Dear Željko, Amir and Ilario,

Thank you so much for raising this point, which is well aligned with the spirit of the movement strategy in general and participant user experience in particular.

With the transition support team we are thoughtful regarding the tools and platforms we use to ensure access to the conversations and at the same time support participants to stay on top of different content streams. We understand that how we have the discussions in the transition from recommendations to implementation is in some cases as important as the content of the discussions. As a result, we take the feedback provided on the how part seriously.

The choice of Telegram chat was made based on the feedback and request from a number of people engaged in the movement strategy conversations. It is a balancing act of meeting the people where they are (Telegram being one of the most popular instant connecting tools in the movement, somewhat depending on the region), providing a space where we can support more informal and free-flowing conversations (that our wiki discussion pages cannot really provide) and at the same time trying to build structure in the conversations and ensuring people do not get lost in the stream of information.

We prioritized the factor of meeting the people where they are and have chosen Telegram based on that. Based on the feedback received, we will look into integrating multiple channels to increase access options (as Ilario suggests) and also look into added value of Wikimedia chat (there is a discussion about this in our Telegram channel). We will discuss it with the team, get back to interested community members if we have questions and then adapt our approach accordingly.

Thank you again for proactive approach in trying to make the movement strategy conversations experience better! I truly love the passion of Wikimedians about such things.

Take care and have a great end of the week!

Kaarel

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 1:35 PM Ilario valdelli <valdelli@gmail.com> wrote:

On 23/10/2020 11:43, Željko Blaće wrote:
> On 10/22/20, Kaarel Vaidla <kvaidla@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> How to participate
> ...
>> * Join our Telegram group [2].
> It would be amazing if we could embody the values of movement strategy
> whenever we can. Using only Telegram group as recommendation is NOT*.
>
Thank you for that, anyways there is also to consider the freedom of
choice that, beside everything, is a freedom.

Anyways some communities experimented the possibility to integrate open
source chat (i.e, an IRC channel) and a Telegram channel to have
messages on both sides.

In this case the freedom of choice is kept "free" and there is no
obstacles to use one or another solution because at the end the goal is
the participation.

Kind regards

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