Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Sources/Chinese Community - WeChat
Information[edit]
What group or community is this source coming from?
| name of group | Chinese Wikimedia User group |
| virtual location (page-link) or physical location (city/state/country) | |
| Location type (e.g. local wiki, Facebook, in-person discussion, telephone conference) | WeChat, a social media application widely used in Mainland China |
| # of participants in this discussion (a rough count) | 9 |
Summary[edit]
The conversation took place on WeChat, a social media application widely used in Mainland China, in order to collect the opinion from the Wikipedians in China. There were 9 people in the conversation.
| Line | Statement (summary sentence) | keywords |
| 1 | [Example 1: Sentence] Wikimedia stands for a purity of knowledge and facts, untainted by commercial interests or political agendas, and promotes a knowledge culture of balanced information and cited sources. | [Example 1: Keywords] independence, verifiability, facts matter |
| 2 | [Example 2: Sentence] We should explore new kinds of knowledge spaces, embracing innovation in order to survive and thrive in 2030. | [Example 2: Keywords] innovation, forms of knowledge |
Summary for the discussion:
| Line | Statement (summary sentence) | Keywords |
| 1 | The quality of the articles on Wikipedia is very important, we should make sure that the quality is good. | Quality |
| 2 | At the same time, the quantity of the articles is also important. | Quantity |
| 3 | We should explore the possibility of developing more sister projects. | Development, sister projects, collaboration |
| 4 | We should focus on the presentation of Wikipedia, perhaps design the whole website better, to attract more people to use it. | Presentation, design |
| 5 | We should try to develop the AI, to increase the quality and quantity of the articles on Wikipedia. The Foundation should invest more resources to explore the possibility of developing AI. | AI, development |
| 6 | We should accept the diversity of the human knowledge and understand and embrace it. | Diversity |
| 7 | We should attract more newcomers to join the movement. | Newcomers |
| 8 | At the same time, it is important to keep the people in the community as well. | Sustainability |
| 9 | Also, gender gap is an issue in the community and we should try to solve the problem. | Gender gap |
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