Task force/Reader Conversion/Weekly Report 01

Task Force Weekly Report: week of October 28-Nov 4, 2009

Task Force Name: Increase contributions from readers and under-represented groups

Report of Activities

During this week:

• We were invited to participate in the Task Force.
• Four members of the group linked to themselves on the Task Force Page
  • Netmouse (Anne Murphy):
    • Initiated some discussion on her Strategic planning User page and Livejournal to solicit comments from a mixed group of wikipedia editors and noneditors.
    • Read several pages from the fact base, reviewed the Task Force Page and links from it
    • Investigated more closely the current deletion policies and processes as described in the en.wikipedia.
      • Noted that Wikipedia:Perennial_proposals points to history of past debates on topics we might end up proposing about
• Eugene and Philippe invited Anne to facilitate the task force.
• We started using the Discussion tab of our main page to discuss the first couple of questions from the Task Force page.
• We started to identify useful data to examine about these questions, including doing a cross-compare of the english wikipedia editing behavior pattern with developmental patterns for wikipedia in other languages.
• Thomas planned two unconferences (Nov 18th and 25th) to take place in São Paulo, Brazil on related topics; Philippe will attend on behalf of Wikimedia Strategy.

Planned activities for next week

• get all members of the task force listed on the task force page.
• try to engage more members of the task force with the first question, What is the goal of increasing participation?
• examine the question of how we will know if the task force succeeds.
• have all members of the group look at the Template for writing up strategic recommendations to structure thinking about our eventual output.
• start discussion of questions 3 & 4 from the mandate.
• continue to read the references linked to: expand reading list
• identify what resources or assistance we need to address the questions we are raising.

Resources needed

To complete our work, this task force needs the following resources or assistance:

• Anne has requested access (in database format) to data on page deletions in a way that lets them be cross-references to editor behavior and retention.

Appreciation

This week, this task force wishes to recognize for their assistance the following users:

• Randomran, Bodnotbod, and Art Unbound for helping get the discussion flowing.

Other comments

Hey Task force members, feel free to add particular details about what you've been doing this week!

References

Our notes or documentation can be found at:

(We need to organize this yet)

Submitted by: Netmouse 22:40, 5 November 2009 (UTC)