Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Sources/Hebrew Wikipedia village pump
Information
editWhat group or community is this source coming from?
| name of group | Hebrew Wikipedia |
| virtual location (page-link) or physical location (city/state/country) | w:he:ויקיפדיה:התהליך האסטרטגי לשנת 2017 - השלב הראשון |
| Location type (e.g. local wiki, Facebook, in-person discussion, telephone conference) | local wiki |
| # of participants in this discussion (a rough count) | 30+ |
Summary
editSummary for the discussion:
| Line | Statement (summary sentence) | Keywords |
| 1 | We should continue to spread free content all over the world, including to new audiences. | Spread, Knowledge |
| 2 | We should aspire that the Wikimedia movement would be based on knowledge and facts, will not be influenced by political or commercial interests, and promote a knowledge culture based on authoritative sources. | Facts, Influence, Interests, knowledge-culture, Authoritative-sources |
| 3 | The aspiration should be realistic: the representation of opinions, observations and interpretations of human beings. those, by nature, are not objective. | Representation, Objective |
| 4 | In order to enable the continued growth of the movement, we must strive to make effective use of the new technologies and The new areas of activity. | Technologies, Areas of activity |
| 5 | It is important to expand and streamline the developer community that enables technology utilization and adoption. | Developer-community, Technology, Adoption |
| 6 | We need to act constantly to identify new technologies and adapt them to the movement needs. | Identify, Technologies, Adapt |
| 7 | We should first strive to improve our control and authentication capabilities regarding new content, before expanding the number of Wikipedia participants. | Authentication, Expanding, Wikipedia |
| 8 | It was worth rethinking about the division between the wiki-projects, and how to present different types of content together. other approaches, which require technical and design changes, may improve access to the different content types and enable better integration between the projects. (Eg: through a direct link from wikipedia article to another relevant page on another project). | Division, Wiki-projects, Integration |
| 9 | Our identity and Opinions are important. but as far as Wikipedia is concerned, all these things are measured only by how much they serve the encyclopedic interest. All the programs, grants, etc. of the fund, should be channeled only in light of these principles. | Wikipedia, Encyclopedic-interest, Wikimedia |
| 10 | The purpose of Wikipedia is to continue to be the ultimate encyclopedia, as such it must include the maximum qualitative knowledge in all areas of knowledge, as well as a means to instill it. | Wikipedia, Encyclopedia, Instill |
| 11 | When setting a goal for the next 15 years, we shoud focus on an objectives that are abstract as possible, yet practical, so that the ways to achieve it can change while moving, but the goal remains clear. | Goal, Objectives, Abstract, Practical |
| 12 | We need to rethink the current design of Wikipedia and its suitability for our readers. | Design, Wikipedia, Readers |
| 13 | About paid editing: We need to prepare for a situation where people are willing to spend substantial amounts of money to influence free content | Paid-editing, Influence |
| 14 | We need to encourage the connection between Wikipedia and academia. | Wikipedia, Academia |
| 15 | We need to see ourselves in competition with the rest of the encyclopedias. Even if today, the online format has won over the traditional format, it is not yet decided that the encyclopedia of the future will be free. it is important to focus thinking and resources in this direction, and take advantage of the right time for us, before the veteran players would organize. | Encyclopedia, Online-format, Traditional-format, Free content |
| 16 | We should expand the activity to recruit new editors also to high schools, in addition to the activity within the academy | recruitment, New editors, High school, Academy |
| 17 | Regarding the previous statement: It is best to concentrate the recruitment activities to students and academics, and especially among Israeli scientists | recruitment, New editors, Academy, Scientists |
| 18 | The Wikimedia Foundation should embark on an extensive campaign to recruit new editors. At the same time, we must initiate a new attitude for new editors and consider their edits in a more positive manner (with the exception of the demolitions, which must be restored immediately) | Recruit, Attitude, New-editors |
| 19 | There is a need to change the trend in academia in relation to Wikipedia. For example, academic appointment committees and promotions should take into account community contribution (eg writing in Wikipedia) | Academia, Wikipedia |
| 20 | We should invest most of the resources: both in the technological infrastructure, in backups and in recruitment projects, and in contacts with the authorities (such as the IDF) in order to obtain donations of free content | Free content, Donations |
| 21 | Perhaps we should refer some of the more required works on Wikipedia, to paid editors from Wikipedia / Wikimedia. | Paid-editing, Wikipedia |
| 22 | Some people, while contributing to Wikipedia, cause other Wikipedians to leave due to bad treatment, causing more harm than good. We need to think about ways to improve the atmosphere in Wikipedia, in order to preserve editors. We should cherish each and every one, as long as his intentions are good | Preserve-editors, Attitude, Atmosphere |
| 23 | As a practical proposal, it is worth thinking about purchasing written encyclopedias for a free license use, and integrate them as a quality base into Wikipedia, thus, positioning Wikipedia as the ultimate encyclopedia | written-Encyclopedia, Free-license, Wikipedia, Practical, Quality |
| 24 | We need to think about expanding the functionality of mobile and mobile applications and finding effective ways to drive mobile users to edit | Mobile, Functionality, Edit |
| 25 | We need to think about strengthening Wikipedia's status as a social network, and about exploiting leading social media for Wikipedia | Wikipedia, Social-network, Social-media |
| 26 | Action should be taken to improve accessibility to the visually impaired, such as incorporating videos in a substantive way in articles, or adding a device to read the articles for them | Accessibility, Visually, Video, Sound |
| 27 | It's worth thinking about adopting software that translates written text into an audio file, and later on we can distribute disks that include this content in different places with limited access to the network | Translate, Written, Audio |
| 28 | We need to adopt innovative scanning technologies that enable sharing and uploading of free knowledge quickly and simply | Scanning, Uploading, Knowledge |
| 29 | We need to think about other ways to collaborate with social networks, and sometimes even use them as a source | Social networks, Collaborate |
| 30 | Create the ability to place a location-based request to Wikipedia's registered users to expand information or take photos of sites / places nearby | Location-based, Gps, Photos |
| 31 | We should think about printing Wikipedia, broken down by general themes or portals. | Wikipedia, Print |
| 32 | Our goal should be to impart knowledge in a way accessible to children and youth, and thus to make future generations more educated | Knowledge, Children, Youth |
| 33 | In Wikipedia, we should try and make use of a simple syntax, which is understood by the general public | Wikipedia, simple-syntax |
| 34 | We need to recruit more Wikipedians to fight vandalism, and to focus on public relations against it | Wikipedia, Vandalism |
| 35 | More youth should be included in Wikipedia, including in the fight against vandalism | youth, Wikipedia, vandalism |
| 36 | Wikipedia's goal is not to attract readers. Its main and almost sole goal is to provide knowledge to anyone interested in it | Wikipedia, Readers, Knowledge |
| 37 | About Wikipedia, it is worth thinking about adding a permanent part of the article, which will clarify the axioms on which the article is based | Wikipedia, Axioms |
| 38 | The Wikimedia project is fed by anonymous, committed writers who are committed to their opinions at best or to the prevailing ideology in their community. In fact, it is the opinions of the writers that dominate, not the facts | Wikimedia, Ideology, Opinions |
| 39 | As for Wikipedia, there is a need to limit which areas of knowledge to focus on, since certain areas do not fit into the encyclopedia | Wikipedia, Areas of knowledge, Focus |
| 40 | Regarding paid editing, it is important to recruit additional volunteers who will follow paid editors and supervise their activities. | Paid-editing, Supervise |
| 41 | It is worth thinking about expanding Wikimedia activities within the framework of youth movements. In the first stage through direct contact with the movement's counselors | Wikimedia, Youth-movements, Activities |
| 42 | We have to think about making use of artificial intelligence, and assimilating it into Wikipedia for a variety of different uses. For example as voice assistance | artificial-intelligence, Wikipedia |
| 43 | The most important thing that Wikipedia should do is to invest in the translation capabilities of articles from language to language. We need to focus on the technical solutions that allow this. | Wikipedia, translation |
| 44 | It is important to promote credibility in Wikipedia. We should also think of other ways to improve Wikipedia's reputation as a source of information. | credibility, Wikipedia, reputation |
| 45 | It is important to allow creativity among the editors in Wikipedia. For example through various projects. | Wikipedia, Creativity, Projects |
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Detailed notes
edit- the first announcement has been made in all of the main village pump (9/3/2017).
- announcement was made in Bulletin Board (9/3/2017).
- Second announcement has been made on the main village pump. I have also asked other editors to take a look of the translated pages and comment/fix the relevant topics (11/3/2017).
- A final reminder before the Process begins on the main village pump (14/3/2017).
- published a weekly summary at all the main hebrew village pump (25/3).