Documents from the chapters meeting
Documents from the chapters meeting
For anyone that may be interested - these are the documents that Sue presented today to the chapters meeting in Berlin.
- Strategy Presentation
Media:Wikimedia Foundation Strategy Project Chapters Presentation 2010.pdf
- Chapters Market Penetration April 2010
Media:Wikimedia Chapter Market Penetration April 2010.pdf
- Wikimedia Strategy Plan Summary
That was nicely done ;)
I can see the Foundation "interest" for social features again and i feel a real lack of emphasize on ideas that make editors not leaving Wikipedia while getting new editors was well covered.
Yeah, it's okay if the foundation was planning social features all along, but there wasn't really much attention paid to the broader points of the community health task force. There's a brief mention to consensus building in the appendix. And some vague sense that diversifying our editor base will involve diffusing some of the hostility and arguing.
That said, it's exciting to see things moving forward, and strategy is so much more than what goes on internally on the projects. It's about global politics and economics and technological change. There's only so much room for the details.
What's next?
The Foundation took all of the recommendations made by the task forces very seriously. The question is, what can it do, and who should do what?
At the end of the day, the Foundation's major lever is the technology, and so it's placing a lot of emphasis on that. Many of the other aspects of things proposed by the Community Health Task Force and others can and should be taken on by others in the movement. One of the goals of this wiki as we move toward the end of this project is figuring out how.
Would it be useful for the community health task force to try and put together an action plan for the recommendations? I could assemble a decent draft, and try to get some feedback from other people based on what's feasible/agreeable.
I think this would be wonderful!
I found some time to put together a draft:
Task force/Community Health/Implementation
Wanted to get some feedback from a few people, including you, before I tried to get more feedback from the village pump. Anything in the implementation plan that seems outlandish, or unclear?
Thanks for this! We can use this as a model to activate volunteers around the strategic plan as a whole.
I made some changes to your page. First, I merged the Board and Staff columns into one Wikimedia Foundation column. Second, I moved the Volunteers column and made it first. Third, I added a column for Wikimedia Chapters.
The Foundation is already moving to do many of the things in its columns, and we should figure out a nice way to indicate that. Many of the things in both columns could also go under the Chapters column.
We've got some easy icons: 
Doing... and 
Done for example. I dropped one of them in.
Thanks guys! You'd know better than I would how to best organize it, so if the line between the foundation and the staff is worth removing then that definitely should be reflected. Not sure what role the chapters will have in the community health recommendations, though. It might make sense for some of the other task forces, but not really for this one. Maybe not thinking it through, though.
BTW, thanks for marking down what's being done. Again, you guys know much more than the rest of us. Feel free to jump in with further changes or criticisms.
As an aside, I hope the next evolution of strategy wiki will be to organize and activate volunteers. So being able to mark items as Doing and Done will be a critical aspect of this. Philippe has been thinking about how to structure this, and I hope others will join in. Probably Village Pump is a better place for that, although starting the conversation here is fine.
As much as us volunteers have a decent link to the community, nothing would activate the community as much as Jimbo or other "official" representatives of the foundation. But that kind of call-to-action has to be at the last step, when we're ready to take the recommendations to the end.
At the next step, it makes sense to organize and activate volunteers. But how we do it (and how much) depends on what we're trying to activate them to do.
On a basic level I see the chapters as another way for people to connect with each other and they provide alternative methods of communication for users. So, I see it as a way to address some issues related to community health. It also could be a vehicle for WMF volunteers in various wikis to organize in order to better collaborate across wiki or with outside organizations.
I agree with this. I think outreach in general -- both internally and externally -- is a great role for Chapters to play. The German Wikimedia Chapter gave birth to the idea of Wikipedia Academies, and they could play a great role in distributing swag as well.
I guess I'm still not clear on what it is that Chapters do. My understanding is that they were just meet-ups for active volunteers. I wasn't aware that they had more/different responsibilities than the rest of us online folks.
I created a similar table for the local language task force: Task_force/Local_language_projects/Implementation
Yo, Randomran.
You are really keeping the store running :)
At least we defined what we think that should be implemented. Now whatever it's implemented and how it's implemented is left to each respective wiki.
Hoi, I have strong reservations by the presentations.. I blogged about this twice..
The numbers are incomplete and the approach to the data has been biased from the start. This resulted in a presentation that does not consider how the other languages can grow to a size that reflects the number of people who can read / write the language. Thanks,
GerardM
For those who are interested, the session Philippe mentioned has been summarized (incl discussion) at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_meeting_2010/Documentation/Strategy_walkthrough