Talk:Movement Strategy/Recommendations/Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement

Re: "Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement"

At Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement I see the following:

• "We will increase the sustainability of our Movement by supporting and investing in people’s needs."
• "The ambition of our strategic direction will require an increase in revenue for our Movement beyond the current incremental growth."

I would encourage anyone reading this recommendation to also read my recommendation at WP:CANCER.

I would also highly recommend that anyone reading this recommendation also read the words of a previous WMF Executive Director Sue Gardner at The WMF Executive Director’s Reflections on the FDC Process and the articles in The Daily Dot and The Register commenting on same.

I am a stakeholder, and my views represent those of a significant number of other stakeholders. There are also a significant number of other stakeholders who disagree with my views. Both sides are welcome to discuss this further on the talk page for WP:CANCER. --Guy Macon (talk) 00:21, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for this note! The existence of the en.wp project page will be communicated at relevant point in the transition. --KVaidla (WMF) (talk) 10:18, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

Merch?

I'm unhappy with listing merchandising as a bullet point under this title. The word's etymology tells us, that it is about selling branded stuff for revenue. I'm not sure that revenue is the thing needed most, more probably it would be useful to enhance the visibility of our contributors in the real, offline world. So start giving out T-shirts and other branded articles for contributors. As give-aways, not merch. --h-stt !? 10:51, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

h-stt - thank you for your comment and clear suggestion! This will be resurfaced at relevant point in the transition discussions. --KVaidla (WMF) (talk) 10:16, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

Report about this recommendation

Hi, we have prepared a report summarizing strategic data and activities related to this recommendation, focusing on projects led by the Foundation. We encourage others to add work they have done or are aware of. This mapping is an invitation to celebrate strategic achievements and focus on areas needing attention and collaboration to succeed. Qgil-WMF (talk) 09:56, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

Technical Sustainability

I think it would be appropriate to also include technical sustainability (proper infrastructure, good backup policies that ensure long-term data preservation) in this recommendation.Financial and human resources are a fundamental need, but, without appropriate technical guarantees, some of that effort may be lost in the long run. MGeog2022 (talk) 12:15, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

@MGeog2022 fair point, but the text of the recommendations was finalized in 2020. For public backups, I think the most relevant recommendation is Innovate in Free Knowledge ("Build the necessary technology to make free knowledge content accessible in various formats"). Tgr (talk) 06:37, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

Sustaining Open Knowledge Initiatives

Hi (page watchers), in this months' DCW Conversation Hour - focusing on "Sustaining Open Knowledge Initiatives", we are bringing Stacy Burnett, a Senior Product Manager at ITHAKA, the parent company of digital library website JSTOR, who has also been leading and implementing JSTOR Prison Education. Kindly join us on 27 October 2024 at 6:00 am UTC. Thank you. _signed, Aafi (DCW) ^(talk) 13:48, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Results from Strategy Lunch at Wikimania 2024

A lunchtime session was held at Wikimania with about 50 attendees, to discuss how individual Wikimedians see selected strategic initiatives. They were asked "What is happening now to support this strategic initiative? What do you want to do that will support this strategic initiative?"

One discussed strategic initiative was: Support volunteers

The participants (two tables) identified the following

Happening now

• The hubs
• Microgrants
• The Universal code of conduct
• Developing new tools
• Making it easy to organize and facilitate initiatives (examples - dashboards, calendars)
• Wikimedian in residence roles
• Volunteer supporters network taking steps to become a hub

What we can do

• Have more life-long learning opportunities (examples - self-paced individual learning, MOOCs)
• Clear rules regarding AI utilization; best case, having tools and models developed from and for Wikimedia projects, having watermarks integrated
• Meet volunteers where they are
• provide for networking and collaboration

Reporting the results, Risker (talk) 02:32, 10 November 2024 (UTC)