Grants:IdeaLab/Towards a New Wikimania/Outcomes/fr

Vers un nouveau Wikimania

Les résultats

Résumé

Du 14 décembre 2015 au 19 janvier 2016, l'équipe des Ressources Communautaires du FMI a tenu une consultation sur la valeur exceptionnelle des conférences Wikimédia et du mouvement Wikimania, ainsi qu'une une réflexion quant à la meilleure forme que devrait adopter Wikimania dans le but d'améliorer son fonctionnement et de prospérer à l'avenir. Se basant sur les commentaires de plus de cent participants (à la fois sur wiki et sur une enquête privée), il est ressorti le texte suivant :

1. La force du Wikimania tient de l'occasion unique qu'elle entretient que chacun puisse échanger avec le mouvement dans son ensemble, poser des questions, écouter et apprendre des gens qui viennent d'horizons différents et qui ont des perspectives et des expériences différentes de nous-mêmes.
2. La valeur d'ensemble du mouvement de conférences Wikimédia provient de l'opportunité offerte d'approfondir et de renforcer nos relations les uns avec les autres grâce à des collaborations, du partage d'expériences et des discussions sur des questions implexes.
3. Les participants ont été favorables à la mise en place à titre expérimental d'un nouveau modèle de planification des conférences Wikimedia dans le temps, dans lequel :
   • Le Wikimania serait organisé tous les deux ans (avec 2018 comme première année non-Wikimania), et
   • Durant les années Wikimania, il est tenu d'apporter un soutien accru aux conférences régionales et thématiques.
   • Établir des liens entre les différentes conférences sera de plus en plus important en vue de renforcer les valeurs qui ont été identifiées.

Les méthodes et les participants

Les retours ont été rassemblés à partir de deux sources :

• Qualtrics : 82 personnes ont partagé leur avis sur les Problèmes 1 et 2 dans une enquête privée, certains d'entre eux (5 participants) ont seulement partagé des histoires personnelles à propos des conférences du mouvement.
• La page de discussion : 37 personnes ont partagé leur avis en public sur les même Problèmes 1 et 2, ou apporté des sujets additionnels liés à Wikimania et aux conférences du mouvement.

Des questions identiques concernant les deux problèmes (Questions sur le Problème 1, Questions sur le Problème 2) ont été posées sur Qualtrics et sur la page de discussion.

Nous avons examiné un total de 119 réponses. Environ 90 participants ont répondu aux questions directement sur le sondage ou la page de discussion. There were a small number of individuals who participated in both channels, but after reviewing feedback, but this was unlikely to be significant.

Ensuring there were multiple channels for feedback, including an option for private feedback, was useful for participation. This methodology for gathering feedback has also worked well in past consultations that affect Wikimedia project contributors generally.

Information additionnelle sur l'échantillonage et l'analyse
Les groupes suivants ont été échatillonnés pour participer à l'enquête : Les personnes qui ont participé ou qui ont manifesté un intérêt pour participer au Wikimania 2015 et au Wikimania 2014 Past attendees of regional and thematic conferences including WikiArabia, Wikimedia CEE Meeting, Iberoconf, Wiki Indaba, Wikisource Conference, and GLAM Wiki 2015 Various mailing lists, including wikimedia-l and wikimania-l Wikimania Steering Committee Nous avons retranscrit ensemble qualitativement les réponses reçues sur chaque canal de retour (enquête et IdeaLab) afin d'identifier les types d'information les plus pertinents mais aussi les thèmes et les sujets qui sont revenus fréquemment. Nous avons utilisé des codes pour : group quotes about the most frequently identified themes, and then look at how many times each theme came up. identify instances of agreement/disagreement with values of Wikimedia conferences in addition to new values and unique values for Wikimania. identify instances of support and concerns for the options for Wikimania planning, in addition to identifying rationales supporting those attitudes. In this report, we use some numbers to identify how often different themes and types of feedback were found. We do think the numbers are useful to help us understand the aggregated feedback at a high level, but we've used language like "about" to describe frequency since qualitative coding is not an exact science. We had two people coding the responses to get more consistency in how the codes were applied, and to catch inaccuracies. When looking at the discussion page feedback, we grouped comments that came from the same user as one response. We tried our best to limit coding within each comment by not coding related or redundant items. If a similar or same point was brought up on the discussion page several times by the same person, it may have been coded only once.

Problème 1: construire une vision partagée de la valeur du Wikimania

La valeur du Wikimania

Wikimania nous donne une occasion unique pour nous engager dans le mouvement global face à face, de poser des questions, d'écouter et d'apprendre de personnes qui ont des passés differents, des perspectives et des expériences différentes des notres.

Participants indicated that Wikimania has similar outcomes as all movement conferences (collaborations, sharing of experiences, discussion of issues), but 1/3 of respondents also noted that the unique value of Wikimania is it provides an opportunity for attendees to engage with the diverse global movement, in a way that is substantially harder (or perhaps impossible) to do otherwise.

This opportunity leads to conversations and collaborations that cross projects, languages and geographical boundaries, at a scale that could not be achieved simply through regional or thematic conferences alone, and it may also promote more unity across the movement. Those responses have been used to build a unique value statement for Wikimania (above).

Wikimania...has [the] unique value of putting our very diverse community together, with people of different countries (from Global North editors of English Wikipedia to Global South editors of small local wikis), different backgrounds (from tech experts to education and GLAM specialists), different experience and interests etc. There is no way to achieve this in any other way.

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Anonymous

At Wikimania in Mexico City I discussed very different subjects, from forming regional groups in my country (something I am interested in as a chapter member) to discussions on global rename policy (something I am interested in as a bureaucrat), including a lot of things from translations to Wikidata. I could have [only] achieved this by attending probably 5 or 6 other conferences otherwise.

— Anonymous

The value of Wikimedia movement conferences overall

Gathering together and meeting face to face at a movement conference helps to deepen and strengthen our relationships with one another, both within our communities and as a global movement.

We do this by:

1. Collaborating together in new or existing projects and groups (e.g. User Groups, Committees), both at and after the conference.
2. Sharing our experiences and learning from the experience of others.
3. Discussing the issues of every day wiki life, how those issues could be addressed, and sometimes making progress toward resolution.

Most participating community members indicated that the proposed value statement and associated outcomes were consistent with their experience. Less than 10% disagreed with the proposed value statement. A few proposed adjustments, additions or clarifications; these improvements have been incorporated into the updated value statement (above).

• Improvement suggestions: Most common suggestion was that the value statement should emphasize how face to face interactions are the foundation for relationship building at the conference; without these relationships, the primary outcomes – statements #1-3 above – would be less likely to happen.

• Concerns: The most concern or disagreement (about 10%) was expressed around statement #3, previously stated as "Resolving issues, or making progress toward resolving issues". While many recognized the value and importance of discussing issues, most also emphasized the difficulty in actually resolving issues, due to the short timeframe of the conference and the absence of broader community involvement.

Yes, [these values] are generally consistent, although I think these statements apply to small conferences and local meetups more than large international conferences.

— Anonymous

I believe the face-to-face contact at a global event helps tremendously in making an excellent connection that you can refer to in the future when the right circumstances arise.

— Anonymous

Sujet 2: repenser la forme générale du Wikimania

==== Option 1 (opter pour une rotation globale) ====	Option 2 (opter pour des conférences régionales/thématiques)	Option 3: alterner les années entre global et régional/thématique
Choix du lieu	Plus de paris Au lieu de cela, planifier une rotation sur 3-4 ans La WMF et le comité de pilotage choisissent le lieu et invitent les communautés locales à participer, les plans sont développés en collaboration avec les hôtes potentiels	Arrêter d'organiser un grand Wikimania pour chacun Instead, do more Regional / Thematic Conferences each year. Bids are replaced by grants process, where increased Conference Support funding can be made available for communities organizing these. Prendre en compte la manière de créer plus de liens entre ces événements régionaux/thématiques	Organiser un Wikimania global tous les deux ans In years without Wikimania, increased funding and logistical support for regional/thematic conferences instead Créer plus de liens entre ces événements régionaux/thématiques
Mise en place du programme	Program Chair is appointed by Steering Committee, taking location into account Program Chair selects Program committee	Programming for regional/thematic conferences decided by local hosts and attendees
Support logistique	Similaire à la forme actuelle.	WMF offers significantly more logistical & event-planning support for regional/thematic conferences

Résultats

Les participants ont manifesté plus d'intérêt pour l'option 3, puis pour l'option 1.

• Analysis of responses showed there were about 55 instances of support (61.1%) for Option 3, and about 47 instances of support (52.2%) for Option 1. There were only 16 instances of support (17.8%) for Option 2.

Participants were most frequently concerned with Option 2.

• There were about 36 instances of explicit concerns (40%) raised about Option 2 , whereas concerns were raised for Option 3 only 9 times (10%), and for Option 1 only 13 times (14.4%).

Concerns and Support for Options

Option 1 (opter pour une rotation globale)

One particular issue is "What are the regions we are rotating through?", continents could be considered too broad, and do we work harder to cover less active regions or support more organically growing areas...?

-StuartPrior, from the discussion page.

• Support: People who supported Global Rotation often pointed out that being able to meet year-to-year as a unified movement is valuable, and that this applies to individuals new to the movement in addition to ongoing projects and collaborative efforts.

• Concerns: People who were concerned with Option 1 were not convinced that the existing bidding system was problematic, or desired more information about the details of how global rotation would work in practice. Some also felt that the costs of Wikimania – in terms of finances, time demands, and other resources – are too great.

Option 2 (opter pour des conférences régionales/thématiques)

A regional gathering in which many can attend (instead of some selected Wikimedians) will increase by far the collaboration between countries and Wikimedians that speak and edit in the same language.

-Anonymous.

• Support: There was a low level of support for focusing solely on regional and thematic conferences, and few explanations were provided by participants for this preference. One participant noted that for individuals who do not speak English, regional and thematic events are the only opportunity to attend Wikimedia conferences. Another individual felt there were advantages to holding conferences gradually through the year.

• Concerns: Participants overwhelmingly rejected the notion of abandoning Wikimania altogether, as it has unique value independent of regional and thematic conferences.

Option 3 (alternance)

I rather prefer to vote for the third option: alternate between Wikimania and regional conferences. We must not overlook thematic and regional conferences that would be a kind of pre-conference for the major event, Wikimania.

-Anonymous, translated from French.

• Support: Support for this hybrid approach was based on feedback that more can and should be done to support regional and thematic conferences. Many specifically framed this option as a balanced approach to supporting Wikimedia projects and participants through conferences. Some participants proposed that regional/thematic conferences could serve as useful precursors in preparation for the larger Wikimania conference in the following year.

• Concerns: While there were few concerns with this option, some expressed that working relationships with individuals they are accustomed to seeing at Wikimania would be difficult to maintain if they could only meet every two years. Likewise, it may also be more difficult to initiate and maintain projects and initiatives where meetups at Wikimania are useful.

Other suggestions and concerns

A number of specific suggestions and concerns about the more detailed aspects of Wikimania's organization were also brought up by participants.

This information, summarized below, will be collated in more detail at Wikimania/Consultation suggestions, for handoff to planning committees and future organizers of Wikimania and other conferences.

Commentaires concernant les considérations spécifiques à Wikimania et autres sujets relatifs à la tenue des conférences
Un certain nombre d'idées ont été émises sur le sujet du choix du lieu du Wikimania en rapport avec le fait que la conférence n'est pas accessible à tous. Elles comportaient quelques suggestions mesurables basées sur une rotation sur les sites avec en plus comme suggestion générale, une focalisation sur des villes moyennes plutot que sur des très grandes villes. Aussi, toujours sur le sujet de l'accessibilité, quelques participants ont demandé à plus de financement des conférences régionales/thématiques. The increasing number of WMF staff attending the conference, in particular at Wikimania 2015, as well as the proportion of presentations given by WMF Staff, was concerning to some participants. A variety of considerations were offered on programming decisions at Wikimania, such as more focus on issues related to content creation and content curation issues, more opportunities for volunteers to present or discuss their work, and various suggestions on the responsibilities of the program committee. Some participants also suggested holding a training session or facilitating mentorship for Wikimania speakers/presenters to help in preparation. A few participants noted that there is considerable benefit to having a local professional event organizer for Wikimania, and that local teams should be able to choose this organizer.

Étapes suivantes

Based on the above findings from this consultation, the following next steps are now under consideration:

Timeline for changes

2016	Wikimania in Esino Lario, as planned. Setup WMF Conference Support systems for improving grants and other resources to regional/thematic event organizers
2017	Wikimania 2017 in Montreal, as planned. Setup and planning for "option 3" experimentation with community input, including plans to address key concerns identified for this option
2018	Year of no Wikimania; Increase support and connections for regional and thematic conferences
2019	Wikimania under experimental rotational model, including any suggestions/revisions from Wikimanias 2016 & 2017

Retours

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