Wikimedia monthly activities meetings/Quarterly reviews/Community Engagement, January 2016
Notes from the Quarterly Review meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Engagement department, January 19, 2016, 8:45 - 9:45 AM PT.
Please keep in mind that these minutes are mostly a rough paraphrase of what was said at the meeting, rather than a source of authoritative information. Consider referring to the presentation slides, blog posts, press releases and other official material
Introduction
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Community Advocacy
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- KPI link to graph
- include links to volume next time
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- January 29th target for next steps
- Release of data sets and start next round of consultations
- Aggregate of what people have been suggesting
- Working on global policy
- Addressing potential challenges, including need for board support
- Monitoring developer code of conduct
- Questions regarding who has authority to enforce
- Still on track to make recommendations by end of Q4
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- Deprioritized due to existing policy and complexity around international legal issues
- Exploring possibility of international Legal interns
- Has not yet been rescheduled
- Good goal, but going to require more resources than currently available
- Current policy works well given current resources
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- Next steps are technical requires Engineering
- Meeting with Wes to discuss Engineering resources
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- Further development in Hubs as PC&L and Comms are also developing hubs
- Looking to merge into other Hubs
- Possible in Q3 depending on strategy and other Hubs
- Lila: Let me know what may be needed to support this goal
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- Lila: Should work on strategy for community events - even when people are giving presentation or talking points - we need to be intentional
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- Not public slide as it shares the reason for global ban
Community Liaisons
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- Merging with Dev Relations
- Suggestion for KPIs: move to model where response time (initial response, action) are tracked
- Hard to measure response on Talk pages - working on implementation - but may be able to do on phabricator
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- Meeting with Wes and Katherine to discuss signoff and next steps on Principles (are available on-wiki)
- Suggestion that we be consider how this interacts with previous promises about product development
- Continuing to work on Toolkit
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- es.wp and nl.wp were not a part of plan - but conversations held
- ew.wp decided to turn on
- nl.wp blockers remain - but conversation going
- Lila: I shifted focus - so reason for red
- Single edit tab nearly ready for deployment
- Mixed reactions from community on single edit tab
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- Lesson learned: If not getting ideal candidates, consider shifting priorities to get more applicable results
- Is red because deadline was missed by a couple of weeks
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- Attempt to revivie IRC office hours got low engagement
- Looking at alternative methods
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Developer Relations
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- Will be adding KPIs - not yet available
- Will be merging with CL
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- Red because non-WMF participation did not meet goal
- Otherwise very successful
- Survey results confirm
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- Goal missed to wait until DevSummit conversations
- Metrics used could possibly be used for team KPIs
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- Still taking time to get consensus and final plan
- Progressing at good pace
- Luis: I asked for delay to make sure outside expertise was brought in to help strengthen outcome
- On the right track
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- Volunteer successfully empowered to take lead on this task
- Outreachy continues to be helpful method for volunteer and staff recruitment
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- More information will be available in next QR
- Already surpassed previous year - which was considered a success
- Luis: This has been shown to help increase involvement of women developers
Programs Capacity & Learning
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- Integration of three teams and addition of GLAM support and affiliate resources
- Team review of KPI was done early
- KPIs expected to evolve
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- Shows integration of existing three teams (WP Library, Ed Program, L&E)
- Completed integration of staff involvement in Affiliate Partnerships
- Completed a series of community conversations
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- Learned that infrastructure needs are key
- Grants process showed pain point for volunteers is capturing metrics
- Worked with analytics group on improved process
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- Shows improvements made to reporting metrics
- Next step is showing infrastructure improvements to grant recipients
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- Library team continued their work
- Tied into WP15 activities
- Mapped out model across programs
- Discovery of hubs deing developed by other teams
- Work on integrating potential hubs together
- Lila: This remains a pain point for myself - not being sure where to send people
- Data Collection Campaign
- Lila: There is a lot of data - looking for unifying success point
- Looking to build a Programs and Events Dashboard to show cross data points
- Lila: There is a lot of data - looking for unifying success point
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- Looking into ways to recruit community leaders/peer faculty to mentor in their communities
- Working around WikiCon and Wikimania
- Lila: Laying important foundation - how do we better align across affiliates and governance bodies - need strategy for aligning
- Lila: Would be interested in participating in regular meeting with affiliate leaders (EDs?) to discuss cross-movement progress and activities
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- Hub concept developing as a one-stop shop for all dept's resources
- Overall hub framework is a goal for Q3
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- More to come in the future on workflows
- Luis: Rosemary has done a great job balancing competing activities
- Lila: Great work on clarifying things - challenge will be focus (as it is for everyone)
Community Resources
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- Focused on hub and workflows
- Global South shifting to "Emerging Communities"
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- This is first move into grants for many of the affiliates involved
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- Community Capacity Development being led by Asaf
- Expected to get back on track this quarter
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- Focusing on local community set capacity needs
- Lila: How did we pick these?
- Based on high potential communities with an interest
- Portuguese has been exciting as past efforts have received less community interest
- Luis: This is how we are going to increase engagement in some of these focus areas
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- Consultation on Wikimania is ongoing and generally on track
- Looking into ways to properly staff resources
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- Still seeing benefits from Inspire
- Luis: We have better support than before - but still room to grow
- Lila: Should we start proposing focus areas?
- We are looking at topics for future campaigns - thinking about multimedia, APIs, Maps, etc.
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Closing thoughts
edit- On-wiki consultations continue to be a growing success
- Hubs are becoming a unified thing
- Wikimania consultation off to a good start
- Core work well maintained