Hi Asaf,
Thank you for sharing these news! I think building capacities is key for our movement and the way this initiative is presented seems to me very relevant and useful.
I am wondering to what extent / how this articulates : - with the programme and work done at Wikimedia Conference this year, where most of these topics where covered - with the follow-up day of WMCON at Wikimania in Mexico where some sessions where dedicated to these topics - with the work done by several subcommunities (such as the Volunteer Support Network, for instance, who - I guess - is dealing with most of these issues)
Do you plan to map and embark the several existing initiatives around these topics across our movement, to build on what's already existing, and how? Do you plan to have one contact point per topic at WMF to make co-creation and cooperation as efficient as possible? What is the actual target group of the initiative? Only "Emerging Communities" or also already "emerged" communities?
It seems to me that there are parallel actions aiming at the same goal here, and it would be great to see them dialogue, converge or even merge rather than dissipating our efforts on such important matters. What do you think ?
Thanks a lot for your answers,
Have a great week,
Anne-Laure
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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:40:25 -0700 From: Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] New WMF initiative: Community Capacity Development Message-ID: CAAmrcwftyCuv2MF6es0yjDGhcXyZhNvBBN5xdx8iWEJENcqEKg@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Dear Wikimedians,
{{Nutshell|WMF Community Engagement Team is allocating staff time and funding to deliberate capacity-development projects with interested communities in six capacity areas: community governance; conflict management; on-wiki technical skills; new contributor engagement and growth; partnerships; communications}}
==Details== This is a new way of partnering with WMF: through two way conversations (rather than top-down planning), WMF will work with specific emerging communities to explore obstacles for community growth and explore and pilot solutions together.
The first phase of this work consisted of a series of in-depth interviews with individuals from 16 specific emerging communities to gather information about existing and missing capacities. Reviewing those interviews in aggregate, we came up with six capacities it seems useful to work together on.
We prepared a page per such capacity, detailing challenges and possible approaches to build that capacity. We welcome your feedback! Contributions to those pages can be done in the following ways:
* Sign up on the sidebar of each capacity subpage if you want to implement certain practices described, * Provide more links to resources, * Expand the Potential Solutions section with new ideas.
These pages, including your contributions, will serve as the basis for specific conversations with specific communities to develop plans or projects to build capacity.
During this initial pilot period, we intend to pursue projects in two or three capacities at most, which will be chosen according to community interest, scale of community, and scale of readership. We expect some of the specific actions we take in these projects would create resources [re-]usable by other communities as well.
==Join the Conversation== We invite you all to read through the capacity pages, and specifically, to see if the challenges described resonate with you and your community. If they do, have an on-wiki discussion about it with your community, and if there's general interest, sign up on the capacity pages and we'll have a conversation about what might be some possible next steps.
Find the six capacity pages on Meta, here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Development
Looking forward to fruitful engagement,
Asaf Bartov Sati Houston Community Engagement department -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org
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Thanks for the excellent questions, everyone. To preserve the answers and increase this conversation's visibility, I have BOLDly pasted the questions on the CCD's talk page[1], and have answered there. I invite you all to continue the conversation there.
Cheers,
A.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Capacity_Development
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Anne-Laure Prévost < annelaure.prevost@wikimedia.fr> wrote:
Hi Asaf,
Thank you for sharing these news! I think building capacities is key for our movement and the way this initiative is presented seems to me very relevant and useful.
I am wondering to what extent / how this articulates :
- with the programme and work done at Wikimedia Conference this year, where
most of these topics where covered
- with the follow-up day of WMCON at Wikimania in Mexico where some
sessions where dedicated to these topics
- with the work done by several subcommunities (such as the Volunteer
Support Network, for instance, who - I guess - is dealing with most of these issues)
Do you plan to map and embark the several existing initiatives around these topics across our movement, to build on what's already existing, and how? Do you plan to have one contact point per topic at WMF to make co-creation and cooperation as efficient as possible? What is the actual target group of the initiative? Only "Emerging Communities" or also already "emerged" communities?
It seems to me that there are parallel actions aiming at the same goal here, and it would be great to see them dialogue, converge or even merge rather than dissipating our efforts on such important matters. What do you think ?
Thanks a lot for your answers,
Have a great week,
Anne-Laure
*Anne-Laure Prévost* CONSEILLÈRE SPÉCIALE PARTENARIATS ET RELATIONS INSTITUTIONNELLES / SPECIAL ADVISOR PARTNERSHIPS & INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
*Tél +33 7 62 93 42 02 /* *+33 1 42 36 97 72* *www.wikimedia.fr http://www.wikimedia.fr/ * *40 rue de Cléry, 75002 Paris* <http://osm.org/go/0BPIihnIn?node=691082430
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:40:25 -0700 From: Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] New WMF initiative: Community Capacity Development Message-ID: < CAAmrcwftyCuv2MF6es0yjDGhcXyZhNvBBN5xdx8iWEJENcqEKg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Dear Wikimedians,
{{Nutshell|WMF Community Engagement Team is allocating staff time and funding to deliberate capacity-development projects with interested communities in six capacity areas: community governance; conflict management; on-wiki technical skills; new contributor engagement and growth; partnerships; communications}}
==Details== This is a new way of partnering with WMF: through two way conversations (rather than top-down planning), WMF will work with specific emerging communities to explore obstacles for community growth and explore and pilot solutions together.
The first phase of this work consisted of a series of in-depth interviews with individuals from 16 specific emerging communities to gather information about existing and missing capacities. Reviewing those interviews in aggregate, we came up with six capacities it seems useful to work together on.
We prepared a page per such capacity, detailing challenges and possible approaches to build that capacity. We welcome your feedback! Contributions to those pages can be done in the following ways:
- Sign up on the sidebar of each capacity subpage if you want to implement
certain practices described,
- Provide more links to resources,
- Expand the Potential Solutions section with new ideas.
These pages, including your contributions, will serve as the basis for specific conversations with specific communities to develop plans or projects to build capacity.
During this initial pilot period, we intend to pursue projects in two or three capacities at most, which will be chosen according to community interest, scale of community, and scale of readership. We expect some of the specific actions we take in these projects would create resources [re-]usable by other communities as well.
==Join the Conversation== We invite you all to read through the capacity pages, and specifically, to see if the challenges described resonate with you and your community. If they do, have an on-wiki discussion about it with your community, and if there's general interest, sign up on the capacity pages and we'll have a conversation about what might be some possible next steps.
Find the six capacity pages on Meta, here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Development
Looking forward to fruitful engagement,
Asaf Bartov Sati Houston Community Engagement department -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org
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In general I'm glad to see this project moving forward. I would encourage the project to interface with the ongoing work in L&E about toolkits, as well as the Learning Patterns Library.
Thanks,
Pine
I'm glad you like it.
What about the project pages made you conclude it's not already interfacing with L&E? Have you noticed the Resources sections, in particular?
A. On Sep 3, 2015 12:21 AM, "Pine W" wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
In general I'm glad to see this project moving forward. I would encourage the project to interface with the ongoing work in L&E about toolkits, as well as the Learning Patterns Library.
Thanks,
Pine
In my travels in the L&E workshop pages, I can't recall seeing a reference from the toolkits to the CCD initiative pages, and I am hoping to see links from CCD pages to the toolkits as the latter are built out.
I have encouraged L&E to design toolkits with new or emerging communities in mind, and my understanding is that they agree that this is something that can use further development in the toolkits. Rosemary, could you talk a little about the plans for this, such as when we might see toolkits with sets of information that are geared for small communities?
Thanks!
Pine
On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm glad you like it.
What about the project pages made you conclude it's not already interfacing with L&E? Have you noticed the Resources sections, in particular?
A. On Sep 3, 2015 12:21 AM, "Pine W" wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
In general I'm glad to see this project moving forward. I would encourage the project to interface with the ongoing work in L&E about toolkits, as well as the Learning Patterns Library.
Thanks,
Pine
Hi Pine, Thanks for bringing this up. We have actually talked with Asaf and Sati about possible ways in which the CCD initiative could inform toolkit development, in order to make sure to keep them relevant, specially for emerging communities. One of the things we want to do is user testing of the current toolkits, and also develop new ones, based on what emerges as a high demand.
It is important, though, to give CCD initiative time, and room to generate consensus around what are high demand capacities. We can certainly link to the CCD initiative from the L&E portal.
The workshop kits that Rosemary is referring to are resources to be able to host L&E workshops anywhere in the Wikimedia movement. You can see the draft on my Sandbox https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MCruz_(WMF)/Sandbox#L.26E_Workshop_Kits. This addresses the need for extending training across the movement, without this being dependent only on L&E staff. Once we have them published, we can see how we could incorporate them to the CCD pages, as they also serve to develop capacity.
Let me know if you have further questions or comments, or other ideas that came up, happy to hear them!
Best,
María
*María Cruz * \ Communications and Outreach Coordinator, L&E Team \ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. mcruz@wikimedia.org | : @marianarra_ https://twitter.com/marianarra_
On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 4:55 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
In my travels in the L&E workshop pages, I can't recall seeing a reference from the toolkits to the CCD initiative pages, and I am hoping to see links from CCD pages to the toolkits as the latter are built out.
I have encouraged L&E to design toolkits with new or emerging communities in mind, and my understanding is that they agree that this is something that can use further development in the toolkits. Rosemary, could you talk a little about the plans for this, such as when we might see toolkits with sets of information that are geared for small communities?
Thanks!
Pine
On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm glad you like it.
What about the project pages made you conclude it's not already interfacing with L&E? Have you noticed the Resources sections, in particular?
A. On Sep 3, 2015 12:21 AM, "Pine W" wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
In general I'm glad to see this project moving forward. I would
encourage
the project to interface with the ongoing work in L&E about toolkits, as well as the Learning Patterns Library.
Thanks,
Pine
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