Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Sources/Cycle 3/Maithili Wikimedians Strategy Meetup in Kathmandu, Nepal
Overview
[edit]The Affiliate-led events for Movement Strategy discussions was held on the 5th August 2017, at Kathmandu, Nepal. The Wikimedia movement wise movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. On this discussion people participated from different background like editors, community leaders, affiliates, developers, readers, technology platforms, institutional partners,media and Bureaucrats.
Information
[edit]What group or community is this source coming from?
| Name of group | Maithili Wikimedians User Group |
| virtual location (page-link) or physical location (city/country) | Kathmandu, Nepal, |
| Location type (e.g. local wiki, Facebook, in-person discussion, telephone conference,Email) | in-person discussion |
| # of participants in this discussion (a rough count) | 25 |
Summary
[edit]The summary is a group of summary sentences and associated keywords that describe the relevant topic(s). Below is an example.
| Line | Week # | Key insight | Summary Statement | Overall | Keyword |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | A | Example: Knowledge needs to be more relevant. We need much easier ways to add images and videos. Many people want more diverse content, and we need ways to make these easy to crowd-source. We need new projects devoted to this effort that work well. | supportive | example |
| 2 | 1 | A | Example: If we start doing things other than long-form, cited articles, we will dilute the integrity of the projects. | concern | example |
| 3 | example | example | example table only | neutral | example |
Taken together, all the summary sentences should provide an accurate summary of what was discussed with the specific community.
Fill in the table, using these keys.
- Key Insight
- The Western encyclopedia model is not serving the evolving needs of people who want to learn.
- Knowledge sharing has become highly social across the globe.
- Much of the world's knowledge is yet to be documented on our sites and it requires new ways to integrate and verify sources.
- The discovery and sharing of trusted information have historically continued to evolve.
- Trends in misinformation are increasing and may challenge the ability for Wikimedians to find trustworthy sources of knowledge.
- Mobile will continue to grow. Products will evolve and use new technologies such as artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and virtual reality. These will change how we create, present, and distribute knowledge.
- As the world population undergoes major shifts, the Wikimedia movement has an opportunity to help improve the knowledge available in more places and to more people.
- Readers in seven of our most active countries have little understanding of how Wikipedia works, is structured, is funded, and how content is created.
- Overall (either)
- supportive
- concern
- neutral
| Line | Week # | Key insight | Summary Statement | Overall | Keyword |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | A | The Wikipedia Interface should made more friendly for new editors and beginners. | supportive | Technology |
| 2 | 1 | A | The internet users is respectively low and cost is high. Any cost effective initiative should be taken to bring new readers and editors to Wikimedia Projects. | supportive | Internet |
| 3 | 1 | A | The Wikipedia model is fine. The articles and knowledge should be deep. | concern | Wikipedia Model |
| 4 | 1 | A | More focus should be given to improve contents in regional language Wikipedia projects. | supportive | regional languages |
| 5 | 1 | A | Multimedia contents should be created in different languages projects. | supportive | multilingual multimedia |
| 6 | 1 | B | More outreach events like Wikipedia Education Program, Wikipedia Workshop and Wiki Conference should be organize to promote Wikimedia Projects. | supportive | outreach |
| 7 | 1 | B | Usage of social media should be increased in order to promote Wikipedia and it's project. | supportive | promotion |
| 8 | 1 | C | Linguist, Scholars, Journalists and Literary figures should be involved in the movement. | supportive | experts |
| 9 | 1 | C | Very short informative articles Maithili Wikipedia should be improved and new articles should be created. | supportive | regional languages |
| 10 | 1 | C | Local and Regional supportive authorities should be consulted to documents missing important areas. | supportive | Collaboration |
Detailed notes (Optional)
[edit]If you have detailed notes in addition to the summary, you may add them here. For example, the notes may come from an in-person discussion or workshop. If your discussion happened on a wiki or other online space, you do not need to copy the detailed notes here.
Strategy Salon Coordinators:
- Saroj Kumar Dhakal (Wikimedians Of Nepal)
- Nabin K. Sapkota
Challenges of the strategy meeting
Group 1
[edit]| S.No | Name | Community | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rishi Raj Gautam | thunclerdlrost@gmail.com | FOSS-NP |
| 2 | Manish Marahatta | me@manishmaharatta@gmail.com | FOSS-NP |
| 3 | Nirajan Panta | nirjan.panta@yahoo.com | Librarian |
| 4 | Prabin Kumar Deo | prabin.deo44@gmail.com | Students |
| 5 |
Group 2
[edit]| S.No | Name | Community | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pankaj Deo | pankaj.deo2010@gmail.com | Maithili Community |
| 2 | Nabin K Sapkota | nboycreation@gmail.com | Media/WIkipedian |
| 3 | Surit Aryal | aryalsurit@gmail.com | Mozilla Nepal |
| 4 | |||
| 5 |
Group 3
[edit]| S.No | Name | Community | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Subham Ghimire | shubhamghimire1996@gmail.com | Open Knowledge |
| 2 | Niraj Shrestha | nirjal@net.com | Deputy Manager of Nepal Telecom/Wikimedians of Nepal |
| 3 | Saroj Kumar Dhakal | lotosnagarkot@gmail.com | WIkimedians of Nepal |
| 4 | Puneshwari Prajapati | punyaja@gmail.com | Nepali WIkipedia |
| 5 | Bijay Chaurasiya | bijaychaurasiya925@gmail.com | Commons Photographer |
Group 4
[edit]| S.No | Name | Community | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manish Jung Thapa | thapa.manish16@gmail.com | Developers Nepal |
| 2 | Prabina Karki | prabinakarkih@gmail.com | Sr. Visual Editor |
| 3 | Sandip Sah | sandipsah605@gmail.com | Student |
| 4 | Sanjog Dev | sanjogdev@hotmail.com | Maithili Community Leader |
| 5 | Kshitiz Khanal | Kshitizkhanal@gmail.com | social entrepreneur |
Group 5
[edit]| S.No | Name | Community | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jitendra Shah | zeeten.shah@gmail.com | Maithili Wikimedians |
| 2 | Reshma Mishra | reshmamishra23@gmail.com | Teacher |
| 3 | Dhrub Katwal | dhrubkl@gmail.com | Social Worker |
| 4 | Nikesh Balami | nikeshbalami@gmail.com | Open Knowledge |
| 5 | Bhupendra Bhatta | bhbhatta714@gmail.com | Bureaucrat |
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