Sorry Cormac - I don't know if I've responded yet.
I think inter-community communication is also a fine amendment/addition
to the goals.
I agree that real communication is needed, but I'd also say that it's
going to be a multi-step process. I think a Foundation Blog is step
one, because at least it gives us one place on a more commonly held
level to inform what's going on.
The notion of improving the way our lists work, or changing them
altogether is on the table (a big table) and to whatever extent we can
help address those challenges here, I'm interested.
That being said though, I think promotion is an easy first step towards
the idea of communication. It's a bit more specific, attainable, and
easy to measure some success.
Jay Walsh
Head of Communications
WikimediaFoundation.org
+1 (415) 839 6885 x 609
Cormac Lawler wrote:
Hi all, sorry I couldn't make it to the meeting.
One brief comment on
Jay's mail..
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Jay Walsh <jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org
<mailto:jwalsh@wikimedia.org>> wrote
The first (and actually quite broad) goal I propose is 'promotion'
By promotion, that means I'd like work I float, or that we discuss, on
this list to specifically be aimed towards promoting WMF's projects:
* Spreading the word on our internal communications tools (pumps,
signpost, project info pages etc)
* bringing news and information to the wider public community by
discussing our projects in other non-WMF related sites/media.
I'd like to augment the first goal to involve communication between
projects, and not simply promotion of projects. Promotion is a part of
the picture, but communication involves more - including sharing
experiences (successes, problems), discussing common issues, learning
from and with each other. This is my own personal larger aim for
Wikimedia - for it to become a true learning community, as a meta form
of disseminating knowledge. It's something that we're really crying out
for - to bring developers, community builders, editors, and users from
across projects into closer and more productive contact - so that we can
see what issues exist and how they can be addressed. If this fitted into
a clearly visible Foundation initiative (which it obviously does as an
agenda) it would also address issues of trust, which are clearly being
eroded in some parts of the meta-community.
Cheers,
Cormac