Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Sources/Private survey
Information
editWhat group or community is this source coming from?
| name of group | Anyone |
| virtual location (page-link) or physical location (city/state/country) | Private survey (full responses) |
| Location type (e.g. local wiki, Facebook, in-person discussion, telephone conference) | off-wiki |
| # of participants in this discussion (a rough count) | 64 |
Summary
editThe summary is a group of summary sentences and associated keywords that describe the relevant topic(s).
The first column (after the line number) should be a single sentence. The second column should be a comma-separated list of keywords about that sentence, and so on. Taken together, all the sentences should provide an accurate summary of what was discussed with the specific community.
Summary for the discussion:
| Line | Statement (summary sentence) | Keywords |
| 1 | To build a total project and not just a collection of groups | unity, organization, centralize |
| 2 | Improve the WMF's communication, and make WMF thrive | communication, WMF |
| 3 | Be robust and reliable. | stability, reliability |
| 4 | Open data projects should co-exist alongside Wikidata and open software projects should continue to make their mark outside of the Wikimedia umbrella. | cooperation, partnerships, FOSS, open data |
| 5 | Prioritize the Wikicite database | wikicite, bibliographic data |
| 6 | Permanence and stability through any worldwide societal problems | stability |
| 7 | 15 years is too far from now. | free, information, sharing |
| 8 | Pay our quality writers. | pay for content |
| 9 | Have no censorship. | censorship |
| 10 | Improve UX on desktop and mobile. | UX, software, responsive, design |
| 11 | Make our content accessible for everyone. | accessibility |
| 12 | Fight with harassment, be more inclusive | harassment, inclusivity |
| 13 | Make the movement decentralized, | decentralize |
| 14 | Have an impactful chapter in every country, collaborate with GLAM and educational institutions | chapters, GLAM, education, partnerships, training |
| 15 | Improve and promote sister projects. | sister projects |
| 16 | Collaborate with governments to introduce Wikimedia projects in education. | education, government, partnerships |
| 17 | Become a comprehensive guide to reality by using mainly secondary and tertiary sources. | citations, reliability |
| 18 | Build a coalition of movement partners, all moving toward maximizing the accuracy, accessibility, and participation. | partnerships, reliability, accessibility, increase participation |
| 19 | Build welcoming, diversified, fun loving work groups and teams. | welcoming, inclusivity |
| 20 | Help each other by improving what one's capable of and improve what's available online in the process. | training, documentation |
| 21 | Improve user interface on all devices. | UX, software, responsive, design, innovation |
| 22 | Build the biggest knowledge base of the Global South languages. | global south |
| 23 | Deploy machine learning and deep learning algorithms to every aspect of Wikimedia activity. | AI, machine learning, deep learning, automation |
| 24 | Integrate Wikidata more closely with the Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects | wikidata, infoboxes, integration |
| 25 | Attractive wikidata interfaces such as Reasonator, WikiShootMe and Crotos, are the most effective way of achieving our goal. | wikidata, design, UX, software |
| 26 | Centralise all the more difficult technical stuff so that editors and the smaller projects could concentrate on writing. | global templates, global gadgets |
| 27 | Bring core articles to "Good" standard by attracting experts | expert editors, participation, core articles, quality |
| 28 | Make it easy to get quick, reliable information. | reliability, convenience |
| 29 | Double the amount of contributors, find new ways to get them. | participation |
| 30 | Ensure the reliability of the information. Create an information quality standard (rating according to the number of sources and backing of the information by recognized institutions, and transparency of its sources). | reliability, standard |
| 31 | Improve quality with new visual content, e.g. illustrations | images, illustrations, quality |
| 32 | Build more local off-line communities. | affiliates, local groups |
| 33 | Development of a new generation of contributors, through activities for children to help participate. [fuzzy Nepali translation] | participation, youth, education |
| 34 | Get editing on Wiki included as a part of school/college curriculum, and in more languages | curriculum, education, languages |
| 35 | Become a movement that makes oppressive governments afraid of blocking that knowledge. | censorship, social policy, controversy, relevance, participation |
| 36 | Build a very inclusive encyclopedia that is accurate, readable, and accessible for all. | inclusivity, accessibility, reliability |
| 37 | Grow, stabilize and preserve. | content, sourcing, stability |
| 38 | Make the site more aesthetically appealing. | UX, software, responsive, design |
| 39 | Start programs to encourage underrepresented groups to edit and contribute. | participation, diversity, inclusivity |
| 40 | Build a free, open, non-commercial, high quality knowledge base. | freedom of speech, fact-based evidence, reliable research |
| 41 | Protect the community by increasing youth participation, and improving search. [fuzzy translation of Nepali] | education, participation |
| 42 | Organize the whole set of projects, with well-organized themes | organization, centralization, ontology |
| 43 | Make sure that editors feel they are appreciated, thus encouraging them to contribute more/better, and that readers feel they can relate to and understand the material we produce. | morale, motivation, welcoming, valued, inclusivity |
| 44 | Become a strong open education tool. | education |
| 45 | Defend our content against politics and POV. | neutrality, censorship, inclusivity |
| 46 | Get more women involved. | gendergap, civility, diversity |
| 47 | Different citation standards for emerging communities / global south. | citations, innovation |
| 48 | Use AI in Wikidata and make it cope with basic natural language searches. | AI, wikidata, search, natural language, |
| 49 | A more fair way for individuals to create and share content. | accessibility, software |
| 50 | Increase participation at smaller wikis | participation, small wikis |
| 51 | A reliable and accessible source of information | accessibility, reliability, mobile |
| 52 | Reduce WMF staff by 50%, spend money on content instead of software | pay for content, WMF |
| 53 | Reliable accessibility, and a cure for color blindness | accessibility |
| 54 | To get manuals/tutorials of all possible topics to help self-learning of the entire population | education, manuals |
| 55 | Spread access to knowledge through educational institutes throughout the country. | education |
| 56 | Interactive educational content on every page. Possibly degrees/certificates later on. | education, rich media, interactive |
| 57 | Reliable and fast | reliability |
| 58 | Developed world should help the emerging communities, through human resource development | education, emerging communities |
| 59 | Increase participation with friendlier communities | welcoming, participation |
| 60 | Focus on scientific and educational topics | education, science |
| 61 | Wikipedia comes into education in every country, every university, every college and every school. | curriculum, education, |
| 62 | Focus on science, technology, and psychology. Through education. Something like Khan Academy. | education, science, video |
| 63 | We should build educational institutions with access to Wikimedia projects. | education |
| 64 | We could introduce a more visible metric to indicate reliability of content. | accuracy, reliability, neutrality, quality-control |
| 65 | We need to work together to spread freedom in culture and thought. | freedom, culture, education |
| 66 | Defend the content from ideologues, and target the non-academic readers (specificially those many for whom their level of education does not match their intellectual ability, using accesibility and through developing trust.) | neutrality, reliability, readers |
| 67 | Affiliates could help non-English speakers to participate more effectively in the global community. | language, affiliates, communication, collaboration |
| 68 | Wikimedia community is safe and friendly place for newbies. | welcoming, friendly, newcomers, participation |
| 69 | Focus on community, accuracy, and expanding in emerging communities | community, accuracy, emerging communities, transparency |
| 70 | Influence social and technical policy so that free access cannot be taken away from people around the world | social policy, technical policy, standards, censorship, stability |
| 71 | To make every literate human being to edit in Wikimedia at least 10 times in his life | curriculum, education, global participation |
| 72 | A truly multilingual community facilitated by language technology | language, translation, multilingualism, collaboration |
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