Bear in mind WikiPedia =/= WikiMedia.
Imo all of the below and about 70-80% of the topics previously brough up in this thread can be solved/actioned/discussed/amended/etc by the community solely through Village Pump (or other relevant forums) without a single person involved (ever) from WMF or any of the chapters.
Balazs
1) exposing missing, confusing, or outdated local policies by using policy
comparisons cross-wiki 2) handling multi-language issues such as highlighting article-for-deletion discussions for each language in which the article exists, not just the local one 3) defining an "embedded system" factor by automatic checking of similarity of metadata of articles across languages and projects 4) how can we emphasize techniques that attract contributions that are 100% non-controversial and fun at the same time? 5) how can we organize local x-language meet-up days across the globe using our international network of chapters? 6) how can we set up a new "Wikicouch" project whereby Wikipedians can couch surf (I mean more group editting rather than sleeping) with other Wikipedians' across the globe
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Anders Wennersten < mail@anderswennersten.se> wrote:
I am interested in community strategy but have very different topics in mind *how should we handle the 50-100 projects that today in practice are
dead.
They are open for anyone (besides vandals that already infest these) to hi-jack *how should we handle the 5-10 projects that are already hi-jacket and spreading info contradictory to our values? (think belarous wikipedia) *Could we find means to help struggling communitiies, there are several having a hard time neutrilizing POV, internal fight and even having
problem
neutralising vandal attacks *how could we spread best practice to make certain our project do not unnecessary diverge *and the complex of bot generation over several projects - wikidata where efforts for the moment are not harmonized as they ought to etc
Anders
Pine W skrev 2014-07-14 09:25:
Hi community members,
I'm wondering how many people might be interested in having an IRC
meeting
regarding the community's relationship to WMF and potentially developing our own strategic plan that would be independent of WMF. In the past few days I've heard some defense of WMF but mainly criticism and pessimism, especially people recalling past hurts and feeling powerless to
negotiate
with WMF. Perhaps it's time that we in the community create our own strategic plan and develop strategic options.
Please note that this would be a long-term planning meeting and we are
not
likely to make major decisions, but we would start brainstorming and laying some foundations.
Topics of possible discussion regarding our relationship with WMF:
- Strategic options, such as finding alternative organizations to WMF
for
hosting Wikimedia sites or creating a new hosting organization that is aligned with community values.
- Activism at the Board and grassroots levels.
Topics of possible discussion regarding other strategic issues:
- Internal reform of the community, such as a fresh look at Wikimedia's
founding principles and the Five Pillars, including civility.
- What we can do as a community about our active editor statistics.
I expect this would be an interesting meeting if people are interested
in
participating, and I hope that we would brainstorm some ideas about how
we
want to move forward on all of these questions and others if we have
time.
If there are many participants, which would be *great*, then we may need additional meetings or to move the conversation on-wiki.
If you're interested, you can respond on list but feel free to respond
to
me off-list also. I'm just trying to get a sense of the interest level
of
the community. I hear a lot of people being upset but what I feel we
need
to know is how many people would be interested in creating a long-term strategic plan and brainstorming strategic options.
Thanks,
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