I agree with everything Gnangarra said. As I recall, previous strategy
discussions on meta involved fewer people later in the game with fewer
documents produced than what we have now. That said, I think there was a
pretty good representation of chapters at the Berlin conference and
depending on your point of view, because of or in spite of their presence
there were some really fruitful discussions. I say because of or in spite
of their presence since they were in their own "track" at the conference
and not in the "strategy track" that I was in, so I am not exactly clear on
their contribution other than to arrange local meetups. Yaroslav, if you
want I can quickly take you through the documents that impressed me
personally the most. I know you are really busy with stuff in real life but
you care about future of the art & architecture stuff and things like
copyright issues. If you can't make the Utrecht strategy meetup on 15 April
then maybe we can do a skype call or arrange a Leiden meetup.
On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Gnangarra <gnangarra(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I was in Berlin and participated in the strategy track
for the three days.
The process was very open used open space approach such that at the end of
days 1 & 2 all I could say is that its been an interesting and thought
provoking sessions because that was how the process was running. At the
end of day three the information from the first two days helped us to
discuss a number thermatic statements. If anyone came out of those three
days claiming a clear strategy for the next 15 years they'd be lying, the
process has just begun and the best thing everyone can do is get involved
in every step along the way,. It a big task to properly undertake and it
will take considerable time along with lots of good faith. See the
attached photo thats just the notes from one 2 hours session all of which
is being captured and will be reported on shortly.
WMF, WMDE and the Strategy team worked wonders with this process in Berlin,
the plans ahead to bring in even more input discussions will be amazing
On 7 April 2017 at 20:14, Yaroslav Blanter <ymbalt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Guillaume,
the conference of course does not exclude individual participants per se,
nor did I ever imply it was in any way planned. However, we saw that the
previous Strategy discussion was kept in a dedicated place (the strategy
wiki), which attracted everybody who wanted to participate, and created a
critical mass where discussions were possible and meaningful, and
eventually were able to produce the strategy document. Currently the
discussions are spread into 20+ projects (formally 300, but most of them
are struggling and are not able to produce any discussion documents). I
understand the idea, that people should be able to discuss in their own
language and from the perspective of their own project, but it turns out
that the critical mass is not assembled - the discussion is not
happening,
just some users leave their more or less extended
opinions. In addition,
since 100 the most active movement participants had a chance to discuss
the
strategy questions in person, they are (most of
them are) not interested
in
going to the projects and writing anything there.
Which means that even
discussion on the biggest projects, where you would normally expect the
critical mass to be available, is not happening either. Which means
Track 2
Cycle 1 is likely to produce nothing, and I am
not really looking forward
to Cycle 2. I might be wrong, may be there is smth which I do not see
(though I, being an administrator on 4 projects and speaking 7 languages,
would classify myself as a reasonably active Wikimedia participant), but
this is my current perception.
Cheers
Yaroslav
On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Guillaume Paumier <
gpaumier(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hello Yaroslav,
I'm not sure I understand how including affiliates excludes individual
contributors. There are many avenues for people and groups across the
movement to participate on wikis, in person, in video conference, in
off-wiki online discussions, etc. Anyone is welcome to contribute in
multiple tracks (as individual participant, affiliate member, or both)
and in multiple channels.
There were about 100 participants who attended the whole strategy
track at the conference; surely there are more than 100 people across
the projects who want to voice their opinion on the future of the
movement.
Also, the strategy sessions that were held in Berlin only concerned
"Cycle 1" of the discussion, which will end soon. That first cycle is
very open and exploratory and far from the be-all and end-all of the
movement strategy process. I certainly hope that many people
contribute to cycles 2 and 3 (where the convergence and prioritization
will happen) regardless of whether they were in Berlin.
2017-04-06 13:06 GMT-07:00 Yaroslav Blanter <ymbalt(a)gmail.com>om>:
> The backside seems to be that those who have been to the conference
feel
no
> incentive to participate in the strategy discussions in the projects,
and
> these discussions show up as major
disappointment (like those on the
> English Wikipedia or Wikidata) or do not really interest anybody (at
the
> > Russian Wikivoyage, we compiled a large document, which will likely
be
> > translated to English, moved to Meta
and forgotten). Which
technically
>
means that this time, the individual contributors are excluded from
> building up the strategy, unless they can do it via chapters and
thematic
> organizations.
>
> Cheers
> Yaroslav
>
> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 8:35 PM, Tanel Pern <tanel.pern(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>> Just to add to this as someone who (also) was at the conference and
>> participated in a few of the strategy track sessions, it would have
been
>> basically impossible to provide any more
information than the
conference
> >> website already provides about what took place at this session
> beforehand,
> >> given the extremely open-ended nature of the discussions. Just as
> outlined
> >> in the session overview [1], the participants started from basically
> >> nothing (other than their ideas of what's going to be important in
the
> next
> >> 15 years) and ended up formulating a few dozen thematic statements
> >> regarding the strategic direction of the movement. Frankly, I'm
amazed
> it
> >> worked as well as it did. At the same time, I'm not at all amazed
that
it
> would take time to digitize the materials,
given how many people
> participated in the session and how much paper they consumed :) And
though
>> it wouldn't be difficult to publish the final thematic statements,
some
> of
> >> them unfortunately don't make sense without some background
materials.
> >>
> >> Just my €0.02,
> >>
> >> Tanel
> >>
> >>
> >> [1]
> >>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_
> >> 2017/Program#Movement_Strategy
> >>
> >> 2017-04-06 16:42 GMT+03:00 Guillaume Paumier <
gpaumier(a)wikimedia.org
>:
> >>
> >> > Hello Hajdu,
> >> >
> >> > As Chris mentioned, there is a lot of documentation coming from
the
>>
> Wikimedia conference in Berlin. In fact, there is so much
>> > documentation that it's going to take the team a few days to
digitize
>> > and publish everything. You can see
some of the notes from related
>> > discussions, for example:
>> >
>> > * The notes from a discussion about movement strategy by
contributors
>> > from Wikimedia Commons:
>> >
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_
>> > movement/2017/Sources/Commons_in-person_discussion_at_the_
>> > Wikimedia_Conference
>> >
>> > * The notes from a discussion about movement strategy by the
Wikimedia
>> > Foundation's Board of
Trustees:
>> >
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_
>> movement/2017/Sources/
>> > Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees_-_Discussion_at_the_
>> > Wikimedia_Conference
>> >
>> > The rest of the notes, photos, summaries, etc. will be published
this
> >> > week or the next. There was nothing confidential about the
sessions,
>>
> and many participants have shared their work and sessions on
Commons (
Conference_2017
> >> > ) and on social media (
> >> >
https://twitter.com/search?q=wmcon%20strategy&src=typd ).
> >> >
> >> > I hope that this reassures you and gives you some materials to
look
> > over until we upload everything else.
> >
> >
> > 2017-04-05 0:12 GMT-07:00 Hajdu Kálmán <kalman(a)startadsl.hu>hu>:
> > >
> > > Hi, There is a very active campaign for strategic conversation
defining
>> > the
>> > > future role of Wikimedia in the world. In the last weekend has
been
> >> hold
> >> > the
> >> > > Wikimedia Conference 2017
> >> > > in Berlin. On this conference was a spacial group organized from
> >> > > Representatives
> >> > > for the Movement Strategy Track. I paid great attention the
> conference
> >> > > program, but unlike the former practice on the conference page
on
> the
> >> > meta
> >> > > was not e bit information about what happened in this section.
No
>>
> Ethernet,
>> > > no abstract of presentation, nothing.
>> > >
>> > > I don't understand the new policy of organizers, that the
conference
> >> out
> >> > of
> >> > > the ordinary way was hold in totally confidential or secret
wise.
My
> >
> question this should bee the new Wikimedia strategy?
> > >
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