Movement roles/Working group meeting 2011-1-29/topic ideas

Brainstorming cards from the roles matrix discussion, roughly clustered. This was a quick exercise, and is not remotely complete.

education

build partnerships with universities to increase participation by students and faculty
develop lesson plans
educational cooperations

business

set employee salaries
provide training for volunteers / staff / board members
training, professionalisation
develop partnerships with mobile phone companies to provide better mobile user experience
dealing with partner organizations on the global level
asking for sponsorship or donation
keeping good relationship with companies, organizations and government
partner with business
form technical partnerships
grants and partnerships
business partnerships

data, innovation

analyze WM performance to generate insights for improvement
provide realtime data for tracking WM performance
maintain knowledge sharing resources "we know what we know"
encourage outside researchers to study WM
document histories, experiences of WM projects for shared learning
identify and foster innovation [new projects]
fund crazy ideas that community members want to explore

advocacy, enlightenment

global advocacy (literacy, net governance)
lobby for better legal environment
lobbying
dealing with public institutions (television companies, national archives, ...)
advocate to governments to increase availability of knowledge under free licence
influencing law and society
freeing hoarded knowledge
advocacy activities
advocate for free knowledge
local advocacy (A2K [Access to Knowledge], free textbooks)
lobbying for better copyright law
defend Wikimedia ideals in public debate
freeing content
spread the idea of collaboration and cooperation
solicit content donations (or use cc-by-sa)
advocate the vision and mission
enlightment about free content

relationships, identity

inform the audience about wikip(m)edia
respond to complaints about quality
reeder relations (inbound)
editor relationship
reader relationship
answering public or outside non-media queries

software, tools, usability

software development
empowering collaboration (tools)
develop software and tools for editors
support innovation
give tools (technical) to the community
upgrade the editing interface
development of Mediawiki
create new applications for WM projects that take advantage of mobile internet
wikipedia apps for iPad/Android Pad
add social functionality to WM user interface
improving wikimedia projects usability
improve the software
improve usability
usability and technical (make wm projects more accessible)

knowledge transfer

improve knowledge transfer in the community
share experiences (learned lessons)
develop internal manuals (or processes)

branding, memes

defend trademarks
create swag
trademarks / branding
brand & meme development
use of wikimedia trademarks for offline volunteer activities
merchandizing (swag)
trademark management and using
develop and distribute WM-branded merchandize to build affiliation

legal

protect wikimedia/pedia trademarks
dealing with legal issues
business inquiries
business and legal risk assessment
respond to legal challenges to project content
protect brand from corruption
manage libel lawsuits

governance

make urgent global decisions
set global goals for the movement
have good relationship within wikimedia
creating non-editing policies
growth in member numbers
global strategic development
conducting/leading the movement
act against movement entities harming the movement
coordinate internal communication
support startup organizations
organizational growth assessment
developing movement expertise
building a base of affiliate volunteer experts worldwide

press

getting media coverage / press represent
press announcements
represent wikimedia to public
press inquiries

mission partnerships

cooperate with non-chi likeminded organzations (OSM, Mozilla, CC ...)
partner with other NGO
associations and partnerships with external organizations and institutes
GLAM partnerships
involve cultural heritage institutions
institutional linkages e.g. GLAM
institutional partnerships (GLAM, govts ...)
institutions (inbound/outbound)
work with museums, universities to put content on wiki
institutional sponsorship
cultural cooperations
partner with governments

general outreach

project promotion/outreach
outreach to mobilize new editors
outreach (proselytism?)
create outreach material
nurture and grow base of volunteers
convert readers to writers
encourage new volunteers to edit
get more people to edit the projects
motivate local user groups
point of entry into the movement for community / outside world
Wikis (HEART)/Take <cityname>

editor diversity

promote the wikimedia projects locally in local language
encourage greater diversity of participants
promoting wikimedia projects in regions with low-volunteer activities
beginner's guide of wiki projects in local languages
offline volunteer recruitment
explain how WM works to new groups
increase global participation
encourage female participation
support new communities of contributors (e.g. women, older people) to integrate into WM movement

community support and empowerment

understand user needs
understand what drives participation
address questions of "culture" on English wiki
maintain relationships with volunteers
support "the community"
mentor new users/contributors
support of editing volunteers
helping the users
teach people how to edit
teaching the correct use of wiki projects
empowering collaboration and individuals (social norms)

event organziation

Wikimania and large scale community events
Organizing conferences and big-scale events (Wikimania)
Organizing conferences
organize gatherings
organize community meetings
Hosting events (chapters, mania, workshops)
real life events
small scale community events
hold outreach events

educational impact

help put wikipedia into schools worlswide
expand reach
fertilize the non-internet w/ knowledge
educational impact
provide access to Wikimedia projects for offline use cases
create offline versions of Wikimedia projects for use in education
making the internet not suck
making the world editable

fundraising

go after big donors
fundraising
fundraising
donor relationships
raise money
individual donations

technical infrastructure

secure the infrastructure
run the website
provide technical infrastructure
improve site performance in the global south
provide servers and connectivity
server operations
maintaining & running servers
register domain names
dealing with cyber squatters

spend money

make grants
allocate money to projects that members of the movement want to do
ensure all money is spent wisely
elaborate ideas to spend money

social responsibility

troubleshooting in an extreme case, crisis management
decide how to respond to censorship

community health

buy stroopwaffels
facilitate community discussions
wikilove
arbitrate disputes on wiki
access to non-textual knowledge (databases, video, 4-D-models)
access to non-notable verifiable/educational knowledge
make wikipedia a better place

editing

develop educational material (i.e. write wikipedia)
editing

content quality

quality of content of WM-projects
QC over the projects' contents

movement definitions

decide which entities are in or out of the movement
recognizing (i.e. officially) WM chapters
set local goals for chapters
recognizing non-chapter organizations
legitimize organizations (within Wikimedia)

language

expand wikipedias from 250 to 1000 languages
promoting specific languages
translation
... in their own language

Brainstorming live

These are the cards we used to work on this brainstorming.

Movement roles meeting Jan. 2011 the bunch of cards, ideas galore
Movement roles meeting Jan. 2011 Roles matrix board
Movement roles meeting Jan. 2011 Roles matrix board
Movement roles meeting Jan. 2011 Roles matrix board
Movement roles meeting Jan. 2011 Roles matrix board
Movement roles meeting Jan. 2011 Roles matrix board
Movement roles meeting Jan. 2011 Roles matrix board
Movement roles meeting Jan. 2011 Roles matrix board
Movement roles meeting Jan. 2011 Roles matrix board
Movement roles meeting Jan. 2011 Roles matrix board
Movement roles meeting Jan. 2011 Roles matrix board
Movement roles meeting Jan. 2011 Roles matrix board
Movement roles meeting Jan. 2011 Roles matrix topics
Movement roles meeting Jan. 2011 Roles matrix players