Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Sources/Wikimedia India Strategy Salon Vijayawada 27 August 2017

Wikimedia India Strategy Salon

Vijayawada; 27 August 2017

General overview

On 27 August 2017, Wikimedia India conducted a movement strategy salon in Vijayawada titled "Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy Salon" from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm including a tea break and lunch. The participants ranged from diverse communities as listed in the further sections. The salon was coordinated by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga, Member of the Executive Committee, Wikimedia India.

Information

name of group	Wikimedia India
virtual location (page-link) or physical location (city/state/country)	Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India
Location type (e.g. local wiki, Facebook, in-person discussion, telephone conference)	in-person discussion
# of participants in this discussion (a rough count)	18

Attendees

S.No	Name	Organization / Institute	Position	Notes
1	Krishna Chaitanya Velaga	Wikimedia India	Member of Executive Committee	Salon coordinator
2	Koushik Avula	—	—	Organizer
3	Javvaji Venkata Sai Sumanth	—	—	Organizer
4	Col. Ashwin Baindur (retd.)	Indian Army	retired Colonel	Remote attendance
5	Suswetha Kolluru	Wikimedia India	officiating Intern
6	Koluru Suresh	Vasireeddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology	Professor Department of Computer Science Engineering
7	Rohith Rocharla	Vasireeddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology	Assistant Professor Department of Science & Humanities
8	Krishna Alapati	Make a Difference	City Team Lead (Vijayawada)
9	Akhil Yadav Laka	Make a Difference	Finance Controller
10	Manasa Inampudi	District 98, Toastmasters International	former Area Director, Area E2
11	Lasya Madireddy	District 98, Toastmasters International	former District Finance Manager
12	Anant Katyayni	District 98, Toastmasters International	Division Director, Division F
13	Bhavani Shankar	Efftronics Systems Pvt. Ltd.	Executive Manager, Research & Development
14	Harshitha Panga	TEDxKLU	Co-organizer
15	Jaishree Jaishankar	TEDxKLU	Co-organizer
16	Saifullah	Google Developers Club	Developer
17	Sripati Roy Koganti	Swecha (NGO)	Member of Executive Committee
18	Billa Nikhil	Indian Institute of Information Technology for Design & Manufacturing	Project Lead

Summary

Theme key

Healthy, inclusive communities
The augmented age
A truly global movement
The most trusted source of knowledge
Engaging in the knowledge ecosystem

Question 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?

Group 1

Line	Theme (refer to key)	Question (refer to key)	Statement summary	Keyword(s)
1	2	4	Wikimedia should invest more on research on technology advancement including development of super computers, dedicated E-book readers, text-to-speech audio devices to enable the user to listen to the articles etc.	investment, techonlogy
2	2	4	Attention must be given to bots that can develop Wikipedia articles from the structured machine readable Wikidata articles	bots, Wikidata
3	2	4	Research on data storage techniques (offline Wikipedia); work on creating technology that can store terabytes on information on a chip as small as the size of hair	technology, research, offline
4	2	4	Develop projects that document new data types such as experimental data, sensory experiences etc.	data, bionic, technology
5	5	5	Partner with universities, research firms, patenting organizations, government data bases etc. to create well knitted knowledge ecosystem	collaboration
6	5	4	Invest on creating an own independent network of information technology infrastructure and data retrieval and archival technologies	investment, data, archiving
7	2	4	Work on machine translation tools; consistently translated data is to be made available in all the languages at the same time	machines, translation
8	4	4	Develop OCR modules to digitize ancient sources of information	OCR, digitization
9	5	5	Partner with other open access initiatives at local and national level	partnerships, open access

Group 2

Line	Theme (refer to key)	Question (refer to key)	Statement summary	Keyword(s)
1	5	2	Compared to the rest, when attended this theme, it create inclusive communities by employing advancing technologies by evolving in a global movement	relative, inclusive
2	5	5	Partner with leading data repositories like YouTube, Flickr etc.	partnership, YouTube
3	1	4	Employ unique ways to spread the Wikimedia movement such as Commercial TV and YouTube video ads	reach, adverstising

Group 3

Line	Theme (refer to key)	Question (refer to key)	Statement summary	Keyword(s)
1	4	4	Add trust score to articles; obtained from readers	trust, reliability
2	4	4	Integrate with social media platforms to gather user opinions related to a article	social media, integration
3	4	4	Make it mandatory to cite a source; page must not accept the submission unless a source is cited	citation, sources, mandatory
4	4	5	Provisions to be made to the editors access to data and information repositories such as national archives, libraries etc.; WMF must collaborate with them	access, data, information, editors
5	4	4	Create a physical library of books upon the request of editors after a community endorsement; books collected such way may be made available to potential Wikimedians upon request in digital or physical form	physical library, repository, book sources
6	1	4	Concentrate on communities that have zero awareness about Wikipedia and its sister projects; such as north-eastern states in India	outreach, north-east India
7	1	4	Not only Wikipedia edit-a-thons, efforts to conduct workshops for other projects must be given importance	projects, outreach

Group 4

Line	Theme (refer to key)	Question (refer to key)	Statement summary	Keyword(s)
1	2	5	Partner with companies and institutions working on technology advancement such as Intel, MIT, Google, Microsoft; approach them on the way of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility)	partnerships, advancement, technology
2	4	4	Hire consultant experts for various fields to review the information	experts, hiring, consultation, reliable
3	3	4	Develop devices such as e-book readers to read and edit Wikipedia; provide them at break-even price; these devices must be able to provide Wikipedia offline	devices, offline
4	1	4	Work on creating online tutorials explaining the policies of Wikimedia projects, editing tools etc.	tutorials, editing
5	4	4	Encourage scholars from educational establishments to review the articles; providing them certificates would motivate them to do so	trust, scholars, encourage
6	1	5	Conduct workshops in educational institutions to improve student involvement in the Wikimedia movement	students