Hello everyone,
I just wanted to share some tips that I learned these days for engaging
more people in the strategy discussions. Most of them were suggested to me
by contributors during discussions on village pumps. They might maybe help
some of you too.
Till Tuesday there was only 1 comment left on the discussion page for the
French Wikipedia. Inter-wikis such as wikiversity (fr) and wikisource (fr)
were even more active. Two days later there are over 20 folks debating in
the French Wikipedia.
Below are some of the tips that helped me:
- Switch from posting on village pumps only to posting on village pumps
AND on talk pages of active members. You may find active users with the
wikiscan tool (eg: most active users in Spanish wikipedia during February
<http://es.wikiscan.org/date/201703/users>)
- Specify in the message that you leave on talk pages of active usres
that their opinion really matters no matter if they are sysop or just doing
spelling check.
- Include in your message few links explaining the context, the overall
process, and the FAQ
- I translated, into English, the template message that I used when
inviting contributors individually. You will find it here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Outreach/F…>
If you guys have any other tips that worked for you please, I would love to
hear them, especially how you get volunteers to help you summarize
discussions.
Cheers,
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Hey strategy people,
I'm preparing for my trip to Berlin as well, but one editor has brought up
the issue of "ban all ips" on ptwiki's strategy discussion. I have already
pointed out that this may go against much of the ideas of the movement and
that he should have a solid ground on arguments and facts to make this kind
of proposal. However, he has turned it around and simply stated that ips
contributions are mostly harmful and went ahead to question quality of
content and if readers actually learn something after reading a Wikipedia
article.
Aside the problem on how to deal with contributions to the strategy process
such as these, I think listing the research in this area (possibly
translating the most important few) would be a good way to foster better
contributions to the discussion.
So, here is my questions, do you know of research into these questions that
are not in the strategy portal? Specifically into the IP vs logged in users
contributions profile, I believe I've seen a few researches that brushed
into this area but can't quite remember where to find them.
Thanks for the help,
Chico Venancio
Moin,
Satdeep and I have started putting together a draft summary of the
community conversations between March 14th and 24th on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Sources/Su…>.
My understanding is that several people are currently working on updating
their source
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Sources>
pages, so the draft is still subject to change and I aim at finalizing it
in the EU afternoon tomorrow.
This is the first of several summaries I will be writing as I wander
through the feedback we gather throughout the process. If you would like to
have your discussions referenced in this first version, please try to
update your source pages so that I can review it before I finalize the
draft tomorrow.
A compact overview of what (other) communities talk about can help everyone
to identify shared ideas and concerns but also surface new questions and
issues one to date hasn't thought about or discussed. Hence, please feel
free to translate and share the text in case you think it could enrich your
own community's conversation. I am also open to suggestions for
modifications. Where possible, I am trying to write translation-friendly
sentences instead of conveying the full content details of the sources
linked in the draft.
Best regards,
Jan
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Jan Eissfeldt
Senior Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Dear all,
I wanted to send a brief word of welcome to all of you who have signed
up for this list. Thank you for your interest in the movement strategy
process!
This list includes strategy staff, coordinators under contract,
volunteer coordinators, and other people generally interested in the
strategy process. Anyone is welcome to join the list.
The list will be used for support and coordination on the movement
strategy process. It’s a great place to ask questions if you’re not
sure how to do something, to ask other coordinators for advice, to
share what you have learned, etc. Anyone is welcome to answer
questions if they know the answer :)
The list will focus on the process; it will not be used for content
discussion about the various topics, strategic direction, or specific
goals. Those are happening on wikis, at events, online, and other
venues.
I will send another message shortly to orient you towards documents
and resources that may be useful to you in your roles as coordinators.
Thanks again for helping to bring a diverse set of voices to this
important discussion.
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Guillaume Paumier
Hello,
[Depending on when you joined the list and on your role, this message may
contain information that is redundant or not relevant to you. In
particular, most of what follows has already been sent to the contractors.]
Thank you for being here and for your willingness to contribute to the
movement strategy process. In this message, I will give an overview of the
resources and documents that are available to support your efforts. Most of
this information is available on Meta-Wiki from the "Organize
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Strategy/Wikimedia_movem…>"
page.
Main pages to be aware of
First, a quick look at the main pages on Meta:
- The main portal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Strategy/Wikimedia_movem…>
is the landing page for the project. It provides a high-level overview and
orients people towards more specific areas of work
- The "Participate
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Strategy/Wikimedia_movem…>"
page is a list of the discussions currently happening on wikis, online, and
in person. If there are discussions in your language, they are shown at the
top of the page.
- The List of organizers
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Strategy/Wikimedia_movem…>
is a list of all the discussions that are underway, planned, or potential.
If someone is planning a discussion and you would like to help, you can
contact them directly.
Organizing your own discussion
If there is no one currently running or planning a discussion in your
group, language, or community, you are encouraged to start one. The "
Organize
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Strategy/Wikimedia_movem…>"
page will guide you through how to do that, and you are also welcome to ask
for advice on this list.
The "Process
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Strategy/Wikimedia_movem…>"
page provides more information about the overall process and timeline. We
are currently in Cycle 1 in Phase 1. This Cycle 1 is open until April 14
(approximately three weeks from now). If you want your group or community
to participate in Cycle 1, *you should start now*.
If you have started your own discussion
If you have already started a discussion, thank you! There are discussion
guides
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Strategy/Wikimedia_movem…>
to help you run the discussions if needed. The strategy team has also
recently added a list of additional questions
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Toolkit/Di…>
that
you can use to keep the discussion going with your group or community. The
team will try to add more questions in the next weeks.
Remember to summarize your discussions regularly
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Strategy/Wikimedia_movem…>
so that your ideas and opinions can be included in the conclusions. It will
also help people in order discussions know what your group or community is
thinking. If possible, remember to document the process, for example by
taking photos of your events, video-conference, or meetups.
Ask questions!
There is a lot more information available but I don't want to send too much
in this email. If you have any questions about this or other topics, please
ask them on this list and either I or other coordinators will do our best
to to help you.
Thank you,
--
Guillaume Paumier
Hello Nichole and fellows,
One of the volunteering translator of strategy process from Chinese
Wikimedia community is asking that, he is confused regarding "the first big
question", what is it to be exact, and also, what would be the "themes"?
I am thinking maybe the first question may be "What are going to build or
achieve together in the next 15 years?" And when people provide some
initial feedback on the big question, we can develop more details of those
"what" into different themes, such as content-quality-and-quantity-wise,
contributor-wise, advocacy-wise, these kinds of themes. Is it correct?
Is there any example for the possibles themes may be? These are rather
difficult for people who have no experience with strategy process or sense
making to imagine those term stands for, and it would be helpful for them
to understand the process to elaborate it or demonstrating some vivid case
study.
Thank you.
Best,
Liang-Chiu ShangKuan
Discussion coordinator from Wikimedia Taiwan
Hello!
In Basque wikipedia Twitter we have start using the #Wikimedia2030 hashtag. I haven't seen any other. Can we use it or is there another one?
Galder
Good day!
As mentioned yesterday on Hangouts meeting it would be great to have a way for mass emailing users. If we want the Track B discussion to go somewhere we need the thoughts of: A- people who has been active in Wiki projects but now is not (and their reasons not to be active) and B- people who is active but is not used to look to discussions, sitenotices, village pumps and so on.
I think that we could have two ways for implementing this: a mass message in every user discussion and sending mails (mainly for A group) if the have their e-mail set up.
Is it / would be possible to make this somehow?
Galder
