Philippe Beaudette wrote:
... asking which of those things people support *in a vacuum* [is] not the question at hand....
That is true. A community survey leading to revision of strategic goals should be asked of actual contributors, i.e., by selecting editors from wikis' recent changes around the clock in proportion to the volume of edits each hour, and asking them "which do you think would help editors the most, _A_, or _B_?" Ideally their total number of contributions should be noted along with their pairwise preference so that it is possible to produce an unweighted ranking and rankings where the number of contributions is given greater weight.
Then the resulting rankings should be submitted to the ED and Board to mull over as to what would be spreading work too thin, where various opportunities and roadblocks are for the top ranking preferences, etc.
Step one, collect the data. Because of the nature of such a survey, most people can do that themselves. Ideally the Foundation would want to be at the forefront of collecting and publishing the underlying information.
Best regards, James Salsman