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From: Maryana Pinchuk <mpinchuk(a)wikimedia.org>
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Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 23:39:43 -0000
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikianswers Proposal
Hi all,
Just a quick +1 to Risker's comment that the WMF Product & Tech team has
set aside some resources in this fiscal year to exploring/testing
hypotheses around engaging "Future Audiences." You can read more about this
work here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2023-2024/….
The remit of this team is not to build an entirely new project from
scratch, but rather to test a variety of underlying assumptions/hypotheses
that can help inform larger strategic investment (like what kind of new
projects we may need, if any) in future annual plans.
We're still compiling our test hypotheses, but I think this proposal
touches on a few of them (e.g.: people prefer to receive information
curated/collated by other humans vs AI; there are many more people who
would be regular visitors to our projects if our content wasn't all
longform text and better fit a quick-facts-browsing format, etc.). I'd love
to hear all your thoughts on whether these are the right hypotheses to
think about testing, if there are others, and how we might begin to test
some of these this year – though I'll note that we had a great turnout for
our first community Future Audiences focus group (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2023-2024/…)
and I'm not sure all the attendees are on this mailing list, so would
personally love to see this discussion move to the talk page on Meta :)
-Maryana (Pinchuk, not Iskander), on behalf of Future Audiences