User:Econterms/89 strategy recommendations as of Nov 2019
Rephrased here for brevity. Feel free to edit this page to make these more clear and explicit. Please keep the items brief and feel free to add wikilinks or footnotes to sources.
- Built transparency into global network of Wikimedia advocates with community-driven rules of engagement, understandable processes for decision making, and entry points for new people to get involved or initiate advocacy activities
- Attract diversity; provide an environment and pathways that attract people from various languages and cultural backgrounds to engage in advocacy locally or globally
- Establish communication process for community advocates to have global/central conversations about advocacy
- Manage accessible relevant information about methods, cases, success stories, and failures, maintain by ad for advocates; knowledge management
- Create an advocacy hub to streamline and reinforce future advocates
- Articulate advocacy priorities of the Wikimedia movement clearly in a shared, visible, living document
- Enable advocates to collaborate internationally with partners
- Empower advocates; recognize and encourage pathways of success in the movement via advocacy
- Decentralize to give subsidiaries self-determination; model collaboration for advocacy
- Protect advocates with access to clearly defined safety measures for their personal and communal security
- Building Capacity for Capacity Building
- Matching human assets and online knowledge resources with capacity building needs
- Capacity Building Should Occur in Context
- Provide Capacity Building for Organizational Development/ Supporting communities in achieving their organizational development goals
- Resources for Capacity Building
- Evaluating Capacity Building
- Offer online training
- Mentor and develop leadership
- Recognize Individuals
- Independently governed Capacity Building ‘Unit’
- Adopt a joint set of rules we all agree to live by - a Code of Conduct)
- Redefine power structures to better serve the communities
- Build leadership for the future
- Structure to handle conflicts - before, during and after
- Investing in building an inclusive global community
- Newcomers are a key indicator to the success of the movement
- “Democratizing” participation (making Wikipedia/Wikimedia everyone’s responsibility) and reducing barriers for participationn
- Privacy and security for everyone
- Opening the circle: All terrain readiness
- Network to continually support community health
- Aligning resource allocation with community health goals
- Investing in equity-centered technologies
- Introducing people-centered principles within the Wikimedia movement
- Reaching a self-aware and dynamic structure aimed at community diversity and health
- Redesigning the platforms for more diversity of people and content experiences
- Planned community diversification
- Reflective policies for participation and governance
- Establishing partnerships in order to represent and protect worlds’ cultural diversity
- Decentralized administrative structure for resource allocation
- Bridging different local contexts and Wikimedia projects' notability and verifiability policies
- Partnerships
- Provide the knowledge needed for understanding and solving global issues
- Wikimedia as steward of the Free Knowledge Ecosystem
- Shared ecosystem of services and tools for content partnerships
- Data partnerships approach to fulfill the vision of knowledge as a service for our partners
- Focus on knowledge equity when determining priorities for Partnerships
- Partnerships as part of a Distributed Vision
- Partnerships as a shared and equitable resource and activity
- Prioritise documentation
- Invest in sharing knowledge about partnerships across the movement
- Support the skills development of people working on partnerships
- Invest in the leadership potential of community members
- Establish recognition principles for new partners for attribution and content donation
- Additional research for areas where we have identified issues but haven’t made recommendations
- Decentralize
- Support Community Decision Making
- Open up Product Governance
- Deployment Council
- Tech Evangelism
- New Developer Engagement Models
- Grow the Third-Party Ecosystem
- Emerging Technology Ethics Advisory Panel
- Monitor Product and Societal Impacts
- There are 9 draft recommendations by the Resource Allocation Working Group:
- Common Framework of Principles for Resource Allocation
- Participatory decision making for Resource Allocation
- Avoiding the pitfalls of privileges / Designing for diversity
- Distribute existing structures
- Build Thematic hubs – to provide services to the free knowledge movement long term
- Flexible approach to resource allocation in a complex, fast moving and changeable space
- Allocating resources for capacity and sustainability
- Allocate resources to new types of partners/organisations (essential infrastructure of the free knowledge ecosystem)
- Include knowledge consumers (readers, and potential editors, who are not already doing Wikimedia)
- Turn the Wikimedia API into a revenue source
- Provide paid Wiki-related services
- Monetize merchandise
- Expand global fundraising
- Develop non-fundraising revenue streams for affiliates
- Set goal of financial sustainability for all movement actors
- Diversify revenue channels
- Power and responsibilities need to be redistributed on the principle of self management (subsidiarity)
- Decisions should be taken at the “lowest” possible level, as near as possible to the affected process/community/activity
- To establish a framework for decision-making, there will be a charter of principles, values, and governance behaviours. The charter will be developed through an equitable process with broad and diverse participation.
- This charter will be owned by a global governance and accountability body
- All of this exists to support our primary purpose: free knowledge and its distribution
- Movement organizations are to be governed by diverse, inclusive and accountable bodies (mix of elected and appointed members)