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Line 1: {{historical}} The strategy wikiproject is an ongoing discussion about how best to develop, assess, and update [[strategy\|strategy for the movement]] -- including aligning movement-wide and entity-specific plans, and tracking proposals and opportunities and risks. == Topics == ''Initially drawn from past strategy docs and [[:category:issues]]. ~~Feel~~Please ~~free~~add to ~~add your~~this ~~own~~section.'' {\| \|- \|width="4831%" valign="top"\| ; [[::Category:Communication\|Communication]] : [[::Category:Discussions\|Discussions]] : [[Translation]] : [[::Category:Multilingualism\|Multilingualism]] : [[Community engagement]] Line 18 ⟶ 19: : [[Child protection\|Children]] : [[Recruiting editors]] : [[outreach]] ; [[Content Development\|Content]] Line 25 ⟶ 27: : [[Quality]] : [[Peer review]] : [[New project proposals]] ~~; [[:Category:Cultural institutions\|Cultural institutions]]~~ ~~: [[GLAM]] projects~~ ~~: Government docs and data~~ ~~: Work with professors and grads~~ \|width="4%" valign="top"\|   \|width="4831%" valign="top"\| ; [[~~Education~~Vision]] : [[Mission]] ~~: Work with schools~~ : [[:Category:Wishes\|Wishes]] ~~: [[Offline Projects\|Offline]] snapshots and texts~~ ; [[:Category:Patterns\|Patterns]] : [[:Category:Problem statements\|Problem statements]] : [[Initiatives]] ; [[Planning for the future\|Planning]] and [[:Category:Policies\|policy]] : [[::Category:Essays\|Essays]] : [[Research Committee\|Research]], [[Editor Survey 2011/Executive Summary\|Editor surveys]] : [[Paid editing]] ; [[:Category:Cultural institutions\|Cultural institutions]] ~~; [[Governance]]~~ : [[GLAM]] projects ~~: [[:Category:Conflicts\|Conflicts]]~~ : Government docs and data : Work with professors and students ; [[Education]] ~~; [[Legal and Community Advocacy\|Legal issues]]~~ : Work with schools ~~: [[Privacy policy/Glossary of key terms\|Privacy]]~~ : [[Offline Projects\|Offline]] snapshots, [[static content]], [[OWPP]] ~~: [[:Category:Intellectual property\|Intellectual property]]~~ \|width="4%" valign="top"\|   \|width="31%" valign="top"\| ; [[:Category:Infrastructure\|Infrastructure]] : [[:Category:Distributed infrastracture\|Distributed infrastracture]] : Preserving the [[right to fork]] : [[Servers]], models for scaling : Software, tools, [[Labs]] ; Coordination and [[Governance]] ~~; [[:Category:Patterns\|Patterns]]~~ : [[:Category:~~Problem statements~~Conflicts\|~~Problem statements~~Conflicts]] : Local and global partnerships : Regional focus: [[Chapters]] : Topical focus: [[Thematic organizations]], [[w:wikiprojects\|wikiprojects]] : [[Events]] ; [[Legal and Community Advocacy\|Legal issues]] : [[Privacy policy/Glossary of key terms\|Privacy]] : [[:Category:Intellectual property\|Intellectual property]] and copyleft ~~; [[Vision]]~~ ~~: [[Mission]]~~ ~~: [[:Category:Wishes\|Wishes]]~~ \|} == Hard questions == These are persistent unsolved issues drawn from past strategy threads. please add to the lists below. ~~How can we encourage participations from new communities of editors?~~ ~~How can we strengthen our current communities without realizing the [[w:Iron Law of Oligarchy\|Iron Law of Oligarchy]]?~~ === Uncontroversial issues, hard to solve === ~~How can we provide for fast multilingual communication, across language communities?~~ How can we encourage participation from '''new communities''' of editors? How can we '''strengthen''' current communities without realizing the [[w:Iron Law of Oligarchy\|Iron Law of Oligarchy]] or enshrining current negative & insular tendencies? How should we support the development of the open Web, and the preservation of freedoms that our projects need to be successful? ''(NB: the WMF has $1M/year we can spend on advocacy before we have to start separating out those costs and paying taxes on them. Currently we spend none of that.) '' How can we provide for '''fast multilingual communication''', across language communities? ~~How can we resolve these open controversial issues:~~ * Being thoughtful about our impact on the lives of others How should we support and '''expand the open Web''', and the preservation of freedoms that our projects need to be successful? Being respectful of others, especially living people profiled on our projects. When does the value of a controversy outweigh the harm to its principals? When are we willing to republish and broadcast negative information that has appeared in other less prominent media? ''(NB: the WMF has $1M/year we can spend on advocacy before we have to start separating out those costs and paying taxes on them. Currently we spend none of that.) '' Limiting harassment by editors of other editors, and by editors of article subjects ** Providing for the needs of children using our projects (reading, editing). Comfortable spaces to contribute and edit with other children; customizable reading and writing experiences. === Controversial issues, with a broad spectrum of views on how to solve === * Allowing everyone to contribute to the best of their ability Allowing experts in a field to provide feedback and peer review, without requiring them to also learn to edit and debate with the community (others can choose how to act on their feedback) How to be more thoughtful about our '''impact on the lives of others''' Helping casual readers and editors to contribute knowledge they care about, even when it is hyperlocal, or does not fit the scope of the first project they try to contribute to. * Being respectful of others, especially living people profiled on our projects. When does the value of a controversy outweigh the harm to its principals? When are we willing to republish and broadcast negative information that has appeared in other less prominent media? * Creating a rewarding and customizable experience for readers and contributors * Limiting harassment by editors of other editors, and by editors of article subjects ** Allowing readers to set preferences for seeing/hiding NSFW content * Providing for the needs of children using our projects (reading, editing). Comfortable spaces to contribute and edit with other children; customizable reading and writing experiences. ** Allowing editors to socialize or limit socialization as they see fit (e.g., social network features on the one hand, and killfiles on the other) * Improving quality and attribution, while increasing awareness of content limitations How to '''allow everyone to contribute''' to the best of their ability ** Making last-edit timestamps, lists of contributing editors, and talk-page discussions visible on article pages * Allowing experts in a field to provide feedback and peer review, without requiring them to also learn to edit and debate with the community (others can choose how to act on their feedback) ** Increasing the visibility and specificity of disclaimers * Helping casual readers and editors to contribute knowledge they care about, even when it is hyperlocal, or does not fit the scope of the first project they try to contribute to. Increasing the use of [[flagged revisions]] and similar tools Developing and implementing annotation to increase visibility and specificity of comments and quality flags How to create a '''rewarding and customizable experience''' for readers and contributors * Allowing readers to set preferences for seeing/hiding NSFW content * Allowing editors to socialize or limit socialization as they see fit (e.g., social network features on the one hand, and killfiles on the other) How to '''improve quality and attribution''', while increasing '''awareness of limitations''' of content * Making last-edit timestamps, lists of contributing editors, and talk-page discussions visible on article pages * Increasing the visibility and specificity of disclaimers * Increasing the use of [[flagged revisions]] and similar tools * Developing and implementing annotation to increase visibility and specificity of comments and quality flags How to '''foster the slow, steady growth of articles''' through long-term '''preservation of deleted content''' which has encyclopedic nature, but was removed for lack of compliance with style guidelines. * Using draft space as storage for deleted content for potentially viable topics and verifiable facts * Allowing editors access to the history of deleted pages that don't contain oversightable material * Encouraging merge results at deletion discussions == Long-term wishes and roadmaps == ''For short-term wishes, see [[wishes 2009]], [[wishes 2014\|2014]]. '' Please gather or link to long-term wishes and strategies here. * [[Grants:IEG/Elaborate_Wikisource_strategic_vision/Timeline#Monthly_updates\|Wikisource strategy]] * ... == Interested Participants == Line 96 ⟶ 133: * [[User:Arnaugir\|Arnaugir]] * [[User:Abbasjnr\|Abbasjnr]] ([[User talk:Abbasjnr\|talk]]) 10:05, 5 July 2013 (UTC) * [[User:~~LauraHale~~MZMcBride\|~~LauraHale~~MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:~~LauraHale~~MZMcBride\|talk]]~~) 14:25, 20 July 2013 (UTC~~) * [[User:Diego Moya\|Diego Moya]] ([[User talk:Diego Moya\|talk]]) 08:59, 9 September 2014 (UTC) * ... == Discussion == All comments and reflections are welcome here. If your community is working on its own roadmap, [[strategy]], or other plan, please mention it here where appropriate, and link to it from the main [[strategy\|strategy page]]. How should we develop this project so that it does not itself suffer from systemic bias?