[Foundation-l] strategic planning IRC office hours

[John at Darkstar]

Small wikis need a lot more administrative work per articles than larger
wikis. If there isn't any clear real reason then simply don't make a new
wiki.

John

phoebe ayers wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Eugene Eric Kim<eekim at blueoxen.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Samuel Klein<meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> * Could you please help update the meta page on the process with your
>>> thoughts and ideas?   [[m:Strategic planning 2009]]  What's your current
>>> rough timeline for the coming 12 months?
>> We'll start seeding Meta with what we know (and probably quite a bit
>> of what we don't) today, and I'll look forward to reading other
>> people's thoughts.
>>
>> On creating a new Wiki: I hear you. I'm constantly fighting Wiki-creep
>> with some of my other communities and clients. Creating new Wikis is
>> often knee-jerk, and knee-jerk is usually not the best thing.
>>
>> There's a tradeoff between starting with a blank slate and the need to
>> re-establish a community and a set of norms. My gut tells me that a
>> blank slate is better for this project, but I'm open to other
>> feedback.
> 
> Re: creating a new wiki --
> I talked to Eugene about this briefly last week and agreed at the time
> that a new wiki would be useful (for starting the project fresh with a
> blank slate) -- but the more I think about it, and reading Angela's
> and Mike's posts, sticking to meta for now seems like the best route.
> It's practical, as there is already a community of spam fighters,
> translators and template builders ready to go, and many of the people
> who will be interested in strategic planning are already there (and in
> many cases are already active meta editors); and it's fitting with the
> role of meta, which is meant to be a multi-lingual place to discuss
> the Foundation ... which sounds like strategic planning to me. And I
> suspect many of the ideas that will be brought up in the planning
> process will have already been discussed somewhere on meta at some
> point, and can be linked to and integrated in easily from there.
> 
> Anyway, an open to-do list for things that need doing -- whether it's
> building out meta or anything else -- would be great too, to help give
> guidance to people who want to help out but don't quite know what's
> going on.
> 
> -- Phoebe
> 
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