Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Recommendations and community conversations launching next week

[Todd Allen]

I would tend to agree. This process has been ongoing for many months now,
and the community raised substantial concerns about the initial proposals.
Whether deliberate or not, allowing only a week for discussion of the final
product seems an attempt to ram it through. Surely longer than a week can
be allowed for discussion of such a critical item.

Todd

On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 11:25 PM Pine W  wrote:

> Hi Nicole,
>
> After reading this email, and taking into consideration a discussion that
> happened during the January online meeting of United States Wikimedians, I
> feel that the timeline here is aggressive and likely to result in problems.
> In particular, giving the core team one week to review feedback and giving
> the community one week to review the core team's summary seem risky at
> best, even if everyone is communicating in English. When taking into
> account the need for translations,my guess is that one week is an
> impossibly short timeframe for quality work in these phases of the strategy
> process.
>
> I suggesting adding at least one more week to the timeframe for the core
> team to review feedback including translations of comments, and at least
> three more weeks for conversations with the community regarding the core
> team's summary.
>
> I am concerned that this process may be heading toward a rushed and chaotic
> finish.
>
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Recommendations and community conversations launching next week

[Pine W]

Hi Nicole,

After reading this email, and taking into consideration a discussion that
happened during the January online meeting of United States Wikimedians, I
feel that the timeline here is aggressive and likely to result in problems.
In particular, giving the core team one week to review feedback and giving
the community one week to review the core team's summary seem risky at
best, even if everyone is communicating in English. When taking into
account the need for translations,my guess is that one week is an
impossibly short timeframe for quality work in these phases of the strategy
process.

I suggesting adding at least one more week to the timeframe for the core
team to review feedback including translations of comments, and at least
three more weeks for conversations with the community regarding the core
team's summary.

I am concerned that this process may be heading toward a rushed and chaotic
finish.

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation elections committee: Call for volunteers

[Joe Sutherland]

Hello everyone,

First of all, many thanks to everyone who has expressed interest in joining
the Elections Committee. I really appreciate your willingness to contribute
to a successful election and addressing some of the broader questions that
have been identified. I'll get in touch with those who have emailed me
shortly.

As a reminder, please let me know by January 19 if you are interested in
participating in the Elections Committee.

And thank you for your questions and feedback. I’ll respond inline to the
questions I believe are still pending an answer.

On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 at 22:31, Peter Southwood 
wrote:

> Joe, What would "experience with advanced wikitext markup" mean in this
> context?
> Also "responsiveness to email outreach"?


In this context, we are ideally looking for someone who is comfortable with
things like translation tags, nested templates, and other "advanced" markup
provided by MediaWiki. One of the tasks the committee has historically been
involved with has been to set up and organise the pages for the election on
Meta-Wiki, and this can get pretty complicated (as evidenced by the source
code
!).
This is a nice-to-have rather than a must-have, since it's only one of the
ways the committee supports these elections - but it's still very useful.

As for responsiveness, the timelines for these elections have historically
been tight, and so we really would like committee members who are able to
respond to emails in a timely way so we can make committee decisions
quickly.

On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 at 10:14, Chris Keating 
wrote:

> - I can't find any evidence of the Elections Committee having met since the
> conclusion of the 2017 elections - am I missing something? (The 'Minutes'
> page seems to only refer to 2015 meetings, which is almost 5 years ago, so
> hopefully this is a case of the meeting minutes being somewhere else on
> Meta)
>

You are justifiably not finding minutes, as the Elections Committee has
only met intermittently since the last election and maintained some of
their discussions over email outside of meetings (to the best of my
knowledge!). I am not able to offer extensive insights on the historical
practice around the Elections Committee, but I can revisit the process for
publishing minutes with the new committee. Supporting the committee was not
in my purview until this cycle. I will however echo the disappointment
about not having had the opportunity of meeting more frequently and share
more updates with the community. I look forward to working more closely
with the new committee once they are appointed.


> - Also, part of the mandate of the Elections Committee was meant to have
> been to do a review of the method of election to the Board of Trustees. I
> haven't heard anything about this happening. Has either the Board or the
> Elections Committee done anything about this?
>

The Elections Committee has had some initial conversation, and I expect
this topic will be at the top of the Election Committee's agenda once they
begin.


> - Your email says we're looking for 2-3 new members. Does that imply that
> all the existing members are all continuing? (Who in fact are the existing
> members? Is the April 2017 list still valid?)
>

All but four of the existing committee members have indicated they are
interested in continuing their membership. I and the rest of the Foundation
staff supporting this work are more than happy to continue working with
them once the Election Committee is renewed by the Board Governance
Committee. The list is currently valid and will be updated once we'd had
the Board Governance Committee approve these new members.


> - Has the Board, or the Board Governance Committee, done any assessment of
> whether the Elections Committee is the right tool for the job? (Does the
> Board actually review the performance of the committees it creates?)


That'd be a question for the Board Governance Committee, but my personal
understanding is that there hasn't been a need to change things for the
moment.

On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 at 23:16, Henry Wood  wrote:

> Secondly, the first meeting is to be held in
>
January, so you've given yourself less than another two weeks to have staff
> vet the candidates, get the approval of the Board Governance Committee, and
> then hold the first meeting.  Why give yourself and your propsective
> candidates so little time for a process which you have known will be coming
> since this time last year?


I understand that the timeline looks tight, and it is, I should however
mention that it is already an improvement compared to election cycles past.
Of course, there is room for improvement, and the Elections Committee will
be collecting this kind of feedback at the end of the cycle to improve
future elections.


> Thirdly, there is some important information
> missing (and very little time to disseminate it effectively).  For 

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[Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Recommendations and community conversations launching next week

[Nicole Ebber]

Hi everyone,

We’ve got lots of news to share from movement strategy: The first version
of the movement strategy document is almost ready, and we’ll be starting a
new round of community conversations.

== First version of the movement strategy document coming next week ==
The writers have been hard at work developing the first version of the
movement strategy document. A key part of this has been turning the 89
recommendations produced by the nine working groups into one coherent set
and consolidating the work into 13 recommendations. Alongside this, the
document also features principles that guide the recommendations and a
narrative of change that summarizes how the recommendations fit together
and contribute to helping our Movement align with our strategic direction.

There has been a high level of activity in the last few weeks, both by the
writers and the community strategy liaisons, to create a set of
recommendations that encompasses the work of the working groups and the
broad community input received throughout the process. They’ve gone above
and beyond what was asked of them, and I would like to thank them
wholeheartedly for the huge effort they’ve invested into this work and for
their inspiring dedication to making this happen.

== Community conversations begin next week ==
A new round of community conversations around this document will begin next
week. We encourage people from across our Movement – members of online
communities, affiliates, boards, WMF staff – to review the recommendations
and share what these might mean for their community, organization, or
context. With this round, we are looking to come to a common understanding
that the recommendations enable us to move forward in our strategic
direction.

Conversations will be held on Meta [1], on various language wikis, on
social media, and on your community’s other preferred channels. They will
run until the first week of March. After that, the core team will take one
week to summarize all community input and reflect it back in a short,
public report. The community will then have one week to suggest changes to
the posted summary so that it accurately reflects their viewpoints.
Community Strategy Liaisons will help facilitate conversations in Arabic,
French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, and Spanish. There will also be targeted
support for English speaking communities. Finally, Strategy Liaisons from
affiliates and online language communities will also receive support for
facilitating conversations on their own channels.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out. Looking forward
to hearing from you soon.

Best wishes,
Nicole

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