A couple of concerns

My apologies in advance: I have not read through all of the discussion threads on this page, let alone many of the other pages, due to a lack of time and patience. I hope that you don't hold this against me here.

I have a few concerns if this priorities list is to be viewed as complete and fixed at some point in the near future. I've tried to set these out below...

"Stabilize the Infrastructure":

• Other measures: "$X million should come through Wikimedia Chapters" - this begs the question of where the money is going to. Funneling to the WMF is probably not scalable, or even legal in some countries, but this is what is implied by the second section of the summary. My personal preference for the future would be to see chapters growing to a similar sort of scale as the Foundation is at the moment - e.g. following what WMDE has done so far, and extending that. In such a scenario, the foundation would tackle/coordinate international-scale issues, such as global website access etc., while the chapters would approach things locally, but also supporting the international work (e.g. hiring developers). This is a fairly brief summary of a complicated topic, but my point here is that chapters should not just be considered passageways for money to support infrastructure
• Possible Targets: "99.9% uptime." I think you're missing some more 9's here. 99.9% uptime would mean downtime of ~9 hours a year, which is too much. The tech team do an amazing job on uptime already, though, so I think quantifying the current percentage of time that the site is up would be a good place to start here. Capacity is a bigger issue than uptime - given past (and present?) constraints on growth at Commons, and also (I believe, but am not sure) on potential technological innovations on Wikipedia (i.e. everything has to be as efficient as possible prior to deployment, which slows down the development process considerably).

Increase Reach:

• "2015 Goal: Wikimedia has at least 680 million online visitors per month and at least X% of those visitors represent the Global South." - "Global South" isn't the best phrase to use, as it's not a north-south divide, as en:North-South divide describes. There doesn't seem to be a particularly suitable phrase, though - perhaps "developing world" would be better (but still not ideal)?

Missing topics:

• Why isn't there anything about breadth of content here? I'm all for increasing quality, but we should also remember that there is a lot that we don't cover at all yet. Example: Wikisource is lacking huge swathes of content that it could host. Quality is a big thing on en.wp, where there's already a large quantity of content, but we shouldn't just be driven by en.wp here.
• Partnerships with cultural organizations is a big thing at the moment, but it omits a lot of other organizations that partnerships could be formed with. Examples would include universities (common aim: to teach and share knowledge), companies in general (which typically have large amounts of content and knowledge hidden away or protected), news organizations (lots of background information, and interest in finding out facts, related to current events), etc.

I have other worries, which largely rotate around chapters and offline participation, but I think these are my main ones that are relevant to the wikimedia movement as a whole. Thanks.

Thanks for starting this thread, Mike. A few quick thoughts for you:

On chapters - This is indeed a long conversation. The vision for the chapters-Wikimedia relationship goes beyond a pass-through funding relationship. It is important for the movement to have effective chapters and I was encouraged by the discussion at the Berlin chapters meeting in April that focused on what they term "professionalization". I know that WMF is committed to continued support for Chapters to grow into strong, effective organizations in their own right. In fact, I'm going to be leading a team at WMF to increase our capacity to support chapters on a number of dimensions beyond our current grantmaking work.

On chapters funding flow to WMF - There is a need for some additional work to better define the revenue relationship. Arne and Jan-Bart on the WMF Board are beginning a process soon to wrestle with the structures that could work to both ensure that, as you note, the WMF can fulfill its global role, and chapters can fulfill these.

On "Global South" - It would be great to get a better word I agree, though it seems every term is laden with all sorts of unfortunate meaning.

On missing topics - From the strategy process, there was a lot of enthusiasm for partnerships with cultural institutions. It would be great if the group within the community that is leading this effort would capture their goals in this plan. While WMF doesn't have a specific initiative around this, there is no reason why a community group couldn't lay out a goal and also seek grant funding from the WMF or generate funding from chapters to support their work.

On issues, you didn't raise...I'd be interested in hearing from you on these. If you are attending Wikimania, it would be great to meet.