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From: "Asaf Bartov" <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Jan 15, 2018 10:02 PM
Subject: [African Wikimedians] Fwd: Let's map capacities! (Announcing the
CCM)
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> From: Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
> Date: Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 1:59 PM
> Subject: Let's map capacities! (Announcing the CCM)
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> *How many Wikimedia communities have embraced advanced Wikidata use? How
> many have active social media accounts, and are there geographic or
> cultural patterns to which groups have and have not? Which groups have a
> written, current strategy? What are the most common gaps in capacity in
> Latin America? or in Eastern Europe? What kind of investment in capacity
> building would be likely to bring the most value?*
>
> To answer these questions and more, we invite all of you to participate in
> the new *Community Capacity Map (CCM)*: a *self-assessment exercise* for
> communities, groups (whether formally recognized user groups or not),
> thematic organizations, and chapters, to *map capacities* across the
> movement, with a view to identifying *existing gaps* as well as *opportunities
> for capacity-building*.
>
> The CCM is here on Meta:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Map
>
> The context for this work, as well as "likely-asked questions, with
> answers" ("LAQ"?), are explained here, including an answer to "*why
> should I take the time to read all this?*" --
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Map/About
> (and also pasted at the bottom of this e-mail, for your convenience.)
>
> The self-assessment is to be done based on the detailed *Guidelines* provided
> here:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Map/Guidelines
>
> I am looking forward to learning more about your groups' and orgs'
> capacities and gaps, and to do my best to play matchmaker between those
> needs and our available resources and opportunities. While I encourage you
> to begin contributing straightaway, *there is no deadline *-- this is
> envisioned to be a long-term, ongoing, and tracked-over-time tool -- so
> contribute if and when your group is able to make the time.
>
> (don't forget to scroll down to the LAQ!)
>
> Warmly,
>
> Asaf Bartov
> Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities
>
> ==========================================
> Likely-asked questions, with answers
> this exists with working links and [modest] formatting here:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Map/About#Likely-asked_
> questions,_with_answers
> Why do this at all? The Community Resources team is doing this to
> attempt a more *comprehensive* view of capacities and gaps across the
> movement, to enhance our existing, anecdotal and ad-hoc, impressions of
> only some of the communities and affiliates. See the goal statement above. Why
> now? The CCM experiment is an implementation of one of the
> recommendations made at the conclusion of the Community Capacity
> Development pilot year
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Development/Overall_pilo…>
> . Why should I spend the time to read through it or go through the
> self-assessment? There are a couple of reasons you may want to put in
> the time: First, by self-assessing your group/organization's capacities and
> gaps, you are giving WMF and other potential investors in community
> capacity a chance to provide your group/org with resources and
> opportunities to *build up* those capacities. Secondly, self-assessing
> according to the Guidelines page
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Map/Guidelines> may
> be in itself a worthwhile exercise and discussion-starter for your
> group/org, pointing at potential areas for proactive work by *your
> org/group itself*, for example in your next annual plan. Finally,
> self-assessing (at least some) capacities today would enable you to review
> and re-assess in six months, or two years, and see how your group/org has
> developed (or not) in each of these aspects. So does WMF expect all
> groups and organizations to do this? No. This is an opportunity and a
> tool. Like all other tools, you are free to use it or not, and we certainly
> understand that it would take time and that you may have more pressing
> priorities in your group/org. We *hope* as many groups, organizations,
> and communities eventually take the time to self-assess, at least on some
> capacities, but it is not mandatory, and there would be no penalty for not
> participating. Would we have to provide self-assessments for *all* of the
> capacities? No. Feel free to self-assess on as many or as few capacities
> as you are able to, interested in, or find relevant. You can also add
> assessments gradually, as your group/org finds time to discuss and agree on
> assessments. Should I assess capacities in the context of my wiki
> community, my user-group/chapter, or what? It depends. It may make sense
> to do separate assessments, or just one. For example, while the English
> community has plenty of bot builders and technical experts, you may belong
> to a small community contributing in English in a country with little or no
> bot-building expertise, such as Wikimedians in Uganda. In this case, it
> would make sense to describe the capacities of the Ugandan group you're
> part of, and not of the whole English Wikipedia community. On the other
> hand, it is possible that there is a very high degree of overlap between
> the Estonian community's capacities and the Estonian chapter's capacities,
> and in that case, it may be most useful to assess just once, for the
> Estonian community *or* Wikimedia Estonia, or possibly once for the
> community for on-wiki capacities, and separately for Wikimedia Estonia only
> for the organizational and off-wiki capacities. See the Guidelines
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Map/Guidelines> page
> for more details. Okay, and suppose we did put in the time and provided
> some assessments. What can we expect next? You can expect, at the very
> least, one program officer at Community Resources paying attention to your
> contribution, and possibly, depending on each specific capacity and
> assessment, that officer may have resources or opportunities to suggest to
> your community/group/org. *The more groups provide assessments, the
> better-informed WMF would be*, and the more likely it would be that *WMF
> could allocate resources and create training opportunities* for your
> group. Shared needs in a region would increase the likelihood of WMF acting
> even further, as it would allow economizing on the investment by
> training/supporting several groups/communities at once. Are you saying if
> X number of communities demonstrate need Y, WMF is *guaranteed* to
> allocate resources to fill that need? I'm afraid not. But it does make
> it *more likely*, in that it demonstrates the need, making it easier to
> argue for it in internal budgeting and allocation discussions, and to
> marshal internal WMF resources (such as borrowing the time of subject
> experts at WMF to conduct training or mentor groups). Okay, so how would
> WMF decide which communities to offer resources to? There's no simple
> deterministic algorithm, but WMF would prioritize emerging communities
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Defining_Emerging_Comm…>
> over other communities, larger groups serving larger populations over
> smaller ones, and at least at first, would probably prioritize "low-hanging
> fruit" -- lower-cost/lower-risk investments, as we learn and improve this
> program's use of resources. Wouldn't the fact these are self-assessments
> mean we'd be comparing apples to oranges, given some groups would
> overestimate or underestimate their own capacities? No. We do
> understand there are some cultural tendencies (some cultures are more
> self-critical than others, or have rosier or more pessimistic views of
> future prospects and current capabilities). However, we think the fairly
> coarse granularity of the assessments (none/low/medium/high), coupled with *the
> Guidelines
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Map/Guidelines>* for
> self-assessing, would lead most groups to make reasonably comparable
> assessments. Ultimately, these would remain subjective and unscientific
> assessments; but they would certainly at least indicate a group/org's
> *own* perception of their capacity. And before WMF (or others interested
> in investing in capacity building) make a decision to tackle a particular
> capacity with a particular community/group/org/region, we would be sure to
> take into consideration *all the relevant context* we have, i.e. not just
> the aggregate of the self-assessments in the CCM, but also all the
> accumulated experience, context, and history we are aware of at WMF,
> regarding that community/group/org/region. Okay, this may not be *the
> worst* idea ever to come from WMF We're glad you think so. :) What if
> none of this turns out the way you hope? Then we'll archive these pages
> and look for other ways to do effective capacity building. The CCM is an
> experiment, based on observed needs and an expectation that it would be
> useful. But we are ready to learn that it may not, and to change course if
> necessary. Let's give it a shot, though! What if I have another question? Use
> the talk page! :)
>
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Hello,
I came across this statement below with accompanying link for new ideas and
projects. As such, I decided to share with the house if anyone here would
like to take advantage of it.
*"Hey folks, the next Inspire Campaign has launched and we'd like to hear
your ideas on how to invite new readers to Wikipedia projects, especially
in regions where Wikipedia is not well known. This month, myself and a
small team will be working with idea creators to develop those ideas into
implementation plans.*
*The campaign will run until February 4th. Your comments, endorsements, and
ideas on introducing Wikipedia to new audiences are welcome to help us in
this work."*
Find Meta link here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire
Best Regards,
Justice.
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