Hi everyone,
I hope this finds you all as well as could be. It's been a while since I've sent a note out about movement strategy; so much has changed in the world since we started these conversations in 2017, including this global pandemic. Indeed, much has continued to evolve in our movement too, including the growth of the projects themselves and the continued expansion of the global community.
Against this backdrop, and on behalf of the working group members [2], the team of writers who finalized the content [3, 4], and the core team [5], I have the honor of notifying you of the publication of the 2020 movement strategy recommendations, now live on Meta-wiki [1].
*=== The 2030 strategic direction ===* As you recall, the 2030 strategic direction calls upon Wikimedia to become "the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge, and anyone who shares our vision will be able to join us. This final version of the recommendations embodies an aspiration for how the Wikimedia movement should continue to change in order to advance that direction and meet the Wikimedia vision in a changing world.
They are also the culmination of a tremendous amount of work over many dozens of places, of many thousands of hours, by many hundreds of Wikimedians. They are the synthesis of your thoughts, critiques, insight, and hopes for our work. Thank you, all of you, who have contributed to this thinking about the future of our movement.
*=== What’s in the recommendations? ===* These recommendations clarify and refine the previous version, which was published in January this year. The team that finalized the content has done an impressive job of reviewing and integrating movement feedback, refining the recommendations, and making the language as clear as possible. The result is a 40-page document that outlines 10 recommendations for change in our movement, along with 10 underlying principles, a narrative of change, and a glossary of key terms.
These recommendations are intended to` guide our movement over the next decade. They are at a high strategic level so that the ideas are flexible enough to be adapted to different global and local settings and will allow us to navigate future challenges.
*=== How to review the recommendations ===* The recommendations are online in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, and Spanish. We also have a summary available in Catalan, Dutch, Farsi, Hebrew, Polish, and Russian, and we welcome volunteer translation support for these and other languages.
We encourage you to read the recommendations in your own time and at your own pace, either online [6] or in a PDF [7]. There are a couple of other formats for you to take a deeper dive if you wish, such as a one-page summary, slides, and office hours, all collected on Meta [8]. If you would like to comment, you are welcome to do so on the Meta talk pages. However please note that these are the final version of the recommendations. No further edits will be made.
*=== What’s next ===* The focus of the movement strategy process will shift toward implementation. Originally, we had intended to meet in Berlin for the Wikimedia Summit to discuss and plan how we want to move forward. Due to the current global health crisis, this is unfortunately not possible.
Instead of a physical event, the Wikimedia Foundation is intending to host a series of virtual events that will help us transition to the implementation phase. The goal will be to produce a plan to begin the implementation — to identify what initiatives must come first, and in what sequence, and with what resources and support.
This series will not only address Wikimedia affiliates and the Wikimedia Foundation, but have a wider scope to ensure various parts of the movement are engaged in different ways. Planning has started, but it will take a few more weeks. We are mindful that everyone has been impacted by the pandemic in different ways, and we are therefore taking things one step at a time. We expect to share more details this month, and begin this work together through the summer and into the fall.
*=== Thank you ===* I want to extend my deep gratitude to every single person who has helped create these recommendations. True to the Wikimedia way, it is through the contributions of many that we have reached this milestone.
Working group members dedicated more than a year to engaging with movement stakeholders and developing the draft recommendations. On-wiki contributors took part in community conversations to share their thoughts on the content and help improve it. Affiliates and community organizers held dedicated events to discuss strategy and provided valuable advice throughout the process. Wikimedia Foundation staff and Board of Trustees supported and guided the process from the beginning. The writing team and the reviewers [9] worked tirelessly to revise and finalize the recommendations. Community and affiliate strategy liaisons facilitated countless discussions. Thank you all.
This work is remarkable, and I look forward to continuing on this journey with all of you to create the future of our movement together.
Yours, Katherine
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommen... [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_... [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_... [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_... [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/People/S... [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommen... [7] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_2030_Movement_Strategy_Rec... [8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommen... [9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_...
Thank you Katherine for the update and thank all people involved, from the beginning to the end, on writing, connecting with the community, and reviewing these recommendations. Immensely grateful for your work: effort, concentration and stay on focus.
Camelia, Diversity WG
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Il giorno mar 12 mag 2020 alle ore 10:53 Katherine Maher < kmaher@wikimedia.org> ha scritto:
Hi everyone,
I hope this finds you all as well as could be. It's been a while since I've sent a note out about movement strategy; so much has changed in the world since we started these conversations in 2017, including this global pandemic. Indeed, much has continued to evolve in our movement too, including the growth of the projects themselves and the continued expansion of the global community.
Against this backdrop, and on behalf of the working group members [2], the team of writers who finalized the content [3, 4], and the core team [5], I have the honor of notifying you of the publication of the 2020 movement strategy recommendations, now live on Meta-wiki [1].
*=== The 2030 strategic direction ===* As you recall, the 2030 strategic direction calls upon Wikimedia to become "the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge, and anyone who shares our vision will be able to join us. This final version of the recommendations embodies an aspiration for how the Wikimedia movement should continue to change in order to advance that direction and meet the Wikimedia vision in a changing world.
They are also the culmination of a tremendous amount of work over many dozens of places, of many thousands of hours, by many hundreds of Wikimedians. They are the synthesis of your thoughts, critiques, insight, and hopes for our work. Thank you, all of you, who have contributed to this thinking about the future of our movement.
*=== What’s in the recommendations? ===* These recommendations clarify and refine the previous version, which was published in January this year. The team that finalized the content has done an impressive job of reviewing and integrating movement feedback, refining the recommendations, and making the language as clear as possible. The result is a 40-page document that outlines 10 recommendations for change in our movement, along with 10 underlying principles, a narrative of change, and a glossary of key terms.
These recommendations are intended to` guide our movement over the next decade. They are at a high strategic level so that the ideas are flexible enough to be adapted to different global and local settings and will allow us to navigate future challenges.
*=== How to review the recommendations ===* The recommendations are online in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, and Spanish. We also have a summary available in Catalan, Dutch, Farsi, Hebrew, Polish, and Russian, and we welcome volunteer translation support for these and other languages.
We encourage you to read the recommendations in your own time and at your own pace, either online [6] or in a PDF [7]. There are a couple of other formats for you to take a deeper dive if you wish, such as a one-page summary, slides, and office hours, all collected on Meta [8]. If you would like to comment, you are welcome to do so on the Meta talk pages. However please note that these are the final version of the recommendations. No further edits will be made.
*=== What’s next ===* The focus of the movement strategy process will shift toward implementation. Originally, we had intended to meet in Berlin for the Wikimedia Summit to discuss and plan how we want to move forward. Due to the current global health crisis, this is unfortunately not possible.
Instead of a physical event, the Wikimedia Foundation is intending to host a series of virtual events that will help us transition to the implementation phase. The goal will be to produce a plan to begin the implementation — to identify what initiatives must come first, and in what sequence, and with what resources and support.
This series will not only address Wikimedia affiliates and the Wikimedia Foundation, but have a wider scope to ensure various parts of the movement are engaged in different ways. Planning has started, but it will take a few more weeks. We are mindful that everyone has been impacted by the pandemic in different ways, and we are therefore taking things one step at a time. We expect to share more details this month, and begin this work together through the summer and into the fall.
*=== Thank you ===* I want to extend my deep gratitude to every single person who has helped create these recommendations. True to the Wikimedia way, it is through the contributions of many that we have reached this milestone.
Working group members dedicated more than a year to engaging with movement stakeholders and developing the draft recommendations. On-wiki contributors took part in community conversations to share their thoughts on the content and help improve it. Affiliates and community organizers held dedicated events to discuss strategy and provided valuable advice throughout the process. Wikimedia Foundation staff and Board of Trustees supported and guided the process from the beginning. The writing team and the reviewers [9] worked tirelessly to revise and finalize the recommendations. Community and affiliate strategy liaisons facilitated countless discussions. Thank you all.
This work is remarkable, and I look forward to continuing on this journey with all of you to create the future of our movement together.
Yours, Katherine
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommen... [2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_... [3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_... [4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_... [5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/People/S... [6]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommen... [7]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_2030_Movement_Strategy_Rec... [8]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommen... [9]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_...
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Executive Director
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I find this final version much easier to get to grips with, both in language and structure/content. And to condense it into 10 recommendations instead of 13 complemented with 10 principles is a big improvement.
It is a great base on which to build our "new" movement, and I expect it will be many more years to discuss and implement this direction.
Thanks to all involved
Anders
But the section Overview seems to need an update (it ends in March)?
Den 2020-05-12 kl. 10:40, skrev Katherine Maher:
Hi everyone,
I hope this finds you all as well as could be. It's been a while since I've sent a note out about movement strategy; so much has changed in the world since we started these conversations in 2017, including this global pandemic. Indeed, much has continued to evolve in our movement too, including the growth of the projects themselves and the continued expansion of the global community.
Against this backdrop, and on behalf of the working group members [2], the team of writers who finalized the content [3, 4], and the core team [5], I have the honor of notifying you of the publication of the 2020 movement strategy recommendations, now live on Meta-wiki [1].
*=== The 2030 strategic direction ===* As you recall, the 2030 strategic direction calls upon Wikimedia to become "the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge, and anyone who shares our vision will be able to join us. This final version of the recommendations embodies an aspiration for how the Wikimedia movement should continue to change in order to advance that direction and meet the Wikimedia vision in a changing world.
They are also the culmination of a tremendous amount of work over many dozens of places, of many thousands of hours, by many hundreds of Wikimedians. They are the synthesis of your thoughts, critiques, insight, and hopes for our work. Thank you, all of you, who have contributed to this thinking about the future of our movement.
*=== What’s in the recommendations? ===* These recommendations clarify and refine the previous version, which was published in January this year. The team that finalized the content has done an impressive job of reviewing and integrating movement feedback, refining the recommendations, and making the language as clear as possible. The result is a 40-page document that outlines 10 recommendations for change in our movement, along with 10 underlying principles, a narrative of change, and a glossary of key terms.
These recommendations are intended to` guide our movement over the next decade. They are at a high strategic level so that the ideas are flexible enough to be adapted to different global and local settings and will allow us to navigate future challenges.
*=== How to review the recommendations ===* The recommendations are online in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, and Spanish. We also have a summary available in Catalan, Dutch, Farsi, Hebrew, Polish, and Russian, and we welcome volunteer translation support for these and other languages.
We encourage you to read the recommendations in your own time and at your own pace, either online [6] or in a PDF [7]. There are a couple of other formats for you to take a deeper dive if you wish, such as a one-page summary, slides, and office hours, all collected on Meta [8]. If you would like to comment, you are welcome to do so on the Meta talk pages. However please note that these are the final version of the recommendations. No further edits will be made.
*=== What’s next ===* The focus of the movement strategy process will shift toward implementation. Originally, we had intended to meet in Berlin for the Wikimedia Summit to discuss and plan how we want to move forward. Due to the current global health crisis, this is unfortunately not possible.
Instead of a physical event, the Wikimedia Foundation is intending to host a series of virtual events that will help us transition to the implementation phase. The goal will be to produce a plan to begin the implementation — to identify what initiatives must come first, and in what sequence, and with what resources and support.
This series will not only address Wikimedia affiliates and the Wikimedia Foundation, but have a wider scope to ensure various parts of the movement are engaged in different ways. Planning has started, but it will take a few more weeks. We are mindful that everyone has been impacted by the pandemic in different ways, and we are therefore taking things one step at a time. We expect to share more details this month, and begin this work together through the summer and into the fall.
*=== Thank you ===* I want to extend my deep gratitude to every single person who has helped create these recommendations. True to the Wikimedia way, it is through the contributions of many that we have reached this milestone.
Working group members dedicated more than a year to engaging with movement stakeholders and developing the draft recommendations. On-wiki contributors took part in community conversations to share their thoughts on the content and help improve it. Affiliates and community organizers held dedicated events to discuss strategy and provided valuable advice throughout the process. Wikimedia Foundation staff and Board of Trustees supported and guided the process from the beginning. The writing team and the reviewers [9] worked tirelessly to revise and finalize the recommendations. Community and affiliate strategy liaisons facilitated countless discussions. Thank you all.
This work is remarkable, and I look forward to continuing on this journey with all of you to create the future of our movement together.
Yours, Katherine
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommen... [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_... [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_... [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_... [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/People/S... [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommen... [7] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_2030_Movement_Strategy_Rec... [8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommen... [9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_...
Impressive work, thanks to all those involved.
Were there any major changes to the content of recommendations as compared to the previous iteration? That is, apart from clarifying & condensing the text.
Best Regards Anton Protsiuk
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 1:07 PM Anders Wennersten mail@anderswennersten.se wrote:
I find this final version much easier to get to grips with, both in language and structure/content. And to condense it into 10 recommendations instead of 13 complemented with 10 principles is a big improvement.
It is a great base on which to build our "new" movement, and I expect it will be many more years to discuss and implement this direction.
Thanks to all involved
Anders
But the section Overview seems to need an update (it ends in March)?
Den 2020-05-12 kl. 10:40, skrev Katherine Maher:
Hi everyone,
I hope this finds you all as well as could be. It's been a while since
I've
sent a note out about movement strategy; so much has changed in the world since we started these conversations in 2017, including this global pandemic. Indeed, much has continued to evolve in our movement too, including the growth of the projects themselves and the continued
expansion
of the global community.
Against this backdrop, and on behalf of the working group members [2],
the
team of writers who finalized the content [3, 4], and the core team [5],
I
have the honor of notifying you of the publication of the 2020 movement strategy recommendations, now live on Meta-wiki [1].
*=== The 2030 strategic direction ===* As you recall, the 2030 strategic direction calls upon Wikimedia to
become
"the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge, and anyone who shares our vision will be able to join us. This final version
of
the recommendations embodies an aspiration for how the Wikimedia movement should continue to change in order to advance that direction and meet the Wikimedia vision in a changing world.
They are also the culmination of a tremendous amount of work over many dozens of places, of many thousands of hours, by many hundreds of Wikimedians. They are the synthesis of your thoughts, critiques, insight, and hopes for our work. Thank you, all of you, who have contributed to
this
thinking about the future of our movement.
*=== What’s in the recommendations? ===* These recommendations clarify and refine the previous version, which was published in January this year. The team that finalized the content has done an impressive job of reviewing and integrating movement feedback, refining the recommendations, and making the language as clear as
possible.
The result is a 40-page document that outlines 10 recommendations for change in our movement, along with 10 underlying principles, a narrative
of
change, and a glossary of key terms.
These recommendations are intended to` guide our movement over the next decade. They are at a high strategic level so that the ideas are flexible enough to be adapted to different global and local settings and will
allow
us to navigate future challenges.
*=== How to review the recommendations ===* The recommendations are online in Arabic, Chinese, English, French,
German,
Hindi, Portuguese, and Spanish. We also have a summary available in Catalan, Dutch, Farsi, Hebrew, Polish, and Russian, and we welcome volunteer translation support for these and other languages.
We encourage you to read the recommendations in your own time and at your own pace, either online [6] or in a PDF [7]. There are a couple of other formats for you to take a deeper dive if you wish, such as a one-page summary, slides, and office hours, all collected on Meta [8]. If you
would
like to comment, you are welcome to do so on the Meta talk pages. However please note that these are the final version of the recommendations. No further edits will be made.
*=== What’s next ===* The focus of the movement strategy process will shift toward implementation. Originally, we had intended to meet in Berlin for the Wikimedia Summit to discuss and plan how we want to move forward. Due to the current global health crisis, this is unfortunately not possible.
Instead of a physical event, the Wikimedia Foundation is intending to
host
a series of virtual events that will help us transition to the implementation phase. The goal will be to produce a plan to begin the implementation — to identify what initiatives must come first, and in
what
sequence, and with what resources and support.
This series will not only address Wikimedia affiliates and the Wikimedia Foundation, but have a wider scope to ensure various parts of the
movement
are engaged in different ways. Planning has started, but it will take a
few
more weeks. We are mindful that everyone has been impacted by the
pandemic
in different ways, and we are therefore taking things one step at a time. We expect to share more details this month, and begin this work together through the summer and into the fall.
*=== Thank you ===* I want to extend my deep gratitude to every single person who has helped create these recommendations. True to the Wikimedia way, it is through
the
contributions of many that we have reached this milestone.
Working group members dedicated more than a year to engaging with
movement
stakeholders and developing the draft recommendations. On-wiki
contributors
took part in community conversations to share their thoughts on the
content
and help improve it. Affiliates and community organizers held dedicated events to discuss strategy and provided valuable advice throughout the process. Wikimedia Foundation staff and Board of Trustees supported and guided the process from the beginning. The writing team and the reviewers [9] worked tirelessly to revise and finalize the recommendations.
Community
and affiliate strategy liaisons facilitated countless discussions. Thank you all.
This work is remarkable, and I look forward to continuing on this journey with all of you to create the future of our movement together.
Yours, Katherine
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommen...
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_...
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_...
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_...
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/People/S...
[6]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommen...
[7]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_2030_Movement_Strategy_Rec...
[8]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommen...
[9]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_...
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Thanks, Anders and Anton, for your uplifting feedback.
We'll update the overview section right away.
We have documented the changes in this change log, I hope this is helpful: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Reports/...)
Best wishes, Nicole
On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 12:22, Anton Protsiuk < anton.protsiuk@wikimedia.org.ua> wrote:
Impressive work, thanks to all those involved.
Were there any major changes to the content of recommendations as compared to the previous iteration? That is, apart from clarifying & condensing the text.
Best Regards Anton Protsiuk
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 1:07 PM Anders Wennersten < mail@anderswennersten.se> wrote:
I find this final version much easier to get to grips with, both in language and structure/content. And to condense it into 10 recommendations instead of 13 complemented with 10 principles is a big improvement.
It is a great base on which to build our "new" movement, and I expect it will be many more years to discuss and implement this direction.
Thanks to all involved
Anders
But the section Overview seems to need an update (it ends in March)?
Den 2020-05-12 kl. 10:40, skrev Katherine Maher:
Hi everyone,
I hope this finds you all as well as could be. It's been a while since
I've
sent a note out about movement strategy; so much has changed in the
world
since we started these conversations in 2017, including this global pandemic. Indeed, much has continued to evolve in our movement too, including the growth of the projects themselves and the continued
expansion
of the global community.
Against this backdrop, and on behalf of the working group members [2],
the
team of writers who finalized the content [3, 4], and the core team
[5],
I
have the honor of notifying you of the publication of the 2020 movement strategy recommendations, now live on Meta-wiki [1].
*=== The 2030 strategic direction ===* As you recall, the 2030 strategic direction calls upon Wikimedia to
become
"the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge, and anyone who shares our vision will be able to join us. This final
version
of
the recommendations embodies an aspiration for how the Wikimedia
movement
should continue to change in order to advance that direction and meet
the
Wikimedia vision in a changing world.
They are also the culmination of a tremendous amount of work over many dozens of places, of many thousands of hours, by many hundreds of Wikimedians. They are the synthesis of your thoughts, critiques,
insight,
and hopes for our work. Thank you, all of you, who have contributed to
this
thinking about the future of our movement.
*=== What’s in the recommendations? ===* These recommendations clarify and refine the previous version, which
was
published in January this year. The team that finalized the content has done an impressive job of reviewing and integrating movement feedback, refining the recommendations, and making the language as clear as
possible.
The result is a 40-page document that outlines 10 recommendations for change in our movement, along with 10 underlying principles, a
narrative
of
change, and a glossary of key terms.
These recommendations are intended to` guide our movement over the next decade. They are at a high strategic level so that the ideas are
flexible
enough to be adapted to different global and local settings and will
allow
us to navigate future challenges.
*=== How to review the recommendations ===* The recommendations are online in Arabic, Chinese, English, French,
German,
Hindi, Portuguese, and Spanish. We also have a summary available in Catalan, Dutch, Farsi, Hebrew, Polish, and Russian, and we welcome volunteer translation support for these and other languages.
We encourage you to read the recommendations in your own time and at
your
own pace, either online [6] or in a PDF [7]. There are a couple of
other
formats for you to take a deeper dive if you wish, such as a one-page summary, slides, and office hours, all collected on Meta [8]. If you
would
like to comment, you are welcome to do so on the Meta talk pages.
However
please note that these are the final version of the recommendations. No further edits will be made.
*=== What’s next ===* The focus of the movement strategy process will shift toward implementation. Originally, we had intended to meet in Berlin for the Wikimedia Summit to discuss and plan how we want to move forward. Due
to
the current global health crisis, this is unfortunately not possible.
Instead of a physical event, the Wikimedia Foundation is intending to
host
a series of virtual events that will help us transition to the implementation phase. The goal will be to produce a plan to begin the implementation — to identify what initiatives must come first, and in
what
sequence, and with what resources and support.
This series will not only address Wikimedia affiliates and the
Wikimedia
Foundation, but have a wider scope to ensure various parts of the
movement
are engaged in different ways. Planning has started, but it will take a
few
more weeks. We are mindful that everyone has been impacted by the
pandemic
in different ways, and we are therefore taking things one step at a
time.
We expect to share more details this month, and begin this work
together
through the summer and into the fall.
*=== Thank you ===* I want to extend my deep gratitude to every single person who has
helped
create these recommendations. True to the Wikimedia way, it is through
the
contributions of many that we have reached this milestone.
Working group members dedicated more than a year to engaging with
movement
stakeholders and developing the draft recommendations. On-wiki
contributors
took part in community conversations to share their thoughts on the
content
and help improve it. Affiliates and community organizers held dedicated events to discuss strategy and provided valuable advice throughout the process. Wikimedia Foundation staff and Board of Trustees supported and guided the process from the beginning. The writing team and the
reviewers
[9] worked tirelessly to revise and finalize the recommendations.
Community
and affiliate strategy liaisons facilitated countless discussions.
Thank
you all.
This work is remarkable, and I look forward to continuing on this
journey
with all of you to create the future of our movement together.
Yours, Katherine
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommen...
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_...
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_...
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_...
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Thank you Nicole
for all that great job!
On 12/05/2020 12:29, Nicole Ebber wrote:
Thanks, Anders and Anton, for your uplifting feedback.
We'll update the overview section right away.
We have documented the changes in this change log, I hope this is helpful: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Reports/...)
Best wishes, Nicole
Thank you, Katherine, for this update and Nicole (and others) for these awesome recommendations.
Regards
Isaac
On Tue, 12 May 2020, 11:45 Ilario valdelli, valdelli@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you Nicole
for all that great job!
On 12/05/2020 12:29, Nicole Ebber wrote:
Thanks, Anders and Anton, for your uplifting feedback.
We'll update the overview section right away.
We have documented the changes in this change log, I hope this is
helpful:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Reports/...)
Best wishes, Nicole
-- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008 Zürich Wikipedia: Ilario Skype: valdelli Tel: +41764821371 http://www.wikimedia.ch
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Thank you, Katherine, for sending this e-mail, and thanks to you all for these positive and uplifting comments in these replies.
As one of the participants who had been involved in the writing, it is an enormous pleasure to see these strategic recommendations finally released.
I wanted to write a few lines to share immense gratitude to my friends, the writers. I feel gratitude to those with whom I had the chance to work closely, in this last phase and also in the Working Groups phase, and to everyone who has been involved in this process, putting their time, energy and hopes to have this 2030 horizon more and more defined. We had moments of uncertainty and disagreement, but also of great complicity and companionship that allowed us to overcome the challenges and come to this point.
I also want to thank Katherine, the Core Team, Ryan and everyone who had accompanied us in this process, for being the first contributors to it, for their courage, and for trusting us and believing that a collaborative and participatory process to define the strategy of the Movement was possible. Not only was it possible, but I think it is the best way to do it respectful of the nature and values of this Movement. Because as someone said before, we’re building and growing our Movement together.
I want to reinforce that everything that has been written in these recommendations is the product of intense discussions, taking into account the contributions meta, the feedback from every event and call, and all the known data of how the Movement works as well as the trends that indicate the world that is coming.
Everything has been written with the Movement in mind, considering from the smallest to the biggest actor, and therefore with the best intent to find a balance point for everyone. As I talked to the other writers, I think we often felt the privileged to be able to cultivate and enjoy this broad perspective, but also a great responsibility for the result. Everyone who had attended a strategy event, a call, or left a comment is a contributor to these strategy recommendations.
Finally, I would like to invite you all not to overlook any section: the introduction, the principles, and the narrative are valuable pieces of the document. Even though the results from the recommendations are what is going to be implemented more directly, all these other parts are essential to understand how we can do it.
With this, I want to thank again to everyone. I hope I will see you in the next calls to discuss and share ideas as we move forward.
Best,
Marc Miquel
Missatge de Isaac Olatunde reachout2isaac@gmail.com del dia dt., 12 de maig 2020 a les 14:47:
Thank you, Katherine, for this update and Nicole (and others) for these awesome recommendations.
Regards
Isaac
On Tue, 12 May 2020, 11:45 Ilario valdelli, valdelli@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you Nicole
for all that great job!
On 12/05/2020 12:29, Nicole Ebber wrote:
Thanks, Anders and Anton, for your uplifting feedback.
We'll update the overview section right away.
We have documented the changes in this change log, I hope this is
helpful:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Reports/...)
Best wishes, Nicole
-- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008 Zürich Wikipedia: Ilario Skype: valdelli Tel: +41764821371 http://www.wikimedia.ch
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Thank you
it was a big challenge and sometimes a lot of complicated issues but thank you to have given this good direction.
Kind regards
On 12/05/2020 10:40, Katherine Maher wrote:
*=== Thank you ===* I want to extend my deep gratitude to every single person who has helped create these recommendations. True to the Wikimedia way, it is through the contributions of many that we have reached this milestone.
Working group members dedicated more than a year to engaging with movement stakeholders and developing the draft recommendations. On-wiki contributors took part in community conversations to share their thoughts on the content and help improve it. Affiliates and community organizers held dedicated events to discuss strategy and provided valuable advice throughout the process. Wikimedia Foundation staff and Board of Trustees supported and guided the process from the beginning. The writing team and the reviewers [9] worked tirelessly to revise and finalize the recommendations. Community and affiliate strategy liaisons facilitated countless discussions. Thank you all.
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