Task forces burned out IMHO

I have some sympathy with Kozuch's points however I draw a much more positive conclusion from it.

This whole process has been breaking new ground. As with Wikipedia, I think given the nature of the collaboration and the medium in which we've done it, the results have been surprisingly good.

Although I sympathise with the assertion that some proposals could get overlooked I don't agree that this will happen. In my own case, this process has made me generate some ideas that - even if they are not pursued further on here - I could actually take to en:wp and perhaps achieve one technical innovation I would find very useful regarding Watchlists. Without this wiki I wouldn't even have thought of the idea.

I think that people who submitted proposals they really believe in, especially if they could be regarded as Mediawiki tweaks or relatively minor innovations, should hang onto those ideas and there's every possibility that they could be introduced to their home project and, after some time, might catch on elsewhere when they demonstrate their usefulness.

I also sympathise with the idea that trying to plan ahead for five years might make some of us look foolish when we look back in the year 2015. But I still think it's an important and valid exercise and one that will prove to have been worthwhile. Sure, some of the stuff that comes out of this will prove not to have worked, other parts won't have the impact we hoped but I'm certain there will be at least one big WIN that will be directly attributable to the Strategy Wiki.

As for "small improvements" being the way to work, well yes... but this process won't stop incremental improvement. That will still be going on. There will still be bug fixes, feature requests, policy development. We can have BOTH a big vision and gradual evolution.