Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network/strategy 2019 03 26
This meeting plans WREN's engagement in the Wikimedia movement strategy 2018-2020.
This meeting[edit]
- Tue Mar 26, 2019 12pm – 1pm Eastern Time - New York
- Join Zoom Meeting
- https://zoom.us/j/839419501
Attendees[edit]
- Hilary Thorsen - new Wikimedian in Residence at Stanford working on Linked Data for Production LD4P project
- Jeffrey Keefer
- Luca Sannita
- Richard Knipel
- John Cummings UNESCO
- Kelly Doyle
- Esther Jackson
- Lane Rasberry
- Rachel Help (sent in notes, unable to attend live meeting)
Agenda and notes[edit]
- Anyone can take notes at the Google doc
Background[edit]
The Wikimedia Foundation is organizing Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2018-20, an effort to plan movement-wide strategy for the near future. This follows from the 2017 consultation Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017 which advanced the Wikimedia 2030 discussion of what we want to achieve by the year 2030.
The Wikimedia Foundation issued a call for community conversations at 2019 Community Conversations. This user group, WREN, discussed participating in its March 2019 meeting. In that meeting, WREN supported Esther Jackson, user:Emjackson42 and Wikimedian in Residence at the en:New York Botanical Garden, in representing the group in strategic discussions. To support Esther, other members of WREN should provide comments and recommendations for Esther to communicate. It also helps if people draft suggestions and post them here as documentation of discussion and to organize community conversation.
Participating in every aspect of the strategic planning is beyond the limit of the time and labor we have to offer. Consequently, Esther has selected these strategic areas as targets of our focus: