[Foundation-l] Message to community about community decline

[Ting Chen]

Dear all:

The Wikimedia Board of Trustees just completed its two-day meeting [1] 
this weekend in Berlin. We devoted the longest time to discussing 
declining trends in editing activity and our collective response to it. 
I encourage everyone to review Sue’s March update [2], and the editor 
trends study itself [3]. It is a deeply important topic, and each report 
is only a few pages long.

The Board thinks this is the most significant challenge currently facing 
our movement. We would encourage the whole movement - the communities, 
wikiprojects, Chapters, Board, Foundation staff - to think about ways to 
meet this challenge. We know many contributors care about this and have 
worked on outreach and hospitality in past years. We are considering how 
we can help make such work more effective, and ask for suggestions from 
the community to this problem now and to invite discussion and 
suggestions [4].

Greetings,
Ting

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Board_meetings/March_25-26
[2] http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/March_2011_Update
[3] http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_Trends_Study
[4] http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:March_2011_Update

-- 
Ting Chen
Member of the Board of Trustees
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
E-Mail: tchen at wikimedia.org