On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:49 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi John, > > Yes, the 2010-11 plan is rooted in the strategy. We're wrapping it up in the > office today -- it goes to the Board tonight, and, post-approval, will be > published within a few weeks. Maybe I can do IRC office hours once it's > published -- it'd be a good meaty topic :-)
That would be fantastic Sue! I think it would be helpful to have a discussion about strategy before the annual plan is finalised as I suspect there are many people in the community who haven't been following the strategy project (I know I haven't). Now is a good time for everyone to review the strategy wiki content! I'm a bit concerned about the lack of translations on some of the key pages on the strategy wiki. e.g. 11 translations of the "Task force/Recommendations" page; 9 of the "Emerging strategic priorities" page, and 2 of the first strategy priorities page "Expand reach within large, well-connected populations". Reading through the pages relating to strategic priorities, I am disheartened by the focus on Wikipedia, such as using research about Wikipedia as a basis for decision making, and Wikipedia being the subject of the priorities. More troubling is the use of this diagram, where many other projects as referred to as "supporting content". http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMFCurrent_WMF_projects.png It appears that the uploader, TylerT, was engaged by the WMF as a consultant. We recently had WMF board members saying similar things about Commons and Wikisource on foundation-l, and retractions soon followed. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-May/057926.html This focus on Wikipedia seems to be a systemic problem. Maybe the WMF needs an advisory board consisting of people who are focused on developing the other projects. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
