On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:28 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
- Further experimentation with tools like IdeaTorrent for large-scale
brainstorming and ranking purposes (we have a prototype running at http://prototype.wikimedia.org/en-idea/ideatorrent/ ).
I was super excited to see this go up the other day. Can we move it to, say, strategywiki to try out? Any thoughts on scope? Not having used this much I don't know if you'd want separate torrents by broad topic (ideas for the wikimedia foundation, ideas for mediawiki, ideas for the projects, ideas for outreach) or one big one that could be sorted by topic.
We originally considered using IdeaTorrent for strategy's Call for Proposals, then opted for a wiki-based solution. There were two main obstacles: Our timing (we wanted to get started quickly, and we didn't have time to hack things in like SUL support, etc.) and lack of multilingual support. Our system worked fine, but I did experience some pangs of regret for not having some of IdeaTorrent's capabilities.
Incidentally, as Erik mentioned in his email, we're developing some IdeaTorrent-like mechanisms on strategy wiki as a way to encourage self-organization and activation around good ideas. For a slightly out-of-date description, see:
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Process/Activating_volunteers
Discussion there is encouraged.
=Eugene