Strategy/Wikimedia Foundation/2016/Recommendations
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2016-17 Mid-year check-in (February 2017) Final 2016 Annual Plan (21 June) Revised 2016 Annual Plan (27 May) FDC recommendations for the WMF (15 May) Draft 2016 Annual Plan (Review discussion) (2 April - 2 May) |
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| Stage 2 (4-18 March) pages | ||||
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Draft WMF strategy (Review discussion) |
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| Stage 1 (18 Jan.-15 Feb.) pages | ||||
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2016 Strategy process FAQ 2010-2015 Strategy 2015 Strategy community consultation |
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- This is excerpted from pages 82-84 of the August 4, 2016 version of File:2016 Strategic Approaches Report.pdf. Please see 2016 Strategy/Draft WMF Strategy for background information.
Based on the responses to the critical questions, the following recommendations are suggested to help improve key challenges and build upon community suggestions:
- Build and implement an ongoing, community communications plan
- Increase transparency about the Foundation’s programs and budgets
- Leverage the network effect of the whole community (Foundation, chapters, partners, contributors)
- Develop a contributor relationship-management program based on member life cycle
- Encourage more participation, offset known hurdles that prevent deeper engagement
- Offer recognition and feedback loops
- Connect to mentors or mentor community (more experienced Wikimedians and content experts), based on content interest or location
- Introduce inexpensive, geographically-specific opportunities for more in-person interaction
- Automatically offer personalized recommendations for content to contribute, based on selected areas of interest and past contributions
- Offer opt-in email communications to create cohorts for outreach and more support based on life stage
- Create different UIs, features, and levels of support for different levels of engagement (EWP) to better overcome the steep learning curve
- Reader: easy ways to encourage sign into editor mode
- Stage 1: First-time editor - limited capabilities (minor edits, contributions directly on requested items) with simple, easy-to-understand how-to tutorials
- Stage 2: Casual editor - more capabilities, more advanced tutorials
- Stage 3: Prominent editor - all capabilities and advanced features, advanced tutorials
- Review product enhancements requested in the consultation, mainly
- Simplify editor/contributor interface and tools
- Improve language translation tools
- Improve Wikidata and connections between Wikis
- Develop more relationships with GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)
- Build easier ways to verify and cite sources, More connections to services
- Better define the development life stages of a Wiki
- so that “lessons learned” could be shared more easily and typical obstacles could be overcome
- Review suggestions for improving community engagement noted in the consultation, mainly
- Incentives, feedback loops, ongoing recognition
- Gamification of edits/contributions
- Simplified tools and tutorials to onboard new editors