戦略/ウィキメディア運動/2018-20/勧告/勧告が最終稿に至るまで
発想の根幹へ：運動戦略勧告が最終高に至るまで
運動戦略プロセスの本の一握りの参加者として、元作業グループの参加者と中枢部門（コアチーム）が運動戦略勧告の最終稿を2020年3月にまとめました。
They dived deep into the content, reviewed the feedback, combined overlapping ideas, and eliminated redundancies. A key focus of their work was to make the basic intent behind the recommendations and the language clearer. The result is a revised, refined 40-page document that features 10 recommendations and 10 underlying principles and outlines a guide for change for how we will collaboratively build the future of our Movement. The Movement Strategy core team would like to take you through how this happened and how decisions were made.
私たちの運動全体からフィードバックを集める
In early 2020, Wikimedians across the world provided feedback about the near-final set of recommendations. We were pleasantly surprised by the level of engagement - from online contributors debating ideas to affiliates hosting dedicated in-person and virtual events with their communities. Wikimedia Argentina hosted a regional meeting for Latin American affiliates. Wikimedia France supported salons in 11 countries to enable richer and more diverse input from French-speaking communities. The feedback that came in was rich and broad, and you can read a summary report of it here.
After Movement conversations closed in February 2020, the focus shifted to reviewing and integrating this feedback to improve and finalize the recommendations. A team of people who have participated in the Movement Strategy Process volunteered to do this work. They brought with them diverse perspectives from different parts of the world and the Movement, including from online communities, affiliates, and organizations, alongside vast experience as former working group members, writers, and reviewers.
The recommendations under the microscope
The general approach taken was to review and discuss feedback from communities, affiliates, and the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees to identify ways to improve the recommendations. The group started by looking at the recommendation “Create Cultural Change for Inclusive Communities” together and then reviewed the feedback received in sub-groups. Then they conducted a group edit to incorporate feedback and make the language clearer and, thus, the intent of the recommendation more explicit.
By going through each recommendation, the team was able to identify overlaps in the content and discuss as a group whether to combine certain ideas or recommendations.
For example, it was evident that “Create Cultural Change for Inclusive Communities” contained a lot of general points about the kind of change being proposed overall. So the team decided to break up this recommendation and share its fundamental intent across many recommendations. Much of this was also merged with “Provide for Safety and Security”, which has become the recommendation “Provide for Safety and Inclusion”. “Foster and Develop Distributed Leadership” and “Invest in Skills Development” also shared many similarities and were combined to create “Invest in Skills and Leadership Development”.
Another example is the recommendation “Prioritize Topics for Impact”, which became “Identify Topics for Impact”. Here, the title and the content was adjusted to make the intent of the idea clear and also underline that the free will of Wikipedians to choose their subject would not be infringed upon.
Polishing ideas and global thinking: The criteria, experience, and expertise that guided the revision work
To integrate feedback and finalize the content, the group focused on:
- Revisiting and clarifying the original ideas behind the recommendations. Rather than adding more content to answer questions that had been raised, the team instead used the feedback to get to the heart of the original idea and make this clear. In other words, the original idea itself needed to answer the question or comment that was put forward.
- Adjusting the language so it is clearer and easier to understand.
- Identifying and deleting process-related redundancies.
- Looking at which topics may have been overlooked. For instance, the recommendation “Promote Sustainability and Resilience” did not make any reference to environmental sustainability; this was rectified based on the feedback provided.
- Drawing on the incredible skills and knowledge each member of the group, particularly those who were in working groups, has cultivated over the course of this process. This has evolved alongside the recommendations and has been informed by conversations with Movement stakeholders.
The group also checked whether the values that underpin the Movement are well reflected. This led to, in one example, making it clear in the text that editing will not be compensated, which had not been stated outright in earlier versions of the recommendations. Once all of the previous 13 recommendations had been reworked, the team checked for consistency across them all before moving on to the principles and finalizing those.
To help the team with this work, a three-day in-person meeting was organized in New York City from March 10 to 12.
After almost two years of working to understand our Movement and engaging in discussions with stakeholders, the team who worked on finalizing the recommendations has developed profound insights into the opportunities and challenges we face on a Movement-wide level. Much like the recommendations, their perspective has shifted from looking at the Movement through nine thematic areas to now thinking about it on a global, interconnected scale, and this also guided their work when finalizing the recommendations.
What’s next
現在 (2020年4月時点) は勧告の最終稿にとりかかっており、並行して言語版ごとに明確化する作業をしています。内容はその後、翻訳にかけて今月末にはこちらに掲載予定です。これら2年がかりの成果を早く皆さんにお伝えできることを願って止みません。
そこから勧告の実践へと焦点は移っていきます。現状の世界規模の健康危機をかんがみ、この段階の日程は変動しており、実施に向けた次の段階はまだ検討中です。一連の仮想イベントを今年後半に向けて計画中で、参加者と勧告の協議と参加の機会があります。またこれは勧告から発生するイニシアティブは何かとらえ、実施対象を選ぶ方法や時期と担当者をどうするか、会話が始まる機会ともなります (詳細情報はこちらをご参照ください)。
今後ともお見逃しなく！ 運動戦略のコアチームは次の段階の詳細が明確になり次第、発表していきます。