Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Sources/Basque Wikipedia discussion
Information
editWhat group or community is this source coming from?
| name of group | Basque Wikipedia discussion |
| virtual location (page-link) or physical location (city/state/country) | w:eu:Wikipedia:Estrategia |
| Location type (e.g. local wiki, Facebook, in-person discussion, telephone conference) | Local wiki + in-person discussion |
| # of participants in this discussion (a rough count) | 12 + 4 = 16 |
Summary
editSummary for the discussion:
| Line | Statement (summary sentence) | Keywords |
| 1 | Small languages have stronger communities, as they are more tight and with a common vision for preserving and their languages. Small languages must be promoted as they're more activist than big language communities. | Small languages; activism; community |
| 2 | Elder people is not as good as young one with Wikimedia working flow or methodology. | Age gap |
| 3 | Wikipedia should help breaking the privatization of information, bringing light as facts are showed in a clear way. | Facts; verifiability; information privatization |
| 4 | Wikimedia as a movement can't forget that most of the world languages will disappear in this century. We must encourage minorized languages, making easier for search bots to show content in the user's prefered language. | Small languages; language disparition; knowledge lost; language accesibility |
| 5 | Content translation will be a major point in the next decades. Wikidata will help easy access to millions of items in any language. | Wikidata; language accesibility; content translation |
| 6 | Wikimedia Movement must answer in a strong way to any attempt to control over contents and facts by pressure groups and lobbies. | Content neutrality; pressure groups; |
| 7 | Major changes in education shall happen in the next two decades. Content copyrights and how thiw changes affect smaller languages are a major discussion point and Wikimedia Movement must take this issues from the very start. | Education; copyright; software availability; |
| 8 | "All the knowledge for all the people" is a strong sentence, but "all the people" doesn't have the same education level. Wikimedia should make efforts to encourage projects like Vikidia for younger audiences. Wikipedia will be a multilayered Encyclopedia, with different approaches in the same article. | Vikidia; children; education level; multilayered-Wikipedia |
| 9 | Wikimedia Movement will be encouraging more user groups and union of them by different interests, as language-related issues. | organization; user groups; language associations |
| 10 | By 2030 there'll a be well based industry helping other industries to extract knowledge from Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Movement must be aware of this issue and organize how to cope with it. | industry; big data; information bussiness |
| 11 | By 2030 a major change will occur in public funded projects, with a big drive towards public data and content. Wikimedia Movement must know how to deal with a larger group of editors, curators ans Wikimedians in residence. | jobs; Wikimedians in residence; public funding; open content; |
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