Summary:Talk:Strategic Plan/Goals/Number of speakers and participation

Participation Goals

• Goals should be at a micro level than at a macro worldwide level.
• Participation goals should include things like "burn rate" and "join rate"
• Stable Wikipedias will naturally lose active contributors because there is less stuff to contribute
• Language diversity is critical
• We don't know how much is enough or how few is too few. Intuitively, we do know that you need some critical mass to have a stable project.

Quality Goals

• What does it mean to be the "sum of all knowledge"?
  • Be conscious of other types of knowledge besides Wikipedia content
• Do we want so many people getting their information from one source?
  • Fulfilling the Wikimedia vision does not mean that all knowledge has to come from Wikimedia.

Reach Goals

• Be careful of imperialism regarding the Global South.

In General

• Simply taking current numbers and multiplying them doesn't have a lot of predictive validity.