Remarks regarding [[Task_force/Recommendations/Community_health]]

We're going back-and-forth here. The Foundation isn't avoiding real-world collaboration at all. Witness the recent Telefonica announcement as an example, or the recent Subject-Matter-Improvement Pilot Program, which is a partnership with university public policy initiatives to improve the quality of some articles.

The Foundation only employs 35 people. It's responsible for the up-time of the servers, protecting the brand, improving the software, and many other things. So it has limited resources to take on other projects. Just to give you an example of how underresourced the Wikimedia Foundation, Facebook recently announced that it has one million users for every developer. For comparison, the Wikimedia Foundation has 30 million users for every developer.

Three years ago, the Foundation was even smaller. One of the reasons that Wikimedia Chapters emerged was to specifically take on the task of content partnerships. The Chapters agreement with the Foundation allows it to use the Wikimedia brand so that it has the power to make these kinds of partnership deals. There are probably ways to improve the Chapters agreement, and there may be ways to empower other people to do the same. We should definitely have a conversation about it.

Here's my point. I totally agree that a partnership with NASA would be wonderful. The point of doing a movement-wide strategic planning as opposed to simply a Foundation strategic-plan is to also answer the question, "Who should do it, and how can they be further empowered?" The answer cannot always be, "The Foundation should do it," because that's not realistic.

So the question, at the end of the day is, who might take this on? Chapters? What's preventing this from happening right now, and how could this be resolved?