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Volunteers/Editors |
Wikimedia Foundation |
Wikimedia Chapters
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Volunteer Recognition
- Track good/outstanding volunteers
- Offer official WMF recognition and swag, online and offline
- Build relationship between foundation and outstanding volunteers
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- Establish system for recommending worthy volunteers for recognition;
- Allow for oversight to decide on borderline cases
- Design "on-line" swag (e.g.: web badges)
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- Allocate budget for Wikimedia swag, mailings (per project/language -- how many editors can you afford to recognize?);
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- Draft an "appreciation letter" from the board/executive;
- Create banner that recognizes a random "good volunteer" from community list
- Directly communicate with volunteers in good standing
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Improve consensus-building processes
- Create a "binding mediation" process as a "last resort" for content-related disputes
- Create "representative consensus-building" processes, to manage the scale of disputes with too many parties
- Encourage consensus-building by taking power away from filibusters and "spoilers"
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- Design and implement three process changes (how, not if);
- Nominate volunteers to work on dispute-resolution committees
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- Understand and establish consensus-building priorities;
- Ask large projects to design three process changes (how, not if);
- Close the discussion and look for consensus
- Provide training or paid support staff for community mediators
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Demarcate and strengthen volunteer roles
- Create a "senior editor" role for volunteers who have a record of good judgment, reasonableness, understanding of policy, and constructive behavior.
- Protect new users by demarcating them, and help them find assistance from experienced editors (by demarcating mentors, administrators, and "senior editors")
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- Determine appropriate system/marker for recognizing reputable editors
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- Understand and establish value of demarcating reputation;
- Develop demarcation system (e.g.: "new" or "admin" beside new user's signature)
- Manage staff and volunteers to implement demarcation system
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Tools for community health
- Create "What You See Is What You Get" editing interface
- Make research easier to do
- Improve support and feedback by facilitating requests and responses
- Simplify and facilitate discussion
- Make it easier to monitor and maintain Changes
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- Usability donation drive
- Beta-testing
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Social networking features
- Consider standard social networking features such as profile, friend list, and groups
- Make use of WikiProjects or categories as a neutral meeting spot for volunteers
- Limit disruptive behavior, such as cabals, partisan groups, and canvassing
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- Establish policies for good use of social networking;
- Recommend limits to social networking, to minimize anti-social and anti-consensus building behavior
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- Understand and establish social networking goals
- Interface and feature development;
- Work with community to mitigate anti-social behavior, anti-consensus building behavior
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