Wikimedia Conference 2014/Documentation/6

6 Strategy processes in Wikimedia organisations

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• Speakers: Simon Knight (WMUK) and Markus Glaser (WMDE)
• Simon's slides on Slideshare, because they contain Non-Commercial photos

tl;dr: actually, difficult to summarize.

Notes

Markus (WMDE) and Simon (WMUK) presenting

Simon Knight from WMUK

• How we can help people to do things they find useful?
• two pressures in structure processes
  • Stability
  • Flexibility
• WMF aims get parted in strategic objects

• lessons
  • impact methods is highlighted
  • need for tools
  • challenges

• five strategic goals
  • develop open Knowledge
  • effective use of the resources
  • reduce barriers to accessing Open Knowledge
  • Encourage and support technological innovation
  • develop, support and engage with other Wikimedia communities

• there are several indicators to measure success

Marcus from Wikimedia Deutschland

• Board change every year
• so there are papers for this
• main goal is a light weight strategy (understandable) in a living document
• interviews to find out what people think about Wikimedia Germany
• its easy to get lost in definitions
• WMDE decided against external consultants
• Drafting things takes a lot of time, fighting a lot about wordings and meaning of wordings
• strategy for four years, and assess the strategy after one year. the strategy should be "living"
• searching for an inclusing way for this

Questions

• Has anyone worked with external consultants? Was it effective?
• How do you make use of external consultants?
• How much time did you take, and what stakeholders do you work with?
• How do we do strategy inclusively?
• How do we collaborate across chapters, etc?
• What level of strategy do you work with--a framework (WMUK) or a planning doc, etc.
• Strategy pre/post Executive Director employment?
• What kind of strategy levels are existing?
• What do we do with annual plan activities which don't fit into our (or WMF) strategy?
• What points do we set targets for?
• How and when do you engage community?
• What question should we ask to get people to participate (not "what should our strategy be?")
• What is the experience on
• How do we relate overall, and technical/educational/GLAM, etc. strategy?

Some links

• Link to WMUK.com strategy-metrics mapping (see navbox for links to rest of strategy) https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Strategy_monitoring_plan
• Link to WMF 5 year strategy http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
• Wikimedia Australia strategy elements http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Strategic_Plan - used upscale to gather ideas (http://strategywmau.ideascale.com/ )
• 'See also' https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Overview_of_strategy#See_also
• Some WMDE strategie resources https://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/Kompass_2020
• (English) blog on Amical Wikimedia strategy process http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/08/26/drafting-a-strategy-plan-with-the-community/ and see also https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia/Definici%C3%B3_del_pla_estrat%C3%A8gic_d%27Amical and (English) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia/Strategic_Plan_2014-2018
• WMNL strategie category https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categorie:Strategie
• WMSE strategy docs https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategi
• Evaluation day etherpad http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/BerlinPE&D metrics session etherpad http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Berlin_Metrics_Brainstorm_Session