Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Sources/Cycle 2/English Wikipedia
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What group or community is this source coming from?
| name of group | English Wikipedia |
| virtual ___location (page-link) or physical ___location (city/state/country) | w:en:Wikipedia talk:Wikimedia Strategy 2017 |
| Location type (e.g. local wiki, Facebook, in-person discussion, telephone conference) | local wiki |
| # of participants in this discussion (a rough count) | ? |
Summary
- Summary for the discussion
- Theme key
- Healthy, inclusive communities
- The augmented age
- A truly global movement
- The most trusted source of knowledge
- Engaging in the knowledge ecosystem
- Questions key
- What impact would we have on the world if we follow this theme?
- How important is this theme relative to the other 4 themes? Why?
- Focus requires tradeoffs. If we increase our effort in this area in the next 15 years, is there anything we’re doing today that we would need to stop doing?
- What else is important to add to this theme to make it stronger?
- Who else will be working in this area and how might we partner with them?
| Line | Theme (refer to key) | Question (refer to key) | Summary Statement | Keywords |
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| 1 | A | 1 | We could lead the way in collaborative, online digital humanities. | collaboration |
| 2 | A | 2 | This theme is the most important, because the community is the critical success factor. | priority, success |
| 3 | A | 2 | With training and leadership, build self-sustaining teams to solve problems. | leadership, training |
| 4 | A | 2 | As long as some "old guard", real or imagined, refuses to cooperate or engages in behavior characteristic of ownership, improvements will be stifled and lost, and editors will be turned away. | clique, cooperation |
| 5 | A | 2 | Acknowledge openly that people who are skilled at finding and synthesizing information are not always skilled in social interactions, and vice versa. | skills, abilities |
| 6 | A | 3 | Monitor and encourage troublemakers to cease and desist, set the entrenched wiki-culture aside, let other ideas to grow into prominence, make the community less rigid and static. | clique, rigidity |
| 7 | A | 3 | Diversity will be more about diverse opinions, small cultures and backgrounds, not about gender gap. | gender gap, diversity |
| 8 | A | 3 | Diversity is important, but articles written by people with different backgrounds aren't cohesive and easy to comprehend. | style, diversity |
| 9 | A | 4 | The word 'connected' should be added to the title of this theme, because a lot of communities remain very separate. | connections, communication |
| 10 | A | 4 | The behavior of editors towards other editors may be more important than any edits they make to articles. | cooperation, behavior |
| 11 | A | 4 | Build tools to track changes and learn how various policies change the healthiness of our community. | health, polices, tools |
| 12 | A | 5 | We could attract more retired scientists. | scientists, retired people |
| 13 | B | 1 | With automation, we could drive out inadequately sourced content, provide better sourced content, and be more reliable. | automation, reliability |
| 14 | B | 1 | Allow people from all dimensions to access, add, and change the information, don't let "someone" input information into a computer/program and pretend that such information is objective. | neutrality, broad basis of contributors |
| 15 | B | 1 | In 2030, our projects may be able to revise and update themselves in real-time, with or without the help of human editors. | AI, automation |
| 16 | B | 1 | Given that we're on a course of accelerating change, in 2030, our model of producing content, our editors and programmers could be obsolete. | change, obsoleteness |
| 17 | B | 1 | If we don't keep up with the state-of-the-art, then some other organization will likely leapfrog Wikipedia. | leapfrog, vanguard |
| 18 | B | 1 | It'd be a bad idea to suggest that in possibly upcoming AI era, human contributors won't be needed, because for now, we're lacking manpower. | manpower, AI |
| 19 | B | 1 | We should be reliable and free to all rather than state of the art. | reliability, accessibility, vanguard |
| 20 | B | 2 | Following this theme could allow us to be more effective in the other areas. | effectiveness |
| 21 | B | 2 | Now, the technology is the main driving factor, thus it will drive development in the other 4 areas. | development, driving factor |
| 22 | B | 3 | Manual editing is obsolete in comparison with programming, and programming is obsolete in comparison to AI. | methods of editing, automation, AI |
| 23 | B | 3 | Don't allow AI edit Wikimedia projects, because it can outsmart us. | AI, block, outsmart |
| 24 | B | 4 | Automation will allow us to make massive quality improvements and drive our talent to where it can add the most value. | allocation, automation, quality |
| 25 | B | 4 | Provide a place to talk about the issue and eliminate meaningless chatter from those who have no understanding. | communication, planning |
| 26 | B | 4 | Better hardware more space for WikiBrain. | hardware, WikiBrain |
| 27 | B | 5 | Tech giants, academic research leaders, and graduate students could help us. | scientists, tech companies |
| 28 | B | 5 | Partnership is essential, because help from people proficient in AI would save a lot of our time. | partnership, AI |
| 29 | C | 1 | Accelerate the development and coverage of areas on Wikipedia greatly deprived of such coverage | coverage, development |
| 30 | C | 1 | We'll be the light that shines in the Cosmos. | light, |
| 31 | C | 2 | This should be the last priority, because there's too many people who don't know what Wikipedia is. | awareness |
| 32 | C | 2 | We should become a free web search engine and a free web host. | search engine, host |
| 33 | C | 2 | This should be the top priority, because exposing Wikipedia to more people around the globe is the single best way to attract greater coverage. | coverage, outreach |
| 34 | C | 4 | Make policies like OR more friendly to regions where oral tradition is much stronger than any publication coverage. | OR, policies, new approach |
| 35 | C | 4 | Encourage editors in the Indian Subcontinent to create articles in their native languages. | India, Global South languages |
| 36 | C | 4 | Don't omit relevant geographic links so that our content could be more integrated. | overlinking, cohesion |
| 37 | D | 1 | It would move the world towards the dream of a universal library of information. | access, library |
| 38 | D | 1 | Wikipedia will become an acceptable, respectable form of tertiary literature, and its editing will be prestigous. | respect, prestige |
| 39 | D | 1 | Trying to chase after the top position will demoralize us, when simply providing the best information that we can will get us acceptably close. | top, respect |
| 40 | D | 1 | Wikipedia could be sorted into topics, because many times pages can get overlapped. | tools, articles |
| 41 | D | 1 | We need to improve the quality and reputation of Wikipedia so that Wikipedia will become accepted as a cited source. | reputation, citations |
| 42 | D | 1 | By 2030, the whole world should understand the value of Wikipedia's role in the alleviation of thorny topics. | understanding, battlegrounds |
| 43 | D | 1 | Our societies are increasingly divided and they need a source of unbiased knowledge. | bias, unification |
| 44 | D | 2 | Something must be changed for our audience to admit that they use Wikipedia as a useful jumping-off point for research. | jumping-off point, reuse |
| 45 | D | 2 | This theme may impinge upon the themes of "Healthy, Inclusive Communities" as the demand for prestige shuts out less educated or capable editors. | editors, threshold |
| 46 | D | 2 | Wikipedia must be reliable, that's why people read it. | reliability, readers |
| 47 | D | 2 | This the highest priority, however, many of the five themes are interlinked. | priority, themes |
| 48 | D | 2 | This is the most important theme, and ff our information is useless, then we are useless. | priority |
| 49 | D | 2 | This is by far the most important theme, because it proves our legitimization and effectiveness. | priority, proof |
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