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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