Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Sources/English Wikipedia
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[edit ]What group or community is this source coming from?
name of group
English Wikipedia
virtual location (page-link) or physical location (city/state/country)
w:en:Wikipedia talk:Wikimedia Strategy 2017
Location type (e.g. local wiki, Facebook, in-person discussion, telephone conference)
local wiki
# of participants in this discussion (a rough count)
28
Summary
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The first column (after the line number) should be a single sentence. The second column should be a comma-separated list of keywords about that sentence, and so on. Taken together, all the sentences should provide an accurate summary of what was discussed with the specific community.
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Statement (summary sentence)
Keywords
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Improve offline access in emerging communities
offline access, accessibility
(追記) (追記ここまで)2
Improve writing quality to keep ease of understanding foremost. Some medical students state they use WP rather than other sources is because we are easier to understand.
clear writing, accessibility
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Address the problem of undisclosed paid promotional editing
quality, trust, neutrality, spam
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Handle rich content, such as maps, graphs, and other interactive features
quality, features, rich-content
(追記) (追記ここまで)5
Develop and expand upon collaborations with other movement partners
partners, collaborate
(追記) (追記ここまで)6
Improve relations and expand collaboration between the formal organizations and individual editors. Community Tech team as a good example.
movement growth, movement interaction
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Help guide non-English new contributors to the Wikis in their primary language, to ease their acclimatization. Encourage the growth and quality of non-English wikis.
translation, growth, global, collaboration
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Fix Wikidata issues that are hindering its utility, so that it can benefit everyone more easily
wikidata, software, disambiguation
(追記) (追記ここまで)9
Spam and paid-advocacy concerns are growing, as the power and networks of spammers grows. Invest in methods to help prevent this problem before it balloons.
spam, features
(追記) (追記ここまで)10
Focus outreach and growth efforts on the non-large projects, which currently have extensive Eternal September problems and thus lowered patience.
outreach elsewhere,
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Emphasis on quality instead of quantity. Software is needed to help triage the poor-quality and high-quantity articles.
quality, features
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WMF should invest in overhauling MediaWiki before it becomes outdated. Enterprise support contracts, to enable surplus funds that can be used on high-priority features (community tech initiatives, GLAM outreach, anti-abuse tools and terms of use enforcement)
mediawiki, enterprise, features, software
(追記) (追記ここまで)13
Use AI more to help
AI
(追記) (追記ここまで)14
Technical or social solutions should exist to protect high-quality articles from low-quality edits, often by newer editors.
quality, prevention, featured-articles, user rights
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Software should automatically flag edit summaries that use certain words or phrases, so neutral editors can review those edits
mediawiki, software, features, edit-summary, collaboration
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A third "shared" project should be created alongside Wikidata and Commons, to handle maps
projects, rich-content, features
(追記) (追記ここまで)17
Move forward experienced editors by granting them with additional rights.
experienced editors, user rights
(追記) (追記ここまで)18
Focus on editor and user experience, don't ignore their feedback.
features, software
(追記) (追記ここまで)19
Fight with harassment.
harassment
(追記) (追記ここまで)20
Better, easy to find and maintain documentation.
documentation
(追記) (追記ここまで)21
Collaborate with education-oriented sites.
collaboration, education
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Clearer and more consistent communication pathways between software makers and users.
software, features, communication, collaboration
(追記) (追記ここまで)23
Become a software that auto-adapts to suit the educational needs of the user.
software, features, accessibility
(追記) (追記ここまで)24
Have our content well-used in external educational content.
education, outreach
(追記) (追記ここまで)25
Develop better and more powerful editor-oriented tools, and distinguish the urgent tasks from the non-urgent tasks.
software, features, editing
(追記) (追記ここまで)26
Improve our patience and friendliness, reduce the probability of angry interactions between new/naive and grumpy users with social efforts and software tools.
conduct, trust and safety
(追記) (追記ここまで)27
Get students and libraries involved.
involvement of existing networks, education, GLAM
(追記) (追記ここまで)28
Develop a legal strategy, defend our Terms of Use by taking legal actions more often.
legal, protection
(追記) (追記ここまで)29
Use blockchain for Edit history of articles for author rights management.
features, software
(追記) (追記ここまで)30
Make better deals with sources, or outright buy access for a selected number of editors.
sources, access
(追記) (追記ここまで)31
Develop a "free source directory/finder".
sources, access
(追記) (追記ここまで)32
Counterbalance our dependence on business-oriented/corporate point-of-view mass media sources in our up-to-date content.
sources, POV
(追記) (追記ここまで)33
Figure out a way to strongly encourage editors to write a proper edit summary.
edit summary, features, software
(追記) (追記ここまで)34
Develop a stronger mechanism for dealing with COI and brochure/resume writing.
quality, POV, COI, content
(追記) (追記ここまで)35
Make editing more "fun" to editors by improving user experience, simplifying citations, and gamifying some aspects of editing.
user experience, fun
(追記) (追記ここまで)36
Make our content more shareable and embeddable for readers.
re-use, content, readers
(追記) (追記ここまで)37
Communicate that Wikipedia is not complete, expose what content we're lacking,
redlinks, content
(追記) (追記ここまで)38
Make the stub system more connected to the regular encyclopedia use.
stubs, content
(追記) (追記ここまで)39
Kill the "portals" that get too little reader/editor attention, move their content to articles.
portals, content
(追記) (追記ここまで)40
Allow editors being paid for their general efforts, and draw a line that says editors cannot be paid for editing specific articles.
paid editing, policies
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