Following our announcement on Wikimedia-l, the second week of the community review proceeded with several discussions about pros and cons of adopting a new forum in relation to improving Meta-Wiki. The forum proposal was also mentioned at the Conversation Hour with Maggie Dennis and the SWAN meetings with many questions and relatively positive reception. [DRAFT] Minimum Criteria for Hub Pilots is the first complex conversation that we are hosting on the Forum and on Meta simultaneously. As a first test connecting communication channels, now new forum topics are automatically featured on the Wikimedia Movement Strategy Telegram channel.
If you have questions or suggestions about these reports, you can comment below or on Meta.
As of end of day, Monday, June 6, 2022…
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Forum statistics
- 267 users (was 197 on May 30)
Users by Trust Level: number of users grouped by trust level
- Level 0 (new): 128 (was 103 on May 30)
- Level 1 (basic): 133 (was 92 on May 30)
- Level 2 (member): 6 (was 2 on May 30)
Sign Ups: new account registrations
Daily Engaged Users: number of users that have liked or posted
New Contributors: number of new users who made their first post
Consolidated Pageviews: pageviews for all: logged in users, anonymous users, and crawlers (search engines)
Top Traffic Sources: external sources that have linked to the Forum
Community review questions
Do you think this forum can improve Movement Strategy discussions and collaboration?
- 21 replies, 284 views, 14 users, and 90 reactions.
- Sentiment - Overall positive, especially given the automatic translation feature of the forum and how easy it is for newcomers to participate. Volunteers have already brought cross-wiki conversations outside of the wikis, and this platform has a chance to bring Movement Strategy conversations to one place. Criticism focuses on the risk of confusion and lack of adoption by adding yet another platform. People opposing the forum sustain that we should invest in bringing the good features of this forum to Meta-Wiki instead (most of this discussion is happening on Meta).
- See the summary of opinions and the full discussion .
Do you think this forum can be useful to welcome and retain new contributors to Movement Strategy?
- 14 replies, 179 views, 7 users, 34 reactions.
- Sentiment - Overall agreement. Criticism is based on the idea that volunteers need to understand how Meta works.
- See the summary of opinions and the full discussion .
What goals should be set to consider this forum successful?
- 17 replies, 205 views, 10 users, 37 reactions.
- Sentiment - Different ideas have been suggested for metrics and also factors beyond metrics. There is still work to do to agree on specific goals.
- See the work in progress summary and full discussion.
What do you think about the proposed name and domain?
- 32 replies, 264 views, 13 users, 29 reactions.
Sentiment: General agreement to move away from the current domain to an alternative containing “Wikimedia”. Technical considerations i.e. around security are important, and this is relevant for*.wikimedia.orgoptions. We are still in the brainstorming phase. No alternative names have been proposed so far. - See the alternatives, summary of opinions, and the full discussion.
What do you think about the proposed process for new moderators and administrators?
- 3 replies, 102 views, 3 users, 2 reactions.
- Sentiment - Two positive comments about the proposal so far. Another comment is critical of the entire forum proposal.
- See the discussion .
Are there other channels that you would prefer to use in addition to or instead of this forum for Movement Strategy updates and feedback? Why?
- 17 replies, 238 views, 8 users, 25 reactions.
- Sentiment - Some channels have been suggested but we still need more discussion about what kind of updates are expected in which channels. One factor to take into account is in which languages we can send updates. There are also opportunities for technical integration, saving some manual work. Specific discussions have started for Meta and other wikis, Telegram, and Diff.
- See the summary of opinions and the full discussion.
Forum improvements
Most voted Forum improvements:
- Automatic translation for the topic titles - 10 votes
- Using this forum in the context of events (Wikimania, the Summit…) - 6 votes
- Fix automatic translation error messages - 4 votes
- Forum interface available in Igbo language - 3 votes
- Create automatic feed of Diff posts tagged with “Movement Strategy” - 2 votes
- Supporting automatic translations of languages existing on wiki but not supported by google translate - 2 votes
- Automatic Forum updates to Meta and other wikis - 2 votes
- Translation of categories and tags - 2 votes