[Foundation-l] Is the Wikimedia Strategic Plan largely a Wikimedia Foundation business plan?

Re John Vandenberg's comments on the Strategic plan For a while in late 2009 I was quite active on the Strategy project, and like John Vandenburg I'm one of the hundred or more in the acknowledgements. I didn't sign up to any of the project teams as I had some real life stuff going on in early 2010, and the problems with liquid threads made it very difficult for me to get back in when I tried to. But looking at the end result and comparing it to my memories of the project, and also rereading [[:strategy:Favorites/WereSpielChequers]], I don't think it is fair to dismiss this as "largely a Wikimedia Foundation business plan". OK not every bright idea made it into the plan, some of my favourites got nowhere, and the plan is not exactly as I would have written it. But there are things that emerged in the final version that I think are really important and would make a huge difference to the project, for example [[:meta:Deploy additional caching centers in key locations to serve growing audiences in Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East]], and much where I can see the roots in Strategy wiki discussions.
 So I wouldn't go quite so far as to describe it as "largely a Wikimedia Foundation business plan". If there was another version of this process then I think there are some lessons one could learn: 1) creating a fresh wiki rather than running it as a project under meta created some overheads and let in a bunch of banned users 2) I don't think it got enough input from the community, especially at the point when we were evaluating proposals. I doubt if many proposals got even 100 supports. I think it could have stayed closer to the wider community through more signpost reports. 3 Liquid threads was a problem. 4) We should probably have been more ruthless in the early stages at merging overlapping and contradictory proposals, and referring some others to individual projects and uncyclopedia 5) As others have mentioned getting consensus on something so complex is a daunting task, and we don't seem to have evidence for every step of this in the final stages. WereSpielChequers