Task force/Living People/Timeline

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    February 2010

    Week 1 (Monday, February 8, through Sunday, February 14):Recommendations to the Board, text

    • Starting with biographies and other text entries, sort previous findings to find the root issues that the Board can provide recommendations.
    • Correlate ideas that come from recommendations to policy writing in March.
    • Start the recommendations drafting page.
    • Start formulating ideas for non-text and/or Wikipedia related issues, broadening into Wikimedia projects.

    Week 2 (Monday, February 15, through Sunday, February 21):Recommendations to the Board, projects

    • Formulate strategies for all projects, including text and non-text.
    • Discussion of relevance to what the Board can do, and what to put aside for community recommendations in April.
    • Refinement

    Week 3 (Monday, February 22, through Sunday, February 28): Resolution of week 1

    • Refine recommendations about text (No more than ten points)
    • Draft and publish findings. These findings are open for editing until the end of the term of the task force, or submitted to the Board.

    Week 4 (Monday, March 1, through Sunday, March 7): Resolution of week 2

    • Refine recommendations about non-text issues (No more than ten points).
    • Draft and publish findings. These findings are open for editing until the end of the term of the task force, or submitted to the Board.
    • Aquire statistics, as available, for relevant issues with living people (OTRS, on-wiki data).

    March 2010

    Week 1 (Monday, March 8, through Sunday, March 15): Living people policy

    • Examine the findings of recommendations, and what was decided can be put into policy
    • Examine the draft on meta

    Week 2 (Monday, March 16, through Sunday, March 21): Drafting

    • Begin drafting revisions of the Living people policy for global application
    • Concentrate discussion on finalization of wording on the talk page

    Week 3 (Monday, March 22, through Sunday, March 28): Finalize and reconcile

    • Finalize drafting of the Living people policy
    • Revisit finalized draft of Recommendations to the Board

    Week 4 (Monday, March 29, through Sunday, April 4): Finalize Board proposals

    • Complete policy from draft to submission
    • Complete recommendations from draft to submission
    • Submit to the Board of Trustees