Talk:Strategy/Wikimedia Foundation/2015/Community consultation
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- Based on the future trends that you think are important, what would thriving and healthy Wikimedia projects look like?
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Ilario
Response by Ilario
Ilario's thoughts on question 1
Another trend is "digitalization of the information". Archives and libraries are receiving their material in digital format. For instance the archives of the public administrations are looking for the "dematerialization" and they will receive a lot of digits instead of a lot of paper. The same libraries will receive hard disks of writers or researchers instead of their letters or manuscripts.
Ilario's thoughts on question 2
In my opinion the "magic word" is not "mobile" but "responsive web". It doesn't make sense to look for the mobile, probably the best would be to look for an interface able to adapted to different devices and able to be personalized.
146.185.31.213
Response by 146.185.31.213
Wikipedia is a reading & learning website. Everyone like to & easy to read in their own language then in other language which is their 2nd or 3rd language. For example i would really like if more content & updated article was available in Tamil then in english(my 2nd language). I would be able to share it with my social website if its in my language then in English. I can speak about an article or any contents of Wikipedia with my relations & my close ones if its available in my language rather in other languages. Of course their is Wikipedia in Tamil but its contents are limited & mostly outdated and literally have no articles and other material about international topic which is the most factor we use Wikipedia.
- You are so right. Personally, I believe improving content in other languages, such as supporting local community-led initiatives with grants and other means, will need to be part of our future strategy. Your point about social media underscores even more the need to figure out solutions outside traditional American-European languages. Thanks for making this point so well. GeoffBrigham (WMF) (talk) 02:04, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
108.27.146.169
Response by 108.27.146.169
108.27.146.169's thoughts on question 1
The need for information, especially quickly, has grown.
108.27.146.169's thoughts on question 2
Having a quick info kind of box, without simple facts, but rather a paragraph (e.g. a summary of Hitler's life in a paragraph), like those found on Google but in slightly more detail.
Gianfranco
Response by Gianfranco
Gianfranco's thoughts on question 1
The kind of expected newcomers should make it an easy prophecy to predict that the unprecedented proportions of the contact among distant mentalities will be so relevant, that we risk severely harmful consequences if we don't start working right now to be prepared to it: newcomers might, indeed, have few motivations for participating, as well, if we don't let them find it easy and comfortable to come on board. It will actually be our greatest opportunity to grow, and this, I believe, would be a qualitative growth rather than simply a matter of numbers. And yes, it will be an issue. Lots of people will be looking for knowledge, and sources, from perspectives which we had never seen before, and they will come and see if we have any that they could find comprehensible, satisfactory, easy to find, comfortable to improve.
Gianfranco's thoughts on question 2
An attracting Project will crucially be open to communication with and across different cultures, providing human or automatic translators and all the other tools we are going to create to reduce the linguistic distances, as well as making the required efforts to override natural local biases in favor of a wider compatibility with different mentalities. It will simplify its core policies for contributions (better if in harmony with the rest of the WikiWorld), so that openness can shine brighter while content is made able to easily come from surprising springs. It will work a lot on ensuring a warm welcome to anybody passing by.
A good Project will thoroughly grant access to sources, either on other WMF Projects or "outside", helping readers to reach them easily and clearly; at the same time it will make it morally imperative for any cultural repository to share its contents with the Project, defending them from the risk of destruction or loss, and ensuring that everybody on the Planet is able to reach them through WMF's Projects.
Nothing in this scheme is in a long-term scenario: huge masses of new readers and contributors will (hopefully) come very soon, sooner than we'd expect, with a relatively fresh attitude towards the Projects, so those Projects which will be ready to welcome them, will be able to give them and to receive from them.
Successful Projects (and Communities) will then have worked to fasten their relationships with the other Projects and Communities (an easy roadmap: why not starting to ensure that each of them interacts well enough with all its geographically bordering ones?); readers and users will then enter a truly interconnected system of cultural relationships, which should be way more interesting than approaching closed and isolated expressions of local biases, which can only be read, and only if there is some previous interest in that.
An intelligent Project will be ready to interact with the next billion users and with the following ones: let's work on our tools, on our habits, on our biases. On ourselves. --g (talk) 00:14, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you @Gianfranco: -- what do you see we need to keep and what do we need to change to enable this kind of interaction (in the product, or otherwise)? LilaTretikov (WMF) (talk) 01:51, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Lila, I believe that we should work to soften language-related cultural biases (we should start having, i.e., the same title for Falkland and Malvinas islands in all the Projects :-), maybe also reconsidering and eventually changing the old principle by which any linguistic project primarily reflects the bias of its language-related mentality. If we can't agree today among ourselves, there can't be too much dialog tomorrow with newcomers that we want to attract from even farther contexts. It's a matter of contents and of relationships, so I would certainly "change" the confused wandering of individual Projects towards too many different directions, I will keep on investing time and energies in developing tools (and pratices) to implement communication and harmony among the projects and their contents. :-) --g (talk) 03:21, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
146.95.94.131
Response by 146.95.94.131
146.95.94.131's thoughts on question 2
Wikipedia needs to be fair in allowing views from other ethic and cultural background. The is a lack of diversity especially when it comes to historical articles. Currently Wikipedia is based on a European mind set, it you truly want to be a world intellectual leader stop suppressing true history,Bob Marley said " tell the children the truth"
I love you Wikipedia!
- Thank you very much for the comment (and for the wikilove!). At the WMF, we obviously agree with the idea that fairness is inherent to knowledge sharing. With that said, the WMF doesn't actually influence the development of policies on the various wikis; that's done by the editing communities on each wiki. However, almost all of the wiki communities have a common support for the concept of "neutrality" (in English, you can read more at the page on Neutral Point of View). If you think that a particular community isn't working with a good definition, or their definition should be updated, I encourage you to discuss it with them on that wiki, wherever they do policy development. Any administrator can help you with that, and would be very happy to do so, I know! Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 01:20, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Subcomment because Phillipe's response is so idiotic.
The idiotic combination of NPOV and a discouragement of the use of primary sources is the main problem with Wikipedia. It's destroying it, pretty much; because there's no consensus as to what's "neutral" (do we remain neutral between the anti-vaxxers who have no evidence at all and the entire scientific community which supports vaccination? Formally according to most Wikipedia policies, we should), content ends up being determined by the personal biases of people who have "page lock" powers. There are several documented instances of crank (disproven by evidence) historical theories taking over history pages while the professional historians are unable to fix them because "primary sources are discouraged".
Of course, it's going to be impossible to get the Wikimedia Foundation to recognize this: you've been warned about the worthlessness of NPOV for over a decade now, and told how essential it is to switch to an *evidence-based* standard, but you won't do it. 67.249.140.141 04:00, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Wiki.
Hello, My name is Skylar I am 15 and I use Wikipedia for 98%-99% of my research. It is a really easy working webpage, that gets straight to the point with real facts. Not just anything, any random person has to say. That may or may not be true. You know what I mean? I am quite thankful to have Wiki as a main source, because of how well it works. I recommend this highly!
- Skylar, thanks for participating! i'm glad it's useful for you. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 00:28, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
2601:C:2480:69F:D912:32C9:FCF3:B05D
Response by 2601:C:2480:69F:D912:32C9:FCF3:B05D
2601:C:2480:69F:D912:32C9:FCF3:B05D's thoughts on question 2
Please correct your info more often and produce more specific results. This site is very helpful but some corrections need to be made.
70.53.51.118
Response by 70.53.51.118
70.53.51.118's thoughts on question 2
I think that having more projects devoted to investigating brand new technology and advancements around the world will be beneficial to the new billion users of Wikipedia.
Alleycat80
Response by Alleycat80
Alleycat80's thoughts on question 1
Learning and education will be using richer media. Text, however important, cannot stand alone without images / film / sounds.
Nor could we forego the importance of a nice user interaction and new interfaces (geographic, time-based, even virtual reality... Occulus Rift, anyone?)
Alleycat80's thoughts on question 2
Well, they are really inclusive, with a community which is built around free knowledge rather than the "rank" of people contributing, which is celebrating the different opinions instead of arguing about them, which carries on from the online world to the physical world.
This actually has nothing to do with the trends. It is true no matter what the latest fashion is, I think.
NickK
Response by NickK
NickK's thoughts on question 1
Readers will be more interested by interactive content (e.g. videos, animations, voices of people, pronunciation of words) in addition to classical texts with illustrations. The other point is that due to growing number of sources readers will be interested in higher-quality content, i.e. well-written, diverse and multilingual — NickK (talk) 01:17, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
NickK's thoughts on question 2
Engineering-wise we need to have better media players (to integrate videos or sounds from Wikimedia Commons), and it would be great to have a better book reader (integrated with Wikisource) or news feed (integrated with Wikinews). Such features would make Wikimedia projects thriving as a most comprehensive source of information (and in addition, of free information).
Project-wise we should promote increasing quality of content, most notably should facilitate integration of high-quality sources (e.g. by obtaining permission for printed encyclopaedias, by digitising public ___domain sources or by getting easier access to scientific articles), as large amounts of information are still not available in free access (and even less available in different languages).
Community-wise we should be social to the point we should promote healthy cooperation between editors (where diverse groups of editors work together on some topics), but we should not be a social network (we should promote cooperation, not communication) — NickK (talk) 01:17, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- @NickK: Good point re: video players / book readers. For Wikisource, the wsexport tool is a good start, but I agree this kind of thing should be better integrated.
- What do you think the Wikimedia Foundation could/should be doing in the next few years that would promote the kind of healthy cooperation between editors you're describing?--Erik Moeller (WMF) (talk) 01:48, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- @Erik Moeller (WMF): Thanks for the feedback.
- On the first point, I think that these tools should be more visible, not as a Labs tool but as a built-in feature. Many people are reading books or watching videos from their mobile devices, and we should make this easier.
- Speaking of collaboration, I don't have a complete vision but I have some ideas. It would make sense to look into tools used by scientific community for collaboration on scientific articles, like w:ShareLaTeX, for example. Some great features would be a possibility for several editors to edit an article at the same time, both in source code or VisualEditor (a good example again is ShareLaTeX where two users can edit source code simultaneously), or a possibility to add comments (which are currently available using <!-- --> lineup, but not seen in VisualEditor), as they are a powerful tool of providing guidelines to editors.
- This may also need improvements to discussions, and from this point of view I think that Flow is might be going in a wrong direction, as it was based on the concept of people discussing existing content (as it used Flickr, Youtube, Tumblr or Livejournal as references) or people answering a single question (like StackOverflow or Quora), not on the concept of people discussing improvements to the existing content. It might be helpful to look for successful platforms where people are discussing joint work on the content, with features like discussions on general structure (e.g. changing the structure of the article), discussions on particular passages in the text (e.g. commenting on a particular paragraph), suggesting changes (e.g. a user suggests a better lead of the article) or flagging particular issues (e.g. a user reports that a particular section needs updating and provides source for it). Flow might be easier for providing feedback to newbies, but it is even worse for discussing content improvements (particularly because it does not work well with anything more complex than plain text, like citations or formulas), so some different platform is needed for article talk pages.
- To sum up, it would be great to make a research on collaborative editing tools (especially scientific ones) and see what we can learn from them — NickK (talk) 14:03, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Response by SSZ
SSZ's's thoughts on question 1
one key concept for BOTH questions would be ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, NAMELY: HOW to extract knowledge from Wikipedia good articles to answer SPECIFIC QUESTIONS from public users.
e.g.
1. I want to to know HOW to build a car engine. WP is expected to give me an answer!
2. I need to know if Martin Luther King, Jr. ever traveled to Europe. YES or No?
3. How many people live in Albania? The robot needs to extract this answer and give it to me orally instantly. No keyboard inputs!
Behind those simple examples IT programmers need to define what is information in WP, what is knowledge and what is expertise (through tags or algorithms)
SSZ 01:18, 24 February 2015 (UTC) (user:SSZ, not logged-in)
- Hi @SSZ:, great point. AI is a big question and in fact we are funding a small project specifically focused on this right now. However, "extracting" semantic knowledge is a bit of a bigger challenge. The first step is to actually structure it, which is what WikiData project is focused on. We are building a plan on how to evolve WikiData rapidly to provide the foundation for this type of search. What other AI-based user features do you envision? ...On another item, HOW (instructional) content is often not present Wikimedia and that is a separate issue that we may want to look into (at some point). And this is something that can be community driven as well! LilaTretikov (WMF) (talk) 01:38, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
HI Ms. Tretikov:)
I think you need to associate with M.I.T or the like for a project like that. My own expertise stops with artificial intelligence and artificial neural networks for the financial market/FOREX which i developed successfully. The rest, to be honest, is just ideas! I have also proposed, earlier in a WP forum, to have WP data (e.g. in economics) be updated automatically when associated with any given original source (in any format) in the "cloud" (e.g. GDP data and thousand others). My understanding is again limited by my own experience but suffice to say I designed a simple system that could be patented? Basically you need to identify each record in a digital file individually (thru tags/IDs may be) and call that mother record thru the internet for the update (each record field has an associate unique IP address). A central registry needs to be maintained to address each (automated) queries because that is how internet works (i.e. thru "packet switching"). I know automated updating for the internet exists already for Excel spreadsheet records for example.
I am sure you already know that but if you define where you want to go in terms of knowledge acquisition, it is simple to define automatically the path you need to take in terms of WP articles or (sub-articles/section) to get there. WP would need to define thru tags what is a per-requisite PATH for any given knowledge (i.e. Which WP articles are a prerequisite for any given knowledge). Probably someone has already this master model of all human knowledge figured out (in digital format) somewhere :) because they need that information since a long time to shift thru the gigantic amount of information they need to monitor every day (e.g. thru data mining). The rest can easily be automated!... you will need to cooperate with their scientists SOMEHOW...? ;)
Regrading the instructional part of WP, i agree with you and thought about it. The truth is WP and all other IT companies will have to re-define their mission statements somehow in coming years, simply because integration and efficiency will drive us all there. This will go at an exponential pace in my view. Do not look at past 10 years to predict the future (my guess only). Information is simply "consciousness/awareness" of something at its core. We cannot have artificial walls and say we are going to keep WP restricted to information and knowledge ONLY..
Dear Lila, I know a bit about your background in IT so I am not trying to compete with you or look smart because I know you know these things much better than I do, probably! Thanks. user:SSZ
- One last thing I missed may be (among thousand others!) is that WP articles need to be re-structured may be (some of them). Knowledge has an inherent structure (think DNA), so i say we need to discover, understand, and apply that knowledge on to HOW WP article need to be structured (at present, each editor is free to structure his/her "own" articles the way they want). By editing repeatedly same country economy WP information over years, I came to the conclusion that there is a hidden structure to all of it!...:) 173.63.116.126 17:27, 24 February 2015 (UTC) (User:SSZ)
69.11.241.134
Response by 69.11.241.134
69.11.241.134's thoughts on question 1
The # 1 challenge is to provide content that is usable on the widest variety of devices, especially low-powered or legacy ones.
69.11.241.134's thoughts on question 2
It would look like a Wikipedia without Media Viewer.
Marcus Cyron
Response by Marcus Cyron
Marcus Cyron's thoughts on question 1
- Stop hunting trends, only start doing good work! We are a free project, you don't have to sell us to the people outsite! We are not to sell - and definetly not by you in Frisco!
Marcus Cyron's thoughts on question 2
- Restart the Wikimedia Foundation as an international Institution. Not centered in the USA, not only interested in english language Wikipedia. Everything has to be for the people who really doing the Wikimedia work. Again: these people are WE - not you in Frisco! You should be only service personal! The Media Wiki software should become really free. As long the WMF is sitting on it (why? Wikimedia projects don't depend to the software! The important thing is the content!), nothing good will ever happen. The WMF has shown in a lot of years, that the WMF is not be able to handle it. The WMF must be lead by the Community, not by 10 people, of them only 3 are Community elected. Never ever again a technical person should be in a leading position as now Miss Tretjakov. She and the by her leaded substructers has shown clearly, that the Communities are not of importance for her and them. But remember: without OUR work you will can not longer collect money on our back. And stop making the work of Google - Wikidata in this way is the dead of everything that's free and of our project. The knowledge graph cretaed of our data from Wikidata says everything. Why we should work for nothing for Google? And then we should talk about the Foundations attack on the net neutrality. Wikipedia Zero is NOT a good idea! It is a big step helping to create an unfree internet.
- Or to say it easier: in the future we should do everything completely different than the Foundation actually does!
- But at the end I know, the Foundation is not really interested in my opinion. This here is the yearly joke by the Foundation. The 5th or 6th time the Foundation ask us and then doing it in the way they want and not we want brings me to a point that I belive here nothing anymore. 10 years Wikipedia (and other Wikimedia projects) has shown me, that the live could be so phantastic - if there would not be the Foundation, who hated us authors!
- Stop making a kind of Facebook out of Wikipedia and the sister projects. We are here to work on educational things, not to doing thumbs up or sharing Lolcat images! And stop creating new rules for "Global south" (rassict word!) - scientific work is a must for Wikmedia projects. In englisch, french, spanish, german, arabian, farsi, chinese and bantu.
- Dear Foundation: start really care about the author - not the reader and those, who maybe could give money to you - oh, sorry, "donate" for the project. We, the Authors, are still the main donators! Kiss our feet!
96.247.7.59
Response by 96.247.7.59
96.247.7.59's thoughts on question 2
PLEASE join forces with Quora. The two sites complement each other. Wikipedia doesn't have a public forum. Quora could be that forum.96.247.7.59
- This is a really interesting "outside the box" idea. Tell us more! --Lgruwell-WMF (talk) 01:57, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
夏浚博
Response by 夏浚博
夏浚博对问题一的想法
维基百科可以推出移动终端上的APP，特别是更改手机上维基的界面，它十分不美观。
- (Google translation, please improve) "Wikipedia APP may launch a mobile terminal, especially on Wikipedia change the phone interface, it is very pretty."
夏浚博对问题二的想法
更改编辑界面，这样的界面让一些非专业用户编辑十分不便，最好能像微软的Word一样方便编辑
- (Google translation, please improve) "Change the editing interface, this interface allows the user to edit some of the non-professional is very inconvenient, it is best to be as easy as Microsoft Word to edit"
217.73.142.34
Response by 217.73.142.34
217.73.142.34's thoughts on question 1
html_v2 is comming, you might want to check that, faster data speed.
- I think you might be referring to HTTP/2? The task to track progress of that support, is phab:T35890. Hope that helps. :) Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 02:24, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
217.73.142.34's thoughts on question 2
well , editors are a little stubborn but that's not my business :) , a new website layout perhaps but even like this is ok.
190.87.67.171
Response by 190.87.67.171
Las ideas de 190.87.67.171 acerca de la pregunta 2
en opinion personal seria llegar con mas informacion a los diversos idiomas no solo al ingles y tambien aumentar los contenidos multimedia (videos , imagenes , esquemas .)
- (Google translation, please improve) "in serious personal opinion arrive with more information to the various languages not only to English and also increase the multimedia content (video, photos, diagrams.)"
71.212.231.149
Response by 71.212.231.149
71.212.231.149's thoughts on question 1
The main trend aside from the ones mentioned that I would identify is increased difficulty in finding topics to which someone can contribute. This will be due to the increased numbers of stable articles (not stubs) in many languages, and the need for contributors who don't know they are contributors.
What I mean by the second point is that people who can translate, who can communicate and coordinate with other editors, who can clean up grammar, and who can research and cite topics well will be increasingly needed. These contributors aren't necessarily looking at the articles to which they can provide input (since it's not necessarily their field of interest - it's just something where they can, after looking at the research and information given by those who do know the topic, strengthen and encourage articles in).
This need will become even greater when many nonprofessionals and people unfamiliar with Wikipedia come online. Many people can contribute in one way or another:
- Knowledge (or enthusiasm and focus) on a topic.
- Ability to write good articles - skill at formatting, writing clearly, cleaning up grammar, and providing the most concise and useful summary of information.
- Ability to look into topics more, choose and cite literature correctly, interpret references, and build off of existing work (even without a prior knowledge of the subject).
- Skill at translation or coordination with people of different cultures, languages, and expertises - in order to spread and clarify the information presented, and provide help in interpreting references.
Unfortunately, only the first point is really taken care of with the current setup (people gravitate towards articles they are interested in). We hope that enough people with the other skills happen to be properly distributed among all the topics necessary, but it could easily fail for many niche topics (and topics particularly of interest to groups without as much educational access or prior knowledge to Wikipedia's methods).
71.212.231.149's thoughts on question 2
Collaboration and translation (both via things like Google Translate, to help automatically link enough information for people to work with, and manual translation and cooperation between language-bases for articles) are key. It will be important for the community to identify things:
- Identify which languages bases (groups of people who edit in one language, or even who edit in a particular language but are not as proficient in it) are large and have a lot to offer / a lot they need from other languages bases - and launch translation and coordination efforts to help these communicate and share information in ways clear to everyone.
- Identify what mobile and other platforms are vibrant and full of people, and ensure that Wikipedia is clear, translateable (if often in languages which need to coordinate more), and editable in simple ways from these. Provide clear explanations about this as much as possible.
- Identify what skills editors have and help them identify where these skills are needed in articles they see.
2A02:8109:9340:112C:C4AC:6054:BE26:2502
Response by 2A02:8109:9340:112C:C4AC:6054:BE26:2502
2A02:8109:9340:112C:C4AC:6054:BE26:2502's thoughts
I don't know what major trends there are going to be, but it's important for me to note some reservations regarding "mobile" and "the next billion users".
Reservation regarding "mobile"
It is only natural to want to adapt to new ways of access, all the more so when these new ways are becoming the major ones. But WMF must not let that set us back. As long as "adapting to mobile" means providing easier mobile interfaces for consuming, creating and improving content, one might debate whether it is worth the investment or not, but other than that there's little potential for harm. But if "adapting to mobile" comes at the expense of non-mobile, and if that happens when mobile interfaces - even if more frequent than non-mobile ones - are still inferior to them (in terms of ease of data exchange, such as the ability to enter or to read large amounts of text with speed and accuracy), that will be taking us backwards. It is important to consider not (only) the quantity, but (also) the quality: as long as accessing Wikimedia projects through non-mobile technology provides a qualitatively better interaction than through mobile, it will be a mistake to neglect such channels in favour of mobile access, even if and when the latter is more common. 2A02:8109:9340:112C:C4AC:6054:BE26:2502 02:41, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Reservation regarding "the next billion users"
I believe Latin-Americans, Asians and Africans are people just like North-Americans and Europeans. I doubt that they have less "preconceived notion about any Wikimedia project" than any North-American or European who is new to Wikimedia projects or that they should have "new motivations for participating when they do". In fact, I find those statements offensive. At the very least, I expect whomever is making such statements to explain what they mean: what "preconceived notion" do North-Americans and Europeans have that Latin-Americans, Asians and Africans don't have, and what "new motivations" may Latin-Americans, Asians and Africans have when they participate? 2A02:8109:9340:112C:C4AC:6054:BE26:2502 02:41, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
2601:D:9080:156:863:774:DB6C:3A7E
Response by 2601:D:9080:156:863:774:DB6C:3A7E
2601:D:9080:156:863:774:DB6C:3A7E's thoughts on question 2
As the English language becomes more ubiquitous across all cultures, people from non-Western cultures will be gradually assimilated into the rational, secular, scientific, and humanities approaches espoused in Western knowledge traditions. Therefore, it is incumbent on Wiki to continue to prepare for a higher percentage of mobile users (esp in non-western cultures where cellular infrastructures is far ahead of others).
Luobogao
Response by Luobogao
Luobogao's thoughts on question 1
Make GFW to unlock the Wikipedia
Luobogao's thoughts on question 2
An magical and has a quantity of useful info
50.101.171.167
Response by 50.101.171.167
50.101.171.167's thoughts on question 2
make an app
Tôi là người Việt Nam.
Để trang web thu hút nhiều người xem thì cần phải có nội dung rõ ràng.
- (Google translation, please improve) For sites attract more people to see the need to have explicit content
50.96.154.80
Response by 50.96.154.80
50.96.154.80's thoughts on question 2
I see a slowdown in internet use by the public due to gov't involvement and going more toward the storage devices able to store very large amounts of data. Such as one storage device for phone numbers, address, etc. but can also be combined into several popular items such as music, video & phone numbers. All this because of problems caused by hackers, gov't or speed being compromised.
67.249.140.141
Response by 67.249.140.141
67.249.140.141's thoughts on question 1
More of the same, mostly.
67.249.140.141's thoughts on question 2
A healthy project has a coherent administration, who keeps fairly hands-off, but intervenes when major, active efforts are being made to bias the content or structure of a project away from reality (as adjudged by the preponderance of the evidence).
Administration is unavoidable and bad administration is trouble. The attempts to avoid administration in Wikipedia have led to bad administration, and as a direct result, Wikipedia is sick.
There are, as is well documented, cabals of "editors" on Wikipedia who have been completely screwing up a large number of pages, and getting away with it. Uncontroversial and obscure pages survive fine. But pages with controversy are where these gangs of editors get going, and they end up with masses of bias -- the sexist biases have been well-documented, but there are plenty of others. The bias creeps in because "neutral point of view" and "no original research" *invite* bias, which substitutes for the prohibited evidence. Wikipedia editors refuse to recognize the value of primary sources... when it suits their biases.
An *evidence-based* standard is the only one which can prevent cabals of editors from using their own biases to edit Wikipedia. And it can only be implemented with actual management of some sort, whether elected or appointed... not with self-appointed, self-perpetuating cabals.
Some of the other projects are much healthier. Wikisource, Wikibooks, Wikiquote and Wikimedia Commons have a clear remit and do not have the same problem with biased selection. (Though Wikiquote has issues with *attribution*, which is a matter of research and requires primary sources.) If they ever start being picky about what they include, however -- and they probably will someday, whether due to lack of space or due to harassment from governments -- they *will* end up with the same problem: it is fundamentally an administration problem.
You can't bypass the administration problem. Indeed, you need to research it intensively to figure out the right thing to do. There's a vast literature on it, both in business and in government and politics. Please stop attempting to bypass it.
119.226.254.66
Response by 119.226.254.66
119.226.254.66's thoughts on question 2
Provide free high speed internet all over the world! u r bound to get all the people.
117.199.9.58
Response by 117.199.9.58
117.199.9.58's thoughts on question 1
peple are travelling more and more all over the world and as such radio will become more and more popular. wikipedia should consider making available its data in the voice form,as this is not interactive.
117.199.9.58's thoughts on question 2
there is little scopetp alter the contents of wikipedia item wise as the present schemem is suficient and covers the needs of all kinds of readers.
make money by knowledge
110.178.*.*
Response by 110.178.*.*
110.178.*.*'s thoughts on question 1
The major trends, I identify, are to make money by knowledge.
110.178.*.*'s thoughts on question 2
Wikimedia projects may open up sub-projects like blogs, social networks, etc.
Anders Wennersten
Response by Anders Wennersten
Anders Wennersten's thoughts on question 1
the "competitor" landscape will radically change
Paper encyclopedias no longer exist. On-line encycopedias are struggling. Mediahouse is scrapping their fact/research departments
On-line newswebbs is getting better, also cooperaive ones. Expert databses are getting more like Wikipedia, a colloborate effort
This means the traditional "competotors" diminish, while new ones emerge
It puts a double demand on our Wikiepdia etc being more professional. In many ways our biggest ones are already up to this standard but many middle ones and smller ones is not.
166.170.14.95
Response by 166.170.14.95 Your Monterey article was excellent ,edinformative. everything I view from Wikipedia articals,on all topics,educates me, show me your physical office address,and to others on Wikipedia websites,then you'll be loaded with cash. your service is that great.
XboXmaker
Response by XboXmaker
XboXmaker's thoughts on question 1
I think that the cost of technology will go down, people will simultaneously get more educated and not get education, and almost everyone will have electronic devices. However, this will increase the demand of electricity, increasing global warming, which will eventually wipe out humanity. To prevent this, I think that Wikipedia should put interest on alternative power sources than coal burning, because those will help humanity as a whole.
XboXmaker's thoughts on question 2
Based on these trends, I think that a more interactive Wikipedia could help, possibly specifically designed for the classroom. An interactive resource used to highlight fun facts, make presentations, and quizzes about miscellaneous items and topics relevant to said schoolwork would help classrooms, and as a result, the next generation of children. Also, I agree with most of the people here that bias should be removed, because schools are using Wikipedia more as a resource, which can lead to many biased pages. Sincerely, A seventh grader
Begruh
Antwort von Begruh (englisch: Response by Begruh)
Begruhß Gedanken zu Frage 1
Das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen (oder etwas [Sinn-]Ähnliches) für jeden Menschen (vorerst leider nur auf der kleinen blauen Murmel), und damit auch die Achtung der Menschenrechte jedes Menschen (und nicht nur derer, die Geld oder [materiellen/eingebildeten] Besitz haben/glauben zu haben – siehe dazu ggf. auch unter Wikipedia:de:Arbeitsteilung). -- Begruh, am 24.2.2015, 05:47 (MEZ)
- Google translate: Please help improve: The unconditional basic income (or something [of meaning] like) for each person (for now unfortunately only on the small blue marble), and hence also the respect for human rights of every human being (and not only those who benefit or [material / imaginary] possession have / have to believe - see possibly also Wikipedia: en: division of labor).
Begruhß Gedanken zu Frage 2
Keine Ahnung.., wenn die Wikipedia und alle anhaftenden [Wikimedia-]Unternehmungen (oder in Newsprech -Projekte) den kommenden Wandel überleben (und ich hoffe das sehr) wird die (dann hoffentlich noch immer vernünftige Mehrheit der Menschheit oder) [menschliche Welt-]Gemeinschaft (sofern wir dann nicht von Robotern oder Automaten beherrscht werden, die wiederum auch wieder nur von einigen Wenigen gesteuert/geführt/beherrscht und, wenn deren [An]Führer selbst nicht immer sehr gut aufpassen, unter Umständen ebenso irgendwann selbst [auch] ganz ersetzt werden) hoffentlich in Ruhe/ohne Hast/ohne zu hetzen/ohne [sinnlos] gehetzt zu werden und mit Vernunft [viele weitere] gute Möglichkeiten [er]finden. -- Begruh, am 24.2.2015, 06:18 (MEZ)
- Google translate: Please help improve:No idea .. if Wikipedia and all adherent [Wikimedia-] companies (or in Newsprech projects) upcoming change to survive (and I hope very much) is the (hopefully still reasonable majority of humanity or) [human world -] Community (if we will not dominated by robots or machines, which in turn again controlled by only a few individuals / out / controlled and, if the [on] leaders themselves do not always pay attention very well, may as well at some point itself [also are] completely replaced) hopefully in peace / without haste / without rushing to / rushed without [pointless] to be and with reason [many other] good chance he [] find.
Tokyogirl79
Response by Tokyogirl79
Tokyogirl79's thoughts on question 1
I see anonymity continuing to become a large trend, especially as more and more sites tend to tighten up security to avoid the obvious issues that come with this. (Vandalism, bullying, spam, etc) I also predict that language will become more blended when it comes to English, so it may be a good idea to look into what we (Wikipedia) can do to make this easier for people who need simpler pages. This could probably be best done by putting an emphasis on improving the Simple English Wikipedia and bringing over more and more pages.
Tokyogirl79's thoughts on question 2
Overall I think that it'd be important to have projects with good, clear communication. A lot of people have trouble with guideline pages that look very long and complicated, which not only discourages them but also encourages misunderstandings of policy. A lot of people quote the "ignore all rules" page and then a lot of people will quote policy to the point where they draw a hard line- I should know, I've done that on occasion, albeit mostly because I want to ensure that every page gets the same treatment. (I've had a few people accuse other pages of getting special treatment.) Something that recently came to mind about this sort of thing is that it may not be a bad idea to work with people who represent some of the more problem areas and find ways to explain the guidelines and content in ways that would make sense to them. In other words, if we have a ton of paid editors misunderstanding the guidelines for whatever reason then it may be a good idea to work with a paid editor to find ways to explain the rules to where they won't misunderstand them as much. Note that by misunderstanding editors I mean the ones that do have relatively good faith and want to genuinely learn the rules, as opposed to the ones who deliberately misunderstand and show no interest in trying to learn the rules. We'll always have issues with various types of editors, but having someone (a volunteer of course) who can speak to them on their level may be pretty invaluable. The scrutiny would have to be sky high, but paid editing is never going to go away so we need to find better ways of dealing with this. We can still get rid of a lot of the worst offenders who show no interest in improving, but I'm just afraid that we may be frightening away some paid editors who may actually want to positively contribute without turning into Wiki-PR. Of course it's not an easy solution but I do want to avoid driving off people who may want to work on the articles that frankly, a lot of people don't frequently edit (businesses, etc).
183.212.219.7
Response by 183.212.219.7
183.212.219.7对问题一的想法
...物联网...
- (Machine translation, please improve) Things
183.212.219.7对问题二的想法
...让全球网民联合起来编写…
- (Machine translation, please improve) Let the world's Internet users together to write
173.30.13.228
Response by 173.30.13.228
173.30.13.228's thoughts on question 2
Wikipedia and Watson from IBM should into a technology called "Wikiwatson" which essentially allows artificial intelligence to navigate the massive amount of information available on wikipedia cross-language and cross subject in a conversational manner by both writing and speaking with "it".
Carlos Romulo Jara
Response by Carlos Romulo Jara
Carlos Romulo Jara's thoughts on question 2
The world needs people willing to share the knowledge to help suffering people, AFRICA is allways in my mind, so the last 27 years, I have spent PREPARING AND DESIGNING NEW AND INNOVATIVE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT TOOLS TO BE ABLE TO FIRST, HELP MY COUNTRY, ECUADOR WHICH THROUGH HISTORY HAS SUFFERED THE DESEASES OF A CAOTIC SYSTEM WHICH IS MISS USED BY THE OLD AND NEW POLITITIANS TO FURTHER CORRUPT AND DESTROY THE POOR SOCIAL MISS-ESTRUCTURE WHICH SERVES THE CORRUPT POLITITIANS AND GROUPS WHICH PROFIT FROM MAINTAINING THE STATUS QUO WITH THE NEVER ENDING PROMISE THAT THEY WILL CONTROL CORRUPTION DECEIVING THE ECUADORIAN PEOPLE ALL THE TIME AND NEVER COMPLIYING WITH SAID PROMISES.
The WORLD EVIL IN NOT POVERTY, but those who practice and allow CORRUPTION TO GENERATE MORE CORRUPTION, for this reason, the REAL CHALLENGE IS NOT FIGHTING THE SHADOWS OF CORRUPTION, BUT CONFRONTING CORRUPTION ITSELF, FRONTALLY WITH NO FEAR, iT IS THE SYSTEM OF CORRUPTION WHICH ALLOW IT TO PROSPER,
Its my appreciation that you ARE THE MOST WONDERFUL TOOL TO WIN THIS WAR...TOGETHER WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD, I AM SURE WE CAN....IF WE DO IT FOR LATIN AMERICA,
THIS SAME MODERN INNOVATION IN MASSIVE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT METHODS DESIGNED DURING THE LAST 25 YEARS, WILL ASIST AFRICA TO ONCE AND FOR ALL OVERCOME THE ETERNAL SUFFERING THIS LOVED NATION GOES THROUGH.
<private info removed> I will be glad FOR YOUR INTEREST IN JOINING OUR HUMBLE KNOWLEDGE WITH YOUR MAGNIFICENT WAY OF EXPRESSING YOUR LOVE FOR PEOPLE....
LOVE,,,
CARLOS R. JARA.
99.200.22.182
Response by 99.200.22.182
Wouldn't websites about people be nice, if deceased over 100 yrs we might find out their past lineage, such as if Justin Morgan were really apart of New England's earliest settlers, like the Mergin family, from Holland? And possible links to horses like figure, and where those blood lines have gone as far as equestrian awards, histories, etc? As well as links to history of music in this country, evolution and connections since inception. Was he a part of those or derived from the group of gentlemen involved in such things as the 'Shape note system', and which churches, or fraternal organizations got them going or kept the heritage of them?
99.137.236.251
Response by 99.137.236.251
99.137.236.251's thoughts on question 1
- 1 keyboards and mice becoming less used, voice recognition used for most apps.
99.137.236.251's thoughts on question 2
- 2 voice search capability of course!
- As somebody who uses voice searching on her phone all the time, I think that's an interesting idea, 99.137.236.251. :) I'd sure use it. --Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk) 12:27, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
73.181.121.163
Response by 73.181.121.163
73.181.121.163's thoughts on question 1
many people use shared access to telephones. saved searches, already-clicked-on indicators for embedded links may appear another color, confusing the reader as to whether or not they had already read that page. cultural sensitivity is important, as editing another's posts for inaccuracies may be perceived as 'rude'. the need to structure wikipedia/wikimedia as a third space, suspended from cultural norms and regulations is highly important. egoism in user names might be hard for some to comprehend.
73.181.121.163's thoughts on question 2
instant clarification links for words, photos, etc for those unsure/ unexposed to foreign items/ concepts. more fluid/ organic/ realistic voice speech software.
Kingronak
Response by Kingronak
Since the next 1 billion represent that much more knowledge and potential to share, I would recommend that Wikipedia and Wikimedia align themselves to the goal of making it easier than ever to create, edit and share the knowledge. In order to do this, 2 features I can recommend are: A little 5 star choice/opinion survey on every page, to try and identify the pages that are being marked consistently for say Opinionated Article or Unverified Facts or Poor Grammar etc. etc. A highlight tool feature, so that even if the person doesn't have the time to edit anything, they can at least highlight sentences, terms etc. that they feel are incorrect, or leave little comments to suggest a change, so someone else who is making the changes can come in and take those into consideration.
59.99.43.83
Response by 59.99.43.83
59.99.43.83's thoughts on question 1
Wiki helps to keep everything balanced!
59.99.43.83's thoughts on question 2
All items should be noticed!
121.211.197.137
Response by 121.211.197.137
121.211.197.137's thoughts on question 2
Well, to start you should start telling more of the truth, speciall in events related to colonization and the deeds of the West. A few month ago I wrote an article about the Victorian Holocausts perpetrated by Lord Lytton and Queen Victoria in 3 oportunities, no in one, like your article conveniently describes. The the fammines from 1870 to 1902 are widely documented in the book " The Victorian Holocausts" and more than 30 million people lost their lives when Lord Lytton purposely let them die, and shipped all the available food to England. It is also described in the BBC documentary, Racism : a History. You could have verified all of this. Instead you decided to edit out that information whihc makes me think that you are more on the side of Western Imperialism and White domination of the world. It seems to me that your claim, reagarding a free encyclopedia for the the world, is regretably another instrument to progagate lies and a version of history that suit the interest of The Anglo American Empire, hidding the awful crimes that have been committed to million of nameless people without never having the possibility of any justice or compensation. Sadly I know now, that you are just another Western Institution, with the same political agenda. It is more of the same ugly western barbaric culture.
Bromine stanton
Response by Bromine stanton
Bromine stanton's thoughts on question 1
(the following is with regards to wikipedia only as I do not have sufficient experience to comment on the other projects) 1. There are several points with regards to a new population from asia and latin america that are important and must be addressed. some are pre-existing issues and would require further strategies to deal with. - the bias on many pages. this is obvious, and has been pointed out time and time again. obviously some subjects are in themselves a bias, however that does not justify there being heavily biased pages on what are supposed to be neutral subjects. Although there are measures already put into place to address such issues, they are not sufficient, furthermore, some parties with financial motivation may and may have already influenced certain topics, given that wikipedia is prime influencing space due to the nature of the advertised encyclopedia aspect of this site.
- more translations this is obvious given the new population. Whether this is done through paid translation of pre-existing pages or user collaboration is up to the population to decide. Given wikipedia's passive aggressive fundraising, it is unlikely to be the former.
Bromine stanton's thoughts on question 2
(the following is with regards to wikipedia only as I do not have sufficient experience to comment on the other projects) 2. I feel that for future projects to be successful, a base template must be made where in a certain amount of people fitting a certain criteria must be fulfilled before it can be allowed to go forward. for example, a subject on human trafficking (not the main article, perhaps a daughter page regarding trafficking in a certain part of asia and the methods employed) may require input from both an expert on this subject from an asian country within the region of the article's geographical scope, in addition to a western expert with extensive knowledge of human trafficking in general. This will keep bias to a minimum. Only once both these people have wrote and reviewed a certain article and come to a unanimous decision about its contents can an article then be published. Aside from this, for foreign language translation, it would be necessary to have several people of the translation to review the article before its published to keep reviewing errors to a minimum.
whilst this is an idealistic situation, in practice it is most likely not possible, and hence we'll have the same sprawl we get now with regards to some subjects.
103.24.97.122
Response by 103.24.97.122
103.24.97.122's thoughts on question 1
Although English is now the universal language o commerce and science, not everyone speaks or understands it.
This will be major trend in eth coming years. Combined with the easy access provided by mobile devices, Wikipedia will continue in its position of the go-to source of information on any subject.
103.24.97.122's thoughts on question 2
As more and more people gain access to the internet and thus Wikipedia, translation of the content of the English Wikipedia into regional languages is imperative. Wikipedia Foundation and its volunteers must focus on the efforts of ensuring that the content in the Wikipedia of other languages should include latest articles
Anonymous
thoughts on question 1
Well, I'd like to see a weakening of the dominance of English, but that seems unlikely, especially if Wikipedia continues to be so hospitable to the spammers who favor English in their hunts for wealthy suckers. (Yes, I know that they aren't all Nigerians, but that's the bad rap they get.) I'd prefer to see it going more voice-based in local vernaculars, including flexible translation into languages that don't even have the corresponding pages in the users' languages. I think the local linguistic communities need to be supported in augmenting their own translations because they have the vested interest.
thoughts on question 2
Stumped me here, because it seems to me that Wikipedia has become a kind of closed cult. I guess there must be some "thriving and healthy" projects in progress, but I have no idea what they are and therefore no baseline from which to predict the future. Apparently this is supposed to be anonymous?
- Only if you are not logged in. · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 07:13, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Pbsouthwood
Response by Pbsouthwood
Pbsouthwood's thoughts on question 1
- Voice and voice controlled input and output on mobile devices (also but less extensively on non-mobile workstations.)
- Admin crisis. Loss of admins for various reasons and shortage of replacements.
- Escalating dramah mainly by anonymous participants. POV and political gaming of the system.
Pbsouthwood's thoughts on question 2
- Structure articles to allow comprehensible voice output. Provide alternative descriptions at beginner, lay and expert levels for each article as many technical articles are becoming incomprehensible to the average reader.
- Make it easier to get and lose admin rights. Split them and allocate only those which the applicant asks for. Remove those which are not used well. Make it less of a big issue than it currently is.
- Difficult to make anonymous participants accountable for their actions. I don't have any simple solutions to this problem. It could kill or cripple the projects.
John
Response by John
John's thoughts on question 1
Self-promotion and manipulation of the project by governments and companies.
John's thoughts on question 2
Reformed governance. Make Jimbo Wales's role fully honorary. Reform Arbcom. Listen to the community (ie those who write the articles) more. Reaffirm that we are not an experiment in social justice but a project devoted to writing a free online encyclopedia.
82.102.244.40
Response by 82.102.244.40
82.102.244.40's thoughts on question 1
انا اقترح عليكم التعاون وتوقيع اتفاقيات مع الجامعات والكليات بحيث يصبح هنالك نسبة من العلامة الجامعية توضع للطالب حسب اسهامه في اثراء ويكيبيديا.
- (Machine translation, please improve) I suggest the signing of cooperation agreements with universities and colleges so that there becomes a proportion of university mark placed by the student contribution to enrich Wikipedia.
82.102.244.40's thoughts on question 2
لا اعلم اراها مثل ما هي لم تتطور
- (Machine translation, please improve) I do not know like what I see is not developed
84.188.228.143
Response by 84.188.228.143
84.188.228.143's thoughts on question 2
hello, I guess you need to take more informations and a game would be nice.
In Sincerely A + R
Bitwatt
Response by Bitwatt
Bitwatt's thoughts on question 1
La programmazione Fondi europei 2014 - 2020 punta ad una strategia per una crescita intelligente, sostenibile e inclusiva per l'Europa 2020 I tre obiettivi fissati per l'Europa 2020 faranno inevitabilmente emergere nuovi stili di vita, nel tempo libero e nelle attività lavorative, basati su nuove istanze socio-culturali ed economiche illustrate in alcuni termini quali Condivisione , Sostenibilità, Coesione sociale e alcuni altri termini presenti sul libro di Wikipedia Voci per l'innovazione in ordine alfabetico.
Tutto quanto sopra premesso è prevedibile che ai Dispositivi mobili, a partire dai Mobile Internet Device, saranno richieste nuove funzionalità in grado di contribuire ad una crescita intelligente, sostenibile e inclusiva per l'Europa 2020:
dal Mobile payment, alla prenotazione di servizi quali car sharing o bike sharing, prenotazione mezzi di viaggio (aereo, noleggio auto, ecc), funzione video-proiettore incorporato per condividere con altri utenti informazioni su grande schermo, ecc., e più in generale nuove funzionalità che serviranno sopratutto alla gestione di tutti gli aspetti della quotidianità: dalla propria salute, al conto in banca, agli spostamenti, al reperimento di un'informazione utile, ecc., in pratica il cellulare / telefonino sarà sempre più la "chiave digitale" con cui non solo aprire la porta di casa o accendere il televisore e controllare i rifornimenti nel frigorifero, ma accedere anche agli archivi personali o di lavoro ospitati su servizi di
Cloud computing .
Al miliardo di nuove persone su Internet, e a quelle già presenti da tempo sulla rete, saranno offerti ulteriori servizi a valore aggiunto in spazi a gestione mista (pubblico / privata) per facilitare la condivisione di risorse tecnologiche, l'apprendimento in modo formale, non-formale e informale in luoghi quali Biblioteche, Scuole Aperte, Piazze telematiche , Coworking, Telecentri, Smart Work Centers, Fab lab, ecc. per rispondere al bisogno innato degli esseri umani di socialità e di partecipazione alla vita socio-culturale ed economica.
- Machine translation; please improve!: Programming European Funds 2014 - 2020 points to a strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth for Europe 2020 The three goals set for 2020 will inevitably emerge new lifestyles, leisure and work activities, based new instances of socio-cultural and economic terms such as illustrated in some Sharing, Sustainability, Social Cohesion and some other terms on Wikipedia book Voices for Innovation in alphabetical order.
All of the above circumstances it is expected that the mobile devices, from mobile Internet devices will be required new features that can contribute to smart, sustainable and inclusive growth for Europe 2020: from Mobile payment, the booking of services such as car sharing or bike sharing, booking means of travel (air, car rental, etc.), video-function built-in projector to share information with other users on the big screen, etc., and, more generally, new features that will help your overall management of all aspects of everyday life: from their own health, the bank account, the movements, the retrieval of useful information, etc., in practice, the cell / mobile phone will always be the "digital key" with which not only open the door or turn on the TV and check your supply in the refrigerator, but also access to the archives personal or business services hosted on Cloud computing.
One billion new people on the Internet, and to those already present for some time on the network, will be offered more value-added services in areas managing mixed (public / private) to facilitate the sharing of technological resources, learning in a formal way, not -formale and informal in places such as libraries, Open Schools, Squares telematics, Coworking, telecentres, Smart Work Centers, Fab lab, etc. to respond to the innate need of humans of sociality and participation in socio-cultural and economic.
- Machine translation; please improve!: Programming European Funds 2014 - 2020 points to a strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth for Europe 2020 The three goals set for 2020 will inevitably emerge new lifestyles, leisure and work activities, based new instances of socio-cultural and economic terms such as illustrated in some Sharing, Sustainability, Social Cohesion and some other terms on Wikipedia book Voices for Innovation in alphabetical order.
Considerazioni di Bitwatt sulla domanda n. 2
Ai fini di Wikimedia è fondamentale tenere presente la veloce evoluzione in atto nella riorganizzazione degli ambienti per l'apprendimento formale (Scuole primarie, secondarie ed Università) per individuare le esigenze di informazione e conoscenza di cittadine /i del XXI secolo - L’Aula del XXI Secolo come Ambiente di Apprendimento
- Machine translation; please improve!: For the purposes of Wikimedia is crucial to keep in mind the rapid evolution taking place in the reorganization of the environments for formal learning (Primary, Secondary and University) to identify information needs and knowledge of the city / the XXI century - The House of XXI Century as Learning Environment
130.95.254.91
Response by 130.95.254.91
130.95.254.91's thoughts on question 1
People want correct information. They want to be able to say "I read on wikipedia that..." with confidence.
130.95.254.91's thoughts on question 2
I think a tiny "citation needed" isn't enough - parts that need revision or citation should be more obvious to the reader.
Farrukh1200
Response by Farrukh1200
Farrukh1200's thoughts on question 1
Well, to have some billion users we have to make the site excessively versatile , more appealing and truly informative. At least every article ought to have one video of its topic.And the articles must be full of authenticity and reality, many of Wiki's articles have mistakes and aren't based on the facts.The autonomy of editing articles should be seized at a level. More over the format should be changed now and must be having a lot of pictures and audio clips because the pictures will indubitably intensify the ability of understanding any topic. And if these desired changes would be made the Wikipedia would be rated as most informative site in the world.
Farrukh1200's thoughts on question 2
Verily, in accordance with my perspective the Wikimedia's projects are already extremely magnificent and captivating and as I am of the view that any sort of changes shouldn't be made. Let it go as it is.
static content
Response by Ghilt
Ghilt's thoughts on question 1
A general visible trend is the constant loss of authors/content creators and content updaters. A possible effect could be static content, which in turn might not draw as many new readers, as desired. Things like superprotect didn't help in motivation for active participation.
Ghilt's thoughts on question 2
- Increase the awareness that anybody can participate. To increase participation further, maybe remove superprotect to increase the 'we'-spirit in the communities.
Dfcloete
Response by Dfcloete
Dfcloete's thoughts on question 1
Thank you for the opportunity to comment. On the one hand - as a highly academic user of Wikipedia, I feel under qualified to speculate on the use by more casual users. On the other hand - as an African with a passion for the continent, I really want to help.
Education growth in Africa has the potential for placing a huge demand on Wikipedia. Once empowered with internet-capabilities, the potential arises for millions of users to find answers here, where they've always been. The challenge remains to present it in a way that makes Wikipedia the preferred source of information (refer to part 2).
This also applies to adults. Adult education is a major field in Africa. Linking these mature students to resources should be a major priority.
Again from the academic side, referencing must remain a priority. Although it is tempting to create a "one-stop-shop", it will always be important to trace the source of information.
Dfcloete's thoughts on question 2
Wikipedia is often the first answer to any question posted online. If google continues to refer to Wikipedia as the first reference, Wikipedia will always find new users as they come online for the first time.
The usefulness can be expanded by further increasing utility as instructional. A very specific application of this could be farming. As the continent strives to feed itself (and the rest of the world), farmers can find increasing benefit from online instruction. Imagine a world where first-world scientists have a direct line of communication to the 3rd world farmer, analyzing his conditions on the ground and giving advice on methods. This way, science and reality are directly linked. Has this not always been the point of Wikipedia.
This is the simplest implementation of the idea. I can envisage endless applications involving communication, engineering and even construction methods in a fast-changing landscape.
How does Wikimedia feel about sponsored posts? I see so many articles about brands and products. Is any revenue generated from such posts? Objectivity is certainly a major concern when such ideas are put on the table, but perhaps sponsored sections within posts could be "sold". This idea requires further formulation and I'm sure someone is working on it. Just throwing a stone in the bush.
Again, thank you for the opportunity to help build a better Wikipedia
124.40.56.251
Response by 124.40.56.251
124.40.56.251's thoughts on question 2
This site is great
NehalDaveND
Response by NehalDaveND
NehalDaveND's thoughts on question 1
There are so many mobile users are there to ready to contribute via Mobile and iphone. But The don't know how to work on Wokipedia with Mobile. I feel in my community so many users want editing with Mobile. Because if some one is travelling so he prefer Mobile. He can edit, read or so many other things in Wikipedia. Secondly we should train Admins to encourage the user to work with Mobile. Internationally we should prepare a guidance and presentation for mobile editing.
Problem will not occur, when you do this for big communities. I know so many user's are belongs big community, but one day big community was small community. So you should work equally for all. If we want to rich our content, we should reach the person. So we should follow RICH & REACH policy.
NehalDaveND's thoughts on question 2
Wikimedia is always work for Big community. They are always help only big community. Which is very bad. I explain this with an example. In our lives small kind is always protected by parents. Because they know that baby can't ask if baby wants something, baby can't protect itself because lack of knowledge and experience. But here we are provide everything to School going boys. And leave the small baby on road. One reason may be that, we are giving FREE, so if some one not doing in small community let it be. What is the big deal.
I am not aware about around the world. Because I am very small person. I am living in small city of India. I felt that Meta always doing for big community not for small community. Regarding The India next year our internet user will be increase 15% faster than this year[1][2]. You can understand why am I saying this. You should focus on Indian Languages.
I am sure meta will not give focus on some other languages of other small counties. Because they work only big community. So my advice or opinion is please build up small community and you will find that so many user will work on Wikipedia and other project's of WikiMedia. NehalDaveND (talk) 08:05, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- ↑ "Internat usage in India". press release. internetlivestats.com. Retrieved 24/02/2015.
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65.190.85.123
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65.190.85.123's thoughts on question 1
People will keep adding information to the Web, and people are always coming up with new ways to visually/interactively present this information.
65.190.85.123's thoughts on question 2
A thriving and healthy Wikimedia project will have people going to it for information before any other site. Based on future trends, to achieve this, Wikimedia will need to stay on top of any new information discovered, and Wikimedia may have to update their format, because sometimes appearance makes all the difference.
Katpatuka
Response by Katpatuka
Katpatuka's thoughts on question 1
Speed. I am waiting 4-7 seconds to get a page opened - without images! Especially a mobile does not need the whole page loaded at once - An excerpt when opening would be enough while the rest successively could load in the background.
Katpatuka's thoughts on question 2
Since I'm mapping on OSM and using wikipedia (WP) as reference for geographical subjects I am still missing basic information on counties, towns, rivers etc. - let it be the local or English WP. Local WP communities in conjunction with local communes and/or schools could organize projects to get basic geo-information of their region added to WP.
Rmir2
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Rmir2's thoughts on question 1
With the growing use of wikipedia I think that a growing demand will be documented information. In many cases a lot of notes all-ready excist but there is still a hugh amount of information without links or notes. I think, that people are going to ask for the possibility to check a particular piece of information to see on what it is based. This is the way to increase wikipedias credibility.
Rmir2's thoughts on question 2
I think, that short information about a subject will not be enough in the future. Articles will develope into monographs about a subject, giving a complete overview of a subject and, say, scientific investigations into it. As a supplement, I think that a complete bibliography on litterature (printed or on the internet) will be an obligation in the future. I also think, that in the case of unsettled or unsolved subjects it will be required, that arguments and counter-arguments are presented for the reader to be able to himself or herself to decide if an argument is valid or not. Again it is a question about credibility.
Therefore, I think that these issues should be part of projects in the near future.
111.73.244.192
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111.73.244.192对问题一的想法
在中国大陆等地区的网络审查行为进一步的威胁互联网的健康发展。
- (Machine translation, please improve) Further threatened the healthy development of the Internet censorship in mainland China, such as the behavior of the region.
111.73.244.192对问题二的想法
1.用户门槛低，例如：广泛使用可视化编辑器，减低对较为艰深的维基语法的要求。 2.对移动设备友好，有好用的客户端。
- (Machine translation, please improve)
- 1. The user threshold is low, for example: the widespread use visual editor, for the more difficult and reduce the wiki syntax requirements.
- 2. The mobile device friendly, easy to use client.
Magiers
Response by Magiers
Magiers's thoughts on question 1
The trend to focus on quality instead of quantity, on content instead of raising money, on the individual reader and author instead of billions.
Magiers's thoughts on question 2
In healthy projects, the content builders would call the tune, not the bureaucrats, functionaries and strategists, that are out of touch with the project realities. Individual and unique content would be appreciated more than levelling everything down.
Русскоязычным сюда!
Википедия по моиму взгляду будет пополнятся новой информации и будет процветать на многие-многие века!!! Самая лучшая, и самая без рекламмная, всемирная энциклопедия!!! H-Remix (talk) 08:34, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- (Machine translation, please improve) Wikipedia on my views will be updated with the new information and will flourish for many, many centuries !!! The best, and most without reklammnaya, The World Encyclopedia !!!
2602:306:BD69:7430:497D:2BD2:E7FB:6E64
Response by 2602:306:BD69:7430:497D:2BD2:E7FB:6E64
2602:306:BD69:7430:497D:2BD2:E7FB:6E64's thoughts on question 1
As iPad and other tablets are gaining in popularity, and are replacing laptops, I think shorter articles would be useful. The "table of contents" in an article should be in the first screen, so the user can click to the section of interest, instead of having to scroll first.
2602:306:BD69:7430:497D:2BD2:E7FB:6E64's thoughts on question 2
I'm not sure how to answer this question. For historical articles (that change less frequently), I think no change in process is required. But for articles based on current events (for example, the status of an ISIS hostage threatened with execution) or anything that is current, necessitates frequent updates. These types of articles should have some kind of process to make searching for the event quick and easy (without many "false" hits). I don't know now if article updates are published immediately, or are first looked at by a moderator. But the biggest challenges will be keeping articles on current events timely and accurate.
Shyamal
Response by Shyamal
Shyamal's thoughts on question 1
Trends to look out for:
- There will be more sources of content on the Internet
- The increased competition will lead to lower attention spans among readers
- Mobile users will be able to contribute more high bandwidth content - videos and audio - with less review and quality control
- Producing scholarly content via mobile interfaces will become more challenging
- The niche for encyclopaedic content will continue to exist and that niche will become more concretely defined
Shyamal's thoughts on question 2
What we might need in the face of these trends:
- More server "intelligence"
- Collecting, analyzing and automatically responding to user behaviour will be more important
- Wikipedia will need to highlight and deliver more contextually relevant content - based on time, geography, interest etc.
- Wikipedia will need to watch trends in real-time and inform and guide its participants in real-time and thereby more context
- Wikipedia participation must become easier and at the same time keep quality high (which means we have to simultaneously evaluate participant quality - how critical are they as readers, how careful are they as contributors etc.) - there must be better carrots to wave to convert readers into contributors
- Wikipedia content needs to be evaluated both by automated means and through subjective evaluation with feedback captured more without heavy duty approaches like rating / feedback forms and use more hidden ways such as page traffic, page view time, scrolling behaviour (esp. on mobiles) etc.
NaBUru38
Response by NaBUru38
NaBUru38's thoughts on question 1
People are questioning Wikimedia projects from a philosophical perspective, especially Wikipedia. What is truth? What is neutrality? What is fair? What are reliable sources? Why does Wikipedia avoid original research? Why would anyone believe what anonymous users write? We must answer those questions.
We are creating content very quickly, but we aren't sharing it well enough. There's plenty of work being done that isn't reaching readers. Saving articles and uploading files is just the first step to our mission.
Systemic bias and lack of journalistic rigour are still an issue. Even if it's unintentional, we aren't fully covering our mission to provide the sum of all knowledge.
User conflicts are escalating. People are not assuming good faith. Newbies are being bitten. We must change the way we interact.
Advocates are invading the projects, hurting our values. We must never allow them, period. Wikimedia is a volunteer community that develops educational content, not an advertising service for corporations and personalities.
NaBUru38's thoughts on question 2
We must promote and enforce our values of freedom, diversity, respect and altruism.
We must strive for the best in every aspect of our activities.
We must oppose what's wrong without fear.
We must teach each other to improve every day.
And we must have fun! Without that, Wikimedia becomes a payless job.
Man77
Response by Man77
Man77's thoughts on question 1
Internet will not stop becoming more and more facebookisized, a subtle advertisement rostrum, and the average content provided in internet will stay rather at a gossip level. (Some) People will most probably continue to misconceive that our wikis are just like that and post their personal or company's profiles and demand being portrayed positively.
This is to say that I predict that interet will gradually become less qualitative and neutral.
Man77's thoughts on question 2
The demands for (new) wiki contributors rise, because the easy stuff is already well-covered, therefore maintainance turns into the big topic. Thus, it is very important that regular contributors stay in the projects, as many cover special interests that other contributors cannot maintain providing a similar quality. Therefore go sure the contributors are happy, listen to their needs and wishes, support them in case of problems. There is no backup community waiting for and able to pitching in.
A healthy Wikimedia project should stand solid as a rock against its instrumentalization for advertisement and image cultivation. We must be better than internet, not assimilate downwards.
68.9.67.126
Response by 68.9.67.126
68.9.67.126's thoughts on question 2
Since 2010 wikipedia is not free encyclopedia anymore. The bureaucracy is super horrible here.
84.182.233.110
Response by 84.182.233.110
84.182.233.110's thoughts on question 2
my opinion is that you need more Deutschland in eurem leben verstanden?
122.248.102.208
Response by 122.248.102.208
122.248.102.208's thoughts on question 1
I think more people from rural area and ethnic minorities who do not speak any major language will use Wikipedia.
122.248.102.208's thoughts on question 2
According to my thought on question 1, we should translate some articles into not only major languages but also dialects. It should be based on main industry of the particular dialect speaking community. For example, if growing rice is the major business of a community which speaks a dialect, the articles related to rice growing should be translated in that dialect. I know it will take pretty much effort. But what we have to do is to find a translator from that community.
ليبرت
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ليبرت's thoughts on question 2
I'll just point out a fundamental problem with Wikipedia and one that'll always affect Wikipedia's reputation if no adequate measures are applied. Wikipedia's POV law, the most important one without doubt, is not respected in many Wikis. The Arabic Wikipedia is administrated mainly (if not solely) by Muslim users. Hundreds of articles (even featured articles) present completely false and misleading information about the Koran, the prophet, etc. For example, the article on the Koran on Wikipedia Arabic clearly states that "the Koran is so eloquent that all Arabs across history and till this very day haven't been able to write a piece as eloquent as itself", a wide misconception held my most people of Muslim faith. This statement is accompanied by a link to a page from a famous Islamic website. That is as biased as a source can get. Now, here's the problem. When I tried editting the article and added the reason for doing so on the talk page, my edits were simply reverted by two admins and my reasons on the Talk page were given little to no attention at all. This same thing applies to pages about Islamic conquests which are, quite rudely, titled "Islamic Fat-h" which is a biased expression used by Muslims to refer to Islamic conquests which basically means "Islamic openings" implying that Islamic troops "opened" the given region/people as if it was "closed" before them. Arabic has many equivalent words for "conquest" but the only expression chosen was the one that unsurprisingly goes along with the beliefs of the majority of the Wiki's users. This will probably apply to Wikipedia Farsi, as well.
I should probably mention at this point that I have nothing against Muslims. I live among them. But the amount of biased information on Wikipedia Arabic for Islam is gigantic, and given the not-so-open-minded majority's behavior towards requests of unbiased information/expressions, there's nothing that a user like myself can do about it. Therefore, I believe an unbiased intrusion is necessary in Wikipedia that are dominated by a group that shares the same ideas, belies, etc. Wikipedia Arabic, Wikipedia Farsi and Wikipedia Turkish are good examples.
Anonymous
wikipedia harus membuat orang menjadi terkesan dengan cara perjelas Isi yang dicari mungkin orang mengatakan logo wikipedia ITU using atau lama
- Machine translation; Please help improve!: wikipedia should make people be impressed with the way that search may clarify Fill say ITU using wikipedia logo or long
Liesel
Response by Liesel
Liesel's thoughts on question 1
Wenn es Wikipedia nicht schafft, mit herausragender Qualität zu überzeugen, wird sie in naher Zukunft unter allen anderen Informationsanbietern verschwinden. Liesel (talk) 09:54, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Translation: If Wikipedia fails to convince with outstanding quality, it will disappear in the near future in the midst of all other information providers.
Liesel's thoughts on question 2
Blühende und gesunde Wikimediaprojekte erkennt man an einer hohen Anzahl an Autoren, die ständig qualitativ hochwertige Artikel erstellen bzw. vorhandene verbessern. Blühende und gesunde Wikimediaprojekte erkennt man daran, dass den Autoren alle Freiheiten eingeräumt werden, die sie für ihre Arbeit benötigen. Blühende und gesunde Wikimediaprojakte erkennt man daran, dass ihnen alle finanzielle und personelle Unterstützung zur Erstellung von Inhalten zur Verfügung gestellt, die sie benötigen. Liesel (talk) 09:54, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Translation: Flowering and healthy Wikimedia projects can be recognized by a large number of writers who constantly create or enhance existing high-quality articles. Flowering and healthy Wikimedia projects can be recognized by the fact that the authors have all the freedoms that they need for their work. Flowering and healthy Wikimedia projects can be recognized by the fact that they get all financial and personnel support they need for the creation of content.
59.135.145.222
Response by 59.135.145.222
質問1への私の考え
...正直なところ、IT関連の未来は私には予想できない。思いついたものを言うとすればカーナビと連解して場所の情報を引き出すと言ったモノだが、それはもう既にスマホで実現されているだろうしなっていなかったとしてもなるのは時間の問題だ。...
- Translation
- Romaji ;
Shōjikina tokoro, IT kanren no mirai wa watashiniha yosō dekinai. Omoitsuita mono o iu to sureba kānabi to ren kai shite basho no jōhō o hikidasu to itta monodaga, sore wa mō sudeni sumaho de jitsugen sa rete irudaroushi natte inakatta to shite mo naru no wa jikan no mondaida.
- English (Improved from machine translation) ;
I honestly can't expect IT-related future. If you want to say that you came up with things like something that draw ___location and information on car navigation system which is puzzling on smartphone, it's a matter of time it will be exist on smartphone.
質問2への私の考え
...例えばさっきのカーナビの例で言うと、地元でしか知り得ていないであろう情報を効率的に手に入れるという意味で存在意義は大きい。検証可能性という問題はあるが、例えばある情報を検証可能性がない(低い)と言うことを明記した上で残せる余地も必要なのかなと思うこともある。後に検証可能な資料が登場する、あるいは既にあったモノを誰かが見つけてくることは可能性として決して低くはないからである。...
- Translation
- Romaji ;
Tatoeba sakki no kānabi no rei de iu to, jimotode shika shiri ete inaidearou jōhō o kōritsu-teki ni teniireru to iu imi de sonzai igi wa ōkī. Kenshō kanōsei to iu mondai wa aru ga, tatoeba aru jōhō o kenshō kanōsei ga nai (hikui) to iu koto o meiki shita ue de nokoseru yochi mo hitsuyōna no ka na to omou koto mo aru. Nochini kenshō kanōna shiryō ga tōjō suru, aruiwa sudeni atta mono o darekaga mitsukete kuru koto wa kanōsei to shite kesshite hikuku wanaikaradearu.
- English (improved from machine translation) ;
For example, say for example a car navigation system, a large reason in the sense that to get the information that you would not get from local efficiently. The problem is verifiability, but sometimes I think I wonder if it's necessary to also leave room to specify, for example to say that that there is no possibility of verification certain information (low). Verifiable material appeared later, or is already had mono because not never low as the possibility that someone finds come.
Djk1ok
Response by Djk1ok
Djk1ok's thoughts on question 1
Youtube has already taken over from google as the most important search engine. So audiovisual content is definitely a major trend. Illiteracy of new users will be another important trend whereas about 30 to 50% of the people -especially women- in Africa and Asia are illiterate and with the advance of mobile these people also will get access to the internet. Next to being illiterate an even larger percentage will only understand their mother tongue and miss out on most content anyway, even if it's audiovisual.
Djk1ok's thoughts on question 2
Popular Wikimedia projects will be highly audiovisual. Ofcourse this will appeal to the hundreds of millions illiterates as well. Solutions to the language problems could be: unspoken explanatory animations or demonstrations and spoken translation (maybe fully automised) or interpreter projects. Wikimedia might resource tools to create such animations and spoken translations.
2602:306:B8F8:6890:A937:2B06:CF78:227E
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2602:306:B8F8:6890:A937:2B06:CF78:227E's thoughts on question 1
We love to show the world who and what we believe in, in thy physical ___domain: we wear Nike shoes and brand everything we have with stickers or adornments from our favorite brands. Organizations that figure out how to remind us of their awesomeness in the "meatspace" will be the ones that win the next billion users.
2602:306:B8F8:6890:A937:2B06:CF78:227E's thoughts on question 2
Reduce the friction of adding to wikimedia: 1) connect me to those wikimedia users who are already prolific contributors; 2) figure out a way to streamline the addition of content (possibly by suggesting popular content to prolific contributors); 3) share the credit with the contributors and those who might have just given the "assist"; 4) allow my organization to build it's "own" organic wikimedia content by somehow sharing wikimedia infrastructure process etc. on my professional organization website.
Sinuhe20
Response by Sinuhe20
Sinuhe20's thoughts on question 1 and 2
I think Wikimedia is influential enough to define trends, so you have not to hunt them. The biggest deficit I see is that Wikimedia is too much centralized, so you should support more the diversity of the Wikimedia projects in the different countries (especially in Asia and Africa), but also try to bring them better together. A special problem that is connected with that: on Commons only media files can be uploaded that are in the public ___domain of the United States because the servers are hosted there. So users from every country have to take into account the US copyright law, which prevents uploading some files beeing in public ___domain in their own country. So in reality Commons is a US media server. Give the other countries and communities more freedom to spread their free knowledge and to decide how they want to spread free knowledge. Give them more chances to realize their own ideas and to achieve their special aims.--Sinuhe20 (talk) 09:59, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
180.233.120.218
Response by 180.233.120.218
180.233.120.218's thoughts on question 2
- All technology in future is gonna based on SIRI. Voice based command following one.
- Emotive intelligence mobile devices will rule. My tablet is my closest friend. I can confess, discuss, cry, laugh with it. Life partner in true sense.
139.164.132.26
Response by 139.164.132.26
139.164.132.26's thoughts on question 2
A more modern look!
Ads20000
Response by Ads20000
Ads20000's thoughts on question 1
People using convertable tablets/touch-screen laptops more. Usage of desktops falling but still significant. People still don't know much about HTML and programming langauges.
Ads20000's thoughts on question 2
Keep having separate 'desktop' ('click') and 'mobile' ('touch') Wikipedia interfaces, change from 'touch' to 'click' on touchscreens when an external mouse is detected but provide a switching (between 'click' and 'touch') button somewhere. Don't get rid of 'click' interface (with more links which are smaller than large buttons and take up screen space). Need to bring back the non-HTML editor for Wikipdia content and make it easier to edit the infoboxes (graphically).
Less Data consuming pages
wikipedia and other sisters sites should strive to make their webpages as user friendly as possible, moreover wiki should work on pages that consume least data possible as the next billion "internet population" probably won't have access to high speed data and using internet on mobile devices takes more time than on a laptop/notebook/pc. That would give wiki an edge over others. This is quite normal when people lose interest in the content (that is about to display) takes a lot of time to load. The next billion don't want a wastage of time just because they don't have access to quality internet connection. :)
14.202.233.174
Response by 14.202.233.174
14.202.233.174's thoughts on question 2
You need to stop being politically correct and report the truth. There are hundreds of articles on sportsmen which portray them as being innocents even though they are convicted criminals.
Minihaa
Response by Minihaa
Minihaas Gedanken zu Frage 1
Saturation is another major trend all wikis are facing. Even though many minor topics are always appearing (like new movies, etc.), many basic articles are already written and having an sufficient quality. That means that the group of people which is capable in participating is shrinking and shifting also to a higher education.
Minihaas Gedanken zu Frage 2
As the chance for a improvement of an article becomes smaller, the conservation mechanisms have to be improved in same areas (maybe: science). In other areas (maybe: new movies) conservation mechanisms might be hindering.
93.231.179.229
Response by 93.231.179.229
93.231.179.229s Gedanken zu Frage 2
Hallo Wikipedia. Ermöglicht doch den Menschen euch Spenden via SMS zukommen zu lassen, beispielsweise 50 Cent. Das motiviert bestimmt viele Menschen und es ist am einfachsten. Ich würde gerne spenden(habe sehr wenig Geld), aber ohne Kreditkarte usw ist es ein Aufwand, der mich in dieser schnelllebigen Welt den Spendenwunsch vernachlässigen lässt. Ich hätte euch schon oft 50 Cent von meiner Prepaidkarte geschickt, nach mehreren tollen Beiträgen!!!(Es heißt, Kleinvieh macht auch mist) gruß sebo
- Machine translation; please improve!: Hello Wikipedia. Enables but to let people get you donations via SMS, for example, 50 cents. This motivates determined many people and it is the simplest. I would like to donate (I have very little money), but without a credit card, etc, it is an expense that can neglect the donation request me in this fast-paced world. I had often sent you 50 cents from my prepaid card, after several great posts !!! (It is said that a mickle makes a mist) greeting sebo
EdSaperia
Response by EdSaperia
EdSaperia's thoughts on question 1
- The standards for user experience are now very high, and mediawiki is lagging a decade behind in this area compared to e.g.
- google docs for collaborative documents: WYSIWYG, inline commenting & discussions, continuous saving.
- facebook for groups/messaging: like/comment/share, push notifications, comment level subscription.
- Increasingly data is supplanting content.
EdSaperia's thoughts on question 2
- Substantially the same, but simply with much better UX. This isn't just about visual editor and flow - many many small things combine to make the mediawiki experience baffling to contemporary users.
- Better links between data on commons, wikidata and wikipedia. We should have interactive, embedded, live rendered visualisations on Wikipedia pages - we could really be the home of data visualisation and data journalism.
2.14.72.123
Response by 2.14.72.123
Mes réflexions pour la question 1
J'y vois surtout l'enfermement, chacun dans sa bulle de virtualité. Comment interpreter le mot "majeur" de demain ?
- Machine translation; please help improve!: I see mostly confinement, each in his bubble virtuality. How to interpret the word "major" of tomorrow?
Mes réflexions pour la question 2
Sains et prospères sont aussi bien désuets... Bon alors, puisqu'il faut participer quand meme : faites sobre, épuré, concis. Continuez à controller (non, ce n'est pas une faute de français, c'est le truc qui s'impose !)de plus en plus : ça va être logarithmique !
Merci d'être là Wiki ! Martine
- Machine translation; please help improve!: Healthy and prosperous are both obsolete ... Well then, since we participate anyway: make sober, clean, concise. Continue to check (no, this is not a fault of French is the thing that is a must!) More: it will be logarithmic! Thank you for coming Wiki! Martine
92.90.17.141
Response by 92.90.17.141
Mes réflexions pour la question 1
...répondez ici... Je suis d ' avis que le site ce dois de resté léger , il faut compté sur les petits débits , donc il est très bien comme cela
- Machine translation; please help improve!: I am of the opinion that the site of this have been light, you have relied on small flows, so it is very much like this
Mes réflexions pour la question 2
...répondez ici... Comme celui ci , qui est très bien
- Machine translation; please help improve!: Such as this, which is very good
203.111.224.49
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203.111.224.49's thoughts on question 1
...write here…
More people might be interested in buying and selling items online, as more will want to search for guidelines in choosing the best product in a particular category. The results demanded are the more specific ones. It will be sufficient for someone to stay and be contented with what has been provided.
203.111.224.49's thoughts on question 2
...write here…
All that is needed are specific details about what many people search so there will be no need to search in Google. To provide the exact thing that people want is the best to do.
Julius1990
Response by Julius1990
Julius1990's thoughts on question 1
The WMF should identify that mobile is only a reader trend, but won't ever be a contributer trend. Mobile file uploads in most cases were not useful so far, writing long articles with mentioning of sources etc. on a mobile will never be comfortable nor the way to contribute to Wikipedia in the way Wikipedia needs it. I would like to ask if anyone in the foundation who has those visions ever wrote an article for Wikipedia that is not a facebook-post-like stub. I doubt if anyone who really contributed in a quality way really can see in this direction a vision for the future. The vision must be to make contributing in the conventional way a satisfying experience for those who like to indulge them in the weird and conservative hobby of writing an encyclopedia. This hobby never will be sexy, it never will get millions to actually be steady contributers who consult scientific literature and databases and so forth. Adding once in a while that vip y got a child named x is what facebook-user-like "Wikipedians" will do, but they won't collect the knowledge of the world in ways that also would help in certain regions to raise knowledge and values like democracy.
Same goes for the billion new possible users. They will be readers only users, since contributing to Wikipedia means first of all having the ressources and second to meet certain (often scientific) standards. So: As long as the WMF won't build libraries in the slums of India and other parts of the Global South, as long as it won't make for those billion people JStor and so on available, there won't be any usuful contributions. Those people in those regions that could contribute, already have the access because they can use university networks and so forth. Question would be if WMF ever targetet that Global South elite. So far and also for the future the Global South for editor-users is and will be just a fiction that gets used by the foundation to propagate certain developments that are useful for them, but not for the people who wrote and write the encyclopedia. Instead of daydreaming, the foundation should focus and care about the people who actually already write for the projects and who this way will contribute to make knowledge to the people in the Global South accesible. But Wikipedia is no reliable source for Wikipedia itself.
- I strongly agree with the first half of your response, and I would be more optimistic than you concerning the second half. The goal is precisely for wikipedia and associated projects to be the access to knowledge for the many that is so lacking in some countries. Furthermore, while I agree that truly active editors with serious edit intend form an extremely small percentage of users (for reasons that are beyond the scope of action of the WMF), more users also means more quality editors.Iry-Hor (talk) 12:53, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Iry-Hor, on that I doubt, because the possible Global South editors are just a trope used when the foundation speaks and acts against the existing volunteers. But the question would be if from there for example new editors for the german Wikipedia would be to expect, while that for English or French would maybe be a possibility for a small number of new editors. To be frank, those of the Global South that have right now no internet access will have other, more serious issues to deal with than collecting knowledge from books and scientific or other quality sources for Wikipedia or other Wikimedia projects. And their own experience of their surrounding is simply no source, at least for none of our projects. So as long as the foundation doesn't want to alter the projects that it should serve completly, there is not much to expect from that direction. But in one way it might be true that you might get easier some low rate contributers from there than to fix the destroyed relationship to teh volunteers that already contribute in a heavy way. --Julius1990 (talk) 13:47, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Hi, Julius1990. :) In answer to your question, yes - I have contributed more than Facebook-like stubs, and I see the potential for mobile contribution. I'm not sure how that's going to be implemented, but 20 years ago I could only imagine being able to talk to my phone to ask it search the internet for me. Technology evolves, and those who have the vision can help it evolve to achieve what may currently seem insurmountable. There are some above who've suggested that developing mobile is important, but not at the cost of desktop contributors - and as a desktop contributor, I'd personally agree strongly. :)
- Iry-Hor, on that I doubt, because the possible Global South editors are just a trope used when the foundation speaks and acts against the existing volunteers. But the question would be if from there for example new editors for the german Wikipedia would be to expect, while that for English or French would maybe be a possibility for a small number of new editors. To be frank, those of the Global South that have right now no internet access will have other, more serious issues to deal with than collecting knowledge from books and scientific or other quality sources for Wikipedia or other Wikimedia projects. And their own experience of their surrounding is simply no source, at least for none of our projects. So as long as the foundation doesn't want to alter the projects that it should serve completly, there is not much to expect from that direction. But in one way it might be true that you might get easier some low rate contributers from there than to fix the destroyed relationship to teh volunteers that already contribute in a heavy way. --Julius1990 (talk) 13:47, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- In terms of the billion new possible users, I think we need to keep in mind that there are all kinds of ways and places to contribute to Wikimedia that don't look like what Wikipedia content contributors typically do. Wikivoyage, for instance, relies on eyewitness contributors. Wikinews also benefits from feet on the ground. The encyclopedia is a massive part of our movement (certainly I think so, as I put most of my volunteer time there), but it's not the only. Also, even in the encyclopedia, people without access to sources can do content curation, ranging from flagging problems to fixing them to translating articles into different language projects. There are challenges, to be sure. But I hope we can find a way to empower newcomers while also serving existing editors. --Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk) 14:40, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Dear Maggie Dennis (WMF), I think the point here is that the foundation seems not really to care about the volunters already existing. So I can't trust in its mobile visions. Same goes for the billion possible Global South users. Instead of responding to Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer and showing nearly 1000 volunters, many of them very high profile editors that did much for the projects, what already the basic respect would deserve it gets ignored. Neither Lila, nor the Board ever adressed it. They seem to act more like Brecht's famous saying, in this case "hoping for a bunch of new editors, while dragging the existing ones (that are critical to the foundation) out of the projects".
- Coming back to the mobile question. How should I trust that there would be a good prospect when I see that the foundtion couldn't even handle to run "Labs". The toolserver worked, it was maybe from a technical side messy, but it worked. Since the foundation took over, again and again nothing works. So how should I have the faith that you can actually develop a mobile invironment without interfering with the current way of editing. And Wikipedia still is the most important project for the whole Wikimedia universe. And it will remain that, and with all the mobile vision I miss the question if mobile at all will get us the edits the projects need.
- And yes, there are more projects than Wikipedia. But when you mention Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikisource ... in discussions so far I never heard them asking for new users from the Global South, falling for a Fata Morgana (maybe there is a lake, but likely not). They have mentioned other problems, problems that the foundation didn't adress. You actually abandoned those projects, so they are not the best argument to put here. --Julius1990 (talk) 19:52, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Hi, Julius1990. Well, first, I understand that by "you" you probably mean the Wikimedia Foundation, but I don't thinks that's a helpful generalization. The Wikimedia Foundation is one organization, true, but kind of like the Wikimedia movement is one movement - there's a lot of diversity within it. Beyond that, I'm not sure they've been abandoned by the organization itself (although a lot depends on our definitions of abandonment, I'm sure.) I haven't done a lot with Wikibooks as a volunteer, but send people to it frequently who write to the Wikimedia Foundation through answers@, both for resources and as potential contributors. I was in a conversation while visiting the Wikimedia Foundation quite recently where somebody was talking enthusiastically about how Wikisource is one of our potentially strongest projects and floating ideas about how to help it thrive. But if you think that support for sister projects could be better, that's certainly worth addressing, and your ideas on where that support should go would be very welcome! In terms of trusting the development of tools, I think that the only alternative to trying new things is stagnation, and I think that's not a good thing for us to do. The Foundation needs to work well with communities going forward to make sure that tools are high quality and suitable, but I personally don't believe giving up on development is the answer. If you feel differently, I respect that, but as a person who also develops content (as per your question, albeit not as much as I'd like to), I'd be open to seeing what we as a movement can come up with. :) --Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk) 20:06, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Dear Maggie Dennis (WMF), i just contribute to Wikipedia and a bit to Commons. For Commons i can say that the tools heavily need a clean-up and work-over. It can't be that with the Upload Wizard i can't upload an old artwork to the correct license for example. And those are the very basics of contributing in our movement. I believe that the foundation should first get those things done like cleaning-up the Commons tools, getting Labs stable and so on, not to forget finally getting done a working (at least in most cases) VE, before hunting for something else, when the current stuff isn't solved satisfying. First I want to see that done, and when you do it good, at least I develop again trust in the technical capabilities of the foundation and it's developers. Coming back to the smaller projects: I would believe it is the job of the foundation to know exactly what they need and want and how they can get supported. But then i know such issues like the Esperanto Wikipedia asked for some little funding for i think some technical device and didn't get it. It was nothing in comparison to the budget of teh foundation, but those fellow Wikipedians had to beg on their knees. From the other projects like the English Wikinews I know just what I have read through Lilas talk page here and there I have read much critic and even bitterness (that'S why i used the term of being abandoned by the foundation) and I see not how this can be adressed by the Global South. I think every editor that fits our requirements is good for us, but to me it feels that the foundation with the view into that direction actually messes up on its original and most basic duties.
- And I feel that before going for visions the foundation has to solve the current issues. Seriously, how can it be expected that we that signed the open letter and never got a response, trust the foundation for that development? And yes, you are individuals, but you act to us as a solid mass where no nuances or even disagreements are visibel. When Erik Möller forced Superprotect and the media Viewer on high prolific projects, I heard noone in the foundation disagree. Even worse a community liason Wikip(m)edian was forced to act such force on the German Wikipedia. That trust must be regained, then you as an individual and the foundation as organization can ask for and rely on my trust. That doesn't go against you personally, I appreciate when foundation staff actually engages with the volunters in the way you do right now. Even if I have no trust that this actually changes anything in a foundation that in it's structures appears to me as an outsider as crooked in it's structures like a tax saving model of amazon. --Julius1990 (talk) 20:27, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- PS: [https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ALilaTretikov_%28WMF%29&diff=11374272&oldid=11373321 Here you can see on a further example why I doubt the abilities of the foundation and its developers. As long as such things happening (again and again) the WMF better focuses on doing a good job on what it should do right now, and stop having visions. When everything on the current issues is working smooth and well, then you - read: the foundation - can look in other directions. --Julius1990 (talk) 21:54, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Julius1990's thoughts on question 2
Build a good and userfriedndly (Wikiwand as example) reader-version of Wikipedia that easily can be switched to edit. Make good tutorials for using Wikicode. Respect the volunters and most important: Stay realistic, stop dreaming.
62.208.20.10
Response by 62.208.20.10
62.208.20.10's thoughts on question 1
The growing number of mobile users will be looking for geotagged information with realtime qualities. The authoring techniques should be modernized.
62.208.20.10's thoughts on question 2
There are lot of themes with more than 1 possible "truth". The present methods will not guarantee a neutral point of view in future. I fear wikipedia will one day loose its unique character.
Articles with high potential for controversy should exixst side by side. Wikipedia cannot decide about big controverses but expose the points of view.
ImNotJaness
Response by ImNotJaness
ImNotJaness's thoughts on question 1
Mobile: Definition: A movable piece in which cannot be transported. Having the ocean in the palm of your hand is major. It's like owning the world. I happen to have the Wikipedia app on my phone. I go to Wikipeida on my Asus Laptop; half Gamer Machine, half optic-medicinal computer. To have people be more aware of the power they have in the palm of their hand is crucial. After the Iraqi/Afghanistan War it is imperative to emphasize that most of the new users have never seen a Television. We're already on HD. So, just say Hey! This is what is used on mobile, YOU HAVE A TINY COMPUTER IN YOUR HAND THAT YOU CAN LISTEN TO MUSIC TO! Enough is said.
ImNotJaness's thoughts on question 2
This is a scary question because what drives wikimedia is simplicity. We, the frequent users of wikimedia are used to the simplicity. "Newbies" would not be attracted to the interface but the... Fact you can put whatever you want. A Wiki project would be arduous. Which means unfortunately, most new users would not be able to put their stamp on history. But who we want to see, say, and want is something that can help us! Search engines can do so much and we need these new users to show us the way to go. Keep the simplicity, but "Make It Rough" (Ice Cube, Tear This Mutha Up.)
223.176.0.135
Response by 223.176.0.135
1> सब देश का राषटीय भाषा में output देने की सुविधा ।
- Machine translation; please help improve!: All of the national language of the country to facilitate the output.
Aschmidt
Response by Aschmidt
Aschmidt's thoughts on question 1
Due to the superprotect affair I have become a critical observer of the Wikimedia projects, watching developments from a distance. I support the Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer, as do over 940 other authors. You should think about this in the first place, please.
Aschmidt's thoughts on question 2
Due to the superprotect affair I have become a critical observer of the Wikimedia projects, watching developments from a distance. I support the Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer, as do over 940 other authors. You should think about this in the first place, please.
98.203.1.134
Response by 98.203.1.134
(1) I see a Netaissance, where the world fits into a pocket and everything we touch comes to life or dies. We go public instinctly, one person is now like a complete company able to effect the whole world or any one in the world at any time. We are always on 24/7. (2) Sharing of the old craft secrets mixing in with the new technology, building a new future like never before. It is like the old mediaeval times are meeting up with the modern world. We can give a hand, we can share an idea, we can make a difference. We are all doctors, lawyers, plumbers and artist that now can share a skill which gives hope, builds faith in the human spirit. C.B.F. Feb, 24th 2015
Iry-Hor
Response by Iry-Hor
Iry-Hor's thoughts on question 1
I am a bit worried about the rise of mobile use for two reasons: i) unfortunately a majority of the edits from mobile users are vandalism and; ii) mobile platforms do not favor content editing. Constructive edits from mobile users are almost always small (but useful!) stuff such as correcting typos, missing words etc., while virtually all mass content edits (e.g. bringing an article to GA or FA status) are made from computers. I guess this simply follows from the physical keyboard. I fear that the increasing use of mobile devises leads to a decrease in bulk edits. I hope I am wrong!
Iry-Hor's thoughts on question 2
Healthy wikipedia projects are projects with many editors. That is all that is needed to improve both the quality and quantity of content as well as the liveliness of wikipedia projects. Strategies to encourage project involvement must aim at increasing the number of active editors in general (as opposed to aiming for specific projects). Many editors also means editors interested in many subjects and thus better coverage of under-represented themes (such as articles geolocated in Africa). Wikipedia lives on surprisingly few editors: roughly 10,000 editors have made more than 6000 edits, i.e. a disproportionately small percentage of people. Ride the wave of the news web users by making sure more people edit wikipedia, for exemple give registered users more ways to thank IP editors (the "Thank" button should be made available for IP-edits!!!).
Patas do Leão
Response by Special:Contributions/Patas do Leão
Patas do Leão thoughts on question 1
Obviously most trends nowadays are related to the personal ego, like facebook, youtube. But I see Wiki as a tool of education and knowledge, and I believe that the partnerships will be more simplified in the future. (Network-School, Network-library, Network-Mall...)
Patas do Leão thoughts on question 2
You guys can work with the teenagers, beeing a major tool of education and knowledge around the world with partnerships and technologic, inside anywhere we could wait, seet and look for the keywords of your website.
163.153.27.216
Response by 163.153.27.216
163.153.27.216's thoughts on question 1
...Make the website more fun looking, sort of like ios 8 on apple, make it look crisp so people will flock to it more
163.153.27.216's thoughts on question 2
...ios 8 or like an apple iphone
Eng.mhmdtrq
Response by Eng.mhmdtrq Dear mr or mrs i have participitated in this page in order to i could add my thought, im not a specialist or expert in everything but i have ability to express my idea.. i want to add some topics in order to users of wiki could collect and write the topic and data in best way finally to be aproved my me the thought generateer and the relative nor related govern ate... kind regards mt
208.253.125.129
Response by 208.253.125.129
208.253.125.129's thoughts on question 1
Mobile is just the precursor to full-fledged digital Aristotles. More precisely, personal digital assistants (PDAs) will be the vehicles that come, to sites like Wikipedia, to find and retrieve knowledge.
208.253.125.129's thoughts on question 2
It may be irrelevant what this site looks like when PDAs are the normal as the information retrieved will be presented by the assistant's software. However, there will probably be visitors to this site for curiosity's sake and those that want to do their own research, and, of course, there will still be those that contribute to the spread of knowledge, but it may very well be their PDAs that are doing the work. Eventually all information sites will need to interface with the digital assistants of the time. To keep any branding will require advance integration with PDAs, or make your own.
5.232.82.86
Response by 5.232.82.86
باید ویکی پدیا مطالبش را خوب وبهتر کند ومطالب بد وبیخود بدون اسناد را حضف کند.
- Machine translation; please help improve: Wikipedia is better to be good to their contents without documents Hzf Vmtalb Vbykhvd is bad.
194.113.40.60
Response by 194.113.40.60
194.113.40.60's thoughts on question 1
Build a version of wikipedia for VR-/ Augmented Reality
194.113.40.60's thoughts on question 2
A version for augmented reality which works while driving or other critical situations and don't make problems for your sight
90.7.9.145
Response by 90.7.9.145
Mes réflexions pour la question 1
Quelles tendances majeures identifiez-vous, à part le mobile et le milliard de nouveaux utilisateurs ?
Je pense qu'Internet va permettre d'ici quelques années d'avoir accès rapidement à toutes les informations. Le point faible est la sécurité qui devra être améliorée, afin de protéger les données personnelles des internautes. Wikipédia est un excellent relais pour accéder aux informations. La publicité abusive par contre est un frein qui fait perdre beaucoup de temps. L'internaute la subit et réagit mal à ces intrusions intempestives.
- Machine translation; please help improve: I think the Internet will allow a rapid access to all information within a few years. The weakness is the security, which should be improved in order to protect the personal data of the users. Wikipedia is a great relay to access information. Abusive advertising is a drag over which people waste time. The user experiences it and reacts badly to these unwanted intrusions.
Mes réflexions pour la question 2
En fonction des tendances futures que vous jugez importantes, à quoi ressembleraient des projets Wikimedia sains et prospères ? Wikipedia devra rester autonome et ne pas subir le diktat des financiers, faute de quoi il perdra un énorme public. La Publicité se doit d'etre intelligente mais pas envahissante. On pourrait accéder en direct à des interlocuteurs, grace à Wikipedia, comme un accès téléphonique ?
Marie51
- Machine translation; please help improve: Wikipedia will remain independent and will not submit to the diktat of financial, otherwise it will lose a huge audience. Advertising must be smart but not intrusive. We could access live interlocutors, thanks to Wikipedia, like telephone access?
201.220.215.12
Response by 201.220.215.12
Las ideas de 201.220.215.12 acerca de la pregunta 1
Tendencia a guerras y destrucción de la humanidad, crisis, caos, estres.
- Machine translation; please help improve: Tendency to wars and destruction of humanity, crisis, chaos, stress.
Las ideas de 201.220.215.12 acerca de la pregunta 2
Láncen un satélite Wikipedia para que este sitio llegue a escala Global sin costo por el tiempo que se pueda y en el futuro no se pierda la valiosa información y les sirva a futuras generaciones. Saludos
viki den faydalanmak isteyenler üye olmalıdır
- Machine translation; please help improve: Wikipedia launch a satellite for this site to reach global scale without cost as long as possible and in the future the valuable information is lost and serve them to future generations. regards.
Hfbn
Response by Hfbn === Mes réflexions pour laquestion1;; l'internete a bien marquer sa place dans les domaines informatiques ,fiscales,scientiphiques,sociales et securites. en s appuiant sur de nombreuses fonctions telle que le transferes des donners depuis une machine a un'autre.donc,a mon avis la reponse sera tres simple .ces deus tendandes precis avant,contunueront leurs evolutions les chaines productives et commerciales presenteront encore plus des machines simples engendrant des fonctions techniques tres pratiques qui servent a ameliorer la maniere du bien etre pour une communautee encore plus large et diversifier.
- Machine translation; please help improve: the internete has marked its place in the IT areas, fiscal scientiphiques, social and securities. s in appuiant on many functions such as the Donners transferred from one machine un'autre.donc in my opinion the answer is very simple .these deus tendandes precise front contunueront their evolutions productive and commercial chains will present more simple machines generating very practical technical features that serve to improve the well being of the way for a COMMUNAUTY even wider and more diverse.
Mes réfleions pour la question 2
...répondez ici...
avant de proposer une reponse a cette question il est necessaire de marquer que ce proget innovant qui s appele wikipedia presente un grand pas et un soutien tres larges pour tous les internautes. les progets qui forment wikipedia actuellement se bases sur des sujet qui s'etend sur des champs culturelles tres larges et infini,d'une part,et de l autre part, les informatitiens experementers et les debutants peuvent toujours acceder au contenue a tous moments, cela a presentè toujours un support aux aplications et progets wiki. le developement de ces proget existants et les enrichires par des nouveautes actuelles qui engendres tous les domaines,represente la bonne maniere de garder un proget wikipedia prospéres.
- ''Machine translation; please help improve: before offering an answer to this question it is necessary to mark that this innovative proget that s called wikipedia presents a big step and a very wide support for all users. PROJECTS HAPPEN wikipedia is currently forming bases on subject that extends on very broad cultural fields and infinite, on the one hand and the other hand, informatitiens experementers and beginners can still access the contained at all times, it always has a support for aplications and HAPPEN wiki. the developement of these existing proget and enrichires by current novelties which begettest all fields, represents the right way to keep a prosperous proget wikipedia.
Owencg424
Response by Owencg424 as of right now, all teachers do not let us use wikipedia as a credible source, because it can be "changed by anyone, anytime". I for one, know that this is not true, but i think that you guys need to do something to tell everyone that wikipedia IS a credible source.
Sänger S.G
Response by Sänger S.G
Sänger S.G's thoughts on question 1
I expect more power grabs by the WMF (like superputsch and global banning), who's acting quite often against the communities lately.
Sänger S.G's thoughts on question 2
Giving back the project from the ivory tower in SF to the communities, who deliver absolutely everything of value here: content, donations, lots of programming, organisation, troll fighting....
Why is this "Community consultation" not in the communities? You've got tons of money and hordes of paid "community liasons", make them do their job in the communities. This should happen not here in some far-off meta-page, only for nerds, but where the real action is, in the projects themself.
- User:Sänger S.G, I really wish we could take it to the communities. :) Unfortunately (for this case), we don't really have hordes of community liaisons, though, and the communities are still far too numerous for us to be able to cover them. I agree with you that best impact consultations will happen once we can. I've long been interested myself in reaching people where they work - in my first years as a volunteer, I think I hardly ever visited Meta. I think improved methods of doing that are key to our community health, not only for Wikimedia Foundation/volunteer interaction but for thriving interwiki collaboration. --Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk) 19:34, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- You've got multi-millions in your pockets, just a few bucks are really needed for maintenance, and instead of wasting it on such still-born stuff like Flow or the useless bling-thing MV and the resulting aggression with superputsch against the communities by the WMF, perhaps you should use them more pro-community. OK, that may sound like a weird idea for those detached persons in the ivory tower in Frisco, those that prefer superputsch to arguments, but for normal people this seems to be a rather good idea. ♫ Sänger - Talk - superputsch must go 19:42, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Do you have specific ideas on where you think that budget could be spent to help the community? --Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk) 19:46, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- No, no specific ideas. Just anything more with the communities, less in shady backrooms like mailing lists or phabricator or such, definitely some decent apologies to the at least two communities the WMF explicitly declared war against with superputsch, some reaction, that clearly shows the WMF has grasped that it was completely wrong in that regard and that things like the hostile implementation of MV against the communities was something to never ever do again. Unless the main culprits go to Canossa, I don't think real trust can be regained by those in Frisco. And yes, that may be some kind of generalisation, but as nobody over there reigned the culprits in and showed support for the communities, it seems to be well deserved.
- Perhaps you should just stop spamming so excessively in the yearly begging spree with that huge amount of bucks in the coffers, you could maintain the Wikiverse for decades with that money. ♫ Sänger - Talk - superputsch must go 20:39, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Do you have specific ideas on where you think that budget could be spent to help the community? --Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk) 19:46, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- You've got multi-millions in your pockets, just a few bucks are really needed for maintenance, and instead of wasting it on such still-born stuff like Flow or the useless bling-thing MV and the resulting aggression with superputsch against the communities by the WMF, perhaps you should use them more pro-community. OK, that may sound like a weird idea for those detached persons in the ivory tower in Frisco, those that prefer superputsch to arguments, but for normal people this seems to be a rather good idea. ♫ Sänger - Talk - superputsch must go 19:42, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
68.3.69.21
Response by 68.3.69.21
68.3.69.21's thoughts on question 1
My personally opinion's on this matter is that wikipedia should get like maybe 500 more server's for faster processing speed's. We could start more donation's to help wikipedia grow as a whole.
不可定向
Response by 不可定向
先把这个翻译成中文再说
- (Machine translation, please improve) "Besides this first translated into Chinese"
94.120.3.77
Response by 94.120.3.77
Benzersiz bir UI/UX Deneyimi Mobil uygulamalar Yarışmalar
- Machine translation; please help improve: Unique UI / UX experience of mobile applications Contests
89.17.109.133
Response by 89.17.109.133
أنشأو حساب على تويتر وفيسبوك وغيره
- Machine translate; please help improve: Onco account on Twitter and Facebook and other
93.168.110.124
Response by 93.168.110.124
هدف كل من المستخدم هو المعلومات الموثوقه ولديه ادله واققيه وصور --93.168.110.124 15:11, 24 February 2015 (UTC)--93.168.110.124 15:11, 24 February 2015 (UTC)--93.168.110.124 15:11, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Machine translation; please help improve: The user is reliable information and has evidence Aqekaya and Photos
197.144.88.208
Response by 197.144.88.208
197.144.88.208's thoughts on question
الجرائد و المجلات
- Machine translation; please help improve: Newspapers & magazines
197.144.88.208's thoughts on question 2
هدا المشروع قد افاد الملايير من الناس لدا واصلو
- Machine translation; please help improve: This project has benefited billions of people s continued
193.90.61.105
Response by 193.90.61.105
To get more users on wikipedia, get a more colorful webpage that's not so grey! This is a very important fact you guys need to realize..
98.25.142.46
Response by 98.25.142.46
98.25.142.46's thoughts on question 1
This IS the technology era..
98.25.142.46's thoughts on question 2
They should have some sort of sense of humor
50.199.250.94
Response by 50.199.250.94
50.199.250.94's thoughts on question 1
...This is a non-predictable question. Steve Jobs spent not ten years turned this world into mobile. Who and what is next? We would never know.
50.199.250.94's thoughts on question 2
...Asian and African users will keep growing as long as their economy grows. Also, China and other countries policies may infect the user population
紗紗
Response by 紗紗
紗紗对问题一的想法
P2SP分佈式伺服器，任何人皆可為他人提供站點的鏡像或成為伺服器群的其中一員，以便增強網站的可用性和速度，同時也能為主站伺服器群提供減負效果。
- Machine translation; please help improve:P2SP distributed servers, site mirroring, or anybody can give to others as one server group, in order to enhance Web site usability and speed, but also can master station servers providing lightening effect
紗紗对问题二的想法
通過增加P2SP的志願者讓人類在全球任何一個角落都能毫無障礙地訪問維基，並大幅縮短他們獲取所需信息所花費在網路問題上的時間，從而讓更多的人認識並加入到維基項目裏。
另外通過P2SP衍生出的離綫模式則有效幫助暫時沒有網絡的人也能閱讀維基，甚至在在綫時將他們離綫編寫的內容同步到互聯網上。
- Machine translation; please help improve: By adding P2SP volunteers of humanity in every corner of the globe can access Wikipedia without any obstacles and greatly shorten their takes to obtain the required information on network problems at the time, so as to let more people know and add to the wiki project. Offline mode are derived through P2SP effective help for the time being there is no network of people can read the wiki, even when online synchronize offline content written to them on the Internet.
Jacare8888
Response by Jacare8888
Jacare8888's thoughts on question 1
1.) I see technology trending for speed accessing information from Wiki, plus away to handle it, like in presentation, translation and distribution.
Jacare8888's thoughts on question 2
2.) I would like to see expansion of Wiki in media publication. Adapting verbiage in to graphics back and forth. This will help with vocal opinions comparing to Wiki facts. Translation programs, that can publish video presentations with 3D animated speakers and computerized on the fly voice over capacities, recorded real time, as file media as well physical. The future of fact finding data research and presentation or the use of the data will explode.
Anonymous
Die deutsche wikipedia braucht dringend mehr Freiheit auf der einen Seite - und mehr Herausfiltern von Werbung und Eigenlob auf der anderen Seite
- Machine translation; please help improve: The German wikipedia urgently needs more freedom on the one hand - and more filtering of advertising and self-congratulation on the other side
92.224.117.1
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92.224.117.1's thoughts on question 1
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92.224.117.1's thoughts on question 2
..., wer sagt das eine schliesse das andere aus hat den Begriff Freiheit nicht verstanden und schliesst sich aus dem Kreis möglicher Mitarbeit an der Wikipedia aus!
also viel Erfolg beim Reformieren der deutschen wikipedia!
- translation: ..., who says the one excludes the other has not understood the concept of freedom and excludes himself from the circle of possible participation in the Wikipedia! so much success in the reform of the German wikipedia!
206.213.251.32
Response by 206.213.251.32
206.213.251.32's thoughts on question 1
...write here… A need for factual information but with respect for all readers regarding their faith, which, while often contrary to accepted facts, may also limit the acceptability and use of Wikimedia. This consideration would only be made in articles regarding faith, not science or fact based articles.
206.213.251.32's thoughts on question 2
...write here… I believe the funding of this website and media projects would be helped by instituting educational programs which call upon the information already contained in Wikipedia. Course work would require reading and understanding the information related to a certain, certifiable area of knowledge. Funding would be possible by charging for proctored exams held in various cities at scheduled events, for which the participant would pay to then take and pass the test. Evidence of passing, which would be confirmed by a carefully proctored and identity validated process, would become a "poor man's degree;" but definitely a thing of value in a world where other socially validated certificates/degrees of learning are unattainable for many or most. I could also envision a program of subsidizing the cost of these exams by people of greater means who wish to support education in the world.
158.91.185.77
Response by 158.91.185.77
158.91.185.77's thoughts on question 1
Mobile app based community
158.91.185.77's thoughts on question 2
Advertising
5.150.98.189
Response by 5.150.98.189
5.150.98.189's thoughts on question 1
1) The wiki team have been very good at updating the wiki formats to the latest HTML and various versions. WELL DONE.
The wiki team have been very bad at recognizing that the major trend is _not_ one of the population closely following the leading curve. NOT WELL DONE.
For example, last year (2014) over a third of UK employers (nearly a half) still used Microsoft Explorer 8 and Windows XP or earlier!!! The figure for home PC was broadly similar. This even though last year saw a boom in smart phone use and wifi access via smart phone using the latest smart phone browsers.
Do you see the mis-match?
This is a classic example of human development. (The much trotted out analogous example is that there are as many horses alive in London and the home counties today as there were in Victorian times. (Do check this out as I can sense your disbelief...)
However whereas 4 years ago you could use MS IE8 and save a wiki page as a coherent .mht file today you cannot save a wiki page using IE10 and have it correctly read by IE8.
The wiki team needs to ensure that any developments can be correctly used a) by previous software systems, and 6) that files used by the latest system can be saved and used by earlier systems.
One thing we know for sure, more and more software systems will come into existence. The overall number of users will increase. But equally there will always be an inertia population using old systems. This last will change. The current trend especially during the recession is not to upgrade home PCs unless you need to. One can see in the future a trade of used moblies from the developed world to the developing world.
5.150.98.189's thoughts on question 2
The projects can 'look' the same. This is part of the wiki brand. Keep things consistent even if the platforms are developing. And as per above ensure that they are retro-functional.
174.45.88.171
Response by 174.45.88.171
174.45.88.171's thoughts on question 2
It seems that going to mobile devices may be a temporary trend to bridge the gap as new users become more affluent they will purchase devices with larger displays. This, of course, is pure speculation. As an early adopter I started with a CRT since it was the only option. I have tried using the internet on phones and have abandoned the idea. I think users will migrate upscale to larger devices after they become more affluent.
Another trend may be the purchase of smart TVs with built-in web browsers.
Also, power requirements should be examined by Wikipedia managers. A sustainable strategy for powering the server farms must be considered to eliminate carbon footprint.
Also, the problem of link rot is affecting Wikipedia and the web in general. Wikipedia should be requiring that all reference and footnote links should be directed to permanently archived sources. This is becoming a huge problem very quickly.
WIKIPEDIA:its an awesome contribution.....it isn't surprising to say hat it created this era as "WIKIera".there's nothing with us to do without this near us.its more than 1000books reading at once..V all are alwys debt to u..♥♥♥
Korrektor123
Response by Korrektor123
Korrektor123s Gedanken zu Frage 1 (with an english try)
DE: Es gibt in unterschiedlichen Sprachen viele gemeinsame Vorlagen und Artikel. Vorlagen und Listen, z. B. Kader der Fußballklubs und irgendwelche Siegerlisten eines Turniers, könnten über Wikidata zusammengelegt werden, so dass sie nur noch Zentral an einem Ort gepflegt werden müssen. So wäre es möglich dass Wikipedianer aus unterschiedlichen Sprachen zusammenarbeiten und gemeinsam mehr schaffen als wenn alle an ihrem Wikipedia-Projekt arbeiten. Für mich geht der Trend zu einem globalen Wikiknotenpunkt namens Wikidata.
EN: A try to translate my thoughts on question 1 into the english language. In the different wikipedia-projects are many equal templates and articles. Templates and lists for example squads of footballclubs or any lists of champions could be combined in Wikidata. So it's possible that many wikipedians of different languages work together at one central point. I think the trend moves to one central crosspoint called wikidata.
Korrektor123s Gedanken zu Frage 2 (with an english try)
DE: Egal ob Facebook oder YouTube, es ist doch der Trend der jungen Generation alles zu "liken". Wie wär's wenn die Wikiartikel nicht von den Wiki-Autoren sondern von den Lesern in lesenswerte oder exzellente Artikel eingeordnet werden. Beispielsweise nach den kriterien Verständlichkeit, Aussehen, Sprache etc. Das würde den Wiki-Autoren bestimmt mehr helfen, woran sie noch arbeiten müssen und was schon gut ist.
- That's a very good suggestion... Like! --Pgallert (talk) 20:07, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
EN: A try to translate my thoughts on question 2 into the english language. If you visit Facebook or YouTube you can 'like' if you think something is great or you can 'dislike' if you mean something is bad. What about that the reader of the wikipedia-articles can rate the articles instead of the wikipedians who write them?. For example they could rate the desing, understandability, verbal skills, etc. This would help the wikipedians writing the articles by improving an article.
190.67.223.137
Response by 190.67.223.137
Las ideas de 190.67.223.137 acerca de la pregunta 1
ami pareser identifico que el cono cimiento de nuevas tecnologias estaran mas ala mano y que el futuro de nuestro avanze esta en todos los proyectos libres que se encuentran en desarrollo y que el mundo en si tiene que apro piarse de estos recursos, ya no setratara de alquien que iniciara un proyecto por cuenta propia sino que se tendra el acompañamiento del pais del mundo llaque hay muchos ejemplos en donde ya se aniciado y al ver los resultados obiamente todos deberemos ir para el mimo lado
- Machine translation; please help improve: ami pareser identify the foundation of new technologies cone wing keychain hand over the future of our avanze this in all the free projects that are in development and that the world itself has to ap ly cleaned of these resources, no longer setratara of someone who started a project on their own but the accompaniment of country in the world will have Llaque are many examples where already been aniciado and seeing the results obiamente all must go for pampering side
Las ideas de 190.67.223.137 acerca de la pregunta 2
wikipedia al mantenerse informado de todos estos avances tiene una posicion privilegiada porque seria una retro alimentacion al poner ese cono cimiento al alcanse de toda la comunidad que esta formada al rededor de la wiki es muy probable que todos unamos esfuersos para sequir mejorando ala wiki EJ:mejoras de hardware y software etc. por desir algo
- Machine translation; please help improve: Wikipedia to keep informed of all these developments has a privileged position because it would be retro feeding to put this foundation cone to alcanse whole community that is formed around the wiki is very likely that all join esfuersos to look any further improving wiki Wing EJ: hardware and software upgrades etc. by desir something
190.9.201.234
Response by 190.9.201.234
190.9.201.234's thoughts on question 1
I personally think about the education, more and more estudents are going away from the traditional education systems, and i also think that the most users you have are students, and probably that will help you.Also you can improve the wiki's content on another languages and regions, because i´m not for NA, I´m for latin america, and the content on some articles is not the best, like in NA
190.9.201.234's thoughts on question 2
I writed it before in the answer above
Vercoust
Response by Vercoust
Vercoust's thoughts on question 1
Pages with historical content requires a lot of research that cannot be made quickly and requires full writing and management of multiple references and sources that could not be done from a mobile device. Also this work is often done by retired people (as seniors as 80 years old) with limited usage of computers, the Web and mobile phones. Even if this category of users will tend to disapear over time, there will still be work that will need more complex device to be published.
Vercoust's thoughts on question 2
Collaborative work to be done at a higher level than today collaborative "editing" under Wikimedia. Identification of individual significant contribution should be stamped.
Daha iyi damga vurmak istiyorsanız biraz da hammedeyi yazdığınız elemenlerden hangilerinden patlayıcı olduğunu hangilerinin birbirini yok ettiğine değinebilirsiniz. yada bir hırsıza yol göstere bilirsiniz G8 ülkelerini açıkladığınızda burda hırsız iyi iş yapar çünkü ekonomik sıkıntı yok para çok bu ülkede diyebilirsiniz. ve oxfortta verilen öğretim sistemini açığa kavuşturup burda araştırmacılara suna bilirsiniz. ve orta doğunun kendisini sümürgediğini söyleye bilirsiniz bir ortadoğu araştırmacısına sizden istiyeceğim tek şey burdaki bilgilerin tümüne gerçekten sahipseniz açık sözlü biraz daha açık sözlü olun böylelikle insan hayatını kolaylaştıra bilirsiniz.
12.1.154.2
Response by 12.1.154.2
12.1.154.2's thoughts on question 1
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12.1.154.2's thoughts on question 2
...write here…First of all wiki should get real information and not have students and others in the world stressed because the answer might be wrong everyone want the right answer not just what people thing the answer is because students all around the world want wiki to give correct information which will be less stressful its hard for everyone to think wiki will lie about important information. But all you guys need to do it try harder to give the right information.
212.99.10.164
Response by 212.99.10.164
212.99.10.164's thoughts on question 1
The main trend and the most structuring one will be the increasing use of mobile as personal assistant, for work as for leisure or daily life.
212.99.10.164's thoughts on question 2
I see only one project really thriving for an organization like Wikimedia, given its specific skillness and main trends of mobile developement. Wikimedia should continuously enhance its data base to initiate a self-improving software, dedicated to politics decision-makers(computer-assisted policy).
70.24.239.244
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70.24.239.244's thoughts on question 1
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70.24.239.244's thoughts on question 2
I had translated some apocryph books during the last 10 years (English to French); and this experience was to be shared on Wiki regard Apocryphs. The following opinion is solely to help improving commun objective.
A subject explained by experiment people is often replaced by non-experiment ones expressing very subjective views and often out of subject. A suitable solution is to allow any change which include a reference.
On a second hand, subjects without reference are easily take for granted by naive reader. For example the Yezidis: someone has expressed this tribe to be idolaters - this irrealistic opinion constitute a threat under some circonstances. An other example on John Dee: someone has expressed he was a magician and associated him with esoteric group. Naive readers commiting to false opinion will stop any further research on J. Dee works (I'm presently studying his journal 'A True and Faithfull Relation with Spirits'). An other example on Enoch the scribe, a patriarch who wrote a book on the Creation at the beginning (I have translated his book twice): some caracteristics I posted on Wiki were replaced by less experimented people, and some information lead to confusion with mixte and unnecessary explaination. Objectivity is primordial.
Other thing, I made some corrections on subject which was rejected without reason by your staff. Wiki staff must have expertise in sentence structure and syntax - directive must be clearly state in internal rules - it make me presume Wiki has no rule to structure staff action in this very specific ___domain such as dictionary. Knowledge need to be properly structure with strict (internal) guidelines, and any information with references.
Thanks for sharing!
Josiane Legrand Editor, Filbluz.ca
Mikegtheonly
Response by Mikegtheonly
Mikegtheonly's thoughts on question 1
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Mikegtheonly's thoughts on question 2
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universal code of ethics
In my time here I have come to the conclusion that one thing mankind lacks is a code of ethics, that is not philosophical, not religious, and not political, that everyone can relate to. For me that code of ethics is simply the definition of the word "honesty". Look in any unabridged dictionary and there it is. I'm a bit tired of the lying, deception, violence, inequities, pollution of the planet, and destruction of our natural world, brought about by selfish interests.
Honesty would lead to a world where we have peace and tolerance among the very special human race. It would lead to less war, less pollution, less crime, less violence! It would lead to the utopia that is right before us, universal peace. It is going to take all of us working together in the future just to keep up with the natural changes that our rare little planet is going to go through.
Then we can work on a system of economics that will advance all societies and uplift the human race!!
89.15.201.14
Response by 89.15.201.14
89.15.201.14's thoughts on question 1
Less censorship in the hands of persons that can not be identified. More honest texts, less biased evaluation of issues.
89.15.201.14's thoughts on question 2
Fair treatment for all decent authors.
tres bien mais que les expert mettent des mots pour y ameliorer et pas les internautes
NephroKid
Response by NephroKid
NephroKid's thoughts on question 1
...write here… They Could Destroy TRUE Facts and make True fake and they could Delete everything they could put bad words in them
NephroKid's thoughts on question 2
...write here… We Should DELETE the edit for non Wiki members and Keep it on for Wiki Members
Megalibrarygirl
Response by Megalibrarygirl
Megalibrarygirl's thoughts on question 1
I agree that it's important to recognize that mobile usage is important. The nice thing is that I have no trouble accessing Wikipedia from a mobile device. Editing from mobile is a little bit more difficult. Can addressing editor's mobile needs be a priority?
Megalibrarygirl's thoughts on question 2
I'm an atheist and a woman. I recognize that being part of these two groups which have been traditionally marginalized is a challenge for Wikipedia's diversity. Continuing to address diversity in an objective, neutral way by ensuring that minorities and women are properly and equally represented is still very important. As more Asian and Middle Eastern participants come into Wikipedia, it's also important to make clear what "Free Speech" and "Neutral" viewpoints mean. Many people from such countries have not had free speech and understanding what it means, and untangling it from cultural perspectives is important.
76.240.38.6
Response by 76.240.38.6
76.240.38.6's thoughts on question 2
I think that you should take a mobile app to the next level. You should make like a Wikipedia phone. Not for calling people or sending texts and it should be the size of a iPod shuffle. Wikipedia phone will give easy access to dictionaries, Wikipedia, a thesaurus, and maybe a fun quiz game to test knowledge or a crossword puzzle. it will help writers, readers or people just wanting to look up a subject quickly.
108.28.41.34
Response by 108.28.41.34
108.28.41.34's thoughts on question 1
Kids today don't even want to have to look things up. Too much of a waist of their time. Wiki may want to consider going the way of Siri; or even partner up with them. The age of instant gratification is upon us. If they can't get a sound bit with a single voice command, they don't want to know about it.
Personally, I would like to be able to look up training material. For instance, how do I use an RF Spectrum Analyzer: what does it do, how do I connect it up for different tests, and what should the display look like. Or maybe I want to learn how to code in Perl. Wiki could offer an environment (window or terminal) to learn and practice best techniques and fun projects already worked out by someone. Or even how to build a wood table. Or offer Factory Five's kit car build school or how to program with their autoCAD tools.
108.28.41.34's thoughts on question 2
I would like to see Wiki sponsor and get University students involved in projects like the 3D map of the internet, or the 3D map of the universe, or a 3D representation of the gnome, or 3D representation of Hadron Collider experiments. Maybe even partner up with Google as they have done some of these projects already.
Commander
Response by Commander
Commander's thoughts on question 1
The natural evolution of online content must follow what is easiest for a human brain to ingest. In essence, material which requires less glycogen to process will be more valuable.
Text (currently where wikipedia sits) --> Images (instagram, wikipedia to a degree, etc) --> Video (Youtube, Vine, Facebook, and Twitter all now support video content)
Commander's thoughts on question 2
Wikipedia will need to support video and audio content natively. When someone searches for a topic, a Wikipedia article must be played to them, quickly explaining it.
In psychology this is called Availability Bias. You currently have it working FOR you, as wikipedia is usually a top search result in almost every search. The lack of video content however, is a massive oversight.
Multinational users will continue to use wikimedia projects as long as they are well translated/created in their native tongue, and useful. FORM MUST FOLLOW FUNCTION.
SchreiberBike
Response by SchreiberBike
SchreiberBike's thoughts on question 1
- The maturing of Wikipedia and the need for new decision making processes
- I'd consider temporary dictatorships to break log jams. Vote for a person or small team to make final decisions and write clean concise guidelines. I see this need especially on Help and Manual of Style pages. It's also necessary for overall "look and feel" and Mainpage. These people might even receive stipends.
- Paid support staff (professional technical writers and coders) should help do the work.
- I've seen attempts outside of Wikipedia to redesign the look and feel. Such things could be formalized and rewarded and similar things could be tried for other needs.
- I worry that some language editions of Wikipedia have been co-opted by political groups. Wikipedia should consider pulling the plug on editions which no longer follow the Wikipedia movement's goals.
SchreiberBike's thoughts on question 2
- The next billion users are going to be different from the existing users. We need to know about those people and what their needs are. Focus groups of those people should take place (in those countries, cities or villages). There should also be input from leaders and aid workers in those countries. Innovation is most likely to come from for-profit enterprises serving those markets; watch them and partner with them for research purposes.
- Serious change in the standards of civility meaning lower tolerance for rudeness etc. I see no way of accomplishing that though.
- A way for typical readers to see how stable a passage is. Without looking at page histories, I can't tell if I'm reading the most recent vandalism or longstanding content.
- Good PR. I have Wikipedia on my Google News feed and almost everything I see is negative. If one stays off the "drama" pages, I see that the vast majority of Wikipedia works great and is a testament to the good of humanity.
90.9.145.124
Response by 90.9.145.124
améliorer votre traduction...
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Yair rand
Response by Yair rand
Yair rand's thoughts on question 1
Major trends? I can think of quite a few. Some important ones to focus on:
- Interactive and/or very dynamic content, where applicable, is becoming a must. Simple images (and videos) often don't do the trick. I recommend spending some resources on mw:Extension:EmbedScript, or something like it. Data visualizations, interactive educational material (preferably some hosted on Wikiversity), 3D content, well-done community-built scripts that make readers amazed, at least for a few moments.
- In several years, there may be numerous ways of reaching Wikimedia content other than through desktop or mobile browsers. Certain large corporations such as Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Sony, are investing heavily into virtual reality and augmented reality. Interfaces will have to change to work well on these platforms. Both Mediawiki as a whole and Wikimedia content will have to adapt, and of course this brings us back to the necessity of having ways of adding advanced non-text content like embedded scripts.
(This just occurred to me, but has anyone considered building some way of enabling uploading of 3d photographs to Commons? Is there even a standard file format for that?) - People are consuming content in different ways, some of which aren't compatible with having a simple article on a topic. For example, some users just want a straight answer to a question. In order to accomplish our mission of optimally developing and disseminating educational content, further effort should be made toward developing Wikidata so that contributions are made quickly and easily.
Yair rand's thoughts on question 2
- A thriving and healthy Wikimedia project tends to have a good balance between very active contributors and rare contributors, with a decent speed of rotation among the core community (that is, many new users continually replacing old ones) (I would consider a good rotation to have most of the admins having less than 3 years since adminship), along with generally friendly interactions between the participants, a welcoming attitude toward newbies, and a heavy focus on content creation above all else. Such a community will develop a healthy attitude of "everyone has the same goal/is on the same side", with no clear "insiders" or "outsiders", so long as there is no large and/or powerful group that has private or external communications channels and/or has easily stated difference of goals. (Such problematic groups tend to either be a "cabal"-ified core of admins, a group of users that has extra-Wikimedia social associations or intra-Wikimedia associations from outside the project, or, with alarmingly increasing frequency, the Wikimedia Foundation.) Participants of a healthy community spend very little time focusing on either vandalism-prevention or inter-user conflicts, most work is done with some level of helpful collaboration, and participants hold the goals and methods of project as a whole in high regard. Everyone is equal, the goal is clear and everyone's, and the door is open.
Thank you. --Yair rand (talk) 17:52, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Doc James
Response by Doc James
Doc James's thoughts on question 1
Mobile is not a very good platform for many contributions. Might be okay for gnomish work. Maybe specifically set up tools to help with reviewing new edits / article / spelling via mobile if they are not sufficient already.
Commercial enterprises are taking a bigger interest in Wikipedia. This has a significant risk of negatively impacting Wikipedia. We need to address it head on by working with the companies that facility these transactions.
Doc James's thoughts on question 2
With increasing numbers of people making content from Wikipedia we need to get a handle on copyright violations within Wikipedia. While the volunteer community is working on stuff we need staff programmers to help.
190.25.96.146
Response by 190.25.96.146
Las ideas de 190.25.96.146 acerca de la pregunta 1
Contar con mil millones de usuarios es algo descomunal y ustedes lo han logrado con perseverancia, profesionalismo y credibilidad. Considero que la tendencia debe ser la misma, es decir, que mantengan su estilo, autonomía, independencia y credibilidad para el bien del conocimiento y la cultura en general. Así mismo, en nuestro planeta sigue tomando fuerza la preocupación por los temas ambientales, animales y de una sociedad mas igualitaria y justa, ya que con el paso del tiempo y a pesar de los avances en muchos campos como el tecnológico, en comunicaciones y de movilidad, la brecha entre dirigentes y dirigidos en todo el mundo en lugar de reducirse por el contrario se amplia, con el agravante de no contar con una educación de calidad pero si muy limitada y costosa.
- Machine translation; please help improve: Having billion users is something extraordinary and you've achieved with perseverance, professionalism and credibility. I believe that the trend should be the same, ie to maintain their style, autonomy, independence and credibility for the sake of knowledge and culture in general. Likewise, in our planet continues gaining strength concern for environmental issues, animals and a more egalitarian and just society, because with the passage of time and despite advances in many fields such as technology, communications and mobility the gap between leaders and led worldwide rather than reduced expands the contrary, with the aggravation of not having quality education but very limited and expensive.
Las ideas de 190.25.96.146 acerca de la pregunta 2
Así las cosas, lo más democrático y accesible es la información y el conocimiento a través de proyectos como el que ustedes lideran y que nosotros los ciudadanos del mundo debemos apoyar.
- Machine translation; please help improve: So, what is more democratic and accessible information and knowledge through projects like the one you lead and we citizens of the world should support.
103.27.164.7
Response by 103.27.164.7
103.27.164.7's thoughts on question 1
The sale of smartphones has shot up considerably in the recent years. A major chunk of internet activity has been through mobile devices. Integration into mobile operating systems/applications, which would make things easier for the user would be a huge advantage. The next billion users comprise of a large chunk of people from areas with not enough resources to set up proper access points, which also points to the fact that due to the lack of resources, there presumably wasn't much development in other areas as well. They will now look for relevant material. They would look for educational material, and affordable services. The information about the same has to be brought to them.
103.27.164.7's thoughts on question 2
Easy to use applications, providing well formatted, readable information. The interface would appeal to the user, and its simplicity be its selling point.
Nocowardsoulismine
Response by Nocowardsoulismine
Nocowardsoulismine's thoughts on question 2
If anyone truly can edit Wikipedia, why don't they? There are very few people who edit Wikipedia, compared to those who read it. I believe we need to promote a more welcoming environment, to encourage new editors and content contributors. Here is what I propose:
- Make editing easier. Every day, technology becomes more intuitive and user-friendly. Most people don't bother to use software that is prohibitively difficult. Failure to keep up with technology trends will result in Wikipedia being left behind. It is popular opinion that editing is done by "techies" and "nerds". The popular opinion should ideally be that Wikipedia is edited by anyone with knowledge to share. Simplifying and streamlining the editing process will go far in making that happen.
- Simplify the Manual of Style. I am not suggesting a compromise in previously established consensus. I am proposing that we make the Manual of Style easier to understand. In addition, we need to make it more easily searchable so that new content creators can quickly find relevant information. Judging by the amount of edits that get deleted or mercilessly edited/tagged to comply with project standards, it's clear that most people don't read it. Truthfully, the MoS is a daunting read. Imagine how daunting it must be for someone for whose native language isn't English.
- Give voice to less outspoken editors. Discussion pages tend to be dominated by the most outspoken and even aggressive editors. As it stands, anyone participating in a discussion needs to be prepared to be bombarded with criticism, which is usually not presented in a constructive manner. A "+1", "like", or even "-1" function on talk/discussion pages could give voice to less assertive editors and help to gauge whether discussions and their outcomes are truly representative of consensus, or if they are simply a contest of who can shout the loudest.
- Establish a way for readers to easily communicate with editors. Since the great majority of people who read Wikipedia don't make edits, we need to find a way to give the readers a voice. Our success is determined by the opinion of our audience. Readers need to have a role in shaping the direction the projects take. Perhaps, we could have a simple rating tool located at the bottom of each article that asks basic questions about the content. We could also create a user experience survey as other websites are increasingly doing. At the moment, we don't know whether editors are pointing the projects in a direction that the readers want.
185.52.140.158
Response by 185.52.140.158
185.52.140.158's thoughts on question 1
Improvements in machine-based translation might play a significant role in the foreseeable future for Wikimedia projects. Well with that being said, I think that Wikimedia Foundation should allocate some resources towards translation of high quality content ( which happens to be mostly in English these days) into as many languages of the world as possible.
I am, for one, a native Czech speaker, but I rarely use Czech versions of the Wikimedia projects due to poor quality of their content in many cases (it's not that content is not factual(although sometimes it is), it's more the case that some important bits and pieces of information are often wanting or that information, sometimes, is simply poorly presented in Czech versions of the Wikimedia projects or even in some cases it might be completely absent).
So in conclusion, what I would like the oncoming billion of new internet users to see is well-adapted translations of English articles instead of having them come up with their own new ,as a rule, poor quality content.
185.52.140.158's thoughts on question 2
As I have aforetime mentioned translating (or rather adapting) good quality English-language-based content into other languages would be my number one priority if I wanted to see thriving and healthy Wikimedia projects in the future world-wide, becasue let's face it Wikimedia projects are only any good in a handful out of 6000 world languages and really good only in one (English)... becasue most of the oncoming billion of new internet users ,probably, aren't going to be able to speak English or any other major European language (the strong suit of Wikimedia's), thusly they won't be able to access a large amount of existing Wikimedia content unless it is translated into their respective languages.
Wikimedia certainly needs a good, strong translation platform and it needs more trans-lingual communication in my opinion as well. Wikislate and/or Wikinational would be a good place to start.
Joe Sewell
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Joe Sewell's thoughts on question 1
The only other "trend" I can think of would be one that's already around: maintaining quality without rejecting editors. Right now many former editors, including me, have felt so completely insulted and rejected by those who have enough time to influence "consensus" (and who apparently don't have anything better to do during the day) that we no longer fix grammar errors or typos. Kudos are few and far between, but complaints over minor infractions are numerous.
Joe Sewell's thoughts on question 2
A healthy project must encourage participation while maintaining quality standards. Get rid of the offensive boxes and tags that say, "hey, someone stupid has messed this thing up, somebody else needs to fix this!" If it needs attention, do it in a way that doesn't offend the "next billion users." Status quo will see the "next billion users" go elsewhere. More to the point, if something needs fixing up, just do it and don't complain on the article page about it.
A healthy project must encourage participation from people with day jobs. I was involved in a disagreement about the appropriateness of a point about the late w:Chuck Smith and his relationship to w:Calvary Chapels. My edits were mercilessly and rudely reverted after 24 hours, even though my day job often limits me to looking at Wikipedia during my lunch hour. My lack of response within 24 hours was considered implicit acceptance, when it was not! After a couple of stints with that, I gave up. Again, it's an insult to those who don't have time to meet the ludicrous artificial "deadlines" that seem to be in place just to keep certain people in power.
A healthy project must look good everywhere. Mobile browsers have a variety of different characteristics. Project pages must be readable, navigable, and editable no matter what browser, no matter what capabilities, no matter what the screen size may be. The current iOS and Android Wikipedia apps come close, but the latter doesn't allow easy editing, and the former keeps loading old versions of pages. Updates to Mediawiki can destroy an app's usability, as well as custom templates; several Wikia wikis, for example, are completely unreadable using their unmaintained app.
Wbm1058
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Wbm1058's thoughts on question 1
I don't see users realistically editing Wikipedia while mobile. Most serious editing will continue to be done while seated at a desk, and larger screens can enhance editing productivity if the software takes advantage of their size. Hoping another major trend is for increased access via public libraries and Internet cafes. Young people in the US will be looking for better ways to educate themselves without also becoming saddled with a lifetime of debt. So there should be a trend towards lower-cost but high quality education options, perhaps Wikipedia can be a part of that. Of course, reading via mobile will increase, so Wikipedia needs to continue to support multiple screen resolutions.
Wbm1058's thoughts on question 2
Healthy Wikipedia projects will have many more skilled and experienced editors actively working to clear backlogs and Wikify articles for uniformity of presentation and quality of content, i.e., more fact-checking. It's hard for me to see Wikipedia getting there without finding a mechanism for compensating the more valuable volunteers. Better dispute resolution mechanisms need to be developed. The old saying is "praise in public, but criticize in private". How does that work on Wikipedia, where everything is done in public?
91.18.133.194
Response by 91.18.133.194
91.18.133.194s Gedanken zu Frage 1
Ich werde den Browser weiterhin verwenden
Translation: I'll continue using the browser
91.18.133.194s Gedanken zu Frage 2
Ich denke, es bleibt so ähnlich wie es jetzt auch ist
Translation:I think it stays more or less like it is.
Public ___domain
- Moved from lede section.
Wie bitte? Das ist nicht das, wozu ich im Bearbeitungsfenster zustimme (CC-BY-SA). Wer entscheidet da mal locker, die Lizenz zu verändern? Wer hat das autorisiert? Kann ich das dann auch, einfach mal schreiben: Jeder der mir antwortet, gibt damit unwiderruflich alle Urheberrechte an seinen Beitrag auf? Für meine "Forschung", oder weil ich daraus dann ein Buch bastele, dass ich proprietär verwerte/verkaufe? Was sind denn bitteschön "or other purposes"? Das fängt ja gut an mit der "user consultation"! Atlasowa
- Translation: "I beg your pardon? That's not what I agree with in the editing window (CC-BY-SA). Who decides casually to change the license? Who authorized that? Can I do it as well, and simply write: Everyone who answers me, gives me irrevocably all copyrights to his post? For my "research" or because I tinker a book that I use/sell proprietary? What in gods name are those "or other purposes"? This is a great start with the "user consultation"!"
- This is fairly common throughout the projects. see Template:PD notice, as used throughout the Help: namespace, especially at mediawiki (mw:Template:PD Help Page).
- Re: "or other purposes", this refers to usages such as putting examples in annual/quarterly reports, or in the summary document after this has concluded, and outreach materials. It allows good ideas to be incorporated anywhere, eg. phabricator tasks, without the necessity of tracking down who edited what sentences.
- Hope that helps. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 18:26, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
78.160.67.66
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78.160.67.66's thoughts on question 1
This is a really good point. Since i am assuming that you currently have a mobile wikipedia version, you should work on ease of accessibility, good resources, overall smoothness (animations/loading), and really but REALLY fast load/reload times. People on mobile devices expect to be fast and mobile, and mainly that is why its mobile. In the next few years, new chips will be integrated by Nvidia and AMD to mobile devices that can outperform the XBONE, and that is why using resources wisely is key.
78.160.67.66's thoughts on question 2
Seeing a wikimedia website about programming and books etc. just about programming would be a relief for most programmers, including myself. I think this is required, and would make traffic and would be helpful. Other than that, integration with other websites would be 2 steps forward, in my opinion.
206.180.109.190
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206.180.109.190's thoughts on question 1
make sources more reliable
2.178.62.117
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2.178.62.117's thoughts on question 2
your website is extremely under USA and ISRAEL political manner and its so undependable due to they refer to these governments politics and you banned other evidence and keep this web under your Premption
BirthOfJesus
Response by BirthOfJesus
BirthOfJesus's thoughts on question 1
Nothing. First of all, the question isn't perfectly clear to me. What is a "major trend," as opposed to just a "trend"? And why should there be a need to improve/make a trend more notable for? It seems both confusing and hard to get a grasp on what is being asked for here, so I'll run my answer down as, "Basically nothing." Instead of a "trend," make general improvements to the Wikivesity/Wikibooks sections to further illustrate the power of open-source work, learning, and access to free ways to learn and free digital books for self-teaching and many other causes. I hardly consider improvement to be a "major trend" to identify. Also, better categorize subjects, sections, and pages to construct easier navigation between various articles. Lots of categories on Wikipedia are clumsy and incomplete at best, and could use a touch-up. Instead of worrying about how you can fulfill the notion of a trend for others, just improve Wikipedia as a whole, & things will be better for everyone.
BirthOfJesus's thoughts on question 2
Look at my other answer above; it covers both questions, since neither of them count, to me at least, as one good question in the first place.
Lava
Response by 176.24.120.179
Lava's thoughts on question 1
Make a wikipedia app or if unavailable make your mobile wikipedia more mobile friendly
- There is a Wikipedia app! See the android app, and the iOS app. For more details, see our own documentation at mw:Wikimedia Apps.
- For the mobile version of Wikipedia in a browser, there is on-going work to improve that, and add new features, coordinated at mw:Mobile Web. Hope that helps. :) Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 19:44, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Lava's thoughts on question 2
Globally used in every country and 100 % accurate as it has to be user friendly and truthful at the same time :)
- Re: 100% accurate, you might be interested in point #6 of w:en:Wikipedia:Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia. :) Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 19:44, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Amazighi for-ever
Response by Amazighi for-ever
Amazighi for-ever's thoughts on question 1
اضافة بعض الموثرات الى الموسوعة قد يجلب الزوار اكثر لان شكل الموسوعة يبدو قديما Translated:By Lava: Add some more info as visitors will bring more as Wikipedia seems old
Amazighi for-ever's thoughts on question 2
شكرا لكم Translated: Thank you
Inspindawetrust
Response by Inspindawetrust
Inspindawetrust's thoughts on question 1
In the coming age of accessibility, it's imperative that all articles stay objective, as many different ideologies and perspectives will be reading them.
Inspindawetrust's thoughts on question 2
Thriving and healthy Wikimedia projects would if possible, have translation in real time to allow anyone in the world to enjoy and contribute to Wikimedia. I know that's very difficult to put into motion, but keep it in mind as a distant objective at least.
Idéfixetcompagnie
Response by Idéfixetcompagnie
Mes réflexions pour la question 1
Les gens veulent atteindre une information le plus vite possible. Plus les années passent, plus les gens sont "impatients", en quelque sorte. En plein milieu d'une discussion, il arrive que l'on veuille ouvrir Wikipédia pour trouver une information sur un sujet que l'on traite, mais on ne veut pas non plus suspendre cette discussion pour allumer son ordinateur, ou se débattre avec son portable. Quand on voit l'application, qui est déjà très rapide à allumer, on se demande comment peut-on faire encore plus rapidement...
- (Machine translation, please improve it) "People want to achieve as soon as possible information. As the years pass, the more people are "impatient" in some way. In the middle of a discussion, sometimes we want to open Wikipedia to find information on a topic which is treated, but it does not suspend this discussion to turn on his computer or wrestle with his portable. When we see the application, which is already very fast to light, one wonders how can we even faster ..."
Mes réflexions pour la question 2
Je pense qu'il est dommage que les différents projets Wiki- ne soient pas mieux liés entre eux. Si je cherche des choses sur la gastronomie française, par exemple, je ne regarderai sûrement que la page Wikipédia. Refaire la recherche 4 fois sur Wikinews, Wikivoyage, Wikimedia Commons, Wikibooks prend beaucoup de temps. Et j'aurai peut-être raté du contenu intéressant... Avoir une recherche unique avec une page unique sur laquelle l'ensemble des 10 sites Wiki- apparaîtrai serai une révolution à elle seule (à mon avis). Ensuite, avoir des partenariats avec d'autres bases de savoirs participatifs serait génial ! Être mieux inséré dans la toile. Avec des recettes (base de savoirs participatifs en France : Marmiton.org), des astuces (Wikihow.com)... Enfin, faire entrer les jeunes dans cette dimension en donnant à Wikimédia une image plus moderne. Créer un Wikipédia plus simple à lire, plus accessible aux enfants. Peut-être même publier sur des réseaux sociaux des articles très intéressant et d'actualité.
- (Machine translation, please improve it) "I think it is a pity that the various projects are not wiki- better linked. If I look for things on French cuisine, for example, I certainly will look at the Wikipedia page. Redo search 4 times Wikinews, Wikivoyage, Wikimedia Commons, Wikibooks is time. And I may have missed interesting content ... Having a single search with a single page that all 10 sites will appear wiki- be a revolution in itself (in my opinion).
- Then have partnerships with other databases participatory knowledge would be great! Be better inserted into the canvas. With revenues (basic participatory knowledge in France: Marmiton.org), tips (Wikihow.com) ...
- Finally, bring young people in this dimension Wikimedia giving a more modern image. Create a simpler Wikipedia to read more accessible to children. Maybe even publish on the social networks of very interesting articles and news."
37.116.251.249
Response by 37.116.251.249
Considerazioni di 37.116.251.249 sulla domanda n. 2
Oltre a definizioni, dare spazio a come si fanno o producono alcune cose, conoscenze e spiegazione di processi produttivi, sia industriali che artigianali. Penso potrebbero essere utili sia agli utenti attuali per prendere coscienza, sia a paesi emergenti per trovare soluzioni.
- (Machine translation, please improve it) "In addition to definitions, give space to how to make or produce some things, knowledge and explanation of the production processes, industrial and handicraft. I think it might be useful to current users to be aware, both in emerging countries to find solutions."
Pgallert
Response by Pgallert
Pgallert's thoughts on question 1
Open and free/libre knowledge and content and the decline of classic copyright. People want their texts to be read, their videos to be watched. The money then comes with the popularity rather than through royalties.
Pgallert's thoughts on question 2
They would capitalise on their specific advantage: content and its presentation. They would spread the open content idea. Specifically the WMF would:
- outsource all non-core business, software development being the prime example. There is a thriving FLOSS community which will write the necessary software for WM, free of charge.
- protect and promote editors. For instance, granting them automatic 'journalist' status if they regularly write on current topics. Or enabling easy access to "portfolios" in the way it is done on the WMF Global Blog (https://blog.wikimedia.org/author/XXX). I'm willing to expand on this should there be interest from your side.
- facilitate the governance of the WM projects without attempting to govern them themselves. This includes accepting and deploying local consensus where even remotely feasible.
205.159.86.10
Response by 205.159.86.10
205.159.86.10's thoughts on question 1
I believe strongly that the internet will be accessed largely by wearable devices (and increasingly-miniaturized embedded devices) for the current, and next billion, users. I believe extremely agile content responsiveness is essential in order to 'right-size' the response from an internet request. Specifically, my suggestion is that all content pages could be CSS-filtered (or some other technology) so that portions of the content is distributed to wearables, while more content is available to phones, yet more is available to tablets, and complete content is available via desktops.
This is notionally similar to responsive design wherein visual content is filtered and re-sampled to meet screen/display and bandwidth constraints...an iOS device sees more pixels and fewer colors than a laptop screen with lower resolution but full gamut, for example. In my major trend above, I propose that every 'thought' or 'atom' in each wiki content be characterized by which group of consuming devices will retrieve the 'atom.' In this way, a page can be rendered specifically for each consuming device.
205.159.86.10's thoughts on question 2
...write here… Healthy Wikimedia projects, first and foremost, must be financially supported; not necessarily self-supported nor community supported, but not UNSUPPORTED. If this means ranking proposed projects and crowdfunding the projects based on reaching funding thresholds, then so-be-it. If it means selling advertising on a per-project basis, that is likewise acceptable. The key here is that non-financially supported projects simply should not be prioritized nor attempted. Also, funding (if it be per-project accepted) should not be re-allocated to cross project boundaries.
168.91.255.101
Response by 168.91.255.101
168.91.255.101's thoughts on question 1
There are people who want to use Wikipedia for sources. Therefore, I would say, appeal to the young generation whilst also making sure that everything is checked and revised daily, because normal people will use Wikipedia for source references even if they know that the sources can be incorrectly identified as true and are just lazy.
168.91.255.101's thoughts on question 2
Well, I think that a lot of Wikimedia projects will begin to have references to memes, celebrity goings-on, and other social trends. I don't like the fact that the newest generation, just past mine, is becoming so socially oriented and electronically-inclined that they don't appreciate anything anymore. They take 5,000 pictures just of their lunch. They don't treasure each picture and make sure that it means something to them. They just hate work, hate history, and hate most everything that requires an ounce of work. However, this is how I expect the trend to continue. Even Einstein said, "I fear the day when technology surpasses our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots." So true, now.
Iagocasabiell
Response by Iagocasabiell
Iagocasabiell's thoughts on question 1
I guess new perspectives will open about everything, with a revisionist trend, sometimes healthy and positive, but also trolling, propaganda and edit wars will burst. Anyway, that was also expected in the beginning, and Wikipedia turned out to be awesome and reliable.
Iagocasabiell's thoughts on question 2
I think we should prepare some kind of edition training school app or something, with like 5 lessons: adding pictures to commons with appropiate licensing, how to complete an article (showing the need of sourced material), how to join a talk in an article, geotagging, categorizing... and then make the wikipedia app follow those lessons. Also we should prepare an easy translation platform so we could grasp some endangered languages before they dissapear, before it's too late.
Yukon1990
Response by Yukon1990
its great but needs color
Yukon1990's thoughts on question 2
I think the major trends will be wiki compatable with smart watches and other devices. If people can access it, it will keep going and be a success.
78.20.196.168
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78.20.196.168's thoughts on question 2
Bring together an acedemic group (or people who earned there stripes in there respective fields) who can verify articles. Make sure it gets harder to adjust verified articles, then thoroughly check changes made to these kind of articles before actually republishing it. For instance; a professor history of france confirms that the information about the french revolution is accurate, the article gets "sealed". This makes it harder for a child or people with bad intentions to change for instance the date of the event in fiction, but leaves space to add other information. This way, I think, you can get an encyclopedia that is more trustworthy; with no elephantine mistakes in confirmed articles and still gives the opportunity for everyone to help. It only makes rewriting "confirmed facts" much harder. It wouldn't be flawless (nothing is) but it could create a "britannica-like" (wich most people see as the truth) encyclopedia with loads of added information but then again, with a certified core. I know there is a similar system in place, but not as efficient I think.
37.215.108.158
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37.215.108.158's thoughts on question 1
1. Editing pages with many conflicts. User1 thinks that page X should contain A. User2 thinks that page X should not contain A but contain B. User1 wants to share page X with A. User2 wants to share page X with B. More users more conflicts.
2. Ensure Wikipedia is accessible for everyone everywhere all time in present of pressure from governments to reduce internet freedom and performance pressure of billions of users and possibility of hackers attacks(both to shutdown servers and to broke semantics of articles).
3. I cannot donate to Wikipedia because Belarus donations are blocked. I donated to Wikipedia from Belarus via 3rd country VPN.
4. I want post articles into Wikipedia from alternative sources to speed up initial article authoring. E.g. public books/software/articles/research/reports in many case I done in markdown, so users may take parts of it and form Wikipedia article.
37.215.108.158's thoughts on question 2
1. Provide `fork` mechanics for wiki pages. Check gitlab or gitorious to test how it works.
2. Allow for p2p/federated/tor/bitmessage/otr like features for hosting/editing/authorization. Use some machine learning to ensure that changes to article are good, trigger some notification if these seems bad.
3. Allow me to donate to Wikipedia from Belarus directly, no need for VPN.
4. Allow posting to Wikipedia from alternative markdown source. See what is possible https://stackedit.io/editor
80.187.103.94
Response by 80.187.103.94
80.187.103.94s Gedanken zu Frage 2
Mobile apps die kostenlos und ohne mobilen datenzugang genutz werden können.
- (Machine translation, please improve it) "Mobile apps can be Utilized for free and without mobile data access."
Did you check Wikipedia Zero before? :). It builds partnerships with operators across the globe in order to support the idea. The focus right now is for Global South, where this is likely to be more impactful and mostly need. Thanks! --Melamrawy (WMF) (talk) 21:48, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
165.196.98.22
Response by 165.196.98.22
165.196.98.22's thoughts on question 1
cultural bias that taints articles with dominant ideology
165.196.98.22's thoughts on question 2
they would be self-aware of their own inherent values.
176.232.36.27
Response by 176.232.36.27
176.232.36.27's thoughts on question 2
Öncelikle sa ben türk değilim ama türkiyede merhaba yada nasılsın yerine artık sa ve as var bu konu hakkında bi yazı yapın
- (Machine translation, please improve it) "First, though, I'm not Turkish, but rather how the turkey hello or have a structure as short and longer be writing about this topic"
Rasmus.mattus
Response by Rasmus.mattus
Rasmus.mattus's thoughts on question 1
digital glasses. so it gets easier to feel that you`re in it.
Rasmus.mattus's thoughts on question 2
its more then just flat screen this are a new way to look in things, you can see whole picture like it were around you. its like it was real
98.113.105.249
Response by 98.113.105.249
98.113.105.249's thoughts on question 1
Virtual Reality is going to explode in all aspects, Gaming, information, work, and various industries are taking advantage of VR. Wikipedia has to find ways to encode itself into a VR accessible program for example: A user using vr goggles on his computer has to have a press of one button which would seamlessly turn wikipedia into a 3D building or room where the user can find articles and learn stuff through this method, adapt with technology and wikipedia will stay on top. VR is already used to train squads of U.S soldiers. There should be a wikipedia section which lets a user LIVE an article or a thing. For example reading about some industrial process, there should be a section which enables viewing a VR scene of how the process happens so the user can understand the concepts instantly and on the most basic of conscious levels. Remember first it was reading, next it was video, now it's Virtual Reality. VR has a chance to go beyond videos as learning tools and i hope wikipedia will exploit this. The encyclopedia must think of creative ways to adapt to this emerging technology.
98.113.105.249's thoughts on question 2
Brand recognition has to be the main focus for wikipedia. In my opinion it is the single greatest learning tool ever that has been made possible by the internet. I don't know exactly how wikipedia will get known in other countries. But I know that the entire world is now hungry, starving rather for information. You must find a way to champion wikipedia to other countries and regions, never politically, but for humanitarian grounds. Maybe some apps to reach wikipedia from pressing it's icon on a mobile device instead of searching for it on google or other search engines, something easily accessible. Another thing is, wikipedia is famous because people are buzzing about it, when these new regions come online you have to find ways to get these people to start buzzing about it, encourage regular people there to spread the word of it's qualities, it's benefits, it's ease, it's credibility.
One last thing, I found this while reading articles that I was interested in on wikipedia and I think it's important. It's from a list of french expressions here on wikipedia itself.
fait accompli
- lit. "accomplished fact"; something that has already happened and is thus unlikely to be reversed, a done deal.[26] In French used only in the expression placer/mettre quelqu'un devant le fait accompli meaning to present somebody with a fait accompli.
Wikipedia needs to be the first into these new regions coming online, either to set the tone for boundless knowledge so that if it ever gets censored the people will miss it and know such a thing exists.
Sm8900
Response by Sm8900
Sm8900's thoughts on question 1
1. social media and social online networking.
Sm8900's thoughts on question 2
2. Wikipedia needs to provide much flexibility on how like-minded users can find each others and work together on group efforts, group projects, and mutual interests. groupings should not be limited solely to official Wikiprojects. if a group of users has an interest in, say, solar energy, or renewable energies, or new developments in genetic biology or nanotechnology, they should be able to set up a group of their own to work together to do so, and to set up their own group based purely on unofficial social ties if that is what they wish to do. currently, any such users need to set up a Wikiproject, or else they cannot establish any other group which might allow them to work together.
in short, we need to allow groups of editors to set up informal [or formal] social groups where they can work together, REGRADLESS of how many other user groups may already exist on a particular topic. this is the only way to allow the kind of continual of interest-based groupings and efforts which need to be permitted to occur, if Wikipedia is to endure. thanks. --Sm8900 (talk) 21:18, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
190.24.116.0
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190.24.116.0's thoughts on question 1
el Internet también aportaría mucho al crecimiento de su pagina
- (Machine translation, please improve it) "The Internet also add much to the growth of your page"
190.24.116.0's thoughts on question 2
toda la información es muy importante para muchas cosas resalto las buenas respuestas a las preguntas
- (Machine translation, please improve it) "all information is very important for many shoulder things the right answers to questions"
169.204.229.202
Response by 169.204.229.202
the new possibility of expansion on the internet through culture and new ideas
169.204.229.202's thoughts on question 1
with the ever expanding internet we are going to see new ideas and the ideas will reflect the people of where they come from it will come culturally governments, historical values and history, and these things will be presented for all to see which will keep expanding from there. good examples of these places would be south america and Africa, the people of Africa have a wide array of cultures religion and history, and the things they create and say and do on the internet will resemble this, and this will also bring in already put ideas and learning on the internet to their countries and cummouties. so new cultures on internet will spread to these places making a subculture that will keep expanding connecting and it will start making effects in real life to the point of new reforms in government and this also may allow foreign ideas to take hold that the people hold values to and agree with. so keeping information unbiased as possible is the best thing to do which in its self is a huge tackling but this will allow less agendas of others to take hold with misinformation that will use this information that will in its self be more damaging then not allowing the idea to happen in the first place.
169.204.229.202's thoughts on question 2
new projects should reflect the people who are using them and what they feel is needed and a good amount of people don't know what they want until they have it so the best I can say is ask what people want but also try and make new things that will have an impact but stay within want people will want what they may be i cannot say that is for people to decide for themselves and with something on this scale this is no one size fits all kinds of projects so the projects should reflect on what this subculture or group identify with and have many projects that reflect these things and will attract new people with these projects and learn of other projects that they identify with and either like and be a part of the project or not identify with it and move on to something else.
this is what i believe would be helpful in this case but what I have described is mostly opinionated and not factual if any questions I enjoy a good conversation: ~cheers
190.243.76.11
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Las ideas de 190.243.76.11 acerca de la pregunta 2
creando una aplicación para moviles
- (Machine translation, please improve it) "creating an application for mobile"
- There is a Wikipedia app! See the android app, and the iOS app. For more details, see our own documentation at mw:Wikimedia Apps. --Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 21:39, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
39.54.0.189
Response by 39.54.0.189
39.54.0.189's thoughts on question 1
...write here… i think its time for wikipedia to go public and make a lot of bucks from next billion users
39.54.0.189's thoughts on question 2
...write here…well to me information is like a river flowing in any direction, and wikipedia must have a way that people can also add there valuable information in articles that they might know more about. by this the knowledge and information will get strong.
181.53.233.77
Response by 181.53.233.77
Las ideas de 181.53.233.77 acerca de la pregunta 1
Gracias a Wikipedia, casi el mundo entero ha podido adquirir, con un poco mas de facilidad, el conocimiento y estar informado también con los hechos que fueron y son noticia. En la actualidad la tecnología esta siendo aprovechada en los diversos campos de acción humana, y el modo cómo se adquiere información no es ajeno a esta nueva tendencia y revolución tecnológica. Así es como se tiene que ademas de los teléfonos móviles y las tabletas, la información que Internet brinda y en este caso particular Wikipedia, no solo estaría presente en estos aparatos sino que también podrían facilitarse en dispositivos como las gafas creadas por Google o las creadas por Sony o en todos los aparatos que hoy utilizan Internet como los televisores; ademas de lo anterior seria muy bueno que hubiese una aplicación de rápido acceso que abra una ventana directo hacia la Wikipedia que brinde información detallada y actualizada , teniendo en cuenta que hoy por hoy las aplicaciones son útiles y son lo que mas esta llamando la atención. Pasando al tema de los usuarios presentes en Latinoamerica, África y Asia; La Wikipedia debería estar presente con una mayor cantidad de información en las lenguas que se habla en cada una de estas regiones, ya que por ejemplo existen artículos que se encuentran con mayor frecuencia en ingles, por esa razón creo que los próximos usuarios serán mas jóvenes y con ansias de adquirir conocimiento en su propia lengua.
- (Machine translation, please improve it) "Thanks to Wikipedia, almost the whole world has been able to acquire, with a little more ease, knowledge and be well acquainted with the facts that were and are news. Currently the technology is being utilized in various fields of human action, and the way how information is acquired is no stranger to this new trend and technological revolution. This is how you must also mobile phones and tablets, the Internet provides information and in this particular case Wikipedia not only be present in these devices but could also be facilitated in devices like glasses created by Google or created by Sony or all devices now use the Internet as televisions; in addition to the above would be great to have an application shortcut to open a direct window into the Wikipedia provide detailed and updated information, considering that today's applications are useful and are what most are calling the attention. Turning to the users present in Latin America, Africa and Asia; The Wikipedia should be present with a greater amount of information in the languages spoken in each of these regions, since for example there are items that are most often in English, for that reason I think the next users will be younger and eager to acquire knowledge in their own language."
Las ideas de 181.53.233.77 acerca de la pregunta 2
Los proyectos futuros y exitosos de la Wikipedia podrían concentrarse en adquirir nuevas y mejores plataformas de acceso que permitan a los usuarios incluso interactuar con la pagina para tener una relación usuario-plataforma para la recepción y remitencia de conocimiento e información mas oportuna y con mejores resultados.
- (Machine translation, please improve it) "Futures and successful projects of Wikipedia could concentrate on acquiring new and better access platforms allow users even interact with the page for a user-platform connection for receiving and remitencia of knowledge and information. more timely and better outcomes."
88.162.204.220
Response by 88.162.204.220
88.162.204.220's thoughts on question 1
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88.162.204.220's thoughts on question 2
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je comprends rien à ce que vous voulez
vous pouvez pas parler un peu francais non?
Myamoto Musashi
Response by Myamoto Musashi
Myamoto Musashi's thoughts on question 1
Wikipedia is becoming a greater resource for Homeschoolers. They have suggested some tools that would help them to learn more efficiently. These may be even more important for those who do not have access to much exterior assistance. Some of these tools may not be possible given the nature of the website, but they may eventually be incorporated. -Automatic Reader: a tool that will read the page for you. This would especially help auditory learners. -Vocabulary Tool: a tool for memorizing words and listing un-recognized words for familiarization. It can directly be connected to Wiktionary with a "Look up using Wiktionary" option for highlighted words. -Personal Study Agenda: a tool for recording specific study information such as completed articles, notes, and future study topics. It could be run through an other website if needed. -Translation Tool: a tool related to Google Translate that is directly connected to Wikimedia for quick access. Someone also mentioned 3D tools. I agree, and I think that would help visual learners as well as give wider perspective. With technology advancing, it may not be long before most 3D tools will be compatible with mobile devices.
Myamoto Musashi's thoughts on question 2
Many homeschoolers rely on the facts they get on Wikipedia, so it is important that they can distinguish witch facts are accurate. I think the mere presence of uncorrected information is not bad so long as it is separated from the main body of information. There may be a place on or near the page for public discussion, opinions, and questions. This may be a good place for suggested additions or revisions by visitors/non-writers who are handing it off to someone who knows what they are doing. Qualified writers can volunteer time to ensure that all information is agreed upon. You may give special license to particular volunteers to make larger decisions about content.
200.114.243.126
Response by 200.114.243.126
200.114.243.126's thoughts on question 1
Have and app.
200.114.243.126's thoughts on question 2
Show more images, audio, vidio and websites for more information. To have more specific sections and to have a instant question and answer.
190.42.17.81
Response by 190.42.17.81
Las ideas de 190.42.17.81 acerca de la pregunta 1
el fin del mundo , todos seremos vagos porque todo lo va ha hacer el robot
Las ideas de 190.42.17.81 acerca de la pregunta 2
Wikimedia creceria mas porque sera parte de la tecnologia
hello
168.184.14.68
Response by 168.184.14.68
168.184.14.68's thoughts on question 1
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168.184.14.68's thoughts on question 2
have some staff work on edits instead of random users
Ilario
Response by Ilario
Ilario's thoughts on question 1
Another trend is "digitalization of the information". Archives and libraries are receiving their material in digital format. For instance the archives of the public administrations are looking for the "dematerialization" and they will receive a lot of digits instead of a lot of paper. The same libraries will receive hard disks of writers or researchers instead of their letters or manuscripts.
Ilario's thoughts on question 2
In my opinion the "magic word" is not "mobile" but "responsive web". It doesn't make sense to look for the mobile, probably the best would be to look for an interface able to adapted to different devices and able to be personalized.
146.185.31.213
Response by 146.185.31.213
Wikipedia is a reading & learning website. Everyone like to & easy to read in their own language then in other language which is their 2nd or 3rd language. For example i would really like if more content & updated article was available in Tamil then in english(my 2nd language). I would be able to share it with my social website if its in my language then in English. I can speak about an article or any contents of Wikipedia with my relations & my close ones if its available in my language rather in other languages. Of course their is Wikipedia in Tamil but its contents are limited & mostly outdated and literally have no articles and other material about international topic which is the most factor we use Wikipedia.
- You are so right. Personally, I believe improving content in other languages, such as supporting local community-led initiatives with grants and other means, will need to be part of our future strategy. Your point about social media underscores even more the need to figure out solutions outside traditional American-European languages. Thanks for making this point so well. GeoffBrigham (WMF) (talk) 02:04, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
108.27.146.169
Response by 108.27.146.169
108.27.146.169's thoughts on question 1
The need for information, especially quickly, has grown.
108.27.146.169's thoughts on question 2
Having a quick info kind of box, without simple facts, but rather a paragraph (e.g. a summary of Hitler's life in a paragraph), like those found on Google but in slightly more detail.
Gianfranco
Response by Gianfranco
Gianfranco's thoughts on question 1
The kind of expected newcomers should make it an easy prophecy to predict that the unprecedented proportions of the contact among distant mentalities will be so relevant, that we risk severely harmful consequences if we don't start working right now to be prepared to it: newcomers might, indeed, have few motivations for participating, as well, if we don't let them find it easy and comfortable to come on board. It will actually be our greatest opportunity to grow, and this, I believe, would be a qualitative growth rather than simply a matter of numbers. And yes, it will be an issue. Lots of people will be looking for knowledge, and sources, from perspectives which we had never seen before, and they will come and see if we have any that they could find comprehensible, satisfactory, easy to find, comfortable to improve.
Gianfranco's thoughts on question 2
An attracting Project will crucially be open to communication with and across different cultures, providing human or automatic translators and all the other tools we are going to create to reduce the linguistic distances, as well as making the required efforts to override natural local biases in favor of a wider compatibility with different mentalities. It will simplify its core policies for contributions (better if in harmony with the rest of the WikiWorld), so that openness can shine brighter while content is made able to easily come from surprising springs. It will work a lot on ensuring a warm welcome to anybody passing by.
A good Project will thoroughly grant access to sources, either on other WMF Projects or "outside", helping readers to reach them easily and clearly; at the same time it will make it morally imperative for any cultural repository to share its contents with the Project, defending them from the risk of destruction or loss, and ensuring that everybody on the Planet is able to reach them through WMF's Projects.
Nothing in this scheme is in a long-term scenario: huge masses of new readers and contributors will (hopefully) come very soon, sooner than we'd expect, with a relatively fresh attitude towards the Projects, so those Projects which will be ready to welcome them, will be able to give them and to receive from them.
Successful Projects (and Communities) will then have worked to fasten their relationships with the other Projects and Communities (an easy roadmap: why not starting to ensure that each of them interacts well enough with all its geographically bordering ones?); readers and users will then enter a truly interconnected system of cultural relationships, which should be way more interesting than approaching closed and isolated expressions of local biases, which can only be read, and only if there is some previous interest in that.
An intelligent Project will be ready to interact with the next billion users and with the following ones: let's work on our tools, on our habits, on our biases. On ourselves. --g (talk) 00:14, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you @Gianfranco: -- what do you see we need to keep and what do we need to change to enable this kind of interaction (in the product, or otherwise)? LilaTretikov (WMF) (talk) 01:51, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Lila, I believe that we should work to soften language-related cultural biases (we should start having, i.e., the same title for Falkland and Malvinas islands in all the Projects :-), maybe also reconsidering and eventually changing the old principle by which any linguistic project primarily reflects the bias of its language-related mentality. If we can't agree today among ourselves, there can't be too much dialog tomorrow with newcomers that we want to attract from even farther contexts. It's a matter of contents and of relationships, so I would certainly "change" the confused wandering of individual Projects towards too many different directions, I will keep on investing time and energies in developing tools (and pratices) to implement communication and harmony among the projects and their contents. :-) --g (talk) 03:21, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
146.95.94.131
Response by 146.95.94.131
146.95.94.131's thoughts on question 2
Wikipedia needs to be fair in allowing views from other ethic and cultural background. The is a lack of diversity especially when it comes to historical articles. Currently Wikipedia is based on a European mind set, it you truly want to be a world intellectual leader stop suppressing true history,Bob Marley said " tell the children the truth"
I love you Wikipedia!
- Thank you very much for the comment (and for the wikilove!). At the WMF, we obviously agree with the idea that fairness is inherent to knowledge sharing. With that said, the WMF doesn't actually influence the development of policies on the various wikis; that's done by the editing communities on each wiki. However, almost all of the wiki communities have a common support for the concept of "neutrality" (in English, you can read more at the page on Neutral Point of View). If you think that a particular community isn't working with a good definition, or their definition should be updated, I encourage you to discuss it with them on that wiki, wherever they do policy development. Any administrator can help you with that, and would be very happy to do so, I know! Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 01:20, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Subcomment because Phillipe's response is so idiotic.
The idiotic combination of NPOV and a discouragement of the use of primary sources is the main problem with Wikipedia. It's destroying it, pretty much; because there's no consensus as to what's "neutral" (do we remain neutral between the anti-vaxxers who have no evidence at all and the entire scientific community which supports vaccination? Formally according to most Wikipedia policies, we should), content ends up being determined by the personal biases of people who have "page lock" powers. There are several documented instances of crank (disproven by evidence) historical theories taking over history pages while the professional historians are unable to fix them because "primary sources are discouraged".
Of course, it's going to be impossible to get the Wikimedia Foundation to recognize this: you've been warned about the worthlessness of NPOV for over a decade now, and told how essential it is to switch to an *evidence-based* standard, but you won't do it. 67.249.140.141 04:00, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Wiki.
Hello, My name is Skylar I am 15 and I use Wikipedia for 98%-99% of my research. It is a really easy working webpage, that gets straight to the point with real facts. Not just anything, any random person has to say. That may or may not be true. You know what I mean? I am quite thankful to have Wiki as a main source, because of how well it works. I recommend this highly!
- Skylar, thanks for participating! i'm glad it's useful for you. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 00:28, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
2601:C:2480:69F:D912:32C9:FCF3:B05D
Response by 2601:C:2480:69F:D912:32C9:FCF3:B05D
2601:C:2480:69F:D912:32C9:FCF3:B05D's thoughts on question 2
Please correct your info more often and produce more specific results. This site is very helpful but some corrections need to be made.
70.53.51.118
Response by 70.53.51.118
70.53.51.118's thoughts on question 2
I think that having more projects devoted to investigating brand new technology and advancements around the world will be beneficial to the new billion users of Wikipedia.
Alleycat80
Response by Alleycat80
Alleycat80's thoughts on question 1
Learning and education will be using richer media. Text, however important, cannot stand alone without images / film / sounds.
Nor could we forego the importance of a nice user interaction and new interfaces (geographic, time-based, even virtual reality... Occulus Rift, anyone?)
Alleycat80's thoughts on question 2
Well, they are really inclusive, with a community which is built around free knowledge rather than the "rank" of people contributing, which is celebrating the different opinions instead of arguing about them, which carries on from the online world to the physical world.
This actually has nothing to do with the trends. It is true no matter what the latest fashion is, I think.
NickK
Response by NickK
NickK's thoughts on question 1
Readers will be more interested by interactive content (e.g. videos, animations, voices of people, pronunciation of words) in addition to classical texts with illustrations. The other point is that due to growing number of sources readers will be interested in higher-quality content, i.e. well-written, diverse and multilingual — NickK (talk) 01:17, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
NickK's thoughts on question 2
Engineering-wise we need to have better media players (to integrate videos or sounds from Wikimedia Commons), and it would be great to have a better book reader (integrated with Wikisource) or news feed (integrated with Wikinews). Such features would make Wikimedia projects thriving as a most comprehensive source of information (and in addition, of free information).
Project-wise we should promote increasing quality of content, most notably should facilitate integration of high-quality sources (e.g. by obtaining permission for printed encyclopaedias, by digitising public ___domain sources or by getting easier access to scientific articles), as large amounts of information are still not available in free access (and even less available in different languages).
Community-wise we should be social to the point we should promote healthy cooperation between editors (where diverse groups of editors work together on some topics), but we should not be a social network (we should promote cooperation, not communication) — NickK (talk) 01:17, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- @NickK: Good point re: video players / book readers. For Wikisource, the wsexport tool is a good start, but I agree this kind of thing should be better integrated.
- What do you think the Wikimedia Foundation could/should be doing in the next few years that would promote the kind of healthy cooperation between editors you're describing?--Erik Moeller (WMF) (talk) 01:48, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- @Erik Moeller (WMF): Thanks for the feedback.
- On the first point, I think that these tools should be more visible, not as a Labs tool but as a built-in feature. Many people are reading books or watching videos from their mobile devices, and we should make this easier.
- Speaking of collaboration, I don't have a complete vision but I have some ideas. It would make sense to look into tools used by scientific community for collaboration on scientific articles, like w:ShareLaTeX, for example. Some great features would be a possibility for several editors to edit an article at the same time, both in source code or VisualEditor (a good example again is ShareLaTeX where two users can edit source code simultaneously), or a possibility to add comments (which are currently available using <!-- --> lineup, but not seen in VisualEditor), as they are a powerful tool of providing guidelines to editors.
- This may also need improvements to discussions, and from this point of view I think that Flow is might be going in a wrong direction, as it was based on the concept of people discussing existing content (as it used Flickr, Youtube, Tumblr or Livejournal as references) or people answering a single question (like StackOverflow or Quora), not on the concept of people discussing improvements to the existing content. It might be helpful to look for successful platforms where people are discussing joint work on the content, with features like discussions on general structure (e.g. changing the structure of the article), discussions on particular passages in the text (e.g. commenting on a particular paragraph), suggesting changes (e.g. a user suggests a better lead of the article) or flagging particular issues (e.g. a user reports that a particular section needs updating and provides source for it). Flow might be easier for providing feedback to newbies, but it is even worse for discussing content improvements (particularly because it does not work well with anything more complex than plain text, like citations or formulas), so some different platform is needed for article talk pages.
- To sum up, it would be great to make a research on collaborative editing tools (especially scientific ones) and see what we can learn from them — NickK (talk) 14:03, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Response by SSZ
SSZ's's thoughts on question 1
one key concept for BOTH questions would be ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, NAMELY: HOW to extract knowledge from Wikipedia good articles to answer SPECIFIC QUESTIONS from public users.
e.g.
1. I want to to know HOW to build a car engine. WP is expected to give me an answer!
2. I need to know if Martin Luther King, Jr. ever traveled to Europe. YES or No?
3. How many people live in Albania? The robot needs to extract this answer and give it to me orally instantly. No keyboard inputs!
Behind those simple examples IT programmers need to define what is information in WP, what is knowledge and what is expertise (through tags or algorithms)
SSZ 01:18, 24 February 2015 (UTC) (user:SSZ, not logged-in)
- Hi @SSZ:, great point. AI is a big question and in fact we are funding a small project specifically focused on this right now. However, "extracting" semantic knowledge is a bit of a bigger challenge. The first step is to actually structure it, which is what WikiData project is focused on. We are building a plan on how to evolve WikiData rapidly to provide the foundation for this type of search. What other AI-based user features do you envision? ...On another item, HOW (instructional) content is often not present Wikimedia and that is a separate issue that we may want to look into (at some point). And this is something that can be community driven as well! LilaTretikov (WMF) (talk) 01:38, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
HI Ms. Tretikov:)
I think you need to associate with M.I.T or the like for a project like that. My own expertise stops with artificial intelligence and artificial neural networks for the financial market/FOREX which i developed successfully. The rest, to be honest, is just ideas! I have also proposed, earlier in a WP forum, to have WP data (e.g. in economics) be updated automatically when associated with any given original source (in any format) in the "cloud" (e.g. GDP data and thousand others). My understanding is again limited by my own experience but suffice to say I designed a simple system that could be patented? Basically you need to identify each record in a digital file individually (thru tags/IDs may be) and call that mother record thru the internet for the update (each record field has an associate unique IP address). A central registry needs to be maintained to address each (automated) queries because that is how internet works (i.e. thru "packet switching"). I know automated updating for the internet exists already for Excel spreadsheet records for example.
I am sure you already know that but if you define where you want to go in terms of knowledge acquisition, it is simple to define automatically the path you need to take in terms of WP articles or (sub-articles/section) to get there. WP would need to define thru tags what is a per-requisite PATH for any given knowledge (i.e. Which WP articles are a prerequisite for any given knowledge). Probably someone has already this master model of all human knowledge figured out (in digital format) somewhere :) because they need that information since a long time to shift thru the gigantic amount of information they need to monitor every day (e.g. thru data mining). The rest can easily be automated!... you will need to cooperate with their scientists SOMEHOW...? ;)
Regrading the instructional part of WP, i agree with you and thought about it. The truth is WP and all other IT companies will have to re-define their mission statements somehow in coming years, simply because integration and efficiency will drive us all there. This will go at an exponential pace in my view. Do not look at past 10 years to predict the future (my guess only). Information is simply "consciousness/awareness" of something at its core. We cannot have artificial walls and say we are going to keep WP restricted to information and knowledge ONLY..
Dear Lila, I know a bit about your background in IT so I am not trying to compete with you or look smart because I know you know these things much better than I do, probably! Thanks. user:SSZ
- One last thing I missed may be (among thousand others!) is that WP articles need to be re-structured may be (some of them). Knowledge has an inherent structure (think DNA), so i say we need to discover, understand, and apply that knowledge on to HOW WP article need to be structured (at present, each editor is free to structure his/her "own" articles the way they want). By editing repeatedly same country economy WP information over years, I came to the conclusion that there is a hidden structure to all of it!...:) 173.63.116.126 17:27, 24 February 2015 (UTC) (User:SSZ)
69.11.241.134
Response by 69.11.241.134
69.11.241.134's thoughts on question 1
The # 1 challenge is to provide content that is usable on the widest variety of devices, especially low-powered or legacy ones.
69.11.241.134's thoughts on question 2
It would look like a Wikipedia without Media Viewer.
Marcus Cyron
Response by Marcus Cyron
Marcus Cyron's thoughts on question 1
- Stop hunting trends, only start doing good work! We are a free project, you don't have to sell us to the people outsite! We are not to sell - and definetly not by you in Frisco!
Marcus Cyron's thoughts on question 2
- Restart the Wikimedia Foundation as an international Institution. Not centered in the USA, not only interested in english language Wikipedia. Everything has to be for the people who really doing the Wikimedia work. Again: these people are WE - not you in Frisco! You should be only service personal! The Media Wiki software should become really free. As long the WMF is sitting on it (why? Wikimedia projects don't depend to the software! The important thing is the content!), nothing good will ever happen. The WMF has shown in a lot of years, that the WMF is not be able to handle it. The WMF must be lead by the Community, not by 10 people, of them only 3 are Community elected. Never ever again a technical person should be in a leading position as now Miss Tretjakov. She and the by her leaded substructers has shown clearly, that the Communities are not of importance for her and them. But remember: without OUR work you will can not longer collect money on our back. And stop making the work of Google - Wikidata in this way is the dead of everything that's free and of our project. The knowledge graph cretaed of our data from Wikidata says everything. Why we should work for nothing for Google? And then we should talk about the Foundations attack on the net neutrality. Wikipedia Zero is NOT a good idea! It is a big step helping to create an unfree internet.
- Or to say it easier: in the future we should do everything completely different than the Foundation actually does!
- But at the end I know, the Foundation is not really interested in my opinion. This here is the yearly joke by the Foundation. The 5th or 6th time the Foundation ask us and then doing it in the way they want and not we want brings me to a point that I belive here nothing anymore. 10 years Wikipedia (and other Wikimedia projects) has shown me, that the live could be so phantastic - if there would not be the Foundation, who hated us authors!
- Stop making a kind of Facebook out of Wikipedia and the sister projects. We are here to work on educational things, not to doing thumbs up or sharing Lolcat images! And stop creating new rules for "Global south" (rassict word!) - scientific work is a must for Wikmedia projects. In englisch, french, spanish, german, arabian, farsi, chinese and bantu.
- Dear Foundation: start really care about the author - not the reader and those, who maybe could give money to you - oh, sorry, "donate" for the project. We, the Authors, are still the main donators! Kiss our feet!
96.247.7.59
Response by 96.247.7.59
96.247.7.59's thoughts on question 2
PLEASE join forces with Quora. The two sites complement each other. Wikipedia doesn't have a public forum. Quora could be that forum.96.247.7.59
- This is a really interesting "outside the box" idea. Tell us more! --Lgruwell-WMF (talk) 01:57, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
夏浚博
Response by 夏浚博
夏浚博对问题一的想法
维基百科可以推出移动终端上的APP，特别是更改手机上维基的界面，它十分不美观。
- (Google translation, please improve) "Wikipedia APP may launch a mobile terminal, especially on Wikipedia change the phone interface, it is very pretty."
夏浚博对问题二的想法
更改编辑界面，这样的界面让一些非专业用户编辑十分不便，最好能像微软的Word一样方便编辑
- (Google translation, please improve) "Change the editing interface, this interface allows the user to edit some of the non-professional is very inconvenient, it is best to be as easy as Microsoft Word to edit"
217.73.142.34
Response by 217.73.142.34
217.73.142.34's thoughts on question 1
html_v2 is comming, you might want to check that, faster data speed.
- I think you might be referring to HTTP/2? The task to track progress of that support, is phab:T35890. Hope that helps. :) Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 02:24, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
217.73.142.34's thoughts on question 2
well , editors are a little stubborn but that's not my business :) , a new website layout perhaps but even like this is ok.
190.87.67.171
Response by 190.87.67.171
Las ideas de 190.87.67.171 acerca de la pregunta 2
en opinion personal seria llegar con mas informacion a los diversos idiomas no solo al ingles y tambien aumentar los contenidos multimedia (videos , imagenes , esquemas .)
- (Google translation, please improve) "in serious personal opinion arrive with more information to the various languages not only to English and also increase the multimedia content (video, photos, diagrams.)"
71.212.231.149
Response by 71.212.231.149
71.212.231.149's thoughts on question 1
The main trend aside from the ones mentioned that I would identify is increased difficulty in finding topics to which someone can contribute. This will be due to the increased numbers of stable articles (not stubs) in many languages, and the need for contributors who don't know they are contributors.
What I mean by the second point is that people who can translate, who can communicate and coordinate with other editors, who can clean up grammar, and who can research and cite topics well will be increasingly needed. These contributors aren't necessarily looking at the articles to which they can provide input (since it's not necessarily their field of interest - it's just something where they can, after looking at the research and information given by those who do know the topic, strengthen and encourage articles in).
This need will become even greater when many nonprofessionals and people unfamiliar with Wikipedia come online. Many people can contribute in one way or another:
- Knowledge (or enthusiasm and focus) on a topic.
- Ability to write good articles - skill at formatting, writing clearly, cleaning up grammar, and providing the most concise and useful summary of information.
- Ability to look into topics more, choose and cite literature correctly, interpret references, and build off of existing work (even without a prior knowledge of the subject).
- Skill at translation or coordination with people of different cultures, languages, and expertises - in order to spread and clarify the information presented, and provide help in interpreting references.
Unfortunately, only the first point is really taken care of with the current setup (people gravitate towards articles they are interested in). We hope that enough people with the other skills happen to be properly distributed among all the topics necessary, but it could easily fail for many niche topics (and topics particularly of interest to groups without as much educational access or prior knowledge to Wikipedia's methods).
71.212.231.149's thoughts on question 2
Collaboration and translation (both via things like Google Translate, to help automatically link enough information for people to work with, and manual translation and cooperation between language-bases for articles) are key. It will be important for the community to identify things:
- Identify which languages bases (groups of people who edit in one language, or even who edit in a particular language but are not as proficient in it) are large and have a lot to offer / a lot they need from other languages bases - and launch translation and coordination efforts to help these communicate and share information in ways clear to everyone.
- Identify what mobile and other platforms are vibrant and full of people, and ensure that Wikipedia is clear, translateable (if often in languages which need to coordinate more), and editable in simple ways from these. Provide clear explanations about this as much as possible.
- Identify what skills editors have and help them identify where these skills are needed in articles they see.
2A02:8109:9340:112C:C4AC:6054:BE26:2502
Response by 2A02:8109:9340:112C:C4AC:6054:BE26:2502
2A02:8109:9340:112C:C4AC:6054:BE26:2502's thoughts
I don't know what major trends there are going to be, but it's important for me to note some reservations regarding "mobile" and "the next billion users".
Reservation regarding "mobile"
It is only natural to want to adapt to new ways of access, all the more so when these new ways are becoming the major ones. But WMF must not let that set us back. As long as "adapting to mobile" means providing easier mobile interfaces for consuming, creating and improving content, one might debate whether it is worth the investment or not, but other than that there's little potential for harm. But if "adapting to mobile" comes at the expense of non-mobile, and if that happens when mobile interfaces - even if more frequent than non-mobile ones - are still inferior to them (in terms of ease of data exchange, such as the ability to enter or to read large amounts of text with speed and accuracy), that will be taking us backwards. It is important to consider not (only) the quantity, but (also) the quality: as long as accessing Wikimedia projects through non-mobile technology provides a qualitatively better interaction than through mobile, it will be a mistake to neglect such channels in favour of mobile access, even if and when the latter is more common. 2A02:8109:9340:112C:C4AC:6054:BE26:2502 02:41, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Reservation regarding "the next billion users"
I believe Latin-Americans, Asians and Africans are people just like North-Americans and Europeans. I doubt that they have less "preconceived notion about any Wikimedia project" than any North-American or European who is new to Wikimedia projects or that they should have "new motivations for participating when they do". In fact, I find those statements offensive. At the very least, I expect whomever is making such statements to explain what they mean: what "preconceived notion" do North-Americans and Europeans have that Latin-Americans, Asians and Africans don't have, and what "new motivations" may Latin-Americans, Asians and Africans have when they participate? 2A02:8109:9340:112C:C4AC:6054:BE26:2502 02:41, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
2601:D:9080:156:863:774:DB6C:3A7E
Response by 2601:D:9080:156:863:774:DB6C:3A7E
2601:D:9080:156:863:774:DB6C:3A7E's thoughts on question 2
As the English language becomes more ubiquitous across all cultures, people from non-Western cultures will be gradually assimilated into the rational, secular, scientific, and humanities approaches espoused in Western knowledge traditions. Therefore, it is incumbent on Wiki to continue to prepare for a higher percentage of mobile users (esp in non-western cultures where cellular infrastructures is far ahead of others).
Luobogao
Response by Luobogao
Luobogao's thoughts on question 1
Make GFW to unlock the Wikipedia
Luobogao's thoughts on question 2
An magical and has a quantity of useful info
50.101.171.167
Response by 50.101.171.167
50.101.171.167's thoughts on question 2
make an app
Tôi là người Việt Nam.
Để trang web thu hút nhiều người xem thì cần phải có nội dung rõ ràng.
- (Google translation, please improve) For sites attract more people to see the need to have explicit content
50.96.154.80
Response by 50.96.154.80
50.96.154.80's thoughts on question 2
I see a slowdown in internet use by the public due to gov't involvement and going more toward the storage devices able to store very large amounts of data. Such as one storage device for phone numbers, address, etc. but can also be combined into several popular items such as music, video & phone numbers. All this because of problems caused by hackers, gov't or speed being compromised.
67.249.140.141
Response by 67.249.140.141
67.249.140.141's thoughts on question 1
More of the same, mostly.
67.249.140.141's thoughts on question 2
A healthy project has a coherent administration, who keeps fairly hands-off, but intervenes when major, active efforts are being made to bias the content or structure of a project away from reality (as adjudged by the preponderance of the evidence).
Administration is unavoidable and bad administration is trouble. The attempts to avoid administration in Wikipedia have led to bad administration, and as a direct result, Wikipedia is sick.
There are, as is well documented, cabals of "editors" on Wikipedia who have been completely screwing up a large number of pages, and getting away with it. Uncontroversial and obscure pages survive fine. But pages with controversy are where these gangs of editors get going, and they end up with masses of bias -- the sexist biases have been well-documented, but there are plenty of others. The bias creeps in because "neutral point of view" and "no original research" *invite* bias, which substitutes for the prohibited evidence. Wikipedia editors refuse to recognize the value of primary sources... when it suits their biases.
An *evidence-based* standard is the only one which can prevent cabals of editors from using their own biases to edit Wikipedia. And it can only be implemented with actual management of some sort, whether elected or appointed... not with self-appointed, self-perpetuating cabals.
Some of the other projects are much healthier. Wikisource, Wikibooks, Wikiquote and Wikimedia Commons have a clear remit and do not have the same problem with biased selection. (Though Wikiquote has issues with *attribution*, which is a matter of research and requires primary sources.) If they ever start being picky about what they include, however -- and they probably will someday, whether due to lack of space or due to harassment from governments -- they *will* end up with the same problem: it is fundamentally an administration problem.
You can't bypass the administration problem. Indeed, you need to research it intensively to figure out the right thing to do. There's a vast literature on it, both in business and in government and politics. Please stop attempting to bypass it.
119.226.254.66
Response by 119.226.254.66
119.226.254.66's thoughts on question 2
Provide free high speed internet all over the world! u r bound to get all the people.
117.199.9.58
Response by 117.199.9.58
117.199.9.58's thoughts on question 1
peple are travelling more and more all over the world and as such radio will become more and more popular. wikipedia should consider making available its data in the voice form,as this is not interactive.
117.199.9.58's thoughts on question 2
there is little scopetp alter the contents of wikipedia item wise as the present schemem is suficient and covers the needs of all kinds of readers.
make money by knowledge
110.178.*.*
Response by 110.178.*.*
110.178.*.*'s thoughts on question 1
The major trends, I identify, are to make money by knowledge.
110.178.*.*'s thoughts on question 2
Wikimedia projects may open up sub-projects like blogs, social networks, etc.
Anders Wennersten
Response by Anders Wennersten
Anders Wennersten's thoughts on question 1
the "competitor" landscape will radically change
Paper encyclopedias no longer exist. On-line encycopedias are struggling. Mediahouse is scrapping their fact/research departments
On-line newswebbs is getting better, also cooperaive ones. Expert databses are getting more like Wikipedia, a colloborate effort
This means the traditional "competotors" diminish, while new ones emerge
It puts a double demand on our Wikiepdia etc being more professional. In many ways our biggest ones are already up to this standard but many middle ones and smller ones is not.
166.170.14.95
Response by 166.170.14.95 Your Monterey article was excellent ,edinformative. everything I view from Wikipedia articals,on all topics,educates me, show me your physical office address,and to others on Wikipedia websites,then you'll be loaded with cash. your service is that great.
XboXmaker
Response by XboXmaker
XboXmaker's thoughts on question 1
I think that the cost of technology will go down, people will simultaneously get more educated and not get education, and almost everyone will have electronic devices. However, this will increase the demand of electricity, increasing global warming, which will eventually wipe out humanity. To prevent this, I think that Wikipedia should put interest on alternative power sources than coal burning, because those will help humanity as a whole.
XboXmaker's thoughts on question 2
Based on these trends, I think that a more interactive Wikipedia could help, possibly specifically designed for the classroom. An interactive resource used to highlight fun facts, make presentations, and quizzes about miscellaneous items and topics relevant to said schoolwork would help classrooms, and as a result, the next generation of children. Also, I agree with most of the people here that bias should be removed, because schools are using Wikipedia more as a resource, which can lead to many biased pages. Sincerely, A seventh grader
Begruh
Antwort von Begruh (englisch: Response by Begruh)
Begruhß Gedanken zu Frage 1
Das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen (oder etwas [Sinn-]Ähnliches) für jeden Menschen (vorerst leider nur auf der kleinen blauen Murmel), und damit auch die Achtung der Menschenrechte jedes Menschen (und nicht nur derer, die Geld oder [materiellen/eingebildeten] Besitz haben/glauben zu haben – siehe dazu ggf. auch unter Wikipedia:de:Arbeitsteilung). -- Begruh, am 24.2.2015, 05:47 (MEZ)
- Google translate: Please help improve: The unconditional basic income (or something [of meaning] like) for each person (for now unfortunately only on the small blue marble), and hence also the respect for human rights of every human being (and not only those who benefit or [material / imaginary] possession have / have to believe - see possibly also Wikipedia: en: division of labor).
Begruhß Gedanken zu Frage 2
Keine Ahnung.., wenn die Wikipedia und alle anhaftenden [Wikimedia-]Unternehmungen (oder in Newsprech -Projekte) den kommenden Wandel überleben (und ich hoffe das sehr) wird die (dann hoffentlich noch immer vernünftige Mehrheit der Menschheit oder) [menschliche Welt-]Gemeinschaft (sofern wir dann nicht von Robotern oder Automaten beherrscht werden, die wiederum auch wieder nur von einigen Wenigen gesteuert/geführt/beherrscht und, wenn deren [An]Führer selbst nicht immer sehr gut aufpassen, unter Umständen ebenso irgendwann selbst [auch] ganz ersetzt werden) hoffentlich in Ruhe/ohne Hast/ohne zu hetzen/ohne [sinnlos] gehetzt zu werden und mit Vernunft [viele weitere] gute Möglichkeiten [er]finden. -- Begruh, am 24.2.2015, 06:18 (MEZ)
- Google translate: Please help improve:No idea .. if Wikipedia and all adherent [Wikimedia-] companies (or in Newsprech projects) upcoming change to survive (and I hope very much) is the (hopefully still reasonable majority of humanity or) [human world -] Community (if we will not dominated by robots or machines, which in turn again controlled by only a few individuals / out / controlled and, if the [on] leaders themselves do not always pay attention very well, may as well at some point itself [also are] completely replaced) hopefully in peace / without haste / without rushing to / rushed without [pointless] to be and with reason [many other] good chance he [] find.
Tokyogirl79
Response by Tokyogirl79
Tokyogirl79's thoughts on question 1
I see anonymity continuing to become a large trend, especially as more and more sites tend to tighten up security to avoid the obvious issues that come with this. (Vandalism, bullying, spam, etc) I also predict that language will become more blended when it comes to English, so it may be a good idea to look into what we (Wikipedia) can do to make this easier for people who need simpler pages. This could probably be best done by putting an emphasis on improving the Simple English Wikipedia and bringing over more and more pages.
Tokyogirl79's thoughts on question 2
Overall I think that it'd be important to have projects with good, clear communication. A lot of people have trouble with guideline pages that look very long and complicated, which not only discourages them but also encourages misunderstandings of policy. A lot of people quote the "ignore all rules" page and then a lot of people will quote policy to the point where they draw a hard line- I should know, I've done that on occasion, albeit mostly because I want to ensure that every page gets the same treatment. (I've had a few people accuse other pages of getting special treatment.) Something that recently came to mind about this sort of thing is that it may not be a bad idea to work with people who represent some of the more problem areas and find ways to explain the guidelines and content in ways that would make sense to them. In other words, if we have a ton of paid editors misunderstanding the guidelines for whatever reason then it may be a good idea to work with a paid editor to find ways to explain the rules to where they won't misunderstand them as much. Note that by misunderstanding editors I mean the ones that do have relatively good faith and want to genuinely learn the rules, as opposed to the ones who deliberately misunderstand and show no interest in trying to learn the rules. We'll always have issues with various types of editors, but having someone (a volunteer of course) who can speak to them on their level may be pretty invaluable. The scrutiny would have to be sky high, but paid editing is never going to go away so we need to find better ways of dealing with this. We can still get rid of a lot of the worst offenders who show no interest in improving, but I'm just afraid that we may be frightening away some paid editors who may actually want to positively contribute without turning into Wiki-PR. Of course it's not an easy solution but I do want to avoid driving off people who may want to work on the articles that frankly, a lot of people don't frequently edit (businesses, etc).
183.212.219.7
Response by 183.212.219.7
183.212.219.7对问题一的想法
...物联网...
- (Machine translation, please improve) Things
183.212.219.7对问题二的想法
...让全球网民联合起来编写…
- (Machine translation, please improve) Let the world's Internet users together to write
173.30.13.228
Response by 173.30.13.228
173.30.13.228's thoughts on question 2
Wikipedia and Watson from IBM should into a technology called "Wikiwatson" which essentially allows artificial intelligence to navigate the massive amount of information available on wikipedia cross-language and cross subject in a conversational manner by both writing and speaking with "it".
Carlos Romulo Jara
Response by Carlos Romulo Jara
Carlos Romulo Jara's thoughts on question 2
The world needs people willing to share the knowledge to help suffering people, AFRICA is allways in my mind, so the last 27 years, I have spent PREPARING AND DESIGNING NEW AND INNOVATIVE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT TOOLS TO BE ABLE TO FIRST, HELP MY COUNTRY, ECUADOR WHICH THROUGH HISTORY HAS SUFFERED THE DESEASES OF A CAOTIC SYSTEM WHICH IS MISS USED BY THE OLD AND NEW POLITITIANS TO FURTHER CORRUPT AND DESTROY THE POOR SOCIAL MISS-ESTRUCTURE WHICH SERVES THE CORRUPT POLITITIANS AND GROUPS WHICH PROFIT FROM MAINTAINING THE STATUS QUO WITH THE NEVER ENDING PROMISE THAT THEY WILL CONTROL CORRUPTION DECEIVING THE ECUADORIAN PEOPLE ALL THE TIME AND NEVER COMPLIYING WITH SAID PROMISES.
The WORLD EVIL IN NOT POVERTY, but those who practice and allow CORRUPTION TO GENERATE MORE CORRUPTION, for this reason, the REAL CHALLENGE IS NOT FIGHTING THE SHADOWS OF CORRUPTION, BUT CONFRONTING CORRUPTION ITSELF, FRONTALLY WITH NO FEAR, iT IS THE SYSTEM OF CORRUPTION WHICH ALLOW IT TO PROSPER,
Its my appreciation that you ARE THE MOST WONDERFUL TOOL TO WIN THIS WAR...TOGETHER WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD, I AM SURE WE CAN....IF WE DO IT FOR LATIN AMERICA,
THIS SAME MODERN INNOVATION IN MASSIVE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT METHODS DESIGNED DURING THE LAST 25 YEARS, WILL ASIST AFRICA TO ONCE AND FOR ALL OVERCOME THE ETERNAL SUFFERING THIS LOVED NATION GOES THROUGH.
<private info removed> I will be glad FOR YOUR INTEREST IN JOINING OUR HUMBLE KNOWLEDGE WITH YOUR MAGNIFICENT WAY OF EXPRESSING YOUR LOVE FOR PEOPLE....
LOVE,,,
CARLOS R. JARA.
99.200.22.182
Response by 99.200.22.182
Wouldn't websites about people be nice, if deceased over 100 yrs we might find out their past lineage, such as if Justin Morgan were really apart of New England's earliest settlers, like the Mergin family, from Holland? And possible links to horses like figure, and where those blood lines have gone as far as equestrian awards, histories, etc? As well as links to history of music in this country, evolution and connections since inception. Was he a part of those or derived from the group of gentlemen involved in such things as the 'Shape note system', and which churches, or fraternal organizations got them going or kept the heritage of them?
99.137.236.251
Response by 99.137.236.251
99.137.236.251's thoughts on question 1
- 1 keyboards and mice becoming less used, voice recognition used for most apps.
99.137.236.251's thoughts on question 2
- 2 voice search capability of course!
- As somebody who uses voice searching on her phone all the time, I think that's an interesting idea, 99.137.236.251. :) I'd sure use it. --Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk) 12:27, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
73.181.121.163
Response by 73.181.121.163
73.181.121.163's thoughts on question 1
many people use shared access to telephones. saved searches, already-clicked-on indicators for embedded links may appear another color, confusing the reader as to whether or not they had already read that page. cultural sensitivity is important, as editing another's posts for inaccuracies may be perceived as 'rude'. the need to structure wikipedia/wikimedia as a third space, suspended from cultural norms and regulations is highly important. egoism in user names might be hard for some to comprehend.
73.181.121.163's thoughts on question 2
instant clarification links for words, photos, etc for those unsure/ unexposed to foreign items/ concepts. more fluid/ organic/ realistic voice speech software.
Kingronak
Response by Kingronak
Since the next 1 billion represent that much more knowledge and potential to share, I would recommend that Wikipedia and Wikimedia align themselves to the goal of making it easier than ever to create, edit and share the knowledge. In order to do this, 2 features I can recommend are: A little 5 star choice/opinion survey on every page, to try and identify the pages that are being marked consistently for say Opinionated Article or Unverified Facts or Poor Grammar etc. etc. A highlight tool feature, so that even if the person doesn't have the time to edit anything, they can at least highlight sentences, terms etc. that they feel are incorrect, or leave little comments to suggest a change, so someone else who is making the changes can come in and take those into consideration.
59.99.43.83
Response by 59.99.43.83
59.99.43.83's thoughts on question 1
Wiki helps to keep everything balanced!
59.99.43.83's thoughts on question 2
All items should be noticed!
121.211.197.137
Response by 121.211.197.137
121.211.197.137's thoughts on question 2
Well, to start you should start telling more of the truth, speciall in events related to colonization and the deeds of the West. A few month ago I wrote an article about the Victorian Holocausts perpetrated by Lord Lytton and Queen Victoria in 3 oportunities, no in one, like your article conveniently describes. The the fammines from 1870 to 1902 are widely documented in the book " The Victorian Holocausts" and more than 30 million people lost their lives when Lord Lytton purposely let them die, and shipped all the available food to England. It is also described in the BBC documentary, Racism : a History. You could have verified all of this. Instead you decided to edit out that information whihc makes me think that you are more on the side of Western Imperialism and White domination of the world. It seems to me that your claim, reagarding a free encyclopedia for the the world, is regretably another instrument to progagate lies and a version of history that suit the interest of The Anglo American Empire, hidding the awful crimes that have been committed to million of nameless people without never having the possibility of any justice or compensation. Sadly I know now, that you are just another Western Institution, with the same political agenda. It is more of the same ugly western barbaric culture.
Bromine stanton
Response by Bromine stanton
Bromine stanton's thoughts on question 1
(the following is with regards to wikipedia only as I do not have sufficient experience to comment on the other projects) 1. There are several points with regards to a new population from asia and latin america that are important and must be addressed. some are pre-existing issues and would require further strategies to deal with. - the bias on many pages. this is obvious, and has been pointed out time and time again. obviously some subjects are in themselves a bias, however that does not justify there being heavily biased pages on what are supposed to be neutral subjects. Although there are measures already put into place to address such issues, they are not sufficient, furthermore, some parties with financial motivation may and may have already influenced certain topics, given that wikipedia is prime influencing space due to the nature of the advertised encyclopedia aspect of this site.
- more translations this is obvious given the new population. Whether this is done through paid translation of pre-existing pages or user collaboration is up to the population to decide. Given wikipedia's passive aggressive fundraising, it is unlikely to be the former.
Bromine stanton's thoughts on question 2
(the following is with regards to wikipedia only as I do not have sufficient experience to comment on the other projects) 2. I feel that for future projects to be successful, a base template must be made where in a certain amount of people fitting a certain criteria must be fulfilled before it can be allowed to go forward. for example, a subject on human trafficking (not the main article, perhaps a daughter page regarding trafficking in a certain part of asia and the methods employed) may require input from both an expert on this subject from an asian country within the region of the article's geographical scope, in addition to a western expert with extensive knowledge of human trafficking in general. This will keep bias to a minimum. Only once both these people have wrote and reviewed a certain article and come to a unanimous decision about its contents can an article then be published. Aside from this, for foreign language translation, it would be necessary to have several people of the translation to review the article before its published to keep reviewing errors to a minimum.
whilst this is an idealistic situation, in practice it is most likely not possible, and hence we'll have the same sprawl we get now with regards to some subjects.
103.24.97.122
Response by 103.24.97.122
103.24.97.122's thoughts on question 1
Although English is now the universal language o commerce and science, not everyone speaks or understands it.
This will be major trend in eth coming years. Combined with the easy access provided by mobile devices, Wikipedia will continue in its position of the go-to source of information on any subject.
103.24.97.122's thoughts on question 2
As more and more people gain access to the internet and thus Wikipedia, translation of the content of the English Wikipedia into regional languages is imperative. Wikipedia Foundation and its volunteers must focus on the efforts of ensuring that the content in the Wikipedia of other languages should include latest articles
Anonymous
thoughts on question 1
Well, I'd like to see a weakening of the dominance of English, but that seems unlikely, especially if Wikipedia continues to be so hospitable to the spammers who favor English in their hunts for wealthy suckers. (Yes, I know that they aren't all Nigerians, but that's the bad rap they get.) I'd prefer to see it going more voice-based in local vernaculars, including flexible translation into languages that don't even have the corresponding pages in the users' languages. I think the local linguistic communities need to be supported in augmenting their own translations because they have the vested interest.
thoughts on question 2
Stumped me here, because it seems to me that Wikipedia has become a kind of closed cult. I guess there must be some "thriving and healthy" projects in progress, but I have no idea what they are and therefore no baseline from which to predict the future. Apparently this is supposed to be anonymous?
- Only if you are not logged in. · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 07:13, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Pbsouthwood
Response by Pbsouthwood
Pbsouthwood's thoughts on question 1
- Voice and voice controlled input and output on mobile devices (also but less extensively on non-mobile workstations.)
- Admin crisis. Loss of admins for various reasons and shortage of replacements.
- Escalating dramah mainly by anonymous participants. POV and political gaming of the system.
Pbsouthwood's thoughts on question 2
- Structure articles to allow comprehensible voice output. Provide alternative descriptions at beginner, lay and expert levels for each article as many technical articles are becoming incomprehensible to the average reader.
- Make it easier to get and lose admin rights. Split them and allocate only those which the applicant asks for. Remove those which are not used well. Make it less of a big issue than it currently is.
- Difficult to make anonymous participants accountable for their actions. I don't have any simple solutions to this problem. It could kill or cripple the projects.
John
Response by John
John's thoughts on question 1
Self-promotion and manipulation of the project by governments and companies.
John's thoughts on question 2
Reformed governance. Make Jimbo Wales's role fully honorary. Reform Arbcom. Listen to the community (ie those who write the articles) more. Reaffirm that we are not an experiment in social justice but a project devoted to writing a free online encyclopedia.
82.102.244.40
Response by 82.102.244.40
82.102.244.40's thoughts on question 1
انا اقترح عليكم التعاون وتوقيع اتفاقيات مع الجامعات والكليات بحيث يصبح هنالك نسبة من العلامة الجامعية توضع للطالب حسب اسهامه في اثراء ويكيبيديا.
- (Machine translation, please improve) I suggest the signing of cooperation agreements with universities and colleges so that there becomes a proportion of university mark placed by the student contribution to enrich Wikipedia.
82.102.244.40's thoughts on question 2
لا اعلم اراها مثل ما هي لم تتطور
- (Machine translation, please improve) I do not know like what I see is not developed
84.188.228.143
Response by 84.188.228.143
84.188.228.143's thoughts on question 2
hello, I guess you need to take more informations and a game would be nice.
In Sincerely A + R
Bitwatt
Response by Bitwatt
Bitwatt's thoughts on question 1
La programmazione Fondi europei 2014 - 2020 punta ad una strategia per una crescita intelligente, sostenibile e inclusiva per l'Europa 2020 I tre obiettivi fissati per l'Europa 2020 faranno inevitabilmente emergere nuovi stili di vita, nel tempo libero e nelle attività lavorative, basati su nuove istanze socio-culturali ed economiche illustrate in alcuni termini quali Condivisione , Sostenibilità, Coesione sociale e alcuni altri termini presenti sul libro di Wikipedia Voci per l'innovazione in ordine alfabetico.
Tutto quanto sopra premesso è prevedibile che ai Dispositivi mobili, a partire dai Mobile Internet Device, saranno richieste nuove funzionalità in grado di contribuire ad una crescita intelligente, sostenibile e inclusiva per l'Europa 2020:
dal Mobile payment, alla prenotazione di servizi quali car sharing o bike sharing, prenotazione mezzi di viaggio (aereo, noleggio auto, ecc), funzione video-proiettore incorporato per condividere con altri utenti informazioni su grande schermo, ecc., e più in generale nuove funzionalità che serviranno sopratutto alla gestione di tutti gli aspetti della quotidianità: dalla propria salute, al conto in banca, agli spostamenti, al reperimento di un'informazione utile, ecc., in pratica il cellulare / telefonino sarà sempre più la "chiave digitale" con cui non solo aprire la porta di casa o accendere il televisore e controllare i rifornimenti nel frigorifero, ma accedere anche agli archivi personali o di lavoro ospitati su servizi di
Cloud computing .
Al miliardo di nuove persone su Internet, e a quelle già presenti da tempo sulla rete, saranno offerti ulteriori servizi a valore aggiunto in spazi a gestione mista (pubblico / privata) per facilitare la condivisione di risorse tecnologiche, l'apprendimento in modo formale, non-formale e informale in luoghi quali Biblioteche, Scuole Aperte, Piazze telematiche , Coworking, Telecentri, Smart Work Centers, Fab lab, ecc. per rispondere al bisogno innato degli esseri umani di socialità e di partecipazione alla vita socio-culturale ed economica.
- Machine translation; please improve!: Programming European Funds 2014 - 2020 points to a strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth for Europe 2020 The three goals set for 2020 will inevitably emerge new lifestyles, leisure and work activities, based new instances of socio-cultural and economic terms such as illustrated in some Sharing, Sustainability, Social Cohesion and some other terms on Wikipedia book Voices for Innovation in alphabetical order.
All of the above circumstances it is expected that the mobile devices, from mobile Internet devices will be required new features that can contribute to smart, sustainable and inclusive growth for Europe 2020: from Mobile payment, the booking of services such as car sharing or bike sharing, booking means of travel (air, car rental, etc.), video-function built-in projector to share information with other users on the big screen, etc., and, more generally, new features that will help your overall management of all aspects of everyday life: from their own health, the bank account, the movements, the retrieval of useful information, etc., in practice, the cell / mobile phone will always be the "digital key" with which not only open the door or turn on the TV and check your supply in the refrigerator, but also access to the archives personal or business services hosted on Cloud computing.
One billion new people on the Internet, and to those already present for some time on the network, will be offered more value-added services in areas managing mixed (public / private) to facilitate the sharing of technological resources, learning in a formal way, not -formale and informal in places such as libraries, Open Schools, Squares telematics, Coworking, telecentres, Smart Work Centers, Fab lab, etc. to respond to the innate need of humans of sociality and participation in socio-cultural and economic.
- Machine translation; please improve!: Programming European Funds 2014 - 2020 points to a strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth for Europe 2020 The three goals set for 2020 will inevitably emerge new lifestyles, leisure and work activities, based new instances of socio-cultural and economic terms such as illustrated in some Sharing, Sustainability, Social Cohesion and some other terms on Wikipedia book Voices for Innovation in alphabetical order.
Considerazioni di Bitwatt sulla domanda n. 2
Ai fini di Wikimedia è fondamentale tenere presente la veloce evoluzione in atto nella riorganizzazione degli ambienti per l'apprendimento formale (Scuole primarie, secondarie ed Università) per individuare le esigenze di informazione e conoscenza di cittadine /i del XXI secolo - L’Aula del XXI Secolo come Ambiente di Apprendimento
- Machine translation; please improve!: For the purposes of Wikimedia is crucial to keep in mind the rapid evolution taking place in the reorganization of the environments for formal learning (Primary, Secondary and University) to identify information needs and knowledge of the city / the XXI century - The House of XXI Century as Learning Environment
130.95.254.91
Response by 130.95.254.91
130.95.254.91's thoughts on question 1
People want correct information. They want to be able to say "I read on wikipedia that..." with confidence.
130.95.254.91's thoughts on question 2
I think a tiny "citation needed" isn't enough - parts that need revision or citation should be more obvious to the reader.
Farrukh1200
Response by Farrukh1200
Farrukh1200's thoughts on question 1
Well, to have some billion users we have to make the site excessively versatile , more appealing and truly informative. At least every article ought to have one video of its topic.And the articles must be full of authenticity and reality, many of Wiki's articles have mistakes and aren't based on the facts.The autonomy of editing articles should be seized at a level. More over the format should be changed now and must be having a lot of pictures and audio clips because the pictures will indubitably intensify the ability of understanding any topic. And if these desired changes would be made the Wikipedia would be rated as most informative site in the world.
Farrukh1200's thoughts on question 2
Verily, in accordance with my perspective the Wikimedia's projects are already extremely magnificent and captivating and as I am of the view that any sort of changes shouldn't be made. Let it go as it is.
static content
Response by Ghilt
Ghilt's thoughts on question 1
A general visible trend is the constant loss of authors/content creators and content updaters. A possible effect could be static content, which in turn might not draw as many new readers, as desired. Things like superprotect didn't help in motivation for active participation.
Ghilt's thoughts on question 2
- Increase the awareness that anybody can participate. To increase participation further, maybe remove superprotect to increase the 'we'-spirit in the communities.
Dfcloete
Response by Dfcloete
Dfcloete's thoughts on question 1
Thank you for the opportunity to comment. On the one hand - as a highly academic user of Wikipedia, I feel under qualified to speculate on the use by more casual users. On the other hand - as an African with a passion for the continent, I really want to help.
Education growth in Africa has the potential for placing a huge demand on Wikipedia. Once empowered with internet-capabilities, the potential arises for millions of users to find answers here, where they've always been. The challenge remains to present it in a way that makes Wikipedia the preferred source of information (refer to part 2).
This also applies to adults. Adult education is a major field in Africa. Linking these mature students to resources should be a major priority.
Again from the academic side, referencing must remain a priority. Although it is tempting to create a "one-stop-shop", it will always be important to trace the source of information.
Dfcloete's thoughts on question 2
Wikipedia is often the first answer to any question posted online. If google continues to refer to Wikipedia as the first reference, Wikipedia will always find new users as they come online for the first time.
The usefulness can be expanded by further increasing utility as instructional. A very specific application of this could be farming. As the continent strives to feed itself (and the rest of the world), farmers can find increasing benefit from online instruction. Imagine a world where first-world scientists have a direct line of communication to the 3rd world farmer, analyzing his conditions on the ground and giving advice on methods. This way, science and reality are directly linked. Has this not always been the point of Wikipedia.
This is the simplest implementation of the idea. I can envisage endless applications involving communication, engineering and even construction methods in a fast-changing landscape.
How does Wikimedia feel about sponsored posts? I see so many articles about brands and products. Is any revenue generated from such posts? Objectivity is certainly a major concern when such ideas are put on the table, but perhaps sponsored sections within posts could be "sold". This idea requires further formulation and I'm sure someone is working on it. Just throwing a stone in the bush.
Again, thank you for the opportunity to help build a better Wikipedia
124.40.56.251
Response by 124.40.56.251
124.40.56.251's thoughts on question 2
This site is great
NehalDaveND
Response by NehalDaveND
NehalDaveND's thoughts on question 1
There are so many mobile users are there to ready to contribute via Mobile and iphone. But The don't know how to work on Wokipedia with Mobile. I feel in my community so many users want editing with Mobile. Because if some one is travelling so he prefer Mobile. He can edit, read or so many other things in Wikipedia. Secondly we should train Admins to encourage the user to work with Mobile. Internationally we should prepare a guidance and presentation for mobile editing.
Problem will not occur, when you do this for big communities. I know so many user's are belongs big community, but one day big community was small community. So you should work equally for all. If we want to rich our content, we should reach the person. So we should follow RICH & REACH policy.
NehalDaveND's thoughts on question 2
Wikimedia is always work for Big community. They are always help only big community. Which is very bad. I explain this with an example. In our lives small kind is always protected by parents. Because they know that baby can't ask if baby wants something, baby can't protect itself because lack of knowledge and experience. But here we are provide everything to School going boys. And leave the small baby on road. One reason may be that, we are giving FREE, so if some one not doing in small community let it be. What is the big deal.
I am not aware about around the world. Because I am very small person. I am living in small city of India. I felt that Meta always doing for big community not for small community. Regarding The India next year our internet user will be increase 15% faster than this year[1][2]. You can understand why am I saying this. You should focus on Indian Languages.
I am sure meta will not give focus on some other languages of other small counties. Because they work only big community. So my advice or opinion is please build up small community and you will find that so many user will work on Wikipedia and other project's of WikiMedia. NehalDaveND (talk) 08:05, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- ↑ "Internat usage in India". press release. internetlivestats.com. Retrieved 24/02/2015.
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65.190.85.123
Response by 65.190.85.123
65.190.85.123's thoughts on question 1
People will keep adding information to the Web, and people are always coming up with new ways to visually/interactively present this information.
65.190.85.123's thoughts on question 2
A thriving and healthy Wikimedia project will have people going to it for information before any other site. Based on future trends, to achieve this, Wikimedia will need to stay on top of any new information discovered, and Wikimedia may have to update their format, because sometimes appearance makes all the difference.
Katpatuka
Response by Katpatuka
Katpatuka's thoughts on question 1
Speed. I am waiting 4-7 seconds to get a page opened - without images! Especially a mobile does not need the whole page loaded at once - An excerpt when opening would be enough while the rest successively could load in the background.
Katpatuka's thoughts on question 2
Since I'm mapping on OSM and using wikipedia (WP) as reference for geographical subjects I am still missing basic information on counties, towns, rivers etc. - let it be the local or English WP. Local WP communities in conjunction with local communes and/or schools could organize projects to get basic geo-information of their region added to WP.
Rmir2
Response by Rmir2
Rmir2's thoughts on question 1
With the growing use of wikipedia I think that a growing demand will be documented information. In many cases a lot of notes all-ready excist but there is still a hugh amount of information without links or notes. I think, that people are going to ask for the possibility to check a particular piece of information to see on what it is based. This is the way to increase wikipedias credibility.
Rmir2's thoughts on question 2
I think, that short information about a subject will not be enough in the future. Articles will develope into monographs about a subject, giving a complete overview of a subject and, say, scientific investigations into it. As a supplement, I think that a complete bibliography on litterature (printed or on the internet) will be an obligation in the future. I also think, that in the case of unsettled or unsolved subjects it will be required, that arguments and counter-arguments are presented for the reader to be able to himself or herself to decide if an argument is valid or not. Again it is a question about credibility.
Therefore, I think that these issues should be part of projects in the near future.
111.73.244.192
Response by 111.73.244.192
111.73.244.192对问题一的想法
在中国大陆等地区的网络审查行为进一步的威胁互联网的健康发展。
- (Machine translation, please improve) Further threatened the healthy development of the Internet censorship in mainland China, such as the behavior of the region.
111.73.244.192对问题二的想法
1.用户门槛低，例如：广泛使用可视化编辑器，减低对较为艰深的维基语法的要求。 2.对移动设备友好，有好用的客户端。
- (Machine translation, please improve)
- 1. The user threshold is low, for example: the widespread use visual editor, for the more difficult and reduce the wiki syntax requirements.
- 2. The mobile device friendly, easy to use client.
Magiers
Response by Magiers
Magiers's thoughts on question 1
The trend to focus on quality instead of quantity, on content instead of raising money, on the individual reader and author instead of billions.
Magiers's thoughts on question 2
In healthy projects, the content builders would call the tune, not the bureaucrats, functionaries and strategists, that are out of touch with the project realities. Individual and unique content would be appreciated more than levelling everything down.
Русскоязычным сюда!
Википедия по моиму взгляду будет пополнятся новой информации и будет процветать на многие-многие века!!! Самая лучшая, и самая без рекламмная, всемирная энциклопедия!!! H-Remix (talk) 08:34, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- (Machine translation, please improve) Wikipedia on my views will be updated with the new information and will flourish for many, many centuries !!! The best, and most without reklammnaya, The World Encyclopedia !!!
2602:306:BD69:7430:497D:2BD2:E7FB:6E64
Response by 2602:306:BD69:7430:497D:2BD2:E7FB:6E64
2602:306:BD69:7430:497D:2BD2:E7FB:6E64's thoughts on question 1
As iPad and other tablets are gaining in popularity, and are replacing laptops, I think shorter articles would be useful. The "table of contents" in an article should be in the first screen, so the user can click to the section of interest, instead of having to scroll first.
2602:306:BD69:7430:497D:2BD2:E7FB:6E64's thoughts on question 2
I'm not sure how to answer this question. For historical articles (that change less frequently), I think no change in process is required. But for articles based on current events (for example, the status of an ISIS hostage threatened with execution) or anything that is current, necessitates frequent updates. These types of articles should have some kind of process to make searching for the event quick and easy (without many "false" hits). I don't know now if article updates are published immediately, or are first looked at by a moderator. But the biggest challenges will be keeping articles on current events timely and accurate.
Shyamal
Response by Shyamal
Shyamal's thoughts on question 1
Trends to look out for:
- There will be more sources of content on the Internet
- The increased competition will lead to lower attention spans among readers
- Mobile users will be able to contribute more high bandwidth content - videos and audio - with less review and quality control
- Producing scholarly content via mobile interfaces will become more challenging
- The niche for encyclopaedic content will continue to exist and that niche will become more concretely defined
Shyamal's thoughts on question 2
What we might need in the face of these trends:
- More server "intelligence"
- Collecting, analyzing and automatically responding to user behaviour will be more important
- Wikipedia will need to highlight and deliver more contextually relevant content - based on time, geography, interest etc.
- Wikipedia will need to watch trends in real-time and inform and guide its participants in real-time and thereby more context
- Wikipedia participation must become easier and at the same time keep quality high (which means we have to simultaneously evaluate participant quality - how critical are they as readers, how careful are they as contributors etc.) - there must be better carrots to wave to convert readers into contributors
- Wikipedia content needs to be evaluated both by automated means and through subjective evaluation with feedback captured more without heavy duty approaches like rating / feedback forms and use more hidden ways such as page traffic, page view time, scrolling behaviour (esp. on mobiles) etc.
NaBUru38
Response by NaBUru38
NaBUru38's thoughts on question 1
People are questioning Wikimedia projects from a philosophical perspective, especially Wikipedia. What is truth? What is neutrality? What is fair? What are reliable sources? Why does Wikipedia avoid original research? Why would anyone believe what anonymous users write? We must answer those questions.
We are creating content very quickly, but we aren't sharing it well enough. There's plenty of work being done that isn't reaching readers. Saving articles and uploading files is just the first step to our mission.
Systemic bias and lack of journalistic rigour are still an issue. Even if it's unintentional, we aren't fully covering our mission to provide the sum of all knowledge.
User conflicts are escalating. People are not assuming good faith. Newbies are being bitten. We must change the way we interact.
Advocates are invading the projects, hurting our values. We must never allow them, period. Wikimedia is a volunteer community that develops educational content, not an advertising service for corporations and personalities.
NaBUru38's thoughts on question 2
We must promote and enforce our values of freedom, diversity, respect and altruism.
We must strive for the best in every aspect of our activities.
We must oppose what's wrong without fear.
We must teach each other to improve every day.
And we must have fun! Without that, Wikimedia becomes a payless job.
Man77
Response by Man77
Man77's thoughts on question 1
Internet will not stop becoming more and more facebookisized, a subtle advertisement rostrum, and the average content provided in internet will stay rather at a gossip level. (Some) People will most probably continue to misconceive that our wikis are just like that and post their personal or company's profiles and demand being portrayed positively.
This is to say that I predict that interet will gradually become less qualitative and neutral.
Man77's thoughts on question 2
The demands for (new) wiki contributors rise, because the easy stuff is already well-covered, therefore maintainance turns into the big topic. Thus, it is very important that regular contributors stay in the projects, as many cover special interests that other contributors cannot maintain providing a similar quality. Therefore go sure the contributors are happy, listen to their needs and wishes, support them in case of problems. There is no backup community waiting for and able to pitching in.
A healthy Wikimedia project should stand solid as a rock against its instrumentalization for advertisement and image cultivation. We must be better than internet, not assimilate downwards.
68.9.67.126
Response by 68.9.67.126
68.9.67.126's thoughts on question 2
Since 2010 wikipedia is not free encyclopedia anymore. The bureaucracy is super horrible here.
84.182.233.110
Response by 84.182.233.110
84.182.233.110's thoughts on question 2
my opinion is that you need more Deutschland in eurem leben verstanden?
122.248.102.208
Response by 122.248.102.208
122.248.102.208's thoughts on question 1
I think more people from rural area and ethnic minorities who do not speak any major language will use Wikipedia.
122.248.102.208's thoughts on question 2
According to my thought on question 1, we should translate some articles into not only major languages but also dialects. It should be based on main industry of the particular dialect speaking community. For example, if growing rice is the major business of a community which speaks a dialect, the articles related to rice growing should be translated in that dialect. I know it will take pretty much effort. But what we have to do is to find a translator from that community.
ليبرت
Response by ليبرت
ليبرت's thoughts on question 2
I'll just point out a fundamental problem with Wikipedia and one that'll always affect Wikipedia's reputation if no adequate measures are applied. Wikipedia's POV law, the most important one without doubt, is not respected in many Wikis. The Arabic Wikipedia is administrated mainly (if not solely) by Muslim users. Hundreds of articles (even featured articles) present completely false and misleading information about the Koran, the prophet, etc. For example, the article on the Koran on Wikipedia Arabic clearly states that "the Koran is so eloquent that all Arabs across history and till this very day haven't been able to write a piece as eloquent as itself", a wide misconception held my most people of Muslim faith. This statement is accompanied by a link to a page from a famous Islamic website. That is as biased as a source can get. Now, here's the problem. When I tried editting the article and added the reason for doing so on the talk page, my edits were simply reverted by two admins and my reasons on the Talk page were given little to no attention at all. This same thing applies to pages about Islamic conquests which are, quite rudely, titled "Islamic Fat-h" which is a biased expression used by Muslims to refer to Islamic conquests which basically means "Islamic openings" implying that Islamic troops "opened" the given region/people as if it was "closed" before them. Arabic has many equivalent words for "conquest" but the only expression chosen was the one that unsurprisingly goes along with the beliefs of the majority of the Wiki's users. This will probably apply to Wikipedia Farsi, as well.
I should probably mention at this point that I have nothing against Muslims. I live among them. But the amount of biased information on Wikipedia Arabic for Islam is gigantic, and given the not-so-open-minded majority's behavior towards requests of unbiased information/expressions, there's nothing that a user like myself can do about it. Therefore, I believe an unbiased intrusion is necessary in Wikipedia that are dominated by a group that shares the same ideas, belies, etc. Wikipedia Arabic, Wikipedia Farsi and Wikipedia Turkish are good examples.
Anonymous
wikipedia harus membuat orang menjadi terkesan dengan cara perjelas Isi yang dicari mungkin orang mengatakan logo wikipedia ITU using atau lama
- Machine translation; Please help improve!: wikipedia should make people be impressed with the way that search may clarify Fill say ITU using wikipedia logo or long
Liesel
Response by Liesel
Liesel's thoughts on question 1
Wenn es Wikipedia nicht schafft, mit herausragender Qualität zu überzeugen, wird sie in naher Zukunft unter allen anderen Informationsanbietern verschwinden. Liesel (talk) 09:54, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Translation: If Wikipedia fails to convince with outstanding quality, it will disappear in the near future in the midst of all other information providers.
Liesel's thoughts on question 2
Blühende und gesunde Wikimediaprojekte erkennt man an einer hohen Anzahl an Autoren, die ständig qualitativ hochwertige Artikel erstellen bzw. vorhandene verbessern. Blühende und gesunde Wikimediaprojekte erkennt man daran, dass den Autoren alle Freiheiten eingeräumt werden, die sie für ihre Arbeit benötigen. Blühende und gesunde Wikimediaprojakte erkennt man daran, dass ihnen alle finanzielle und personelle Unterstützung zur Erstellung von Inhalten zur Verfügung gestellt, die sie benötigen. Liesel (talk) 09:54, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Translation: Flowering and healthy Wikimedia projects can be recognized by a large number of writers who constantly create or enhance existing high-quality articles. Flowering and healthy Wikimedia projects can be recognized by the fact that the authors have all the freedoms that they need for their work. Flowering and healthy Wikimedia projects can be recognized by the fact that they get all financial and personnel support they need for the creation of content.
59.135.145.222
Response by 59.135.145.222
質問1への私の考え
...正直なところ、IT関連の未来は私には予想できない。思いついたものを言うとすればカーナビと連解して場所の情報を引き出すと言ったモノだが、それはもう既にスマホで実現されているだろうしなっていなかったとしてもなるのは時間の問題だ。...
- Translation
- Romaji ;
Shōjikina tokoro, IT kanren no mirai wa watashiniha yosō dekinai. Omoitsuita mono o iu to sureba kānabi to ren kai shite basho no jōhō o hikidasu to itta monodaga, sore wa mō sudeni sumaho de jitsugen sa rete irudaroushi natte inakatta to shite mo naru no wa jikan no mondaida.
- English (Improved from machine translation) ;
I honestly can't expect IT-related future. If you want to say that you came up with things like something that draw ___location and information on car navigation system which is puzzling on smartphone, it's a matter of time it will be exist on smartphone.
質問2への私の考え
...例えばさっきのカーナビの例で言うと、地元でしか知り得ていないであろう情報を効率的に手に入れるという意味で存在意義は大きい。検証可能性という問題はあるが、例えばある情報を検証可能性がない(低い)と言うことを明記した上で残せる余地も必要なのかなと思うこともある。後に検証可能な資料が登場する、あるいは既にあったモノを誰かが見つけてくることは可能性として決して低くはないからである。...
- Translation
- Romaji ;
Tatoeba sakki no kānabi no rei de iu to, jimotode shika shiri ete inaidearou jōhō o kōritsu-teki ni teniireru to iu imi de sonzai igi wa ōkī. Kenshō kanōsei to iu mondai wa aru ga, tatoeba aru jōhō o kenshō kanōsei ga nai (hikui) to iu koto o meiki shita ue de nokoseru yochi mo hitsuyōna no ka na to omou koto mo aru. Nochini kenshō kanōna shiryō ga tōjō suru, aruiwa sudeni atta mono o darekaga mitsukete kuru koto wa kanōsei to shite kesshite hikuku wanaikaradearu.
- English (improved from machine translation) ;
For example, say for example a car navigation system, a large reason in the sense that to get the information that you would not get from local efficiently. The problem is verifiability, but sometimes I think I wonder if it's necessary to also leave room to specify, for example to say that that there is no possibility of verification certain information (low). Verifiable material appeared later, or is already had mono because not never low as the possibility that someone finds come.
Djk1ok
Response by Djk1ok
Djk1ok's thoughts on question 1
Youtube has already taken over from google as the most important search engine. So audiovisual content is definitely a major trend. Illiteracy of new users will be another important trend whereas about 30 to 50% of the people -especially women- in Africa and Asia are illiterate and with the advance of mobile these people also will get access to the internet. Next to being illiterate an even larger percentage will only understand their mother tongue and miss out on most content anyway, even if it's audiovisual.
Djk1ok's thoughts on question 2
Popular Wikimedia projects will be highly audiovisual. Ofcourse this will appeal to the hundreds of millions illiterates as well. Solutions to the language problems could be: unspoken explanatory animations or demonstrations and spoken translation (maybe fully automised) or interpreter projects. Wikimedia might resource tools to create such animations and spoken translations.
2602:306:B8F8:6890:A937:2B06:CF78:227E
Response by 2602:306:B8F8:6890:A937:2B06:CF78:227E
2602:306:B8F8:6890:A937:2B06:CF78:227E's thoughts on question 1
We love to show the world who and what we believe in, in thy physical ___domain: we wear Nike shoes and brand everything we have with stickers or adornments from our favorite brands. Organizations that figure out how to remind us of their awesomeness in the "meatspace" will be the ones that win the next billion users.
2602:306:B8F8:6890:A937:2B06:CF78:227E's thoughts on question 2
Reduce the friction of adding to wikimedia: 1) connect me to those wikimedia users who are already prolific contributors; 2) figure out a way to streamline the addition of content (possibly by suggesting popular content to prolific contributors); 3) share the credit with the contributors and those who might have just given the "assist"; 4) allow my organization to build it's "own" organic wikimedia content by somehow sharing wikimedia infrastructure process etc. on my professional organization website.
Sinuhe20
Response by Sinuhe20
Sinuhe20's thoughts on question 1 and 2
I think Wikimedia is influential enough to define trends, so you have not to hunt them. The biggest deficit I see is that Wikimedia is too much centralized, so you should support more the diversity of the Wikimedia projects in the different countries (especially in Asia and Africa), but also try to bring them better together. A special problem that is connected with that: on Commons only media files can be uploaded that are in the public ___domain of the United States because the servers are hosted there. So users from every country have to take into account the US copyright law, which prevents uploading some files beeing in public ___domain in their own country. So in reality Commons is a US media server. Give the other countries and communities more freedom to spread their free knowledge and to decide how they want to spread free knowledge. Give them more chances to realize their own ideas and to achieve their special aims.--Sinuhe20 (talk) 09:59, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
180.233.120.218
Response by 180.233.120.218
180.233.120.218's thoughts on question 2
- All technology in future is gonna based on SIRI. Voice based command following one.
- Emotive intelligence mobile devices will rule. My tablet is my closest friend. I can confess, discuss, cry, laugh with it. Life partner in true sense.
139.164.132.26
Response by 139.164.132.26
139.164.132.26's thoughts on question 2
A more modern look!
Ads20000
Response by Ads20000
Ads20000's thoughts on question 1
People using convertable tablets/touch-screen laptops more. Usage of desktops falling but still significant. People still don't know much about HTML and programming langauges.
Ads20000's thoughts on question 2
Keep having separate 'desktop' ('click') and 'mobile' ('touch') Wikipedia interfaces, change from 'touch' to 'click' on touchscreens when an external mouse is detected but provide a switching (between 'click' and 'touch') button somewhere. Don't get rid of 'click' interface (with more links which are smaller than large buttons and take up screen space). Need to bring back the non-HTML editor for Wikipdia content and make it easier to edit the infoboxes (graphically).
Less Data consuming pages
wikipedia and other sisters sites should strive to make their webpages as user friendly as possible, moreover wiki should work on pages that consume least data possible as the next billion "internet population" probably won't have access to high speed data and using internet on mobile devices takes more time than on a laptop/notebook/pc. That would give wiki an edge over others. This is quite normal when people lose interest in the content (that is about to display) takes a lot of time to load. The next billion don't want a wastage of time just because they don't have access to quality internet connection. :)
14.202.233.174
Response by 14.202.233.174
14.202.233.174's thoughts on question 2
You need to stop being politically correct and report the truth. There are hundreds of articles on sportsmen which portray them as being innocents even though they are convicted criminals.
Minihaa
Response by Minihaa
Minihaas Gedanken zu Frage 1
Saturation is another major trend all wikis are facing. Even though many minor topics are always appearing (like new movies, etc.), many basic articles are already written and having an sufficient quality. That means that the group of people which is capable in participating is shrinking and shifting also to a higher education.
Minihaas Gedanken zu Frage 2
As the chance for a improvement of an article becomes smaller, the conservation mechanisms have to be improved in same areas (maybe: science). In other areas (maybe: new movies) conservation mechanisms might be hindering.
93.231.179.229
Response by 93.231.179.229
93.231.179.229s Gedanken zu Frage 2
Hallo Wikipedia. Ermöglicht doch den Menschen euch Spenden via SMS zukommen zu lassen, beispielsweise 50 Cent. Das motiviert bestimmt viele Menschen und es ist am einfachsten. Ich würde gerne spenden(habe sehr wenig Geld), aber ohne Kreditkarte usw ist es ein Aufwand, der mich in dieser schnelllebigen Welt den Spendenwunsch vernachlässigen lässt. Ich hätte euch schon oft 50 Cent von meiner Prepaidkarte geschickt, nach mehreren tollen Beiträgen!!!(Es heißt, Kleinvieh macht auch mist) gruß sebo
- Machine translation; please improve!: Hello Wikipedia. Enables but to let people get you donations via SMS, for example, 50 cents. This motivates determined many people and it is the simplest. I would like to donate (I have very little money), but without a credit card, etc, it is an expense that can neglect the donation request me in this fast-paced world. I had often sent you 50 cents from my prepaid card, after several great posts !!! (It is said that a mickle makes a mist) greeting sebo
EdSaperia
Response by EdSaperia
EdSaperia's thoughts on question 1
- The standards for user experience are now very high, and mediawiki is lagging a decade behind in this area compared to e.g.
- google docs for collaborative documents: WYSIWYG, inline commenting & discussions, continuous saving.
- facebook for groups/messaging: like/comment/share, push notifications, comment level subscription.
- Increasingly data is supplanting content.
EdSaperia's thoughts on question 2
- Substantially the same, but simply with much better UX. This isn't just about visual editor and flow - many many small things combine to make the mediawiki experience baffling to contemporary users.
- Better links between data on commons, wikidata and wikipedia. We should have interactive, embedded, live rendered visualisations on Wikipedia pages - we could really be the home of data visualisation and data journalism.
2.14.72.123
Response by 2.14.72.123
Mes réflexions pour la question 1
J'y vois surtout l'enfermement, chacun dans sa bulle de virtualité. Comment interpreter le mot "majeur" de demain ?
- Machine translation; please help improve!: I see mostly confinement, each in his bubble virtuality. How to interpret the word "major" of tomorrow?
Mes réflexions pour la question 2
Sains et prospères sont aussi bien désuets... Bon alors, puisqu'il faut participer quand meme : faites sobre, épuré, concis. Continuez à controller (non, ce n'est pas une faute de français, c'est le truc qui s'impose !)de plus en plus : ça va être logarithmique !
Merci d'être là Wiki ! Martine
- Machine translation; please help improve!: Healthy and prosperous are both obsolete ... Well then, since we participate anyway: make sober, clean, concise. Continue to check (no, this is not a fault of French is the thing that is a must!) More: it will be logarithmic! Thank you for coming Wiki! Martine
92.90.17.141
Response by 92.90.17.141
Mes réflexions pour la question 1
...répondez ici... Je suis d ' avis que le site ce dois de resté léger , il faut compté sur les petits débits , donc il est très bien comme cela
- Machine translation; please help improve!: I am of the opinion that the site of this have been light, you have relied on small flows, so it is very much like this
Mes réflexions pour la question 2
...répondez ici... Comme celui ci , qui est très bien
- Machine translation; please help improve!: Such as this, which is very good
203.111.224.49
Response by 203.111.224.49
203.111.224.49's thoughts on question 1
...write here…
More people might be interested in buying and selling items online, as more will want to search for guidelines in choosing the best product in a particular category. The results demanded are the more specific ones. It will be sufficient for someone to stay and be contented with what has been provided.
203.111.224.49's thoughts on question 2
...write here…
All that is needed are specific details about what many people search so there will be no need to search in Google. To provide the exact thing that people want is the best to do.
Julius1990
Response by Julius1990
Julius1990's thoughts on question 1
The WMF should identify that mobile is only a reader trend, but won't ever be a contributer trend. Mobile file uploads in most cases were not useful so far, writing long articles with mentioning of sources etc. on a mobile will never be comfortable nor the way to contribute to Wikipedia in the way Wikipedia needs it. I would like to ask if anyone in the foundation who has those visions ever wrote an article for Wikipedia that is not a facebook-post-like stub. I doubt if anyone who really contributed in a quality way really can see in this direction a vision for the future. The vision must be to make contributing in the conventional way a satisfying experience for those who like to indulge them in the weird and conservative hobby of writing an encyclopedia. This hobby never will be sexy, it never will get millions to actually be steady contributers who consult scientific literature and databases and so forth. Adding once in a while that vip y got a child named x is what facebook-user-like "Wikipedians" will do, but they won't collect the knowledge of the world in ways that also would help in certain regions to raise knowledge and values like democracy.
Same goes for the billion new possible users. They will be readers only users, since contributing to Wikipedia means first of all having the ressources and second to meet certain (often scientific) standards. So: As long as the WMF won't build libraries in the slums of India and other parts of the Global South, as long as it won't make for those billion people JStor and so on available, there won't be any usuful contributions. Those people in those regions that could contribute, already have the access because they can use university networks and so forth. Question would be if WMF ever targetet that Global South elite. So far and also for the future the Global South for editor-users is and will be just a fiction that gets used by the foundation to propagate certain developments that are useful for them, but not for the people who wrote and write the encyclopedia. Instead of daydreaming, the foundation should focus and care about the people who actually already write for the projects and who this way will contribute to make knowledge to the people in the Global South accesible. But Wikipedia is no reliable source for Wikipedia itself.
- I strongly agree with the first half of your response, and I would be more optimistic than you concerning the second half. The goal is precisely for wikipedia and associated projects to be the access to knowledge for the many that is so lacking in some countries. Furthermore, while I agree that truly active editors with serious edit intend form an extremely small percentage of users (for reasons that are beyond the scope of action of the WMF), more users also means more quality editors.Iry-Hor (talk) 12:53, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Iry-Hor, on that I doubt, because the possible Global South editors are just a trope used when the foundation speaks and acts against the existing volunteers. But the question would be if from there for example new editors for the german Wikipedia would be to expect, while that for English or French would maybe be a possibility for a small number of new editors. To be frank, those of the Global South that have right now no internet access will have other, more serious issues to deal with than collecting knowledge from books and scientific or other quality sources for Wikipedia or other Wikimedia projects. And their own experience of their surrounding is simply no source, at least for none of our projects. So as long as the foundation doesn't want to alter the projects that it should serve completly, there is not much to expect from that direction. But in one way it might be true that you might get easier some low rate contributers from there than to fix the destroyed relationship to teh volunteers that already contribute in a heavy way. --Julius1990 (talk) 13:47, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Hi, Julius1990. :) In answer to your question, yes - I have contributed more than Facebook-like stubs, and I see the potential for mobile contribution. I'm not sure how that's going to be implemented, but 20 years ago I could only imagine being able to talk to my phone to ask it search the internet for me. Technology evolves, and those who have the vision can help it evolve to achieve what may currently seem insurmountable. There are some above who've suggested that developing mobile is important, but not at the cost of desktop contributors - and as a desktop contributor, I'd personally agree strongly. :)
- Iry-Hor, on that I doubt, because the possible Global South editors are just a trope used when the foundation speaks and acts against the existing volunteers. But the question would be if from there for example new editors for the german Wikipedia would be to expect, while that for English or French would maybe be a possibility for a small number of new editors. To be frank, those of the Global South that have right now no internet access will have other, more serious issues to deal with than collecting knowledge from books and scientific or other quality sources for Wikipedia or other Wikimedia projects. And their own experience of their surrounding is simply no source, at least for none of our projects. So as long as the foundation doesn't want to alter the projects that it should serve completly, there is not much to expect from that direction. But in one way it might be true that you might get easier some low rate contributers from there than to fix the destroyed relationship to teh volunteers that already contribute in a heavy way. --Julius1990 (talk) 13:47, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- In terms of the billion new possible users, I think we need to keep in mind that there are all kinds of ways and places to contribute to Wikimedia that don't look like what Wikipedia content contributors typically do. Wikivoyage, for instance, relies on eyewitness contributors. Wikinews also benefits from feet on the ground. The encyclopedia is a massive part of our movement (certainly I think so, as I put most of my volunteer time there), but it's not the only. Also, even in the encyclopedia, people without access to sources can do content curation, ranging from flagging problems to fixing them to translating articles into different language projects. There are challenges, to be sure. But I hope we can find a way to empower newcomers while also serving existing editors. --Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk) 14:40, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Dear Maggie Dennis (WMF), I think the point here is that the foundation seems not really to care about the volunters already existing. So I can't trust in its mobile visions. Same goes for the billion possible Global South users. Instead of responding to Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer and showing nearly 1000 volunters, many of them very high profile editors that did much for the projects, what already the basic respect would deserve it gets ignored. Neither Lila, nor the Board ever adressed it. They seem to act more like Brecht's famous saying, in this case "hoping for a bunch of new editors, while dragging the existing ones (that are critical to the foundation) out of the projects".
- Coming back to the mobile question. How should I trust that there would be a good prospect when I see that the foundtion couldn't even handle to run "Labs". The toolserver worked, it was maybe from a technical side messy, but it worked. Since the foundation took over, again and again nothing works. So how should I have the faith that you can actually develop a mobile invironment without interfering with the current way of editing. And Wikipedia still is the most important project for the whole Wikimedia universe. And it will remain that, and with all the mobile vision I miss the question if mobile at all will get us the edits the projects need.
- And yes, there are more projects than Wikipedia. But when you mention Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikisource ... in discussions so far I never heard them asking for new users from the Global South, falling for a Fata Morgana (maybe there is a lake, but likely not). They have mentioned other problems, problems that the foundation didn't adress. You actually abandoned those projects, so they are not the best argument to put here. --Julius1990 (talk) 19:52, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Hi, Julius1990. Well, first, I understand that by "you" you probably mean the Wikimedia Foundation, but I don't thinks that's a helpful generalization. The Wikimedia Foundation is one organization, true, but kind of like the Wikimedia movement is one movement - there's a lot of diversity within it. Beyond that, I'm not sure they've been abandoned by the organization itself (although a lot depends on our definitions of abandonment, I'm sure.) I haven't done a lot with Wikibooks as a volunteer, but send people to it frequently who write to the Wikimedia Foundation through answers@, both for resources and as potential contributors. I was in a conversation while visiting the Wikimedia Foundation quite recently where somebody was talking enthusiastically about how Wikisource is one of our potentially strongest projects and floating ideas about how to help it thrive. But if you think that support for sister projects could be better, that's certainly worth addressing, and your ideas on where that support should go would be very welcome! In terms of trusting the development of tools, I think that the only alternative to trying new things is stagnation, and I think that's not a good thing for us to do. The Foundation needs to work well with communities going forward to make sure that tools are high quality and suitable, but I personally don't believe giving up on development is the answer. If you feel differently, I respect that, but as a person who also develops content (as per your question, albeit not as much as I'd like to), I'd be open to seeing what we as a movement can come up with. :) --Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk) 20:06, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Dear Maggie Dennis (WMF), i just contribute to Wikipedia and a bit to Commons. For Commons i can say that the tools heavily need a clean-up and work-over. It can't be that with the Upload Wizard i can't upload an old artwork to the correct license for example. And those are the very basics of contributing in our movement. I believe that the foundation should first get those things done like cleaning-up the Commons tools, getting Labs stable and so on, not to forget finally getting done a working (at least in most cases) VE, before hunting for something else, when the current stuff isn't solved satisfying. First I want to see that done, and when you do it good, at least I develop again trust in the technical capabilities of the foundation and it's developers. Coming back to the smaller projects: I would believe it is the job of the foundation to know exactly what they need and want and how they can get supported. But then i know such issues like the Esperanto Wikipedia asked for some little funding for i think some technical device and didn't get it. It was nothing in comparison to the budget of teh foundation, but those fellow Wikipedians had to beg on their knees. From the other projects like the English Wikinews I know just what I have read through Lilas talk page here and there I have read much critic and even bitterness (that'S why i used the term of being abandoned by the foundation) and I see not how this can be adressed by the Global South. I think every editor that fits our requirements is good for us, but to me it feels that the foundation with the view into that direction actually messes up on its original and most basic duties.
- And I feel that before going for visions the foundation has to solve the current issues. Seriously, how can it be expected that we that signed the open letter and never got a response, trust the foundation for that development? And yes, you are individuals, but you act to us as a solid mass where no nuances or even disagreements are visibel. When Erik Möller forced Superprotect and the media Viewer on high prolific projects, I heard noone in the foundation disagree. Even worse a community liason Wikip(m)edian was forced to act such force on the German Wikipedia. That trust must be regained, then you as an individual and the foundation as organization can ask for and rely on my trust. That doesn't go against you personally, I appreciate when foundation staff actually engages with the volunters in the way you do right now. Even if I have no trust that this actually changes anything in a foundation that in it's structures appears to me as an outsider as crooked in it's structures like a tax saving model of amazon. --Julius1990 (talk) 20:27, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- PS: [https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ALilaTretikov_%28WMF%29&diff=11374272&oldid=11373321 Here you can see on a further example why I doubt the abilities of the foundation and its developers. As long as such things happening (again and again) the WMF better focuses on doing a good job on what it should do right now, and stop having visions. When everything on the current issues is working smooth and well, then you - read: the foundation - can look in other directions. --Julius1990 (talk) 21:54, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Julius1990's thoughts on question 2
Build a good and userfriedndly (Wikiwand as example) reader-version of Wikipedia that easily can be switched to edit. Make good tutorials for using Wikicode. Respect the volunters and most important: Stay realistic, stop dreaming.
62.208.20.10
Response by 62.208.20.10
62.208.20.10's thoughts on question 1
The growing number of mobile users will be looking for geotagged information with realtime qualities. The authoring techniques should be modernized.
62.208.20.10's thoughts on question 2
There are lot of themes with more than 1 possible "truth". The present methods will not guarantee a neutral point of view in future. I fear wikipedia will one day loose its unique character.
Articles with high potential for controversy should exixst side by side. Wikipedia cannot decide about big controverses but expose the points of view.
ImNotJaness
Response by ImNotJaness
ImNotJaness's thoughts on question 1
Mobile: Definition: A movable piece in which cannot be transported. Having the ocean in the palm of your hand is major. It's like owning the world. I happen to have the Wikipedia app on my phone. I go to Wikipeida on my Asus Laptop; half Gamer Machine, half optic-medicinal computer. To have people be more aware of the power they have in the palm of their hand is crucial. After the Iraqi/Afghanistan War it is imperative to emphasize that most of the new users have never seen a Television. We're already on HD. So, just say Hey! This is what is used on mobile, YOU HAVE A TINY COMPUTER IN YOUR HAND THAT YOU CAN LISTEN TO MUSIC TO! Enough is said.
ImNotJaness's thoughts on question 2
This is a scary question because what drives wikimedia is simplicity. We, the frequent users of wikimedia are used to the simplicity. "Newbies" would not be attracted to the interface but the... Fact you can put whatever you want. A Wiki project would be arduous. Which means unfortunately, most new users would not be able to put their stamp on history. But who we want to see, say, and want is something that can help us! Search engines can do so much and we need these new users to show us the way to go. Keep the simplicity, but "Make It Rough" (Ice Cube, Tear This Mutha Up.)
223.176.0.135
Response by 223.176.0.135
1> सब देश का राषटीय भाषा में output देने की सुविधा ।
- Machine translation; please help improve!: All of the national language of the country to facilitate the output.
Aschmidt
Response by Aschmidt
Aschmidt's thoughts on question 1
Due to the superprotect affair I have become a critical observer of the Wikimedia projects, watching developments from a distance. I support the Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer, as do over 940 other authors. You should think about this in the first place, please.
Aschmidt's thoughts on question 2
Due to the superprotect affair I have become a critical observer of the Wikimedia projects, watching developments from a distance. I support the Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer, as do over 940 other authors. You should think about this in the first place, please.
98.203.1.134
Response by 98.203.1.134
(1) I see a Netaissance, where the world fits into a pocket and everything we touch comes to life or dies. We go public instinctly, one person is now like a complete company able to effect the whole world or any one in the world at any time. We are always on 24/7. (2) Sharing of the old craft secrets mixing in with the new technology, building a new future like never before. It is like the old mediaeval times are meeting up with the modern world. We can give a hand, we can share an idea, we can make a difference. We are all doctors, lawyers, plumbers and artist that now can share a skill which gives hope, builds faith in the human spirit. C.B.F. Feb, 24th 2015
Iry-Hor
Response by Iry-Hor
Iry-Hor's thoughts on question 1
I am a bit worried about the rise of mobile use for two reasons: i) unfortunately a majority of the edits from mobile users are vandalism and; ii) mobile platforms do not favor content editing. Constructive edits from mobile users are almost always small (but useful!) stuff such as correcting typos, missing words etc., while virtually all mass content edits (e.g. bringing an article to GA or FA status) are made from computers. I guess this simply follows from the physical keyboard. I fear that the increasing use of mobile devises leads to a decrease in bulk edits. I hope I am wrong!
Iry-Hor's thoughts on question 2
Healthy wikipedia projects are projects with many editors. That is all that is needed to improve both the quality and quantity of content as well as the liveliness of wikipedia projects. Strategies to encourage project involvement must aim at increasing the number of active editors in general (as opposed to aiming for specific projects). Many editors also means editors interested in many subjects and thus better coverage of under-represented themes (such as articles geolocated in Africa). Wikipedia lives on surprisingly few editors: roughly 10,000 editors have made more than 6000 edits, i.e. a disproportionately small percentage of people. Ride the wave of the news web users by making sure more people edit wikipedia, for exemple give registered users more ways to thank IP editors (the "Thank" button should be made available for IP-edits!!!).
Patas do Leão
Response by Special:Contributions/Patas do Leão
Patas do Leão thoughts on question 1
Obviously most trends nowadays are related to the personal ego, like facebook, youtube. But I see Wiki as a tool of education and knowledge, and I believe that the partnerships will be more simplified in the future. (Network-School, Network-library, Network-Mall...)
Patas do Leão thoughts on question 2
You guys can work with the teenagers, beeing a major tool of education and knowledge around the world with partnerships and technologic, inside anywhere we could wait, seet and look for the keywords of your website.
163.153.27.216
Response by 163.153.27.216
163.153.27.216's thoughts on question 1
...Make the website more fun looking, sort of like ios 8 on apple, make it look crisp so people will flock to it more
163.153.27.216's thoughts on question 2
...ios 8 or like an apple iphone
Eng.mhmdtrq
Response by Eng.mhmdtrq Dear mr or mrs i have participitated in this page in order to i could add my thought, im not a specialist or expert in everything but i have ability to express my idea.. i want to add some topics in order to users of wiki could collect and write the topic and data in best way finally to be aproved my me the thought generateer and the relative nor related govern ate... kind regards mt
208.253.125.129
Response by 208.253.125.129
208.253.125.129's thoughts on question 1
Mobile is just the precursor to full-fledged digital Aristotles. More precisely, personal digital assistants (PDAs) will be the vehicles that come, to sites like Wikipedia, to find and retrieve knowledge.
208.253.125.129's thoughts on question 2
It may be irrelevant what this site looks like when PDAs are the normal as the information retrieved will be presented by the assistant's software. However, there will probably be visitors to this site for curiosity's sake and those that want to do their own research, and, of course, there will still be those that contribute to the spread of knowledge, but it may very well be their PDAs that are doing the work. Eventually all information sites will need to interface with the digital assistants of the time. To keep any branding will require advance integration with PDAs, or make your own.
5.232.82.86
Response by 5.232.82.86
باید ویکی پدیا مطالبش را خوب وبهتر کند ومطالب بد وبیخود بدون اسناد را حضف کند.
- Machine translation; please help improve: Wikipedia is better to be good to their contents without documents Hzf Vmtalb Vbykhvd is bad.
194.113.40.60
Response by 194.113.40.60
194.113.40.60's thoughts on question 1
Build a version of wikipedia for VR-/ Augmented Reality
194.113.40.60's thoughts on question 2
A version for augmented reality which works while driving or other critical situations and don't make problems for your sight
90.7.9.145
Response by 90.7.9.145
Mes réflexions pour la question 1
Quelles tendances majeures identifiez-vous, à part le mobile et le milliard de nouveaux utilisateurs ?
Je pense qu'Internet va permettre d'ici quelques années d'avoir accès rapidement à toutes les informations. Le point faible est la sécurité qui devra être améliorée, afin de protéger les données personnelles des internautes. Wikipédia est un excellent relais pour accéder aux informations. La publicité abusive par contre est un frein qui fait perdre beaucoup de temps. L'internaute la subit et réagit mal à ces intrusions intempestives.
- Machine translation; please help improve: I think the Internet will allow a rapid access to all information within a few years. The weakness is the security, which should be improved in order to protect the personal data of the users. Wikipedia is a great relay to access information. Abusive advertising is a drag over which people waste time. The user experiences it and reacts badly to these unwanted intrusions.
Mes réflexions pour la question 2
En fonction des tendances futures que vous jugez importantes, à quoi ressembleraient des projets Wikimedia sains et prospères ? Wikipedia devra rester autonome et ne pas subir le diktat des financiers, faute de quoi il perdra un énorme public. La Publicité se doit d'etre intelligente mais pas envahissante. On pourrait accéder en direct à des interlocuteurs, grace à Wikipedia, comme un accès téléphonique ?
Marie51
- Machine translation; please help improve: Wikipedia will remain independent and will not submit to the diktat of financial, otherwise it will lose a huge audience. Advertising must be smart but not intrusive. We could access live interlocutors, thanks to Wikipedia, like telephone access?
201.220.215.12
Response by 201.220.215.12
Las ideas de 201.220.215.12 acerca de la pregunta 1
Tendencia a guerras y destrucción de la humanidad, crisis, caos, estres.
- Machine translation; please help improve: Tendency to wars and destruction of humanity, crisis, chaos, stress.
Las ideas de 201.220.215.12 acerca de la pregunta 2
Láncen un satélite Wikipedia para que este sitio llegue a escala Global sin costo por el tiempo que se pueda y en el futuro no se pierda la valiosa información y les sirva a futuras generaciones. Saludos
viki den faydalanmak isteyenler üye olmalıdır
- Machine translation; please help improve: Wikipedia launch a satellite for this site to reach global scale without cost as long as possible and in the future the valuable information is lost and serve them to future generations. regards.
Hfbn
Response by Hfbn === Mes réflexions pour laquestion1;; l'internete a bien marquer sa place dans les domaines informatiques ,fiscales,scientiphiques,sociales et securites. en s appuiant sur de nombreuses fonctions telle que le transferes des donners depuis une machine a un'autre.donc,a mon avis la reponse sera tres simple .ces deus tendandes precis avant,contunueront leurs evolutions les chaines productives et commerciales presenteront encore plus des machines simples engendrant des fonctions techniques tres pratiques qui servent a ameliorer la maniere du bien etre pour une communautee encore plus large et diversifier.
- Machine translation; please help improve: the internete has marked its place in the IT areas, fiscal scientiphiques, social and securities. s in appuiant on many functions such as the Donners transferred from one machine un'autre.donc in my opinion the answer is very simple .these deus tendandes precise front contunueront their evolutions productive and commercial chains will present more simple machines generating very practical technical features that serve to improve the well being of the way for a COMMUNAUTY even wider and more diverse.
Mes réfleions pour la question 2
...répondez ici...
avant de proposer une reponse a cette question il est necessaire de marquer que ce proget innovant qui s appele wikipedia presente un grand pas et un soutien tres larges pour tous les internautes. les progets qui forment wikipedia actuellement se bases sur des sujet qui s'etend sur des champs culturelles tres larges et infini,d'une part,et de l autre part, les informatitiens experementers et les debutants peuvent toujours acceder au contenue a tous moments, cela a presentè toujours un support aux aplications et progets wiki. le developement de ces proget existants et les enrichires par des nouveautes actuelles qui engendres tous les domaines,represente la bonne maniere de garder un proget wikipedia prospéres.
- ''Machine translation; please help improve: before offering an answer to this question it is necessary to mark that this innovative proget that s called wikipedia presents a big step and a very wide support for all users. PROJECTS HAPPEN wikipedia is currently forming bases on subject that extends on very broad cultural fields and infinite, on the one hand and the other hand, informatitiens experementers and beginners can still access the contained at all times, it always has a support for aplications and HAPPEN wiki. the developement of these existing proget and enrichires by current novelties which begettest all fields, represents the right way to keep a prosperous proget wikipedia.
Owencg424
Response by Owencg424 as of right now, all teachers do not let us use wikipedia as a credible source, because it can be "changed by anyone, anytime". I for one, know that this is not true, but i think that you guys need to do something to tell everyone that wikipedia IS a credible source.
Sänger S.G
Response by Sänger S.G
Sänger S.G's thoughts on question 1
I expect more power grabs by the WMF (like superputsch and global banning), who's acting quite often against the communities lately.
Sänger S.G's thoughts on question 2
Giving back the project from the ivory tower in SF to the communities, who deliver absolutely everything of value here: content, donations, lots of programming, organisation, troll fighting....
Why is this "Community consultation" not in the communities? You've got tons of money and hordes of paid "community liasons", make them do their job in the communities. This should happen not here in some far-off meta-page, only for nerds, but where the real action is, in the projects themself.
- User:Sänger S.G, I really wish we could take it to the communities. :) Unfortunately (for this case), we don't really have hordes of community liaisons, though, and the communities are still far too numerous for us to be able to cover them. I agree with you that best impact consultations will happen once we can. I've long been interested myself in reaching people where they work - in my first years as a volunteer, I think I hardly ever visited Meta. I think improved methods of doing that are key to our community health, not only for Wikimedia Foundation/volunteer interaction but for thriving interwiki collaboration. --Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk) 19:34, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- You've got multi-millions in your pockets, just a few bucks are really needed for maintenance, and instead of wasting it on such still-born stuff like Flow or the useless bling-thing MV and the resulting aggression with superputsch against the communities by the WMF, perhaps you should use them more pro-community. OK, that may sound like a weird idea for those detached persons in the ivory tower in Frisco, those that prefer superputsch to arguments, but for normal people this seems to be a rather good idea. ♫ Sänger - Talk - superputsch must go 19:42, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Do you have specific ideas on where you think that budget could be spent to help the community? --Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk) 19:46, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- No, no specific ideas. Just anything more with the communities, less in shady backrooms like mailing lists or phabricator or such, definitely some decent apologies to the at least two communities the WMF explicitly declared war against with superputsch, some reaction, that clearly shows the WMF has grasped that it was completely wrong in that regard and that things like the hostile implementation of MV against the communities was something to never ever do again. Unless the main culprits go to Canossa, I don't think real trust can be regained by those in Frisco. And yes, that may be some kind of generalisation, but as nobody over there reigned the culprits in and showed support for the communities, it seems to be well deserved.
- Perhaps you should just stop spamming so excessively in the yearly begging spree with that huge amount of bucks in the coffers, you could maintain the Wikiverse for decades with that money. ♫ Sänger - Talk - superputsch must go 20:39, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Do you have specific ideas on where you think that budget could be spent to help the community? --Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk) 19:46, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- You've got multi-millions in your pockets, just a few bucks are really needed for maintenance, and instead of wasting it on such still-born stuff like Flow or the useless bling-thing MV and the resulting aggression with superputsch against the communities by the WMF, perhaps you should use them more pro-community. OK, that may sound like a weird idea for those detached persons in the ivory tower in Frisco, those that prefer superputsch to arguments, but for normal people this seems to be a rather good idea. ♫ Sänger - Talk - superputsch must go 19:42, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
68.3.69.21
Response by 68.3.69.21
68.3.69.21's thoughts on question 1
My personally opinion's on this matter is that wikipedia should get like maybe 500 more server's for faster processing speed's. We could start more donation's to help wikipedia grow as a whole.
不可定向
Response by 不可定向
先把这个翻译成中文再说
- (Machine translation, please improve) "Besides this first translated into Chinese"
94.120.3.77
Response by 94.120.3.77
Benzersiz bir UI/UX Deneyimi Mobil uygulamalar Yarışmalar
- Machine translation; please help improve: Unique UI / UX experience of mobile applications Contests
89.17.109.133
Response by 89.17.109.133
أنشأو حساب على تويتر وفيسبوك وغيره
- Machine translate; please help improve: Onco account on Twitter and Facebook and other
93.168.110.124
Response by 93.168.110.124
هدف كل من المستخدم هو المعلومات الموثوقه ولديه ادله واققيه وصور --93.168.110.124 15:11, 24 February 2015 (UTC)--93.168.110.124 15:11, 24 February 2015 (UTC)--93.168.110.124 15:11, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Machine translation; please help improve: The user is reliable information and has evidence Aqekaya and Photos
197.144.88.208
Response by 197.144.88.208
197.144.88.208's thoughts on question
الجرائد و المجلات
- Machine translation; please help improve: Newspapers & magazines
197.144.88.208's thoughts on question 2
هدا المشروع قد افاد الملايير من الناس لدا واصلو
- Machine translation; please help improve: This project has benefited billions of people s continued
193.90.61.105
Response by 193.90.61.105
To get more users on wikipedia, get a more colorful webpage that's not so grey! This is a very important fact you guys need to realize..
98.25.142.46
Response by 98.25.142.46
98.25.142.46's thoughts on question 1
This IS the technology era..
98.25.142.46's thoughts on question 2
They should have some sort of sense of humor
50.199.250.94
Response by 50.199.250.94
50.199.250.94's thoughts on question 1
...This is a non-predictable question. Steve Jobs spent not ten years turned this world into mobile. Who and what is next? We would never know.
50.199.250.94's thoughts on question 2
...Asian and African users will keep growing as long as their economy grows. Also, China and other countries policies may infect the user population
紗紗
Response by 紗紗
紗紗对问题一的想法
P2SP分佈式伺服器，任何人皆可為他人提供站點的鏡像或成為伺服器群的其中一員，以便增強網站的可用性和速度，同時也能為主站伺服器群提供減負效果。
- Machine translation; please help improve:P2SP distributed servers, site mirroring, or anybody can give to others as one server group, in order to enhance Web site usability and speed, but also can master station servers providing lightening effect
紗紗对问题二的想法
通過增加P2SP的志願者讓人類在全球任何一個角落都能毫無障礙地訪問維基，並大幅縮短他們獲取所需信息所花費在網路問題上的時間，從而讓更多的人認識並加入到維基項目裏。
另外通過P2SP衍生出的離綫模式則有效幫助暫時沒有網絡的人也能閱讀維基，甚至在在綫時將他們離綫編寫的內容同步到互聯網上。
- Machine translation; please help improve: By adding P2SP volunteers of humanity in every corner of the globe can access Wikipedia without any obstacles and greatly shorten their takes to obtain the required information on network problems at the time, so as to let more people know and add to the wiki project. Offline mode are derived through P2SP effective help for the time being there is no network of people can read the wiki, even when online synchronize offline content written to them on the Internet.
Jacare8888
Response by Jacare8888
Jacare8888's thoughts on question 1
1.) I see technology trending for speed accessing information from Wiki, plus away to handle it, like in presentation, translation and distribution.
Jacare8888's thoughts on question 2
2.) I would like to see expansion of Wiki in media publication. Adapting verbiage in to graphics back and forth. This will help with vocal opinions comparing to Wiki facts. Translation programs, that can publish video presentations with 3D animated speakers and computerized on the fly voice over capacities, recorded real time, as file media as well physical. The future of fact finding data research and presentation or the use of the data will explode.
Anonymous
Die deutsche wikipedia braucht dringend mehr Freiheit auf der einen Seite - und mehr Herausfiltern von Werbung und Eigenlob auf der anderen Seite
- Machine translation; please help improve: The German wikipedia urgently needs more freedom on the one hand - and more filtering of advertising and self-congratulation on the other side
92.224.117.1
Response by 92.224.117.1
92.224.117.1's thoughts on question 1
...write here…
92.224.117.1's thoughts on question 2
..., wer sagt das eine schliesse das andere aus hat den Begriff Freiheit nicht verstanden und schliesst sich aus dem Kreis möglicher Mitarbeit an der Wikipedia aus!
also viel Erfolg beim Reformieren der deutschen wikipedia!
- translation: ..., who says the one excludes the other has not understood the concept of freedom and excludes himself from the circle of possible participation in the Wikipedia! so much success in the reform of the German wikipedia!
206.213.251.32
Response by 206.213.251.32
206.213.251.32's thoughts on question 1
...write here… A need for factual information but with respect for all readers regarding their faith, which, while often contrary to accepted facts, may also limit the acceptability and use of Wikimedia. This consideration would only be made in articles regarding faith, not science or fact based articles.
206.213.251.32's thoughts on question 2
...write here… I believe the funding of this website and media projects would be helped by instituting educational programs which call upon the information already contained in Wikipedia. Course work would require reading and understanding the information related to a certain, certifiable area of knowledge. Funding would be possible by charging for proctored exams held in various cities at scheduled events, for which the participant would pay to then take and pass the test. Evidence of passing, which would be confirmed by a carefully proctored and identity validated process, would become a "poor man's degree;" but definitely a thing of value in a world where other socially validated certificates/degrees of learning are unattainable for many or most. I could also envision a program of subsidizing the cost of these exams by people of greater means who wish to support education in the world.
158.91.185.77
Response by 158.91.185.77
158.91.185.77's thoughts on question 1
Mobile app based community
158.91.185.77's thoughts on question 2
Advertising
5.150.98.189
Response by 5.150.98.189
5.150.98.189's thoughts on question 1
1) The wiki team have been very good at updating the wiki formats to the latest HTML and various versions. WELL DONE.
The wiki team have been very bad at recognizing that the major trend is _not_ one of the population closely following the leading curve. NOT WELL DONE.
For example, last year (2014) over a third of UK employers (nearly a half) still used Microsoft Explorer 8 and Windows XP or earlier!!! The figure for home PC was broadly similar. This even though last year saw a boom in smart phone use and wifi access via smart phone using the latest smart phone browsers.
Do you see the mis-match?
This is a classic example of human development. (The much trotted out analogous example is that there are as many horses alive in London and the home counties today as there were in Victorian times. (Do check this out as I can sense your disbelief...)
However whereas 4 years ago you could use MS IE8 and save a wiki page as a coherent .mht file today you cannot save a wiki page using IE10 and have it correctly read by IE8.
The wiki team needs to ensure that any developments can be correctly used a) by previous software systems, and 6) that files used by the latest system can be saved and used by earlier systems.
One thing we know for sure, more and more software systems will come into existence. The overall number of users will increase. But equally there will always be an inertia population using old systems. This last will change. The current trend especially during the recession is not to upgrade home PCs unless you need to. One can see in the future a trade of used moblies from the developed world to the developing world.
5.150.98.189's thoughts on question 2
The projects can 'look' the same. This is part of the wiki brand. Keep things consistent even if the platforms are developing. And as per above ensure that they are retro-functional.
174.45.88.171
Response by 174.45.88.171
174.45.88.171's thoughts on question 2
It seems that going to mobile devices may be a temporary trend to bridge the gap as new users become more affluent they will purchase devices with larger displays. This, of course, is pure speculation. As an early adopter I started with a CRT since it was the only option. I have tried using the internet on phones and have abandoned the idea. I think users will migrate upscale to larger devices after they become more affluent.
Another trend may be the purchase of smart TVs with built-in web browsers.
Also, power requirements should be examined by Wikipedia managers. A sustainable strategy for powering the server farms must be considered to eliminate carbon footprint.
Also, the problem of link rot is affecting Wikipedia and the web in general. Wikipedia should be requiring that all reference and footnote links should be directed to permanently archived sources. This is becoming a huge problem very quickly.
WIKIPEDIA:its an awesome contribution.....it isn't surprising to say hat it created this era as "WIKIera".there's nothing with us to do without this near us.its more than 1000books reading at once..V all are alwys debt to u..♥♥♥
Korrektor123
Response by Korrektor123
Korrektor123s Gedanken zu Frage 1 (with an english try)
DE: Es gibt in unterschiedlichen Sprachen viele gemeinsame Vorlagen und Artikel. Vorlagen und Listen, z. B. Kader der Fußballklubs und irgendwelche Siegerlisten eines Turniers, könnten über Wikidata zusammengelegt werden, so dass sie nur noch Zentral an einem Ort gepflegt werden müssen. So wäre es möglich dass Wikipedianer aus unterschiedlichen Sprachen zusammenarbeiten und gemeinsam mehr schaffen als wenn alle an ihrem Wikipedia-Projekt arbeiten. Für mich geht der Trend zu einem globalen Wikiknotenpunkt namens Wikidata.
EN: A try to translate my thoughts on question 1 into the english language. In the different wikipedia-projects are many equal templates and articles. Templates and lists for example squads of footballclubs or any lists of champions could be combined in Wikidata. So it's possible that many wikipedians of different languages work together at one central point. I think the trend moves to one central crosspoint called wikidata.
Korrektor123s Gedanken zu Frage 2 (with an english try)
DE: Egal ob Facebook oder YouTube, es ist doch der Trend der jungen Generation alles zu "liken". Wie wär's wenn die Wikiartikel nicht von den Wiki-Autoren sondern von den Lesern in lesenswerte oder exzellente Artikel eingeordnet werden. Beispielsweise nach den kriterien Verständlichkeit, Aussehen, Sprache etc. Das würde den Wiki-Autoren bestimmt mehr helfen, woran sie noch arbeiten müssen und was schon gut ist.
- That's a very good suggestion... Like! --Pgallert (talk) 20:07, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
EN: A try to translate my thoughts on question 2 into the english language. If you visit Facebook or YouTube you can 'like' if you think something is great or you can 'dislike' if you mean something is bad. What about that the reader of the wikipedia-articles can rate the articles instead of the wikipedians who write them?. For example they could rate the desing, understandability, verbal skills, etc. This would help the wikipedians writing the articles by improving an article.
190.67.223.137
Response by 190.67.223.137
Las ideas de 190.67.223.137 acerca de la pregunta 1
ami pareser identifico que el cono cimiento de nuevas tecnologias estaran mas ala mano y que el futuro de nuestro avanze esta en todos los proyectos libres que se encuentran en desarrollo y que el mundo en si tiene que apro piarse de estos recursos, ya no setratara de alquien que iniciara un proyecto por cuenta propia sino que se tendra el acompañamiento del pais del mundo llaque hay muchos ejemplos en donde ya se aniciado y al ver los resultados obiamente todos deberemos ir para el mimo lado
- Machine translation; please help improve: ami pareser identify the foundation of new technologies cone wing keychain hand over the future of our avanze this in all the free projects that are in development and that the world itself has to ap ly cleaned of these resources, no longer setratara of someone who started a project on their own but the accompaniment of country in the world will have Llaque are many examples where already been aniciado and seeing the results obiamente all must go for pampering side
Las ideas de 190.67.223.137 acerca de la pregunta 2
wikipedia al mantenerse informado de todos estos avances tiene una posicion privilegiada porque seria una retro alimentacion al poner ese cono cimiento al alcanse de toda la comunidad que esta formada al rededor de la wiki es muy probable que todos unamos esfuersos para sequir mejorando ala wiki EJ:mejoras de hardware y software etc. por desir algo
- Machine translation; please help improve: Wikipedia to keep informed of all these developments has a privileged position because it would be retro feeding to put this foundation cone to alcanse whole community that is formed around the wiki is very likely that all join esfuersos to look any further improving wiki Wing EJ: hardware and software upgrades etc. by desir something
190.9.201.234
Response by 190.9.201.234
190.9.201.234's thoughts on question 1
I personally think about the education, more and more estudents are going away from the traditional education systems, and i also think that the most users you have are students, and probably that will help you.Also you can improve the wiki's content on another languages and regions, because i´m not for NA, I´m for latin america, and the content on some articles is not the best, like in NA
190.9.201.234's thoughts on question 2
I writed it before in the answer above
Vercoust
Response by Vercoust
Vercoust's thoughts on question 1
Pages with historical content requires a lot of research that cannot be made quickly and requires full writing and management of multiple references and sources that could not be done from a mobile device. Also this work is often done by retired people (as seniors as 80 years old) with limited usage of computers, the Web and mobile phones. Even if this category of users will tend to disapear over time, there will still be work that will need more complex device to be published.
Vercoust's thoughts on question 2
Collaborative work to be done at a higher level than today collaborative "editing" under Wikimedia. Identification of individual significant contribution should be stamped.
Daha iyi damga vurmak istiyorsanız biraz da hammedeyi yazdığınız elemenlerden hangilerinden patlayıcı olduğunu hangilerinin birbirini yok ettiğine değinebilirsiniz. yada bir hırsıza yol göstere bilirsiniz G8 ülkelerini açıkladığınızda burda hırsız iyi iş yapar çünkü ekonomik sıkıntı yok para çok bu ülkede diyebilirsiniz. ve oxfortta verilen öğretim sistemini açığa kavuşturup burda araştırmacılara suna bilirsiniz. ve orta doğunun kendisini sümürgediğini söyleye bilirsiniz bir ortadoğu araştırmacısına sizden istiyeceğim tek şey burdaki bilgilerin tümüne gerçekten sahipseniz açık sözlü biraz daha açık sözlü olun böylelikle insan hayatını kolaylaştıra bilirsiniz.
12.1.154.2
Response by 12.1.154.2
12.1.154.2's thoughts on question 1
...write here…
12.1.154.2's thoughts on question 2
...write here…First of all wiki should get real information and not have students and others in the world stressed because the answer might be wrong everyone want the right answer not just what people thing the answer is because students all around the world want wiki to give correct information which will be less stressful its hard for everyone to think wiki will lie about important information. But all you guys need to do it try harder to give the right information.
212.99.10.164
Response by 212.99.10.164
212.99.10.164's thoughts on question 1
The main trend and the most structuring one will be the increasing use of mobile as personal assistant, for work as for leisure or daily life.
212.99.10.164's thoughts on question 2
I see only one project really thriving for an organization like Wikimedia, given its specific skillness and main trends of mobile developement. Wikimedia should continuously enhance its data base to initiate a self-improving software, dedicated to politics decision-makers(computer-assisted policy).
70.24.239.244
Response by 70.24.239.244
70.24.239.244's thoughts on question 1
...write here…
70.24.239.244's thoughts on question 2
I had translated some apocryph books during the last 10 years (English to French); and this experience was to be shared on Wiki regard Apocryphs. The following opinion is solely to help improving commun objective.
A subject explained by experiment people is often replaced by non-experiment ones expressing very subjective views and often out of subject. A suitable solution is to allow any change which include a reference.
On a second hand, subjects without reference are easily take for granted by naive reader. For example the Yezidis: someone has expressed this tribe to be idolaters - this irrealistic opinion constitute a threat under some circonstances. An other example on John Dee: someone has expressed he was a magician and associated him with esoteric group. Naive readers commiting to false opinion will stop any further research on J. Dee works (I'm presently studying his journal 'A True and Faithfull Relation with Spirits'). An other example on Enoch the scribe, a patriarch who wrote a book on the Creation at the beginning (I have translated his book twice): some caracteristics I posted on Wiki were replaced by less experimented people, and some information lead to confusion with mixte and unnecessary explaination. Objectivity is primordial.
Other thing, I made some corrections on subject which was rejected without reason by your staff. Wiki staff must have expertise in sentence structure and syntax - directive must be clearly state in internal rules - it make me presume Wiki has no rule to structure staff action in this very specific ___domain such as dictionary. Knowledge need to be properly structure with strict (internal) guidelines, and any information with references.
Thanks for sharing!
Josiane Legrand Editor, Filbluz.ca
Mikegtheonly
Response by Mikegtheonly
Mikegtheonly's thoughts on question 1
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Mikegtheonly's thoughts on question 2
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universal code of ethics
In my time here I have come to the conclusion that one thing mankind lacks is a code of ethics, that is not philosophical, not religious, and not political, that everyone can relate to. For me that code of ethics is simply the definition of the word "honesty". Look in any unabridged dictionary and there it is. I'm a bit tired of the lying, deception, violence, inequities, pollution of the planet, and destruction of our natural world, brought about by selfish interests.
Honesty would lead to a world where we have peace and tolerance among the very special human race. It would lead to less war, less pollution, less crime, less violence! It would lead to the utopia that is right before us, universal peace. It is going to take all of us working together in the future just to keep up with the natural changes that our rare little planet is going to go through.
Then we can work on a system of economics that will advance all societies and uplift the human race!!
89.15.201.14
Response by 89.15.201.14
89.15.201.14's thoughts on question 1
Less censorship in the hands of persons that can not be identified. More honest texts, less biased evaluation of issues.
89.15.201.14's thoughts on question 2
Fair treatment for all decent authors.
tres bien mais que les expert mettent des mots pour y ameliorer et pas les internautes
NephroKid
Response by NephroKid
NephroKid's thoughts on question 1
...write here… They Could Destroy TRUE Facts and make True fake and they could Delete everything they could put bad words in them
NephroKid's thoughts on question 2
...write here… We Should DELETE the edit for non Wiki members and Keep it on for Wiki Members
Megalibrarygirl
Response by Megalibrarygirl
Megalibrarygirl's thoughts on question 1
I agree that it's important to recognize that mobile usage is important. The nice thing is that I have no trouble accessing Wikipedia from a mobile device. Editing from mobile is a little bit more difficult. Can addressing editor's mobile needs be a priority?
Megalibrarygirl's thoughts on question 2
I'm an atheist and a woman. I recognize that being part of these two groups which have been traditionally marginalized is a challenge for Wikipedia's diversity. Continuing to address diversity in an objective, neutral way by ensuring that minorities and women are properly and equally represented is still very important. As more Asian and Middle Eastern participants come into Wikipedia, it's also important to make clear what "Free Speech" and "Neutral" viewpoints mean. Many people from such countries have not had free speech and understanding what it means, and untangling it from cultural perspectives is important.
76.240.38.6
Response by 76.240.38.6
76.240.38.6's thoughts on question 2
I think that you should take a mobile app to the next level. You should make like a Wikipedia phone. Not for calling people or sending texts and it should be the size of a iPod shuffle. Wikipedia phone will give easy access to dictionaries, Wikipedia, a thesaurus, and maybe a fun quiz game to test knowledge or a crossword puzzle. it will help writers, readers or people just wanting to look up a subject quickly.
108.28.41.34
Response by 108.28.41.34
108.28.41.34's thoughts on question 1
Kids today don't even want to have to look things up. Too much of a waist of their time. Wiki may want to consider going the way of Siri; or even partner up with them. The age of instant gratification is upon us. If they can't get a sound bit with a single voice command, they don't want to know about it.
Personally, I would like to be able to look up training material. For instance, how do I use an RF Spectrum Analyzer: what does it do, how do I connect it up for different tests, and what should the display look like. Or maybe I want to learn how to code in Perl. Wiki could offer an environment (window or terminal) to learn and practice best techniques and fun projects already worked out by someone. Or even how to build a wood table. Or offer Factory Five's kit car build school or how to program with their autoCAD tools.
108.28.41.34's thoughts on question 2
I would like to see Wiki sponsor and get University students involved in projects like the 3D map of the internet, or the 3D map of the universe, or a 3D representation of the gnome, or 3D representation of Hadron Collider experiments. Maybe even partner up with Google as they have done some of these projects already.
Commander
Response by Commander
Commander's thoughts on question 1
The natural evolution of online content must follow what is easiest for a human brain to ingest. In essence, material which requires less glycogen to process will be more valuable.
Text (currently where wikipedia sits) --> Images (instagram, wikipedia to a degree, etc) --> Video (Youtube, Vine, Facebook, and Twitter all now support video content)
Commander's thoughts on question 2
Wikipedia will need to support video and audio content natively. When someone searches for a topic, a Wikipedia article must be played to them, quickly explaining it.
In psychology this is called Availability Bias. You currently have it working FOR you, as wikipedia is usually a top search result in almost every search. The lack of video content however, is a massive oversight.
Multinational users will continue to use wikimedia projects as long as they are well translated/created in their native tongue, and useful. FORM MUST FOLLOW FUNCTION.
SchreiberBike
Response by SchreiberBike
SchreiberBike's thoughts on question 1
- The maturing of Wikipedia and the need for new decision making processes
- I'd consider temporary dictatorships to break log jams. Vote for a person or small team to make final decisions and write clean concise guidelines. I see this need especially on Help and Manual of Style pages. It's also necessary for overall "look and feel" and Mainpage. These people might even receive stipends.
- Paid support staff (professional technical writers and coders) should help do the work.
- I've seen attempts outside of Wikipedia to redesign the look and feel. Such things could be formalized and rewarded and similar things could be tried for other needs.
- I worry that some language editions of Wikipedia have been co-opted by political groups. Wikipedia should consider pulling the plug on editions which no longer follow the Wikipedia movement's goals.
SchreiberBike's thoughts on question 2
- The next billion users are going to be different from the existing users. We need to know about those people and what their needs are. Focus groups of those people should take place (in those countries, cities or villages). There should also be input from leaders and aid workers in those countries. Innovation is most likely to come from for-profit enterprises serving those markets; watch them and partner with them for research purposes.
- Serious change in the standards of civility meaning lower tolerance for rudeness etc. I see no way of accomplishing that though.
- A way for typical readers to see how stable a passage is. Without looking at page histories, I can't tell if I'm reading the most recent vandalism or longstanding content.
- Good PR. I have Wikipedia on my Google News feed and almost everything I see is negative. If one stays off the "drama" pages, I see that the vast majority of Wikipedia works great and is a testament to the good of humanity.
90.9.145.124
Response by 90.9.145.124
améliorer votre traduction...
- Machine translation; please help improve: improve your translation ...
Yair rand
Response by Yair rand
Yair rand's thoughts on question 1
Major trends? I can think of quite a few. Some important ones to focus on:
- Interactive and/or very dynamic content, where applicable, is becoming a must. Simple images (and videos) often don't do the trick. I recommend spending some resources on mw:Extension:EmbedScript, or something like it. Data visualizations, interactive educational material (preferably some hosted on Wikiversity), 3D content, well-done community-built scripts that make readers amazed, at least for a few moments.
- In several years, there may be numerous ways of reaching Wikimedia content other than through desktop or mobile browsers. Certain large corporations such as Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Sony, are investing heavily into virtual reality and augmented reality. Interfaces will have to change to work well on these platforms. Both Mediawiki as a whole and Wikimedia content will have to adapt, and of course this brings us back to the necessity of having ways of adding advanced non-text content like embedded scripts.
(This just occurred to me, but has anyone considered building some way of enabling uploading of 3d photographs to Commons? Is there even a standard file format for that?) - People are consuming content in different ways, some of which aren't compatible with having a simple article on a topic. For example, some users just want a straight answer to a question. In order to accomplish our mission of optimally developing and disseminating educational content, further effort should be made toward developing Wikidata so that contributions are made quickly and easily.
Yair rand's thoughts on question 2
- A thriving and healthy Wikimedia project tends to have a good balance between very active contributors and rare contributors, with a decent speed of rotation among the core community (that is, many new users continually replacing old ones) (I would consider a good rotation to have most of the admins having less than 3 years since adminship), along with generally friendly interactions between the participants, a welcoming attitude toward newbies, and a heavy focus on content creation above all else. Such a community will develop a healthy attitude of "everyone has the same goal/is on the same side", with no clear "insiders" or "outsiders", so long as there is no large and/or powerful group that has private or external communications channels and/or has easily stated difference of goals. (Such problematic groups tend to either be a "cabal"-ified core of admins, a group of users that has extra-Wikimedia social associations or intra-Wikimedia associations from outside the project, or, with alarmingly increasing frequency, the Wikimedia Foundation.) Participants of a healthy community spend very little time focusing on either vandalism-prevention or inter-user conflicts, most work is done with some level of helpful collaboration, and participants hold the goals and methods of project as a whole in high regard. Everyone is equal, the goal is clear and everyone's, and the door is open.
Thank you. --Yair rand (talk) 17:52, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Doc James
Response by Doc James
Doc James's thoughts on question 1
Mobile is not a very good platform for many contributions. Might be okay for gnomish work. Maybe specifically set up tools to help with reviewing new edits / article / spelling via mobile if they are not sufficient already.
Commercial enterprises are taking a bigger interest in Wikipedia. This has a significant risk of negatively impacting Wikipedia. We need to address it head on by working with the companies that facility these transactions.
Doc James's thoughts on question 2
With increasing numbers of people making content from Wikipedia we need to get a handle on copyright violations within Wikipedia. While the volunteer community is working on stuff we need staff programmers to help.
190.25.96.146
Response by 190.25.96.146
Las ideas de 190.25.96.146 acerca de la pregunta 1
Contar con mil millones de usuarios es algo descomunal y ustedes lo han logrado con perseverancia, profesionalismo y credibilidad. Considero que la tendencia debe ser la misma, es decir, que mantengan su estilo, autonomía, independencia y credibilidad para el bien del conocimiento y la cultura en general. Así mismo, en nuestro planeta sigue tomando fuerza la preocupación por los temas ambientales, animales y de una sociedad mas igualitaria y justa, ya que con el paso del tiempo y a pesar de los avances en muchos campos como el tecnológico, en comunicaciones y de movilidad, la brecha entre dirigentes y dirigidos en todo el mundo en lugar de reducirse por el contrario se amplia, con el agravante de no contar con una educación de calidad pero si muy limitada y costosa.
- Machine translation; please help improve: Having billion users is something extraordinary and you've achieved with perseverance, professionalism and credibility. I believe that the trend should be the same, ie to maintain their style, autonomy, independence and credibility for the sake of knowledge and culture in general. Likewise, in our planet continues gaining strength concern for environmental issues, animals and a more egalitarian and just society, because with the passage of time and despite advances in many fields such as technology, communications and mobility the gap between leaders and led worldwide rather than reduced expands the contrary, with the aggravation of not having quality education but very limited and expensive.
Las ideas de 190.25.96.146 acerca de la pregunta 2
Así las cosas, lo más democrático y accesible es la información y el conocimiento a través de proyectos como el que ustedes lideran y que nosotros los ciudadanos del mundo debemos apoyar.
- Machine translation; please help improve: So, what is more democratic and accessible information and knowledge through projects like the one you lead and we citizens of the world should support.
103.27.164.7
Response by 103.27.164.7
103.27.164.7's thoughts on question 1
The sale of smartphones has shot up considerably in the recent years. A major chunk of internet activity has been through mobile devices. Integration into mobile operating systems/applications, which would make things easier for the user would be a huge advantage. The next billion users comprise of a large chunk of people from areas with not enough resources to set up proper access points, which also points to the fact that due to the lack of resources, there presumably wasn't much development in other areas as well. They will now look for relevant material. They would look for educational material, and affordable services. The information about the same has to be brought to them.
103.27.164.7's thoughts on question 2
Easy to use applications, providing well formatted, readable information. The interface would appeal to the user, and its simplicity be its selling point.
Nocowardsoulismine
Response by Nocowardsoulismine
Nocowardsoulismine's thoughts on question 2
If anyone truly can edit Wikipedia, why don't they? There are very few people who edit Wikipedia, compared to those who read it. I believe we need to promote a more welcoming environment, to encourage new editors and content contributors. Here is what I propose:
- Make editing easier. Every day, technology becomes more intuitive and user-friendly. Most people don't bother to use software that is prohibitively difficult. Failure to keep up with technology trends will result in Wikipedia being left behind. It is popular opinion that editing is done by "techies" and "nerds". The popular opinion should ideally be that Wikipedia is edited by anyone with knowledge to share. Simplifying and streamlining the editing process will go far in making that happen.
- Simplify the Manual of Style. I am not suggesting a compromise in previously established consensus. I am proposing that we make the Manual of Style easier to understand. In addition, we need to make it more easily searchable so that new content creators can quickly find relevant information. Judging by the amount of edits that get deleted or mercilessly edited/tagged to comply with project standards, it's clear that most people don't read it. Truthfully, the MoS is a daunting read. Imagine how daunting it must be for someone for whose native language isn't English.
- Give voice to less outspoken editors. Discussion pages tend to be dominated by the most outspoken and even aggressive editors. As it stands, anyone participating in a discussion needs to be prepared to be bombarded with criticism, which is usually not presented in a constructive manner. A "+1", "like", or even "-1" function on talk/discussion pages could give voice to less assertive editors and help to gauge whether discussions and their outcomes are truly representative of consensus, or if they are simply a contest of who can shout the loudest.
- Establish a way for readers to easily communicate with editors. Since the great majority of people who read Wikipedia don't make edits, we need to find a way to give the readers a voice. Our success is determined by the opinion of our audience. Readers need to have a role in shaping the direction the projects take. Perhaps, we could have a simple rating tool located at the bottom of each article that asks basic questions about the content. We could also create a user experience survey as other websites are increasingly doing. At the moment, we don't know whether editors are pointing the projects in a direction that the readers want.
185.52.140.158
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185.52.140.158's thoughts on question 1
Improvements in machine-based translation might play a significant role in the foreseeable future for Wikimedia projects. Well with that being said, I think that Wikimedia Foundation should allocate some resources towards translation of high quality content ( which happens to be mostly in English these days) into as many languages of the world as possible.
I am, for one, a native Czech speaker, but I rarely use Czech versions of the Wikimedia projects due to poor quality of their content in many cases (it's not that content is not factual(although sometimes it is), it's more the case that some important bits and pieces of information are often wanting or that information, sometimes, is simply poorly presented in Czech versions of the Wikimedia projects or even in some cases it might be completely absent).
So in conclusion, what I would like the oncoming billion of new internet users to see is well-adapted translations of English articles instead of having them come up with their own new ,as a rule, poor quality content.
185.52.140.158's thoughts on question 2
As I have aforetime mentioned translating (or rather adapting) good quality English-language-based content into other languages would be my number one priority if I wanted to see thriving and healthy Wikimedia projects in the future world-wide, becasue let's face it Wikimedia projects are only any good in a handful out of 6000 world languages and really good only in one (English)... becasue most of the oncoming billion of new internet users ,probably, aren't going to be able to speak English or any other major European language (the strong suit of Wikimedia's), thusly they won't be able to access a large amount of existing Wikimedia content unless it is translated into their respective languages.
Wikimedia certainly needs a good, strong translation platform and it needs more trans-lingual communication in my opinion as well. Wikislate and/or Wikinational would be a good place to start.
Joe Sewell
Response by Joe Sewell
Joe Sewell's thoughts on question 1
The only other "trend" I can think of would be one that's already around: maintaining quality without rejecting editors. Right now many former editors, including me, have felt so completely insulted and rejected by those who have enough time to influence "consensus" (and who apparently don't have anything better to do during the day) that we no longer fix grammar errors or typos. Kudos are few and far between, but complaints over minor infractions are numerous.
Joe Sewell's thoughts on question 2
A healthy project must encourage participation while maintaining quality standards. Get rid of the offensive boxes and tags that say, "hey, someone stupid has messed this thing up, somebody else needs to fix this!" If it needs attention, do it in a way that doesn't offend the "next billion users." Status quo will see the "next billion users" go elsewhere. More to the point, if something needs fixing up, just do it and don't complain on the article page about it.
A healthy project must encourage participation from people with day jobs. I was involved in a disagreement about the appropriateness of a point about the late w:Chuck Smith and his relationship to w:Calvary Chapels. My edits were mercilessly and rudely reverted after 24 hours, even though my day job often limits me to looking at Wikipedia during my lunch hour. My lack of response within 24 hours was considered implicit acceptance, when it was not! After a couple of stints with that, I gave up. Again, it's an insult to those who don't have time to meet the ludicrous artificial "deadlines" that seem to be in place just to keep certain people in power.
A healthy project must look good everywhere. Mobile browsers have a variety of different characteristics. Project pages must be readable, navigable, and editable no matter what browser, no matter what capabilities, no matter what the screen size may be. The current iOS and Android Wikipedia apps come close, but the latter doesn't allow easy editing, and the former keeps loading old versions of pages. Updates to Mediawiki can destroy an app's usability, as well as custom templates; several Wikia wikis, for example, are completely unreadable using their unmaintained app.
Wbm1058
Response by Wbm1058
Wbm1058's thoughts on question 1
I don't see users realistically editing Wikipedia while mobile. Most serious editing will continue to be done while seated at a desk, and larger screens can enhance editing productivity if the software takes advantage of their size. Hoping another major trend is for increased access via public libraries and Internet cafes. Young people in the US will be looking for better ways to educate themselves without also becoming saddled with a lifetime of debt. So there should be a trend towards lower-cost but high quality education options, perhaps Wikipedia can be a part of that. Of course, reading via mobile will increase, so Wikipedia needs to continue to support multiple screen resolutions.
Wbm1058's thoughts on question 2
Healthy Wikipedia projects will have many more skilled and experienced editors actively working to clear backlogs and Wikify articles for uniformity of presentation and quality of content, i.e., more fact-checking. It's hard for me to see Wikipedia getting there without finding a mechanism for compensating the more valuable volunteers. Better dispute resolution mechanisms need to be developed. The old saying is "praise in public, but criticize in private". How does that work on Wikipedia, where everything is done in public?
91.18.133.194
Response by 91.18.133.194
91.18.133.194s Gedanken zu Frage 1
Ich werde den Browser weiterhin verwenden
Translation: I'll continue using the browser
91.18.133.194s Gedanken zu Frage 2
Ich denke, es bleibt so ähnlich wie es jetzt auch ist
Translation:I think it stays more or less like it is.
Public ___domain
- Moved from lede section.
Wie bitte? Das ist nicht das, wozu ich im Bearbeitungsfenster zustimme (CC-BY-SA). Wer entscheidet da mal locker, die Lizenz zu verändern? Wer hat das autorisiert? Kann ich das dann auch, einfach mal schreiben: Jeder der mir antwortet, gibt damit unwiderruflich alle Urheberrechte an seinen Beitrag auf? Für meine "Forschung", oder weil ich daraus dann ein Buch bastele, dass ich proprietär verwerte/verkaufe? Was sind denn bitteschön "or other purposes"? Das fängt ja gut an mit der "user consultation"! Atlasowa
- Translation: "I beg your pardon? That's not what I agree with in the editing window (CC-BY-SA). Who decides casually to change the license? Who authorized that? Can I do it as well, and simply write: Everyone who answers me, gives me irrevocably all copyrights to his post? For my "research" or because I tinker a book that I use/sell proprietary? What in gods name are those "or other purposes"? This is a great start with the "user consultation"!"
- This is fairly common throughout the projects. see Template:PD notice, as used throughout the Help: namespace, especially at mediawiki (mw:Template:PD Help Page).
- Re: "or other purposes", this refers to usages such as putting examples in annual/quarterly reports, or in the summary document after this has concluded, and outreach materials. It allows good ideas to be incorporated anywhere, eg. phabricator tasks, without the necessity of tracking down who edited what sentences.
- Hope that helps. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 18:26, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
78.160.67.66
Response by 78.160.67.66
78.160.67.66's thoughts on question 1
This is a really good point. Since i am assuming that you currently have a mobile wikipedia version, you should work on ease of accessibility, good resources, overall smoothness (animations/loading), and really but REALLY fast load/reload times. People on mobile devices expect to be fast and mobile, and mainly that is why its mobile. In the next few years, new chips will be integrated by Nvidia and AMD to mobile devices that can outperform the XBONE, and that is why using resources wisely is key.
78.160.67.66's thoughts on question 2
Seeing a wikimedia website about programming and books etc. just about programming would be a relief for most programmers, including myself. I think this is required, and would make traffic and would be helpful. Other than that, integration with other websites would be 2 steps forward, in my opinion.
206.180.109.190
Response by 206.180.109.190
206.180.109.190's thoughts on question 1
make sources more reliable
2.178.62.117
Response by 2.178.62.117
2.178.62.117's thoughts on question 2
your website is extremely under USA and ISRAEL political manner and its so undependable due to they refer to these governments politics and you banned other evidence and keep this web under your Premption
BirthOfJesus
Response by BirthOfJesus
BirthOfJesus's thoughts on question 1
Nothing. First of all, the question isn't perfectly clear to me. What is a "major trend," as opposed to just a "trend"? And why should there be a need to improve/make a trend more notable for? It seems both confusing and hard to get a grasp on what is being asked for here, so I'll run my answer down as, "Basically nothing." Instead of a "trend," make general improvements to the Wikivesity/Wikibooks sections to further illustrate the power of open-source work, learning, and access to free ways to learn and free digital books for self-teaching and many other causes. I hardly consider improvement to be a "major trend" to identify. Also, better categorize subjects, sections, and pages to construct easier navigation between various articles. Lots of categories on Wikipedia are clumsy and incomplete at best, and could use a touch-up. Instead of worrying about how you can fulfill the notion of a trend for others, just improve Wikipedia as a whole, & things will be better for everyone.
BirthOfJesus's thoughts on question 2
Look at my other answer above; it covers both questions, since neither of them count, to me at least, as one good question in the first place.
Lava
Response by 176.24.120.179
Lava's thoughts on question 1
Make a wikipedia app or if unavailable make your mobile wikipedia more mobile friendly
- There is a Wikipedia app! See the android app, and the iOS app. For more details, see our own documentation at mw:Wikimedia Apps.
- For the mobile version of Wikipedia in a browser, there is on-going work to improve that, and add new features, coordinated at mw:Mobile Web. Hope that helps. :) Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 19:44, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Lava's thoughts on question 2
Globally used in every country and 100 % accurate as it has to be user friendly and truthful at the same time :)
- Re: 100% accurate, you might be interested in point #6 of w:en:Wikipedia:Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia. :) Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 19:44, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Amazighi for-ever
Response by Amazighi for-ever
Amazighi for-ever's thoughts on question 1
اضافة بعض الموثرات الى الموسوعة قد يجلب الزوار اكثر لان شكل الموسوعة يبدو قديما Translated:By Lava: Add some more info as visitors will bring more as Wikipedia seems old
Amazighi for-ever's thoughts on question 2
شكرا لكم Translated: Thank you
Inspindawetrust
Response by Inspindawetrust
Inspindawetrust's thoughts on question 1
In the coming age of accessibility, it's imperative that all articles stay objective, as many different ideologies and perspectives will be reading them.
Inspindawetrust's thoughts on question 2
Thriving and healthy Wikimedia projects would if possible, have translation in real time to allow anyone in the world to enjoy and contribute to Wikimedia. I know that's very difficult to put into motion, but keep it in mind as a distant objective at least.
Idéfixetcompagnie
Response by Idéfixetcompagnie
Mes réflexions pour la question 1
Les gens veulent atteindre une information le plus vite possible. Plus les années passent, plus les gens sont "impatients", en quelque sorte. En plein milieu d'une discussion, il arrive que l'on veuille ouvrir Wikipédia pour trouver une information sur un sujet que l'on traite, mais on ne veut pas non plus suspendre cette discussion pour allumer son ordinateur, ou se débattre avec son portable. Quand on voit l'application, qui est déjà très rapide à allumer, on se demande comment peut-on faire encore plus rapidement...
- (Machine translation, please improve it) "People want to achieve as soon as possible information. As the years pass, the more people are "impatient" in some way. In the middle of a discussion, sometimes we want to open Wikipedia to find information on a topic which is treated, but it does not suspend this discussion to turn on his computer or wrestle with his portable. When we see the application, which is already very fast to light, one wonders how can we even faster ..."
Mes réflexions pour la question 2
Je pense qu'il est dommage que les différents projets Wiki- ne soient pas mieux liés entre eux. Si je cherche des choses sur la gastronomie française, par exemple, je ne regarderai sûrement que la page Wikipédia. Refaire la recherche 4 fois sur Wikinews, Wikivoyage, Wikimedia Commons, Wikibooks prend beaucoup de temps. Et j'aurai peut-être raté du contenu intéressant... Avoir une recherche unique avec une page unique sur laquelle l'ensemble des 10 sites Wiki- apparaîtrai serai une révolution à elle seule (à mon avis). Ensuite, avoir des partenariats avec d'autres bases de savoirs participatifs serait génial ! Être mieux inséré dans la toile. Avec des recettes (base de savoirs participatifs en France : Marmiton.org), des astuces (Wikihow.com)... Enfin, faire entrer les jeunes dans cette dimension en donnant à Wikimédia une image plus moderne. Créer un Wikipédia plus simple à lire, plus accessible aux enfants. Peut-être même publier sur des réseaux sociaux des articles très intéressant et d'actualité.
- (Machine translation, please improve it) "I think it is a pity that the various projects are not wiki- better linked. If I look for things on French cuisine, for example, I certainly will look at the Wikipedia page. Redo search 4 times Wikinews, Wikivoyage, Wikimedia Commons, Wikibooks is time. And I may have missed interesting content ... Having a single search with a single page that all 10 sites will appear wiki- be a revolution in itself (in my opinion).
- Then have partnerships with other databases participatory knowledge would be great! Be better inserted into the canvas. With revenues (basic participatory knowledge in France: Marmiton.org), tips (Wikihow.com) ...
- Finally, bring young people in this dimension Wikimedia giving a more modern image. Create a simpler Wikipedia to read more accessible to children. Maybe even publish on the social networks of very interesting articles and news."
37.116.251.249
Response by 37.116.251.249
Considerazioni di 37.116.251.249 sulla domanda n. 2
Oltre a definizioni, dare spazio a come si fanno o producono alcune cose, conoscenze e spiegazione di processi produttivi, sia industriali che artigianali. Penso potrebbero essere utili sia agli utenti attuali per prendere coscienza, sia a paesi emergenti per trovare soluzioni.
- (Machine translation, please improve it) "In addition to definitions, give space to how to make or produce some things, knowledge and explanation of the production processes, industrial and handicraft. I think it might be useful to current users to be aware, both in emerging countries to find solutions."
Pgallert
Response by Pgallert
Pgallert's thoughts on question 1
Open and free/libre knowledge and content and the decline of classic copyright. People want their texts to be read, their videos to be watched. The money then comes with the popularity rather than through royalties.
Pgallert's thoughts on question 2
They would capitalise on their specific advantage: content and its presentation. They would spread the open content idea. Specifically the WMF would:
- outsource all non-core business, software development being the prime example. There is a thriving FLOSS community which will write the necessary software for WM, free of charge.
- protect and promote editors. For instance, granting them automatic 'journalist' status if they regularly write on current topics. Or enabling easy access to "portfolios" in the way it is done on the WMF Global Blog (https://blog.wikimedia.org/author/XXX). I'm willing to expand on this should there be interest from your side.
- facilitate the governance of the WM projects without attempting to govern them themselves. This includes accepting and deploying local consensus where even remotely feasible.
205.159.86.10
Response by 205.159.86.10
205.159.86.10's thoughts on question 1
I believe strongly that the internet will be accessed largely by wearable devices (and increasingly-miniaturized embedded devices) for the current, and next billion, users. I believe extremely agile content responsiveness is essential in order to 'right-size' the response from an internet request. Specifically, my suggestion is that all content pages could be CSS-filtered (or some other technology) so that portions of the content is distributed to wearables, while more content is available to phones, yet more is available to tablets, and complete content is available via desktops.
This is notionally similar to responsive design wherein visual content is filtered and re-sampled to meet screen/display and bandwidth constraints...an iOS device sees more pixels and fewer colors than a laptop screen with lower resolution but full gamut, for example. In my major trend above, I propose that every 'thought' or 'atom' in each wiki content be characterized by which group of consuming devices will retrieve the 'atom.' In this way, a page can be rendered specifically for each consuming device.
205.159.86.10's thoughts on question 2
...write here… Healthy Wikimedia projects, first and foremost, must be financially supported; not necessarily self-supported nor community supported, but not UNSUPPORTED. If this means ranking proposed projects and crowdfunding the projects based on reaching funding thresholds, then so-be-it. If it means selling advertising on a per-project basis, that is likewise acceptable. The key here is that non-financially supported projects simply should not be prioritized nor attempted. Also, funding (if it be per-project accepted) should not be re-allocated to cross project boundaries.
168.91.255.101
Response by 168.91.255.101
168.91.255.101's thoughts on question 1
There are people who want to use Wikipedia for sources. Therefore, I would say, appeal to the young generation whilst also making sure that everything is checked and revised daily, because normal people will use Wikipedia for source references even if they know that the sources can be incorrectly identified as true and are just lazy.
168.91.255.101's thoughts on question 2
Well, I think that a lot of Wikimedia projects will begin to have references to memes, celebrity goings-on, and other social trends. I don't like the fact that the newest generation, just past mine, is becoming so socially oriented and electronically-inclined that they don't appreciate anything anymore. They take 5,000 pictures just of their lunch. They don't treasure each picture and make sure that it means something to them. They just hate work, hate history, and hate most everything that requires an ounce of work. However, this is how I expect the trend to continue. Even Einstein said, "I fear the day when technology surpasses our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots." So true, now.
Iagocasabiell
Response by Iagocasabiell
Iagocasabiell's thoughts on question 1
I guess new perspectives will open about everything, with a revisionist trend, sometimes healthy and positive, but also trolling, propaganda and edit wars will burst. Anyway, that was also expected in the beginning, and Wikipedia turned out to be awesome and reliable.
Iagocasabiell's thoughts on question 2
I think we should prepare some kind of edition training school app or something, with like 5 lessons: adding pictures to commons with appropiate licensing, how to complete an article (showing the need of sourced material), how to join a talk in an article, geotagging, categorizing... and then make the wikipedia app follow those lessons. Also we should prepare an easy translation platform so we could grasp some endangered languages before they dissapear, before it's too late.
Yukon1990
Response by Yukon1990
its great but needs color
Yukon1990's thoughts on question 2
I think the major trends will be wiki compatable with smart watches and other devices. If people can access it, it will keep going and be a success.
78.20.196.168
Response by 78.20.196.168
78.20.196.168's thoughts on question 2
Bring together an acedemic group (or people who earned there stripes in there respective fields) who can verify articles. Make sure it gets harder to adjust verified articles, then thoroughly check changes made to these kind of articles before actually republishing it. For instance; a professor history of france confirms that the information about the french revolution is accurate, the article gets "sealed". This makes it harder for a child or people with bad intentions to change for instance the date of the event in fiction, but leaves space to add other information. This way, I think, you can get an encyclopedia that is more trustworthy; with no elephantine mistakes in confirmed articles and still gives the opportunity for everyone to help. It only makes rewriting "confirmed facts" much harder. It wouldn't be flawless (nothing is) but it could create a "britannica-like" (wich most people see as the truth) encyclopedia with loads of added information but then again, with a certified core. I know there is a similar system in place, but not as efficient I think.
37.215.108.158
Response by 37.215.108.158
37.215.108.158's thoughts on question 1
1. Editing pages with many conflicts. User1 thinks that page X should contain A. User2 thinks that page X should not contain A but contain B. User1 wants to share page X with A. User2 wants to share page X with B. More users more conflicts.
2. Ensure Wikipedia is accessible for everyone everywhere all time in present of pressure from governments to reduce internet freedom and performance pressure of billions of users and possibility of hackers attacks(both to shutdown servers and to broke semantics of articles).
3. I cannot donate to Wikipedia because Belarus donations are blocked. I donated to Wikipedia from Belarus via 3rd country VPN.
4. I want post articles into Wikipedia from alternative sources to speed up initial article authoring. E.g. public books/software/articles/research/reports in many case I done in markdown, so users may take parts of it and form Wikipedia article.
37.215.108.158's thoughts on question 2
1. Provide `fork` mechanics for wiki pages. Check gitlab or gitorious to test how it works.
2. Allow for p2p/federated/tor/bitmessage/otr like features for hosting/editing/authorization. Use some machine learning to ensure that changes to article are good, trigger some notification if these seems bad.
3. Allow me to donate to Wikipedia from Belarus directly, no need for VPN.
4. Allow posting to Wikipedia from alternative markdown source. See what is possible https://stackedit.io/editor
80.187.103.94
Response by 80.187.103.94
80.187.103.94s Gedanken zu Frage 2
Mobile apps die kostenlos und ohne mobilen datenzugang genutz werden können.
- (Machine translation, please improve it) "Mobile apps can be Utilized for free and without mobile data access."
Did you check Wikipedia Zero before? :). It builds partnerships with operators across the globe in order to support the idea. The focus right now is for Global South, where this is likely to be more impactful and mostly need. Thanks! --Melamrawy (WMF) (talk) 21:48, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
165.196.98.22
Response by 165.196.98.22
165.196.98.22's thoughts on question 1
cultural bias that taints articles with dominant ideology
165.196.98.22's thoughts on question 2
they would be self-aware of their own inherent values.
176.232.36.27
Response by 176.232.36.27
176.232.36.27's thoughts on question 2
Öncelikle sa ben türk değilim ama türkiyede merhaba yada nasılsın yerine artık sa ve as var bu konu hakkında bi yazı yapın
- (Machine translation, please improve it) "First, though, I'm not Turkish, but rather how the turkey hello or have a structure as short and longer be writing about this topic"
Rasmus.mattus
Response by Rasmus.mattus
Rasmus.mattus's thoughts on question 1
digital glasses. so it gets easier to feel that you`re in it.
Rasmus.mattus's thoughts on question 2
its more then just flat screen this are a new way to look in things, you can see whole picture like it were around you. its like it was real
98.113.105.249
Response by 98.113.105.249
98.113.105.249's thoughts on question 1
Virtual Reality is going to explode in all aspects, Gaming, information, work, and various industries are taking advantage of VR. Wikipedia has to find ways to encode itself into a VR accessible program for example: A user using vr goggles on his computer has to have a press of one button which would seamlessly turn wikipedia into a 3D building or room where the user can find articles and learn stuff through this method, adapt with technology and wikipedia will stay on top. VR is already used to train squads of U.S soldiers. There should be a wikipedia section which lets a user LIVE an article or a thing. For example reading about some industrial process, there should be a section which enables viewing a VR scene of how the process happens so the user can understand the concepts instantly and on the most basic of conscious levels. Remember first it was reading, next it was video, now it's Virtual Reality. VR has a chance to go beyond videos as learning tools and i hope wikipedia will exploit this. The encyclopedia must think of creative ways to adapt to this emerging technology.
98.113.105.249's thoughts on question 2
Brand recognition has to be the main focus for wikipedia. In my opinion it is the single greatest learning tool ever that has been made possible by the internet. I don't know exactly how wikipedia will get known in other countries. But I know that the entire world is now hungry, starving rather for information. You must find a way to champion wikipedia to other countries and regions, never politically, but for humanitarian grounds. Maybe some apps to reach wikipedia from pressing it's icon on a mobile device instead of searching for it on google or other search engines, something easily accessible. Another thing is, wikipedia is famous because people are buzzing about it, when these new regions come online you have to find ways to get these people to start buzzing about it, encourage regular people there to spread the word of it's qualities, it's benefits, it's ease, it's credibility.
One last thing, I found this while reading articles that I was interested in on wikipedia and I think it's important. It's from a list of french expressions here on wikipedia itself.
fait accompli
- lit. "accomplished fact"; something that has already happened and is thus unlikely to be reversed, a done deal.[26] In French used only in the expression placer/mettre quelqu'un devant le fait accompli meaning to present somebody with a fait accompli.
Wikipedia needs to be the first into these new regions coming online, either to set the tone for boundless knowledge so that if it ever gets censored the people will miss it and know such a thing exists.
Sm8900
Response by Sm8900
Sm8900's thoughts on question 1
1. social media and social online networking.
Sm8900's thoughts on question 2
2. Wikipedia needs to provide much flexibility on how like-minded users can find each others and work together on group efforts, group projects, and mutual interests. groupings should not be limited solely to official Wikiprojects. if a group of users has an interest in, say, solar energy, or renewable energies, or new developments in genetic biology or nanotechnology, they should be able to set up a group of their own to work together to do so, and to set up their own group based purely on unofficial social ties if that is what they wish to do. currently, any such users need to set up a Wikiproject, or else they cannot establish any other group which might allow them to work together.
in short, we need to allow groups of editors to set up informal [or formal] social groups where they can work together, REGRADLESS of how many other user groups may already exist on a particular topic. this is the only way to allow the kind of continual of interest-based groupings and efforts which need to be permitted to occur, if Wikipedia is to endure. thanks. --Sm8900 (talk) 21:18, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
190.24.116.0
Response by 190.24.116.0
190.24.116.0's thoughts on question 1
el Internet también aportaría mucho al crecimiento de su pagina
- (Machine translation, please improve it) "The Internet also add much to the growth of your page"
190.24.116.0's thoughts on question 2
toda la información es muy importante para muchas cosas resalto las buenas respuestas a las preguntas
- (Machine translation, please improve it) "all information is very important for many shoulder things the right answers to questions"
169.204.229.202
Response by 169.204.229.202
the new possibility of expansion on the internet through culture and new ideas
169.204.229.202's thoughts on question 1
with the ever expanding internet we are going to see new ideas and the ideas will reflect the people of where they come from it will come culturally governments, historical values and history, and these things will be presented for all to see which will keep expanding from there. good examples of these places would be south america and Africa, the people of Africa have a wide array of cultures religion and history, and the things they create and say and do on the internet will resemble this, and this will also bring in already put ideas and learning on the internet to their countries and cummouties. so new cultures on internet will spread to these places making a subculture that will keep expanding connecting and it will start making effects in real life to the point of new reforms in government and this also may allow foreign ideas to take hold that the people hold values to and agree with. so keeping information unbiased as possible is the best thing to do which in its self is a huge tackling but this will allow less agendas of others to take hold with misinformation that will use this information that will in its self be more damaging then not allowing the idea to happen in the first place.
169.204.229.202's thoughts on question 2
new projects should reflect the people who are using them and what they feel is needed and a good amount of people don't know what they want until they have it so the best I can say is ask what people want but also try and make new things that will have an impact but stay within want people will want what they may be i cannot say that is for people to decide for themselves and with something on this scale this is no one size fits all kinds of projects so the projects should reflect on what this subculture or group identify with and have many projects that reflect these things and will attract new people with these projects and learn of other projects that they identify with and either like and be a part of the project or not identify with it and move on to something else.
this is what i believe would be helpful in this case but what I have described is mostly opinionated and not factual if any questions I enjoy a good conversation: ~cheers
190.243.76.11
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Las ideas de 190.243.76.11 acerca de la pregunta 2
creando una aplicación para moviles
- (Machine translation, please improve it) "creating an application for mobile"
- There is a Wikipedia app! See the android app, and the iOS app. For more details, see our own documentation at mw:Wikimedia Apps. --Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 21:39, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
39.54.0.189
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39.54.0.189's thoughts on question 1
...write here… i think its time for wikipedia to go public and make a lot of bucks from next billion users
39.54.0.189's thoughts on question 2
...write here…well to me information is like a river flowing in any direction, and wikipedia must have a way that people can also add there valuable information in articles that they might know more about. by this the knowledge and information will get strong.
181.53.233.77
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Las ideas de 181.53.233.77 acerca de la pregunta 1
Gracias a Wikipedia, casi el mundo entero ha podido adquirir, con un poco mas de facilidad, el conocimiento y estar informado también con los hechos que fueron y son noticia. En la actualidad la tecnología esta siendo aprovechada en los diversos campos de acción humana, y el modo cómo se adquiere información no es ajeno a esta nueva tendencia y revolución tecnológica. Así es como se tiene que ademas de los teléfonos móviles y las tabletas, la información que Internet brinda y en este caso particular Wikipedia, no solo estaría presente en estos aparatos sino que también podrían facilitarse en dispositivos como las gafas creadas por Google o las creadas por Sony o en todos los aparatos que hoy utilizan Internet como los televisores; ademas de lo anterior seria muy bueno que hubiese una aplicación de rápido acceso que abra una ventana directo hacia la Wikipedia que brinde información detallada y actualizada , teniendo en cuenta que hoy por hoy las aplicaciones son útiles y son lo que mas esta llamando la atención. Pasando al tema de los usuarios presentes en Latinoamerica, África y Asia; La Wikipedia debería estar presente con una mayor cantidad de información en las lenguas que se habla en cada una de estas regiones, ya que por ejemplo existen artículos que se encuentran con mayor frecuencia en ingles, por esa razón creo que los próximos usuarios serán mas jóvenes y con ansias de adquirir conocimiento en su propia lengua.
- (Machine translation, please improve it) "Thanks to Wikipedia, almost the whole world has been able to acquire, with a little more ease, knowledge and be well acquainted with the facts that were and are news. Currently the technology is being utilized in various fields of human action, and the way how information is acquired is no stranger to this new trend and technological revolution. This is how you must also mobile phones and tablets, the Internet provides information and in this particular case Wikipedia not only be present in these devices but could also be facilitated in devices like glasses created by Google or created by Sony or all devices now use the Internet as televisions; in addition to the above would be great to have an application shortcut to open a direct window into the Wikipedia provide detailed and updated information, considering that today's applications are useful and are what most are calling the attention. Turning to the users present in Latin America, Africa and Asia; The Wikipedia should be present with a greater amount of information in the languages spoken in each of these regions, since for example there are items that are most often in English, for that reason I think the next users will be younger and eager to acquire knowledge in their own language."
Las ideas de 181.53.233.77 acerca de la pregunta 2
Los proyectos futuros y exitosos de la Wikipedia podrían concentrarse en adquirir nuevas y mejores plataformas de acceso que permitan a los usuarios incluso interactuar con la pagina para tener una relación usuario-plataforma para la recepción y remitencia de conocimiento e información mas oportuna y con mejores resultados.
- (Machine translation, please improve it) "Futures and successful projects of Wikipedia could concentrate on acquiring new and better access platforms allow users even interact with the page for a user-platform connection for receiving and remitencia of knowledge and information. more timely and better outcomes."
88.162.204.220
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88.162.204.220's thoughts on question 1
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88.162.204.220's thoughts on question 2
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je comprends rien à ce que vous voulez
vous pouvez pas parler un peu francais non?
Myamoto Musashi
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Myamoto Musashi's thoughts on question 1
Wikipedia is becoming a greater resource for Homeschoolers. They have suggested some tools that would help them to learn more efficiently. These may be even more important for those who do not have access to much exterior assistance. Some of these tools may not be possible given the nature of the website, but they may eventually be incorporated. -Automatic Reader: a tool that will read the page for you. This would especially help auditory learners. -Vocabulary Tool: a tool for memorizing words and listing un-recognized words for familiarization. It can directly be connected to Wiktionary with a "Look up using Wiktionary" option for highlighted words. -Personal Study Agenda: a tool for recording specific study information such as completed articles, notes, and future study topics. It could be run through an other website if needed. -Translation Tool: a tool related to Google Translate that is directly connected to Wikimedia for quick access. Someone also mentioned 3D tools. I agree, and I think that would help visual learners as well as give wider perspective. With technology advancing, it may not be long before most 3D tools will be compatible with mobile devices.
Myamoto Musashi's thoughts on question 2
Many homeschoolers rely on the facts they get on Wikipedia, so it is important that they can distinguish witch facts are accurate. I think the mere presence of uncorrected information is not bad so long as it is separated from the main body of information. There may be a place on or near the page for public discussion, opinions, and questions. This may be a good place for suggested additions or revisions by visitors/non-writers who are handing it off to someone who knows what they are doing. Qualified writers can volunteer time to ensure that all information is agreed upon. You may give special license to particular volunteers to make larger decisions about content.
200.114.243.126
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200.114.243.126's thoughts on question 1
Have and app.
200.114.243.126's thoughts on question 2
Show more images, audio, vidio and websites for more information. To have more specific sections and to have a instant question and answer.
190.42.17.81
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Las ideas de 190.42.17.81 acerca de la pregunta 1
el fin del mundo , todos seremos vagos porque todo lo va ha hacer el robot
Las ideas de 190.42.17.81 acerca de la pregunta 2
Wikimedia creceria mas porque sera parte de la tecnologia
hello
168.184.14.68
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168.184.14.68's thoughts on question 1
...write here…
168.184.14.68's thoughts on question 2
have some staff work on edits instead of random users