Suggestions and proposals

Suggestions and proposals for Wikimedia, affecting all Foundation projects or just some of them; or addressing goals and tasks the Foundation should consider in the future. See also: initiatives.

Projects

New projects

What new projects should we be starting? What are the pros and cons of doing so? How can we protect small projects from abuse and founder effects in a scalable fashion? How can new projects be engaged in foundation-wide discussions and decision-making?

Features for existing projects

How can we improve on bugzilla's voting and urgency/priority mechanisms to support reviewing and prioritizing all manner of features, social, technical, visual, political and other?

Community scope

• Wiki-time. The fast moving nature of the projects brings in some people, makes it addictive (which may not be a healthy thing), and drives rapid prototyping. It also drives some people away, and keeps them from being involved.

  so people making policy and high-speed changes often have addictive ties to the projects. and people with certain lifestyles or obligations have no venues in which they could develop ideas in a slower way, organizing discussions over time.

Outreach

Publicity

Quality

Quality is a perennial bogeyman. Some leave the projects in frustration that quality will ever satisfy them. Others say that freedom and transparency are more important in the short run than quality - and always will be - and lead to the best quality in the long run. Elaborate plans are devised to trade off freedom for quality, to attract new specialized contributors, and to help produce polished final works from the fluctuating work on the Projects with minimal effort.

Governance

Some of the larger projects are struggling with scaling consensus to thousands of participants. The Foundation itself has a hard time attracting a balanced pool of candidates for key elections.