On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Strainu strainu10@gmail.com wrote:
2017-06-23 23:48 GMT+03:00 Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com:
Could you elaborate on the benefits of this timetable change for people
who
are not involved with affiliates?
Starting from this assumption, and considering the fact that even the most active wikimedians (not involved in a chapter) have real life commitments that do not allow them to follow this process carefully, it is obvious that the main responsibility of the team that coordinates the process should have been outreach. In my particular geographic area, Track B contributors were engaged with only 2 weeks prior to the end of the last cycle, which is hardly enough time to read, understand, and think about the vast quantity of material available in the strategy process.
I am an active Wikimedia not involved in a Chapter. In Round 1, I was
pretty active, and in the Russian Wikivoyage we collected quite some feedback and translated it into English. It was essentially ignored. None of us participated in Round 2 since we thought it is a waste of time. Round 2 was organized in the same way as Round 1 (many discussions opened i n different places, meaning there is no possibility to really discuss anything, merely to leave one's opinion). I have corresponding pages on 3 projects on my watchlists (with is 15 pages, and this is a lot), but I have not seen in these discussions anything new not said before in Round 1. May be smth useful would come out from other tracks, but I am not really looking forward to Track B Round 3 either. I believe it is completely failed, and individual contributors did not have a chance to form a considated opinion. The message for me is essentially: If you want to be heard, find a chapter or a thematic organization first. I hope the next process will be organized differently in 10 years from now.
Cheers Yaroslav