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- decentralized development so that people can write new gadgets and extensions easier like firefox jetpack for example.. Each project needs its own editing and feedback tools that it would happily design on wiki in collaborative fashion - means to encourage more content work from community with less noise and drama I could expect wmf to do the former but the latter is up to us all, you and me... As people replied, & please mind that you do not know the situation in other projects and languages - proper feedback or outreach software is needed here and community can shape a spec at least, which the wmf can code or fund through its Ieg grants program. I am sure you could draft the idea and help it evolve, then apply for a grant and hire someone to do it. The brainstorming might be too early, I am yet to see any proper analysis of what the users /really/ need or have trouble with (no, not learning the markup or getting articles or uploads in, unlike the current focuses). We need a lot more information/feedback here than a brainstorming session... Gryllida. On Mon, 14 Jul 2014, at 17:25, Pine W wrote: > Hi community members, > > I'm wondering how many people might be interested in having an IRC meeting > regarding the community's relationship to WMF and potentially developing > our own strategic plan that would be independent of WMF. In the past few > days I've heard some defense of WMF but mainly criticism and pessimism, > especially people recalling past hurts and feeling powerless to negotiate > with WMF. Perhaps it's time that we in the community create our own > strategic plan and develop strategic options. > > Please note that this would be a long-term planning meeting and we are not > likely to make major decisions, but we would start brainstorming and laying > some foundations. > > Topics of possible discussion regarding our relationship with WMF: > > 1. Strategic options, such as finding alternative organizations to WMF for > hosting Wikimedia sites or creating a new hosting organization that is > aligned with community values. > > 2. Activism at the Board and grassroots levels. > > Topics of possible discussion regarding other strategic issues: > > 3. Internal reform of the community, such as a fresh look at Wikimedia's > founding principles and the Five Pillars, including civility. > > 4. What we can do as a community about our active editor statistics. > > I expect this would be an interesting meeting if people are interested in > participating, and I hope that we would brainstorm some ideas about how we > want to move forward on all of these questions and others if we have time. > If there are many participants, which would be *great*, then we may need > additional meetings or to move the conversation on-wiki. > > If you're interested, you can respond on list but feel free to respond to > me off-list also. I'm just trying to get a sense of the interest level of > the community. I hear a lot of people being upset but what I feel we need > to know is how many people would be interested in creating a long-term > strategic plan and brainstorming strategic options. > > Thanks, > > Pine > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
