Gerard, Thanks for bringing this up. That is exactly what we are attempting to resolve with changes to product process and program strategies.
We've made improvements with the public VE triage where anyone could submit a critical blocker, and discuss with the team on a weekly call. And we tested some ideas for prioritizing new features together early this year. This quarter we aim to propose and test a strawman approach that would be used by our newly forming community tech team to do some of what you are looking for. It is critical that it is not a black box decision-making process, because the work is meant to benefit our editors. Luis can tell you more how we are thinking to ensure that. The Engineering leaders are coming together to discuss this in depth in August, including ideas that came from our strategy and working together community consultations. Lila sent from mobile. please excuse typos. On Jul 12, 2015 2:53 AM, "Gerard Meijssen" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hoi, > Luis I like what I read. What you can do to make it even more pleasing is > establish better how this will benefit projects other than Wikipedia. > > For instance I blogged abut "red link" functionality that will easily > enhance the quality of links and red links in most project including > Wikipedia because it allows for providing information where there is none > yet to bothnot readers and editors AND maintains the functionality as if > nothing has changed. > > I have no idea if the WMF would consider such an idea. My impression is > that the WMF and its agenda is very much a black box. When you explain how > an idea like this might get attention, it is less theoretical and it > explains me and others if innovation in the WMF has a place and what that > place is. > Thanks, > GerardM > > > http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2015/07/wikipedia-is-it-about-articles-or-about_10.html > > On 12 July 2015 at 05:03, Luis Villa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Luis Villa <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Rogol Domedonfors < > [email protected] > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > >> The 2015 Call to Action identified the need to Support innovation & > > >> new knowledge > > >> * Integrate, consolidate, and pause or stop stalled initiatives. > > >> * Create spaces for future community-led innovations and new > > >> knowledge creation. > > >> * Facilitate and support new models and structures for knowledge > > >> curation. > > >> * Strengthen partnerships with organizations that use or > > >> contribute free content, or are aligned with the WMF in the > > >> free-knowledge movement. > > >> > > >> Yet no-one at WMF seems tasked with driving innovation in the > > >> community. I have started a Meta page for Innovation at > > >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Innovation to stimulate discussions. > > >> > > > > > > I'm going to respond more on-wiki, but tl;dr: I disagree strongly that > > "no > > > one at WMF seems tasked with driving innovation". > > > > > > > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Innovation&type=revision&diff=12668489&oldid=12623768 > > > > Constructive suggestions welcome - no one wants to see innovation more > than > > me, trust me :) > > > > Luis > > > > > > -- > > Luis Villa > > Sr. Director of Community Engagement > > Wikimedia Foundation > > *Working towards a world in which every single human being can freely > share > > in the sum of all knowledge.* > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
