Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re : New WMF initiative: Community Capacity Development

[Maria Cruz]

Hi Pine,
Thanks for bringing this up.
 We have actually talked with Asaf and Sati about possible ways in which
the CCD initiative could inform toolkit development, in order to make sure
to keep them relevant, specially for emerging communities. One of the
things we want to do is user testing of the current toolkits, and also
develop new ones, based on what emerges as a high demand.

It is important, though, to give CCD initiative time, and room to generate
consensus around what are high demand capacities. We can certainly link to
the CCD initiative from the L&E portal.

The workshop kits that Rosemary is referring to are resources to be able to
host L&E workshops anywhere in the Wikimedia movement. You can see the
draft on my Sandbox
.
This addresses the need for extending training across the movement, without
this being dependent only on L&E staff. Once we have them published, we can
see how we could incorporate them to the CCD pages, as they also serve to
develop capacity.

Let me know if you have further questions or comments, or other ideas that
came up, happy to hear them!

Best,

María



*María Cruz * \\  Communications and Outreach Coordinator, L&E Team \\
Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc.
mc...@wikimedia.org  |  :  @marianarra_ 

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 4:55 AM, Pine W  wrote:

> In my travels in the L&E workshop pages, I can't recall seeing a reference
> from the toolkits to the CCD initiative pages, and I am hoping to see links
> from CCD pages to the toolkits as the latter are built out.
>
> I have encouraged L&E to design toolkits with new or emerging communities
> in mind, and my understanding is that they agree that this is something
> that can use further development in the toolkits. Rosemary, could you talk
> a little about the plans for this, such as when we might see toolkits with
> sets of information that are geared for small communities?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Pine
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Asaf Bartov 
> wrote:
>
> > I'm glad you like it.
> >
> > What about the project pages made you conclude it's not already
> > interfacing with L&E?  Have you noticed the Resources sections, in
> > particular?
> >
> >A.
> > On Sep 3, 2015 12:21 AM, "Pine W"  wrote:
> >
> >> In general I'm glad to see this project moving forward. I would
> encourage
> >> the project to interface with the ongoing work in L&E about toolkits, as
> >> well as the Learning Patterns Library.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Pine
> >>
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re : New WMF initiative: Community Capacity Development

[Pine W]

In my travels in the L&E workshop pages, I can't recall seeing a reference
from the toolkits to the CCD initiative pages, and I am hoping to see links
from CCD pages to the toolkits as the latter are built out.

I have encouraged L&E to design toolkits with new or emerging communities
in mind, and my understanding is that they agree that this is something
that can use further development in the toolkits. Rosemary, could you talk
a little about the plans for this, such as when we might see toolkits with
sets of information that are geared for small communities?

Thanks!

Pine


On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Asaf Bartov  wrote:

> I'm glad you like it.
>
> What about the project pages made you conclude it's not already
> interfacing with L&E?  Have you noticed the Resources sections, in
> particular?
>
>A.
> On Sep 3, 2015 12:21 AM, "Pine W"  wrote:
>
>> In general I'm glad to see this project moving forward. I would encourage
>> the project to interface with the ongoing work in L&E about toolkits, as
>> well as the Learning Patterns Library.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Pine
>>
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re : New WMF initiative: Community Capacity Development

[Asaf Bartov]

I'm glad you like it.

What about the project pages made you conclude it's not already interfacing
with L&E?  Have you noticed the Resources sections, in particular?

   A.
On Sep 3, 2015 12:21 AM, "Pine W"  wrote:

> In general I'm glad to see this project moving forward. I would encourage
> the project to interface with the ongoing work in L&E about toolkits, as
> well as the Learning Patterns Library.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pine
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re : New WMF initiative: Community Capacity Development

[Pine W]

In general I'm glad to see this project moving forward. I would encourage
the project to interface with the ongoing work in L&E about toolkits, as
well as the Learning Patterns Library.

Thanks,

Pine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re : New WMF initiative: Community Capacity Development

[Asaf Bartov]

Thanks for the excellent questions, everyone.  To preserve the answers and
increase this conversation's visibility, I have BOLDly pasted the questions
on the CCD's talk page[1], and have answered there.  I invite you all to
continue the conversation there.

Cheers,

   A.

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Capacity_Development

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Anne-Laure Prévost <
annelaure.prev...@wikimedia.fr> wrote:

> Hi Asaf,
>
> Thank you for sharing these news! I think building capacities is key for
> our movement and the way this initiative is presented seems to me very
> relevant and useful.
>
> I am wondering to what extent / how this articulates :
> - with the programme and work done at Wikimedia Conference this year, where
> most of these topics where covered
> - with the follow-up day of WMCON at Wikimania in Mexico where some
> sessions where dedicated to these topics
> - with the work done by several subcommunities (such as the Volunteer
> Support Network, for instance, who - I guess - is dealing with most of
> these issues)
>
> Do you plan to map and embark the several existing initiatives around these
> topics across our movement, to build on what's already existing, and how?
> Do you plan to have one contact point per topic at WMF to make co-creation
> and cooperation as efficient as possible?
> What is the actual target group of the initiative? Only "Emerging
> Communities" or also already "emerged" communities?
>
> It seems to me that there are parallel actions aiming at the same goal
> here, and it would be great to see them dialogue, converge or even merge
> rather than dissipating our efforts on such important matters. What do you
> think ?
>
> Thanks a lot for your answers,
>
> Have a great week,
>
> Anne-Laure
>
> *Anne-Laure Prévost*
> CONSEILLÈRE SPÉCIALE PARTENARIATS ET RELATIONS INSTITUTIONNELLES /
> SPECIAL ADVISOR PARTNERSHIPS & INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
>
> *Tél  +33 7 62 93 42 02 /* *+33 1 42 36 97 72*
> *www.wikimedia.fr  *
> *40 rue de Cléry, 75002 Paris*  >
>
>
> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:40:25 -0700
> From: Asaf Bartov 
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] New WMF initiative: Community Capacity
> Development
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> {{Nutshell|WMF Community Engagement Team is allocating staff time and
> funding to deliberate capacity-development projects with interested
> communities in six capacity areas: community governance; conflict
> management; on-wiki technical skills; new contributor engagement and
> growth; partnerships; communications}}
>
> ==Details==
> This is a new way of partnering with WMF: through two way conversations
> (rather than top-down planning), WMF will work with specific emerging
> communities to explore obstacles for community growth and explore and pilot
> solutions together.
>
> The first phase of this work consisted of a series of in-depth interviews
> with individuals from 16 specific emerging communities to gather
> information about existing and missing capacities.  Reviewing those
> interviews in aggregate, we came up with six capacities it seems useful to
> work together on.
>
> We prepared a page per such capacity, detailing challenges and possible
> approaches to build that capacity. We welcome your  feedback! Contributions
> to those pages can be done in the following ways:
>
> * Sign up on the sidebar of each capacity subpage if you want to implement
> certain practices described,
> * Provide more links to resources,
> * Expand the Potential Solutions section with new ideas.
>
> These pages, including your contributions, will serve as the basis for
> specific conversations with specific communities to develop plans or
> projects to build capacity.
>
> During this initial pilot period, we intend to pursue projects in two or
> three capacities at most, which will be chosen according to community
> interest, scale of community, and scale of readership.  We expect some of
> the specific actions we take in these projects would create resources
> [re-]usable by other communities as well.
>
> ==Join the Conversation==
> We invite you all to read through the capacity pages, and specifically, to
> see if the challenges described resonate with you and your community.  If
> they do, have an on-wiki discussion about it with your community, and if
> there's general interest, sign up on the capacity pages and we'll have a
> conversation about what might be some possible next steps.
>
> Find the six capacity pages on Meta, here:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Development
>
> Looking forward to fruitful engagement,
>
>Asaf Bartov
>Sati Houston
>Community Engagement department
> --
> Asaf Bartov
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>

[Wikimedia-l] Re : New WMF initiative: Community Capacity Development

[Anne-Laure Prévost]

Hi Asaf,

Thank you for sharing these news! I think building capacities is key for
our movement and the way this initiative is presented seems to me very
relevant and useful.

I am wondering to what extent / how this articulates :
- with the programme and work done at Wikimedia Conference this year, where
most of these topics where covered
- with the follow-up day of WMCON at Wikimania in Mexico where some
sessions where dedicated to these topics
- with the work done by several subcommunities (such as the Volunteer
Support Network, for instance, who - I guess - is dealing with most of
these issues)

Do you plan to map and embark the several existing initiatives around these
topics across our movement, to build on what's already existing, and how?
Do you plan to have one contact point per topic at WMF to make co-creation
and cooperation as efficient as possible?
What is the actual target group of the initiative? Only "Emerging
Communities" or also already "emerged" communities?

It seems to me that there are parallel actions aiming at the same goal
here, and it would be great to see them dialogue, converge or even merge
rather than dissipating our efforts on such important matters. What do you
think ?

Thanks a lot for your answers,

Have a great week,

Anne-Laure

*Anne-Laure Prévost*
CONSEILLÈRE SPÉCIALE PARTENARIATS ET RELATIONS INSTITUTIONNELLES /
SPECIAL ADVISOR PARTNERSHIPS & INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS

*Tél  +33 7 62 93 42 02 /* *+33 1 42 36 97 72*
*www.wikimedia.fr  *
*40 rue de Cléry, 75002 Paris* 


Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:40:25 -0700
From: Asaf Bartov 
To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] New WMF initiative: Community Capacity
Development
Message-ID:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Dear Wikimedians,

{{Nutshell|WMF Community Engagement Team is allocating staff time and
funding to deliberate capacity-development projects with interested
communities in six capacity areas: community governance; conflict
management; on-wiki technical skills; new contributor engagement and
growth; partnerships; communications}}

==Details==
This is a new way of partnering with WMF: through two way conversations
(rather than top-down planning), WMF will work with specific emerging
communities to explore obstacles for community growth and explore and pilot
solutions together.

The first phase of this work consisted of a series of in-depth interviews
with individuals from 16 specific emerging communities to gather
information about existing and missing capacities.  Reviewing those
interviews in aggregate, we came up with six capacities it seems useful to
work together on.

We prepared a page per such capacity, detailing challenges and possible
approaches to build that capacity. We welcome your  feedback! Contributions
to those pages can be done in the following ways:

* Sign up on the sidebar of each capacity subpage if you want to implement
certain practices described,
* Provide more links to resources,
* Expand the Potential Solutions section with new ideas.

These pages, including your contributions, will serve as the basis for
specific conversations with specific communities to develop plans or
projects to build capacity.

During this initial pilot period, we intend to pursue projects in two or
three capacities at most, which will be chosen according to community
interest, scale of community, and scale of readership.  We expect some of
the specific actions we take in these projects would create resources
[re-]usable by other communities as well.

==Join the Conversation==
We invite you all to read through the capacity pages, and specifically, to
see if the challenges described resonate with you and your community.  If
they do, have an on-wiki discussion about it with your community, and if
there's general interest, sign up on the capacity pages and we'll have a
conversation about what might be some possible next steps.

Find the six capacity pages on Meta, here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Development

Looking forward to fruitful engagement,

   Asaf Bartov
   Sati Houston
   Community Engagement department
--
Asaf Bartov
Wikimedia Foundation 

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