Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Sources/Cycle 2/Meta
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What group or community is this source coming from?
| name of group | Meta-Wiki |
| virtual location (page-link) or physical location (city/state/country) | Talk:Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Cycle 2 |
| Location type (e.g. local wiki, Facebook, in-person discussion, telephone conference) | local wiki |
| # of participants in this discussion (a rough count) | 34 |
Summary[edit]
Fill in the table, using these 2 keys.
- Theme key
- Healthy, inclusive communities
- The augmented age
- A truly global movement
- The most trusted source of knowledge
- Engaging in the knowledge ecosystem
- Questions key
- What impact would we have on the world if we follow this theme?
- How important is this theme relative to the other 4 themes? Why?
- 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?
- What else is important to add to this theme to make it stronger?
- Who else will be working in this area and how might we partner with them?
| Line | Theme (refer to key) | Question (refer to key) | Summary Statement | Keyword |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | 1 | This is a necessary foundation for any of the other themes, but seemingly difficult for the WMF to directly influence. | priority |
| 2 | A | 1 | This theme is more suitable to Wikipedia as the sister projects are not as impactful as Wikipedia, Commons, and Meta-Wiki. | Wikipedia |
| 3 | A | 1 | Attracting new readers is easy, but persuading readers to become editors either is not or may vary, depending on projects. | newbies |
| 4 | A | 1 | The community will be respected better, if it is considered healthy by others. | health |
| 5 | A | 1 | Financially, WMF can support activities that promote diversity; organizationally, it can encourage affiliates and partners to promote diversity; publicly, it can use its communication channels to promote diversity. | WMF |
| 6 | A | 1 | The description suggests that the theme is just the opposite of what we need - and we need a civil way to quarrel (hard), not a way to make everything "inclusive", "rewarding", and "fun". | quarrel |
| 7 | A | 2 | It is foundational to achieving the other objectives, but is only a means to an end for ultimately supporting improved content. | means |
| 8 | A | 2 | The world needs the wiki culture, because with more wiki culture, id would be better, a more democratic and forward-looking place. | culture |
| 9 | A | 2 | This is the fundamental issue, that will help all other themes along. | priority |
| 10 | A | 3 | Support for community members that we do not yet have is as important as the current users. | newbies |
| 11 | A | 3 | 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. | behavior |
| 12 | A | 4 | 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'. | democracy |
| 13 | A | 5 | Actively engage motivated groups that are strongly motivated to contribute on a topic (e.g. students, societies, associations, academics, other volunteer groups and NGOs). | motivated groups |
| 14 | A | 5 | Collaborate with any organization that works with people and intercultural transfers. | organizations |
| 15 | A | 5 | Collaborate with WikiHow. | WikiHow |
| 16 | B | 1 | 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. | simplicity |
| 17 | B | 1 | There will be a larger impact relative to de-emphasizing the theme, as it seems clear that modes of knowledge discovery will expand. | discovery |
| 18 | B | 1 | 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. | complication |
| 19 | B | 1 | 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. | technology |
| 20 | B | 2 | Data technology is only a means to help accomplishing goals described in the rest of the themes. | means |
| 21 | B | 2 | 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. | quality |
| 22 | B | 2 | This theme is very important if Wikipedia is to remain relevant as newer technical media with more personalization and interaction come to dominate. | newer technology |
| 23 | B | 3 | Rigorously review and reduce all formatting related markup on all projects, since reformatting for new media will render such markup useless and anachronistic. | markups |
| 24 | B | 3 | The new technology will surely be harder on the bandwidth, so we need to cut down on gimmicks and concentrate on economy and reliability. | bandwidth |
| 25 | B | 4 | Add concept development and hardware manufacturer partners. | partners |
| 26 | B | 4 | Prepare our user facing interfaces if we want to stay relevant. | interface |
| 27 | B | 5 | Collaborate with device manufacturers and makers. | device manufacturers |
| 28 | B | 5 | Partners that could help implement some easier way to edit rich media on wiki (e.g. directly on Commons) | rich media |
| 29 | C | 1 | Many people in West would enjoy wiki editing but have never had the idea of doing it. | Global North |
| 30 | C | 1 | A few more projects are needed as the Foundation's current projects are challenged by global factors. | project proposals |
| 31 | C | 1 | If we follow this theme, the biggest revolution in education, ever. | education |
| 32 | C | 1 | Make the culture and knowledge of Global South noticeable and more accessible. | Global South |
| 33 | C | 1 | Reconsider the stance of supporting only "self-starting volunteers and communities". | community support |
| 34 | C | 1 | Understand what knowledge do people need in the areas where we don't have active communities yet. | knowledge |
| 35 | C | 1 | Adjust to significant differences in infrastructure, culture, language, lifestyle, and information consumption needs. | differences |
| 36 | C | 1 | Provide better translation software and infrastructure around it so that users of the smallest languages could learn encyclopedic information in their language. | translation |
| 37 | C | 1 | Collaborate with ethnographers, anthropologists etc. who could help us with writing down the unique knowledge of the Global South cultures. | etnography |
| 38 | C | 1 | Let's do another Enlightenment, for the whole world. | Enlightenment |
| 39 | C | 3 | Reduce various projects that only target content addition in languages that already have an active community, like GLAM and Wikipedian-in-Residence projects. | GLAM |
| 40 | C | 3 | Reduce the relative weight of projects that address problems that are irrelevant for small or not-yet-existing communities, like "anti-harassment" initiatives | harassment |
| 41 | C | 4 | Create a collaborative global, multilingual effort to identify not just knowledge, but how to ask questions and ways of asking questions. | project proposals |
| 42 | C | 4 | 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. | borders |
| 43 | C | 5 | Convince governments and institutions about the positive impact Wikimedia (could) have on national development with the improvement of information about countries. | governments |
| 44 | C | 5 | Approach more universities, museums, libraries, and alike institutions. | GLAM |
| 45 | C | 5 | 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). | public policy |
| 46 | D | 2 | 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. | quality |
| 47 | D | 4 | Well-designed contests could add a lot of well-written articles comparatively easily. | contests |
| 48 | D | 4 | The rules need to guard against propaganda (mass disinformation, disruptive editing, ad hominem attacks). | propaganda |
| 49 | D | 5 | The continued activity of WikiJournal User Group (and WikiJournal) is very beneficial for this purpose. | WikiJournal |
| 50 | E | 1 | We can be the integration point between the expert communities and the general public. | experts |
| 51 | E | 2 | This is one of the most effective ways of achieving the Respected Knowledge goal, which could be achieved without augmented content and global reach. | means |
| 52 | E | 3 | The majority of the established knowledge ecosystem is biased, and greater engagement with them makes the movement less dedicated to the Global South issues. | bias |
| 53 | E | 3 | It risks tradeoffs with community health, in that it is important not to accidentally alienate the core of dedicated, but amateur contributors. | amateurs |
| 54 | E | 4 | Develop protocols, tech, support, and possibly grants for making it easier to interface with other ecosystem communities. | ecosystem |
| 55 | E | 5 | Make hybrid platforms that bridge the gap between Wikipedia projects and possible partners (scholarly publishers, communities of experts, academic societies). | academia |
| 56 | A | 2 | We need to easy editing and contributing as much as possible and set a friendly environment for all people needs. | editing |
| 57 | A | 1 | It is not easy to tackle abusive behaviour without silencing robust dissens. The communities are not very good at this task. But WMF is definitely the wrong address here. | dissent |
| 58 | A | 1 | Within an environment of disinformation, harassment, and exclusion, there's no progress. | environment |
| 59 | A | 1 | 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. | lost potential |
| 60 | A | 1 | 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. | structure |
| 61 | A | 1 | Build an open digital commons for the future, ensuring a broader legacy for future generations. | generations |
| 62 | A | 2 | Deffinitelly the most important. Wikimedia stays on active participants, but Wikimedia is still techy and hostile to certain needs of people. | priority |
| 63 | A | 2 | 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. | meaning |
| 64 | A | 5 | 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. | communication |
| 65 | B | 1 | We should augment our front-end, cross-projects interaction, and knowledge with skills, including communication tools for maintaining "healthy and inclusive communities". | tools |
| 66 | B | 3 | We should not reduce effort in human communication even if we are willing to increase effort in technology. | humans |
| 67 | C | 5 | Support universities outside of North America. | universities |
| 68 | A | 1 | Thematic WikiProject could attract more people to contributing, that's why they should be resurrected. | WikiProjects |
| 69 | A | 1 | The community and/or the readers have to make the contributors feel very clearly that their contribution is appreciated. | appreciation |
| 70 | A | 1 | With sufficient editor participation and translators, we could know better what's happening on various wikis. | translators |
| 71 | A | 4 | Newbies have difficulty with meaningful participation because they don't understand how talk pages work. | talk pages |
| 72 | B | 5 | 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. | entry point |
| 73 | A | 3 | Stop treating solo contribution as the only option, and start brainstorming other options, like teamwork. Collaborative contribution may produce better interaction. | teamwork |
| 74 | A | 3 | Stop driving out others, especially experts, and start befriending and collaborating with them. | experts |
| 75 | A | 3 | Stop treating online communication as the only method, and start socializing offline more. | offline |
| 76 | A | 4 | Organizers of events for seniors will have knowledge of the obstacles faced by elderly newcomers. | seniors |
| 77 | B | 2 | 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? | audio/video |
| 78 | B | 4 | The searches could be temporarily saved, organized and utilized for educational purposes. | searches |
| 79 | B | 5 | Cooperation with developers and academics in field of automated translation, data handling for improving Wikidata. Development of Wikimedia Commons App and other mobile apps. | developers and academics |
| 80 | C | 1 | We would end up with poorly- or low-managed small wikis. Must more low-managed local wikis be created to achieve diversity? | low management |
| 81 | C | 1 | The fact that many wikis are not growing and not well managed is a problem that must be resolved. | grow |
| 82 | C | 2 | 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. | priority |
| 83 | C | 2 | If the Foundation wants to achieve theme "A", it should travel all over the world learning about different cultures, backgrounds, languages, and values. | learn |
| 84 | C | 3 | Harassment and availability of art images are not a priority for the greatest majority of Wikipedias' communities. | GLAM |
| 85 | C | 3 | 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. | anglicized content |
| 86 | C | 4 | 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. | version of articles |
| 87 | D | 1 | 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. | footnotes |
| 88 | D | 1 | 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. | Wikipedia |
| 89 | D | 2 | 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? | communication |
| 90 | D | 2 | 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. | cross-wiki |
| 91 | D | 3 | 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. | investment |
| 92 | D | 3 | 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. | low management |
| 93 | E | 1 | 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. | sister projects |
| 94 | E | 3 | 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. | refocus |
| 95 | E | 3 | 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. | monopoly |
| 96 | E | 4 | 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. | sister projects |
| 97 | E | 5 | GLAMs, universities and EDU, Academy, TED, Open Street Map, CC network, EDU Groups, GreyNet. | partners |
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