Sometimes I wonder if we really belong to the same movement or even live on the same planet.
A wonderful work has been done with the recomendations, and the end result looks very fine, with only a few minor comments needed as far as I can see.
And I believe whatever we think of the endresult we should commend the people who have participated, both their commitment and quality of work.
As a 8 hours-a- day contributor to a project, I know, as all my colleagues, the importance to have a positive tone in our communityinternal conversation and always be strong in good faith. And I meet that positive tone in my activities in the community and when I meet volunteers and functionaries IRL. But in this list i find appalling negative entries as i find to be in direct opposition to our movement values.
So please, please use a better tone and attitude in this discussion of the recommendations
Andersw
Den 2020-01-21 kl. 11:49, skrev Fæ:
Ziko, we can vote on whatever we want, whenever we want.
Us having a RFC on meta does not need the WMF to approve it or like it. An openly run RFC could itself recommend a board resolution asking the community appointed board members (you know, the legitimate ones that are accountable to us) to reject or amend the 'recommendations' as the community sees fit. The WMF board and their CEO know it is in their interest to take on any firm community consensus rather than playing political games to get around it.
I suggest folks take some time out to re-review the recommendations and wait for the dust to settle before deciding if we want to start a correctly community-led process for voting on it.
As others have expressed, I am not in the least bit inclined to give any feedback on meta. It's a waste of volunteer time, as effective as shouting out of your office window expecting to make the weather change.
Fae
On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 09:54, Ziko van Dijk zvandijk@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
We now have the confirmation on a Meta Wiki talk page: the WMF is not going to let the communities vote on the recommendations.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Rec...
Kind regards Ziko
Am Di., 21. Jan. 2020 um 09:39 Uhr schrieb Yaroslav Blanter < ymbalt@gmail.com>:
We will be again talking to the wall. (Would be, I am not going to react this time).
Best Yaroslav
On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 5:06 AM Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
Katherine,
These are very disappointing. It does not seem like a bit of the
feedback
on earlier versions was taken into consideration at all. Can we expect anything we say to matter this time around, or will we once again be talking to the wall?
Todd
On Mon, Jan 20, 2020, 8:24 PM Katherine Maher kmaher@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear all,
I wanted to share some news with you: the first version of the
movement
strategy recommendations document has been published on Meta [1]. On
behalf
of the movement strategy working groups and recommendation writers, I
am
honored to present them to you. We ask you to please take a moment to
read
through, review, and comment.
In 2017, we set about building the future we want, together. In 2020,
your
fellow Wikimedians have written and shared a framework for how we can
bring
to life our vision of becoming the essential support system of the ecosystem of free knowledge.
== Review the recommendations ==
These recommendations are the result of 18 months of in-depth
discussions
and consultation among global Wikimedia community members and
research
into opportunities for our future. The volunteer working groups [2], writing teams [3] and strategy liaisons [4] have all invested a
significant
amount of energy into this, and I want to wholeheartedly thank each
and
every person who contributed to creating this work.
I would like to encourage everyone to read this work. There are 13 recommendations (condensed from 89), accompanied by an explanation of
the
principles [5] that underlie the recommendations, an outline of how
these
recommendations work together [6], as well as an overview of how the recommendations were produced and next steps [7].
The core of this material is online in Arabic, English, French,
German,
Hindi, Portuguese, and Spanish. We also have an overview available in Catalan, Dutch, Farsi, Hebrew, Polish, and Russian that offers a
condensed
introduction to the recommendations material.
== Share your feedback ==
In order to produce a final document that is representative of and
relevant
to the diverse project communities as well as groups and
organizations
that
make up our movement, we are calling on everyone to review the recommendations and share their thoughts.
Specifically, we ask you to look at what impact these recommendations
might
have on you and your group or community’s context. Discussions are happening on-wiki in many languages, as well as in discussion groups
on
other, off0wiki platforms, and within movement groups and structures.
This round of community conversations will run until the first week
of
March [8]. After this five-week period, the Core Team will publish a summary report of input from across affiliates, online communities,
and
other stakeholders for public review. [9] Your input will play a role
as
the recommendation writers finalize the strategy document, and move
us
towards discussions around implementation.
You will find more information about the process in the FAQs [10],
and
please direct any additional questions or remarks to the respective
meta
pages.
Our movement is the sum of its parts. Each member brings to it
invaluable
skills, expertise, and ideas to capture, collect, and share free
knowledge.
And every single contribution made by every community member from the beginning has helped us grow into the global, diverse, and unique
movement
we are today.
I am honored to share this on behalf of everyone involved, and am
looking
forward to insights from across the movement over the next few weeks.
Katherine
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommen...
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_...
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/People#S...
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/People/C...
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommen...
[6]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommen...
[7]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommen...
[8]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Frequent...
? [9]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Overview...
[10]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Frequent...
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