- Final Goal: The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has requested 2-4 specific recommendations on Community Health for January 12, 2010.
- Interim Target: By December 17, we narrow this list down to four broad areas (ideally), or more (realistically). Table is a guideline to help us evaluate.
List of potential recommendations
Proposed areas of recommendation
- Volunteer recognition: Support and incentives for good volunteers. (See also: Category:Proposals_for_volunteer_support and Category:Proposals for editor awards or rewards)
- Social Networking: New tools for collaboration and communication (See also: Category:Proposals_for_new_social_features)
- Interface/Tools: Making work easier and clearer for all editors (See also: Category:Proposals for improving usability)
- Dispute Resolution and Decisions: Fixing consensus-building, decision-making, and dispute resolution. (And, incidentally, policy-making.) (See also: Category:Proposals for reducing in-fighting)
- Organizational Structure: Improve governance, job assignments, and specializations (better leadership and non-leadership roles) (See also: Category:Proposals for reforming policy and governance of Wikimedia projects)
- Policy: Rethink policy (additions, removals, etc.) (See also: Category:Proposals for reforming policy and governance of Wikimedia projects)
- Vision and Goal-Setting: Set vision, goals, and targets to guide volunteers
- Research and Measures: Provide clearer measures of community health
Evaluation criteria
- Priority: importance
- Impact: effect on community, immediate and long-term
- Feasibility: realism, costs, risks
- Desirability: community acceptance
Decision tables
Short list: areas with potential
| Area of Recommendation |
Priority (#/5) |
Impact (#/5) |
Feasibility (#/5) |
Desirability (#/5) |
Total (#/20) |
| Volunteer Recognition |
05 |
04 |
05 |
05 |
019 |
| Social Networking |
05 |
05 |
03 |
04 |
017 |
| Interface/Tools |
02 |
04 |
04 |
04 |
014 |
| Decision making: Dispute Resolution and Policy. |
04 |
04 |
02 |
05 |
015 |
| Organizational Structure |
00 |
00 |
00 |
00 |
00 |
| Research and Measures |
05 |
04 |
04 |
05 |
018 |
Note: - figures above were provided by User:Bodnotbod and pasted here at User:Randomran's request (see discussion page). Bodnotbod was not comfortable providing ratings for 'organizational structure.
List of deferrals: low value recommendations
| Area of Recommendation |
Priority (#/5) |
Impact (#/5) |
Feasibility (#/5) |
Desirability (#/5) |
Total (#/20) |
| Policy (Direct Changes) |
03 |
03 |
02 |
01 |
09 |
| Vision and Goal Setting |
01 |
01 |
03 |
03 |
08 |
| Help and Tutorials |
01 |
01 |
04 |
02 |
08 |
