Wikimedia Social Suite

Communication
Wikimedia Social Suite
Meetup
Babel
Distribution list
ComCom
Mailing lists
Overview
Administration
Standardization
List info template
Unsubscribing
Wikimedia IRC
Channels listing
#wikidata-admin
#wikimedia-admin
#wikipedia-en-admins
Channel operators
#wikimedia-admin
#wikipedia-en-admins
#wikipedia and #wikipedia-en
Instructions
Guidelines
#wikipedia
Group Contacts
Noticeboard & Log
Cloaks
Bots
FAQ
Stalkwords
Quotes (en)
archives
Quotes (fr)
Other chat networks
Telegram
Discord
Matrix.org
Steam

Wikimedia Social Suite describes the ambition for an emergent range of hosted social tools available for use by the Wikimedia movement, including on Wikimedia CloudVPS. This is more aspirational than any concerted effort.

The role of such tools has taken on greater urgency with COVID-19 and the cancellation of in-person events. Technical efforts such as the Remote Hackathon have supported greater development of tools such as Wikimedia Meet, and there is potential for the adoption and adaptation of more instances of hosted FLOSS projects, in addition to the longstanding ones that have served the community for years.

Tools

Available

Proposed

  • WorkAdventure
  • absent - "project page template", such as for setting a community program page on Meta-Wiki
  • absent - simplified interface or template for participating in a Requests for comment
  • Loomio (Q15975673) - elaborate discussion and consensus reaching platform (beyond SecurePoll's voting) has both web and email interface (See tracking task)
  • PeerTube (Q50938515) - federated free/libre/open streaming media and (p2p) hosting (as alternative to centralized youtube and vimeo, but also our non-streaming and non-distributed Commons server)

Shelved

About the tools

Criteria to list

  • Must have the purpose of directly improving social coordination for developing Wikimedia projects
  • Installed on Wikimedia servers or an affiliated chapter (Note: hosting on Wikimedia servers has its own criteria, like being free and open. All tools listed should meet the same criteria so they always remain equally open of host migration)
  • Available for general use and not by special permission

Proposed criteria:

See also

  • Research on open source team communication tools (2017, with partial updates later)
  • Debian's DebianSocial - a like-minded organization's work in the same federated collaboration space
  • Discord (VOIP), which relies on a non-libre platform and not hosted by Wikimedia foundation or an affiliate chapter, but which is used by some working groups in the Wikimedia Community
  • Facebook pages, which relies on a non-libre platform and not hosted by Wikimedia foundation or an affiliate chapter, but which is largely used by the Wikimedia Community
  • Microblogging handles, which mixes the (few) use of libre platforms (Mastodon…) as well as the far more market dominant non-libre solutions (Twitter…)
  • Social media
  • Telegram, which relies on a non-libre platform and not hosted by Wikimedia foundation or an affiliate chapter, but which is largely used by the Wikimedia Community
  • FLOSS-Exchange - experiences with free/libre and open source software in the Wikimedia organizations
  • YouTube channels, which relies on a non-libre platform and not hosted by Wikimedia foundation or an affiliate chapter, but which is largely used by the Wikimedia Community
  • Wikipedia is not a social club