Re: [Wikimedia-l] general strategic goals

2014-05-11 Thread Wil Sinclair
One of the tricks about using metrics to make decisions is that many metrics are more or less easily manipulated to affect the decisions themselves. It's a sort of social version of the Uncertainty principle, and the uncertainty in this case would be the integrity of the metrics. That's not to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] general strategic goals

2014-05-10 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 3:02 AM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: There have been 64 respondents from about nine people on three continents to http://www.allourideas.org/wmfcsdraft I think it's important to point out that the survey you have created there is without context. That is,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] general strategic goals

2014-05-10 Thread James Salsman
Philippe Beaudette wrote: ... asking which of those things people support *in a vacuum* [is] not the question at hand That is true. A community survey leading to revision of strategic goals should be asked of actual contributors, i.e., by selecting editors from wikis' recent changes around

[Wikimedia-l] general strategic goals

2014-05-05 Thread James Salsman
Regarding https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2014-01-31#Strategy_discussion The Board discussed how they will develop the process for the next strategic plan. The Board would like the strategic planning process to involve input from the community, but the exact process should be

Re: [Wikimedia-l] general strategic goals

2014-05-05 Thread Nathan
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 8:46 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: Regarding https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2014-01-31#Strategy_discussion The Board discussed how they will develop the process for the next strategic plan. The Board would like the strategic planning process