and pretend that such information is objective." English Wikipedia §14
  1048. "In 2030, our projects may be able to revise and update themselves in real-time, with or without the help of human editors." English Wikipedia §15
  1049. "Given that we're on a course of accelerating change, in 2030, our model of producing content, our editors and programmers could be obsolete." English Wikipedia §16
  1050. "It'd be a bad idea to suggest that in possibly upcoming AI era, human contributors won't be needed, because for now, we're lacking manpower." English Wikipedia §18
  1051. "This theme, if developed in accordance with transparency can allow Wikimedia projects and wikimedians to evolve while remaining relevant." French Wikipedia §11
  1052. "The tools and models of improvement of our wikis will themselves be open-source and therefore potentially reusable by other users of internet." French Wikipedia §12
  1053. "If we are able to improve the mobile interface, we could be used every day, not only as a source of information, but also as a tool exchange information and knowledge: from this point of view our first target should be becoming used as Facebook." Italian Wikipedia §17
  1054. "Automation is not the primary goal for human resources that create content in collaborative wikis, so keep in mind simplicity for editors without technical knowledge." Meta §16
  1055. "Leaving the work up to learning machines would make the system and computing more complicated than it should be; we should make computing more simple and easy to edit instead." Meta §18
  1056. "The youth will play a large role in the future, and they are using technologies to access the world everyday" Vietnamese Wikipedia §11
  1057. ""It is important to be aware that algorithms are not inherently less biased than human editors."" English Wikipedia §70
  1058. "If we are to ingest and integrate the firehose of data that's produced every hour, including government and archival material, we simply cannot operate at the pedestrian pace we are. The only way to do that is to automate and augment." Wikidata §37
  1059. "Our claims should have a high degree of external validation and the latency in updating claims should be lowered substantially." Wikidata §40
  1060. "We should augment our front-end, cross-projects interaction, and knowledge with skills, including communication tools for maintaining "healthy and inclusive communities"." Meta §65
  1061. "The movement should try to embrace a bit more technologies and platforms other than MediaWiki. Interesting things could be made if we open ourselves to new ideas, for example, gamification" Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §20
  1062. "Tools and software need to be improved to facilitate the guiding process from the moment of account registration. IRC is very useful for solving problems quickly and we could take advantage of it." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §21
  1063. "Easier contribution if done right; frankenstein if done wronge." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §5
  1064. a b "* By making knowledge easier to access and use across languages, the technological, economic and social gap that separates people around the world can be narrowed. This in turn would help development, democratization and promote peace. ; Having diverse views for understanding the world, such as WP entries on specific subjects with computer-generated pointers to multiple points of view regarding the subject (for example the political right and left, competing academic theories, or different ethical and religious views), promotes open-mindedness of the issues, allowing readers to make up their own minds and have a broader world view. ; Technology could be used to cross check its articles with scholarly papers and provide smart reading lists of relevant material, making WP a more reliable source. * If technology can make it easier for the user to contribute, for example with editing wizards, we can expect a bigger and more engaged community which in turn would incorporate more readers and broaden WP's impact." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §46
  1065. "It depends. WMF can push for this without involvement of volunteer editors and effectively kill Wikipedia. WMF can empower volunteer editors to take the lead and provide power editors with the tools they ask for - and for which there is sufficient support in the wider community." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §55
  1066. "The idea to create something superhuman that generates knowledge is even older than Faust. But I am afraid that we are not aware of the mephistophelian temptations that come along with it. Asimov was refering to some of them, and those can be scary. I think it is important that we start to distinguish between human intelligence, futher coginitive ability and mere algorithm. Lsjbo is just transforming data, placing it on the right spot; I would not dfine that intelligence. Yet the dangers by bot owners are not to be underestimated, although responisble for these are the humans running the bots. Additionally Wikipedians are becoming redundant by those. This progress is hard to stop as shown in the recent article Generation R. But thinking about it critically: do we need values for generating knowledge and article improvement or are they even disruptive in regard to accuracy and neutrality? So which role plays artificial intelligence in the Wikipedia? As humans it is our responsibility and nature to search for answers and to preserve nature. For this it is necessary to know about it. A bot writing articles about places, astronomical objects and animals is helping us more to learn about our environment than, helping us to better interact with it. If we really want to know "what holds the world or the universe together at its core" ... this is our only chance, apart from its utopian character. Hawking said that that we have to leave this planet within the next 100 years. This process would be hard to imagine withought artificial intelligence. But sociral issues are different in nature. And it will take a while until bots will be able to create complex articles. Another focus will be on the use of the computational complexity theory and the computability theory, for instance for the determinational of potential articles. Another critical point are the assistance systems, that demand less and less of the reader or control less what he knowns and vice versa. That is why we should continue not to rely on these answers, but should study the subject further. By this schematic structure the encyclopedic understanding as such can get lost, naturally leading to the question whether the Wiki as we know it will be still accepable if a bot can provide answers to questions directly. This all will have an impact on every day life and research. I cannot imagine that his complex will have an impact on education." German Language Wikipedia §31
  1067. "If there's one thing that worries me about artificial intellegence is that it might work too well, especially the use of AI in image editing (see c't 11/2017). Take a daylight picture of city A and a nighttime picture of city B, total both up and you've got city A at nighttime. Pictures have always been altered, but it's a difference if you have to be an expert in that or if you just add up 2 pictures. This has an impact on the pictures that we are using." German Language Wikipedia §32
  1068. "I believe that artificial intelligence makes sense for us. We could for example need an artificial intelligence that looks at Commons pictures and then creates and stores the summary resp. picture description in our future Commons-Wikidata. An artificial intelligence tool, so to say. But that won't be reviving Wikipedia, it's just another tool. It wouldn't be a strategic product, merely a userful tool." German Language Wikipedia §33
  1069. "The theme is not talking about artificial intelligence, but rather tools to facilitate editing, especially a translation tool. With the translation tool Wikipedia could grow faster. And if the information transfer is improved, Wikipedia would be used more often. But what will be an increasing problem is a problem we already have: self-promotion of companies, politicians and other entities." German Language Wikipedia §34
  1070. "This is an important theme as compared to the others, especially regarding our goals in terms of extension of users, contributors or simple readers." French Wikipedia §41
  1071. "The development of learning tools and smart technologies will contribute to improving the quality and reliability of our content in a large scale, increasing our use as an unavoidable reference for all relevant matters." Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §14
  1072. "While companies innovate to placate market needs, we have the potential to innovate in well being processes and collective content production processes, allowing for these innovations to resonate in other processes, connected or independent to ours, due to the open nature of our licenses and collaborative dynamics of development." Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §15
  1073. "Far better to talk about "smart tools" to assist users to be at their most productive/accurate etc., instead of talking about AIs that could allegedly "write Wikipedia"." English Wikipedia §88
  1074. "Eradicating vandalism in an free editing environment - even by IPs - is impossible. The vandalism is also used to test." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §39
  1075. "The use of technology to help newcomers has already been done with the Visual Editor. We have to move in the same direction." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §42
  1076. "ORES is the future regarding the vandalism detection and also other metrics related to the articles quality. I believe that the technology proposal has to go in the sense of appropriating these tools, develop them and reduce manual work." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §43
  1077. "Using the machine learning algorithms can drastically change aggregating and searching in information, especially in Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata. We need to give editors of those projects powerful tools for content analysis." Russian Wikipedia §19
  1078. "In 2030, in my opinion, the progress in translation automatisation will allow us to turn Wikipedia into one global universal encyclopedia, in which a lion’s share of work would be given to bots." Russian Wikipedia §31
  1079. "We can lead technical progress, we can be a hub for technical ideas." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §6
  1080. "Wikipedia has always been a technological model for sharing, and it is good to have this preserved in future." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §34
  1081. "Technological advancement is inextricably linked with Wikipedia." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §35
  1082. "The technical development is a factor the Wikimedia projects have to follow, in order not to be irrelevant." Swedish Wikipedia §4
  1083. "Wikipedia should not be a playground for experiment with new technologies." Swedish Wikipedia §5
  1084. "In the augmented age we need to adapt, become more flexible and use technology for our benefit. The augmented age may be a threat to the existence of the movement." Albanian Wikipedia §3
  1085. "This offers a completely different scale of change, frees the capacity of experienced contributors, and could indirectly reduce some of the friction getting new people involved by reducing the number of "rookie mistakes."" North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians User Group §6
  1086. "None that wouldn’t be covered by the first of the major themes. Also, this is more of a HOW proposal, less a WHAT proposal, meaning that it describes the means necessary to achieve an end. And the end here is “more creative and productive volunteers” – which is in line with theme 1’s claim that a healthy community will lead to flourishing projects under collective care." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §24
  1087. "Currently, advancing in technologies as AI and machine learning might boost quality and accessibility of content significantly and ease online contributions. At the same time it will also be important to become more adaptive to still unknown upcoming technological developments." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §26
  1088. "We will never be technological innovators. Crowd decision processes are far too slow for that. But we can be innovative in the use of technology for free knowledge and digital social processes." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §28
  1089. "As a consequence [of this theme, we will achieve] greater self-knowledge." Iberoconf 2017 §12
  1090. "Inclusion and decision on new technologies." Iberoconf 2017 §14
  1091. "Incorporate artificial intelligence in Wikimedia projects." Iberoconf 2017 §20
  1092. "New technology should facilitate horizontal participation." Iberoconf 2017 §23
  1093. "If we don't keep up with the state-of-the-art, then some other organization will likely leapfrog Wikipedia." English Wikipedia §17
  1094. "We should be reliable and free to all rather than state of the art." English Wikipedia §19
  1095. "Given the speed of computational and AI innovation, a 15-year plan is impossible; we need to focus 1-2 years into the future on this issue instead." English Wikipedia §71
  1096. "We will be leaders in the development of those technologies that will define this new age. Electing not to make a concerted effort within this area leaves development of these technologies entirely to entities who would use it to serve their own interests." Wikidata §35
  1097. "More support for free software." Iberoconf 2017 §13
  1098. "Not engaging with AI progress would be nearly impossible given the state of the world's focus on it." English Wikipedia §72
  1099. "Healthy communities is in total synergy with this theme. Community tends to be splitted into many smaller communities that may not work together. This theme can work if Wikidata breaks the language issues." Wikidata §41
  1100. "More integration with MediaWiki, more easy to use tools and more communication around learning is a must do before any prior work." Wikidata §42
  1101. "It’s definitely NOT opposed to the other subjects. We can build connections between communities by establishing a common vocabulary, and inferring statements from other language Wikipedias." Wikidata §43
  1102. "The future technology directions are non-predictable, so rather shorter 2-3 year strategies are needed in this field.; we should first respond to the real current technical problems and try to resolve them step by step than thinking about Wikipedia on the moon." Polish Wikipedia §18
  1103. a b "This theme is the least important of all five themes. "Healthy and inclusive" was second most important until I reread the "augmented age" theme, so "Healthy and inclusive" becomes the most important theme. Without making the community and the Foundation "healthy and inclusive", how else do we achieve the "augmented age"?; Back to the question, the theme reflects how outdated, buggy, and inefficient the technology of the Foundation is. It should welcome tech savvy people who should connect well with the general population, i.e. average person who know very little about technology.; Relying too much on the theme and A.I. doesn't resolve difficulties between humans and machines. Rather it makes humans too dependent on A.I. If the A.I. becomes dead, how would humans relearn how to use the technology that A.I. would know about?" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §2
  1104. a b "I would say that it's most important, because having information/knowledge is the core of Wikipedia. Technical advancement will mean less busywork for volunteers, thus in a way lessen the need for volunteers, and likewise it will improve accuracy and reliability, while also enabling the increase of Wikipedia's scope and reach." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §22
  1105. "* This theme is one of the prerequisites to accomplish the other themes:* In order to foster healthy, inclusive communities, technology can help users connect with others that have similar interests/points of view; it can also help identify discussions and issues where they could contribute. * To make it a global movement, technology can make WP more accessible so that users with little technical skills can contribute. * For reliability, technology can provide WP readers with mechanically generated references with ratings for credibility, relevance, readability, technical level, etc. It could also scan the Web for new content that may be relevant for certain subjects helping WP authors to maintain contents current and well referenced. *Knowledge ecosystem engagement will require smart technology to automatically bring in to WP suitable content, such as photographs and other media. Also to interface seamlessly with external sources of knowledge so as to extend the scope of the contents in WP and make it the preferred point of entry for study and research." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §47
  1106. a b c "Together with 4 and 5 this theme is important (theme 1 as very important and theme 3 as not so important). This theme forms the basis of expanding Wikipedia more quickly and improving the distribution of knowledge." German Language Wikipedia §35
  1107. "By having new technology actually helps the issue about Human Resources, which means that the Foundation does not spend so much time and money to work for them, but technology helps the work be done in a more easy way." Chinese Community - Individual interviews §17
  1108. "Technological processes determines the way content production organizes itself. The global content production in a collaborative manner is only possible due to web 2.0 tools, and MediaWiki especially." Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §16
  1109. "Every technological change will have effects in how editors interact with the projects and we should always ponder how much each innovation facilitates, substitutes, or qualifies the volunteers human work." Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §17
  1110. "At the edge, we run the risk of technical advances transforming our projects into a space for robotic production of articles; a scenario that does not seem beneficial to me." Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §18
  1111. "We need more smart tools today and, unless we can grow our community of active contributors, we will doubly need smart tools in the future. We need to have better tools and more upskilling of willing contributors. Without a massive increase in tools, Wikipedia articles will descend into a morass of out-of-date information citing deadlinks." English Wikipedia §89
  1112. "This theme could be one of the most important for the coming years. We could need a new interface with focus on simplicity." Dutch Wikipedia §11
  1113. a b "We considered Theme B to be least important. For the Wikimedia community and the Wikimedia projects to flourish and prosper, Themes D and A are more important. For our mission, Theme C is more important. Wikimedia should not lose touch with changes and developments in the technological world, and should meet expectations of readers and users. But we do not consider technological innovation to be a goal per se. We also think it is possible that volunteers will lose interest if 'machines' take over too many tasks," Wikimedia Nederland §17
  1114. "It would be good to be able to update lists and tables in Wikipedia with bots that pull data from Wikidata." Australian Community §8
  1115. "Automation and bots can lighten the load on human editors; this should be done where possible, to improve the editors' experience." Australian Community §8
  1116. "This theme is also somewhat important as better input tools and better interface will make it easier to contribute." Hindi Community Whatsapp discussion §17
  1117. "This theme is important because better tools will enable users to contribute easily." Hindi community one on one discussions §7
  1118. "This theme is important because better tools are necessary to ensure that contributing to the movement is easy and also to ensure editor retention." Hindi community one on one discussions §9
  1119. "Some aspects of the Augmented Age are like double-edged sword: they can potentially bring equal and even bigger harm than benefit. For instance machine translations are still very far from perfect (and, frankly, I believe they will never be), especially in languages from different language families. However, to the people with less knowledge of languages and/or technical abilities (with less understanding of machine translations), this heavily promoted opportunity creates false sense of security, and also contributes to decrease in critical thinking and willingness to make efforts." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §38
  1120. "The introduction of machine translations, as good as they may be, is wrong. Coverage of a variety of knowledge areas, and speed of contribution, are important, but not at the expense of quality. Writing an article is a creative process. The machine translations hinders this process ("Why shall I study a new language, if I can use a machine translation tool?")" Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §39
  1121. "If the technology must improve, then communication and relationships must also improve. If offline communication is not desirable to others, how about audio and/or video communication?" Meta §77
  1122. "This theme would enable us to achieve goal C (truly global movement) faster by increasing the scale of what is possible and reducing barriers to entry for new contributors from poorer regions of the world. Having more "starter" content increases the perceived value of the resource, addressing the "awareness" concern raised above, too." North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians User Group §5
  1123. "Technology development may be too large a problem for it to be fully volunteer-driven." Wikimedia District of Columbia §35
  1124. "Technological developments in the Wikimedia movement will have to take into account the people/ community factor, it needs partnering with innovators in technology and a thoughtful handling of our resources." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §30
  1125. "Technology is getting more and more important. It's also getting resource-intensive. We need to "outsource" our technology needs by building a partnership of organizations needing a collaborative knowledge production platform, and evolving our current technology to be that platform." Wikimedia Foundation staff §88
  1126. "One shouldn't exaggerate the automation so that the expenditure doesn't get to vast. Technology is useful, but don't lose sight on 'knowledge'." German Language Wikipedia §36
  1127. "Manual editing is obsolete in comparison with programming, and programming is obsolete in comparison to AI." English Wikipedia §22
  1128. "Don't allow AI edit Wikimedia projects, because it can outsmart us." English Wikipedia §23
  1129. "Ensure that the projects keeps their humanized aspect, at the service of its users, and not robotized and automated to excess." French Wikipedia §13
  1130. "The community appreciates innovations if allows improvement of content. Innovation is not an end in itself, and new tools (e.g. media viewer) should not be imposed over the old. There should be different tools for reader and for editors. Software against vandalism would be useful but they need to have a very low percentage of false positives. We need to be able to create ebooks onwiki." Italian Wikipedia §51
  1131. "Users are not against innovation. If something that is good for contributors is developed they use it. If they do not use something (e.g. visual editor) it is because it is not useful for them." Italian Wikipedia §52
  1132. "The fact that something is new does not necessarily mean that it is an advancement." Italian Wikipedia §53
  1133. "Developers [sometimes] don't understand the need of the community, but the community is "luddite". It is normal for websites to change the user interface without discussing it with the community and ignoring protests. There is a significant technological gap so that now it is difficult to innovate, because new features don't work with everything that exists, or work just for someone." Italian Wikipedia §54
  1134. "The new technology will surely be harder on the bandwidth, so we need to cut down on gimmicks and concentrate on economy and reliability." Meta §24
  1135. "If AI were able to write articles we should welcome them. The purpose here is sharing knowledge, not our personal satisfaction." Italian Wikipedia §81
  1136. "Even if robots were able to write articles human intervention will still be needed to check notability, relevance, reliability of sources and NPOV. It is possible that human editors will spend more time in talk pages and less time writing articles." Italian Wikipedia §82
  1137. "New technology will appear and we will have to apply it -- The only thing we can do is to have an open mind." Spanish Wikipedia §29
  1138. "We should not reduce effort in human communication even if we are willing to increase effort in technology." Meta §66
  1139. "IRC is not friendly at all, so features more similar to social networks should be implemented, which are familiar to different target audiences." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §22
  1140. "We must focus on real issues such as anti-vandal tools, instead on focusing on secondary details such as shape and color of buttons" Polish Wikipedia §19
  1141. "* We can't tell whether the Foundation's projects will survive by 2030. Wikipedia needs sister projects for balance. To combat imbalance, the world needs those projects to survive by 2030. Without them, how else will Wikipedians address poor quality, bureaucracy, and lack of creativity? * Wikinews needs a huge revamp to be more productive and inviting to original reporters. Its technology is old, its rules are becoming stagnant, and its community is very limited. Very little is published every day. Nevertheless, people complain every day how dead and useless the project is. One person has stood up for the project and worked hard every day to help the project survive. The limited community of Wikinews felt offended by the negative statements about the project and found them mostly inaccurate. Wikinews's stale editing doesn't ease but increases tensions between Wikinews and Wikipedia communities. If Wikinews starts to become more edit-friendly and newbie-friendly, maybe Wikipedians can stop complaining about Wikinews. * People should stop preventing creativity, stop hostility, and stop honing rules. Instead, they should reduce burdensome rules and start becoming more creative with ideas and content. * The theme does not resolve civility. Rather it prevents editors from collaborating well with others. This theme has premise but does not help people stop tensions among existing communities." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §3
  1142. "We would need to stop thinking what to write. That's not good." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §14
  1143. "Increasing moderation to streamline might mean making contributing to projects more difficult or less accessible at times, but I can't make that determination as I have little experience in related fields, so to speak." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §37
  1144. "WMF should spend more time and money for the AI development. It will help us with correcting the new entry on Wiki." Chinese Community - Individual interviews §18
  1145. "AI improvements will result in great development for Wikisource." Italian Wikipedia §84
  1146. "AI development will result in more uniformity between different language editions of Wikipedia, or we will just translate and adjust English articles." Italian Wikipedia §85
  1147. "Old users often do not welcome technological innovation." Italian Wikipedia §88
  1148. "We need to explain technological innovation also to users who write content but are not computer experts." Italian Wikipedia §89
  1149. "Computers are better than us in repetitive tasks, they don't complain, don't sleep and should be easy to use. They will help us in contributing to Wikimedia projects." Italian Wikipedia §93
  1150. "The social media use is vital to attract new people. If there is low retention it is precisely because we expect newcomers to adapt to an unfriendly platform, rather than adapting the interface to the new times." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §33
  1151. "The user sandbox use is not sufficiently documented, because it is relatively recent, and the tutors system could also give a turn around." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §38
  1152. "Instead of build-up in the size of communities we need to give practical tools for automatisation of search, aggregation and analysis of information." Russian Wikipedia §21
  1153. "These machine translations: kill them with fire." Dutch Wikipedia §14
  1154. "MediaWiki has clearly been written by programmers, and its editing mode not appealing to non-tech contributors." Australian Community §4
  1155. "We may have to spend less on Wikipedia grants on highly and mid-developed countries." Vietnamese Wikipedia §22
  1156. "Do not give full power to the machines. This could cause defections in the editing process. It is therefore important to find the right balance between man and machine." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §5
  1157. "Make readjustments, not trade-offs, but improve what already works." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §6
  1158. "Proposals for the development of technological advances in editing tools and use of projects should be given in a much more consensual way, without one point of view weighing on another." Iberoconf 2017 §15
  1159. "Changes in the interrelation of Wikipedia with other tools that allow free-licensed content are necessary." Iberoconf 2017 §16
  1160. "Automation will allow us to make massive quality improvements and drive our talent to where it can add the most value." English Wikipedia §24
  1161. "Provide a place to talk about the issue and eliminate meaningless chatter from those who have no understanding." English Wikipedia §25
  1162. "Wikimedia projects are becoming glowingly more difficult for blind and visually impaired people: we need to work to solve this as best as possible." Italian Wikipedia §15
  1163. "There should be a Wikipedia mobile fever as there was a Pokemon go fever." Italian Wikipedia §18
  1164. "Google Maps ask you if you want to take and upload photos of monuments around you: Wikimedia should do the same." Italian Wikipedia §19
  1165. "We need to work on spoken articles and/or text-to-speech technologies for the visually impaired." Italian Wikipedia §26
  1166. "Make sure to give adequate support and PR attention to AI projects like ORES" English Wikipedia §73
  1167. "Make the content more dynamic and facilitate translation by active contributors." French Wikipedia §35
  1168. "I propose to directly use social media like Facebook and Twitter. If we are realistic, people use them more than anything, and they know how to use them. If we implement communication channels managed by volunteers there, people would have it much easier." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §24
  1169. "Technology should be a tool to make the things we want. We can't let technology do things for itself, as it would decide what to do, and that's is a bad idea." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §15
  1170. "Don't do anything in this area unless formally requested by a community" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §58
  1171. "There likely needs to be some thought put into humanizing any technological increases." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §68
  1172. "You will work most effectively using well established technology. Immature technology will just burn lots of time and money." German Language Wikipedia §37
  1173. "We should also mention mobility in the next 15 years. What will it be like in the next 15 years? Mobility will definitely increase and we should be prepared for it." Chinese Community - Individual interviews §19
  1174. "More automation is needed. As many as possible work should be automated. Not only simple cleaning and editing tasks but also maching people of similar interest or having appropriate skill for needed tasks, so AI could find them and ask for help." Polish Wikipedia §31
  1175. "Accessibility should be an element to be considered permanently in Wikipedia's technological development, both in its reading and editing phase. Maintaining the right standards for the most common reading software for people with different abilities is substantial to keep it available to more people." Spanish Wikipedia §33
  1176. "Automatic tasks and innovation should also be promoted to more actors who wish to support the improvement of the experience for those who write and maintain Wikipedia. WMF's speech in the search for innovation and automation is usually read-oriented, but the editing work is the other half of the project." Spanish Wikipedia §34
  1177. "ORES, an API that uses artificial intelligence to catalog editions on Wikimedia is invaluable for combating vandalism." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §40
  1178. "The vandalism and technology issue is complicated. Bots don't detect the same thing as a human and often reverses good editions. That is something that technology and AI should aim at -- improving the level of vandalism recognition." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §41
  1179. "Give attention to tools for reusing content from other language editions (both by readers and editors), for automatisation of routine tasks, for removing duplication of efforts (share existing tools amongst ourselves). " Russian Wikipedia §17
  1180. "If we want to have more non-technical content we will have to have more tools that are easy to use for users. The Visual Editor is one step, but it has to be improved." Dutch Wikipedia §12
  1181. "Relationship between wikiprojects needs to be more clearly signed in projects for new users and irregular readers." Australian Community §5
  1182. "Continue automation and improve bots etc. to take the load of robotic edits away from humans" Australian Community §4
  1183. "Attract people (contributors and editors) who don't engage so well with text-heavy content." Australian Community §2
  1184. "The dissemination of technological infrastructure and individual gadgets facilitates the contribution. But it enables vandalisms, too." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §41
  1185. "It must become much easier to upload pictures to Wikimedia Commons. It nowadays works only for those who are often doing that, but not for myself. I am a senior citizen and was inactive for 2 years because of illness." Dutch Email Survey §1
  1186. "redesign the interaction with the site; the barrier to participation is just too high." Wikimedia Commons §6
  1187. "Wikipedia's early success was because the wiki format was easier to contribute to than a Web-1.0 website which needed domain/hosting/HTML setup. But it's harder than Web-2.0 technologies. There are now many other crowdsourced projects or social media platforms people can contribute to if they get frustrated by Wikipedia." Wikimedia District of Columbia §11
  1188. "The statement as written focuses overly specifically on machine learning and translation. This is perhaps overly specific and controversial for a high-level strategy statement. It also omits clear mention of usability." Wikimedia District of Columbia §12
  1189. "The Foundation technology staff should be accountable to the other parts of the community." Wikimedia District of Columbia §14
  1190. "Let's abandon any explicit or implicit depiction of volunteers as “optimizable assets”. People do not need help to be creative. It will not be wise to make a 10-15 year prediction of what we think editors will need to be more productive. As a movement, we may be of service by providing ever more options to pick from or better invitations to contribute, but that’s about usability and service – not about getting more and better results from people. Optimizing people’s output is what the Matrix is about, not Wikipedia." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §34
  1191. "It needs a discussion if the system has to be absolutely intuitive or if volunteers need to learn new skills or both." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §37
  1192. "Machine translation cannot solve everything. We should also consider how to improve human translating ability." Wikimedians of Korea User Group §2
  1193. "Thesedays, everyone has their own smart phone. Unfornately, it is sitll hard to contribute to the articles with the device. We should be able to use the same functions with all of types of devices." Wikimedians of Korea User Group §4
  1194. "We need the foundation to take ownership of programs and allocate resources (dedicated manpower & money) to develop technical tools that will help support and sustain all programs (EDU, GLAM, Med, Women, events, contests, etc)" Wiki in Education §7
  1195. "Explore the possibility of improving machine translation." Iberoconf 2017 §24
  1196. "Provide better translation software and infrastructure around it so that users of the smallest languages could learn encyclopedic information in their language." Meta §36
  1197. "It is perfectly possible to have simultaneous translation in several languages on the Wikimedia global conferences." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §6
  1198. "Support translations and remove multilingual barriers so that different people could communicate more easily." Wikidata §14
  1199. "If we're truly global, people will find it easier to stay in touch with and belonging to the community, even when they move to new cities or countries." Australian Community §4
  1200. "Good translation software will create knowledge. The editors will only edit the knowledge that has been created." Wikimedia Israel §21
  1201. "We need to hold conferences divided by regions" Wikimedia Israel §25
  1202. "Affiliates also provide infrastructure support to help scale our shared strategic work - working as nodes in our worldwide movement network." Affiliations Committee §29
  1203. "We are an international movement." Affiliations Committee §31
  1204. "If the Foundation wants to achieve theme "A", it should travel all over the world learning about different cultures, backgrounds, languages, and values." Meta §83
  1205. "New communities need more support than just an incubator wiki. They need process and programs to encourage leadership and to support others to join them. If we are not culturally and emotionally aware and sensitive that other cultures around the world are different, then we will create friction and disappointment as we try to become more global in our participation." Wikimedia Foundation staff §112
  1206. "All the themes are interdependent, and [theme B] and "fun" are two of the more important things that may help attract more readers in countries who have been less present on Wikipedia. For years, Wikipedians debated about the introduction of a visual editor, and wikitext. Wikitext was seen as a kind of badge of honor. As more people get involved from around the world, technology innovation is even more important." Wikimedia Foundation staff §117
  1207. "User retention metrics can not be only for English projects, because it is a biased view. This causes many people to find difficult to identify with the Wikimedia achievements because these appear to be exclusively those of English speakers." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §1
  1208. "Stop supporting oppressive government. Boycott oppressive governments. Defund unneeded chapters and determine whether creating chapters around the world is necessary." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §255
  1209. "Stop restricting the growth of the number of chapters, stop restricting the growth of chapters, reduce the size of the central organization" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §313
  1210. "We need to deal better with innovation in the platforms. Many good ideas didn't succeed because they weren't handled in a good way or because of the opposition of the community (e.g. visual editor). As wikipedians we need to more active and proactive in asking for technological changes taking into account the needs of new users. Developers need to be able to discuss and realize propals in a short time." Italian Wikipedia §91
  1211. "To became a truly global movement we need to establish a system of parity in decision-making positions for editors from rich and poor countries. This may create uncertainty in the projects, however." Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §21
  1212. "The importance of understanding global/regional miscommunication. For national and regional voices to be adequately represented in the global movement, and understanding the trade-offs that come with this." Australian Community §8
  1213. "There is nothing that we are doing today would get stopped if we focus on this theme. But there might be some alternation in programmatic requirements or certain areas of our movement in order to achieve this, i.e. we have to consider the needs and issues of those communities while designing programs/projects and managing the increase in budget if required." Affiliations Committee §37
  1214. "We might need to stop laying too much stress on conferences like Wikimania and focus more on regional conferences" Affiliations Committee §39
  1215. "We will expand our partnerships within and outside of our movement so that more people who are good at doing things like technology, grants, talent acquisition, so that more folks can fill those spaces." Affiliations Committee §40
  1216. "Breaking border and language barriers, especially at international meetings." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §5
  1217. "Reduce language barriers: hire translators or volunteers." Iberoconf 2017 §36
  1218. "[Stop] Focusing on features that are only useable by a small segment of our user base." Wikimedia Foundation staff §124
  1219. "Some users are scared by empty articles: with help from Wiktionary and Wikidata articles from major Wikipedias could me imported on minor Wikipedias, then encouraging people to translate." Italian Wikipedia §6
  1220. "Translation tool is complex and should be improved." Italian Wikipedia §32
  1221. "Run empiric experiments to find out whether specific strategies work." Wikidata §18
  1222. "We should establish an "English Friendly Policy" which recommends speakers at the movement conferences to speak slowly, not using local words, gags and jokes and explaining the complex concepts." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §8
  1223. "If we want to improve the language exchange, we need to improve the translation tool, which is currently infamous." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §12
  1224. "local participation" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §269
  1225. "Work towards having a local organization in every country in the world, and in every State in the US, for example. Follow the lead by Amical: a local organization that actually organizes the majority of Catalan speaking editors. Don't do anything in SF what can be done by a local organization." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §314
  1226. "Increase the visibility of incubator." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §322
  1227. "The Content Translation Tool is very important. It should be improved. That would improve the communication between the different languages of the world." German Language Wikipedia §39
  1228. "Mobile devices are an opportunity and not a threat, if we as a community are ready to face the challenge." Italian Wikipedia §92
  1229. "The movements globalization process should be accompanied by deep institutionalization of democracy. We need to foment a diverse, polycentric community for deliberative processes incorporating smart mechanisms for the production of an e-democracy system." Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §22
  1230. "It is necessary the WMF to make a differentiation in which different types of actions and efforts are made in certain parts of the world rather than others -- not in a "colonialist" (global north/south) way, but something it comes from the roots." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §53
  1231. "We should replicate the on-screen transcription in real time used on international conferences, also transcriptions, etherpads or simultaneous translation into four or five languages." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §60
  1232. "Opening regional and/or country offices would make this theme stronger. Having official agencies would be helpful in establishing healthy communication with future formal partnerships." Cycle 2/Turkish Wikipedia §3
  1233. "Real globalisation means the willingness to invest in the development of local Wikimedia-organisations. These will be mainly involved in GLAM and Education programmes in their countries, as this cannot be realised in a centralised approach." Wikimedia Nederland §13
  1234. "The WMF needs to broaden it's global footprint to counter the perception it is 'American' cultural imperialism. It should do this by having a greater percentage of employees outside the USA and establishing data centers outside the USA." Australian Community §7
  1235. "As the number or size of the communities will grow, so the number of affiliates. This might result in more complications or inter-affiliate issues, i.e. non-cooperative relation, lack of trust or communication, geographic rivalry etc. As a movement, we need to address these issues while we welcome and include more communities or affiliates." Affiliations Committee §41
  1236. "We must not only give directions, write good guidelines, but be present (not invasive) in each our affiliates "life", knowing their needs and problems." Affiliations Committee §42
  1237. "Initiate training sessions in high schools, colleges and universities." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §9
  1238. "Encourage ambassadors in countries where there are no affiliates." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §11
  1239. "Involve national/local authorities." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §12
  1240. "Allow people to write more than one article on a given topic on a given wiki in order to allow people to write on various POVs." Meta §86
  1241. "There is an important connection between this theme and "The Augmented Age" theme, namely with regards to multi-language unification. As the technology of machine translation and understanding progresses it may well be possible to automatically compare those articles and provide tools that would allow volunteers who do not share a common language to collaborate in developing a consensus interlingual article." Wikimedia Commons §7
  1242. "The foundation should consult more on the community before doing some of the developments. i.e. ideas should come from community" Wikimedia Commons §8
  1243. "machine learning: statistical method does not solve everything. what you get is a false positive rate and a false negative rate, although by a lot of training they could be reduced to a tiny rate" Wikimedia Commons §9
  1244. "Western social system or freedom is not common all over the world. Developing or underdeveloped contries fall behind in copyright laws, nonprofit activities and freedom of speech. People from developed countries should understand this. In addtion, we should understand different cultures, and the Foundation should reflect this when making decision. For example, many Koreans are not used to active and continuous discusion or speach, due to history and education." Wikimedians of Korea User Group §5
  1245. "[More] multilateral events." Iberoconf 2017 §26
  1246. "Diagnosis of countries/groups to move towards a global movement." Iberoconf 2017 §35
  1247. "Audio talk pages. Connect viscerally with people wherever they are. Terms like global north/south will disappear. People will want to be connected to the point that they want to hear what each other sounds like." Wikimedia Foundation staff §130
  1248. "By actively going through institutional channels, you might be forming behavior of creation of knowledge; not just getting but also contributing information." Wikimedia Foundation staff §140
  1249. "Lack of Wikipedia in many languages is due to lack of internet presence in that language. More content in the language in other sites would aid Wikipedia growth. There’s a question: do we wait? Do we push for more internet culture in other languages? We may also partner with organizations that help the growth of internet usage in different languages: encourages people to blog, news websites to start in different languages, localize social networks, etc. (And if there are no such organizations, we can start them!)" Wikimedia Foundation staff §150
  1250. [Vision of 2030:] "Translation tools have evolved to the point that they support humans to more easily share knowledge across languages. Small and medium sized wikis, are able to more rapidly grow because these barriers have been reduced. Machine translation is a more effective assistant. Oral history referencing is officially acceptable on Wikipedias across languages." Wikimedia Foundation staff §153
  1251. "Not just about consuming, but how people contribute. Particularly non-written languages, or where access to the internet is challenging, figuring out novel ways to get folks from all over to contribute. Particularly in ways that don’t rely on internet access." Wikimedia Foundation staff §161
  1252. "Support leadership in these areas to collaboratively bring forth participation." Wikimedia Foundation staff §165
  1253. "We've seen in so many communities strong support from e.g. the governments of these countries. In reality we need to make decisions about where to prioritise, and these decisions might be painful." Wikimedia Foundation staff §170
  1254. "We need some kind of shared North Star." Wikimedia Foundation staff §171
  1255. "Previous WMF-led programs in India and Brazil didn’t work and created large problems for our existing ocmmunities. How do we actually build these communities?" Wikimedia Foundation staff §176
  1256. "We should emphasise capacity development more. It can be viewed in terms of taking initiative. People can follow initiative and grow that. With penetration increasing, more people are coming online and don’t know how to use the smart phones. Need more respected orgs and movements away from private sector and government to lead this, and people will follow." Wikimedia Foundation staff §178
  1257. "thinking about prioritization and resources… put money behind this. Paid translations, pay for the infrastructure that enables global conversations." Wikimedia Foundation staff §184
  1258. "Where English isn’t the filter by default. Professional translation is something we do by default. Simultaneous translation. Also see the movement taking less traditional sources of knowledge." Wikimedia Foundation staff §185
  1259. "We need ‘smarter/more’ meetups - not defaulting to English. Maybe much less content if there’s a restriction that it has to be in 20 languages. In person meetups are so critical for shared understanding." Wikimedia Foundation staff §186
  1260. "Technology will be the solution for fixing this. Not only translations but accessibility. Better integration of tools for those impaired or for those with lower access or literacy skills. Technology will be a way to bring these people in - beyond just language. Looking at other barriers as well." Wikimedia Foundation staff §188
  1261. "This goes beyond language. People bring up the point about socio-economic - you need leisure time to participate in our projects now. This is a barrier - others have knowledge to share as well." Wikimedia Foundation staff §189
  1262. "We must facilitate interpretation and translation - Language ability does not correlate to technical skill, and both need to come together to enhance the participation of non-English speaking communities. The Language Barrier is a major challenge. Interfaces, localizations, and translations make tools accessible. They should not be an afterthought, but part of the main build and design process. We should learn from existing models like TED, where every video has at least two volunteer translators. One idea is to create a separate or new translation team. The foundation can and should pay for translation and interpretation." Wiki in Education §8
  1263. "We need to create a friendly and automatic mechanism for importing free illustrations from scientific articles" Hebrew Wikipedia village pump §11
  1264. "Vandalism is something common in a website that allows free editing, even allowing anonymous IPs doing so. I agree that it is necessary to eradicate it but without affecting the philosophy of free editing and a potencial censorship." Spanish Wikipedia §36
  1265. "Mechanisms should be established to identify the Vendals. And we should use AI for the identification of curses (etc)." Wikimedia Israel §33
  1266. "Encouraging writing contests can help add editors to the editors circle." Wikimedia Israel §37
  1267. "It is very important to continue to maintain how Wikipedia works. The mechanisms the community has are critical to maintaining credibility, and are more important than a specific project to encourage writing." Wikimedia Israel §38
  1268. "Some Wikipedians in the group have raised the issue of Prohibiting anonymous editing. But there were also Wikipedians who opposed the proposal." Wikimedia Israel §39
  1269. "A cultural struggle: collective creation versus classical creation. Overcome this barrier." Iberoconf 2017 §43
  1270. "Maybe the slow development of online communications via wiki is related to the quality of content. Without adequate communication, quality would suffer. High quality is possible via solo work, but that lowers chances of improving communication skills. If communication is concentrated too much, how would we improve quality of content?" Meta §89
  1271. "Cross-project communication is very essential and important because it helps improve quality of projects. Without such communication, and without enough sister projects, Wikipedia would suffer from imbalance." Meta §90
  1272. "Some types of bad articles are worse than no article, that's why we should be more liberal in semi-protecting and let only extended autoconfirmed to create articles." English Wikipedia §55
  1273. "In order to become more reliable and trusted we would have to become less open, e.g. by introducing flagged revisions everywhere." Italian Wikipedia §24
  1274. "Stricter controls are now urgently needed, not only to maintain quality and standards, but to reinforce and retain the very reputation for quality and accuracy that Wikipedia imagines for itself." English Wikipedia §76
  1275. "Article creation should be made as hard as possible, to ensure that only those able to produce good articles can produce articles." English Wikipedia §77
  1276. "We will have to put an end to translations made by users who do not master the languages or the subjects their edit as they repulse people in need of quality. TigH" French Wikipedia §28
  1277. "The ability of any reader to edit Wikipedia should be limited, in order to become a reliable, high-quality, and neutral source of knowledge, by giving more control to the admins." Spanish Wikipedia §21
  1278. "It is necessary to exercise greater control over contents, by limiting the edition of some of them to the people with the enough experience or studies to do so." Spanish Wikipedia §22
  1279. "We need better quality control of pages, which means restricting the ability of new users to create pages. Full stop. ACTRIAL as it has been called on the English Wikipedia is a necessary first step to achieving this theme: a look at the current new pages created by users shows spam, poorly written content, and even worse: copyright violations and defamation. ; We should find a way to encourage new users to use the draft name space, while also making sure published pages in the main space are up to snuff. This is absolutely essential to recruiting new users, but cannot be prioritized above maintaining the quality of the knowledge of Wikipedia." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §329
  1280. "Admins sometimes focus on forms more than the contents. Content is not everything, but it is perhaps the most important things." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §334
  1281. "Limit frequent edits of controversial pages; give controversial pages professional paid editors to filter content" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §344
  1282. "let everyone contribute, without a seriosity drivning license" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §354
  1283. "Edits from "anonymous" users or users with a "low trust score" would need to be vetted before going live to the internet. This means each contributor would have a "trust rating" associated with their user name. The wiki community would need to decide how to grade a user's "trust rating". Accidental redundancy or broken links should be seen as day-to-day accidents. Trolling and "wiki graffiti" should lower someone's trust rating." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §374
  1284. "Stop including just any kind of article in the encyclopedias. Stop ignoring the importance of quality control. Stop spending money on needless research. Stop hiring paid staff whose skills are the wrong set for the positions they hold." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §387
  1285. "Organise more workshops/projects, involve governments, BUT oppose institutions' control" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §409
  1286. "[Stop] Letting little kids make accounts and messing around with this website." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §451
  1287. "Perhaps not publish changes right away, increase in pending changes use." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §561
  1288. "We have to stop relying on a single writer. There is no doubt that the purpose of every writer is good. But cases of bias (deliberate or not) and inaccuracies should be avoided. In my opinion, every page or update must be reviewed by another Wikiped, knowledgeable in the field, independent of the first." Hebrew Wikipedia village pump §17
  1289. "A way to gain credibility used in academia is to publish unanonymously. We could eliminate anonymous editing, and restrict article creation (along with discussions like AfD)." English Wikipedia §94
  1290. "Restrict some sort of editing to those who passed a relevant training (e.g. how to cite). Wikipedia skills could have pre-requisite structures and people can choose which directions they will follow. Restrict editing of higher quality articles to higher certified users while allowing lower certified users to work on lower quality articles." English Wikipedia §95
  1291. "Too strict editing control is based on fear that Wikipedia can be destroyed by trolls and hoaxes - the trust and assuming good faith should be re-established as it was in early days of Wikipedia; that could attract also experts and in fact increase the quality of content; doing anything due to fear is always counter effective" Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §4
  1292. "Technical improvements (e.g. Visual Editor) should take priority in order to make it easier for more people to contribute." Australian Community §2
  1293. "Introduce a validating process for contributions prior to publication or reducing post-publication verification time (less than 24 hours)." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §3
  1294. "Submit any new publication to a preliminary committee via a background platform in order to make verification and amendments before validation; Ask for experts to be part of this validation committee. This process, in addition to bringing credibility, will allow more user-friendliness and collaborative work on wiki contributions." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §4
  1295. "Establish a gradual and continuous evaluation (1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 stars) of the articles by the validation committee which will be visible to all users." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §6
  1296. "Introduce checking before publication of articles. Show names of contributors who give credibility, such as experts in the topics." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §7
  1297. "There would have to be experts (additional editors) going through all edits before they become live – which might make Wikipedia lose its flexibility but definitely make it more credible." Wikimedia Ghana User Group Discussion §7
  1298. "There's no easy path to the learning path, getting to the documentation is more of a random discovery." English Wikipedia §59
  1299. "Well-designed contests could add a lot of well-written articles comparatively easily." Meta §47
  1300. "In my opinion, one of the most important shortcomings is the recurrent vandalism. Efforts should be made to cut off (or at least minimize) vandalism." Spanish Wikipedia §17
  1301. "Editing Wikidata could be limited with a dedicated flag." Italian Wikipedia §80
  1302. "Provide optional identity verification, so it is clearer who is responsible for an account's work" English Wikipedia §78
  1303. "Kind of super mediation (forum) for heavy subjects to discuss" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §405
  1304. "Improving the Wikipedia search engine, and improve editing on the mobile app." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §447
  1305. "Have a Wikipedia Education Program in each country. Involve not only universities but also colleges and places for vocational training" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §467
  1306. "Mejorar la monitorizacion de las ediciones de los articulos o las personas quienes lo hacen." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §472
  1307. "We should monitor the creation of new articles or updates to existing articles, the monitor will be done by another Wikiped, which is a focus of knowledge in the field." Hebrew Wikipedia village pump §18
  1308. "As many workshops as possible." Hindi Wikipedia §27
  1309. "We could increase wiki contents with technical developments and by automated tools, it should be kept in mind though it does not have any negative impact on the quality." Bengali Community §9
  1310. "Removing all barriers to entry to join Wikipedia" Wikimedia Foundation staff §236
  1311. "Bifurcating paths with educational centers and integrating new ideas (1 lib-1 ref)." Iberoconf 2017 §46
  1312. "We will be much better implanted in the third world, where education is not well developed." French Wikipedia §21
  1313. "Making Wikimedia truly global would have a great impact and would well well received, especially where information is scarce." Italian Wikipedia §28
  1314. "If we follow this theme, the biggest revolution in education, ever." Meta §31
  1315. "single universal reference" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §257
  1316. "A global movement would impact the projects, and these would impact the world. It's an indirect impact" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §261
  1317. "It would increase the usage of Wikimedia projects by those in Africa. It would change the woefully inaccurate perception that social media is all the internet has to offer." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §301
  1318. "More easier access to free and reliable knowledge, all at one place" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §306
  1319. "Wikimedia would become the go to encyclopedia for the world." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §316
  1320. "Then more and more people will use Wikipedia, and the contents may be professionalised at the end. (For academic purpose). People can actually use it for academic references one day." Chinese Community - Individual interviews §13
  1321. "We can be an example, a model to follow." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §11
  1322. "Wikipedia must reach each part of the world and be available to all people. Everyone needs access to knowledge; this may be valuable information about oneself, or about the others." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §42
  1323. "If you continue projects such as Wikipedia zero, more people will be able to get the information and be aware in this world." Wikimedia Morocco user group §2
  1324. "The strength of Wikipedia is many language versions, the global focus and readers all over the world." Swedish Wikipedia §10
  1325. "Spread the wiki way of healthy online collaboration, the prerequisite that allows growth of projects, in places where online culture is not properly cultivated." Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §16
  1326. "Embracing this goal would enable the movement to fulfill its awesome global potential." North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians User Group §8
  1327. "There is opportunity to help bring digital "have-nots" into the digital age." Wikimedia District of Columbia §20
  1328. "The Wikimedia movement can help push against copyright limits, unwarranted surveillance, and authoritarian leanings across the globe." Wikimedia District of Columbia §21
  1329. "Following this theme would increase our impact a lot, reinforcing our political stance and bringing together all our different skills and resources." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §45
  1330. "In the best version of this scenario we would encourage emancipation of these regions from the Western world." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §46
  1331. "Incidence in political discussions to support Internet access. Copyright Reform and Free Internet in all countries." Iberoconf 2017 §40
  1332. "As a global community we can change the world and influence legislation and politics in the movement's goals" Wikimedia Israel §17
  1333. a b "Extremely important. Due to ease of access, in the developing world Wikipedia has potential to become a source of information that is far more influential than it is already elsewhere." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §297
  1334. a b "Most important. The future of a global and neutral internet is at stake, so we need to prove its value worldwide in order to preserve its worldly nature." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §302
  1335. "The theme fits perfectly with the universal principle of data diffusion." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §4
  1336. "The movement needs to be global. Wikimedia should make access to its projects easy for everybody especially in the countries having issues with Internet connection. Everybody should be able to access to knowledge." Wikimedia Morocco user group §1
  1337. "This is important: I want to see knowledge be a "commons," not a commodity restricted to the elite." North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians User Group §10
  1338. "Wenn mehr Menschen auf Wikipedia zugriff bekommen, werden auch mehr Menschen finanzielle Unterstützung leisten. Daher wird es nicht notwendig werden, irgendetwas zurückschrauben" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §272
  1339. "More is required in Latin America; books are expensive there and not so easily obtainable, so a digital knowledge system is even more important." Australian Community §6
  1340. "[Global movement] coincides with the idea and spirit of Wikimedia movement - everyone can be part of it." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §14
  1341. "If we can inform everyone about the importance and usability of Wikimedia projects, then the knowledge discrimination will be greatly reduced." Bengali Community §8
  1342. "First step is being seen as a source of knowledge used for research, then getting people to contribute." Wikimedia Foundation staff §141
  1343. "Wikipedia would allow anyone with an internet connection to access summaries of reliable sourced material and help them gain key understanding of things that have positive impacts on their life. This is key especially in areas such as medicine: free information about health sourced to quality academic sources can radically change someone's life.; Beyond the practical, it would help individuals researching at lower levels (secondary and beginning of undergrad) find quality sourcing for their education in a way that is more accessible than many academic databases. This should not strive to replace it, but to be a starting point for their research." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §327
  1344. "There are governments (for example Turkey) that forbid the entire population of a country to use Wikipedia. What can we do about it? That's an important question. How can we convince governments that this is bad for their country?" Dutch Wikipedia §23
  1345. "Race and economic inequality affects the access to education and knowledge for too many of us. Wikipedia's accessibility for almost all users has made the world taken notice. This accessibility needs to keep widening and the results from the knowledge retrieved needs to be very rewarding on the most individually motivating way." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §477
  1346. "Ensure that wikis projects are accessible to everyone regardless of wealth and location." French Wikipedia §19
  1347. "Some users are more interested in pursuing their idea of what Wikipedia should be than the idea of an encyclopedia for the readers, sometimes using our rules against their spirit. We should try to serve most readers possible, giving them high quality information on every topic they might be interested in. Without feedback from readers we don't know how we are doing this. Many changes to policies, help pages or content are done without considering readers." Italian Wikipedia §69
  1348. "Articles about mathematics are too difficult to understand for non-mathematicians. They should be written so that non-mathematicians can understand them." Dutch Wikipedia §4
  1349. "As a non-mathematician you are not interested in a mathematical article anyway, so there's no need to improve the comprehensibility." Dutch Wikipedia §5
  1350. "Analyze trends on new consumers use to incorporate ideas." Iberoconf 2017 §17
  1351. "Understand what knowledge do people need in the areas where we don't have active communities yet." Meta §34
  1352. "Adjust to significant differences in infrastructure, culture, language, lifestyle, and information consumption needs." Meta §35
  1353. "Improve our lobbying and political outreach, contact people with power in more countries." Wikidata §12
  1354. "Global movement is always one of the goals the community wants to achieve. Some regions are not familiar with Wiki right now, and supporting the groups from the mentioned regions can help us spread the knowledge." Chinese Community - Individual interviews §14
  1355. "We have to spread knowledge not only in our neighbourhood, but also in areas of the world where it isn't so easy to create their own language versions." Swedish Wikipedia §9
  1356. "Reach to knowledge, to places where it is difficult to reach today." Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §14
  1357. "Great impact, because the listed regions of the world are currently at a disadvantage when it comes to freely accessible knowledge." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §42
  1358. "It is of utmost importance to ensure that everywhere in the world people from all socio-economic status will reach free knowledge in every language." Cycle 2/Turkish Wikipedia §6
  1359. "This theme is important because the global dissemination of crucial knowledge is necessary." Hindi Wikipedia §20
  1360. "Lack of awareness of Wikipedia is still a big problem in many regions. If we want the movement to fulfill the promise of its potential, this goal seems critically important." North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians User Group §9
  1361. "Political issues - especially in countries like Sudan, Ukraine or Russia creates problems that covering themes which are taboos for local governments may end up in blocking - just as it happened in Turkey; so a trade-off of omitting some content is need in order to reach such places or we must be ready to leave these places in order to stay 100% NPOV" Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §13
  1362. "Aim for young age readership" Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §6
  1363. "Broaden the dissemination of knowledge to low awareness regions in order to make knowledge and make it accessible worldwide." French Wikipedia §32
  1364. "Fighting oppression and suppression of information. Also, activism and advocacy are needed." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §256
  1365. "Not only accessing to Wikipedia is a goal, but also to have the content available in a maximum of the languages of the world. It is important to add it to the theme to make access stronger. Being able to browse Wikipedia zero, and then find that everything is just in English is useless." Wikimedia Morocco user group §3
  1366. "Wikipedia has already proved the trustworthiness of it's contents now it's time to make sure that evry human being with necessary device can access our contents." Bengali Community §7
  1367. "We have mapped people back into their internet speed rather than helping them overcome that. FB/IG are giving them the full experience; they’re full members regardless of their device/internet speed. It’s something really powerful because people relate to one instagram community around the world rather than one part of it. We’ve let ourselves down on by having this highly stratified set of membership." Wikimedia Foundation staff §132
  1368. "Folks should get the information in their language without the laborious nature of translation from English." Wikimedia Foundation staff §166
  1369. "Language matters a lot. Hard to encapsulate anything in a single paragraph. It’s a perpetuation of the status quo. True disruption comes down to facing the challenge - there are people for whom our projects aren’t accessible and we need to make it accessible to them." Wikimedia Foundation staff §196
  1370. "Accessibility and understandability across all languages came up a lot." Wikimedia Foundation staff §213
  1371. "Simplify our language, "short academic book chapters" should be deprecated." Wikidata §25
  1372. "mwy o ddewisiadau iaith" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §412
  1373. "Completely change it to "We will show related information to people everywhere, to place it within larger contexts"." Wikimedia Foundation staff §247
  1374. "There will be a larger impact relative to de-emphasizing the theme, as it seems clear that modes of knowledge discovery will expand." Meta §17
  1375. "With the Wikidata development advances, I don't have a doubt that by 2030 it can be achieved a notable advance in the possibilities to apply Wikidata to education, while I am slightly skeptical about achieving quality automatic translations in the same period." Spanish Wikipedia §2
  1376. "Easy access to knowledge" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §17
  1377. "I believe the impact would be similar to or even greater than the impact that Wikipedia had on the pre-Wikipedia world. The future of computing is semantic, and a Wikipedia adapted to that future would contain all of the world's knowledge not (only) in human-readable text, but in a semantically structured way so that a user with a semantic user-agent would be able to explore and consume it in terms of concepts and precise semantic queries, not in terms of natural-language sentences." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §21
  1378. "Můžeme obstát jako zdroj infomrací i v rozšířené realitě." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §26
  1379. "A Wikimedia-backed open-source machine translation initiative would, in the hopes of producing high-accuracy machine translations, would open the door to a far greater audience of readers, who, for example, may not have individuals who are interested in producing translations into their language or providing native content as opposed to translation. This does not preclude other scenarios, a particular case being areas of culture and history, of which there may be marginal interest in outside of its native tongue, and such no human translators willing to invest the time in producing an accurate translation.; By opening this project up to the community at large, it has the potential to not only improve machine translation in general, but also the potential for a "Wikiscient" system that can help guide people through topics and frame one topic in the context of another, which is another aspect of machine "translation", only one that remains within the same language. This suggests that a project must focus on machine translation that develops some form of comprehension of the subjects, potentially supported by Wikimedia content beyond the encyclopedia.; Of course, there is an inherent fear of bias creeping into a machine translation, perhaps due to something as simple as lexical ambiguity, or more worrying, such as actively or unknowingly fed "belief" - where the machine translation converts a neutral statement into a supportive or opposing variant, thus running counter to the nature of an encyclopedia. This means that this a project into machine translation must also develop tools with which to understand bias in machine learning and, where possible, counter it should it compromise the neutrality, and thus accuracy, of its translation." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §30
  1380. "learning will be fun" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §60
  1381. "Advanced technology coupled with the breadth and reach of the Wikimedia content has an opportunity to become a unifying force for people of the world who value and desire learning." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §65
  1382. "We must aim to maximize Wikidata to ensure that the information we publish is as accessible as possible (to AI and humans)." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §31
  1383. "The main body of information is already in Wikipedia, so to increase its practicality for society we need to simplify the search and perception of information." Russian Wikipedia §11
  1384. "If we follow this theme then we will be able to understand the needs of the society and serve the society in a better way." Hindi Wikipedia §14
  1385. "Better compatibility between existing content and modern platforms, e.g. infoboxes on mobile devices." Swedish Wikipedia §6
  1386. "Without an advanced technical development, primarily through database and [search] technology and new presentations, the wiki projects will decommission themselves." Swedish Wikipedia §7
  1387. "Are we prepared for a situation where more people are searching via audio instead of text?" Swedish Wikipedia §8
  1388. "New target groups, keeping the traffic of Wikipedia high, good user experience." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §27
  1389. "We will allow Wikipedia and other projects to be effectively consumed by new generations." Wikimedia Chile - Interviews with members §4
  1390. "Ensure that new technology incorporation doesn't create an access gap -- and serve all people." Iberoconf 2017 §22
  1391. "Wikipedia will no longer be an important source of information in the future and will eventually disappear. Algorithms will be able to synthesize in real time information from a llarge number of structured or non structured sources in a reliable and neutral way." French Wikipedia §40
  1392. "More than 50% of Wikipedia entries come from Mobile.The use of Mobile apparently caused a decline in the number of editors. What is the basis for this assumption and what is the source? Wikimedia's difficulty in dealing with this new technology has hurt it, and new technologies in the future may harm it further. In addition, Wikipedia is in competition with network giants for the attention of Readers, and without the support of Google it probably did not exist." Hebrew Wikipedia village pump §2
  1393. a b "Technology is a means to an end, and our principal goal should be to provide quality content that is accessible in both high-tech and low-tech ways." Meta §21
  1394. a b "This theme is very important if Wikipedia is to remain relevant as newer technical media with more personalization and interaction come to dominate." Meta §22
  1395. "This is very important from an educational standpoint, as the continually growing user-base of the internet, as well as its encapsulation of modern life, means that many users turn to it for assistance in lieu of nearby human aid. By providing provably accurate machine translation, education and self-education can be improved thanks to access to accurate, neutral material in a format (language and then reference-frame within said language) that is most suitable to the reader." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §31
  1396. "Wikipedia is already good at other themes. But just thing how will we be able to learn by seeing atoms bonding, mechanics working in front of our eyes, and seeing places without going there." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §61
  1397. "The themes themselves are too interdependent to be prioritized or presented into a hierarchy. However, the other four themes are about inclusiveness and expansion of the reach of the projects, whereas this theme has the ability to be the most transformative in truly delivering knowledge in accelerated manners fueled by technologies that we can barely articulate in 2017." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §66
  1398. "Technology is in a constant evolution. It is important for Wikimedia to take this into account and to start adapting its content to other media such as videos, audios that could be used by blind people." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §1
  1399. "Wikimedia should fit the technology to enable new users, particularly those of Generation Y, to better use it." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §2
  1400. "This goal is of crucial importance, otherwise we risk lagging behind the others. Augmented reality will be a major part of the communication of tomorrow (within in the next 5 years), and it is unthinkable to leave it out of our projects." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §36
  1401. "This seems like one of the most important areas of focus in terms of improving scale, reducing conflict, and increasing the global reach of Wikipedia. Very high marks." North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians User Group §7
  1402. "The content presentation in formats different than text seems fundamental to reach users other than traditional readers." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §7
  1403. "Rigorously review and reduce all formatting related markup on all projects, since reformatting for new media will render such markup useless and anachronistic." Meta §23
  1404. "no, you must do the same things as you do with an encyclopedia, but also create a learning environment that if fun and exciting." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §62
  1405. "It is necessary to watch over the net neutrality, because it is related to access, knowledge and affordability barriers for Wikipedia consumption." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §30
  1406. "Saying that the interface is outdated is not exaggerated. Monobook started in 2004 and Vector in 2010 -- We are talking about 13 years with almost the same GUI and 7 years with the same GUI." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §34
  1407. "Prepare our user facing interfaces if we want to stay relevant." Meta §26
  1408. "We must bet to improve education with a mix of orientations, technologies, and organizational methodologies, using the Wikipedia contents and the collaborative focus." Spanish Wikipedia §6
  1409. "Improve site design so it fits better within the modern era" English Wikipedia §74
  1410. "I suppose the theme should emphasize Wikimedia's current efforts in this, such as Wikidata, and the need to unify all Wikimedia projects on a common semantic foundation." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §24
  1411. "WP should become the central point for research on the Web for all levels of users, from someone who is a novice in a field of study to the professional researcher. With this aim it should incorporate a specialized search engine that would have two goals: (1) complement WP entries by providing relevant Web resources such as media content and educational resources (or links to it) and (2) provide bibliographic recommendations that are the most relevant background reference material as well as important recent developments in areas of interest." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §48
  1412. "Virtual Reality-seeing this in front of us as they ARE." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §63
  1413. "It could be convenient to create a video channel for Wikipedia that hosts documentaries and summaries of Wikipedia's content, which could target audiences that are less interested in written material." Arabic Community §10
  1414. "I agree with creating a video channel, it has a great potential of spreading Wikipedia's informative content and accessing a wider audience." Arabic Community §11
  1415. "Create a visual system in which people could understand a chronology of development of different spheres with different branches." Russian Wikipedia §6
  1416. "We need to turn attention to automatic creation of spoken articles." Russian Wikipedia §22
  1417. "Big data and internet of things is more readily apparent to us at the moment. Wikimedia has to give the interfaces to augmented data." Wikimedia Hackathon §1
  1418. "Idea of a "wikipedia that adapts to the learner" (e.g. slider that determines complexity of content shown)" Wikimedia Hackathon §7
  1419. "For the English Wikipedia there is a nice solution for comprehensibility of articles: alternatively providing articles in Simple English. Laymen should be able to understand an article. Placing a red link is not a replacement for explaing the term within the article." Dutch Wikipedia §2
  1420. "There should be a way to integrate a Simple Wikipedia into the normal Wikipedia, that shouldn't be 2 completely seperate Wikimedia projects. When clicking on a blue link for explanation you just open another article that's difficult to understand. There should be more overview articles / tutorials." Dutch Wikipedia §3
  1421. "Develop tools for reading and to be guided in learning on the platform." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §7
  1422. "There should be a voice control feature on the Wikimedia platforms for people with disabilities such as blindness and eventually for anyone interested." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §8
  1423. "Put an emphasis on audio content to diversify access to content." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §9
  1424. "We can invest time and resources in new tests and innovations - AI, interaction, voice-reading, voice-editing, etc." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §9
  1425. "We should not restrict ourselves to Augmented Reality only, but look around for other novelties. AR, together with the Internet of Things and the Virtual Reality will become the new forms of knowledge sharing." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §40
  1426. "Many changes are being made in the world to make technology and information accessible to parts of the world where technology is not available (Global south). The media companies are planning huge constellations of satellites and balloons to make Internet and communications accessible to everyone. Companies think of a smartphone that will cost $ 1 to distribute in Africa. How does Wikipedia see itself fit in? Perhaps enable offline editing, perhaps connect with media companies to make Wikipedia information available and accessible as part of the service plan. These are grandiose plans, but some of them will come into effect and should be taken into account." Hebrew Wikipedia village pump §4
  1427. "We must get people to explore Wikipedia and not just for task-related uses. For this, communication between users, photos use and reach should be improved." Spanish Wikipedia §9
  1428. "Seek metrics that measure global impact." Wikidata §11
  1429. "There are attractive alternatives for our content such as YT or KhanAcedemy, so we have to fast change our methods of spreading knowledge if we really want to be global" Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §10
  1430. "We need to think of virtual universities - not just an encyclopedia. On the basis of knowledge to produce an international learning system" Wikimedia Israel §23
  1431. "We need to show at the same time a number of languages - a number of narratives of one article" Wikimedia Israel §24
  1432. "We need to display information in a different way - videos. Reading articles in spoken languages" Wikimedia Israel §26
  1433. "Allow more personalization for readers, allow themselves to improve their UX." Wikidata §16
  1434. "In promoting the Wikimedia movement globally, we also have to keep into consideration the issues of the net neutrality." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §46
  1435. "Don't omit relevant geographic links so that our content could be more integrated." English Wikipedia §36
  1436. "Create a collaborative global, multilingual effort to identify not just knowledge, but how to ask questions and ways of asking questions." Meta §41
  1437. "Provide private read-only access to Wikimedia projects with Tor Hidden Service, I2P Eepsite or InterPlanetary File System, which could help us to avoid the establishment of countries' borders on the Internet." Meta §42
  1438. "Es sollte etwas wie "Ausbildungskurse" geben, um sich an staatlicher Zensur (CHina, Türkei) vorbei schummeln zu können" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §273
  1439. "Make wikimedia platforms, especially wikipedia, available online and offline." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §10
  1440. "We should support the equal access to our resources." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §44
  1441. "Satellites or other ways to achieve internet reach over large underpopulated areas" Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §19
  1442. "This theme should focus more on public policy and change of legislation, as just working on awareness would be a bit weak." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §54
  1443. "Accessibility issues for disabled people must be improved. Images should have a description which can be used for audio formats, and different font sizes, image formats, etc." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §33
  1444. "We need 1) Availability Across languages Via automatic translation and editor outreach) and 2) Accessibility in emerging communities (via providing an experience that works for readers with poor connections and/or poor devices)." Wikimedia Foundation staff §127
  1445. "Connects to the idea of us vs. them. Personal connection to Wikipedia; it’s where people go to learn and we want to contribute to that. Even more apparent in 2030" Wikimedia Foundation staff §131
  1446. "Readership challenges in emerging markets. You’ve got to pick the right place to do it. Strategy that’s been employed a lot; reaching people when they’re young and making them lifelong users. People teaching 14-18yo don’t have textbooks. It gets us the readership we’re looking for, and it gives them resources" Wikimedia Foundation staff §139
  1447. "We can’t be thinking only about us, we have to rethink some of our commitments, and pay attention to the fights others are fighting for getting people access. We need to ask whether Wikipedia is the right vehicle for things like oral citations, low connectivity, and so on?" Wikimedia Foundation staff §151
  1448. "Is Wikipedia even the right format to be getting information? Long form is valuable in many contexts, and it’s the wrong in other contexts." Wikimedia Foundation staff §152
  1449. "Internet is textual. How do we manage access to people who don’t have access to text or non-written languages?" Wikimedia Foundation staff §162
  1450. "In general increasing awareness is a *must*. Having the guts to say that we're going to increase awareness. adding more about the shared value of contributing." Wikimedia Foundation staff §180
  1451. "Most covered - we will see that resources are there - their language, their environments. One single source of truth that is translated out. One meta article that is fed into many language speakers. People in their languages can contribute much easier. Goes far beyond language. When we consider interfaces, there is a huge gap we have to overcome." Wikimedia Foundation staff §187
  1452. "I'm concerned with the attribution issues, or rather the lack of it. I have seen whole articles in the media and even academic theses and published books that are textual copies of Wikipedia." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §37
  1453. "We should cooperate with schools and universities to develop critical thinking in readers." Italian Wikipedia §41
  1454. "Simplification, micro-edits, and a retreat from writing academic book chapters are good, but readability will be dramatically affected if the whole article can no longer be read as a coherent series of "sentences" but must be read as a list of interconnected "chunks"." Wikidata §44
  1455. "Copyright laws must be adjusted to a brave new world" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §404
  1456. "Processing the project content into something usable, probably through ML/AI, is probably involved in becoming more respected." Wikimedia Foundation staff §222
  1457. "Educate re-users on how to re-use (cite) Wikipedia." English Wikipedia §96
  1458. "Search gives answers right now. Whereas we want to "educate" which involves giving answers as well as tangents and alternative angles - things you didn't necessarily want to know, but are important/relevant context." Wikimedia Hackathon §4
  1459. "Searchability and presentation are essential components in providing access to knowledge" Wikimedia Nederland §8
  1460. "Wikipedia is as simply an encyclopedia would benefit greatly from being coupled with an efficient and lively educational system." French Wikipedia §69
  1461. "Perhaps it would be necessary to encourage seasoned and specialist contributors to engage in Wikiversity." French Wikipedia §71
  1462. "There are going to be new channels (e.g. spoken) that we need to be present in. if it doesn’t exist in a way people want/expect, they won’t use it." Wikimedia Foundation staff §233
  1463. "Add awareness first" Wikimedia Foundation staff §238
  1464. "I don't think that encyclopedia should have an impact on the world, we should describe the world, not impact it. KrzysG" Russian Wikipedia §3
  1465. "Encyclopedia helps to find the common ground amongst us because it defines ideas and facts and helps to not repeat previous errors of our past. NOwiking" Russian Wikipedia §9
  1466. "Wikipedia has a special role for small languages such as Albanian in Europe or many others in the global south. These languages have less development and in those cases the Wikimedia movement takes on a special role in the cultivation and preservation of languages." Albanian Wikipedia §12
  1467. "Wikimedia movement should take on the burden of maintaining and developing small languages by providing a platform for the development of these cultures." Albanian Wikipedia §13
  1468. "we could be a repository for images around the world, and model how to show good metadata scholarship. Slowking4" Wikimedia Commons §1
  1469. "Our openness avoids issues with Internet encyclopedia projects that have only vetted contributions by approved writers, which can lead to narrow POV and censorship. These projects are possibly respected or authoritative, but not open." Wikimedia District of Columbia §9
  1470. "One of the virtues of being an online and collaborative source is the real possibility that many can contribute to knowledge, which makes it different from other knowledge produced otherwise. That is one of the biggest values of Wikipedia as a project." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §23
  1471. "Knowledge is a good, the best we have as human beings. The best of knowledge should be on Wikipedia, unlike other spaces that include the best and the worst." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §26
  1472. "No separation between identifying between foundation/chapters/volunteers etc. Every individual is equally vital and important and feels as though they can contribute in equal manner." Wikimedia Foundation staff §1
  1473. "The education program brings more newbies and they're more productive. They focus less on “fighting the good fight”. “Retention” is typically not a primary focus of an education program. We will see a rise because people have a positive experience." Wikimedia Foundation staff §7
  1474. "Sentiments on the use and distribution of resources worldwide, 'developing' worlds less in control, 'developed' worlds in control will impact on us most. How equity can be achieved, in doing so, the Wikipedia project can serve as a tool to do this by disseminating of information from a diverse range of voices. How to maintain that equitable channel of access is yet another challenge as resources are not consistent throughout the world." Wikimedia Foundation staff §26
  1475. "In smaller languages, people understand that they are working for the sake of their language. Those that are coming from larger languages to smaller languages are not trying to bring with them rules about notability." Wikimedia Foundation staff §31
  1476. "A large and diverse group of users is able to contribute without fear of attack from other community members. They will also feel confident that when fights emerge on articles that other community members will come to defend them and work with them." Wikimedia Foundation staff §34
  1477. "The sister projects are not as impactful as Wikipedia, Commons, and Meta-Wiki." Meta §2
  1478. "Wikipedia’s importance decreases on people’s minds, because there is multiple new healthy collaborative projects of knowledge sharing supported by the WMF (leader on this field) and the massive community behind them." Wikimedia Foundation staff §17
  1479. "I have the impression that with the reference to "health" they are talking about something vaguely positive, but nobody knows what it actually is. But is a community with dissent "sick"? And furthermore, why should that be a concern for the WMF?" German Language Wikipedia §14
  1480. "Healthy community means the right balance among various groups." Wikidata §5
  1481. "Inclusiveness means diversity of backgrounds." Wikidata §3
  1482. "With training and leadership, build self-sustaining teams to solve problems." English Wikipedia §3
  1483. "community" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §238
  1484. "The only important thing is to love and care about other people" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §244
  1485. "Perceptions of problems in communities affecting D as being unsolvable." Australian Community §2
  1486. "[It is important for] social inclusion, immigrants, special educational needs." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §6
  1487. "The rationale for this topic is in the development of ‘closed systems’ and ‘closed data’ − science publications with closed access. This global system of control of knowledge is why we need to support and improve free access to scientific knowledge." Russian Wikipedia §27
  1488. "Because the health of our community and inclusive communities bring good relations between Wikipedians/Wikimedians and a serene, relaxed, and collaborative atmosphere. So expert wikipedians works quietly, produce good content, people from outside (potential new users) feel happy to attend when there are conflicts" Affiliations Committee §8
  1489. "All the themes are not reflecting the needs for the future but the needs for the daily implication into the Wikimedia projects. We are failing technology which is not perceived as innovative, inclusivity with 13% of women, globalization and internationalization... Maybe the Theme B, as a way to remove the language gap, is the more promising and so the more independent - the connection to the current theme may not be that obvious." Wikimedia Foundation staff §41
  1490. "The themes are good for now, but maybe not for 15 years from now. Everyone wants these solved now. They may no longer be relevant in 15 years time." Wikimedia Foundation staff §50
  1491. "When we contemplate something disruptive, we sometimes have positive response from smaller wikis. The issue is with English Wikipedia, which is more unhealthy now (much more than other projects). We aren’t completely doomed if we can’t solve this." Wikimedia Foundation staff §51
  1492. "We need to easy editing and contributing as much as possible and set a friendly environment for all people needs." Meta §57
  1493. "Everyone should make examination of conscience as we all contribute to unhealthy culture of our communities, but it probably cannot be forced by any strategy." Polish Wikipedia §9
  1494. "Communities thrive from an open engaging forum that gravitate away from hierarchy" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §85
  1495. "All cases of incivility the user encountered were attempts to avoid existing policies and consensus. If one can write an article, one can write a comment explaining the reason for one's edit." English Wikipedia §87
  1496. "In my opinion, this theme is fourth in priority." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §29
  1497. "While we can all edit Wikipedia, it remains as the project of a few people. It is wrong to think so, but I honestly think it isn't an extremely inclusive project." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §36
  1498. "Diversity will be more about diverse opinions, small cultures and backgrounds, not about gender gap." English Wikipedia §7
  1499. "Don't use Meta-wiki for everything. There are other tools." Iberoconf 2017 §5
  1500. "Stop thinking about the obstacles that face certain demographics. For example, if we want wikipedia to be accessible for vision impaired people, don't worry about all that they will need. Go to them directly and they will tell you all the answers for this problem, they have the tools and they know how to do it. We just need to reach out to them and offer them the space so that these tools will be available for everyone else who might need them." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §188
  1501. "Monitor and encourage troublemakers to cease and desist, set the entrenched wiki-culture aside, let other ideas to grow into prominence, make the community less rigid and static." English Wikipedia §6
  1502. "Stop narrowing the sense of notability." Wikidata §6
  1503. "The role of WMF should be rethought in some circumstances, it should be measured not only on the basis of it's immediate effect, but on how it generates elements that have strategic benefits to the communities." Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §7
  1504. "ban misogyny" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §86
  1505. "Behavior with new users is common in this type of community. Certain "paternities" are generated about the work that some do." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §29
  1506. "centralized vetting of sources?" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §241
  1507. "Contaminating our communities, society and world by overuse of our finite resources, fragile socio economic climate. This includes a fragile eco system on which we all depend I.e. Be more aware of climate change, eco change," Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §173
  1508. "Drop the hierarchy-power control tree model that filters info upwards (focus on true feedback)." Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §7
  1509. "Focus on quality of pages not quantity of pages. Review process should improve." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §160
  1510. "Generate mechanisms to eliminate community power discrepancies." Iberoconf 2017 §10
  1511. "Guidelines can be different among projects. My impression is that there are guidelines that may not be understood by all users evenly well. And perhaps the number of guidelines sometimes is growing too high. Users may feel some bureaucracy, which I think is not helpful." Wikidata §47
  1512. "I don't know if this is heresy. There are content that are underrepresented in Wikipedia, but are under-represented in all. The challenge is, how to change this reality? Is the volunteer model the answer to this? There should be no level of centralized participation? If "we want these contents to be there," then could we think of doing it a job?" Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §30
  1513. "I think that technology is something that the Foundation or even Chapters shouldn't be doing alone. If we increase including other communities, we don't need to be creating software and products on our own. We have a huge deficit and can't do it alone." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §551
  1514. "I would’ve consider the size of the community as a trade-off in comparison with credibility of information." Russian Wikipedia §18
  1515. "In the languages where contributions are still lacking, the admins need to be focused on the community-shared goals rather than specific personal preferences of what should be done. Should monitor the monitor to make sure that they are not abusing powers, and should train the admins even more than the new members." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §91
  1516. "It's going to get harder because when you bring more voices into the movement, people will disagree etc. It's balancing, self-fulfilling. If you're not healthy and inclusive and you want to become a trusted source, you need this diversity, you won't be able to be global. They feed off each other." Wikimedia Foundation staff §56
  1517. "Often new users are discouraged to feel free to add new articles/items because that leads to deletion of their input. Also it can lead to unhealthy situations of different user groups, with different backgrounds and different interests. That does not help to find new users. User:Lymantria" Wikidata §48
  1518. "Oppportunity is what we should go for, not equality. Demographic diversity for diversity's sake is pointless." English Wikipedia §66
  1519. "public discussions on public persons threads." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §239
  1520. "Reduce intervention (and need for) while increase prevention" Affiliations Committee §15
  1521. "Stop treating solo contribution as the only option, and start brainstorming other options, like teamwork. Collaborative contribution may produce better interaction." Meta §73
  1522. "The main challenges for newcomers are: (1) how to start a new article and (2) how to deal with the community and its infinite standards and impatience." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §35
  1523. "The process of accepting articles should be revised and made more democratic so as in contentious cases discussions should be handled by specialist contributors. However anyone could self-nominate specialist on any topic." French Wikipedia §50
  1524. "There is no need to compromise on quality, because there is currently no such a distinct quality. It will be necessary but let go of the patronage that exists today" Wikimedia Israel §9
  1525. "Until the tools are up to the task of making non coders comfortable contributing, you run the risk of alienating a core group of users." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §214
  1526. "We can't stop all efforts and do not compromise to have a healthier community any time, today and in the next 15 years. It must be our permanent goal." Affiliations Committee §14
  1527. "We look like social networks "articles" created about the small world of show bizz, TV, singers, footballers, etc. Is this the encyclopedia we want?" French Wikipedia §52
  1528. "We need to stop rejecting content that is not vandalism. To do this, we need to both redefine vandalism and redefine encyclopedic content" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §99
  1529. "We should abandon the practice of ‘dumb rollbacking’ − rollbacks of non-vandalism made without any comments left on the user’s talk page, because this might be bitter for users. Gorvzavodru" Russian Wikipedia §2
  1530. "We will have to compromise on uniformity. On the monopoly of existing editors" Wikimedia Israel §8
  1531. "What I ask to do is to promote accessibility , equal opportunity and human rights defending, and not to limit linguistic diversity and blocking except vandalism." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §129
  1532. "Wikipedia does too much of instantaneity, similarly to social networks, as shows articles related to recent terrorist attacks where sources are not sought for thoroughly." French Wikipedia §51
  1533. "Wikipedia is not exclusive to Wikimedia, nor vice versa." Iberoconf 2017 §7
  1534. "Yes. As it is, several areas or topics within Wikipedia are dominated by a clique that shared a political agenda that is not objective or inclusive. If you will not allow the general community to have a voice in the decision making, Wikipedia will continue to be considered largely propaganda, and only one segment of the population will find it worthwhile to participate." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §178
  1535. "Üniversiteler ile temasa geçilmesi ve ilgi alanları bazında katılım sağlanması her açıdan çok yararlı olur." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §134
  1536. "letting editors stop" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §72
  1537. "Not sure. Less fundraising? ;-)" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §224
  1538. "Stay safe" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §245
  1539. "I think English, will fuse with other languages, creating some sort of worldwide spocken language. Therefore translations and smaller wikias(compared to the english one), will lose importance and become instint, within approx. 70 years." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §550
  1540. "There is a virtual but also a real Public Domain: in the real world many volunteer with a "wiki spirit" (free, collaborative, etc.) and they could become truly wiki with a "Wikiworks" project (cf. images on Commons)." Italian Wikipedia §1
  1541. "Some message template should not be visible to every reader but just to those who want to improve the article. The talk page should be more visible and more easy to reach for readers who want to comment." Italian Wikipedia §71
  1542. "Some template message are useful both to the reader and to the editor. Hiding them would damage the encyclopedia." Italian Wikipedia §76
  1543. "Universal non-negotiable criteria has to be set to rule the users (mainly editors) relations and the task definitions, which must govern all the language communities." Spanish Wikipedia §26
  1544. "Specify it more and augment the concrete changes. Clarify the priority of the rule versus other rules or goals." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §211
  1545. "Free knowledge a bed for free electricity" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §246
  1546. "We still don’t have rules of behavior as affiliates - we are still figuring out how they behave and we need clear rules about conduct and how to behave - we are not thinking of a future where there may be so many affiliates in the same country and potential overpopulation of affiliates maybe" Affiliations Committee §18
  1547. "We want to avoid the influence of the Silicon Valley "brogrammer" culture bleeding into the Foundation and the community." Wikimedia District of Columbia §8
  1548. "Contributors, not consumers. More diversity of consumers, as well as channels for consumption." Wikimedia Foundation staff §59
  1549. "We suggest this revision of the current statement: - “By 2030, the Wikimedia volunteer culture will be safe, rewarding, and inclusive for both existing contributors and newcomers. We will welcome new volunteers to our movement and mentor them to ensure that they have a great experience and continue to participate in the projects. We will provide the resources and technological infrastructure to existing community members that enables them to welcome and train constructive new community members. People from every background will feel part of a network of groups and organizations with deep relationships. As a result, our movement will grow both in size and in nature, as our projects flourish under our collective care.”" Wiki in Education §1
  1550. "The possibility to rate articles (or similar) could give room to partisan people." Italian Wikipedia §56
  1551. "Oxford Internet Institute (OII) had made a very sophisticated study in 2013 to explore the motives of Wikipedia contributors from the Middle East. Wikimedia Foundation should also fund and host similar studies to better understand communities, especially emerging ones." Arabic Community §4
  1552. "We could attract more retired scientists." English Wikipedia §12
  1553. "Actively engage motivated groups that are strongly motivated to contribute on a topic (e.g. students, societies, associations, academics, other volunteer groups and NGOs)." Meta §13
  1554. "Collaborate with any organization that works with people and intercultural transfers." Meta §14
  1555. "Collaborate with WikiHow." Meta §15
  1556. "Partners able to address accurately to the community, listen it's feedback and provide actionable and attractive processes to achieve the improvement of friendliness and enjoyment of relevant Wikimedia contribution." Meta §64
  1557. "Because the title of this theme is 'healthy, inclusive communities ... in Wikimedia projects' I say that there is no other organization active in this field." German Language Wikipedia §23
  1558. "any volunteer orgnization, social psychology" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §74
  1559. "Ask the help of Universities with department of Psychology" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §79
  1560. "weird internet" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §88
  1561. "Academics who share some of the Wikimedia's values should be actively invited." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §92
  1562. "Probably no one. People have given up on the Internet being inclusive and welcoming." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §96
  1563. "There are many initiatives in the field of multi-lingualism. There are open translation communities in all shapes and forms, including dictionary builders and software programmers for machine translation." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §101
  1564. "I don't really know." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §106
  1565. "People, not technology. No tool will stop conflicts." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §111
  1566. "Educational institutions, especially students working on class assignments to improve Wikipedia" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §114
  1567. "me, i'll call you" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §119
  1568. "maker, diy community" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §126
  1569. "Historically members of Council of Europe on human rights in general and ILGA Europe and Transgender Europe on LGBT rights work and I hope your cooperative with United Nations and NGOs on human rights defending." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §131
  1570. "Belli çalışma alanları için üniversitelerin ilgili bölümlerine, ödev, proje, seminer vb. kapsamda çalışmalar özendirilebilir. Akademisyenlerin derslerdeki ödevleri bu biçimde vermesi teşvik edilebilir." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §136
  1571. "Everyone, via the internet." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §141
  1572. "No idea" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §146
  1573. "Technology companies work and will continue working on the social aspects of human lives. It is important to note that membership in communities might need to be protected in the same way the checking out of books is protected from government intrusion. This might complicate the infrastructure around communities and wikipedia would be well advised to seek guidance from some of the experts in the industry." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §151
  1574. "reddit? We should implement the reddit social feedback system for all edits and comments. "revert" and "thanks" is to less social feedbakc and control mechnisms" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §157
  1575. "unsure" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §165
  1576. "potentially partner with feminist, race-inclusive, open-source, LGBTQ, etc orgs to bring in more of these users" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §170
  1577. "Public institutions, Governments, conglomerates, large and small. Partner with them by media, public relations, convincing argunment based on tangible evidence and statistics. Social networking." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §175
  1578. "Hopefully, anyone who feels that they can contribute will be working in this area, as with other areas. As it is, the power structure of Wikipedia is too heavily weighted." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §180
  1579. "World-Wide web consortium." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §185
  1580. "The WikiSoCal group is working on including the Latino and the Blind communities, so that they can become volunteers for the Wikimedia projects. Here's the grant proposal that was submitted: Grants:IdeaLab/WikiSoCal 2017" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §190
  1581. "I have no answers to this question." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §195
  1582. "Within our wikis , you can easily spot the users who are taking care of other users and those who are pushing users out. At the border, half in / half out, you can find users and groups who are trying to bring people in" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §200
  1583. "Fan communities, academics, teachers,... ; Don't start with partnering, but make sure they actually want to contribute and get something back from it. ; Give them more rights to decide instead of the community for their area of expertise." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §207
  1584. "There are so many non profits working with, e.g female coders, minority tech people, etc. Get them in early and let them guide the discussion. Accept that the current membership might need some new ideas." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §216
  1585. "English wikipedia could learn a lot from many of the smaller wikipedias." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §221
  1586. "WMF could easily set up regular meetings with platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and al. to understand all the low-hanging fruits, meaning software features that allow a more healthy, anti-harassment community. Also, psychological support and proactive campaigns by WMF and chapters could help the hardcore community of editors to hone their empathy skills ;-) See for example what WM Netherland is doing." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §226
  1587. "For each of the Wikimedia project websites those will be the individual editors, the individual functionaries, the user groups involved, and where those people live the local organization like chapters and thorgs. Make them responsible for community health." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §231
  1588. "Organizations that care for workplace health / online community health. Experts spotting disturbed personalities and disturbed group behaviors. Experts teaching emotional intelligence towards the benefit of overall public good. Experts reporting back. Builders of editor report tools on moral harassment." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §236
  1589. "Peace and love" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §247
  1590. "Community leaders, so history tour groups, churches/faiths, schools" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §252
  1591. "Governments, to NGOs, to even entertainment (cultural production). I think we have a lot to learn from institutions that have been around for decades. Similarly, they might learn from us in how we get things done virtually." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §547
  1592. "Me, and I might partner with you.^^ But I need everyone to accept, that not every opinion is worth the same! Like Sokrates i have more trust in a Pilot than a Janitor, when it comes to Flying..." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §555
  1593. "social media, other online communities, gaming" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §562
  1594. "I can't think of an organization. But I'd say that the main topic here is psychologists. Maybe administrators could be aided by facilitators that are schooled by psychologists. The facilitators could be "normal" Wikipedians that get schooled in psychology. Like this the administrators' tasks would be rather technical while interpersonal tasks (editwars, nominations for deletions) could be dealt with by the facilitators." German Language Wikipedia §27
  1595. "The Wikimedia Foundation should be the one who leads all the others to support all over the world." Chinese Community - Individual interviews §12
  1596. "Linked Open Data is our potential ally in recognition of gender (and others) gaps in content and also potential source of new volunteers. [1]" Polish Wikipedia §22
  1597. "World Social Forum, peer to peer networks and other institutions aligned with alternative traditions could be partners in this area. User:Joalpe" Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §12
  1598. "Human resources specialists could bring expertise and techniques to help deal with conflicts. User:Danilo.mac" Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §13
  1599. "In order to solve the problems with non understanding how Wikipedia works and that it is still unfinished a PR company and/or friendly NGO and/or education institutions could be partners to organize big scale campaign to explain this to the public." Wikimedia Polska 2017 meeting §6
  1600. "Specialists on workplace health." Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §9
  1601. "Experts teaching emotional intelligence towards the benefit of overall good." Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §10
  1602. "Builders of special feedback tools on moral harassment (isolated incidents slip detection)." Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §11
  1603. "Experts spotting disturbed personalities and group behaviors (based on feedback)." Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §12
  1604. "We should attract institutions to publish articles on science topics. Semis danbe" Russian Wikipedia §5
  1605. "We could use student’s practices and essays writing to ask them to edit Wikimedia projects instead of putting outcomes of their work into never to be read by others university archives and drawers." Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §4
  1606. "We can cooperate within specific projects focused on teenagers performed by other NGO; for example project “pol-gra” about how children learn via on-line gaming; Wikipedia/Wikidata games for children as an outreach tool." Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §5
  1607. "We can offer experts utilization of their conference papers in Wikimedia projects, instead of publishing them in post-conference materials, which are never read; it might bring them to Wikipedia as editors as well" Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §6
  1608. "We should visit and participate in academic conferences about topics which are very hot in Wikipedia such as contemporary history - so we can address our dilemmas with academic people and ask them for help/expertise/external conflict resolutions" Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §9
  1609. "Variant voices need to be heard - divergence from mainstream popular ideas should not be suppressed in the name of political correctness" Australian Community §6
  1610. "We can cooperate with media companies and Youtube to create and popularize Youtube videos that provide instructions on how to edit and create Wikipedia/media articles." Vietnamese Wikipedia §20
  1611. "We need to cooperate with academia to fight against fake News" Wikimedia Israel §14
  1612. "We need to cooperate with commercial technology companies that invest in Africa - in research and community mobilization" Wikimedia Israel §15
  1613. "There is a danger of cooperation with commercial entities. But beyond the dangers of such cooperation - does that fit in with the Wikimedia ethos?" Wikimedia Israel §16
  1614. "Non-Government organizations working to further the free knowledge movement could be entities with whom we might partner, since the Wikimedia affiliates are likely to be involved with such entities in their local area. Government agencies might be effective as well (to have partnership with) in some parts of the world." Affiliations Committee §19
  1615. "Schools, ministries, associations. Proposing them projects about the wiki world (open knowledge, free licenses, digital literacy, cyberbullism & harassment etc)." Affiliations Committee §20
  1616. "Linux, Mozilla, other world-wide networked groups for open source/data/etc." Affiliations Committee §21
  1617. "Collaborate with open government - policy collaborations for things like freedom of panorama - collaborate with those who work to change laws" Affiliations Committee §22
  1618. "Institutions and associations working in the fields of diversity and equality. Nattes à chat" French Wikipedia §56
  1619. "Individuals like Sheryl Sandberg, public institutions as Ministry of Human Rights, research and training institutions. Nattes à chat" French Wikipedia §57
  1620. "Linguists specializing in non-sexist or inclusive language, Amnesty, SOS racism. Nattes à chat" French Wikipedia §58
  1621. "Organizations proposing mediation training, organizations offering non-violent communication training, civil society organizations: Nuit débout, Occupy. Nattes à chat" French Wikipedia §59
  1622. "Create thematic debates and conferences and then set up working groups to exchange effective anti-harassment practices and build an environment of debate and non-violent communication.Nattes à chat" French Wikipedia §60
  1623. "We can collaborate with various social media platforms and education institutions." Hindi Wikipedia §13
  1624. "Wiki communities building should begin in schools." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §14
  1625. "Teach individuals to live in community, especially learn how to discuss without frustrate others." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §15
  1626. "Sociologists?--Vodnokon4e (talk) 12:09, 10 June 2017 (UTC)" Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §5
  1627. "Our movement needs to intensify the paartnerships with likeminded cultural, scientific and educational organizations, and to work for cultivating a more acceptable and accepting environment within our community. Spiritia (comments at the offline wiki seminar on 10 June in Sofia)" Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §33
  1628. "It is the responsibility of the community." Swedish Wikipedia §3
  1629. "Experts spotting disturbed personalities and group behaviors (based on feedback)." Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §13
  1630. "Who else will be working in this field: All the major online communities." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §17
  1631. "How to partner: Exploratory talks." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §18
  1632. "Build bridges and collaboration with other activists and communities in the free knowledge ecosystem like Open Knowledge International (OKI), Mozilla etc.." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §19
  1633. "Partner with institutions that aim to promote civil society and collaborate on strengthening people’s participation in civil society in all different forms, working to create free knowledge and education." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §20
  1634. "Do not foucs on all online communities, but focus on the the self-organized ones. Wikimedia chapters are no community managers, rather community enablers. That is the difference to communities like the Giga community with a centralized governance structure. For sure it may help to have an exchange with Facebook & co. but much more interesting would be the FOSS community, Mozilla, OKI, Creative Commons open data community etc." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §21
  1635. "Cooperate with Universities to better understand problems and to find effective solutions" Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §22
  1636. "Also consider institutional partners in education, science and culture as gateways to new groups and demographies that will increase diversity and quality of content." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §23
  1637. "We believe that we are (as a movement) the agents of change, so we don't identify a key actor/institution in the process." Wikimedia Chile - Interviews with members §3
  1638. ""Any community working towards opening up knowledge to a wider audience on a freely accessible basis is a potential partner - be it the Open Knowledge Foundation, the Cochrane Foundation, Open Data initiatives by governments etc. While there are myriad ways to partner with likeminded organisations, collaborations on topics we have similar views on in order to successfully create synergy effects would be a promising way forward. This process would also bring our communities together, making them more inclusive and at the same time offering a different perspective or approach to the movement. While preparing the Wikimedia Hackathon in Vienna we realized that there is still a lot of room for impovement when it comes to integrating newcomers into our community. At the same time there are many great concepts out there – some of them we tested and implemented for the Hackathon – from other tech communities (Rails Girls, Jugend hackt, Ladies that FOSS), which have not been applied to the Wikiverse before, such as mentoring programs for young coders or tech events for women and non-binary volunteers only. We should become bolder when it comes to radical changes to our event formats so we can apply successful approaches from other communties and organizations."" Wikimedia Austria (Board and ED) §5
  1639. "Glam professionals also have big impact and can help move towards a healthier direction in a stable and professional way." Wikimedia Foundation staff §87
  1640. "This is theme should not be a strategic goal as the healthy community is not our goal to achieve but rather one of the resources we can use for some strategic purpose. So, we should rather focus on some external strategy goals and then decide how to achieve it. The community itself is not our product." Polish Wikipedia §26
  1641. "We should be ready to welcome those who come at our door without any discrimination, but we should not go around to recruit people what wouldn't think to contribute to an encyclopedia by themselves." Italian Wikipedia §7
  1642. "Good faith does not pay. Good manners are interpreted as weakness. We need to be more welcoming towards anonymous user to make them stay. The community needs turnover. Geoide" Italian Wikipedia §86
  1643. "We need to new contributors but also to defend existing content. New users who are not willing to study topics before contributing must first be put in condition not to damage existing content and then invited to contribute. The more is not always the better. The user decline is because some people don't want to study while those who have studied do not want to interact with less-studied people. (Xinstalker)" Italian Wikipedia §87
  1644. "To do that we need more focus on the people who has different opinions and we should welcome them. With active participation from all fronts, we could achieve our goal." Bengali Community §3
  1645. "Strangely enough discussions about Wikipedia in closed groups of social networks like Facebook have a much less agressive atmosphere than discussions in Wikipedia. We should learn from that." Dutch Wikipedia §10
  1646. "Suggestion made to simplify the language of the theme description, so it could be understand by non-corporate people.[3]" Polish Wikipedia §3
  1647. "All these positive things are no use to me. What does "positive" mean? Healthy is better than sick, alive is better than dead. We don't have to elaborate on that. Regarding the communities there are 2 differenct aspects that are much more interesting. Doesn't such a strategic come down to disempowering the communities? It is obiously not the job of the WMF to perform mircale cures on the communities. And how else can we understand such a shadowless goal? Mr Wales with his "toxic users" comes to my mind straight away. But such target projections are only possible at the price of ignoring real conflicts, contentious issues and peculiarities of the community. A "positive" goal would rather be to search for patterns for strong contradictions within the community (and between communities and between the communities and WMF). But this would not be a goal of the WMF." German Language Kurier discussion §8
  1648. "The phrasing is going towards a religious community. Is there a guru in sight?" German Language Wikipedia §12
  1649. "Long, general discussion about the complex and "pompatic" style of theme descriptions, which disappoints people because they are written in prohibitive, hard to understand, corporate style language and are too general and abstract to enable discussion about real issues.[4]" Polish Wikipedia §4
  1650. "The important thing is to break somehow the vicious circle of lack of devoted Wikipedians, who have therefore limited time to take care of newbies, so there is less Wikipedians etc; in order to sort it out stronger technical support is needed for devoted Wikipedians.[8]" Polish Wikipedia §8
  1651. "The idea of inclusion by the WMF will be counterproductive. Not everyone is able to contribute on a level that is required. Some people clearly do not understand what an encyclopedia is about. Although we are expected to guide these users with patience and experience it's not worth the effort in many cases. If they are deaf to criticism it will take too much effort. Users who can't even write proper Dutch should not be encouraged but rather discouraged from participating. That everybody must be able to particpate? That's just a "pink dream"." Dutch Wikipedia §21
  1652. "Method of editing should be changed in order to get rid of unnecessary technical obstacles and more friendly attitude towards newbies - i.e. resignation from templates or automating them, make editing button more visible, make harder or resign from one-button revert button etc." Wikimedia Polska 2017 meeting §7
  1653. "Registration is easy and there is no real reason for people not to register. Most edits by IP are destructive. To give privilege to quality (as dewiki does) means to give privilege to the reader. If we don't favor quality over freedom to edit quality will fatally decline. (Xinstalker)" Italian Wikipedia §96
  1654. "We should focus on themes A & C -- they are core themes, as well as those that require doing more things. The basis of what needs to be done is in the very definition of movement: a group of volunteers tries to gather all the knowledge to make it available to the whole world." Spanish Wikipedia §24
  1655. "Other projects already have overcome some of these problems, and we should learn from them. (For example, WikiHow, some hacker spaces, Women in Red, some Wikimedia chapters)" Wikimedia District of Columbia §5
  1656. "Some are looking to technological solutions to the community health problem, or to SUSA in the Wikimedia Foundation. These are good but not the only avenues." Wikimedia District of Columbia §41
  1657. "Healthy and inclusive communities is our primary goal, all others depends on it" Sources Cycle 2/WikiDonne%27s User Group §1
  1658. "Monthly meetings online wiki / hangout, wiki monthly meetings in Rome (Literary Café)" Sources Cycle 2/WikiDonne%27s User Group §2
  1659. "As this is a global movement, we need to avoid a Western bias as to what is "healthy" and "inclusive"." Wikimedia District of Columbia §7
  1660. "Having a healthy community is an important base for working with global communities and other partners." Wikimedia District of Columbia §3
  1661. "We may not want to invite in global/institutional partners until we have a healthy, functional community to begin with." Wikimedia District of Columbia §19
  1662. "Removing barriers to people participating increases the breadth and reliability of content we can get." Wikimedia District of Columbia §2
  1663. "Improve audio-visual content, especially in more modern ways than are currently done." Australian Community §1
  1664. "If we follow this theme then there will be an increase in our contributors as well as our articles. People will get know that Wikipedia exists in many languages." Hindi community one on one discussions §8
  1665. "It's not easy to identify personal attacks from experienced users to newbies. We should work more on this not to lose both kind of contributors." Albanian Wikipedia §11
  1666. "The most important issues that the Wikimedia movement must face are those of healthy, inclusive communities and the augmented age. I realize that we need a safer and more friendly space so that people can cooperate with the Foundation's projects, as well as providing new storage and deployment technologies for the new media we are generating as humanity." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §72
  1667. "Any valid source of information has to include multiple points of view. I selected A and D because they are linked and include the others. (Daniela Schütte)" Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §24
  1668. "Perhaps it would be good to think of digitization of sources, which would add content, for example, about Chilean women. It is necessary to look for ways to promote the access of new users with other institutions. (Daniela Schütte)" Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §28
  1669. "A more inclusive online community" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §84
  1670. "Inclusive" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §137
  1671. "Continue to do what we do now , new matters will also appear as the times changes. I sooner believe "one has to follow the time"" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §142
  1672. "This would be helpful to achieve this goal." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §158
  1673. Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §201
  1674. "Not allowing public conversation on data amongst celebs, it adds to online harassment and misuse of public/private information." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §237
  1675. "Peace and love" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §243
  1676. "The theme will impact on us, since we are only a group that uses the technology, that's why we need to deal with it to maintain our impact on the world." Meta §19
  1677. "We have to be internally consistent between projects." Wikidata §38
  1678. "Our encyclopedic base has to be radically extended to non-English wikis." Wikidata §39
  1679. "This theme is unnecessary. The technology should be easy and simple to use for humans. However, the alternative path for humans would not be easy. Nevertheless, with humans' better understanding of the developing world and rural areas, by 2030, we can make the Foundation's software easier and more convenient to edit. Of course, sister projects need huge improvements and should become edit-friendly and more inviting and well-maintained before reaching 2030.; If this theme is ignored, more projects will be proposed. Some of the proposed will become fully formed and established, but they can invite its own audiences and elites. Wikipedia can still attract general audiences.; I feel uneasy about the theme. I misread the theme and thought it's about creativity. However, I realize it's about artificial intelligence. The A.I. is... something I would not encourage as part of the moment. However, if the theme is followed by 2030, more A.I. machines would take over human production. However, that makes humans less creative than they should be." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §1
  1680. "Something to change" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §8
  1681. "Unknown advances! Peace for all mankind." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §40
  1682. "Knowledge is part of humanity and under its control. Artificial intelligence is making use of this knowledge, which is does not have values. What role does Wikipedia play in this process, given the following premises: [1] Is H. G. Wells' statement still valid? "Human history only knows one direction: forwards and upwards. Mankind is destined to something greater". [2] Yuval Noah Harari: "To understand the world of today, an incredible amount of data has to be analyzed. (In the worldwide financial crisis even experts did not know what happened.) The only systems capable of processing all relevant data are big data algorithms. Humans will be replaced by artificial intelligence through better and superior algorithms." [3] Stephen Hawking: "Artificial intelligence can one day be able to improve itself and yield to an explosion of intelligence that will replace humans as a species, not being subjected to human moral concepts." (OpenAI)" German Language Wikipedia §30
  1683. ""Augmented age" is unnecessarily narrow compared to the more general theme of "advancing with technology". The latter is rather close to what we already do." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §25
  1684. "My initial thoughts come from my experience. Limited to 2 themes I had to choose." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §41
  1685. "Wikipedia should invest in technology to improve the living conditions of men in terms of health and education." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §3
  1686. "People comes to wikipedia because of the content mostly which makes them mostly consumers rather than contributors." Albanian Wikipedia §7
  1687. "Technological developments are tremendously important to the future of this movement." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §29
  1688. "By studying the development of technology nowadays, we can see that the role of technology will be more and more important to us in the future, and it is necessary for us to invest more time and resources to develop technology." Chinese Community - Individual interviews §24
  1689. "This theme is important because we won't be able to move forward until we keep evolving continuously." Hindi Wikipedia §15
  1690. "Following this theme could allow us to be more effective in the other areas." English Wikipedia §20
  1691. "Now, the technology is the main driving factor, thus it will drive development in the other 4 areas." English Wikipedia §21
  1692. "This theme can be transversal to others, in the sense that it can accelerate their implementation, but it must have its own ethical safeguards. Lamiot" French Wikipedia §14
  1693. "Data technology is only a means to help accomplishing goals described in the rest of the themes." Meta §20
  1694. "The other themes are important, but this is the most relevant, because it not only aims to increase the reach of Wikimedia, but to introduce (artificial) intelligence and semantic management." Spanish Wikipedia §3
  1695. "Low priority than other themes. People comes to wikipedia because of the content mostly" Vietnamese Wikipedia §12
  1696. "Probably low, robotic automated w/o programming seems not that impressive yet." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §6
  1697. "It's is amazing" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §9
  1698. "Mid pack at best" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §13
  1699. "wanted" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §18
  1700. "Méně, zatím nevíme, kterým směrem se bude rozšířená realita vyvíjet." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §27
  1701. "All the themes are equally important.But this is ,in my opinion,the most important theme .It would make something extra ordinary invention in near future." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §51
  1702. "Not at all. But you are allowed to follow Lila Tretikov on the way out." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §56
  1703. "This is the most important theme as it threatens the existence of Wikipedia." French Wikipedia §42
  1704. "The technology theme is a third priority - as a support role to the Community and Knowledge themes - to help us achieve these primary goals." English Wikipedia §105
  1705. "This theme is more important than the others, since the evolution of technology is being discussed here, which affects both Wikipedia and Wikidata." Spanish Wikipedia §46
  1706. "This theme should be the top priority. We need to use computational linguistics for the goals of our project." Russian Wikipedia §20
  1707. "Most important. Technical progress is inevitable and Wikimedia must not be lagging behind." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §7
  1708. "Advancement in technology should be means to an end and help us achieve our vision in the other four themes." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §31
  1709. "Not as important as the other themes but still crucial and should be part of the strategy to have a focus for technological developments" Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §32
  1710. "Learn from the recent experience with the Wikimedia Foundation leadership crisis - technology is a way and a path and a set of tools, and it influences culture, community and function. It is not a reason for being. So it is important, but only in context and in service to everything else" Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §33
  1711. "It is important, but we believe that the technology advancement will force us to work for adapting to the future, so it is not worth spending time in this right now." Wikimedia Chile - Interviews with members §5
  1712. "I think this would be the most important theme - Technically efficient world" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §50
  1713. "We must continue what we have already done. Only if the plans have a stumbling block in terms of funding, specialists recruitment, or other shortcomings, the new projects could evaluate to slow down, restructure or adopt alternatives." Spanish Wikipedia §4
  1714. "No, stop doing this theme in favor of other themes" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §57
  1715. "I don’t think we should stop doing anything but just lay more stress on technical development." Hindi community one on one discussions §10
  1716. "No." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §8
  1717. "The main resource needed for technological development is technological manpower, which usually requires the payment of high salaries. As in politics, everyone will say to reduce things that are less important to Them. We can cut projects funding aimed at directing Wikipedia content development, leaving the field to volunteers, and focus on budgeting for what volunteers usually can't do." Hebrew Wikipedia village pump §3
  1718. "Yes" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §10
  1719. "focus inside this scope" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §19
  1720. "I am honestly not acquainted enough with Wikimedia operations to answer this. I suppose any activity that would inhibit Wikipedia from improving in this area would need to be stopped." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §23
  1721. "Hopefully, little is sacrificed so long as the project utilizes an open-source framework that is mediated in a manner that supports the various interests and conflicts within a democratic system. By providing clear goals and resources, as well as clear communication and mediation between sub-projects, a collective project can be formed from the community at large where individual abilities and developments can be pooled into the collective project without sacrificing the benefits of small-team or personal development." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §32
  1722. "No. Technology is our road. Technology comes from informative personal growth." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §42
  1723. "All what is done is good currently but a new way should be approached for this ." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §52
  1724. "It might be difficult for us to predict the development of technology in the next 15 years as the it is developing very fast, maybe it is more reasonable for us to predict the situation for the next 5 years." Chinese Community - Individual interviews §21
  1725. "Wikimedia does its best as far as its resources and possibilities in adapting its platforms to technological changes, considering that the advance of the Internet is strongly determined by the markets, whose actors will have a study and technological development substantially superior to that of a voluntary community." Spanish Wikipedia §32
  1726. "We need less hobby projects from the technological WMF staff. Necessary features are developed, sometimes asked for by the community, sometimes unsolicited. But we need less failed projects like especially Wikipedia Zero, and Flow and Cross Wiki Uploads, just to name a few. These were not developed for the users but for the tech staff. It would be nice in the coming years to have a more communicative tech staff so that they can work better with the communities. Wikimedia Germany for example manages that quite well. We need to stop the hobby projects of the WMF technicians, because they are and unnecessary burden for the communities." Dutch Wikipedia §13
  1727. "Rapid change in social and cultural areas requires capacity to include adequate coverage and perspectives." Australian Community §3
  1728. "We should avoid simplistic presentations." Hindi Wikipedia §16
  1729. "Wikimedia must become a model of investment in the field of technological research." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §4
  1730. "Decrease bias in Latin American content." Iberoconf 2017 §11
  1731. "Better hardware more space for WikiBrain." English Wikipedia §26
  1732. "Ensure that the "augmented" aspect does provoke an enormous consumption of electricity." French Wikipedia §17
  1733. "Wikipedia and its sisters projects should be able to be fully powered by clean, safe and renewable sources of energy." French Wikipedia §18
  1734. "There should more integration between OpenStreetMap, Wikidata and Commons." Italian Wikipedia §27
  1735. "Add concept development and hardware manufacturer partners." Meta §25
  1736. "Some Volunteers" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §11
  1737. "Focus more" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §20
  1738. "Focus on inter-language machine translation to present accurate and neutral translations and the potential for intra-language machine translation to allow material to be framed within a desired perspective (eg. translating one area of mathematics into another, such as geometry in terms of algebra, or vice versa, should such a translation be possible)" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §33
  1739. "It'll take a lot of work and time, so we'll have to be patient and gather feedback in the time it takes to make progress with these aspects of Wikimedia." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §38
  1740. "This question delves deep. Future growth depends upon education and challenges! My own life experience is that these areas are diminishing outside Internet connections." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §43
  1741. "We should integrate it with all the others concept that may be reality as shown in science fiction movies." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §53
  1742. "People should all see the same version at Wikipedia, and be able to use the same tools" Wikimedia Hackathon §3
  1743. "There should be more featured articles, but not all articles are suitable for a featured article status." Dutch Wikipedia §7
  1744. "Red links could be explained by linking them to Wiktionary." Dutch Wikipedia §8
  1745. "Improve the way in which licensing information and choices are communicated, to most fully capture as much contemporary and recent-historical material as possible." Australian Community §8
  1746. "I don’t think we need to add anything else in this list." Hindi community one on one discussions §11
  1747. "More and more dialogues and workshops for different sections of the society." Hindi Wikipedia §17
  1748. "Geodata is important. there should more integration between OpenStreetMap, Wikidata and Commons." Albanian Wikipedia §6
  1749. "The searches could be temporarily saved, organized and utilized for educational purposes." Meta §78
  1750. "If we want to be truly innovative, we need to think beyond the technological options that are already present today (machine learning, browser, apps, technical devices) as technology will look radically different in 15 years time. For this, our movement needs to be open to adapting to these technological changes, and willing to make changes to our current technological infrastructure as well as our general technological strategies." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §35
  1751. "Importance of developing and promoting Free Open Source Software." Iberoconf 2017 §21
  1752. "Nothing other than "artificial intelligence". That's it." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §4
  1753. "Tech giants, academic research leaders, and graduate students could help us." English Wikipedia §27
  1754. "Partnership is essential, because help from people proficient in AI would save a lot of our time." English Wikipedia §28
  1755. "Academics and educational communityː we could collaborate on designing, prototyping, testing solutions, etc. Lamiot" French Wikipedia §20
  1756. "Collaborate with device manufacturers and makers." Meta §27
  1757. "Partners that could help implement some easier way to edit rich media on wiki (e.g. directly on Commons)" Meta §28
  1758. "Develop a software like ZygoteBody, BioDigital Human, and BodyParts3D that allows browsing 3D data, and display it in virtual reality." Wikidata §10
  1759. "Technology experts and organizations that share Wikimedia's values." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §7
  1760. "My Brother" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §12
  1761. "There's many types of tasks: content production, content search, content delivery, and technology development. Wikimedians should produce content, not others. Also we should control how to search content within the projects. I'm fine of others get to devlivery our content and develop technology. But the first two should be controlled by the Wikimedia community." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §16
  1762. "Technology corporations active in this space, such as Google and IBM, as well as universities.; Other than financial sponsorship, companies could support the development of the technology through programs such as Google Summer of Code, or having employees work on the development part-time or full-time. Universities could have students doing relevant coursework participate in the development as part of their respective courses." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §25
  1763. "Např. 123D Catch vytváří efektivní nástroj na vytváření 3D objektů, které lze vytvořit z mobilních fotek. Zde by se mohla navázat spolupráce, ve smyslu začlenění jejích výstupů do projektů Wikimedia. Pokud bude potřeba nastavit nový formát 3D objektu jendat i s patřičnou organizací, nebo komisí (jako třeba komise pro HTML apod.)." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §29
  1764. "University have significant potential thanks to their high-throughput of a variety of different perspectives onto the various challenges involved with machine translation, as well as expert individuals, projects and companies, whose experience, comprehension or knowledge help provide a deeper insight into the challenges and implementation of machine translation." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §34
  1765. "Frankly, I'm not sure. I'm not too familiar with Wikimedia yet, but the more allies the better, I suppose." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §39
  1766. "I don't understand this procedure. At this time I can name no others as partners." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §44
  1767. "The Public Knowledge Project could provide current content." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §49
  1768. "Tesla , Google and other companies might work in this field ." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §54
  1769. "Google, for example. They can and do spend billions of dollars each year in this area. They are far ahead of Wikipedia in machine learning. There is no way Wikipedia will ever catch up. Now people and Google love Wikipedia. We could partner with them to give volunteer editors access to tools by Google. for example." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §59
  1770. "perhaps nobody can create a vast encyclopedia like Wikipedia, and those who are trying may never achieve it without sourcing from people around the world." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §64
  1771. "The main proponents of this work will likely be the partners identified in the "Engaging the knowledge ecosystem" question." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §69
  1772. "Applications designers and developpers. Olimparis" French Wikipedia §43
  1773. "We can learn from Facebook/other social websites to inscrease our interaction and comments in Wikimedia sites" Vietnamese Wikipedia §18
  1774. "We may try to integrate Google Translate to Content Translation to quickly translate Wikipedia across languages" Vietnamese Wikipedia §19
  1775. "Definitely no major tech companies. More transparent (and smaller) companies or non-profits who would not seek to harm the project would be better." English Wikipedia §90
  1776. "Wikimedia should remain as a complement to search engines rather than trying to replace them -- The trend is working on standards that work in the most common solutions, rather than exhausting efforts and resources to add something already existing to the ecosystem." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §32
  1777. "Partner with other providers of on-line knowledge and cultural content and become the entry point into a linked world where various sources are accumulated and several different views of the same topic may be presented." Meta §72
  1778. "3D modelers, visual engineers, VR developers. I would’ve hung up in 3D Wiki, what is more bedazzling than 3D encyclopedia? Semis danbe" Russian Wikipedia §7
  1779. "Potential partners need to have better introductions to Wikimedia and what individual projects are for." Australian Community §1
  1780. "We can learn from Facebook/other social websites to inscrease our interaction and comments in Wikimedia sites" Vietnamese Wikipedia §18
  1781. "We may try to integrate Google Translate to Content Translation to quickly translate Wikipedia across languages" Vietnamese Wikipedia §19
  1782. "Wordpress and Blogspot can help us in making a good editor." Vietnamese Wikipedia §23
  1783. "It will be very useful if we work with organizations like Google, Bing and Microsoft. We should integrate tools developed by other organizations and also improve some aspects when Wikipedia is being searched via search engine." Hindi community one on one discussions §12
  1784. "We should collaborate with mobile manufacturers and service providers." Hindi Wikipedia §18
  1785. "Get in touch with bloggers for a better visibility of the movement and allow them to actively contribute to the Wiki platforms, as does UNICEF with the U-Report project." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §10
  1786. "Set up a research team, collaborate with specialists, universities and the academic sector in order to transform the difficulties and needs of Wikimedia into research subjects." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §11
  1787. "cooperation with independent developers and IT companies, including big ones.--Vodnokon4e (talk) 12:09, 10 June 2017 (UTC)" Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §10
  1788. "We should learn from Facebook and other social websites to increase the interaction and comments in Wikimedia sites" Albanian Wikipedia §8
  1789. "Cooperation with developers and academics in field of automated translation, data handling for improving Wikidata. Development of Wikimedia Commons App and other mobile apps." Meta §79
  1790. "Who else will be working in this area: Everyone targeted in major theme 5." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §38
  1791. "We need to proactively convince partners to bring their technological developments into our movement and make them available free and open for all." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §39
  1792. "Partnerships should be built with other organisations of the Free- and Open-Movement and Start-ups. Cooperation with big players should be handled very carefully and, if possible, avoided." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §40
  1793. "Mozilla has much more pressure to succeed in this theme. They are an interesting partner. But also initiatives and even companies who are working with big data and artificial intelligence like Google." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §41
  1794. "We believe that the community must be a fundamental part of the change, since the construction of new tools will allow us to improve the way we edit and consume Wikipedia." Wikimedia Chile - Interviews with members §6
  1795. "The augmented age refers to digital assistants that will “be there” for you, and how they will help us navigate the world. The question then is: Will Wikipedia be a content provider for these assistants, or will it have its own (encyclopedic) assistant? What does it mean to edit/improve contents in these scenarios? Sharing pictures and videos will be much easier, while voice recognition will be greatly improved, facilitating dictation. But getting sources together will still take work." Wikimedia Foundation staff §89
  1796. "More resources are need for filters and other tool to fight vandalism, so that users can spend less time fighting vandalism and more time working on content." Italian Wikipedia §25
  1797. "A very important but often underestimated subject is comprehensibility. Wikipedia articles are often written by semi-experts that write in the language of experts. A lot of articles are difficult to understand and put into context. What can we do about it? Raise awareness that many Wikipedia articles are difficult to understand Implementation of possibilities for feedback when an article is difficult to understand and incentives to do something about it Training to write more comprehensibly Invest in articles in tutorial style that will help articles that are difficult to understand Invest in in good visual material for explanation, like for instance diagrams, maps and animations, etc. All this could be done together with universities and secondary schools that often face the same problem." Dutch Wikipedia §1
  1798. "To ensure the quality of our contents technological improvement is unavoidable. If we don't keep up with the world in terms of technology we will be left behind. We should also create awareness among the users to produce quality contents." Bengali Community §6
  1799. "The goals of WMF are primarily aligned to the reputation of their projects, which can be transformed into reputation for their functionaries and fundraising. And for this reputation conflict is less presentable as these inflated advertising messages. What makes me sit up and take notice is a certain abandonment of the encyclopedia as the principal medium. Are that really suggestions by a movement that mainly consists of communities? Or rather something that the WMF is reading into the process?" German Language Kurier discussion §9
  1800. "Technology development is a core strength of other organizations; the community's strength is in volunteers creating content. We will be able to adopt tools made by others." Wikimedia District of Columbia §13
  1801. "Polling system for distribution to participants" Sources Cycle 2/WikiDonne%27s User Group §6
  1802. "Event monitoring system Outreach. Okay the tool, which is, however, amended to only monitor activity on the entries recorded for each event (not as it is now, which manages all the activities of registered users among the participants)" Sources Cycle 2/WikiDonne%27s User Group §4
  1803. "Asana - a collaboration tool. Need to know better Phabricator" Sources Cycle 2/WikiDonne%27s User Group §5
  1804. "Automatic monitoring system of the state of articles, user group's website, system of sending messages to all participants in the project" Sources Cycle 2/WikiDonne%27s User Group §3
  1805. "User experience and the ease of interacting with the interface is critical to recruiting and retaining newcomers." Wikimedia District of Columbia §10
  1806. "We should ensure that machine translation efforts do not overwhelm native speakers, which makes those communities less healthy." Wikimedia District of Columbia §15
  1807. "This statement was rated at the bottom as far as the group was concerned, not because we do not consider technology important --on the contrary; but because the way this statement was phrased, it seemed to the group as the focus was on things like machine learning, the translation tool and other mediawiki tech developments. Had this statement been phrased to include embracing *all* technological advancement, including tools *the community* needs for its programmatic work, then this would have definitely been one of our top priorities." Wiki in Education §6
  1808. "Wikimedia tools understand the world around me and know what my interests are to select the right things for me at the right time." Wikimedia Foundation staff §299
  1809. "Structured data makes it nearly trivial to tie together information, media, and editors" Wikimedia Foundation staff §300
  1810. "I can find the information when I need it in the form I need it." Wikimedia Foundation staff §301
  1811. "Wikipedia presents me the content I should read. Everything I read/see is customized personally (by personality/localization/friends/etc)" Wikimedia Foundation staff §302
  1812. "I can find detailed information about the interrelation between any topic, on multiple levels, with insightful auto-generated diagrams/maps/charts/fly-throughs." Wikimedia Foundation staff §303
  1813. "Our biases are now in our code :(" Wikimedia Foundation staff §304
  1814. "A danger is that the core values the Wikimedia movement (openness and transparency) become meaningless, because civic control over the process of knowledge construction is impossible and whoever writes the AIs determines reality." Wikimedia Foundation staff §305
  1815. "A danger is paid channels and walled gardens isolating people and limiting their access according to their nationality, income, and biases" Wikimedia Foundation staff §306
  1816. "Wikipedia is under threat by much more powerful, hybrid knowledge bases" Wikimedia Foundation staff §307
  1817. "Specialized AIs exist which can perform knowledge aggregation and answer extraction tasks" Wikimedia Foundation staff §308
  1818. "AI will detect and correct and protect the content, reducing, greatly the work admins, patrollers, and others" Wikimedia Foundation staff §309
  1819. "People who contribute will more easily know where the gaps are in the content, and be able to add the knowledge they can contribute much more easily" Wikimedia Foundation staff §310
  1820. "Citations will be more easy to find across languages" Wikimedia Foundation staff §311
  1821. "(almost) automatically selecting the best examples of information and media to represent a topic" Wikimedia Foundation staff §312
  1822. "They’re using their holographic data pad to make quick updates to Wikipedia 2030 using a series of ‘game-like’ edits (instead of the now archaïc wikitext-for-everything process). These edits are short, quickly accomplished tasks that improve the reliability (say adding a quick citation) and quality (adding metadata to an image) of the content in the projects. The interface, regardless of being holographic, looks nothing like what we think of in 2017 as ‘editing’." Wikimedia Foundation staff §313
  1823. "Intimidating backlogs are a thing of the past. The machines do that work. Copyright violations, vandalism, … Contributors can now spend 99% of their collective time improving and creating articles." Wikimedia Foundation staff §314
  1824. "An editor [has] unprecedented productivity in creating and reviewing articles" Wikimedia Foundation staff §315
  1825. "Natural language search." Wikimedia Foundation staff §316
  1826. "Search will be picture and voice driven, not text." Wikimedia Foundation staff §317
  1827. "People will be able to access and contribute to our projects from all online/offline platforms." Wikimedia Foundation staff §318
  1828. "The Matrix style learning, you ask what you need to know, it takes a couple of seconds and now you’ve learnt that skill/knowledge." Wikimedia Foundation staff §319
  1829. "The most parts are completely automatic:...evaluating the quality of articles’ content (with instantaneous feedback to an author of edits)" Wikimedia Foundation staff §320
  1830. "editing via mobile devices is much more common than with desktop" Wikimedia Foundation staff §321
  1831. "holographic pics and 3-D printing (may be some educational model/samples) from wiki will be there" Wikimedia Foundation staff §322
  1832. "The primary role of editors will be to direct the machines and preside over controversial issues." Wikimedia Foundation staff §323
  1833. "children and teachers learn things by fixing Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wiktionary, and Wikisource, together, from any place, using any imaginable device." Wikimedia Foundation staff §324
  1834. "direct connection to sources" Wikimedia Foundation staff §325
  1835. "algorithms to verify sources and reference alignment" Wikimedia Foundation staff §326
  1836. "easy to explore and add needed content" Wikimedia Foundation staff §327
  1837. "The barriers between languages wikis will lower" Wikimedia Foundation staff §328
  1838. "Most translation tasks do not require much human intervention" Wikimedia Foundation staff §329
  1839. "For our readers this means access to every article in their language. They can find most information in the language of their choice." Wikimedia Foundation staff §330
  1840. "Manual translations may not be a thing anymore because of advanced language translation technologies." Wikimedia Foundation staff §331
  1841. "All the projects are connected, so that all contributions are shown in all languages." Wikimedia Foundation staff §332
  1842. "transparently and with explicit accountability mechanisms built in." Wikimedia Foundation staff §333
  1843. "A few more projects are needed as the Foundation's current projects are challenged by global factors." Meta §30
  1844. "China wants global collaboration with more countries" English Wikipedia §75
  1845. "The Foundation would not influence oppressive governments. Recently, Turkey blocked Wikipedia from the internet, and the petition to appeal the ban is ongoing. China is still wary about the information, such as the Tian'anmen Square massacre. Instead, the Foundation would impact just more open, developed countries.; This year, the Foundation lost its Hong Kong and Philippines chapters. ; Also, there have been cases of administration abuse occurring in smaller Wikipedia language sites. ; I don't think this theme would impact many countries except the Americas and Western Europe." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §253
  1846. "It's impossible to know, as this "theme" is too general to have any definition." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §275
  1847. "I fuced u" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §281
  1848. "I have a concern about this theme's impact on donations." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §293
  1849. "Immense." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §311
  1850. "We should abandon from wiki globalisation and idea of ‘impacting the world’." Russian Wikipedia §4
  1851. "Don't get involved in political arguments. The projects are for education, and campaigning compromises this." Australian Community §3
  1852. "Wikipedia should be subdivided into sub-languages" Wikimedia Israel §22
  1853. "We need to avoid that if we want to healthily contribute to the larger information ecosystem, especially in parts of the world that don't have thriving publishing ecosystems." Wikimedia Foundation staff §198
  1854. "We should become a free web search engine and a free web host." English Wikipedia §32
  1855. "Don't stop doing things, but change how we do things." Wikidata §15
  1856. "na" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §294
  1857. "What is Wikimedia's status and position within Australian online media and educational projects?" Australian Community §7
  1858. "Resources are scarce." Italian Wikipedia §67
  1859. "stop anonymous editing of non politiical/journalistic/activistic articles" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §259
  1860. "We would stop building luxury skyscrapers next to similar skyscrapers. We would stop changing out 8-month iPhones for new ones." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §263
  1861. "Yes, focusing on honestly would entail stopping pandering to Islamicism which means to enslave all humans to a particular subset of human's idea of God, and entails stopping calling racist any and every honest effort to understand Islam." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §278
  1862. "This comment concerns mostly Wikimedia. Be more flexible as far as photography goes. People are willing to contribute photo material but some of them will ask for basic respect concerning rights. It is hard to make good photos and it is unacceptable for some to give them away just for others to make profit out of them, while the photographer (may) live in poverty. There is a need for just a little bit more space for basic copyright respect. Change and loosen a bit the copyright policy (don't treat to delete work that the uploader signed as copyrighted but willingly contributed for educational - and not for commercial - purpose) so that these users can contribute their professional work of art in a way that keeps it safe from misuse. It is hard to understand why would a free encyclopedia insist on commercial use of all its material." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §308
  1863. "i have no idea." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §318
  1864. "Yes..that's proper knowledge without the false claims" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §575
  1865. "Flagged Revisions should be adopted as in German Wikipedia." Italian Wikipedia §90
  1866. "Understanding where Australia sits (as far as the Movement is concerned): in Oceania? Asia? Developing? Emerging? Still part of the British Empire? Australasia? What is our perceived geopolitical context?" Australian Community §6
  1867. "Actual access to different communities at the international level." Hindi Wikipedia §21
  1868. "Be fully open" Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §7
  1869. "Don't reinvent the wheel: it is necessary to improve and adapt the wheel." Iberoconf 2017 §27
  1870. "What the hell is this, Linked In?" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §279
  1871. "Please, do all that is possible to stop the internal misuse by people with bad intentions, such as anarchists, leftsist, faschists and other element destructive for society. Especially the topics history and geography are littered with personal unscientific views and "alternative" politics that do harm local communities. Even the discussions in such themes hurt many people. (In talk pages everybody is allowed to say what they believe is right but the rule by end is that who yells harder wins, or the issue remains unsettled and confusing.) Too much freedom is a curse. Develop more efficient ways to filter the destructive out, and limit their ability to alter healthy content with speculative one, with intention to cause divisions and internal conflicts, edit wars etc. There are many (of these from the dark side :) that reached admin level, just by being tricky and more clever than the ones that confront their destructive views. I believe there is a war raging inside Wikipedia between good and evil. The lines must be kept and clearly drawn. Wikipedia must describe evil, but also warn of consequences. It is unacceptable that this source become a channel of destructive views." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §309
  1872. "To convey people about the presence of itself through different media and et cetera" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §569
  1873. "I don’t think we need to add anything else into in this theme." Hindi community one on one discussions §4
  1874. "I would suggest to not start every sentence with "we". This sounds more like "us" and "them" than like a truly global movement." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §53
  1875. "We must improve communicationally." Iberoconf 2017 §25
  1876. "Promote criticism of technological development." Iberoconf 2017 §31
  1877. "People can create their own space / language wiki / group. But that causes some wikis or communities to seem more important / noble / complete." Wikimedia Foundation staff §133
  1878. "The “we” feels exclusionary, e.g. “we will turn our attention to…”. Move to inclusive we." Wikimedia Foundation staff §142
  1879. "We need to rethink our relationship with academic institutions - pivot to instructors. Awareness is not only about brand recognition. We need to and grounding in the values and nonprofit aspect of Wikipedia is important; awareness is shallow today, and need to go beyond current state." Wikimedia Foundation staff §156
  1880. "A little bit more “how” we accomplish this particular theme would be welcome. Not clear how we get from here to there." Wikimedia Foundation staff §160
  1881. "It doesn't talk about affiliates, only "partners". It doesn't explicitly name the infrastructures." Wikimedia Foundation staff §172
  1882. "We need to find ways to make sure this statement is something all will identify with." Wikimedia Foundation staff §173
  1883. "the use of "we" is problematic here because people may assume that the WMF is the "we". People are identifying with the "we", the community doesn't assume the "we" is "the WMF"." Wikimedia Foundation staff §174
  1884. "Make Space? Make space is very jargony and western centric: Enable, Invite, Welcome" Wikimedia Foundation staff §182
  1885. "Our core is aging. As people get older and live longer, it has to go beyond accessibility too." Wikimedia Foundation staff §193
  1886. "It is probably the most important, because there are many people out there that don't even know they can contribute, don't know how to do it, or simply find it too difficult. Loosen the ring of internal workings (the network of admins etc.) that now looks like a closed secret society, make the system more transparent to outsiders. Demistify the internal system, and make it harder for persons to gain too much power that they easily misuse, as they do right now destroying the efforts of the honest ones, and demotivate them." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §307
  1887. "We need to create a reliable knowledge that people from around the world can use as a basis for joint projects" Wikimedia Israel §30
  1888. "This should be the last priority, because there's too many people who don't know what Wikipedia is." English Wikipedia §31
  1889. "This should be the top priority, because exposing Wikipedia to more people around the globe is the single best way to attract greater coverage." English Wikipedia §33
  1890. "It shouldn't be a strategic goal, as putting resources for this theme artificially doesn't produce any good results, rather it should be part of some other general strategic goals and maybe achieved together with other efforts." Polish Wikipedia §11
  1891. "This is the least viable among the five themes, so it should have less priority." Spanish Wikipedia §8
  1892. "Important. Emerging communities will be expanded and more active in the global view in the future" Vietnamese Wikipedia §10
  1893. "Not as important as "healthy and inclusive" but more important than "the augmented age". Being a global NGO isn't easy as it may not please oppressive regimes, like those in Africa and the Middle East and China." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §254
  1894. "as important as the others" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §258
  1895. "A lot" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §262
  1896. "high but not first" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §267
  1897. "Gleichwertig" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §271
  1898. "What are the themes, other than "A truly global movement"? That's the only "theme" I see here." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §277
  1899. "More important if Wikipedia wants to grow and diversify its editors" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §283
  1900. "this might be the most important theme in the short and maybe even long term" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §290
  1901. "This comes next to healthy community" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §312
  1902. "extremely important" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §317
  1903. "relatively high importance, as knowledge accessibility is what wikipedia is about" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §320
  1904. "This theme seems to be more important to me because it seems much engaging to the people who will be greatly helped." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §567
  1905. "We consider Theme C to be of slightly lesser importance than Themes D and A, in the sense that it will be impossible to realise without addressing Theme D and A." Wikimedia Nederland §12
  1906. "We can't give up on the other themes" Wikimedia Israel §27
  1907. "Technology is a key tool for a truly global movement" Wikimedia Israel §29
  1908. "I think this theme is important because our movement will grow faster if we focus on this theme." Hindi community one on one discussions §3
  1909. "Theme C is the least important of the 5 themes." Hindi community one on one discussions §15
  1910. "This is closely related with our vision, therefore it's critically intertwined with the other four themes." Affiliations Committee §33
  1911. "I think that this is the most important theme although it is important to ensure good community health." Affiliations Committee §35
  1912. "The topic is important because it fits into the vision of Wikimedia." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §3
  1913. "4th place, not so relevant to me. " Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §12
  1914. "Not important for everyone to feel to be part of an international community." Swedish Wikipedia §12
  1915. "This is utterly the most important of all themes. If the Foundation wants to achieve all themes, it should consider its global influence as one of top priorities. We should be less dependent on the highliest-developed areas." Meta §82
  1916. "Quite important." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §47
  1917. "It is an important theme – being truly global and working together will be always better than a fragment chart of national organizations." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §48
  1918. "Very important, if being expanded to collaborative actions and mutual learning across the world, south and north, west and east." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §49
  1919. "Very important" Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §50
  1920. "Perhaps this subject alone is not so viable, but all of them are viable together." Spanish Wikipedia §49
  1921. "A truly global movement is mostly interconnected with how we are [theme E], how we're adapting [theme B] to use new technologies to bring in those outside our movement (digitally illiterate, visually impaired, non-English speakers, minorities (race, gender, others), etc.)." Wikimedia Foundation staff §108
  1922. "Becoming a global community is the ultimate goal. We will need [theme B] to help us scale the editing work globally. We will need [theme A] to scale the human network globally. We will need [theme D], so that we can be taken seriously at the global level. And we can't operate in a vacuum as many have said, we will need [theme E] to enable us to reach everyone and include them in our movement." Wikimedia Foundation staff §109
  1923. "[Theme B], to provide state of the art and accessible technologies is paired with [theme A] (to welcome any kind of knowledge, no matter who supports it in which language or in which communication channel) will allow is to achieve our goal of creating a truly global movement. Those three will push [theme D] we have forward." Wikimedia Foundation staff §111
  1924. "Augmented translation and automated seamless language tools will also accelerate any progress in this particular theme." Wikimedia Foundation staff §113
  1925. "A "truly global movement" relies on [themes A, B, E] to support the growth and accessibility as a [theme D]. Keeping our vision grounded in the *why* of reaching people in the rest of the world will allow us to choose which tactics (whether that's product, partnerships, policies, etc.) will best serve us getting there. Our 15 year strategic direction should be focused on the impact - not the means to get there." Wikimedia Foundation staff §114
  1926. "[Themes B and E] are systems that support [theme A] to create,curate,contribute and consume [theme D] in support of a truly global movement. Ability to integrate and include many language and cross cultural respect and awareness are crucial, so AI will be a tool for humans, not a replacement." Wikimedia Foundation staff §116
  1927. "If we want everyone, everywhere, to be welcome, it circles back to our theme A. Theme A is still the top priority, but this theme may inform how we prioritize that work. Similarly, theme B can break down barriers to being “truly global” through machine translation, better telepresence options, etc. We can prioritize our [theme B] investments by thinking if this makes us more [theme A] and more “global”." Wikimedia Foundation staff §118
  1928. "This is very related to [theme E]. Wikipedia’s quest for knowledge does not exist in a vacuum, we do not (and should not) have to lone wolf this. Finding our place in the “family of knowledge” will help us do more, with more people." Wikimedia Foundation staff §122
  1929. "2 and 5 are means to an end. They would be tactic that we could be employed within the theme of creating a global movement. 1 is kind of a universal good – not sure it is a 15 year theme though. 4 could be at odds with a global movement at times." Wikimedia Foundation staff §123
  1930. "I don't think we have to stop doing anything we are already doing just hold off on less important future projects" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §291
  1931. "Is an issue we never have to stop." Affiliations Committee §38
  1932. "This describes a characteristic of how our community should act, its not framed in a direction at the moment: the question of how we do this, and what kinds of core tooling we use to maintain that focus. Any of the other themes should include a component of going in this direction: several of them are missing explicit calls on this diversity of engagement." Wikimedia Foundation staff §125
  1933. "talking about inter-dependencies - this goes into Communities too. Frame of truly global is not just global. If we mean everyone everywhere, then it goes beyond this." Wikimedia Foundation staff §194
  1934. "We need to teach NGOs how to access, use our resources and enrich them in their local languages.CreativeC38" French Wikipedia §22
  1935. "Convince governments and institutions about the positive impact Wikimedia (could) have on national development with the improvement of information about countries." Meta §43
  1936. "Approach more universities, museums, libraries, and alike institutions." Meta §44
  1937. "Work with governments and change public policy towards devices and keyboards (set localized language support as default), and schools (teach writing in the local language on computers)." Meta §45
  1938. "Support universities outside of North America." Meta §67
  1939. "translators to widen the scope of a "native-language" article" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §260
  1940. "Underprivileged social groups. Poor, undereducated, rural, third world, disabled, LGBT." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §265
  1941. "Vielleicht ein paar Gute Netzwerktechniker, die staatliche Zensur umgehen könnten" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §274
  1942. "This is the most absurd question I have ever seen. I thought you were asking about suggestions for Wikipedia. ; Are you asking for suggestions about whom Wikipedia should invest with? I'm sorry, I'm not a multibillionaire venture capitalist." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §280
  1943. "Hundreds of universities outside of North America" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §285
  1944. "My experience in South Africa is that there are NGOs are interested in raising funds for outreach and expansion of the Wikipedia contributor footprint. Have been involved in outreach projects by NGOs funded through national lottery, initiating young Africans into the workings of Wikipedia and short workshops on how to determine what is relevant content and how to generate it. Some of these operate in other parts of the continent as well and could extend such work to other countries using local 'trainers'." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §300
  1945. "Anthropologists work in this area, along with USAID (United States Agency for International Development)." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §305
  1946. "Museums. Schools. Faculties. Academic organisations. NGOs. Ministries of education. Official approach only. The Foundation to directly assist users in know-how. As a trusted representative of the Community if I am to come to an institution, I must have a legitimacy. Sometimes they say "Oh no, here are they from this Wikipedia thing!" Build the reputation of the encyclopedia and help users be legitimate. As simple as that :)" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §310
  1947. "There are many partners locally in every country. For example GLAM, Education and locally living volunteer editors. Assemble partners locally to establish a local organization where there is none yet." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §315
  1948. "every local wikimedia organization" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §323
  1949. "You can partner with different mobile operator and with the free learning organizations like Troubleshooters in Bangladesh and 10 minute school" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §576
  1950. "Participatory budgeting networks may have practices and contacts that might help us. User:Joalpe" Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §23
  1951. "The alternative globalization movements, such as the World Social Forum, with its "another world is possible" motto, might have experiences and capabilities to help us. User:Joalpe" Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §24
  1952. "To achieve this theme, dialogues with both other social movements and international organizations must be expanded to distribute funds for projects that take effective action to change the situation." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §58
  1953. "United Nations Development Programmes can help us to have contacts within underdeveloping countries, where Wikipedia can increase significant awareness and perception in their population" Vietnamese Wikipedia §21
  1954. "Globalization can help us to promote Wikipedia in the world naturally, along with Internet and international companies" Vietnamese Wikipedia §25
  1955. "There should be a plan to foster collaboartion among Indian language Wikimedians." Hindi Community Whatsapp discussion §16
  1956. "I can’t think of any organizations who will be working in the same direction." Hindi community one on one discussions §5
  1957. "We have seen Wikipedia Zero, being vital in some parts of the globe to disseminate the Wikimedia projects. Areas in Africa and Latin America might also be benefited with Wikipedia Zero, where there has not been any efforts to spread Wikimedia projects. Apart from telecom service providers, schools or educational institutions, NGOs might be involved in these efforts. So we can consider to partner with them." Affiliations Committee §43
  1958. "To become a global movement, I think we need also collaborate close to communities that have our same vision." Affiliations Committee §44
  1959. "We should partner with other organizations and institutions working to preserve linguistic diversity." Affiliations Committee §45
  1960. "We should collaborate with social media." Hindi Wikipedia §23
  1961. "I think this theme would develop if we get wiki activists to work with educators from national schools and indigenous communities and to show them an incredible educational tool that is Wikipedia. Hunu" Russian Wikipedia §36
  1962. "Involve national authorities, education/training sector (high schools, colleges and universities), publishing sector (journalists, publishers, and writers), telecommunications sector (mobile telephony, Internet) and CSOs (Civil Society Organizations)." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §13
  1963. "Wikivoyage and/or Wikiversity should work together with www.part-up.com ." Dutch Wikipedia §24
  1964. "Social media and platforms.--Vodnokon4e (talk) 12:09, 10 June 2017 (UTC)" Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §15
  1965. "Collaborate with institutions and governments that make efforts to add access to Internet. Joint work can be done to make Kiwix and Wikipedia zero spread all around the world, especially in our continent. Africa." Wikimedia Morocco user group §4
  1966. "Work together with missions who already have good work there. Train them first and make them feel everything is for the human, not wiki metrics, they can be our ambassadors" Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §20
  1967. "Oral history organisations and projects which may partner to capture and translate information from around the globe and put the information on wikipedia. User:Powertothepeople" English Wikipedia §115
  1968. "Governments, Open Knowledge, humanitarian aid organizations." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §56
  1969. "Different communities within the movement should be partnering with each other and the internal capacities for sharing and learning from each other should be greatly increased." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §57
  1970. "Instead of focusing on external partners, we should focus on the need of appropriate internal structures." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §58
  1971. "United Nations, Mozilla (who's already active in some of these regions)" Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §59
  1972. "We should invite academic institutions to cooperate with us, to seek for the partnership." Chinese Community - Individual interviews §25
  1973. "Working with organizations devoted to inclusion in various fields: indigenous, women, migrants, etc." Wikimedia Chile - Interviews with members §9
  1974. "To go beyond the "knowledge anyone can edit", we need to change mindsets around "Who has the right to write knowledge down". This means offering training, and making sure educational systems modify their approaches to knowledge to enable every individual to see themselves a knowledge generators." Wikimedia Foundation staff §197
  1975. "Pictures on Commons should have a better protection against deletion requests by having more editors explaining rules to new users. The project should provide a better support for photographers." German Language Wikipedia §38
  1976. "This is important issue, however global north will probably remains as the main source of content for Wikimedia Project so we should rather focus on translations of at least basic, common knowledge to as many languages as possible than hopelessly trying to find editors in poorer areas." Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §11
  1977. "We should cooperate with well defined groups such as Lincean Academy, Italian Geological Society, Club Alpino Italiano and Doctors Without Borders." Italian Wikipedia §16
  1978. "The respect of all the five pillars of Wikipedia is to be pretended always." Italian Wikipedia §8
  1979. "We are here to write and defend an encyclopedia and nothing else." Italian Wikipedia §9
  1980. "The community of editors sometimes seems to be missing, particularly in wikiprojects." Italian Wikipedia §10
  1981. "We should encourage translation of good and notable content from English Wikipedia to big-but-not-so-big Wikipedias (such as Italian Wikipedia)" Italian Wikipedia §31
  1982. "We can support the knowledge ecosystem by citing best sources but sometimes they are expensive and we do not have access." Italian Wikipedia §33
  1983. "In the end we are probably becoming substantially a primary sources." Italian Wikipedia §34
  1984. "Good machine translation system but always screened finally by humans feeling well their mother tongues is the key for expanding Wikipedias in less popular languages; we need better machine translations.[6]" Polish Wikipedia §6
  1985. "This theme should be last in priority. If we can't get these basics right amongst the current editors who at least primarily all use the same language and have some similarity of culture, how is Wikipedia going to handle the additional complexity of hundreds of languages, cultures, ideologies, etc? User:Powertothepeople" English Wikipedia §114
  1986. "Readers must remain critical, despite our great reputation. A more sleek polished interface would convey a different message; some advocate the current "stuck in the 90s" design, because it hints at the amateur-participation, and perhaps reminds people to distrust. - But, how could we balance both extremes?" Wikimedia Foundation staff §90
  1987. "There will be a greater availability of research materials in free or open ways, both cultural heritage organizations and publishers are getting increased pressure to be more publicly available (Open Access, Institutional digital archives, etc)." Wikimedia Foundation staff §91
  1988. "There will be broad need for ways to verify quality of information outside of our more traditional ways of deferring to expertise and institutions (more formats for publishing, less peer review, and greater desire for attribution of information across platforms)." Wikimedia Foundation staff §92
  1989. "Wikipedia awareness will be high across all countries and it will include sections full of rich oral history for all to consume." Wikimedia Foundation staff §93
  1990. "Education will happen largely online. Wikipedia will be source of truth behind it." Wikimedia Foundation staff §94
  1991. "Transparency and verifiability continue to be core parts of our identity in our platforms and infrastructure and culture. There would be several healthy parts/places/actors that support each other. We want to make sure we have people who remain critical consumers of content. Need external influence (in and out) to keep the ecosystem of input healthy." Wikimedia Foundation staff §95
  1992. "Wikipedia has become the entry point to knowledge, not simply a destination. We shouldn't replace or supplant other sources of knowledge. We should be the place everyone considers to start that journey as they explore." Wikimedia Foundation staff §96
  1993. "Since the medical textbook companies closed access journals, medical professionals have turned their focus to improving freely-available medical information via Wikimedia projects." Wikimedia Foundation staff §97
  1994. "The Wikimedia projects will be widely praised as one of the few places on the internet that balances news coverage and outlets. It becomes a place where journalists and publishers are proud to be cited, and photographers are proud to have their images hosted. Creative Commons licensing becomes a new norm for information publication, allowing for Wikimedia projects to cover more topics and areas." Wikimedia Foundation staff §98
  1995. "When looking for information or knowledge the public both looks to Wikimedia projects directly and looks for the sign that our information is used elsewhere as well. Reusers not only want to advertise that information comes from us in order to show it can be trusted but compete with each other to update their content faster when changes are made directly to Wikimedia projects." Wikimedia Foundation staff §99
  1996. "In 2030 the Wikimedia projects will be a core pillar of bibliographic instruction for librarians, teachers and students. Researchers, students and media consumers will expect and demand verifiable and neutral sources and citations." Wikimedia Foundation staff §100
  1997. "The processes for creating content will be more easily understood (via better documentation and communication), and will inform and draw from similar processes elsewhere." Wikimedia Foundation staff §101
  1998. "The world is a more stable and peaceful place, because young people everywhere have access to a respected and credible resource that helps them to evolve as job opportunities evolve, and to research and understand any topic they need to. This undermines the trend of youth unemployment leading to political instability. Integrating the projects with education will help give info literacy." Wikimedia Foundation staff §102
  1999. "Wikipedia knowledge is presented in virtually all contexts of the internet. It is presented in a way which conveys not only its authority, but also its dynamic and editable nature. Almost in the same way as this google doc… but with the ability to see its improvement and refinement over time. It will be easy to see the most reliable content as well as see the only the newer and less reliable content. This will encourage users to update and verify those less reliable areas." Wikimedia Foundation staff §103
  2000. "Wikimedia projects are the gold standard for truth and neutral knowledge in the world. All content distributed by others – including content generated through AI sources – is based in high-quality, reliable resources that are cited." Wikimedia Foundation staff §104
  2001. "Teachers and students alike recognize the value of a decentralized, collaborative knowledge resource with global scope. Vandalism and misinformation become less frequent and more easily corrected." Wikimedia Foundation staff §105
  2002. "Wikipedia could be sorted into topics, because many times pages can get overlapped." English Wikipedia §40
  2003. "This theme would make the Foundation a monopoly if outside sources are found not as reliable as the projects themselves. Not all projects are reliable, yet people trust and rely on Wikipedia too much. Wikinews is barely read, and some courses of Wikiversity need updates. Wikiversity has permitted original research, but information needs changing. Commons has a lot of photos but is severely backlogged; so is OTRS.; Wikiquote, Wiktionary, and other projects would not have much impact as other materials that collect quotes, dictionaries, etc. If they do, however, that would impact other competing materials.; Wikijournal is currently developing with just Journal of Medicine. If this becomes a full-fledged website, other academic journals would be impacted. NonFreeWiki, even when established per consensus, would be influenced by copyright laws.; In short, the theme is futile and pointless." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §324
  2004. "A lot" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §347
  2005. "great impact" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §357
  2006. "massively wiki is just good" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §396
  2007. "graddau gwell" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §410
  2008. "Herkese açık, tartışmaya açık, bedava ve özgür bilgi bugün olduğu gibi 2030'da da zamanın ruhuna hizmet edecektir." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §425
  2009. "life simple" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §429
  2010. "The fact that Wikipedias cease to be not entirely trustworthy sources and become the most reliable ones will impact on alternative corporations of knowledge, such as scholars and academicians. Other sources like official outlets of information --e.g. national or supranational organisations in charge of regulatory policies-- will also resent a freer, more inclusive and independent knowledge aggregator on controversial issues, which might include climate tendencies, historical revisionism, social and religious understanding, investigative journalism, etc. ; Nevertheless, attaining such a status implies not only clear policies on contents aggregation but also fair use and distribuition of such contents. Therefore, there is an intrinsic issue to solve if we are to follow. ; The most critical of those challenges faced to become trusted, is the divide between theory and practise. Take Wikipedia, for instance, where despite current efforts, the freedom to contribute is often met with a rigid paradigm which includes counterproductive practices (e.g. edit wars). Should the word 'free' need some restrictions derived from expectable behaviour? Should referencing tools not be treated as a priority given how dependent on verification the project is? Is Wikimedia research effectively oriented? What is the nature of leadership (unintendedly) fostered in the Wikipedia environment and is it compatible with 'the most trusted source of knowledge'?" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §459
  2011. "Technological collaborations should be established, both within the community and with external companies" Wikimedia Israel §32
  2012. "This theme seems to be too focused on Wikipedia. Probably a revised or changed theme is needed/desired to reflect how the projects operate differently." Meta §88
  2013. "Free photos are important for building the wiki, other consideration rely on the question." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §403
  2014. "If wikipedia is the most trusted we should have an encyclopedia entry on all of the other themes." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §450
  2015. "All four are needed for our global future. A Wikipedia that we can trust to guide our learning based on technologies is going to inspire our desire to learn and raise our endurance for contributing. Trusting the knowledge contained inside the systems is the most difficult goal to achieve. Defining a trustable knowledge has not even been accomplished yet but I see a future for trustable knowledge here with Wikipedia because global paper archives are opening up to Wikipedia now and that invisible knowledge is going to get added to what we already have to learn from. We will have more empathy for mistakes our historical figures made from knowing how they were challenged or controlled much faster than today. Knowledge is power." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §475
  2016. "I'm not sure" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §480
  2017. "An important theme for valuing the efforts of contributors." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §2
  2018. "Relevant knowledge, educational use (training of people), gain respect (strategies)." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §14
  2019. "There's a filter bubble. Democrats see their content, republicans see theirs." Wikimedia Foundation staff §219
  2020. "Invest less in mobile search." English Wikipedia §50
  2021. "We may have to spend less on technical improvements." Vietnamese Wikipedia §7
  2022. "Stop suppressing inaccuracies. If inaccuracies are inserted, then someone else must replace the inaccuracies with more accuracies. Make everyone welcome to add any information, accurate or not. Inaccuracies can be fixed by either removal or replacement, or they can be left alone." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §326
  2023. "Less time for look & feel design, organizational events etc." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §368
  2024. "I'm not familiar with all the specific areas you are focusing upon, so if I said something, my answer could be wrong." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §392
  2025. "information exchange i mean this is just communication you have self-confidence and just go! never stop" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §398
  2026. "not sure" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §417
  2027. "No" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §422
  2028. "Eğer iş bölümü gönüllüler ile doğru ve eğlenceli şekilde paylaşılabilirse gerek kalmayabilir." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §427
  2029. "Communication will increase" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §431
  2030. "Being this goal so broad I don't think we're doing things against it. The hard part will be to decide what exactly we want to do to go in this direction, and there will be tradeoffs." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §441
  2031. "I don't believe so." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §456
  2032. "No, me gusta el sistema que manejan, pero aun hay gente que desconfia de Wikipedia, por lo que hay que mostrarles que no es asi mejorando la veracidad de la pagina." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §471
  2033. "We would surely have to stop using Wikipedia as a personal image management and competition reducing system. There can be no more users with special access to advanced University, charity and private publishing to bully and edit competitors of their side businesses. If someone in beverage, vehicle sales or publishing would like to avoid revealing identity then the user should never engage in altering a winery or a new model of a rival brand car. If newspaper articles that are true to history and news exist and get posted no anaonymous usuers, IPs from govt or arts and business financing societies should be removed or edited Simply because they embarrassed. Newspapers and news broadcasts have their limitations in audience reach but there is also a trust deficit that we face with our mainstream media to deliver accurate and trusted knowledge." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §476
  2034. "Editor behavior may be less focused on, instead disputes may become large scale" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §481
  2035. "The CSS currently in use looks fine to me, so perhaps just ignoring it unless it somehow stops working." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §486
  2036. "Often enough even the scientific literatur is an original ressource although it calls itself a secondary source. The accusation 'original research' comes too quickly." Dutch Wikipedia §18
  2037. "We should consider the quality of the encyclopedia and community health as two different aspects." Hindi Wikipedia §6
  2038. "Stop doing nothing, and start updating everything in all projects. Stop letting information go outdated, and start improving information and keep things up to date. Stop treating Wikipedia as if it's the only project to invest in, and start getting into other projects. Stop relying too much on websites, including ones providing page previews, and start using offline and/or inaccessible sources more often." Meta §91
  2039. "Encourage short quotations in footnotes, which will give readers much greater confidence on controversial topics, and will make verification easier." English Wikipedia §61
  2040. "Being the most respective source of knowledge seems enough. Aiming for more is risky and hardly achievable since we will always face detractors and eventually make mistakes." French Wikipedia §23
  2041. "Propaganda. We could do this in more peaceful ways, but it might not be effective. Practically anything to support our cause will be fine. Small posters across the website (or even the internet) that say things like "We will make a stronger Wikipedia" or "We will destroy the 'fascist' database" will surely help our cause...maybe..." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §340
  2042. "By definition, Wikipedia should be independent from sources, therefore paid editing should be completely forbidden. Also, Wikipedia should focus on facts. and the only completely verifiable fact is that someone said something." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §350
  2043. "All data in all versions should be available on all other" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §355
  2044. "We need a way to run better query on the data that is provided. It would also be beneficial if there were a way to begin including published articles that can't be edited, but can still be accessed for easy, all in one location, research." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §380
  2045. "Something that convinces the world that the WMF will really do it and that will instill confidence in the encyclopedias." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §388
  2046. "humanity" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §399
  2047. "ddim yn gwybod" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §413
  2048. "not sure" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §418
  2049. "Updated information" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §423
  2050. "Fine readable" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §432
  2051. "Research, research and research." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §462
  2052. "If we just could reduce the theme to „We will work toward ever more accurate and verifiable content. We will increase the depth of knowledge available and maintain our standards for verifiable and neutral content. We will invite experts to join us. We will help people understand how our processes make us reliable“ the Wikimedia projects will stand a realistic chance to become the „most relevant source of knowledge“ beyond all scientific literature and respectable press by 2030. At the same time we would be "respected" as a "source of knowledge"." German Language Wikipedia §40
  2053. "For 2030: Stay down-to-earth and recognize the complexity of reality. You are not more than one brick and your purpose is probably to teach and enable media competence." German Language Wikipedia §41
  2054. "We need to collaborate with wikipedia scholar - a summary of entries written there will be added to the general Wikipedia for wide use" Hebrew Wikipedia village pump §20
  2055. "I don't agree that the media misrepresents Wikipedia, in fact I rarely hear the media mention WP in USA. I think the best way to combat these poor perceptions is to admit that we have reliability issues and make it more reliable. With the exception of encyclopedias, we are not in competition with the other media -- on the contrary, we need them as sources of information." Spanish Wikipedia §35
  2056. "Knowledge is created when multiple sources of information are compared - e.g. 5 sources discussed and prioritized, structured and filtered. Readers then treat Wikipedia as information (not knowledge) and re-filter/judge for themselves." Wikimedia Hackathon §8
  2057. "Knowledge should be distiguished from a Wikipedia-article, contributors should be distinguished from editors." Wikimedia Nederland §6
  2058. "Wikipedia must succeed in convincing these people, the complotists to name them, of the relevance of its content and the processes of its elaboration. Failing to do that will leave a growing part of skeptics who are sooner or later likely to harm us (Euloiix). However a conspiracy theories supporter is appallingly difficult to convince. He is an irrational believer (Cedalyon)" French Wikipedia §68
  2059. "Creating Bot articles breaches Dutch copyright law, so all editors of nl.wikipedia are criminals. That should be forbidden." Dutch Email Survey §3
  2060. "Promote online reliable sources" Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §21
  2061. "The volunteer aspect in “working toward more accuracy and verifiability” is missing in this theme." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §65
  2062. "Reads this as a major part of trust, and component." Wikimedia Foundation staff §228
  2063. "Might be an opportunity to facilitate more element here of the anti-expertise sentiment here" Wikimedia Foundation staff §229
  2064. "The headline has unclear/unintended implications. We recommend headline revisions, that could look like: -Provide access to high quality and relevant knowledge to all people who need it. -The place for high-quality, neutral, and relevant knowledge in any language -Accessible, high-quality, neutral, and relevant knowledge in any language" Wikimedia Foundation staff §230
  2065. "There is a tension between including experts, and the superlatives that supercede the experts (“most reliable”)." Wikimedia Foundation staff §232
  2066. "Neutrality within single-language societies have a major divide between what is seen as reality." Wikimedia Foundation staff §234
  2067. "More accurate and verifiable content. By 2030, Wikimedia projects will be seen as the most high-quality, neutral, and relevant source of knowledge. We will increase the depth of knowledge available and maintain our standards for content. We will invite experts to join us. We will help people understand how our processes make us reliable." Wikimedia Foundation staff §239
  2068. "Make privacy policy easy to understand." Wikimedia Foundation staff §241
  2069. "Needs accurate and verifiable resources that aren’t just known sources now." Wikimedia Foundation staff §245
  2070. "Probably the slowing down of new articles. When we focus on trying to get people to understand our importance, that will start to slow down the creation of new, minor articles." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §339
  2071. "We would stop discussing page names, punctuation, American vs British spelling, and navitagtion template size." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §349
  2072. "This theme, together with theme 3, is dependent and follows for theme 1." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §60
  2073. "If ‘we’ or rather ‘we together with the wider knowledge ecosystem’ have to be most respected and trusted, remains an open question. If we could provide the most high-quality content and increase the depth of knowledge together with partners as part of a knowledge ecosystem, then the impact would be limitless." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §61
  2074. "Naturally, this should be the most crucial theme to our local wiki. Arabic Wikipedia's content is terribly bad, what use for us are the new technologies and institutional partnerships if the articles themselves are on such a low level of quality, reliability and neutrality?" Arabic Community §1
  2075. "This theme may impinge upon the themes of "Healthy, Inclusive Communities" as the demand for prestige shuts out less educated or capable editors." English Wikipedia §45
  2076. "This the highest priority, however, many of the five themes are interlinked." English Wikipedia §47
  2077. "I think that the first sentence ("Wikimedia projects will be regarded as the most trusted, high-quality, neutral, and relevant source") is too ambitious. But because of the rest of the text of this theme, which is desirable and achievable, it is the second most important for me after theme 2 ("The Augmented Age")." German Language Wikipedia §19
  2078. "It is an important subject — although I believe that, to some extent, this matter has already been attained, at least partially." Spanish Wikipedia §16
  2079. "This theme is complementary to others for what can be done if we are not reliable?" French Wikipedia §27
  2080. "Not very important. There have been efforts to make the projects more reliable and useful. However, information can change rapidly, especially Wikiversity. Articles from Wikinews can become old news and stale and less attractive. Wiktionary has been influenced by multiple dictionaries, and its information may also change. Wikipedia has gone through so many changes, yet it's the most reliable of all projects." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §325
  2081. "Most important, junk knowledge requires lots of resources and time to filter out/to correct." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §333
  2082. "Most important because when educators say "No Wikipedia sources" what people hear is that Wikipedia is not to be trusted. For the vast majority of articles, that is not the case." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §343
  2083. "A lot" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §348
  2084. "most important" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §353
  2085. "very important" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §358
  2086. "High-quality information is much more important than all the bells & whistles." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §367
  2087. "This theme is equally as important as the other theme of the most importance- a truly global community, as together these themes ensure access to relevant, accurate, well-sourced information on all subjects for everybody who could possibly want it" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §383
  2088. "It's the most important theme, but to be trusted, it needs quality control" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §386
  2089. "yes there are important too but not this one" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §397
  2090. "Several aspects contribute to success - all equally important" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §408
  2091. "iawn" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §411
  2092. "I think it is the most important" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §416
  2093. "Source of information is the pillar of an encyclopedia. Hence the theme emphasize on research compared to other themes." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §421
  2094. "its looking unique in comparison to others" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §430
  2095. "Although the first theme overlaps this one, I believe this is perhaps the most important. However, there are steps that need to be taken in order for Wikipedia to be trusted." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §435
  2096. "The most important. It should be the ultimate goal to make all the human knowledge freely available to everyone." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §440
  2097. "The purpose of an encyclopedia is to store and distribute knowledge. Without that, the other themes become irrelevant. Expanding into areas of the world under served by Wikipedia will not matter if the content on Wikipedia is not accurate, trustworthy, unbiased, and free. Any other goals are secondary to the primary purpose of Wikipedia, which is to spread knowledge." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §445
  2098. "Becoming the most trusted source of knowledge necessarity includes all other four. Otherwise, trust will not be acheived in a world increasingly placing value on inclusion, participation and technology-oriented development at a global level.; The future will define reliability on all those four basis." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §460
  2099. "I feel that this is the most important theme in the long run, but the other themes are also good." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §549
  2100. "I think that this theme is the most important. It contains the original goal, while technical improvments and getting new editors are "just" means to improve the content. Getting from very good to almost perfect is a smaller step than getting from bad to good. I think that we still have lots of articles that are bad." German Language Wikipedia §42
  2101. "Being a respected and reliable source of knowledge should be the most important theme. Without this one, the other four are of no use." Wikidata §50
  2102. "Being the most trusted source of knowledge is the most important thing." Australian Community §1
  2103. "Engendering trust in the projects is most important." Australian Community §1
  2104. "Being the most respected source of knowledge is most important." Australian Community §5
  2105. "This theme is more important than the other four because this is more inclined with our primary goal." Hindi Wikipedia §3
  2106. "I think this is the second most important theme because until we become a reliable source of information, all other objectives will be futile." Hindi Wikipedia §25
  2107. "Middle." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §17
  2108. "Reliability is the most important topic." Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §51
  2109. "I think this outcome would emerge from focusing on some of the other themes -- particularly theme #1 (Healthy, Inclusive Communities), theme #3 (A Truly Global Movement), and theme #5 (Engaging in the Knowledge Ecosystem)." North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians User Group §12
  2110. "If it’s mainly about the image of Wikimedia’s sources, it is of inferior importance. If it’s about the real usefulness and accessibility of Wikimedia’s content, it’s of high importance." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §63
  2111. "This theme is the less important one." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §64
  2112. "[Theme] E is a consequence of D, or [rather] D is a requirement for E. In certain communities it is linked to theme A." Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §15
  2113. "This theme is dependent on the diversity engendered by [theme B] of true inclusivity. The augmentation elements will be a natural result of providing relevant, high quality knowledge in accessible formats. Placing augmentation as the priority over these other sources of movement direction, would displace (and at times), hurt our potential for impact, where augmentation is not yet an opportunity or reality." Wikimedia Foundation staff §199
  2114. "This theme is more of a byproduct of the other themes. The goals of the other themes need to be achieved in order for this theme to be true." Wikimedia Foundation staff §204
  2115. "This theme is a goal to work towards on its own but in many ways is also something that is naturally worked towards through many of our other themes. This is especially true for the theme A and E." Wikimedia Foundation staff §206
  2116. "All themes are prerequisites to being the most respected source of knowledge. In order to be up top (#1), all remaining 4 must be true and existing." Wikimedia Foundation staff §208
  2117. "This theme is dependent on healthy community and global community, but doesn’t account for those. It depends on those." Wikimedia Foundation staff §210
  2118. "This theme has two components: (1) gotta use reliable sources, and (2) gotta convince readers it’s reliable and so are the sources. (1) requires theme E (2) requires inclusivity." Wikimedia Foundation staff §211
  2119. "This theme links into the final destination of sum of all knowledge. This is connected to all, lynchpin. Whether that’s ensuring knowledge ecosystem or healthy diverse community - all these result in our being able to provide the most neutral." Wikimedia Foundation staff §216
  2120. "Global movement might come after this. We have to be able to explain what it is, and that it is trusted, accurate knowledge. If we can get to this place, then we can complete the global movement goal. This is more of a circular loop - process gets us to the sum of human knowledge." Wikimedia Foundation staff §217
  2121. "It is a process loop, we are already at a place. Out of western context, where people don’t know us, we can’t reach this goal until we move up. This is one that others feed into. Healthy and diverse community will push to more trusted, better content and people feeling more safe. Without that, having trusted reliable content would be harder to reach. Need breadth of knowledge and partnerships (ecosystem). If we are at the center of the ecosystem, then we would be trusted." Wikimedia Foundation staff §218
  2122. "One of our other goals is [theme E]. Degree more institutional respect. Points to trust by education issue. Help us be more nimble. Knowledge ecosystem is a means to this end." Wikimedia Foundation staff §221
  2123. "It is possible to achieve this theme without leaving aside the others, since it can be easily treated if there is willingness to do so." Spanish Wikipedia §12
  2124. "I believe that this should come before global accessibility." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §379
  2125. "Collaborate more with GLAM institutions." English Wikipedia §62
  2126. "Collaborate more with academic institutions." English Wikipedia §63
  2127. "We need to cooperate with research and education institutions to verify content, adding reliable and verifiable sources, monitoring and evaluating articles more severely." Italian Wikipedia §39
  2128. "The continued activity of WikiJournal User Group (and WikiJournal) is very beneficial for this purpose." Meta §49
  2129. "To put this topic into action, I think the Wikimedia chapters would be good allies, since they can organize different workshops or sessions where these aspects could be explained both to teachers and other common users who are not familiar with our projects." Spanish Wikipedia §14
  2130. "Reference librarians, archivists, fact-aggregating scholars, metadata mavens." Wikidata §27
  2131. ""How can we persuade universities to recognize editing Wikipedia as a high status public service contribution?"" English Wikipedia §79
  2132. "The millions of teachers around the world who use Wikipedia for practical purposes, we could perhaps tell them that there is more than just the encyclopedia but also the sister projects. TigH" French Wikipedia §30
  2133. "Researchers too. Allow them individually to use the Wikiverse as a kind of cloud for them. This would bring fresh sets of knowlege. TigH" French Wikipedia §31
  2134. "Academic libraries are key here. Try to find partnerships with them to help improve access to information and help people gain access to their information." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §331
  2135. "Technology experts, content experts and organizations that share Wikimedia's values." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §336
  2136. "Anyone who knows a good portion of a certain subject that we have on the website could advocate for us." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §341
  2137. "Special topic wikis" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §346
  2138. "Not sources. Being a partner and a source is a conflict of interest." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §351
  2139. "universities, Glam sector" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §356
  2140. "The scholarly society, various universities and science centres. Publish various papers." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §362
  2141. "Google Books, Internet Archive: share the processing of free books and other medias." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §370
  2142. "Journalism and "some" government agencies are constantly fighting fake news and trolling online. These groups need to contribute as well." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §376
  2143. "If you can get Higher Education to begin accepting you as a credible resource for research, then partnering with colleges and universities will be able to grow this site exponentially. Currently, most professors tell their students to not trust your content. I am one of those professors. When students are told by 5 adults on almost a daily basis that your content cannot be trusted, you lose a great deal of trust and respect as a source of knowledge. I believe the key to becoming a respected source of knowledge can be found in a partnership with Higher Education." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §381
  2144. "Don't know." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §389
  2145. "Past editors that contributed information that was scrubbed or removed might not be aware that their info was removed. The editors that remove the info are familiar with how to avoid being detected by bots or other editors. Thus, info is removed in steps." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §394
  2146. "application scale is so massive so.. i can't say anything sorry" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §400
  2147. "Free lance lawyers specialising in copyright fields of law" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §406
  2148. "llywodraeth Cymru" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §414
  2149. "there are other online sources often wikipedia knockoffs" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §419
  2150. "Work group and prospective workers we can partner with them through online and offline marketing." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §424
  2151. "Tartışmalı konularda tartışmanın iki yanını da temsil edebilecek güvenilir, uluslararası kuruluşlar bulmak önemli." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §428
  2152. "society" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §433
  2153. "If content contributors were made to believe that their time and effort was valued, several other people might be working in this area. I no longer wish to waste my time putting together an article only to have it rejected by a clique." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §438
  2154. "Encyclopedia, national libraries and such primarily. In some way also web search engines like Google are working to make the information easily available, but focusing on different aspect of it." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §443
  2155. "Other online wikis." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §448
  2156. "Some websites we should recomend is National Geographic, Science for Kids, and ductsters." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §453
  2157. "Google.com, Facebook" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §458
  2158. "Partnership with freemium web analytics providers, and shareware, plugins, addons and gaming developers should be sought in order to achieve the development of referencing tools." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §463
  2159. "Universities, colleges and schools. And GLAM institutions." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §468
  2160. "Supongo que con especialistas sobre un tema en particular, para mejorar articulos, actualizarlos, corregirlos y brindarles a los demas una informacion mas precisa." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §473
  2161. "Facebook is fantastic and I allow for my profile and pages to be available for new tests. Google reflects good innovation and a lot of the fundamental inequalities of copyright exploitation and combined with YouTube I think it's unconscionable how many artists and musicians are not being paid for their work while some sub par accounts at YouTube earn income for both users and the platform. Working to make the YouTube and Alphabet harmonious with Wikipedia, Facebook and good development at Google would be a step in the right direction. Combing my social and educational searching with my life habits has been so good for my learning process. I hope to see a complete package." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §478
  2162. "Smaller, more specific encyclopedias may be able to contribute information to Wikipedia." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §483
  2163. "No idea" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §559
  2164. "It is worthwhile to collaborate with academic evaluation committees: their ability to validate the quality of information can lead them to remove reservations about using Wikipedia as an academic source" Hebrew Wikipedia village pump §21
  2165. "There is a shortage of volunteers for GLAM projects because of - among others - motivation issues. We need to have a way to apply for funds to pay people to do the boring stuff." English Wikipedia §98
  2166. "The News Integrity Initiative and related efforts, like the Trust Project and the International Fact Checking Network. User:Cnewmark" English Wikipedia §100
  2167. "The most natural partners for content quality improvement are GLAMs; however cooperation with GLAMS may create POV both directly and by thematic bias, especially in case of state owned ones." Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §14
  2168. "Cooperation with academia is safer as they have less interest to force their POV but there is a problem with Wikipedia poor reputation." Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §15
  2169. "It is important to collaborate with external partners to help find and fix incorrect content." Australian Community §7
  2170. "We can work with universities to make student assignments of checking sources and correcting information in Wikipedia articles where the students have good knowledge about" Vietnamese Wikipedia §26
  2171. "Empowering Wikiversity can surely increase the visibility and seriousness of the movement as a whole. Cedalyon" French Wikipedia §70
  2172. "It is possible to collaborate with people and institutions related to education." Hindi Wikipedia §8
  2173. "We should collaborate with scientists, authors and students." Hindi Wikipedia §28
  2174. "Experts in their own areas can be involved to improve/provide sources.--Vodnokon4e (talk) 12:09, 10 June 2017 (UTC)" Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §20
  2175. "This theme is strongly related to theme 5, as the wider knowledge network will be our natural partner. All together providing the highest quality knowledge and content for everyone to access should be our goal." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §68
  2176. "In the future, data providers will be the most important ones, therefore governmental institutions/agencies should be a natural partner." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §69
  2177. "I think a good idea is to do something like the Educational Program, but oriented to higher-education institutions (research institutes, councils). In Mexico we have worked with these institutes, where they learn that a) the writing model is different, and b) it is difficult to learn it, then they become aware and change their perception." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §65
  2178. "We should partner with educational institutions that have masters and doctoral programs to carry out a comprehensive validation of content." Wikimedia Chile - Interviews with members §12
  2179. "Good quality content is more important than community producing it. There must be natural selection of editors and there is nothing wrong if only good writers and devoted correctors finally survive. There is no other way if we want to have higher quality content." Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §6
  2180. "This theme is the most important; Wikipedia should seek the true, as the true is currently very rare, and people are looking for it, especially in countries with semi-dictatorships such as Russia or Turkey; therefore stronger control of quality of content is needed and in most important topics the external experts should be asked to write articles under their names, and that names should be put in articles.[5]" Polish Wikipedia §28
  2181. "Due to increasing political divisions across societies all over the world the most important thing is to keep very strict NPOV; Admins should use strong measures to stop changing Wikipedia into political debate, there should be concise code of conduct, how to deal with POV, there should be a "black list of un-trusted sources" and finally most prominent members of community should stay away from political declarations in social media.[4]" Polish Wikipedia §27
  2182. "For younger generation well sourced content doesn’t matter; they rather expect that trustworthy content is the one which is not manipulated, so the more important is to keep NPOV than verifiability; Wikipedia can resign from being very accurate but not from NPOV." Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §11
  2183. "More original research should be allowed. It is frustrating for new users that they often get reverted, because they don't know how to supply sources. Experts could add lots of detail to an article, that works in Wikinews and Wikivoyage, but not so in Wikipedia. 2 to 3 users could confirm the original research of the editor. Like this it becomes reliable as well. This will show a lot more involvement with the subject which will increase the quality." Dutch Wikipedia §17
  2184. "The poorest part of Wikipedia content is its graphical side. Wikipedians seems to be reluctant in producing good quality info-graphics, charts and schemes well coordinated with textual context which make the overall content less useful in education; therefore we should think about outsourcing creation of graphical content; we can cooperate with paid professionals and NGO which specialize in such creativity." Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §12
  2185. "Wikipedia is clearly not neutral in its articles about people and certain places. This is due to public relations firms and "online reputation management" companies being hired to edit and re-edit articles to remove some or all negative information even though that info is proven, documented, and part of the established public record. This is discouraging to me and reduces my incentive to add info both positive or negative to articles because "Why Bother When Some PR or Reputation Company or Foreign Government (eg. China) Will Edit The Article?"." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §395
  2186. ""most trusted, high-quality, neutral, and relevant source". Is this self-irony? A trustful prognosis for 2030 is not possible, especially if Wikipedia has never fulfilled a single of those points. Furthermore this is contrary to one of the basic principles of Wikipedia. Wikipedia cannot be a source." German Language Wikipedia §17
  2187. "This theme is also an important one because if we can ensure quality and trustworthiness we could also be able to bring researchers and experts into our readers' ecosystem. That will eventually help us create a better ecosystem of knowledge." Bengali Community §5
  2188. "If the goal is to increase the credibility of the Wikipedia as a source of information, then we need to do a much better job of engaging the scientific community." North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians User Group §14
  2189. "A perception of legitimacy helps us to engage institutional partners." Wikimedia District of Columbia §30
  2190. "Wikimedia Movement will be able to reach thousands of students in universities and schools who are able to contribute valuable content to Wikipedia." Arabic Community §5
  2191. "We can be the integration point between the expert communities and the general public." Meta §50
  2192. "Wikipedia is a source of knowledge no more, no less that that, therefore we should concentrate on providing good knowledge, so we naturally will become a part of ecosystem, and in fact we are now, although informally, so no any special partnerships with education institutions are needed for this. [5]" Polish Wikipedia §5
  2193. "Wikidata can't play a significant role in education, because it has no space for explanations." Wikidata §28
  2194. "Produce more educational materials for unbiased readers who don't learn easily by reading long, scrolling web pages." Wikidata §33
  2195. "This theme will have a big impact, because the pattern is already tested. The only thing to increase is our reach scale, by having more and bigger on-line and offline Wikimedia activities." Spanish Wikipedia §18
  2196. "It is the simplest theme, because we have things in our favor. Eliminated the other general sources, the user ends up in Wikimedia. Therefore we are a dominant factor on knowledge and we have to consider how to play that card." Spanish Wikipedia §30
  2197. "Hard to say. Diversity of topics is hard to achieve. Wikipedia has strict notability rules. Wikinews is not as competitive as its media competitors. Wiktionary is already diverse with a bunch of definitions. Wikiquote still has copyright issues. Wikiversity is struggling to catch up. Wikijournal, if established as a website, would invite diverse range of topics, though it would be written by mostly academics. Overall, the theme is just a theme, ain't it? If it's more than that, the theme would not impact the world much. Rather the theme is influenced by sources used to cite information." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §488
  2198. "Providing free knowledge and information for all" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §492
  2199. "a bigger knowledge base giving people mor opportunities" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §496
  2200. "Einfachere Wissensbeschaffung, leichteres Leben für Schüler" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §500
  2201. "Many people have financial crisis giving free access to a pull of knowledge along with trusted sources providing free knowledge is a plus." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §504
  2202. "This theme would have a global impact. It could help everyone to access any type of knowledge wherever a person or user wants . It would be like the the largest library in the world" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §509
  2203. "We could be a leading organisation of the knowledge ecosystem and make free knowledge the default way of sharing information." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §513
  2204. "Quality work" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §518
  2205. "In given four Sub-Themes (Education, Institutions, Educators, Existing programs) of above Knowledge Ecosystem Theme includes all section of knowledge ecosystem. These Sub-Themes can have impact on the world mainly young generation and people who love to gain and upgrade knowledge." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §523
  2206. "It would mean knowledge has a position different from the position it has had earlier. To get knowledge people have to enroll with institutions ,when wiki is in the picture people will be able to learn and know depending on the limitations they may face." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §528
  2207. "zmieni liczbę kreatorów, edytorów na dodatni , rozwinie mnie i ludzi w moim otoczeniu ,świat pozna nową sztukę" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §533
  2208. "Wikipedia will continue to be self sustaining, embedded in the local infrastructure of knowledge, with minimal support of a central global organization. The way Wikipedia works will gradually transform the way other organizations work. Eventually hunger will be eradicated and peace will prevail on earth. Networking with partners is the final phase in the Greiner growth curve." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §538
  2209. "Wikipedia will continue to be self sustaining, embedded in the local infrastructure of knowledge, with minimal support of a central global organization. The way Wikipedia works will gradually transform the way other organizations work. Eventually hunger will be eradicated and peace will prevail on earth. Networking with partners is the final phase in the Greiner growth curve." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §573
  2210. "More outreach, a better understanding of academic, journalistic, etc., better recruitment. Tpe.g5.stan" French Wikipedia §47
  2211. "Academics are not motivated to contribute to Wikipedia because it doesn't add to their CVs. In order to engage more academics we should change this. (Ilario)" Italian Wikipedia §94
  2212. "Theme E's impact on the world will be in increasing awareness through spreading the knowledge to a new, wider audience." Arabic Community §13
  2213. "We make everyone in the world to be an active learner and a curious researcher" Vietnamese Wikipedia §13
  2214. "The impact will be big and positive; by being massively used in schools the students would pass their knowledge as part of the work of remembering the class content, helping Wikimedia projects to develop it's content on scientific and academic matters much more quickly. User:Danilo.mac" Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §25
  2215. "The impact might be negative if we are not careful to keep the democratic principles of Wikimedia projects. User:Leowikardo" English Wikipedia §86
  2216. "Like the French encyclopedia was one of the icons of the Enlightenment in the 18th century, Wikipedia should be ambitious and to become an icon of the 21th." Spanish Wikipedia §43
  2217. "We could have a cultural influence, a political influence, and a didactic influence, just by BEING a neutral source of information." Wikimedia Hackathon §6
  2218. "Cooperation with GLAM and education institutions means that the Wikimedia mission (providing free access to knowledge) sets down firm professional roots worldwide and becomes integrated into organisational culture" Wikimedia Nederland §14
  2219. "We make everyone in the world to be an active learner and a curious researcher" Vietnamese Wikipedia §13
  2220. "Educational projects create a reserve of editors (and therefore the subject is related to the theme "Healthy, inclusive communities"), which is important since there is naturally a departure. If there were no Wikimedia collaborations, the community would be smaller" Wikimedia Israel §40
  2221. "Collaborations are needed to diversify and expand content. In matters that the editors' community does not know so well" Wikimedia Israel §41
  2222. "Making new partners is a product of future growth" Wikimedia Israel §42
  2223. "In the present age it is easy to feel lonely. Wikipedia has community, discussions, conversations. Through partnerships with civil organizations working in this field, Wikipedia can play an important role in creating a social network around common interests, helping to fill this void" Wikimedia Israel §43
  2224. "Promoting cooperation will enable us to create an integrated and interdisciplinary knowledge base that will enable us to learn about a particular topic easily and from different angles" Wikimedia Israel §44
  2225. "Wikimedia projects that are not Wikipedia or Commons generally tend not to rise. It seems best to try to embed content in layers within Wikipedia" Wikimedia Israel §45
  2226. "Early childhood education projects, even before students can edit, are also important, because Wikipedia literacy provides skills to evaluate information that is becoming important in the present age" Wikimedia Israel §46
  2227. "It is possible to form Cooperation with knowledge producers interested in increasing accessibility of content rather than placing barriers to accessibility in order to maintain exclusivity" Wikimedia Israel §57
  2228. "It is possible to form cooperation with knowledge producers interested in adding additional content to existing articles" Wikimedia Israel §58
  2229. "If we follow Theme 5 then after 15 years students will be able to study directly from Wikipedia in their desired language." Hindi community one on one discussions §13
  2230. "If we follow this theme then we will become more contemporary." Hindi Wikipedia §29
  2231. "We can be a leading movement, an example to similar organisations. --Vodnokon4e (talk) 12:09, 10 June 2017 (UTC)" Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §21
  2232. "Our influence on the world is enormous. Education nowadays is facing huge challenges and I believe that Wikimedia is capable of providing great solutions. Justine.toms (comments at the offline wiki seminar on 10 June in Sofia)" Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §54
  2233. "Different generations have access and offer their contribution to the increase of human knowledge. The precise and verifiable knowledge in Wikipedia helps completing the textbooks, and helps the cultural institutions become more accessible. Ket (comments at the offline wiki seminar on 10 June in Sofia)" Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §55
  2234. "Building relations with various organizations and institutions will popularize the good practices and interesting approaches of Wikipedia. Спасимир (comments at the offline wiki seminar on 10 June in Sofia)" Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §56
  2235. "This will also in the future be the consequence of our quality." Swedish Wikipedia §19
  2236. "We can play a political role for spreading information, by our attendance we contribute to hollow out national and traditional barriers for dissemiation of information, e.g. freedom of panorama." Swedish Wikipedia §20
  2237. "Like NGOs, give solution where the official education cannot or has not yet succeded" Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §22
  2238. "To compete time we will need to increase the quality of the resource, and this will make us more reliable, and the central point of online knowledge." Albanian Wikipedia §4
  2239. "This theme would be futile and ineffective if most organizations center on Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata and give sister projects very little attention. The theme should be revised to suit sister projects well, so organizations would give other sister projects greater chances and more attention." Meta §93
  2240. "This has a huge potential for impact: This should create synergies that add content, functionality, and awareness, while also increasing the number of people who engage directly with content as well as contributing." North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians User Group §16
  2241. "This theme is not a "goal" in of itself so much as a support action to achieve those other goals User:Powertothepeople" English Wikipedia §106
  2242. "Under this Ecosystems banner we need to think about how we persuade more organisations to be more "open knowledge" friendly, whether that be CC licensing, being archivable, mproviding Wipedia citations, or whatever. Kerry Raymond" English Wikipedia §116
  2243. "Institutional partnerships allow us to reach people who won't come in through taking the initiative to click the edit button in isolation. While contributing to Wikipedia is a solitary activity for most of us, we should also reach out to those who are more socially oriented." Wikimedia District of Columbia §32
  2244. "The Wikimedia movement can integrate existing digital knowledge projects from many institutional partners." Wikimedia District of Columbia §38
  2245. "An emphasis on institutional partners would expand our community by bringing their staff, patrons, and other affiliated individuals." Wikimedia District of Columbia §39
  2246. "We are always stronger together than alone. Having impact would be easier and faster if we partner with “leading institutions/orgs”." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §70
  2247. "We need to work together with partners in crime to strengthen our work, to learn from others and to complete our ideas. Very Important!" Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §71
  2248. "Working together with partners is the most effective way to create systemic change and have a large, long-lasting impact. This theme should be a natural aspect of our work and incorporated in absolutely everything that we do." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §72
  2249. "I think that Wikipedia is a widely used resource in the classroom, and its use will increase over time. However, this will be linked to the previous theme of "The most respected source of knowledge"." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §68
  2250. "Education can be a driver of change, schools are a niche to combat inequality and gaps. I think Wikipedia can be a vehicle for developing skills, especially soft ones, and developing critical thinking for the future of children." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §69
  2251. "The focus of future education is that the student should be able to correctly identify the sources, and Wikipedia can cooperate with that rather than being a repository of information." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §70
  2252. "This topic is not tied to Wikimedia's role in education exclusively. The "knowledge ecosystem" involves a variety of actors: not only academic entities but sectors of civil society, governments, and leading institutions in art, culture, science, and technology." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §71
  2253. "We will engage with new institutions in order to preserve knowledge and improve preservation mechanisms." Wikimedia Chile - Interviews with members §13
  2254. "In the network of the knowledge ecosystem we aim for an outcome that benefits society. Creating and spreading Open Knowledge together with our partners in the knowledge society, our movement will have an impact to any individual participating in that system. It will improve the access to knowledge and provide participation in the creation process." Wikimedia Austria (Board and ED) §6
  2255. "Nations of the world will measure, in addition to their Gross Domestic Product (GDP), their GDK: Gross Domestic Knowledge. This is the knowledge that they have contributed to Open Knowledge." Wikimedia Foundation staff §251
  2256. "Every browser, phone, and tablet plays content from Wikimedia projects using free formats. The movement actively works with other parts of the knowledge ecosystem to make this possible." Wikimedia Foundation staff §252
  2257. "The debate in academia about “Is Wikipedia reliable?” is over, because people have developed a more realistic understanding of reliability and verifiability." Wikimedia Foundation staff §253
  2258. "The development of the technology framework Wikimedia uses for knowledge curation is funded by a wide coalition of partners, and Wikimedia can direct most of its technology funds to features specific to the movement. Use of our technology (and the associated legal and social plumbing, such as free licenses) has become commonplace." Wikimedia Foundation staff §254
  2259. "It will be common knowledge among researchers and scholars as well as their professional organizations that documenting themselves in Wikimedia projects is critical to their own success in disseminating knowledge." Wikimedia Foundation staff §255
  2260. "Wikimedia hosts a set of wiki-like technologies that make it easier to produce and share knowledge broadly (Original Research). This disrupted the current closed/paywalled system/culture through broad adoption by educators." Wikimedia Foundation staff §256
  2261. "The majority of Wikimedia community members [will] have some experience or understanding of how to talk with other communities beyond the Wikimedia community. Now, many Wikimedian's don't understand how their work interacts with and affects the work of others." Wikimedia Foundation staff §257
  2262. "Most knowledge professionals understand how to participate in and access. Professionals don't fully realize what some of our organizing principles, such as "open content" and open contribution environments, mean for advancement of their own efforts." Wikimedia Foundation staff §258
  2263. "Community members, subject matter experts, and professors have come together to pool resources in creating curriculums that integrate Wikimedia content. Content is contributed, edited, and curated in such a way that students regardless of geographic location, can consume this knowledge, progress their learning, and be awarded recognition for their efforts." Wikimedia Foundation staff §259
  2264. "When we reach out to partners, we can offer them a healthy and safe space where they can make meaningful contributions. We have emphasized places of mutual benefit, where people gain skills by participating in our spaces, and we gain with more diverse and global contributors/contributions." Wikimedia Foundation staff §260
  2265. "Wikimedia, GLAM, schools and governments have banded together to make a freely accessible library of texts and digital media representative of what school aged children need to learn and succeed. Wikimedia and its partners provide tools for individuals and institutions to digitize, store and describe their materials. The library is available in all languages and can be accessed freely." Wikimedia Foundation staff §261
  2266. "In 2030, when people talk about the public domain, they will think immediately of the Wikimedia projects as the central source." Wikimedia Foundation staff §262
  2267. "In 2030, we help collate, define, and demonstrate, many best-practices to like-minded partner organisations. Less insular, and more bi-directional." Wikimedia Foundation staff §263
  2268. "The structure of formal education looks different because educational institutions and knowledge bodies have been connected. Less people are kept out, more people have a higher education level." Wikimedia Foundation staff §264
  2269. "In 2030, free knowledge will have grown dramatically in quality, quantity and diversity. It will be accessible across formats and contexts." Wikimedia Foundation staff §265
  2270. "In 2030, we will have responded to serious threats to the free and open internet, in concert with a coalition of like-minded organizations. We will have raised awareness for the ideals underpinning free knowledge and increased the sustainability of our ecosystem." Wikimedia Foundation staff §266
  2271. "There is a clear series of paths from knowledge archives to knowledge users, and a confident path for hailing knowledge “consumers” into knowledge “makers/participants”" Wikimedia Foundation staff §267
  2272. "Wikipedia and our sister projects have become accepted standard in knowledge. Our content, both of the creation side and the distribution side, will be well integrated with the latest creation and delivery platforms. Other organizations will have a good understanding of how our projects and model works and have well established workflows to provide content for them based on their expertise and speciality." Wikimedia Foundation staff §268
  2273. "Every knowledge organization will find a suitable project in the Wikimedia movement which becomes their natural platform for knowledge production, consumption and dispersal. These projects evolve a set of tools and practices that are typical for the needs for each of these players. It will be a galaxy of many wikis." Wikimedia Foundation staff §269
  2274. "We can develop partnerships with technology organizations (part of the Theme B) and then serve as a bridge between those partners and others who may not have access to those same sorts of resources." Wikimedia Foundation staff §270
  2275. "We're increasingly acting as a structured data hub, which allows for different ways in which our knowledge can be baked into other projects, materials and structures. Structured Commons, Wikisource, and Wiktionary are going to be increasingly more valuable as structured data kicks in." Wikimedia Foundation staff §271
  2276. "Allowing for better scaling beyond the current dynamic. A lot of our community is very much dependent on the goodwill of external organizations, whereas if we were more oriented towards the network: its about win-win collaboration. It also better describes the landscape of the work our projects do beyond Wikipedia." Wikimedia Foundation staff §272
  2277. "Education, GLAM, and Library Programs are a way to systematically offer opportunities to new users to participate in the movement. This is a crucial way to engage with the Knowledge Ecosystem." Wiki in Education §10
  2278. "Wikimedia would be the entrance and guide to a world of knowledge. We would have opened as many doors as possible to enable all human beings to freely share in the sum of all knowledge. In order to achieve that goal we would collaborate with partners who teach and cultivate a culture where knowledge can transform into education." Wikimedia Deutschland (discussion at the general meeting of members) §18
  2279. "In addition to providing Wikipedia (the encylopedia), Wikimedia will be the hub for scientific and scholarly knowledge based on open access. We will provide a platform for publicizing academic knowledge (e.g. primary sources). We will work towards a world where all primary sources and scientific papers are freely accessible and useable. We will strengthen our ties to partners ranging from education to academia and further an alliance of players working with open access (but won’t be creating the content itself)." Wikimedia Deutschland (discussion at the general meeting of members) §19
  2280. "Collaborative aggregation of knowledge will be a cultural technique that is learned, widely spread and acknowledged by all." Wikimedia Deutschland (discussion at the general meeting of members) §20
  2281. "Knowledge is no more created in closed shops or silos. It’s common practice that Wikipedians and scientists collaborate. We will work towards a default where all/most of the relevant sources being referenced in Wikimedia projects are freely accessible." Wikimedia Deutschland (discussion at the general meeting of members) §21
  2282. "Reduce digital illiteracy." Iberoconf 2017 §53
  2283. "New voices are represented." Iberoconf 2017 §54
  2284. "Promote thematic diversity (more topics, if all Pokémons have an article, female writers should have one too)." Iberoconf 2017 §57
  2285. "We would achieve a significant improvement in contents quality and quantity, as well as their sources." Iberoconf 2017 §60
  2286. "This is the most important theme for the fact that it has the potential to combine the other four all together. It has to do with the “truly global movement” since educational institutions often involve people of diverse cultures and backgrounds, it is also related to the health of the community since it encourages a wide range of group activities and projects, and it could even benefit the “Augmented Age” theme by obtaining useful technical suggestions from new participants (e. g. university students)." Arabic Community §6
  2287. "Theme E is more important theme A. This is the reason of the Wikimedia world. Wikimedia ecosystem, including readers, is far bigger than it community, which is just the 1%. Wikimedia projects have a place and a role and can start working involving schools, future users." Italian Wikipedia §46
  2288. "This is one of the most effective ways of achieving the Respected Knowledge goal, which could be achieved without augmented content and global reach." Meta §51
  2289. "The most important thing is to keep and follow NPOV understood as fair relation of various POVs in the controversial themes, including minority POV proportionally to its importance. [14]" Polish Wikipedia §14
  2290. "To be a reference for education, we have to provide a coherent knowledge and not a collection of facts without references or contradictions." Wikidata §29
  2291. "This issue has enormous importance, as it could allow us to reach a large population, with resources that are already being tested." Spanish Wikipedia §19
  2292. "For now, "healthy and inclusive" is the most important theme. The "knowledge ecosystem", however, does not reach that level but is more important than the "Augmented Age". Still not important because various communities control and limit the information." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §489
  2293. "The most important" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §493
  2294. "very wanted but not top" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §497
  2295. "Gleichwertig" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §501
  2296. "It deals with a theme that concerns all and everyone associated will gain something." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §505
  2297. "it is important than other theme as it help many people and gives access any kind of knowledge which they require" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §510
  2298. "Wikimedia has been focusing a lot of its energy inwards, which not only doesn't contribute to social change, but also generated conflicts. Important for both our mission and internal peace." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §514
  2299. "This theme increases confidence of the encyclopedia environment." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §519
  2300. "This is an Ecosystem of Knowledge and In all other theme in which promoting worldwide volunteer contribution (Healthy, inclusive communities, include), The augmented age (Advancing with technology) through machine learning, this ecosystem provide platform to world wide knowledge sharing and expert of sub-themes can contributors and experts of all over the world give effort to make knowledge trustful" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §524
  2301. "The theme is key on the other themes esp the first one, Since it awards an opportunity to diverse personalities to engage in an activity of growth and upliftment." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §529
  2302. "moją ideą jest tworzenie muzyki elektronicznej w której mogę wyrazic swoje uczucia przy czym wzbudzić uczucia odbiorców" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §534
  2303. "Necessary for growth, comes after healthy community and global movement" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §539
  2304. "Necessary for growth, comes after healthy community and global movement" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §558
  2305. "An encyclopedia is obviously part of the knowledge ecosystem: this is a fact, not a strategy or an end. The problem is how we are a part of it, and that depends on the other themes. (Bramfab)" Italian Wikipedia §99
  2306. "If the other issues are addressed and promoted well, this issue will require relatively little effort and resources. It is important that we nurture people who can interact with the knowledge system (institutions, etc.), but we do not have to make an effort to lead the system itself, we are supposed to be the gate to all its knowledge and its diverse forms of consumption that fit each person / community. Obviously. Knowledgeable entities will approach us in a variety of ways and we will just have to be there for them." Hebrew Wikipedia village pump §22
  2307. "I agree that theme E is the most important theme, because it is going to help in spreading knowledge in ways that are unique and positive for the society." Arabic Community §14
  2308. "This theme is rated third, behind A and D, because vision attracts devoted contributors." Vietnamese Wikipedia §14
  2309. "This theme is the one with the most potential to impact the world, with a change in education; however, although of great importance, this theme should be of lesser priority than the others for without an welcoming environment and clearer processes and documentation we will not create the contagion effect necessary for this theme to develop in the needed pace. User:Danilo.mac" Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §26
  2310. "We have to ponder that many tries to involve Wikimedia projects in education have happened and it is still an objective of many offwiki activities. None, however, have managed the viral effect of making this involvement pass from educator to educator. Until such effect is attained it is impossible to reach a significant portion of the educational systems, this effect is probably dampened by the difficulties and rule complexity educators find in the projects. User:Danilo.mac" Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §27
  2311. "It encourages the new gen to help the world, and as our youngsters are very much into gadgets, why not use it for a better cause? Also, it is an all rounder promoter more than just focusing on one thing User:Supdocious" English Wikipedia §92
  2312. "This theme is closely related to its prestige -- If Wikipedia does not have good reputation, no serious institution will associate with it." Spanish Wikipedia §44
  2313. "In order to be really useful as content provider for mainstream, official education processes, we first need to have most trusted content, therefore theme D goals must be achieved first then we might think about theme E." Wikimedia Polska 2017 meeting §17
  2314. "Wikimedia does not have a view on didactic, let alone that materials have been developed upon such a view. For a lot of people the gold mine of Wikimedia facts, data and images will remain closed, simply because it is not that easy to handle. User:Lymantria" Wikidata §45
  2315. "Our volunteers mainly create and improve static elements: data, texts, media. Interaction with users, for instance in person help, may be a very important element that is missing. An example of how that could be an addition is a project like Ask Dr. Math User:Lymantria" Wikidata §46
  2316. "Knowledge right now is stored in Google and different chat bots, written encyclopedia is an analogue of oral tradition, because knowledge is carried over from person to person. NOwiking" Russian Wikipedia §10
  2317. "We need to give more attention to improving orientation and search of right and interconnected information than to collaboration with external systems (although it might be necessary for this goal). Ivan Pozdeev" Russian Wikipedia §16
  2318. "Hindi has been sidelined and perhaps partnering with like-minded organizations will help it gain the status it deserves." Hindi Community Whatsapp discussion §4
  2319. "We ranked this Theme as fourth in importance. We believe that focussing on Theme A (community) and Theme D ( Most trusted source of knowledge) will of necessity lead to integration of the Wikimedia projects/communities in the knowledge ecosystem" Wikimedia Nederland §15
  2320. "Institutional cooperation is one of the last phases of organisational development" Wikimedia Nederland §16
  2321. "We need to have better systems for keeping up to date with what is going on with partners and potential partner institutions, so we can react to changes in their processes, collections, etc." Australian Community §8
  2322. "This theme is rated third, behind A and D, because vision attracts devoted contributors." Vietnamese Wikipedia §14
  2323. "The subject of cooperation is not as basic as the issues of Source of Knowledge, communities and The Augmented Age. In the last three Wikipedia is conditional. But, for 10-15 years we have lived "within ourselves", and we may have exhausted the inner resources of the community and the movement. Turning to new partners is a product of future growth" Wikimedia Israel §47
  2324. "The issue of "A Truly Global Movement" is less important to me because it will require resources from another, more fundamental or more important place, and this development can even happen without our push" Wikimedia Israel §48
  2325. "It is impossible to give up on any theme, because all themes are like tools that are intertwined and connected. For example, on "A Truly Global Movement" - if non-mainstream population groups can not be represented - Wikipedia may be perceived as a site that represents a specific group and therefore unreliable" Wikimedia Israel §49
  2326. "While one person says this theme is important, another person think that partnerships within the various communities is more important first than partnering with other organizations." Hindi Community Whatsapp discussion §15
  2327. "I think this is the second most important theme after Theme B." Hindi community one on one discussions §14
  2328. "This theme is really important and Wikipedia's survival might land in a crisis if we don't follow this theme." Hindi Wikipedia §30
  2329. "Get involved in the ecosystem of knowledge because it is the best legacy we can leave to our descendants." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §1
  2330. "This theme is also important for the recognition of Wikimedia platforms as a tool contributing to access to knowledge, by actors in the education system (teachers, researchers, laboratories)." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §2
  2331. "The transmission of knowledge uses several tools and means including encyclopedias. And wikipedia is an excellent platform for disseminating knowledge." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §3
  2332. "Knowledge is lost if it is not saved. So, wikipedia (wikimedia) should not stop sharing knowledge. It should not be selective in the choice of topics. It must be able to diversify the subjects and deepen actions in several areas." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §4
  2333. "Lowest, that's not our goal.--Vodnokon4e (talk) 12:09, 10 June 2017 (UTC)" Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §22
  2334. "Again, this topic is closely related to Theme 1 with respect to the importance of attracting more new editors and making the environment tolerant and attractive for them to contribute. Spiritia (comments at the offline wiki seminar on 10 June in Sofia)" Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §57
  2335. "This is the second most important theme after Theme E, due to the outreach to wide community related to science, education and culture. Ket (comments at the offline wiki seminar on 10 June in Sofia)" Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §58
  2336. "This is where Wikipedia has its place, among all other, if not necessarily free, but at least open knowledge sources." Swedish Wikipedia §21
  2337. "This is very important and our primary goal." Swedish Wikipedia §22
  2338. "Education is strong roots, has the most value as it builds for life" Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §23
  2339. "This will bring us even closer to the teachers, schools and research institutions." Albanian Wikipedia §5
  2340. "This theme is the most likely to create quick synergies in terms of engaging with the scientific community, which should be an important goal if we want to increase credibility." North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians User Group §15
  2341. "I have prioritised this theme as fourth (after Community, Knowledge, Technology) because I see it as a "support" theme rather than a primary goal in it's own right. User:Powertothepeople" English Wikipedia §107
  2342. "This theme is more of a HOW proposition, about how to best achieve something, in this case becoming a central part of worldwide education. Education would be a if not the most important WHAT theme. But as is, this theme is about the framework and not abput the objective, and as such not very important relative to the others." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §73
  2343. "Pretty important: We need to collaborate within our Movement but also with Partners in Crime to be stronger and engage e.g. in politics. We need the exchange to widen our view of the world and to learn lessons from others. We need to support those who are innovative, even if they might fail." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §74
  2344. "This aspect has the highest potential to take Wikimedia’s impact in the world to the next level." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §75
  2345. "Participate in the knowledge stystem, especially in school education, to sow the interest and value of collaboration, community, and find/motivate future volunteers.(original note)" Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §17
  2346. "As an access-to-knowledge source its usefulness lies in its use and that the readers can later be integrated as publishers into the ecosystem. This is essential to make knowledge sustainable over time.(original note)" Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §18
  2347. "Provide educational projects attached to Wikipedia. Promote educational use. Conduct lectures, workshops, tutorials and create educational materials for use in the school system.(original note)" Wikimedia Chile - Strategy meetup in Santiago (June 6, 2017) §19
  2348. "It is the most important theme." Spanish-speaking community - Telegram group §67
  2349. "It is less important, since the work developed so far allows us to keep working on the content itself, instead of forging new alliances." Wikimedia Chile - Interviews with members §14
  2350. "Free Knowledge is the core of our engagement in the Wikimedia movement. Our idea can be maintained best in a growing and developing knowledge ecosystem. We can influence the development successfully creating networks. This does not mean that we do not need strong support by the other themes (e. g. community)." Wikimedia Austria (Board and ED) §7
  2351. "This theme supports the theme B. For example, we should work with other free knowledge organizations on open source machine translation, rather than just relying on what's already out there, or trying to do it ourselves." Wikimedia Foundation staff §273
  2352. "This theme is the most flexible and independent. It's required for us to create a truly global movement, but it hasn't hard dependencies on anything else. Because we can partner at so many levels, with so many different types of entities, we are free to do so at any level of our strategic progress. But it's imperative that we do find and maintain good partnerships." Wikimedia Foundation staff §274
  2353. "Engaging the knowledge system allows us to conscientiously engage in both the diversity focused themes (A and C), bring value to us as theme D, and ultimately create more actors willing to engage with us through automation and tooling to unlock our knowledge." Wikimedia Foundation staff §275
  2354. "Theme D seems to go hand-in-hand with this theme. Part of getting other organizations to work with us is to engage with them in a professional manner. Partners have some clarity and understanding on what the Wikimedia movement is - and why that is valuable. When members of the movement reach out to new orgs that they are empowered to speak with confidence about movement, it's values and value, and how/why that is alluring to them." Wikimedia Foundation staff §276
  2355. "It will require work that falls into some of the purview of the other themes." Wikimedia Foundation staff §277
  2356. "This theme needs the most momentum behind it, with long-term sustainable work in both directions (inward and outward), hence is not the most urgent near-term priority. However, Short-term, it would be good to organize/improve/refine the details about existing partnerships and existing best-practices, structured in a way that best allows for (expected) growth patterns." Wikimedia Foundation staff §278
  2357. "This theme could be interpreted as a tactic -- how to get where we want to go -- as well as an outcome. As a tactic, it could support our ability to achieve all of the other themes." Wikimedia Foundation staff §279
  2358. "Choose our partnerships wisely - somewhat consistent with the values, but we don’t have to agree on everything. Each has a different worldview and focus." Wikimedia Foundation staff §280
  2359. "There is more focus on working within and among the ecosystems that could be benefiting from what we are doing. The mix of "formal and informal" education speaks to the bulk of the motivations and reasons for engaging in our projects." Wikimedia Foundation staff §281
  2360. "Top importance - We need to ensure the best experience for new users (which is very much tied to Healthy communities). Technology (Augmented age) has to support the building of the partnerships, and is part of what we have to offer. Engagement is made possible by the global reach of our movement and it is motivated by making a global knowledge source respected and qualified in terms of content coverage and quality. The knowledge ecosystem becomes stronger when its actors are working together. UNLESS, the community is not healthy enough to receive that influx of energy. Community health can be a powerful (negative) gatekeeper." Wiki in Education §11
  2361. "Very important: If we define our role in the knowledge ecosystem we will have a better understanding of what communities we need and where we should focus within the community theme." Wikimedia Deutschland (discussion at the general meeting of members) §22
  2362. "I do not believe we should abandon other themes, but I rather see this as a way to achieve them all at once." Arabic Community §7
  2363. "Generalist encyclopedias such as Britannica are in danger because of Wikipedia, specialist encyclopedias are more safe." Italian Wikipedia §21
  2364. "Scholarly publications often cites Wikipedia as a source and this is depressing and dangerous for us." Italian Wikipedia §22
  2365. "Wikipedia should continue not to accept original research because there is not and editorial control which is capable of dealing with it." Italian Wikipedia §23
  2366. "Our competitors (such as Britannica) will stay relevant if they differentiate from us: by having complete, professional, stable, and balanced articles written by authoritative authors, guaranteed without vandalism. They could also become a portal for a critical mass of data from various sources." Italian Wikipedia §44
  2367. "If we fail our mission and become full of original research, fake news, non neutral point of views, recentism and little insight, then people would go back to traditional encyclopedias." Italian Wikipedia §45
  2368. "The majority of the established knowledge ecosystem is biased, and greater engagement with them makes the movement less dedicated to the Global South issues." Meta §52
  2369. "It risks tradeoffs with community health, in that it is important not to accidentally alienate the core of dedicated, but amateur contributors." Meta §53
  2370. "The problem with official knowledge ecosystem is that it always support currently dominant scientific theories represented by majority of experts, diminishing the less popular ones, but Wikipedia should be neutral and cover these less popular even if it is not liked by experts; therefore for Wikipedia is more important to follow its own values and rules than trying to join mainstream education system. [7]" Polish Wikipedia §7
  2371. "This area is potentially more important than the "Augmented Age", where for-profit companies are likely to cover much of the ground." Wikidata §30
  2372. "To become an educational reference, we should start controlling in a more strict way our content and its modifications." Wikidata §31
  2373. "Stop pretending or make people believe that contribution is easy or without difficulty. TigH" French Wikipedia §36
  2374. "We will need to stop confronting human against machines : intelligence against algorithm. TigH" French Wikipedia §37
  2375. "Stop suppressing creativity and stop endorsing bureaucracy." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §490
  2376. "mass courses to teach how to enter in Wikipedia" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §498
  2377. "I don't think so" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §506
  2378. "Stop fighting each other internally. WikiNews." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §515
  2379. "No" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §520
  2380. "Nothing" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §525
  2381. "Perhaps offering or providing an orthodox web based platform." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §530
  2382. "to co robicie jest zajebiste, jestem zadowolony że mogę tej wiedzy doświadczać i korzystać z niej w celu rozwijania siebie ." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §535
  2383. "This is the strength of local organization like chapters. The WMF should stop restricting the growth of the number of chapters." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §540
  2384. "This is the strength of local organization like chapters. The WMF should stop restricting the growth of the number of chapters." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §566
  2385. "Theme E needs a great deal of attention, but not so much as to overwhelm other themes." Arabic Community §15
  2386. "We may have to spend less on technological experiments and improvements." Vietnamese Wikipedia §15
  2387. "Our efforts should be focused in correcting, improving and simplifying projects to create an welcoming environment to allow this theme to be developed with more success. User:Danilo.mac" Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §28
  2388. "However, the current Wikipedia editing control is too strict. It should be made less aggressive to let children experiment; several school projects in Polish Wikipedia failed due to to aggressive adminship." Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §3
  2389. "Wikimedians can be intermediaries between the projects and external partners, and they need support in this (even if this means they're doing less of their own contributions)." Australian Community §7
  2390. "Wikimedians involved in collaborations should be supported in finding balance and consensus in the work they do between external partners and the internal communities." Australian Community §5
  2391. "We may have to spend less on technological experiments and improvements." Vietnamese Wikipedia §15
  2392. "We should avoid complexity whether it's related to articles or Wikipedia administration." Hindi Wikipedia §31
  2393. "Wikipedia (wikimedia) should not be limited to contributors." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §5
  2394. "Wikimedia platforms must no longer lack information about certain topics." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §6
  2395. "Involve and educate scientists, knowledge field's actors to make wikipedia and other wikimedia platforms credible in the eyes of users. For example, approach the teacher-researchers, to integrate wikipedia into scientific research works." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §7
  2396. "We can receive access to new level of influence, and we should be careful with that.--Vodnokon4e (talk) 12:09, 10 June 2017 (UTC)" Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §23
  2397. "With more focus on theme A, it will also be easier to disseminate our common leisure time, so that we get time to take care of the various ways of collaborations when they occur." Swedish Wikipedia §23
  2398. "Business, institutions, organizations, and universities should stop treating Wikipedia as the central prize, possession, and network. Instead, they should refocus and restructure their own goals and then instead shift to other existing wiki projects that suit their own needs." Meta §94
  2399. "I hope the Foundation's projects don't monopolize their own competitors. ...Actually, if editors found their own interests not well-treated in Wikipedia, they should stop editing Wikipedia, stop treating Wikipedia like the only encyclopedic resource, and start creating their own encyclopedias, print or online." Meta §95
  2400. "There's the risk of attempting too much change at once, and spreading Wikipedia resources too thin. Better to do one thing well than lots of things poorly.User:Powertothepeople" English Wikipedia §108
  2401. "Potential conflicts of interest when working with governments and other organisations. User:Powertothepeople" English Wikipedia §109
  2402. "As a chapter of the Wikimedia movement we should set up programs to engage teachers, students and other participants of the educational process. We should not try to send our present volunteers and community members to schools and universities doing everything on their own." Wikimedia Austria (Board and ED) §8
  2403. "We don’t see negative tradeoffs: as we engage with the knowledge ecosystem, its actors will appreciate how powerful and deep the Wikimedia Movement’s methods are, and will dedicate more of their energy to it. A benefit of focusing on engaging the knowledge ecosystem is that more resources (people, reputation, money) can be brought to the movement. That said, partnering with other internal stakeholders of our movement is also vital for our participation in the knowledge ecosystem." Wiki in Education §12
  2404. "Diversity of content: fight intrinsic bias." Iberoconf 2017 §56
  2405. "Wikipedia projects have a role in education which is not just to provide an already-done-research, but also regarding soft skills." Italian Wikipedia §47
  2406. "Develop protocols, tech, support, and possibly grants for making it easier to interface with other ecosystem communities." Meta §54
  2407. "Provide software support for open and reusable educational and training material." Wikidata §32
  2408. "Modesty, wisdom and patience.TigH" French Wikipedia §38
  2409. "Knowledge seekers specialized in the handling of Wikipedia entries will be trained -- our hope is to build a new generation of knowledge suppliers and seekers, who will take care of the growing knowledge body that is forming." Spanish Wikipedia §20
  2410. "Not only information, welcoming everyone from different cultures is important to strengthen the theme." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §491
  2411. "The modern knowledge ecosystem seems to be moving more and more to online accreditation's, Wikipedia would be ahead of its time if it were to start providing accreditation's for users that learn from Wikipedia, tracking the articles that they read, assessing their knowledge base. Accreditation is a huge barrier for those seeking employment, many people may be knowledgeable but lack the accreditation for their knowledge, by providing accreditation you will alleviate unemployment and barriers to employment." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §494
  2412. "a common aim for this broader scope" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §499
  2413. "Gute Zusammenarbeit mit Google (Knowledge Graph)" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §502
  2414. "Certifications of what people learn" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §507
  2415. "try to involve small institutes and enraging people who have the knowledge and are eager to share that knowledge with others" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §511
  2416. "We need a refined mission." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §516
  2417. "Increased online and offline interaction." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §521
  2418. "Involvement of maximum of volunteer from all over world of every field" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §526
  2419. "Establishing trust with high profile education institutions. e.g. universities" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §531
  2420. "jak do tej pory zauważyłem małą liczbę użytkowników korzystających z tej wiedzy" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §536
  2421. "Have a chapter in each country" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §541
  2422. "Have a chapter in each country" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §548
  2423. "The community needs to think about the role of Wikimedia movement in the knowledge ecosystem." Chinese Community - Individual interviews §22
  2424. "We should try to enhance our efforts on reaching and engaging all individuals and underrepresented groups around the world in the knowledge ecosystem." Arabic Community §16
  2425. "We can ask many partners in different aspects of life: sport, culture, communication to join us to update news and have specific research in their fields" Vietnamese Wikipedia §16
  2426. "Instead of focusing on attracting students we should focus on attracting teachers, each new teacher will bring all his students to Wikimedia projects. User:Danilo.mac" Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §29
  2427. "Teachers who successfully use Wikimedia projects in their classroom may convince other teachers to also use Wikimedia projects. This "contagion effect" is essential for the use of Wikimedia projects in education. User:Danilo.mac" Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §30
  2428. "One idea to advance this theme is to do surveys with teachers, investigating the roadblocks that stop them from using and recommending Wikimedia projects. User:Danilo.mac" Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §31
  2429. "Thinking academics will take time out of their working life to write on Wikimedia is naive. First, academic institutions should take Wikipedia contributions into account in their internal processes. Retired academics are more achievable. However, Wikipedia does not operate in a way academics understand." English Wikipedia §97
  2430. "Wikipedia has developed a bizarre operating culture which tolerates mediocrity, supports bullying and militates against people with expertise. User:BronHiggs" English Wikipedia §99
  2431. "I prefer to say "cultural context" to "knowledge ecosystem", which sounds strange to me. I think Wikipedia is more focused on the university system, I certainly do not see any utility in the preschool level since those children still don't know how to read." Spanish Wikipedia §42
  2432. "I agree that we should develop knowledge seekers specialized in the handling of Wikipedia entries, as sometimes forgetting a single accent spoils the Wikipedia search engine." Spanish Wikipedia §45
  2433. "However the Wikimedia project's content can be used as a good example how to recognize good knowledge from fake information by analysing the quality of sources in a process of teaching critical reading and thinking." Wikimedia Polska 2017 meeting §18
  2434. "A lot of things are changing, and will find their own truth, and it might require a change in the way we communicate, be better at explaining our viewpoints, and what a scientific viewpoint is" Wikimedia Hackathon §11
  2435. "Wikipedia is a useful tool for scholars - but not as as source of trustworthy knowledge but rather as as source of materials about everything which must be critically read; good place to teach how to recognize valuable knowledge and suspicious one; an importance of sources, phrasing etc." Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §1
  2436. "We should learn about the process of editing Wikipedia in schools. Children can start with simple language errors correction, fact-checking using cited sources etc." Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §2
  2437. "Younger generation sees Wikipedia as a part of “official system”, not the area of their natural creative activity (such as Snapchat or Instagram) - therefore the teaching of internal editing processes of Wikipedia is crucial if we want let them understand that they can also create knowledge, not only social and entertain content." Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §13
  2438. "Reinforce Wikimedia's place in the wider world through more communication to readers (e.g. in libraries)." Australian Community §4
  2439. "It is important to understand the focuses of potential partners, to most effectively work with them without frustrating their goals (or our own)." Australian Community §6
  2440. "Learn the social, financial, academic, etc. contexts of partners, in order to better worth with their material and not waste time on things that aren't important to either side of the partnership." Australian Community §7
  2441. "A clear outline or map of sister projects, chapters, etc. is required, displaying where things are and where things belong in the whole WIkimedia universe." Australian Community §7
  2442. "We can ask many partners in different aspects of life: sport, culture, communication to join us to update news and have specific research in their fields" Vietnamese Wikipedia §16
  2443. "Collaborations enable the production of quality knowledge by experts, but in return sometimes the Wikipedia rules need to be adapted to the needs of the body of knowledge with which they cooperate and to find a golden path" Wikimedia Israel §50
  2444. "In order for educational and training initiatives to create a reserve of editors, a model should be created in which the project is not necessarily translated immediately into articles. This protected environment and training will enable them to have a positive experience and gradually become regular editors" Wikimedia Israel §51
  2445. "In the context of commercialism, our entire essence is based on non-commercialism, and if we become flexible here we will owe it to others. we can't compromise on that" Wikimedia Israel §52
  2446. "In the field of technology, commercial companies have the potential to contribute a lot to us. Such as Google's translation tool. Insisting on the current rules regarding the prohibition of cooperation with commercial entities can interfere with our growth" Wikimedia Israel §53
  2447. "We should improve this theme by focusing on collaborations and meetings among Wikimedians and promotion of Wikimedia projects." Hindi Wikipedia §32
  2448. "Establish "wikimedia" centers in universities, in information and documentation centers, in audiovisual information organizations, etc." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §8
  2449. "Intensify training of contributors." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §9
  2450. "Organize practical workshops to arouse contributions and organize contests around wikimedia activities." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §10
  2451. "Involve large structures such as teachers' unions and universities." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §11
  2452. "Invest in scientific writing standards." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §12
  2453. "Have a motivation and encouragement policy for contributors, both nationally and internationally." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §13
  2454. "Implement an efficient communication strategy to promote wikipedia and wikimedia." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §13
  2455. "Train, raise awareness and increase actions about the use of the content of wikimedia platforms (articles and their various sources)." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §14
  2456. "Scientific community (researchers, teachers-researchers, students, universities, etc.); Higher Education Councils; Libraries and documentation and information centers; Information relay structures and organizations (press and audiovisual)." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §15
  2457. "It is not our aim, it can be dangerous, but it can bring a lot of resources to Wikimedia - impact, influence.--Vodnokon4e (talk) 12:09, 10 June 2017 (UTC)" Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §24
  2458. "Without involving the institutions and educational organization, Wikipedia risks self-restricting itself. Justine.toms (comments at the offline wiki seminar on 10 June in Sofia)" Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §59
  2459. "Wikis can be thrown out of primary and secondary education system, if harassment surfaces. Education is hand to hand with community health and fun and has a rore in it." Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §24
  2460. "A bit more focus on other parts of the knowledge ecosystem besides Wikipedia would help too. Encyclopaedias are a small part of the knowledge ecosystem." Meta §96
  2461. "Institutional partnerships run the risk of being perceived as elitist and top-down, if not framed properly." Wikimedia District of Columbia §34
  2462. "Having too much structure could dampen volunteer enthusiasm." Wikimedia District of Columbia §36
  2463. "Stress the ultimate goal, education." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §76
  2464. "Already quite strong, but maybe we all will work with allies we did not know we had instead of just “the communities”." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §77
  2465. "Movement players need to practice and learn working with our communities and with institutions and 'external' partners at the same time, and to navigate the diversity in cultures and resulting tensions towards collective impact." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §78
  2466. "Coping with technical innovations and facing evolving challenges to the knowledge society we need to cooperate with institutions and likeminded organisations as well as with governmental officials." Wikimedia Austria (Board and ED) §9
  2467. "To what extent are educational institutions currently built on an assumption that knowledge and learning are difficult to access, and those institution’s business model is to provide that access? When those barriers to access are lowered, what does that mean for the institutions?" Wikimedia Foundation staff §282
  2468. "We need a system to understand how we do best. This is difficult, as things are changing so quickly. For instance Chat - our articles might be too heavy. Voice might lean toward speak. No one besides Google wants to map this - and that’s to put them in orbit. - if we understand this larger ecosystem, we will be able to engage in it much better." Wikimedia Foundation staff §283
  2469. "Many ways the cost comes into play. How strong is the “free” held? This is the ultimate debate. Economic free versus liberated. What does “free” mean? Some of our references aren’t free." Wikimedia Foundation staff §284
  2470. "What does partnership mean? Perhaps that is working with allies - the examples we are using need to be more clear and evocative. What we are doing and with whom?" Wikimedia Foundation staff §285
  2471. "A sense of coalition - work closely together to preserve the free and open internet." Wikimedia Foundation staff §286
  2472. "Revised theme: We will build bi-directional relationships with a wide variety of organizations and communities dedicated to the ideals of free knowledge. Wikimedia communities will work with allies that they didn’t know they had. Our content and technology will become a central part of formal and informal education around the world. We will partner with leading institutions in education, arts, entertainment, civil society, government, science, and technology. Wikimedia will pull its weight in these partnerships, strengthening the broader free knowledge movement and reaching out so free knowledge can impact the wider world. Together, we will provide platforms for a new generation of people who learn, create, and care for a growing library of free knowledge for all." Wikimedia Foundation staff §287
  2473. "Revised theme: We will build relationships with a wide variety of organizations dedicated to the ideals of free knowledge. Wikimedia communities will work with allies that they didn’t know they had. Our content and technology will become a central part of formal and informal education and knowledge production around the world. We will build strategic partnerships with organizations with shared infrastructure (same/similar software, legal) needs. We will partner with and learn from pioneering and diverse leading institutions in education, arts, entertainment, civil society, government, science, and technology. Together, we will invite a new generation of people who produce, learn, index, create, and care for a growing library of free knowledge for all" Wikimedia Foundation staff §288
  2474. "Wikimedia as a place for producers of knowledge would be nice for, for example, researchers to be recognized and findable." Wikimedia Foundation staff §289
  2475. "Many Wikimedians don’t know who’s affected by their work. Would like contributors to become aware of knowledge groups. Would also like knowledge groups to know how the community(ies) works." Wikimedia Foundation staff §290
  2476. "The movement can help to support, for example, universal higher education. More partnership would be needed in curriculum building." Wikimedia Foundation staff §291
  2477. "We’re more focused on community dynamics for knowledge creation and production, perhaps having provided software that everyone simply uses for getting work done in knowledge generation. Hopefully we’d be spending less money on non-technical things as a result of well established tech." Wikimedia Foundation staff §292
  2478. "Would be nice if ecosystem would get more involved in knowledge production. Technology like PAWS makes stuff open and collaborative by default, in opposition to the closed research model. Educators love stuff like PAWS - it’s just easier to have common infrastructure." Wikimedia Foundation staff §293
  2479. "We should be thinking about facilitating as many institutions as possible to collaborate. 1-on-1 partnerships may not necessarily scale. But public institutions might be able to enact or pioneer change." Wikimedia Foundation staff §294
  2480. "We should get into the business of knowledge production. Take for example oral citations: it’s knowledge production. In a way, we’re producing something that’s cite-able. Would like us to make open, collaborative knowledge production space. Lots of evidence that people who work on things like Wikipedia might like knowledge production. We might be able to organize events, although not necessarily funding actual knowledge production." Wikimedia Foundation staff §295
  2481. "We’re humbly engaged with communities. Trying to figure out how to frame this correctly...Many of our best partnerships can help inform the way in which our ecosystem is actually improved and so is that of partners. Sometimes people interpret GLAM as merely ingesting content; benefit could be more bidirectional." Wikimedia Foundation staff §296
  2482. "We have been missing a movement-wide commitment to this. That it’s focused on working more as a movement and network to accomplish things together: something that has grown out of existing partnership strategies/programs." Wikimedia Foundation staff §297
  2483. "Wikipedia - the encylopedia - is our core asset. We should focus on the encylopedia and shouldn't aim to include every form of knowledge (like manuals, recipes...) in Wikipedia. However, different forms of knowledge can be gathered in other Wikimedia projects." Wikimedia Deutschland (discussion at the general meeting of members) §23
  2484. "Development of free software for minority languages growth." Iberoconf 2017 §55
  2485. ""Reliability" through alliances with reliable organizations." Iberoconf 2017 §58
  2486. "Work in the relationship with the educational system, media, free knowledge-advocacy organizations, libraries, museums, archives, and traditional knowledge movements ." Iberoconf 2017 §59
  2487. "Make hybrid platforms that bridge the gap between Wikipedia projects and possible partners (scholarly publishers, communities of experts, academic societies)." Meta §55
  2488. "Projects with GLAMs (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) are great but there are some problems with images: they are not well categorized on Commons; search tools on Commons are scarce; no way to adequately to appreciate quality images on Wikipedia and thus really improve Wikipedia; sometimes images by GLAMs or WIRs are used in a random way in articles. (Bramfab)" Italian Wikipedia §65
  2489. "GLAM partnerships take time. We should choose target institutions between those that work in topic for which we have content gaps. There should be "kits" to help WIRs and institutions to work in autonomy. (Archeologo)" Italian Wikipedia §79
  2490. "We should direct resources to developing nations that probably want to collaborate with us" English Wikipedia §80
  2491. "Focus on micro non-profits such as Partners in Health and the American Refugee Committee" English Wikipedia §81
  2492. "Wikipedia needs to create partners out of its user base" English Wikipedia §82
  2493. "Involve experts to improve the verifiability of content. Zaxiphyvaxe" French Wikipedia §34
  2494. "Including Wikimedia in the broader knowledge ecosystem requires above all a legitimization, legitimization in substance by demonstrating more reliable information, and legitimization in form by bringing the institutional actors to acknowledge the skills acquired when contributing to Wikimedia. Pilou Tgy" French Wikipedia §39
  2495. "Khan Academy has already started trying to do this, as well as Alison and some others sites, but none are as large and successful as WIkipedia." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §495
  2496. "Google, Die Wikipedia Seiten (und deren Inhalte) sollten für Maschinen (Knowledge Graph) einfacher zugänglich sein, um machine learning zu beschleunigen" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §503
  2497. "Organisations like udemy, redwhy, lynda. We need to make them realize the platform we are offering will help their business also." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §508
  2498. "Mostly partner institutes or organizations that provide knowledge for free, and also the organizations that provide long distance education" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §512
  2499. "Amnesty International, Transparency International, Creative Commons, OKFN, OpenStreet Map Foundation, FSF. We need to play a lead role in bringing to conversations/communities together." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §517
  2500. "Global environment" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §522
  2501. "Education, Institutions, Educators, Existing programs" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §527
  2502. "Various web site knowledge portals which offer knowledge on particular topics.They can be partnered with through linkbacks and support portal which would create information media." Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §532
  2503. "Tomek i przyjaciele nie oporni na wiedze, możemy współpracować" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §537
  2504. "Their are global associations of Libraries, Archives and Musuems. The WMF could partner with them to spread the word that chapters do effectively collaborate with GLAM which might help increase the number of chapters by starting with GLAM partners. Don't forget Educational institutions. Think about CC, OSM, OKNF" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §542
  2505. "Their are global associations of Libraries, Archives and Musuems. The WMF could partner with them to spread the word that chapters do effectively collaborate with GLAM which might help increase the number of chapters by starting with GLAM partners. Don't forget Educational institutions. Think about CC, OSM, OKNF" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §565
  2506. "Wikipedia can not substitute for a higher university education just as one can not compare courses made by renown specialists and neophytes full of good will. Fagairolles 34" French Wikipedia §46
  2507. "If we could get involved in the knowledge ecosystem, it would allow us to build a relationship between Wikimedia projects and what should make Wikimedia projects easier to understand, but also to attract new contributors. Tpe.g5.stan" French Wikipedia §48
  2508. "Partnerships with cultural institutions will increase in number, improving content quality and reliability. Wikidata will probably be more directly involved than Wikipedia. Commons needs to be improved from the technical point of view. The community also needs to change the attitude towards cultural institutions, e.g. with simplified procedures, and to be more engaged. Contributors and experts/professionals from cultural institutions will both have to me more open and humble. Together we can become the greatest learning resource ever conceived. (Marcok)" Italian Wikipedia §83
  2509. "There will be more demand by GLAM for wiki-education, less demand for WIRs. (Ilario)" Italian Wikipedia §95
  2510. "I am in favor of joining colleges, universities, high schools and even divisions (under supervision and close monitoring) to Wikipedia. I think it will bring here regular editors who will enjoy the very act of doing + alternating editors who will donate their own and leave when they want." Hebrew Wikipedia village pump §23
  2511. "We can coordinate with universities and education institutions to improve some specific articles as student assignments." Vietnamese Wikipedia §17
  2512. "One idea is to reach out to teacher associations and other groups that congregate teachers to and discuss teaching methods. This might be more efficient as it reaches teachers and organizations already willing to discuss innovations in teaching. User:Danilo.mac" Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump §32
  2513. "We need to make our metadata available in industry-standard ways, so e.g. Trove can index our material." Australian Community §5
  2514. "Potential partners need more encouragement, and provision of metrics etc., to help them see the value in getting involved." Australian Community §2
  2515. "Some potential collaborators do not want to engage because they do not see Wikipedia as 'serious', or see limitations on what they'll be able to contribute." Australian Community §6
  2516. "In some cases a single person creates and cooordinates relationships with partners - more support should be given for vital links in complex networks of relationships" Australian Community §2
  2517. "Potential partners need clear partnership explanation material for ease of access to background information" Australian Community §4
  2518. "Partnership relationships need regular re-contacting and updating due to staff changes etc. (at the partner's side)." Australian Community §7
  2519. "We need better systems for monitoring and identification of paid editing." Australian Community §3
  2520. "Sustaining positive contact with partners and potential partners, to build relationships." Australian Community §4
  2521. "We can coordinate with universities and education institutions to improve some specific articles as student assignments." Vietnamese Wikipedia §17
  2522. "We can make many Wikipedia projects about local cultures and landmarks to attracts local contributors" Vietnamese Wikipedia §27
  2523. "It is possible to form cooperation with knowledge producers interested in giving representation to a field that receives problematic representation in the media / improving image / raising awareness of a subject." Wikimedia Israel §54
  2524. "It is possible to form cooperation with knowledge producers who are interested in offering an innovative way to learn, especially with adult learners who have exhausted the "regular" learning methods." Wikimedia Israel §55
  2525. "It is possible to form Cooperation with knowledge producers interested in the desire to offer a community integration and an end to loneliness within the Wikipedia community" Wikimedia Israel §56
  2526. "We should collaborate with social media and websites like Youtube." Hindi Wikipedia §33
  2527. "Build win-win partnerships." Wikimedia Community User C%C3%B4te d%27Ivoire Strategy meet-up Abidjan June 10, 2017 §16
  2528. "Political figures, visionaries, economical organisations.--Vodnokon4e (talk) 12:09, 10 June 2017 (UTC)" Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §25
  2529. "From the listed areas of collaboration, I would remove the 'entertainment' (as I don't see it relevant to the knowledge ecosystem). Also, w.r.t. the 'government', not in every country collaborating with government is a good idea. :) Spiritia (comments at the offline wiki seminar on 10 June in Sofia)" Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §60
  2530. "Educational institutions, universities, research organizations, governmental institutions. Knowledge as a bridge between international relations. Justine.toms (comments at the offline wiki seminar on 10 June in Sofia)" Wikimedians of Bulgaria UG §61
  2531. "The Dutch chapter should partner up with universities. The professors should tell their students to cover in Wikipedia uncovered topics, with theses written for homework." Dutch Email Survey §2
  2532. "Builders of tools and interfaces who have intelligence to focus on less computer-literated people, who are still a lot in education." Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §25
  2533. "Builders of handy tools that can indeed do a lot, like charts, math, drawing, 3d etc tools, suitable for education, better and more good-looking than others.." Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §26
  2534. "Educators of adult educators, who build the new ways of learning." Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §27
  2535. "NGOs for sensitive and special social groups." Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece §28
  2536. "GLAMs, universities and EDU, Academy, TED, Open Street Map, CC network, EDU Groups, GreyNet." Meta §97
  2537. "Know aspects of community participation through specific technical resources, both owned and developed by others." Wikimedia Portugal Grupo de Estrat%C3%A9gia §1
  2538. "The 'ecosystem' is vast so there are countless potential partners! Khan Academy, MIT OpenCourseWare, FutureLearn, university of the 3rd age, publicly funded government bodies (in countries where governments aren't corrupt), hackathons, etc. User:Powertothepeople" English Wikipedia §110
  2539. "Minority rights organisations: Wikipedia can actively address diversity issues by reaching out to organisations that stand for underrepresented groups User:Powertothepeople" English Wikipedia §111
  2540. "Government organisations may have funds for a team of wikipedia professional editors to create high quality pages rather than always relying on volunteers. User:Powertothepeople" English Wikipedia §112
  2541. "Research institutions - many are already aware of an issue related to dissemination of the research knowledge to professionals and the greater public, and wikipedia could help with this. User:Powertothepeople" English Wikipedia §113
  2542. "The Open Source Movement or the Movement for wireless community network (freifunk)." Wikimedia Deutschland (staff) §79
  2543. "In Korean, although central government have a lot of useful works, we can't use them, becuase of limitaition of law. We need to develop partnership with organization for legislative activities. We need to share common goal with them, and develop efficient scholarship programs." Wikimedians of Korea User Group §8
  2544. "Work with institutions that have information of common interest to the humanity." Wikimedia Chile - Interviews with members §15
  2545. "There are many organisations inside and outside the educational system and wider open culture ecosystem aiming to improve knowledge. They all are partners in a dialog where we are sharing our experience looking towards a knowledge society coping with future challenges." Wikimedia Austria (Board and ED) §10
  2546. "Any learned society or professional organization with global scope should be allies with WMF, and our local communities should be more deeply embedded in their local communities of practice." Wikimedia Foundation staff §298
  2547. "We may partner with: University systems, OER groups, Ministries of education, Scholars organizations, Research organizations, Knowledge sharing organizations such as not-for-profits, UNESCO and other international policy generators, other like-minded organizations" Wiki in Education §13
  2548. "The language and level of complications of many articles in Wikipedia is too high - for education it is more important to create content which is easy to understand than too strictly correct; therefore we should rather focus on readability than formal quality of content." Wikimedia Polska Strategy Dinner - Warsaw June 5, 2017 §10
  2549. "There is no risk that other actors of the knowledge ecosystem (such as Britannica and Elsevier Press will close down in the short term because of the competition of Wikipedia." Italian Wikipedia §20
  2550. "Bringing in institutional partners can help create a healthy community by reinforcing our values." Wikimedia District of Columbia §37
  2551. "Institutional partnerships is a good way to pursue the global community theme." Wikimedia District of Columbia §33
  2552. "These themes are not the result of the discussion on de.wikipedia." German Language Kurier discussion §1
  2553. ""Healthy"? "Augmented"? "Truly global"? "most respected"? "Ecosystem"? Really? Good night." German Language Kurier discussion §2
  2554. "Certainly. For someone having problems with writing articles he can find alternative facts themes here." German Language Kurier discussion §3
  2555. "The phrasing used for the themes is disgusting advertising language. That's ironic considering that hardly a Wikipedia is more paranoid regarding advertisment than the English Wikipedia. The text chunks are bordering illegibility. The whole project is designed in a way that finally only a few bureaucrats will be interested in the result, because most real Wikipedians who want to write articles won't be interested into digging through this mass of unpleasant clutter. The WMF is proving once again that all attempts at involving communities are just a fig leaf. The message is that they don't want to be disturbed by editors. So it doesn't matter finally that the problems of the communities that were voiced did not make it into this high gloss advertising text. I feel taken for a ride." German Language Kurier discussion §4
  2556. "Interestingly once again the criticism about the power structure has been entirely kept out of the strategy process, although it has been voiced many times. It doesn't seem to fit, they don't want to hear it. Would disturb the high gloss presentation." German Language Kurier discussion §5
  2557. "The wording got improved, so it is not the blather it appeared to be at the beginning. One could think about one of those themes if one felt addressed. On the other hand the entire opinon-forming-process looks like brainstorming for young businessmen. Well, the whole thing is no concern of mine." German Language Kurier discussion §6
  2558. "Even the discussion pages are pre-structured. In politics you call that a procedural ruse. This is a strategic discussion manipulation. The WMF staff is acting like apparatchiks of the CPSU. Nothing is supposed to disrupt their narrow-minded world-view." German Language Kurier discussion §7
  2559. "Our discussions of cylcle 1 are not represented in cycle 2. Insted we get exposed to an absurd list of themes. I support a Norwegian user who said "I don't see any relevance at all for me in this. It reads like something from a cult/fringe political movement (been there, so I know) or internal company promotion." ([1]) That is exacly my impression." German Language Wikipedia §2
  2560. "The most important question: How do we change the balance of power within the Foundation so that communities actually will have a say. That would be a task for the next years." German Language Wikipedia §4
  2561. "I am sceptical about the significance of the communities. In those cases where it really counts we as a community don't manage to get a consensus for necessary changes. So why should we be able to take part in Foundation decisions? In the real world we have political parties with election programs and voters chose from those. We need something simliar. Only that way we can distill one voice from thousands of voices." German Language Wikipedia §5
  2562. "We do not need one voice in WMF and de.wp. At the moment WMF completely finds itself in limbo. It does not have any legitimation in the communities and elsewhere. It would be a giant step if this could be recognized as a problem even once." German Language Wikipedia §6
  2563. "I could imagine a membership vote to transform WMF into a membership organization. Like this we'd have procedures of negotiations and decisions, of votes and elections. This is common in many organizations. But that WMF fears that like the devil fears holy water I can understand." German Language Wikipedia §7
  2564. "We could be asked which computers WMF will buy or who to hire. But a membership organization causes problems as we can see with Wikimedia Deutschland. A solution could be to have communities as members, meaning that each community has 1 voice. But this would not work without a corresponding structure (election programms, elections)." German Language Wikipedia §8
  2565. "As long as this problem is not seen we don't need to discuss further. The WMF is happy that it can do whatever it wants, although it does not produce anything by itself. For that it needs the free and self-driven work of the communities. Since it is proven that the communities are not able or don't want to transform this dependance into threat and pressure potential, WMF is acting just according to its own interests and does not care to a large extent if people care about that or not. You can see this in the strategy process. Although many contributors voiced a legitimacy and democracy deficit, that was not inlcuded into the allegedly participatory strategy process." German Language Wikipedia §9
  2566. "Healthy, advancing, truly global, most trusted, engaging. This is the vocabulary of modern exploitation. You are supposed to burn for your project and slave away voluntarily(!) until you drop. Such treates are best ignored." German Language Kurier discussion §10
  2567. "in my heart 위키를 배신하진 않겠소 i never betray wiki" Cycle 2 Survey Collectors §401