Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy Phase 2

[Anthony Cole]

H James. I've made a proposed change to the metrics paragraph. [1] Let's
discuss it on the talk page.

Regarding Phase 2, though, I don't see a lot of involvement from others. Is
everyone just having a bit of a rest after what must have been a pretty
exhausting Phase 1 development process?

1.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_2030/Process_planning=prev=17657673


On 8 Jan 2018 1:03 AM, "James Salsman"  wrote:

> Anthony,
>
> I've been working on
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_2030/Process_planning which
> is where I believe the Phase 2 process is starting from.
>
> I am particularly interested in your opinion as to whether survey
> metrics should be added to traditional metrics.
>
> Best regards,
> Jim
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 7:40 AM, Anthony Cole  wrote:
> > Now that the movement direction has been decided on and the endorsement
> > process seems to be complete, can anyone tell me where we are at with
> > regard to phase 2 of the process - "The main goal of phase 2 will be to
> > answer the question "How do we implement the strategic direction", which
> > means identifying the resources needed for execution, and the activities
> it
> > involves." [1]
> >
> > Anthony Cole
> >
> > 1.
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_
> movement/2017/Direction/Endorsement
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[Wikimedia-l] The 2016-2017 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report

[Zachary McCune]

Hello all-


Last year, the Wikimedia Foundation received more than 6 million donations
to support free knowledge. Today, we would like to share the Foundation’s
2016 - 2017 Annual Report which helps document how those donations were put
to use. [1]

This Report is meant mostly for donors, but it may be of use to any
audience looking to learn more about the Wikimedia Foundation, our
activities, and our community support.

In (very) brief, last year:

* We worked on building safer communities with new tools like Abuse Filter
and Mute to reduce harassment on Wikipedia.

* We improved our services for mobile devices: making images smaller and
articles load faster, streamlining our apps to assist users.

* We partnered with international organizations to add missing languages
and knowledge to our sites.

Over 2017, our grants team disbursed 392 grants totaling more than 7
million dollars. More than half of these grants went to emerging
communities. [2]

We also began to plan the future of our movement, holding months of
discussions with thousands of volunteers. We were guided by a recurring
phrase that has become the theme of this year’s Annual Report: Knowledge
belongs to all of us.

Everything listed and linked above is possible because of you, the
Wikimedia movement. Y’all are great.

So please take a look at the 2016-2017 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report,
and if you are moved- share it with a friend.



Thank you,

- Zack McCune, Danny Kaufman, Lena Traer, Heather Walls, María Cruz, Ravi
Ayyakkannu, Caitlin Cogdill (the 2017 Annual Report team)



[1] https://annual.wikimedia.org/2017/

[2] https://annual.wikimedia.org/2017/community.html

-- 
Zachary McCune
Global Audiences
Wikimedia Foundation

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[Wikimedia-l] [Input requested] Knowledge as a Service at the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018

[Adam Baso]

Greetings Wikimedians,

(And thank you for patience with me cross-posting.)

I'm writing to invite your input on the following Phabricator task ahead of
next week's Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018 [1] session.

Knowledge as a Service
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183315

The purpose [2] of the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018 sessions is to
provide guidance for Phase 2 of the Movement Strategic Direction [3] on
buildout of technology capabilities. We'd really love your thoughts to help
set context for our session next week, as Knowledge as a Service is a
primary consideration in the Movement Strategic Direction.

What is Knowledge as a Service? Its essence is about information
architecture approaches and the necessary software that will ultimately
allow content consumption and creation to radiate to new and different
types of interfaces and devices in addition to browser-based approaches. As
you review position papers from attendees [4] you'll notice that the way
they (myself included) think about best solving this is through a heavy
emphasis on technology that makes it easier to better structure information
and its metadata for re-use, remixing, and querying.

What might this mean? Does it mean we should build Wikimedia software in an
API- and metadata-first manner following industry standards compatible with
content structuration? Does it mean weaving our existing structured and
semi-structured data technologies together? How do we build technology that
can ensure successful collaboration between communities on increasingly
structured and interdependent information sources? And how can we ensure
the tech will bolster growth of multilingual and multimedia content
creation and consumption?

I've copied some of the essential material from the Movement Strategic
Direction concerning Knowledge as a Service so you have it here. We would
appreciate your input and hope you will subscribe to the Phabricator task
to contribute and follow along as we explore this topic.

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183315

The following content is copied from
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Direction :


Knowledge as a service: To serve our users, we will become a platform that
serves open knowledge to the world across interfaces and communities. We
will build tools for allies and partners to organize and exchange free
knowledge beyond Wikimedia. Our infrastructure will enable us and others to
collect and use different forms of free, trusted knowledge.

...

As technology spreads through every aspect of our lives, Wikimedia's
infrastructure needs to be able to communicate easily with other connected
systems.

...

As a platform, we need to transform our structures to support new formats,
new interfaces, and new types of knowledge. We have a strategic opportunity
to go further and offer this platform as a service to other institutions,
beyond Wikimedia. In a world that is becoming more and more connected,
building the infrastructure for knowledge gives others a vested interest in
our success. It is how we ensure our place in the larger network of
knowledge, and become an essential part of it. As a service to users, we
need to build the platform for knowledge or, in jargon, provide knowledge
as a service.

...

Knowledge as a service: A platform that serves open knowledge to the world
across interfaces and communities
Our openness will ensure that our decisions are fair, that we are
accountable to one another, and that we act in the public interest. Our
systems will follow the evolution of technology. We will transform our
platform to work across digital formats, devices, and interfaces. The
distributed structure of our network will help us adapt to local contexts.

...


We will build tools for allies and partners to organize and exchange free
knowledge beyond Wikimedia.
We will continue to build the infrastructure for free knowledge for our
communities. We will go further by offering it as a service to others in
the network of knowledge. We will continue to build the partnerships that
enable us to develop knowledge we can't create ourselves.

...

Our infrastructure will enable us and others to collect and use different
forms of free, trusted knowledge.
We will build the technical infrastructures that enable us to collect free
knowledge in all forms and languages. We will use our position as a leader
in the ecosystem of knowledge to advance our ideals of freedom and
fairness. We will build the technical structures and the social agreements
that enable us to trust the new knowledge we compile. We will focus on
highly structured information to facilitate its exchange and reuse in
multiple contexts.


Thank you.
-Adam


[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2018
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2018/Purpose_and_Results
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Direction
[4]