Gerard,
Thanks for bringing this up. That is exactly what we are attempting to
resolve with changes to product process and program strategies.
We've made improvements with the public VE triage where anyone could submit
a critical blocker, and discuss with the team on a weekly call. And we
tested some ideas for prioritizing new features together early this year.
This quarter we aim to propose and test a strawman approach that would be
used by our newly forming community tech team to do some of what you are
looking for.
It is critical that it is not a black box decision-making process, because
the work is meant to benefit our editors.
Luis can tell you more how we are thinking to ensure that. The Engineering
leaders are coming together to discuss this in depth in August, including
ideas that came from our strategy and working together community
consultations.
Lila
sent from mobile. please excuse typos.
On Jul 12, 2015 2:53 AM, "Gerard Meijssen" <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hoi,
Luis I like what I read. What you can do to make it even more pleasing is
establish better how this will benefit projects other than Wikipedia.
For instance I blogged abut "red link" functionality that will easily
enhance the quality of links and red links in most project including
Wikipedia because it allows for providing information where there is none
yet to bothnot readers and editors AND maintains the functionality as if
nothing has changed.
I have no idea if the WMF would consider such an idea. My impression is
that the WMF and its agenda is very much a black box. When you explain how
an idea like this might get attention, it is less theoretical and it
explains me and others if innovation in the WMF has a place and what that
place is.
Thanks,
GerardM
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2015/07/wikipedia-is-it-about-articles-o…
On 12 July 2015 at 05:03, Luis Villa <lvilla(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Luis Villa
<lvilla(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Rogol Domedonfors <
domedonfors(a)gmail.com
wrote:
The 2015 Call to Action identified the need to
Support innovation &
new knowledge
* Integrate, consolidate, and pause or stop stalled initiatives.
* Create spaces for future community-led innovations and new
knowledge creation.
* Facilitate and support new models and structures for knowledge
curation.
* Strengthen partnerships with organizations that use or
contribute free content, or are aligned with the WMF in the
free-knowledge movement.
Yet no-one at WMF seems tasked with driving innovation in the
community. I have started a Meta page for Innovation at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Innovation to stimulate discussions.
I'm going to respond more on-wiki, but tl;dr: I disagree strongly that
"no
one at WMF seems tasked with driving
innovation".
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Innovation&type=revision&a…
Constructive suggestions welcome - no one wants to see innovation more
than
me, trust me :)
Luis
--
Luis Villa
Sr. Director of Community Engagement
Wikimedia Foundation
*Working towards a world in which every single human being can freely
share
in the sum of all knowledge.*
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