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 <http://www.wikimedia.fr/> * > *40 rue de Cléry, 75002 Paris* <http://osm.org/go/0BPIihnIn?node=691082430 > > > > > Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:40:25 -0700 > From: Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] New WMF initiative: Community Capacity > Development > Message-ID: > < > caamrcwftycuv2mf6es0yjdghcxyzhnvbbn5xdx8iwejencq...@mail.gmail.com> > 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 <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! > https://donate.wikimedia.org > _______________________________________________ > 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> > -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ 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>
