Hi again,
The proposal for a new forum comes with a problem statement
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy/Forum/Proposal#Why_a_Movement_Strategy_Forum>,
a list of main features aimed to address this problem, and a set of
questions to help everyone find points of tangible discussion and hopefully
agreement.
Today, "use a wiki" or "we have Meta" alone doesn't solve the
problem. The
discrimination suffered by volunteers not fluent in English is real. The
intimidation and alienation felt by many volunteers and many groups that
are underrepresented in our movement or marginalized in our societies is
real. And simply, the difficulty to have multiple simultaneous complex
discussions in a structured and enjoyable way is very real.
We are not claiming that this forum can solve all these problems in one
strike. However, we firmly believe that this forum presents a better
alternative here and now for everyone interested in the Movement Strategy
implementation. Clearly a better alternative for those who are in practice
excluded or gone from traditional on-wiki conversations. But also to
everyone else (expert wiki editors included) who wants to get things done
in a context where diversity, equity, inclusion, efficient use of time, and
fun are naturally expected.
Many people have responded to this problem with their feet. Wikimedia
cross-project connections and conversations have been trending towards
"social media" platforms for years. Today they are all scattered and still
growing. And well, many years before social media, mailing lists like this
one were created "off-wiki" for a reason.
This forum proposes the creation of a platform fully functional today, to
host the conversations and collaboration needed to implement the Movement
Strategy. We can offer a platform as easy to use as the popular tools
people are using daily to connect and discuss. We can offer features none
of these commercial platforms offer today like automatic translation,
better organization of complex conversations, better search and memory, and
a much better alignment with the Wikimedia values. All this is available
today, one Wikimedia login click away. For you to review.
Keeping Meta updated including possibilities for participation is perfectly
possible. One of the questions
<https://forum.movement-strategy.org/t/are-there-other-channels-that-you-would-prefer-to-use-in-addition-to-or-instead-of-this-forum-for-movement-strategy-updates-and-feedback-why/54>
of the community review asks about how the support of other channels would
work in practice. If you appreciate Meta-Wiki as much as, say, Wikimedia
volunteers who don't speak English, please contribute your ideas to find
the best solutions.
I hope this expresses our general motivation to get out of everyone's
comfort zone (ours included) and propose this forum.
Florence asks:
Will there be any notion of Single Login in the future
(when/if it starts
being hosted by WMF) ?
Wikimedia login is in effect already now, and it's the only way to log in
to the forum. After logging in the first time, the browser keeps the
session for a period of time (that can be configured by the admins) so that
people don't have to log in again every day.
On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 12:36 AM Mike Peel <email(a)mikepeel.net> wrote:
Sorry, I had responded with a link. This is what the link says:
We are still working on the Privacy Policy and the
Terms of Use of the
Movement Strategy Forum.
They will be completed during the community review. In
the meantime, we
provide here information
about privacy for users of this platform.
Every single link under "Community review
questions" goes to your new
website.
We are asking volunteers to review a proposed new forum. We have a forum
that people can use to inform their reviews. Sending people to the forum
being reviewed is only logical.
All wiki pages have a talk page, and the proposal's talk page <http://We
are still working on the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use of the
Movement Strategy Forum. They will be completed during the community
review. In the meantime, we provide here information about privacy for
users of this platform.> also welcomes people to contribute their feedback
there too, providing a structure to comment on the same questions.
--
Quim Gil (he/him)
Director of Movement Strategy & Governance @ Wikimedia Foundation
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Qgil-WMF