Dear Wikimedians,
It has been a big few weeks for movement strategy. Working groups
published scoping documents in March; the core team, working groups,
spent three whirlwind days in Berlin discussing our future with
representatives from the organized segment at the Wikimedia Summit;
and right now, affiliate groups and language communities are taking
these discussions further in community conversations across the world.
Details and a lot of links for further reading below:
== Generating ideas for our future at the Wikimedia Summit ==
Working group members had the chance to engage directly with organized
groups recently at the Wikimedia Summit [1] in Berlin. The questions
in the scoping documents [2] kickstarted conversations about what kind
of changes might be needed, how we can share resources effectively and
establish meaningful partnerships, and how to turn stuck energy into
positive momentum. The program’s adaptive, flexible format meant that
we could tailor sessions as needed and enabled working and organized
groups to connect and exchange in many ways. You can find out more in
our blog post on Meta [3].
== From questions to answers: what the working groups are up to ==
Following the publication of the scoping documents in mid-March and
the Wikimedia Summit, the nine working groups [4] are currently
finalizing a plan of action to conduct research and get the input they
need to start developing recommendations for structural change. From
there, it is all about diving deep into our movement to find which
opportunities we can make the most of. As part of this, working groups
will start getting into the input and insights that arise from
community conversations. This will be used to enrich the content and
bring in the wider perspectives from our diverse movement that will
inform working groups as they draft recommendations for change.
== Take part in our community conversations ==
Community conversations about our future are happening! This is your
opportunity to share your ideas and insight about what in our movement
needs to change. To participate, head over to the Meta-Wiki page [5]
(currently available in 9 languages, with more to come) and share your
thoughts on the talk pages for each scoping document. We have also
contracted Community Strategy Liaisons [6] for the Arabic [7], German
[8], Hindi [9], Mandarin [10], Spanish [11], and Portuguese [12]
communities, who are leading discussions on-wiki and in social media
channels to engage editors, readers, and other participants in
strategy discussions. Finally, volunteer Organizational Strategy
Liaisons [13] are taking the lead to facilitate conversations
representing the perspectives of their organizations - check your
community’s or group’s preferred channels for details.
== What’s next? ==
The focus for the next few months will be on gathering input, data,
insights, and content that will be used to develop recommendations for
structural change. Community conversations will run until June with
communities and organized groups to enrich this whole process - get
involved and have your voice heard. We are also looking for more
representatives from organized groups [14] to become liaisons with the
strategy process.
Let us know what your questions are, and join in to share your perspectives.
Nicole
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2019
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Partici…
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Blog_po…
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working…
[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Partici…
[6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/People/…
[7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ASedrati_(WMF)
[8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gereon_Kalkuhl_(WMF)
[9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:RSharma_(WMF)
[10] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LShangkuan_(WMF)
[11] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FFort_(WMF)
[12] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LTeles_(WMF)
[13] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/People/…
[14] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/People/…
--
Nicole Ebber
Adviser International Relations
Program Manager Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
https://wikimedia.de
Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der
Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns
dabei! https://spenden.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland — Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.
V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts
Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig
anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin,
Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Hi,
Two weeks ago I sent this email to my strategy working group (resource
allocation). I didn't plan to send a public email, just to share with the
rest of the group my reason to leave and just to disappear.
I receive feedbacks with many of the group members and also requesting
permissions to transfer it with others outside of the group, which leads to
more conversations that I had around it.
Last week we had our weekly phone call, during which we discussed our
feelings and opinions about the process so far. From our long conversation
and the conversations with the others, I learned that many of these
feelings exist among the other members, as well some ideas on how to make
it easier and less demanding and at the same time publishing the
conclusions sooner.
Yesterday, following a good conversation with one of the WMF's board
members about it, I was asked to share these thoughts with the movement's
list, so that it may also involve the community's feedback as well.
*Itzik Edri*
Chairperson (volunteer)
itzik(a)wikimedia.org.il
+972-54-5878078
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Itzik - Wikimedia Israel <itzik(a)wikimedia.org.il>
Date: Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 2:08 PM
Subject: I decided to leave the working group
To: <wg2030-resourceallocation(a)wikimedia.org>
Dear friends,
For a long time I have been considering leaving the working group but each
time I decided to give it another chance. Yesterday, after long
consideration, I decided to write this email.
I must be honest - I was skeptical from the first moment about this
process. The huge amount of money which the board allocated to this process
together with the complicated and (very) long process planned for it - make
me doubt the ability to really have a real outcome in a reasonable time.
For the past two years, it seems to me like the strategy took over almost
every movement event and activity. I feel bad for investing millions of
dollars from our donations and uncounted hours of volunteer time into this
process.
I also felt hypocritical in the way the foundation acts - while "freezing"
grant programs (such as APG) and holding affiliates from increasing their
programs and budgets, "because of the strategy process" while
simultaneously approving itself to increase its budget and staff year after
year by tens of percentage.
Despite my distrust of the chances of this process and the criticism I felt
for it, I instructed my organization to give it the full support we been
asked, as all our movement did. Later on, I decided to join this working
group as I felt we almost reached the final step of the process and I
wanted to help shape the recommendations. I was totally wrong.
In the first months of the workgroups, I felt it was completely wasted of
time. I saw how wonderful volunteers tried to lead the process within each
group (thank you Daria!) - but it wasn't their job, nor none of us. I felt
like I was returning to university, and every few weeks I received
instructions and homework from the lecturer, with assignments to the
following week - and in between, that we need to lead it and solve things
by ourselves. It took the core team a few months to change it and bring
external support, but even after the (right) change, it continues to feel
like I came *to work for *the strategic process, not with.
I felt like nothing happened for the past year(or years?) before the
working groups started to operate. As if we didn't have hundreds of
meetings around the world, with a total of tens of thousands of people and
an enormous amount of hours of conversations - and aside from a short few
sentences of a strategic direction, we started from scratch. A completely
new process.
>From scratch to have discussions about what this process is, definitions
and concepts. What is the problem with the current system? What are the
challenges? What people shared during the first phase? Information which
wasn't available and ready for the group, and still isn't. Eight months
after we start, the real conversation about the subject which I joined to
discuss about and help shape recommendations around it, is far, far away
from even to start.
The more I spoke to more and more people who are part of the process, I
realized that this despair is not only with me but with many. But we are a
real Wikimedians, and we are committed to the things we start. We are bad
with stopping things when they don't work or have real reviews of the
things we do when we have the belief that this is the right thing. I
completely stopped thinking it is the right thing to our movement.
Last month, in our in-person meeting in Berlin, one of the opening
activities was to sum up the number of years we were all members of the
movement. Just think about doing the same, and sum up the number of
volunteer (and staff) hours invested until now in this process. We are
talking about tens of thousands of hours of work not even taking into
consideration the huge amount of money involved.
And the end of the process is very far away.
In one of our discussions, we doubt if to include volunteers as a resource
which can be allocated. We decided at the end it can't as such, but just
try to imagine it was, and try to think about a future whatever-will-be the
resource allocation body/structure: how he would deal with the decision
whether to approve such a huge amount of volunteer time and money in the
process. Did the WMF's board even consider and discuss these resources and
how it will affect the movement during the process years? I doubt.
We tend to say that the movement newest project is WikiData. I think we may
need to start address WikiStrategy as the newest project. Just think about
what we could do with that amount of resources.
The idea to massively involve the wide community within this process was
the right decision - but the implementations from my point of view were
wrong.
If the last strategy process was totally handled by outsiders - we took
this one completely to its opposite, without finding the right balance.
A strategy process is important, there is no doubt. And our movement needs
one, there is no doubt.
But a strategy process can't take over the organization' activities for
*years.*
I want to warmly thank you, my teammates. It is heartwarming to see the
commitment and amazing energy of all the members of this process, and of
course, the core team which is dedicated to bringing a change. I have no
doubt that we all want to secure the future of our movement to years to
come and I don't know of such a high level of engagement and commitment
anywhere else. But at the same time, I think we should put limits to it and
reconsider it - and think how to make it shorter, lighter, less demanding
and expensive - both from the perspective of staff/volunteer time and money.
Yours,
Itzik.
*Itzik Edri*
Chairperson
itzik(a)wikimedia.org.il
+972-54-5878078
Dear Wikimedians,
We are proud to announce that we are finished our first Wikicamp initiative
on 20 April 2019.
Total of 10 participants was attended.
*Wikicamp Chattogram 2019*, is a day-long event for experienced and new
Wikimedians from Chattogram, Bangladesh. The core objective of the event is
to increase offline activities of the Wikimedia Bangladesh in Chattogram,
to develop skills and expertise of the new Wikipedians and integrated
experienced and newcomers.
This is the first initiative in Bangladesh of its kind being held in
Chattogram organised by Chattogram Wikipedia Community
<https://bd.wikimedia.org/s/1iw>, were providing technical guidance about
Wikimedia Foundation's three projects - Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia
Commons, and as well as give a detailed discussion of those projects.
*What we did*
1. Assistant technical direction to contribute to Wikipedia
2. Total 28 new articles written in Bangla Wikipedia were 5 from WLE and 23
from WLM related entry
3. A brief session about contributing Wikidata
4. Total 28 new entries created in Wikidata
5. A brief session about contributing Wikimedia Commons
*Details: Wikicamp Chattogram 2019 <https://bd.wikimedia.org/s/1kd>*
*Photos: *Gallery
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikicamp_Chattogram_2019>
*News: Local news about this event <https://bd.wikimedia.org/s/1k5>*
*--*
*Moheen Reeyad*
Wikicamp Chattogram 2019 committee
Executive Member
*Wikimedia Bangladesh*
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Hello Wikimedians!
As part of the roll out for community conversations [1] in our movement
strategy [2], I am pleased to share with you that a team of Community
Strategy Liaisons have been hired and begun their new role.
Community Strategy Liaisons [3] are part-time contractors who lead outreach
and discussion about movement strategy among some of our largest language
groups. Their time is spent connecting with Wikimedians on-wiki, in social
media channels, over conference calls, and at in-person meetups to help
explain the movement strategy process and to facilitate discussion on the
content.
This role is in parallel to the volunteer Organizational Strategy Liaisons,
which lead discussions within their organized groups and affiliates about
movement strategy. You can find out more about these two groups on our meta
page [4].
Each of the Community Strategy Liaisons dedicates the bulk of their
contracted time to their dedicated language group. They have formal
responsibilities related to reporting and discussion summaries, as well as
communicating back to their language communities the results of their work.
Given the importance of having broad reach and support across the
community, they will also provide some support to other language
communities from their geographic region. We will also soon be inviting
volunteers from language communities not represented by the team below to
sign up as Strategy Liaisons for their projects.
With this in mind, here is the team!
-
Anass Sedrati [5] is our Strategy Liaison for Arabic. His primary
responsibilities are to engage the Arabic speaking language community
across Wikimedia projects in discussions around movement strategy. He will
also support outreach to the Swedish, Berber, and Kurdish language
communities, as well as with the French community until an official
Strategy Liaison is hired for this role.
-
Rupika Sharma [6] is our Strategy Liaison for Hindi. Her primary
responsibilities are to engage the Hindi speaking language community across
Wikimedia projects in discussions around movement strategy. She will also
support outreach to other Indic language communities active on Wikimedia.
-
Gereon Kalkuhl [7] is our Strategy Liaison for German. His primary
responsibilities are to engage the German speaking language community
across Wikimedia projects in discussions around movement strategy. He will
also support outreach to the Dutch language community.
-
Liang-chih Shang-Kuan [8] is our Strategy Liaison for Mandarin. His
primary responsibilities are to engage the Mandarin speaking language
community across Wikimedia projects in discussions around movement
strategy. He will also support outreach to other language communities
active in east Asia, southeast Asia, and the broader pacific region.
-
Lucas Teles [9] is our Strategy Liaison for Portuguese. His primary
responsibilities are to engage the Portuguese language community across
Wikimedia projects in discussions around movement strategy.
-
Francesc Fort [10] is our Strategy Liaison for Spanish. His primary
responsibilities are to engage the Spanish language community across
Wikimedia projects in discussions around movement strategy. He will also
support outreach to other language communities that predominate within
Spain as well as to the Italian community.
As a final note, we are still looking to hire candidates in French, Farsi,
and Russian, though other candidates may join the team for additional
languages. You can find out about the latest composition of the team on
meta and connect with the contractor for your language at any time on their
talk pages.
Community conversations are your chance to make your voice heard on
movement strategy. Thank you for joining us!
Best,
Kelsi
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Partici…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/People/…
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/People
[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ASedrati_(WMF)
[6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:RSharma_(WMF)
[7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gereon_Kalkuhl_(WMF)
[8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LShangkuan_(WMF)
[9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LTeles_(WMF)
[10] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FFort_(WMF)
--
Kelsi Stine-Rowe
Community Relations Specialist, Movement Strategy
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
"Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment."
:: Apologies for cross-posting to multiple mailing lists. We want to ensure
we spread the word about this opportunity to as many people as possible. ::
Hi all,
We are writing today to invite you to be a part of a community review on
Wikimedia brand research and strategy.
Recently, the Wikimedia Foundation set out to better understand how the
world sees Wikimedia and Wikimedia projects as brands.[1] We wanted to get
a sense of the general visibility of our different projects, and evaluate
public support of our mission to spread free knowledge.
We launched a global brand study to research these questions, as part of
our planning toward our 2030 strategic goals.[2] The study was commissioned
by the Board, carried out by the brand consultancy Wolff Olins, and
directed by the Foundation’s Communications team.[3][4] It collected
perspectives from the internet users of seven countries (India, China,
Nigeria, Egypt, Germany, Mexico and the US) on Wikimedia projects and
values.
The study revealed some interesting trends:
- Awareness of Wikipedia is above 80% in Western Europe and North America.
- Awareness of Wikipedia averages above 40% in emerging markets,[5] and is
fast growing.
- There is awareness of other projects, but was significantly lower. For
example, awareness of Wikisource was at 30%, Wiktionary at 25%, Wikidata at
20%, and Wikivoyage at 8%.
- There was significant confusion around the name Wikimedia. Respondents
reported they had either not heard of it, or extrapolated its relationship
to Wikipedia.
- In spite of lack of awareness about Wikimedia, respondents showed a high
level of support for our mission.
Following from these research insights, the Wolff Olins team also made a
strategic suggestion to refine the Wikimedia brand system.[6] The
suggestions include:
- Use Wikipedia as the central movement brand rather than Wikimedia.
- Provide clearer connections to the Movement projects from Wikipedia to
drive increased awareness, usage and contributions to smaller projects.
- Retain Wikimedia project names, with the exception of Wikimedia Commons
which is recommended to be shortened to Wikicommons to be consistent with
other projects.
- Explore new naming conventions for the Foundation and affiliate groups
that use Wikipedia rather than Wikimedia.
- Consider expository taglines and other naming conventions to reassert the
connections between projects (e.g. “______ - A Wikipedia project”).
This is not a new idea.[7][8]
By definition, Wikimedia brands are shared among the communities who give
them meaning. So in considering this change, the Wikimedia Foundation is
collecting feedback from across our communities. Our goal is to speak with
more than 80% of affiliates and as many individual contributors as possible
before May 2019, when we will offer the Board of Trustees a summary of
community response.
We invite you to look at a project summary [9], the brand research [10],
and the brand strategy suggestion [11] Wolff Olins prepared working with us.
For feedback, please add comments on the Community Review talk page [12] or
email brandproject(a)wikimedia.org with direct feedback. You can also use
either of these channels to request to join a group meeting.
We know this is big topic and we’re excited to hear from you!
- Zack McCune and the Wikimedia Foundation Communications department
[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/02/07/how-does-the-world-see-wikimedia…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20
[3] https://www.wolffolins.com/
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Defining_Emerging_Comm…
[6]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/02/26/leading-with-wikipedia-a-brand-p…
[7] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-May/029991.html
[8]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AStrengthening_and_un…
[9]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_resear…
[10]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Global_Wikipedia_and_Wikimedia_Bran…
[11]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Wikimedia_brand_strategy_proposal…
[12]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_r…
--
Zack McCune (he/him)
Senior Global Brand Manager
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear Wikimedians,
As you may have noticed, almost three weeks ago, the Wikimedia Summit 2019 (
w.wiki/38b) took place in Berlin.
Over three days, representatives from Wikimedia affiliates, the Wikimedia
Foundation, and three Wikimedia committees came together with members of
nine movement strategy working groups to discuss how to build the future of
the Wikimedia movement and ensure access to more knowledge for more people.
As for the last Wikimedia Conferences, we have published an in-depth report
documenting on what happened over the three days. The report is now
available on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2019/Documentation
(or via the short url w.wiki/38c)
The report describes in depth what participants done over the three days:
Looking back on what the Working Groups have done over the last months,
checking-in on the Strategy Process, feedbacking and enriching the scoping
documents – and planning what needs to happen until Wikimania.
If you have any questions regarding the Summit or the report, please let me
know.
Best regards
Cornelius
Program Coordinator for the Wikimedia Summit
--
Cornelius Kibelka
Internationale Beziehungen | International Relations
Vorstandsteam | Office of the ED
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207
I withdraw any opinions and suggestions about the branding discussion,
and don't intend to continue participating in it. Instead, I would
like to have a more substantive discussion:
(1) I ask that the CTO search team please publish their search and
requirement criteria, including the CTO job description and any and
all goals for the CTO position whether in current planning documents
or unpublished drafts of planning materials.
(2) Why are the Strategy Working Group lists not on
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo ? I recall several people
involved with the strategy process as saying it is "open" and asking
at length for additional participation (e.g.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxCFzA3PEaQ&t=23m and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxCFzA3PEaQ&t=30m et seq.) To be
honest, there doesn't seem to be much community engagement from
working groups or strategy process facilitators on meta, and the
meeting summaries are very abstract and difficult to understand. If
there is a need for private strategy working group communications, can
people use off-list emails instead?
Best regards,
Jim
Hello, everyone,
The next Research Showcase, “Group Membership and Contributions to Public
Information Goods: The Case of WikiProject” and “Thanks for Stopping By: A
Study of ‘Thanks’ Usage on Wikimedia,” will be live-streamed next
Wednesday, April 17, 2019, at 11:30 AM PDT/19:30 UTC.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmb5LoJzOoE
As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You
can also watch our past research showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
This month's presentations:
Group Membership and Contributions to Public Information Goods: The Case of
WikiProject
By Ark Fangzhou Zhang
Abstract:
We investigate the effects of group identity on contribution behavior on
the English Wikipedia, the largest online encyclopedia that gives free
access to the public. Using an instrumental variable approach that exploits
the variations in one’s exposure to WikiProject, we find that joining a
WikiProject has a significant impact on one’s level of contribution, with
an average increase of 79 revisions or 8,672 character per month. To
uncover the potential mechanism underlying the treatment effect, we use the
size of home page for WikiProject as a proxy for the number of
recommendations from a project. The results show that the users who join a
WikiProject with more recommendations significantly increase their
contribution to articles under the joined project, but not to articles
under other projects.
Thanks for Stopping By: A Study of ‘Thanks’ Usage on Wikimedia
By Swati Goel
Abstract:
The Thanks feature on Wikipedia, also known as "Thanks," is a tool with
which editors can quickly and easily send one other positive feedback. The
aim of this project is to better understand this feature: its scope, the
characteristics of a typical "Thanks" interaction, and the effects of
receiving a thank on individual editors. We study the motivational impacts
of "Thanks" because maintaining editor engagement is a central problem for
crowdsourced repositories of knowledge such as Wikimedia. Our main findings
are that most editors have not been exposed to the Thanks feature (meaning
they have never given nor received a thank), thanks are typically sent
upwards (from less experienced to more experienced editors), and receiving
a thank is correlated with having high levels of editor engagement. Though
the prevalence of "Thanks" usage varies by editor experience, the impact of
receiving a thank seems mostly consistent for all users. We empirically
demonstrate that receiving a thank has a strong positive effect on
short-term editor activity across the board and provide preliminary
evidence that thanks could compound to have long-term effects as well.
--
Janna Layton (she, her)
Administrative Assistant - Audiences & Technology
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello,
Allow me some notes on the rebranding of the Wikimedia movement. It
seems that the issue becomes larger and larger, as we receive signals
that the challenge is not only to use the brands differently or invent
new brands, but also to reform the movement and its organizations (?).
Also, the "Strategic Direction" hints that the term "community" will
be used for more than for the editing community(-ies) of today. That
everything and everybody will be "community" in future ("and beyond").
This makes the "rebranding" more and more complicated. And it seems -
I like to be corrected - that in external relations both "Wikipedia"
and "community" will be much more in use. So does that mean that, in
future, the director of the Wikimedia Foundation will become the
"director of the Wikipedia community" in external relations?
In general, I understand that the only well-known brand of the
Wikimedia movement is "Wikipedia" and that we should make good use of
it. I just wonder about the consequences for the movement, and how to
indicate relatedness and otherness between the different entities and
wikis.
Kind regards
Ziko