Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2018-20/Working Groups/Community Health/Minutes/2018-02-25

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The discussion was about the steering Group monthly update, Scoping document and guiding questions, as well as follow up sub meetings in the week

Scoping guidelines/questions

The scoping guidelines were shared to better explain and clarify different sections in the scoping template, for example the length of the document being 2-3 pages, looking at the challenges of the  being achieved in the current situation and envisioning Wikimedia 2030,.

  • The scoping will have questions, a background on how the questions were raised, and the impact we want to achieve.
  • There will also be 2-3 granular questions to the community, and areas that we want external experts to work on.

Review of Scoping Documents

There are 3 scoping documents (Resources and participation, Group culture, Structure/decision making), and 5 clusters,

  • Group culture and Structures/decision making reflect the focus we had for Community Health, but there’s need to rephrase them so that people understand our content better.
  • Phrasing of the questions to find a way of getting quality rather than negative feedback.
  • If there are some areas that seem to be neglected and not connected to the scoping documents, they can be documented in a meta page, or somewhere they can be contextualised. The 3 Working Group meeting in Berlin also had some questions that do not have context, which were raised but not sure how the answers would be based upon or how they can be answered

Community conversations on the scoping questions will happen after translation on different community channels like village pumps, meta, and other options. These questions can be modified in the end of March/beginning of April, with input from the Strategy Liaisons,  external expertise (in the analysis phase).

  • The core team and strategy liaisons will be around to support and facilitate these conversations.
  • If people don’t feel comfortable publishing their responses for privacy, anonymous views and other channels where people do not need to provide their names, will be possible.
  • Strategy Liaisons will to reach out to these particular communities that are not represented, around the time of the summit (focus in on the 9 language liaisons - Arabic, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese - at the moment)
  • Would be helpful for the Community Health Working Group members to get together to answer such questions on communities that are not represented.


Follow up sub meetings

  • February 27 2019

Summary: (Note-taking here was only for half of the one hour meeting duration)

  • The community conversations will be initiated on Meta, then Strategy Liaisons will bring them to the respective communities and language wikis, on village pumps or relevant channels, if the Community Health Working Group would like to do a Survey, they can work with Core Team, considering what will happen to the data and survey results.
  • In the previous Strategy process (in 2017), there were Strategy Salons conducted in different places, which is planned to happen a little bit later in the analysis process around May/June, where these salons can provide insights to answer these questions with new voices or external partners.
  • March 1 2019

Structures, processes and resources in support of community health

  • The focus in this meeting was to add content, comments and finalise the 3rd scoping document: structures, processes and resources, questions in the community section will be asked to the community, but the Working Group needs to have a better understanding of which feedback is expected from the community.
  • Questions which are already defined and known to most community like conflict of interest might need to be left out of the scoping questions. Chinmayi will make further comments about this topic in the document.

Community questions

  • Community questions need to be designed in a way that the community can self regulate, and be interested in sharing their own culture, values, that are accepted behaviours in their environments, but this depends on the target community and what they might be interested in, it would be better to have this in an external looking/approach.

Group culture

  • All Working Group Members need to provide comments, as per their wiki knowledge, use suggest mode, and provide any missing terms and topics in the scoping documents. It would be good to have participation, together with access, as sometimes access affects participation, and creates a huge gap.
    • In terms of advocacy, and participation, there was project tiger done in India, which can be an example of taking this beyond the communities to newcomers for participation.
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