Hoi,
I am really happy with these suggestions. Each of these when done well will
have a big impact. Given our relevance in the first world, we have the
potential to make loads of connections to organisations that have similar
goals. Organisations that can help us achieve our goals.
The WMF has been so far isolating itself from other organisations. I have
the impression that this is more due to the lack of organisation than to a
fundamental aversion by the organisation. This would not only result in
better relations that help us in achieving our goals, it will also help
raising funds.
It would be cool if fund raising and these types of relation management get
the necessary priority. It seems as if things are improving at that end.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 4/16/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What an interesting question and how glad I feel to be asked it. :)
Glad that Wikimedia is the way it is.
I don't know if I have five things, but a few come to mind.
The first thing I would like to see (long term) is major expansion of
MediaWiki development. The starting of
mediawiki.org has been a great
move for this.
I am not totally sure this kind of goal is appropriate for WMF, or if
large healthy open source development communities have to happen by
themselves, but I suspect a bit of benevolent dictator-like prodding
doesn't go astray.
The second (also long term) is I believe WMF should lobby and
publicise for "copyleft", "share alike" and "open content"
movements,
so that governments, organisations and individuals have a better
understanding (or at the moment, even an inkling) of what they mean
and imply. (Our libraries, custodians of a lot of knowledge, have some
way to go.)
"Free" (shareware) is not good enough. NC and ND especially is not
good enough. WMF, with Wikipedia behind it, is in the most powerful
position to explain to the world why.
The third, another long term, is that WMF should keep searching for
innovative ways to provide information to people worldwide *in their
own language*. Whether that be pushing for more stable internet access
in some parts of the world, or negotiating with governments who block
our content, or getting involved with printed material, or working on
improving access by phone[1], or ... whatever the next technology
turns out to be.
I would be pushing it to think of any more. Looking forward to reading
some more responses :)
cheers,
Brianna
user:pfctdayelise
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[1] According to
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/04/13/1175971346787.html
"Between 2000 and 2006, the proportion of Japanese 20-year-olds using
home PCs to access the internet plummeted from 23.6 per cent to 11.9
per cent..." ... I wonder how most Japanese users access ja.wp?
On 16/04/07, Florence Devouard <Anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
What I would like to ask you help on, is to
define more ends, which
describe what you think the WMF is about. The two ends I mentionned
above a "long term" ends, they would be listed this year, and then next
year and probably the year after. Not all ends are this way. We could
also have an end valid only one year, or only 3 months.
Let us say we want a BIG technical meeting around Mediawiki to occur in
the next 6 months, it would be one END.
Or we want to produce a DVD of the english high quality content, it
could be another END.
Actually, hiring an ED could also be an end :-)
Now, before you tell me "eh, we elected you guys to think of that for
us", my answer will be "no, you elected us to represent your dreams
about WMF, and to make sure your dreams happen".
So, what I am currently asking you is
"What do you want Wikimedia Foundation to focus its attention on in the
next few months, few years or more".
Whether you are members on the "paper" (bylaws) or not, morally, you are
the owners of the organization. I do not think the editors represent the
only owners, but the editors definitly are part of the owners. So, I ask
you your opinion as owners.
What do you think we should achieve ? If you had 5 points to list, what
would they be ?
ant
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