Chapters Dialogue/Six big questions/What do we want to achieve?
At Wikimedia Conference 2014 in Berlin, the session Re-imagine movement addressed the question What do we want to achieve?
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WIKIMEDIA CONFERENCE 2014 - April 10-13, 2014 in Berlin
edit9 Re-imagine Wikimedia movement
editEvery table discuss about the same topic. After a time people circle to next table an see, what people there find out.
What should our movement achieve by 2040, 2025, 2017?
| Year | Subject | Comment |
| 2017 | Community | People will be nicer, much more depth of trust, more consensus about approaches |
| 2017 | Community | Good welcoming culture, healthy community in all regards, incl good integration of volunteers & paid staff; |
| 2017 | Creation process | Integration into academic process: studying, drafting, creating new knowledge, journal publication |
| 2017 | Creation process | Real-life experience: historical events, observations, oral histories |
| 2017 | Education | Wikipedia will be much more a pedagogical tool |
| 2017 | Education | All children will have access to information, we should become mainstream, |
| 2017 | Gender gap | All of us will have visited Armenia + Susanna, where the majority of editors are women, |
| 2017 | HR | Structure training and development |
| 2017 | Ideas | A shift in creating new ideas, more fun in contributing, grants will be more individual |
| 2017 | Ideas | More innovative |
| 2017 | Ideas | Good tools for user experience, |
| 2017 | Infrastructure | We will have definitions for the different movement organisations. |
| 2017 | Infrastructure | More chapters |
| 2017 | Infrastructure | Ownership about the international development |
| 2017 | Infrastructure | WMF will be no longer the nexus |
| 2017 | Infrastructure | More international cooperation, |
| 2017 | Infrastructure | 1000 Wikipedians in Residence via GLAM |
| 2017 | Infrastructure | Core businnes still gaining volunteers, |
| 2017 | Infrastructure | Concrete, harmonised goals between chapters and WMF. Clarify roles in movement. [WMF holds trademarks, run servers: add or subtract as required] |
| 2017 | Infrastructure | We have a great quantity/quality of content, but could be managed by another entity. |
| 2017 | Knowledge types: | Registration of sources, citation wiki and discussion of refs |
| 2017 | Knowledge types: | Music and film in PD, and a wealth of public knowledge |
| 2017 | Knowledge types: | Have a process for registering entries for every source of data (all nounds: UPC to trees) |
| 2017 | Language | A tool for translation that is editor controlled with multiple choices |
| 2017 | Law and policy | Freedom of panorama in many countries |
| 2017 | Mission | We know why we're doing this |
| 2017 | Mobile | A complete shift to mobile editing, editing will be more fun and more recognised |
| 2017 | Projects | Review of project landscape |
| 2017 | Reach | Increase in readership (1 bn readers) |
| 2017 | Wikidata | Wikidata will have impact, |
| 2017 | Wikidata | There should be a creative commons standard for open data, |
| 2025 | Community | There will be sustainability in the community, |
| 2025 | Community | Easy to be a Wikimedian |
| 2025 | Community | By 2025 we will have a movement with a positive and supportive atmosphere. |
| 2025 | Community | Becoming a 'social norm' means a different sense of community |
| 2025 | Community | Community recognition, guild development (compare medical and legal guilds and social recognition) |
| 2025 | Community | Unify disparities (geographical, etc) by technologies such as improved machine translation, wikidata |
| 2025 | Community | Solve problem of multiple versions of same topic. |
| 2025 | Culture | A more cultural approach to our projects (more oral knowledges e.g.,) |
| 2025 | Education | The Movement a big player in Education, accepted as a resource and promoter of educational resources (OER) |
| 2025 | Education | Wikipedia will in every space tech and educational site, strong research, crisis of quality of sources, |
| 2025 | Education | There will be educational institutions using tools which are wikipedia bases, |
| 2025 | Education | Teachers will know, how to use Wikipedia in school, |
| 2025 | Education | Very effective medium, better accessibility of the human network behind Wikimedia |
| 2025 | Education | All children should have equal access. |
| 2025 | Ideas | Could our bots pierce access walls? |
| 2025 | Ideas | Hubbert curve: do we have this for articles? Compare "exponential growth" curve estimates of articles and razorblade-count |
| 2025 | Ideas | We would have new tools for collaborating on knowledge: |
| 2025 | Ideas | Bridging the idea of creation from local sources; no longer defending this way of creation. |
| 2025 | Ideas | Allow more ways to access the content, e.g. audible, visible etc. |
| 2025 | Infrastructure | The Movement being still in movements, no really clear frames |
| 2025 | Infrastructure | There will representation in every country, |
| 2025 | Infrastructure | How to become big |
| 2025 | Infrastructure | Wikipedia Zero universally available. |
| 2025 | Infrastructure | Movement structure: can we get a structure that does what the Chapters Association was set up to do, with WMF as an equal partner. |
| 2025 | Language | Wikidata will be base of many translation tools, |
| 2025 | Language | Automatic translation |
| 2025 | Language | Wiki botnets doing automated knowledge scraping? Effect of bots on minor language Wikipedias: the idea was that these articles would draw editors, and this has not happened. |
| 2025 | Language | Inter-language work: get the content from the best article in any language, into all languages. |
| 2025 | Law and policy | Advocacy + Lobbying for free knowledge (even important than saving our projects), |
| 2025 | Law and policy | Started to roll back (c) to ~L+50 worldwide |
| 2025 | Law and policy | Large corporations are breaking down those barriers, but will there be free information? Lobbying? The discussion should continue. |
| 2025 | Mission | Sum of all human knowledge: What does this mean? |
| 2025 | Multiplicity | Multiple versions of one article (in languages as views) |
| 2025 | Network | Collaboration is commonly understand |
| 2025 | Network | Keep the effectiveness of the Wikimedia projects as information transfer media, while making the human network behind them accessible. |
| 2025 | Projects | Does WikiNews fulfil our mission? It doesn't not our mission. |
| 2025 | Projects | All the projects can merge to one namespace? |
| 2025 | Reach | More outreach |
| 2025 | Search | There will be Wikipedia Glass |
| 2025 | Search | Primary source for search, 400 Langouage Version, |
| 2025 | Search | Compete with google |
| 2025 | Search | Cortana is the AI interface for Halo. Might we have smart personal assistants in Wikimedia projects? Maybe draft-space could contain scraped data with references as raw material for editing. |
| 2025 | Society | Wikipedia will become a norm and a protocol |
| 2025 | Society | Edit wars, but no real wars |
| 2025 | Society | Integrated in daily life |
| 2025 | Society | Now it's cool and hip to have something that's not in WP. |
| 2025 | Society | Open access to information as a civil right. Globally! Places like Africa (commercial blockage) and China (ideological challenges) |
| 2025 | Tooling | Good AI and measures for quality, plagiarism, statistics for use |
| 2025 | Tooling | Viewcounts and usage visible per data and article |
| 2025 | Transformation | Transform for the future |
| 2025 | Transformation | Changes in public views of knowledge |
| 2025 | Transformation | View WP as a new environment: one where Everything is there. |
| 2025 | Unity | Unification & Stability of the social meme, unifying the name spaces of the sister projects |
| 2025 | Wikidata | Bot-generated datasets? |
| 2040 | Community | Bigger and more productive |
| 2040 | Community | Equality-gender, age, diversity |
| 2040 | Infrastructure | Financal independence |
| 2040 | Infrastructure | Platform in the future will change |
| 2040 | Language | Key questions about language (language preservaty, ...), Wikidata will be the primary database for that |
| 2040 | Language | Automatic translation |
| 2040 | Law and policy | IDs of every content, having more legal impact, better copyright (+50), unifcation of laws |
| 2040 | Mission accomplished | Wikimedia [Wikipedia] gets a public good, it's *one* thing, it will have a huge technical background |
| 2040 | Mission accomplished | Wikipedia globe will be complete! |
| 2040 | Mission accomplished | WP as a basic need |
| 2040 | Network | Very effective medium, better accessibility of the human network behind Wikimedia |
| 2040 | Network | Social networking |
| 2040 | Reach | Wikimedia-Projects will be accessable for all people all over the world. |
| 2040 | Reach | Access: presence in every (school, digital archive) in every actively taught language |
| 2040 | Society | Leadership in international decision making, the Movement as a big player and part of the establishment. |
| 2040 | Society | The international decision making is influenced. |
| 2040 | Society | Wikipedia will be integrated in all parts of society, |
| 2040 | Society | Access to information is a civil right. |
| 2040 | Society | Interconnections to all social movement |
| 2040 | Society | More influence |
| 2040 | Society | Free knowledge as the standard; the way to go for society and education. |
| 2040 | Society | People want to be entertained |
| 2040 | Transformation | The Movement will be totally different, because the need will be totally different |
| 2040 | Transformation | The rules for the movement might be completely different |
| 2040 | Transformation | Editing is thinking and vise versa |
| 2040 | Transformation | Global collective brain |
| 2040 | Transformation | Balance |
| 2040 | Transformation | Shifting from a 'site' to a 'protocol' and 'social norm' |
| 2040 | Transformation | Wikipedia will help to preserve obtain |
| 2040 | Transformation | People are knowledge |
| 2040 | Transformation | Wikimedia could create sources |
| 2040 | Transformation | More rendundance in Wikipedias in view of languages |
| 2040 | Wikidata | Wikidata primary for new source and biggest Database in the world, Wikimedia will be working in languages |
| 2040 | Wikidata | Wikidata will be very big and a fact source for many humans |