This is true,
but it's true also that the discussion is now restricted to few members and groups.
I can personally say that the communities (and when I speak about communities I speak about people not being able to speak english or not following the international mailing list) are ignoring partially what is happening, after the initial involvement in the colletion of the inputs.
Surely the Wikipedia's communities are not obliged to adopt what is discussed in this strategy mainly because "Wikipedia has /no central editorial board/"[1] and secondly because Wikipedia has not firm rules (5th pillar)[2] but a larger involvement of different members from the communities would have helped more, at least to address to the biggest communities some inputs coming from the strategy which is under discussion.
I agree with Karel that "/With regards to Diversity, the parameters for the diversity considerations//are outlined here, and do include voices that are not yet included in//strategic discussions/" and I like this sentence, but unfortunately I see the same faces in any step of this strategy and if the diversity is something important because the diversity assures also a rich and etherogeneous difference of opinions, I think that this is not happening and don't see a "diversity of opinion" represented here.
An example is the steering committee that, in my opinion should have been excluded from the working groups to bring "new blood in this process" and not to limit the discussion always to the same people and to the same actors.
What Micru reports is an important point and I personally have his same feeling not as wikimedian, but as wikipedian and as volunteer.
Kind regards
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars
On 25/07/2018 11:32, Frans Grijzenhout wrote:
Hi All, I cannot support the idea that the movement strategy is designed for functionaries only. We encouraged editors and volunteers to meet and discuss the strategy locally and also gave them (financial) support so that they were able to attend the international conferences and take their part in the discussions. Frans (chair WMNL)
*Frans Grijzenhout*, voorzitter / chair +31 6 5333 9499
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