The next strategic planning office hours are:
Wednesday from 04:00-05:00 UTC, which is:
Tuesday, 8-9pm PST
Tuesday, 11pm-12am EST
As always, You can access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net
and filling in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-
strategy). You may be prompted to click through a security warning.
It's fine.
Hope to see you there!
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Philippe Beaudette
Facilitator, Strategy Project
Wikimedia Foundation
philippe(a)wikimedia.org
mobile: 918 200-WIKI (9454)
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http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Question_of_the_week
Last week's Question of the week focused on how Wikimedia could change
its technology to enable a friendlier and more welcoming environment.
Certainly new technology and increasing the friendliness is one tactic
that Wikipedia might use to increase participation. The following
graph shows that there are some key countries with a large online
populations where Wikipedia still has significant room to increase the
number of users and active participants. Specifically, in China,
Brazil, France, South Korea, Turkey and Indonesia, Wikipedia.org
ranking is below 10. What tactics do you think could be used to
increase participation in a specific country?
<Graph and link to participate are at http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Question_of_the_week
>
____________________
Philippe Beaudette
Facilitator, Strategy Project
Wikimedia Foundation
philippe(a)wikimedia.org
mobile: 918 200-WIKI (9454)
Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
The next strategic planning office hours are Tuesday from 20:00-21:00
UTC (12-1PM PST, 3-4PM EST).
Office hours are on #wikimedia-strategy on freenode. You can access
the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net/ and filling in a
username and the channel name (#wikimedia-strategy). You may be
prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine. Another
option is http://chat.wikizine.org. You can also, of course, use your
favorite IRC chat client.
See you there!
____________________
Philippe Beaudette
Facilitator, Strategy Project
Wikimedia Foundation
philippe(a)wikimedia.org
mobile: 918 200-WIKI (9454)
Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
It's happening again :)
Wikimedia Strategy Project office hours on IRC (#wikimedia-strategy at
freenode) are Wednesday from 04:00-05:00 UTC, which is:
Tuesday, 8-9pm PST
Tuesday, 11pm-12am EST
You can access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net/ and
filling in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-strategy). You
may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine.
Another option is http://chat.wikizine.org.
For more information about IRC clients, go to the Wikipedia entry on
IRC or the Meta page on Wikimedia IRC.
____________________
Philippe Beaudette
Facilitator, Strategy Project
Wikimedia Foundation
philippe(a)wikimedia.org
mobile: 918 200-WIKI (9454)
Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
There's a new question of the week at Strategy wiki - http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Question_of_the_week
This week's question is:
The Wall Street Journal published an article last week detailing the
research of Felipe Ortega, indicating that the number of editors has
declined in recent years. Representatives from the Wikimedia
Foundation, meanwhile, noted that a different methodology indicates
that the number of active editors has in fact stabilized in the same
time period--as opposed to having declined.
Regardless of the methodological differences, there appears to be a
consensus that the Wikipedia community is becoming less friendly,
particularly for new users. A few relevant data points:
Ed Chi's research (at the Palo Alto Research Center) indicates that
new editors see 25% of their edits reverted
Comments left on the blog for the WSJ article indicate that a number
of editors have left because of unfriendly treatment from other
editors (e.g., edits reverted without explanations of why), and
comments on this Wiki have echoed this impression
Proposals on this Wiki have indicated that a good reward system for
contributions does not exist
Given all of the above, how could the community better reward
contributions and nurture new editors? How can the Wikimedia projects
become a friendlier and more welcoming place to share knowledge?
We'd love to have your input on the talk page of that question!
Philippe
____________________
Philippe Beaudette
Facilitator, Strategy Project
Wikimedia Foundation
philippe(a)wikimedia.org
mobile: 918 200-WIKI (9454)
Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate