Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: The recommendations are now online
Thank you, Katherine, for sending this e-mail, and thanks to you all for these positive and uplifting comments in these replies. As one of the participants who had been involved in the writing, it is an enormous pleasure to see these strategic recommendations finally released. I wanted to write a few lines to share immense gratitude to my friends, the writers. I feel gratitude to those with whom I had the chance to work closely, in this last phase and also in the Working Groups phase, and to everyone who has been involved in this process, putting their time, energy and hopes to have this 2030 horizon more and more defined. We had moments of uncertainty and disagreement, but also of great complicity and companionship that allowed us to overcome the challenges and come to this point. I also want to thank Katherine, the Core Team, Ryan and everyone who had accompanied us in this process, for being the first contributors to it, for their courage, and for trusting us and believing that a collaborative and participatory process to define the strategy of the Movement was possible. Not only was it possible, but I think it is the best way to do it respectful of the nature and values of this Movement. Because as someone said before, we’re building and growing our Movement together. I want to reinforce that everything that has been written in these recommendations is the product of intense discussions, taking into account the contributions meta, the feedback from every event and call, and all the known data of how the Movement works as well as the trends that indicate the world that is coming. Everything has been written with the Movement in mind, considering from the smallest to the biggest actor, and therefore with the best intent to find a balance point for everyone. As I talked to the other writers, I think we often felt the privileged to be able to cultivate and enjoy this broad perspective, but also a great responsibility for the result. Everyone who had attended a strategy event, a call, or left a comment is a contributor to these strategy recommendations. Finally, I would like to invite you all not to overlook any section: the introduction, the principles, and the narrative are valuable pieces of the document. Even though the results from the recommendations are what is going to be implemented more directly, all these other parts are essential to understand how we can do it. With this, I want to thank again to everyone. I hope I will see you in the next calls to discuss and share ideas as we move forward. Best, Marc Miquel Missatge de Isaac Olatunde del dia dt., 12 de maig 2020 a les 14:47: > Thank you, Katherine, for this update and Nicole (and others) for these > awesome recommendations. > > Regards > > Isaac > > On Tue, 12 May 2020, 11:45 Ilario valdelli, wrote: > > > Thank you Nicole > > > > for all that great job! > > > > On 12/05/2020 12:29, Nicole Ebber wrote: > > > Thanks, Anders and Anton, for your uplifting feedback. > > > > > > We'll update the overview section right away. > > > > > > We have documented the changes in this change log, I hope this is > > helpful: > > > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Reports/Finalization_Change_Log_(January_-_April_2020) > > > > > > Best wishes, > > > Nicole > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Ilario Valdelli > > Wikimedia CH > > Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens > > Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre > > Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera > > Switzerland - 8008 Zürich > > Wikipedia: Ilario > > Skype: valdelli > > Tel: +41764821371 > > http://www.wikimedia.ch > > > > > > ___ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: 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 and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> ᐧ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey: Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2020
Hi Gerard, Yes, diversity is a lens you can apply to every area (content, people, governance, etc.). I don't think it is more used for people than for content (actually, I do research cultural diversity in content). The question you posed on how the lack of diversity in content affects the needs of the readers is an interesting one. It is quite in line with the Strategic recommendation Prioritize Topics for Impact, which proposes to study which topics have a more positive impact on society. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Prioritize_Topics_for_Impact Best, Marc Miquel El dj., 23 de gen. 2020, 20:08, Gerard Meijssen va escriure: > Hoi, > The issue then is that diversity is seen as an issue with our collaborators > and not so much as an issue of the needs of our audience. > > Having said that, has there every been done a study on how and where the > lack of our diversity in our content exists and how it affects our > audience? > Thanks, >GerardM > > On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 at 17:55, Marc Miquel wrote: > > > Hi Gerard, > > > > I agree it is a good practice to try to find a definition. In my > > understanding, diversity is the range of differences in a series of > things, > > people, cultural traits, etc. So, diversity applied to Wikimedia, it can > be > > understood as to how well the different profiles in society are engaged > in > > contributing to our projects, how the different governance structures > allow > > different profiles to access positions in decision-making, how the > > communities capture all the different available knowledge in certain > > geographical contexts, etc. > > > > Thanks for asking. > > Best, > > Marc > > ᐧ > > > > Missatge de Gerard Meijssen del dia dc., 22 > de > > gen. 2020 a les 8:01: > > > > > Hoi, > > > Ah yes, I can read. > > > > > > In my mind when conferences are held on a particular subject and it is > > not > > > clear what the subject is, "how can there be a solution or progress. It > > > will be whatever people think it is and results will not be results, > they > > > are what happens anyway. Not knowing what your subject is is not SMART. > > > > > > So, again what is meant by diversity"? > > > > > > On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 23:24, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) < > > > nwil...@wikimedia.org> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Gerard, you can read about the previous events (which include answers > > > about > > > > scope), at > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 10:43 AM Gerard Meijssen < > > > > gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > I am not interested when I do no have a clue about the scope > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Op ma 20 jan. 2020 15:09 schreef Ilario Valdelli < > valde...@gmail.com > > >: > > > > > > > > > > > That can be an output of the conference. Is not it? > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, 13:57 Gerard Meijssen, < > > > gerard.meijs...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hoi, > > > > > > > How do you define diversity? > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > GerardM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 at 13:44, Jon Harald Søby < > > jhs...@wikimedia.no > > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi all, and apologies if you receive this email several times > > – I > > > > > will > > > > > > be > > > > > > > > posting it to multiple mailing lists. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Wikimedia Norge would like to organize a regional Wikimedia > > > > Diversity > > > > > > > > Conference in 2020 for Europe, with the hope of many other > > > regional > > > > > > > > conferences on the same topic being held in the near future. > > The > > > > > > > Wikimedia > > > > > > > > Diversity Conference 2020 will provide a meeting place for > >
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey: Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2020
Hi Gerard, I agree it is a good practice to try to find a definition. In my understanding, diversity is the range of differences in a series of things, people, cultural traits, etc. So, diversity applied to Wikimedia, it can be understood as to how well the different profiles in society are engaged in contributing to our projects, how the different governance structures allow different profiles to access positions in decision-making, how the communities capture all the different available knowledge in certain geographical contexts, etc. Thanks for asking. Best, Marc ᐧ Missatge de Gerard Meijssen del dia dc., 22 de gen. 2020 a les 8:01: > Hoi, > Ah yes, I can read. > > In my mind when conferences are held on a particular subject and it is not > clear what the subject is, "how can there be a solution or progress. It > will be whatever people think it is and results will not be results, they > are what happens anyway. Not knowing what your subject is is not SMART. > > So, again what is meant by diversity"? > > On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 23:24, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) < > nwil...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > > Gerard, you can read about the previous events (which include answers > about > > scope), at > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 10:43 AM Gerard Meijssen < > > gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > I am not interested when I do no have a clue about the scope > > > > > > > > > Op ma 20 jan. 2020 15:09 schreef Ilario Valdelli : > > > > > > > That can be an output of the conference. Is not it? > > > > > > > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, 13:57 Gerard Meijssen, < > gerard.meijs...@gmail.com > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hoi, > > > > > How do you define diversity? > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > GerardM > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 at 13:44, Jon Harald Søby > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi all, and apologies if you receive this email several times – I > > > will > > > > be > > > > > > posting it to multiple mailing lists. > > > > > > > > > > > > Wikimedia Norge would like to organize a regional Wikimedia > > Diversity > > > > > > Conference in 2020 for Europe, with the hope of many other > regional > > > > > > conferences on the same topic being held in the near future. The > > > > > Wikimedia > > > > > > Diversity Conference 2020 will provide a meeting place for > > > discussing, > > > > > > debating and generating recipes for change concerning diversity > in > > > the > > > > > > Wikimedia movement. > > > > > > > > > > > > We will be sharing more updates regarding a possible conference > > later > > > > in > > > > > > 2020. For now, we are working on drafting a grant proposal to the > > > > > Wikimedia > > > > > > Foundation to support the conference. As part of the drafting the > > > > > proposal, > > > > > > a Community Engagement Survey is crucial to understand what > > community > > > > > > members are expecting out of such conference. In that regard, > > > Wikimedia > > > > > > Norge invite all those who are interested in the topic of > diversity > > > to > > > > > take > > > > > > part in the survey. > > > > > > > > > > > > Please take the survey here > > > > > > < > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdEaXc2AIaaFgKiQUWCDdnJKLd26KA8_DDQsyAqemXsH-wRyw/viewform > > > > > > > > > > > > > or copy and paste the URL below into your internet browser: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdEaXc2AIaaFgKiQUWCDdnJKLd26KA8_DDQsyAqemXsH-wRyw/viewform > > > > > > > > > > > > *Participants* > > > > > > For a Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2020 we would like to invite > > > > > > participants who are decision-makers in the movement (volunteers, > > > board > > > > > or > > > > > > staff members of a Wikimedia affiliate) or highly engaged in > > projects > > > > > about > > > > > > knowledge equity and diversity. The conference will be an > > opportunity > > > > for > > > > > > the participants to discuss solutions for implementation of the > > 2030 > > > > > > movement strategy > > > > > > < > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20 > > > > > > > > on > > > > > > knowledge equity. > > > > > > > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > > > *Jon Harald Søby* > > > > > > Prosjektleder / Prosjektleiar / Prošeaktajođiheaddji / Project > > > Manager > > > > > > Wikimedia Norge / Wikimedia Noreg / Wikimedia Norga > > > > > > > > > > > > +47 977 67 510 > > > > > > jhs...@wikimedia.no > > > > > > ___ > > > > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > > > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > > > > Unsubscribe: > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > > > >
