These days the most intense discussion about the Forum is happening on Wikimedia-l. There are also new thoughts on the Meta talk page. Some of the feedback is directly applicable to the community review. A lot of the discussion is more strategic and long-term, which is related to the community review but also goes well beyond its scope and possibilities. Related or not, the #forum-community-review has been relatively quiet here. We welcome more opinions!
Meanwhile, more people are getting their first-hand experience in the forum. We also have started experimenting with collaboration private spaces. And we keep working on small improvements, like introducing language tags and discussing emoji reactions to express disagreement.
If you have questions or suggestions about these reports, you can comment below or on Meta.
As of end of day, Monday, June 13, 2022…
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Forum statistics
- 334 users (+67 since June 6)
Users by Trust Level: number of users grouped by trust level
- Level 0 (new): 101 (-27 since June 6)
- Level 1 (basic): 211 (+78 since June 6)
- Level 2 (member): 22 (+16 since June 6)
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?
- 24 replies, 364 views, 16 users, and 97 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, especially because it is designed for conversation and discussion. 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?
- 18 replies, 247 views, 10 users, 47 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?
- 26 replies, 274 views, 10 users, 49 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?
- 34 replies, 322 views, 14 users, 31 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?
- 11 replies, 189 views, 7 users, 16 reactions.
- Sentiment - Overall positive comments about the proposal so far, with a particular call out around the implication of the sentence “You maybe not be banned or blocked from any Wikimedia project for a period of 30 days or longer.” Because different wiki projects have different regulations and until UCoC is implemented globally, there’s no uniformity around decisions to ban users. 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?
- 24 replies, 325 views, 10 users, 32 reactions.
- Sentiment - Some channels have been suggested but we still need more discussion about what kind of updates are expected in which channels. There are some expressed views that the Forum is an additional tool for communicating with communities. 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 - 11 votes
- Using this forum in the context of events (Wikimania, the Summit…) - 7 votes
- Forum interface available in Igbo language - 6 votes
- Fix automatic translation error messages - 5 votes
- Create automatic feed of Diff posts tagged with “Movement Strategy” - 4 votes
- Possibility to express support or disagreement in addition to voting - 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