2009/5/1 philippe philippe.wiki@gmail.com:
Doing them? Sure. But doing them *well*, in an organized, structured, fully designed method?
Going by the rate of guideline and policy growth on en there is probably a method somewhere.
I'm not sure we are... we're doing some of them really well and we're doing some of them ad hoc, and we're doing some of them kind of half-assed; a strategic plan is a collective chance for us to step back, take a deep breath, and assess how to proceed forward.
Doesn't really work. The flawed assumption is that very little of the wikimedia community cares about how others think they should move forward.
And, no doubt, the brainstorming sessions that will come out of this process will identify some areas that Stu didn't - some of that has already come out on this list. It would be a mistake to take Stu's examples and say "well, we're doing all those things already" without qualifying that with "but there are going to be other things come up, as well".
Maybe but that doesn't stop me being concerned about where the foundation appears to be starting from.