Meetings

See also proposal:strategic meetings.

Meetings that discussed strategic planning.

August 18 : Cambridge, MA, USA

A discussing on the future of Wikipedia, with a nod to Wikimedia planning

Attendees:

• ragesoss (talk)
• AaronSw (talk)
• Emufarmers (talk)
• Benjamin Mako Hill (talk)
• sj (talk)
• Jonathan Z
• Tim Hwang
• Alison Lee
• Brett Stilwell
• Amar Ashar
• Mary
• Ted Rybeck

Topics:

• what is wikipedia's future? what are major risks facing us?
• how can we better recognize strengths and weaknesses?
• where might we change the scope of the collective projects? [who else is furthering the same goals?]
• how do they get belgium into belgian chocolate ice cream?

Whiteboard notes

Contribution - deletion impulse
                participation socialization
                notability , quality: who needs
                                        reads what



Structured cities - policy creation             City planning
        direct democracy
        organizers [x500?]

Open frontiers - free creation
        independence from oppressive norms
        How do we preserve these

Scope changes - Wiktionary impulse

Distribution v. Centralization - sharing namespaces / simple synch
                MediaWiki - sharing code priorities

Support for similar projects - Law: Bias (death panels) Debates (point-by-point)    debate prcon.org, disputefinder

Barnstar scoring -> award them by bot svgs.

Ways to thrive.  Systemic bias.  Inspiration.  "Lack of features" is a feature.

Retention: visibility/graying

Talk page promotion

Motive: boredom, fame, credit, skill > analyze

"Report a problem/ask a question" button; how many open issues for this article?  Random issue!

"Benjamin's Law of Collab Discussion"
E (ex of 4chan) approaches 1