Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Sources/Meta
Information
[edit]What group or community is this source coming from?
| name of group | Metawiki |
| virtual location (page-link) or physical location (city/state/country) | Talk:Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Cycle 1 |
| Location type (e.g. local wiki, Facebook, in-person discussion, telephone conference) | local wiki |
| # of participants in this discussion (a rough count) | 100 |
Summary
[edit]The summary is a group of summary sentences and associated keywords that describe the relevant topic(s). Below is an example.
The first column (after the line number) should be a single sentence. The second column should be a comma-separated list of keywords about that sentence, and so on. Taken together, all the sentences should provide an accurate summary of what was discussed with the specific community.
Summary for the discussion:
| Line | Statement (summary sentence) | Keywords |
| 1 | Strengthen distributed communities against centralised paid teams. | distributed ecosystem, community support |
| 2 | Seek for alternatives for the WMF staff-developed software, and reach out to the authors of such initiatives. | technology development, MediaWiki, WMF |
| 3 | Recognize, welcome, promote, and support free knowledge efforts that are being developed out of WMF servers. | ecosystem, free knowledge support, WMF |
| 4 | Focus on the quality of our content, and fight with fake news. | truth, quality |
| 5 | Respect each other regardless of the differences caused by the user group rights. | civility, respect, community health |
| 6 | Involve more women and collaborate with women's organizations. | gender gap, involvement of existing networks |
| 7 | Prepare for the upcoming massive spam, sockfarms, undisclosed paid advocacy. | misinformation, disinformation, paid editing, independence, quality |
| 8 | Agressive outreach in the third world is backfiring, because it leads to an Endless September. | outreach, track D |
| 9 | Support the development of software that would fit to our emphasis on the quality of content. | quality, technology development |
| 10 | Wikimedia Foundation should sign enterprise support contracts to earn money for a serious MediaWiki refresh. | technology development, MediaWiki |
| 11 | Promote free knowledge truly globally. | global access, global activities, diversity |
| 12 | Improve the technology and eradicate defects. | technology development |
| 13 | Advocate for a wider freedom of panorama in the USA. | copyright, advocacy, Commons |
| 14 | Projects that benefit from Wikidata (Wikisource, Wikipedia) should be connected better. | cross-wiki, structured data, Wikidata |
| 15 | Tools that allow to create graphs and charts should be developed. | graphing tools, rich content |
| 16 | Offline access should be improved to make our content dependable globally. | global access, offline access |
| 17 | Our content should be easily understandable so that more people could benefit from our work. | style, accessibility, global access |
| 18 | Undisclosed paid promotional editing should be minimized to maintain our independence and keep us free from advertising. | paid editing, independence |
| 19 | Improve our ability to handle rich content: maps, graphing tools, etc. | interactivity, graphing tools, rich content |
| 20 | Collaborate with like-minded organizations more often. | involvement of existing networks |
| 21 | Improve the collaboration between the formal organizations and the communities. | community support |
| 22 | Prove to educators that we create reliable resources. | quality, reliability, re-use, education |
| 23 | 'Wiki' implies 'amateur' - rename our sites. | quality, reliability |
| 24 | Forks of existing pages may reduce the monotony of the 'sole page syndrome'. | distributed knowledge, technology |
| 25 | Collect the knowledge of the endangered languages' users. | global activities, diversity, sister projects, languages |
| 26 | Collaborate with educators that teach in the endangered or minority languages. | global activities, diversity, education, languages |
| 27 | Support the linguistic diversity on Commons. | diversity, Commons |
| 28 | Focus on developing machine learning tools, which would augment human activity significantly. | technology, machine learning |
| 29 | By simplifying policies and guidelines, and eradicating a battleground atmosphere, create a better environment for newbies. | newbies, civility, community health |
| 30 | Launch an aggressive campaign strategy to attract more Track D, female, and expert editors. | diversity, global activities, gender gap |
| 31 | Resolve the key issues first, and then expand into new areas. | strategic prioritization |
| 32 | Wikimedia should become a WikiBank, an open source bank of social capital. | ecosystem, community support |
| 33 | The autonomy of communities, decentralisation of power, and principle of subsidiarity are essential. | distributed ecosystem, community support |
| 34 | The FDC should have its own staff, while the WMF doesn't have to be a centralised entity governed by US law. | distributed ecosystem, WMF |
| 35 | Mobile devices aren't the best and won't become our main sort of input devices, so we should support desktop computers use. | mobile, technology |
| 36 | Fight for digital rights, which also would help us to attract new contributors. | advocacy |
| 37 | Develop truthful, meaningful, interesting, neutral educational content, and encourage students to join us. | quality, education |
| 38 | Create another level of encyclopedia: computer-assisted data acquisition based on assemblage of top hits of queries. | technology, machine learning |
| 39 | Harmonize contradictory information by with more bots, AI, by engaging more experts, and collaboration with universities. | quality, technology, involvement of existing networks |
| 40 | Keep the balance between correct description and readability by the layman. | style, accessibility |
| 41 | Make the contributors feel valued by expressing more appreciation, focusing on their requests, encouraging newbies. | civility, respect, community support, newbies, community health |
| 42 | Look for new editors specifically tailored to the lacking content. | outreach, involvement of existing networks |
| 43 | Care for our consumers by providing good accessibility, coverage of needed content, adequate language, and up-to-date technology. | accessibility, style, quality, technology |
| 44 | We shouldn't focus on looking for potential contributors, but on treating well those who join by themselves. | newbies, civility |
| 45 | On mobile, Wikimedia Foundation should provide apps for sister projects, and advanced features that are accessible on desktop only. | mobile, apps, sister projects |
| 46 | There should be a place for non-English Wikipedias to cooperate and correct possibly biased articles. | quality, cross-wiki |
| 47 | Improve the quality by providing an opportunity to review. | quality |
| 48 | Preserve knowledge by writing in the extinct and endangered languages. | global activities, diversity, languages |
| 49 | There should be another English Wikipedia, an international one, not centered on the English-speaking countries. | diversity, style |
| 50 | Sections with information for laymen should be clearly divided from expert-level sections. | accessibility, style |
| 51 | Develop tools to support our community, e.g. prompt people to contribute. | community support, technology |
| 52 | Automate things, use machine learning tools. | technology, machine learning |
| 53 | Distribute our focus among the sister projects, don't invest too much into Wikipedia. | sister projects, proposed projects |
| 54 | Be less vulnerable to propaganda. | misinformation, disinformation, quality |
| 55 | Promote better understanding of international copyright law. | copyright, advocacy, Commons |
| 56 | Stimulate African communities, promote Kiwix. | global access, global activities, diversity |
| 57 | Release wikis with non-controversial content accessible in censored countries. | global access |
| 58 | Set rules guaranteeing the possibility of rejuvenation and regular changes in various groups. | community support, newbies |
| 59 | Have a healthy community, focus on community curation. | community support, community health, civility |
| 60 | Be more open, less hierarchical and bureaucratic. | community support, ecosystem |
| 61 | Be a web search engine that brings up reliable information. | quality, reliability |
| 62 | Improve transparency in salaries and spending. | transparency, budgeting |
| 63 | Conform granting systems to the community-developed workflows | grants, community support, WMF |
| 64 | Improve user experience, visual design, and multimedia support. | UX, design, rich content |
| 65 | Create a learning program that customizes to the user's needs. | technology, accessibility |
| 66 | Make more surveys to check if the goals are being successfully addressed. | method, community support |
| 67 | Open a new project, WikiObjects. | project proposals |
| 68 | Improve UX so that users would prefer us rather than our mirrors. | UX, technology, readers |
| 69 | Impact on the sources and make them more reliable. | outreach, quality |
| 70 | Help language learners by providing similar content on multiple wikis. | education, languages |
| 71 | Focus on the community health. | community health, community support |
| 72 | Focus on mobile applications, improve the app for Wiktionary. | mobile, apps, sister projects |
| 73 | Provide different levels of proficiency in the same article. | accessibility, technology |
| 74 | Understand our impact on the world, especially on the life-altering issues, and break away from IT industry methodologies. | impact, reliability, accessibility |
| 75 | Create a welcoming community, simplify our narrative about the policies. | newbies, outreach |
| 76 | Improve the usability of what we have for others and the use of what we have for others and for ourselves. | usability |
| 77 | Improve practical communication between the communities. | communication, community support |
| 78 | The same information should exist in any project with information or content on the same subject. | content, consistency |
| 79 | Single approach to all wikis is destructive and leads to a lot of stress. | diversity, ecosystem |
| 80 | Let readers and libraries benefit from our content by connecting MediaWiki functionalities with libraries' software. | involvement of existing entities, technology, libraries |
| 81 | Open Wikimed, a new project that would gather information about medical products. | project proposals |
| 82 | Open a genealogy project. | project proposals |
| 83 | Open an encyclopedia where original research (democratized, open R&D) would be allowed. | project proposals |
| 84 | Open a project where artists could collaborate together on creating works of art. | project proposals |
| 85 | Improve community health by back to basics and culture change. | community health |
| 86 | Improve cultural and educational outreach and practices by surveys and process change. | community support |
| 87 | Allocate resources to support and grow the community. | community support, resources |
| 88 | Encourage copyright owners to liberate their works. | copyright, advocacy |
| 89 | Describe controversial topics doubly: in a "reasonably positive" article and in a "reasonably negative" article. | quality, content |
| 90 | Have a video file on every Wikipedia article over a certain popularity threshold. | multimedia, technology |
| 91 | Engage major GLAM and educational institutions in every country. | GLAM, education |
| 92 | Decentralize the organization of the movement. | distributed ecosystem |
| 93 | Provide a new system of talk pages and bring the communication back to wiki. | communication, technology |
| 94 | Help ex-Wikipedians get back on their feet and contribute to sister projects before becoming Wikipedians again. | community, retirees |
| 95 | Create a code of conduct, which will allow us to become a community, not a battleground. | civility, code of conduct, community health |
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