Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Sources/French Wikipedia
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Information
editWhat group or community is this source coming from?
| name of group | French Wikipedia |
| virtual location (page-link) or physical location (city/state/country) | Wikipedia |
| Location type (e.g. local wiki, Facebook, in-person discussion, telephone conference) | local wiki |
| # of participants in this discussion (a rough count) | 57 |
Summary
edit| # | Statements | Keywords |
| 1 | Give interest to smaller Wikis and do not focus on large Wiki project only and work to the rise of interwiki. On the other hand, the boundary between wikipedia and wikinews needs to be redefined, as the wikinews tools have never taken off. Consulnico, Sergio1006 | interwiki, minority |
| 2 | Think of contributors who can serve as a bridge between all languages and summarize / relaunch discussions. This might unite the community at international level. Consulnico | multilingualism, inter-wiki, internationalization |
| 3 | Make widely accessible our know-how by documenting our actions, our way of using softwares, tools, and statistics, etc. Consulnico | productivity, reuse |
| 4 | Encourage wikimedians to use other languages than English and their mother tongue in order to foster bonds among projects and communities for example through assistance in learning multiple languages, or by translating and using sources from other languages Consulnico, RP87, Salix | multi-language, interwiki |
| 5 | Modernize wikimedia platforms and tools by making them more ergonomic, more adapted to mobile, to discussions, to collaborative publishing and easy to understand for average user who does not know the wikicode for example. Trizek Olimparis, Pline, Speculos, FR, FrankyLeRoutier, Tpe.g5.stan, Jules78120, Erdrokan, El Funcionario, Sergio1006, Salix, HenriDavel | modernity, accessibility, ergonomy |
| 6 | Strengthen the sense of pride and belonging among contributors and more particularly among new contributors. Trizek Olimparis, FR, Fuucx, Heather.Ruby | newbies, belonging, community |
| 7 | Strengthen the anti-harassment policy against anti-newbies, misogynist, racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, etc. Trizek Olimparis, Superjuju10, Simon Villeneuve | harassment, newbies, minority |
| 8 | Instead of focusing projects on American or Europe only, projects must also focus on Francophone Africa. Trizek, BamLifa, Touam, Olimparis, Jules78120 | Africa, internationalization |
| 9 | Develop programs of joint action with non-governmental organizations (or even integrate them into local chapters) or even states and / or supra- / sub-state entities. Sijysuis, CreativeC38, Olimparis | Partnership, internationalization, training, opening-up |
| 10 | Clean Meta-wiki, archive it , translate it, segregate its content related to WMF from the rest of wiki and remove formal procedures. CreativeC38 | Meta-wiki, ergonomy, ease of use |
| 11 | Create a multilangual wiki for every project as it is done on Wikisource CreativeC38 | multilingualism, internationalization |
| 12 | Fight against the biases inherent in under-represented communities or in certain categories of contributors Olimparis, Sijysuis, schiste | bias, equality,minority; neutrality |
| 13 | Make knowledge accessible to as many people as possible by offering various formats: MOOC, podcasts, Youtube channels. To reduce the design costs of these formats, on the one hand the volunteer contributors could work and on the other hand the Foundation could hire professionals. Jean-Christophe BENOIST, CreativeC38, Lylvic, Touam | Modernity, MOOC, video, podcast |
| 14 | Make sure Wikipedia will never (again) advertise or promote any political ideology by avoiding interfering directly in political matters. 78.250.184.49, Fuucx, Superjuju10 | Politics, neutrality, advertising, WMF |
| 15 | Make the Wikipedia more independent from one another, especially regarding the English-speaking Wikipedia. On commons for example, put an end to the use of English classification of the images and illustrations. 78.250.184.49, Pline, Lomita | Internationalization, autonomy, multilingualism, interwiki |
| 16 | Host Wikipedia servers in the countries mostly concerned by each version, and subject it to the laws of the countries concerned and not the US laws. However this would pose the problem of deciding which language is more legitimate to host the Wikipedia FR for example. 78.250.184.49 | Autonomy, Internationalization |
| 17 | Encourage and make contributing with IP much easier. 78.250.184.49, Akeron | IP, anonymity, privacy |
| 18 | Raise the criteria for quality articles. Pline | Quality |
| 19 | Improve the quality of the articles by setting up teams of contributors targeting, in a given theme, articles of a certain importance. Pline | Quality, community |
| 20 | Make quality articles accessible to various types of readers. Pline | Accessibility, quality |
| 21 | Attract many more quality contributors Pline,Fuucx | Contributors, quality |
| 22 | Improve the image of Wikipedia with potential contributors by correcting its "unreliable site" reputation. Pline | Reliability, reputation, quality |
| 23 | Make the image search more intuitive using Query by Example, or Content Based Image Retrieval approaches to provide contributors with tailored images. Speculos | Modernity, ergonomy, artificial intelligence |
| 24 | Strengthen the segregation between what is encyclopaedic and what is not, for example by checking the quality of the sources using semantic analysis. Pline, Speculos | Reliability, reputation, quality |
| 25 | Encourage cross-cultural exchanges and feedback across communities and projects. Speculos, Simon Villeneuve | cross-experience, community, internationalization |
| 26 | Valuing teamwork and collaborative aspects. Speculos, Heather.Ruby | team-work, collaboration |
| 27 | Provide contributors with appropriate means to manage effectively the arrival of newcomers. Speculos, HenriDavel, LaMèreVeille | contributors, newbies |
| 28 | Promote the Open culture and communicate towards the public better. Speculos | communication, reputation, outreach |
| 29 | Give a better explanation of the objectives and principles of Wikipedia and its various projects. Speculos | Communication, reputation, outreach |
| 30 | Augmenter le volume des contributions. FR | Contributors, quality, quantity |
| 31 | Wikimedia should not focus only on Wikipedia but take into account the other projects too so as to avoid having Wikipedia do things that are not within its cope. Fuucx | WMF, wikipedia, minority, interwiki |
| 32 | Offer rewards to contributors. Not in terms of money necessarily but the reward could be certificates or having these editors featured, giving them visibility. FR | Reward, contributors, belonging |
| 33 | Do not scare but protect the newbies. FR | Newbies, community |
| 34 | Protect the encyclopaedia from lobbies. FR, Darkoneko, Salix, HenriDavel, | Lobbies, NPOV, neutrality |
| 35 | Give priority to articles that would be considered essential in a traditional encyclopedia. FR | Encyclopaedia, quality |
| 36 | Have official Francophone representatives for each country to publicize wikis projects in the media. FR | Outreach, media, reputation |
| 37 | Reducing the environmental impact of Wikimedia projects and the movement while keeping them still performing. Ahbon?, Jules78120 | Sustainability, energy, environment |
| 38 | Correct the biases by avoiding that the "view that prevails" is that of the most active contributors, and unfortunately sometimes the most fanatical. Ahbon? | NPOV, community |
| 39 | Improve the quality of content from a standpoint of academic standards. Ahbon? | Quality, reputation, university |
| 40 | Attrach new contributors by using banners and CentralNotice for unregistered users. Creative38 | Contributors, outreach |
| 41 | Encourage the media, including social media, to raise public awareness of the value and effective use of wiki projects. CreativeC38 | Awareness, outreach, reputation, media |
| 42 | Improving mentorship system by having supervisor-type users coaching newbies, receiving notifications whenever newbies edits are reverted for example. CreativeC38 | Newbies, mentorship, contributors |
| 43 | Improve the link among sister projects and promote their uses as sources for example or as related findings. CreativeC38, RP87 | interwiki, reuse, modernity |
| 44 | Consider an interwiki search engine doing in view of both promoting wiki projects and reducing our dependency on Google. CreativeC38 | Modernity, feature, search engine |
| 45 | Encourage contribution in areas where Wikipedia is less well known by working with local actors: developing countries, least developed countries, etc.Creative38, Jules78120 | Outreach, developing countries, internationalization |
| 46 | Concentrate our efforts less on improving wikis but more on helping the public reusing efficiently Wikimedia resources. Creative38 | Reuse, outreach |
| 47 | Display CentralNotice banners automatically when pages on Meta-Wiki stay outdated for too long. Creative38 | Meta-wiki, feature |
| 48 | Improve accessibility for the visually impaired and other persons with disabilities by conducting studies on their use of wikis. Tractopelle-jaune | Accessibility, feature, disability, research |
| 49 | Improve the discussion system by making it close to standard collaborative features, less burdensome, without banishing the wikicode to which several contributors are still attached. Tractopelle-jaune | Modernity, feature, discussion, wikicode |
| 50 | Fix existing features as a priority before further improvement. Tractopelle-jaune | Feature, improvement |
| 51 | Improve the connection between Wikidata and other wikis by correcting the many current dysfunctions. Tractopelle-jaune | improvement, wikidata |
| 52 | Ensure that the new functionalities are fully operational before deploying otherwise they will face a violent rejection by the communities. Tractopelle-jaune | Modernity, feature, community, test |
| 53 | Make fully operational syntax highlighting in wiki editors. Tractopelle-jaune, CreativeC38 | Modernity, feature, editor |
| 54 | Attract new editors with CentralNotice or other banners stating "you can edit too" being displayed to readers. Tpe.g5.stan, Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick | contributor, newbies, banner |
| 55 | Promote and teach wikis projects and tools in secondary and academic environments, which will lead to recruiting new contributors. Tpe.g5.stan, Sijysuis, Jules78120 | Contributors, quality, university |
| 56 | Enrich wikis using tools/algorithms serving as a bridge between them eg: Wikidata. Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick, Anthony59999 | Modernity, feature, interwiki, reuse |
| 57 | Consider modern reading features: augmented reality, voice search, etc. Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick | Modernity, feature, augmented reality |
| 58 | Produce our own illustrations under creative commons licenses using drone shots. Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick | Photo, CC license, drone, modernity |
| 59 | Communicating more actively on new communication channels and media. Olimparis | Media, outreach, modernity |
| 60 | Bridge the gender gap on wikimedia projects no matter what. Superjuju10 | Gender gap, minority, women |
| 61 | Improve the user's perception of sysop or checkusers. Superjuju10 | Checkuser, sysop, contributors |
| 62 | Continue to develop current projects and share free knowledge through them or through new projects. Jules78120 | Improvement, outreach, knowledge |
| 63 | Do not interfere in editorial or organization aspects of Wikipedia - the movement is decentralized and must remain so. Jules78120, Lomita, Erdrokan | Neutrality, autonomy, WMF |
| 64 | Listen to volunteers and communicate with theme better is paramount. Jules78120, Lomita | Collaboration, contributors, WMF |
| 65 | To make the collaboration between the WMF and the movement more transparent and horizontal. Jules78120 | Collaboration, contributors, WMF |
| 66 | Attract contributors with diverse and expert profiles, including sociological profiles. Jules78120, Hardi Laurel, Heather.Ruby | Contributors, outreach |
| 67 | Find effective anti-vandalism mechanisms to avoid time wasted by contributors. Sergio1006, HenriDavel | Vandalism, contributors |
| 68 | Consider training and accreditation of spokespersons who can speak on behalf of Wikipedia contributors. Sergio1006 | Spokesperson, community, contributors |
| 69 | Build a network of correspondents in the municipal libraries with regular workshops. RP87 | Partnerships, GLAMs |
| 70 | Build Audio and / or video communication tools to pacify exchanges that become conflicting when writing. RP87 | Feature, video, audio, Conflict resolution |
| 71 | Make more publicity on meetups, training sessions and other events in order to answer the questions of the public, to explain the wiki projects and also to share knowledge and passion. Lomita | meetup, outreach, reputation, newbies |
| 72 | Make referencing much easier. Salix | references, quality, feature |
| 73 | Encourage proofreading for example by featuring, on Wikipedia homepage, a list of "sensitive" articles to be re-read . Salix | quality, proofreading |
| 74 | Increase flexibility in resolving conflicts and encourage more peaceful debate among contributors. Salix, HenriDavel | conflicts resolution, contributors |
| 75 | Keep on facilitating translations by improving the translation tool. HenriDavel | Multilingualism, translation, feature |
| 76 | Focus less on the subjects that make headlines. HenriDavel | quality, NPOV |
| 77 | Foster long-term partnerships with scientific, artistic, sports and other communities and institutions. In order to attract a readership more interested in deep topics rather than popular headlines. HenriDavel | readers, partnerships |
| 78 | Do not jeopardize or lose sight of the goals of each project: disseminating knowledge under free license and without advertising. Erdrokan, Jules Fuucx | goals, means |
| 79 | Develop cross-platform initiatives that make wiki projects a global movement, not centered on private or political interests. Nattes à chat | interwiki, collaboration |
| 80 | Develop a culture of non-violent communication and respect by publishing a multilingual manual of good behaviros. Nattes à chat | Harassment, conflict resolution, manual |
| 81 | For French wikis more particularly, encourage Francophonie and adopt writing practices that take into account geographical differences. Nattes à chat | Francophonie, internationalization |
| 82 | Reduce biases by targeting and improving notable topics related to gender, Africa, women, etc. Nattes à chat | Bias, gender , women, Africa |
| 83 | Recruit contributors in areas with significant content gaps or bias. Nattes à chat | Bais, contributors |
| 84 | Involve a young readership. Nattes à chat | readership, youth |
| 85 | Organize wikipermanences or meetups on a regular basis. Nattes à chat | Wikipermanence, meetups |
| 86 | We should not just contribute in our scope, according to our interests and affinities but we should also look to the outside and collaborate with others as a movement. schiste | collaboration, community |
| 87 | To preserve the mission of offering every human being the possibility to access knowledge freely. schiste, Hardi Laurel, Heather.Ruby | mission, vision, knowledge |
| 88 | Having more diversity in terms of contributors in order to better take into account the needs of each community. schiste | diversity, community |
| 89 | Have a healthy discussion about paid contributions and potential conflicts of interest.LaMèreVeille, Hardi Laurel | paid contributions, conflicts of interest, neutrality |
| 90 | We should preserve old contributors who have been doing much for this encyclopedia and encourage new ones to join the best we can. Hardi Laurel | contributors, newbies |
| 91 | Give to the admins the power to execute the sanction, but leave the arbitration role to others, either to the community directly or to the arbitration committee. Hardi Laurel | Conflict Resolution, Administrators, Contributors |
| 92 | Taking into account technological advances in the field of artificial intelligence. Jean-Christophe BENOIST, Jean trans h+ | feature, modernity, AI |
| 93 | Sitenotice should be used sparingly and, in particular, never continuously for more than a certain time (one month?), Even with different statements. Simon Villeneuve | central notice |
| 94 | To have a certain tolerance for the benign unpublished works, that is to say a work not sourced, but legal and not polemical.Simon Villeneuve | Unpublished work |
| 95 | Build, as it is done on Wikipedia in English, editing rules preventing a majority from having control over a project. | minority, majority, neutrality |
| 96 | Apply the same rules and guidelines of a project on the IRC channels dedicated to that project. Simon Villeneuve | IRC, guidelines |
| 97 | Re-energize projects, and create todo-lists for improving things. Heather.Ruby | Todolist, Re-energize |
| 98 | Free access without subscription to scientific articles and press articles would be a great step forward. Heather.Ruby | scientific articles, press |
| 99 | Set up mechanisms to ensure that contributors have enough knowledge when editing a certain topic.DePlusJean | quality, vandalism, contributors |
| 100 | Train the contributors of the different projects to bring them closer and to improve their mutual understanding. DePlusJean | communication, training, cohesion |
| 101 | Put in place a system of permission dependent on the rank of the contributor, graded progressively in view of various criteria: training, contributions, etc.DePlusJean | grade, quality, contributors |
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