Here is the link to the FAQ. Feel free to add questions if you have them and I'll attempt to answer ;) http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/FAQ_Consultancy_for_National_Programs,_In...
Barry Newstead wrote:
Here is the link to the FAQ. Feel free to add questions if you have them and I'll attempt to answer ;)
I've moved this FAQ to Meta-Wiki: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FAQ_Consultancy_for_National_Programs,_India
Meta-Wiki is the project coordination wiki (and has been for pretty much the past decade). I consider the strategy wiki to be dead. It's full of noise like "Wikimedia-pedia" that nobody is interested in and it doesn't need to be in everyone's way. The purpose of the strategy wiki was to create a five-year plan. That purpose has been served, so it's now time to move any remaining content to Meta-Wiki and move on. (There seems to be fairly widespread agreement about this on this mailing list and elsewhere.)
I've also updated the contractors page at Meta-Wiki: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_contractors
Thank you, Barry, for creating the FAQ and being so detailed in your initial e-mail. I'm told you spent quite a bit of time putting this announcement together and I want you to know that I appreciate it. :-)
MZMcBride
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:58 AM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Barry Newstead wrote:
Here is the link to the FAQ. Feel free to add questions if you have them
and
I'll attempt to answer ;)
I've moved this FAQ to Meta-Wiki: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FAQ_Consultancy_for_National_Programs,_India
Thanks for moving this to an easier to find place.
Meta-Wiki is the project coordination wiki (and has been for pretty much the past decade). I consider the strategy wiki to be dead. It's full of noise like "Wikimedia-pedia" that nobody is interested in and it doesn't need to be in everyone's way. The purpose of the strategy wiki was to create a five-year plan. That purpose has been served, so it's now time to move any remaining content to Meta-Wiki and move on. (There seems to be fairly widespread agreement about this on this mailing list and elsewhere.)
Noted
I've also updated the contractors page at Meta-Wiki: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_contractors
Thank you, Barry, for creating the FAQ and being so detailed in your initial e-mail. I'm told you spent quite a bit of time putting this announcement together and I want you to know that I appreciate it. :-)
MZMcBride
Best,
Barry
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2011/2/15 MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com:
The purpose of the strategy wiki was to create a five-year plan. That purpose has been served, so it's now time to move any remaining content to Meta-Wiki and move on.
That's a legitimate viewpoint, but not the one that's informing StrategyWiki's current use by WMF. Our current use is for StrategyWiki to be a place to develop and document strategic research (which is an ongoing process that doesn't end with the five-year plan), where we can easily refer back to and develop some of the accumulated wisdom on StrategyWiki, and where we can pick up work using some of the established practices and processes when necessary (launch a new call for proposals, build new task forces, etc.). In other words, StrategyWiki has an identity and a purpose that extends past the strategic planning process. We may be able to ultimately accomplish all these things by creating spaces within Meta to do them, importing supporting tools/namespaces, etc., or within some future wonderful information architecture, but for the time being, StrategyWiki lives. :-) The FAQ, on the other hand, definitely did not belong there.
I've commented a bit more on the issue of merging wikis in this post, and the same arguments apply here: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-January/063690.html
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