subject was: Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2 On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, The WMF has as its strategy to invest in what has the highest impact.
Where is this stated?
Who decides what has the highest impact?
From the 2009-10 Annual Plan and it's FAQ[1], we see that strategy
development (the "five year plan"), outreach and communications were key areas of investment.
I assume we can expect a new Annual Plan shortly, which will outline the investment strategy for 2010 and 2011. Will it be based on the "Emerging strategic priorities" page on the strategy wiki?
1. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2009-2010_Annual_Plan_Questions_and_Answ... 2. http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Emerging_strategic_priorities
-- John Vandenberg
Hi John,
Yes, the 2010-11 plan is rooted in the strategy. We're wrapping it up in the office today -- it goes to the Board tonight, and, post-approval, will be published within a few weeks. Maybe I can do IRC office hours once it's published -- it'd be a good meaty topic :-)
Thanks, Sue
-----Original Message----- From: John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:19:41 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing Listfoundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Foundation-l] WMF investment strategy
subject was: Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2 On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, The WMF has as its strategy to invest in what has the highest impact.
Where is this stated?
Who decides what has the highest impact?
From the 2009-10 Annual Plan and it's FAQ[1], we see that strategy development (the "five year plan"), outreach and communications were key areas of investment.
I assume we can expect a new Annual Plan shortly, which will outline the investment strategy for 2010 and 2011. Will it be based on the "Emerging strategic priorities" page on the strategy wiki?
1. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2009-2010_Annual_Plan_Questions_and_Answ... 2. http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Emerging_strategic_priorities
-- John Vandenberg
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On 10 June 2010 01:49, susanpgardner@gmail.com wrote:
Hi John,
Yes, the 2010-11 plan is rooted in the strategy. We're wrapping it up in the office today -- it goes to the Board tonight, and, post-approval, will be published within a few weeks. Maybe I can do IRC office hours once it's published -- it'd be a good meaty topic :-)
That sounds like an excellent topic for office hours.
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:49 AM, susanpgardner@gmail.com wrote:
Hi John,
Yes, the 2010-11 plan is rooted in the strategy. We're wrapping it up in the office today -- it goes to the Board tonight, and, post-approval, will be published within a few weeks. Maybe I can do IRC office hours once it's published -- it'd be a good meaty topic :-)
That would be fantastic Sue!
I think it would be helpful to have a discussion about strategy before the annual plan is finalised as I suspect there are many people in the community who haven't been following the strategy project (I know I haven't). Now is a good time for everyone to review the strategy wiki content!
I'm a bit concerned about the lack of translations on some of the key pages on the strategy wiki. e.g. 11 translations of the "Task force/Recommendations" page; 9 of the "Emerging strategic priorities" page, and 2 of the first strategy priorities page "Expand reach within large, well-connected populations".
Reading through the pages relating to strategic priorities, I am disheartened by the focus on Wikipedia, such as using research about Wikipedia as a basis for decision making, and Wikipedia being the subject of the priorities. More troubling is the use of this diagram, where many other projects as referred to as "supporting content".
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMFCurrent_WMF_projects.png
It appears that the uploader, TylerT, was engaged by the WMF as a consultant. We recently had WMF board members saying similar things about Commons and Wikisource on foundation-l, and retractions soon followed. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-May/057926.html
This focus on Wikipedia seems to be a systemic problem. Maybe the WMF needs an advisory board consisting of people who are focused on developing the other projects.
-- John Vandenberg
Yeah, I hear you, John. I wouldn't characterize it myself as a systemic problem, but I think I get the gist of what you're saying.
I have my own opinions, but I don't think I'll post them here (at least, not tonight, and not while walking down the street). They'd be easier to talk through in a realtime back-and-forth rather than in a mailing-list post, so with luck we'll be able to talk at office hours, if James can set me up to do that in the next few weeks.
Thanks, Sue
-----Original Message----- From: John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:58:48 To: susanpgardner@gmail.com; Wikimedia Foundation Mailing Listfoundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] WMF investment strategy
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:49 AM, susanpgardner@gmail.com wrote:
Hi John,
Yes, the 2010-11 plan is rooted in the strategy. We're wrapping it up in the office today -- it goes to the Board tonight, and, post-approval, will be published within a few weeks. Maybe I can do IRC office hours once it's published -- it'd be a good meaty topic :-)
That would be fantastic Sue!
I think it would be helpful to have a discussion about strategy before the annual plan is finalised as I suspect there are many people in the community who haven't been following the strategy project (I know I haven't). Now is a good time for everyone to review the strategy wiki content!
I'm a bit concerned about the lack of translations on some of the key pages on the strategy wiki. e.g. 11 translations of the "Task force/Recommendations" page; 9 of the "Emerging strategic priorities" page, and 2 of the first strategy priorities page "Expand reach within large, well-connected populations".
Reading through the pages relating to strategic priorities, I am disheartened by the focus on Wikipedia, such as using research about Wikipedia as a basis for decision making, and Wikipedia being the subject of the priorities. More troubling is the use of this diagram, where many other projects as referred to as "supporting content".
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMFCurrent_WMF_projects.png
It appears that the uploader, TylerT, was engaged by the WMF as a consultant. We recently had WMF board members saying similar things about Commons and Wikisource on foundation-l, and retractions soon followed. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-May/057926.html
This focus on Wikipedia seems to be a systemic problem. Maybe the WMF needs an advisory board consisting of people who are focused on developing the other projects.
-- John Vandenberg
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