The WMF provides the essential infrastructure and an
organizational framework for the support and
development of multilingual wiki projects. Wikimedia
wikis must be able to technically adapt in an
individual manner to succeed.
Needs to be met?
Local extension requests must be evaluated by a
developer with the ability to implement them within
three months.
For whom?
Wikimedia communities
At what cost?
Not sure; at the cost of other bugs I suppose. On the
waiting side, three months seems like a long time to
find out if an extension is acceptable or needs more
work. But if it is not realistic to people on the
developer side, please adjust to any set time period.
Birgitte SB
--- Florence Devouard <Anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear all,
In the past few days, I have explored more
systematically the policy
governance model, and how it could be implemented.By
the way, I found a
short article about it on the english wikipedia :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_Governance
One of the things the board has to design is what is
called the ENDS.
In each ends, the board defines which needs are to
be met, for whom, and
at what cost.
Let me give you two examples of ends.
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The WMF is the host provider of several websites,
referred to as
Wikimedia project. Wikimedia websites must be up
and running
efficiently, 24/24 hours, 7 days a week. That is the
priority of WMF.
Needs to be met ?
Information must be accessible anytime.
For whom ?
Any person with internet access
At what cost ?
Well, within limits reasonable with the revenue we
have. If we had
figures to mention, we could say max 1 million per
year.
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Another example
The WMF is the organiser of an annual conference,
Wikimania.
Needs to be met ?
Both a scientific conference and a community event,
Wikimania brings
together members of various Wikimedia projects in
order to exchange
ideas, build relationships, and report on research
and project efforts.
It also provides an opportunity for Wikimedians and
the general public
alike to meet and share ideas about free and open
source software, free
knowledge initiatives, and wiki projects worldwide.
For whom ?
Primarily for Wikimedians. Secondarily for the
general public
At what cost ?
No cost. WMF should find sponsors to cover Wikimania
costs by large.
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Now, these are two easy ends to define.
What I would like to ask you help on, is to define
more ends, which
describe what you think the WMF is about. The two
ends I mentionned
above a "long term" ends, they would be listed this
year, and then next
year and probably the year after. Not all ends are
this way. We could
also have an end valid only one year, or only 3
months.
Let us say we want a BIG technical meeting around
Mediawiki to occur in
the next 6 months, it would be one END.
Or we want to produce a DVD of the english high
quality content, it
could be another END.
Actually, hiring an ED could also be an end :-)
Now, before you tell me "eh, we elected you guys to
think of that for
us", my answer will be "no, you elected us to
represent your dreams
about WMF, and to make sure your dreams happen".
So, what I am currently asking you is
"What do you want Wikimedia Foundation to focus its
attention on in the
next few months, few years or more".
Whether you are members on the "paper" (bylaws) or
not, morally, you are
the owners of the organization. I do not think the
editors represent the
only owners, but the editors definitly are part of
the owners. So, I ask
you your opinion as owners.
What do you think we should achieve ? If you had 5
points to list, what
would they be ?
ant
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