Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Sources/Italian Wikipedia - strategy page
Information
editWhat group or community is this source coming from?
| name of group | Italian Wikipedia |
| virtual location (page-link) or physical location (city/state/country) | w:it:Discussioni Wikipedia:Strategia |
| Location type (e.g. local wiki, Facebook, in-person discussion, telephone conference) | local wiki |
| # of participants in this discussion (a rough count) | 25 |
Summary
editThe summary is a group of summary sentences and associated keywords that describe the relevant topic(s). Below is an example.
The first column (after the line number) should be a single sentence. The second column should be a comma-separated list of keywords about that sentence, and so on. Taken together, all the sentences should provide an accurate summary of what was discussed with the specific community.
Summary for the discussion:
| Line | Statement (summary sentence) | Keywords |
| 1 | I would like more "interlinguism", with more cooperation between projects in different languages. | languages, interconnection |
| 2 | A new "Biopedia" project should be created to host well-sourced and neutral biographies that are deemed non-notable on Wikipedia. | Biopedia, biographies, new_projects |
| 3 | Wikipedia should defend itself from fake news without hampering the freedom to contribute. | fact-cheking, freedom_to_contribute |
| 4 | There should an automatic tool to notify the major contributors of an article of big change to the article. | notifications, watchlist |
| 5 | More work should be done to educate and tutor new users. | newbies, Adopt-a-user |
| 6 | There should be more communication, exchange and verification of information between different projects and languages. | interconnection |
| 7 | Notability guidelines should be the same on every projects. | interconnection |
| 8 | Manual of styles should be uniform at least between same-language projects. | interconnection |
| 9 | Notability guidelines are already wide enought, so projects like Biopedia are not needed. | Biopedia |
| 10 | A new "Imagopedia" project (or Wikipedia namespace) should be created for galleries on specific topics with big quality descriptive images with appropriate caption (example) | Imagopedia, new_projects, images |
| 11 | Uniformation of templates between projects would make it easier to translate. | interconnection |
| 12 | Since Wikipedia is complicated children could be encouraged to contribute to Commons. | children, easiness, commons |
| 13 | Wikimedia should allies with youth organizations, like scouts. | youth |
| 14 | Wikimedia should allies with organizations that are most capable of involving children, like Vikidia. | children |
| 15 | Template could be hosted by a multilangual project like Wikidata and be directly usable by the various sites. | interconnection, templates |
| 16 | It is very important political purpose for Wikimedia to spread access to knowledge, as an effort in favor of freedom of expression in the world. | access-to-knowledge, freedom-of-expression |
| 17 | Wikimedia should find an important and solid partner to help improve usability and accessibility of its old websites. | partner, usability, accessibility |
| 18 | We should engage more users also as mean to improve quality. | quality, participation |
| 19 | The number of articles is not a problem by itself. | number_of_articles |
| 20 | The gap in certain areas is a problem, and it can be solved engaging new users. | gap, newbies |
| 21 | We should better better spread knowledge, byt not follow "fashions". | innovation |
| 22 | We should fight censorship. | censorship, freedom-of-expression |
| 23 | Improvements like "thank" and notifications are little but important. | kindness |
| 24 | Wikipedia must not pretend to spread "the truth" (there's religion for this), but build itself on sources. | sources, verifiability |
| 25 | Donations of content (image archives, text) by institutions should be pursued. | content_donations |
| 26 | Agreement giving users access to online libraries and resources should be pursued. | Wikipedia_Library |
| 27 | Wikimedia should give the community more instruments to fight promotional and POV content. | spam, NPOV, promotion |
| 28 | Wikimedia should give the community more instruments to fight hoaxes, anti-truth, conspiracy theories and fake news. | fake_news, hoaxes, truth |
| 29 | Contributions to Wikipedia sister projects should be encouraged. | sister_projects |
| 30 | New articles should be encouraged in topics that are deficient because they are too specialistic. | new_articles, number_of_articles, specialists |
| 31 | We should broaden the spectrum of reliable sources cited in articles. | sources |
| 32 | Schools and Wikipedia should cooperate to educate children to the web as a collective heritage in constant change, making them active and not passive users. | school, students, education |
| 33 | During edit-a-thons students can meet expert wikipedians to get their secrets and get thrilled. | edit-a-thons, students |
| 34 | Children encyclopedia like Wikiversity and Vikidia should be more visible. | Wikiversity, Vikidia, children |
| 35 | Sister projects should be more known in the Wikipedia community and outside. | sister_projects |
| 36 | Guides are needed to unify in a fluid way the content of the help pages, which are too many. | guide |
| 37 | Adopt-a-user should be semi-compulsory. | Adopt-a-user, mentor, adopter |
| 38 | Monitoring tools should be easier to use. | tool, monitoring |
| 39 | I fear the idea of promoting paid content creation in order to expand or improve content. | paid_editing |
| 40 | Wikimedia (including not only Wikipedia but also Wiktionary, Wikidata, etc.) could do much for minority, endangered, extinct and dead languages, mainly saving documents that could otherwise disappear. | languages |
| 41 | Neutral point of view and fight to promotion are fundamental principles of Wikipedia. | npov, promotion |
| 42 | Additional powers could be given to check users to better fight promotion and "lobbying". | promotion, CU |
| 43 | High-level algorithm could be developed with external partnership to better fight spam. | spam, partnership, engineering |
| 44 | Many "old" users have still much to understand about the project: more resources should be dedicated to educate them. | old_users |
| 45 | Better counter-vandalism tools (e.g. AbuseFilter) are needed, so that users have to spend less time in patrolling and more time in writing content. | vandalism, engineering |
| 46 | Mobile editing is critical and should be easier. | mobile, editing |
| 47 | Users may feel lonely, as if no one care about you, and this may be a cause of leaving. Solutions (e.g. better internal communication, more tutoring) are needed. | users, community, care |
| 48 | Looking for more users does not meen that we should take old users as granted. | old-users |
| 49 | Working on old users may also make the community more welcoming. | old-users |
| 50 | Sofwtare (e.g. media upload) is old and should be updated. | software, engineering, upload |
| 51 | It seems we want to engage new users, while forgetting old users that are wearing out. | old-users |
| 52 | We have to work on software. Everything seems old (e.g. font!) and difficult (e.g. tables). VE was launched when it was not ready so it did not persuade many old users. | software, engineering |
| 53 | Contributors decline is also caused by difficulty in mobile editing. | mobile, editing, decline |
| 54 | Contributors decline is also caused by the fact that "pop" topics are already written, and other topics are more difficult. | decline, articles |
| 55 | I am sorry "Vital articles" did not have success. | Vital_articles |
| 56 | Some tool should say when an article in one language is smaller than the corresponding article in another language, so users could know that translation may be needed. | interconnection, interwiki, translation |
| 57 | Wikiprojects should have more tools, such as shared watchlist working better than Related changes. | Wikiprojects, tools |
| 58 | Categories should be easier to surf into categories. | categories |
| 59 | Discussions should be more efficient, with tools to highlight more relevant content and to give notifications of more relevant discussions. Village pump could be reworked. | discussions |
| 60 | Solutions are needed for talk pages that are not popular so it takes months to receives an answer. | talk pages |
| 61 | Flagged revisions should be less intricate. | Flagged_revisions |
| 62 | Fight to promotions and POV are priorities. | promotions, NPOV |
| 63 | Users need to have access to more sources. | sources, library |
| 64 | We must defend the four pillars, neutrality, and independence. | pillars, NPOV, independence |
| 65 | We must defend "biodiversity" of different Wikipedias, without flattening on en.wp | biodiversity |
| 66 | We must decide how much money, with details, and stop donations when the goal has been reached. | donations, budget |
| 67 | We must avoid subtracting money from other initiatives and having money we don't know hot to spend. | donations, budget |
| 68 | We must cure legal support. | legal |
| 69 | Legal advice is especially needed on Commons, in order to avoid deltions based on wrong iterpretation of laws. | legal, commons |
| 70 | Commons needs and image editor supporting cropping, vectorialization of simple images and merging of two or more images. | commons, engineering |
| 71 | Categorization on Commons is not adequate and should be improved. | commons, categegories |
| 72 | Commons needs a system to help people to find the correct licensing for images they upload, instead of descouraging upload and creating the conditions for deletions. | commons, licensing, help |
| 73 | Develop online access to online (book and newspaper) libraries, allowing a certain number of access a day instead of a certain number of registered users. | online-libraries |
| 74 | No paid editing for new articles and for non-educational topics, especially not for commercial or promotional topics (e.g. singers, sportsman, artists) | paid-editing |
| 75 | Paid editing by experts may be useful for specific topics (such as medicine or law) and key articles which are still badly-written. | paid-editing |
| 76 | Mobile editing must be made easier. | mobile, editing, engineering |
| 77 | VisualEditor should made life easier for both newsbies and oldbies. | VisualEditor, engineering |
| 78 | Software should be improved. | engineering |
| 79 | Organization should be more user-friendly (e.g. it should not be necessary to link discussion to the Village Pump to be sure someone see it) | organization |
| 80 | Neutrality must me protected and promotion must be fought. | neutrality, promotion |
| 81 | Wikis in different languages must remain autonomous one from each other (e.g. notability) | autonomy |
| 82 | Legal support should be given to drafting laws to removing limitations of freedom like the absence of freedom of panorama. | legal |
| 83 | Wikidata should implement DBpedia (or something similar) for its contents and their verification against vandalism. | Wikidata, DBpedia |
| 84 | Develop good tools to create ebook with projects content. | ebook |
| 85 | We should appreciate and exploit quality images, otherwise photo contests and GLAM projects are not much useful. | images |
| 86 | We need a powerful search engine to search inside projects. | search |
| 87 | We should favor partnership with entities fighting fake news, pseudoscience, disinformation, etc. | partnership, facts-matter |
| 88 | Engage public and private, big and small, cultural institutions throught the promotion of open access and GLAM-wiki partnerships. | free knowledge, GLAM, open access |
| 89 | Engage universities and researchers. | free knowledge, university, research |
| 90 | Closer cooperation with like-minded open access, open content and free software entities, movements and associations. | free knowledge, partnerships |
| 91 | Extended and easy tools to search and verify sources should be available to every wikimedian | free knowledge, sources, tools |
| 92 | Defend and expand public domain and free licenses, even through transparent lobbying. | advocacy, lobbying, public domain, free license |
| 93 | WMF board must be an expression of communities and affiliates. | governance, Wikimedia Foundation, Board of Trustees |
| 94 | WMF board must not appoint external members that are the expression of companies, including donors, and governments. | governance, Wikimedia Foundation, Board of Trustees |
| 95 | WMF should continue not to accept funding by governments | Wikimedia Foundations, governments, funding |
| 96 | Fight commercial license violation. | license violations |
| 97 | Develop AI tools to fight copyright violations in all Wikimedia projects. | AI, copyvio, engineering |
| 98 | We should develop and apply new innovative ways to create and share open content. | sharing |
| 99 | Support local chapters while respecting their Independence and autonomy. | chapters |
| 100 | Study and overcome resistance to change by community members to every new features and opportunities. | community, conservatism |
| 101 | Facilitate intermediate-level participation by new users, providing new users that are still not contributors user-friendly feedback tools for quality content, on every project. | newbies, engineering, tools |
| 102 | Facilitate active contribution by new users, studying new and better tools for mobile. | newbies, mobile |
| 103 | Favor a peaceful turnover in the community, providing communities variuos moral suasions tools to curb (or ban) regular toxic users (including troll and inquisitors) | turnover, community, toxicity |
| 104 | Develop and use new tools and manners to improve positive feedback and reduce negative feedback to newbies, who often in it.wp feel treated in an unacceptable way. | newbies, feedback |
| 105 | Tools to integrate more closely OpenStreetMap and other public resources in all Wikimedia projects | OpenStreetMap, integration |
| 106 | More attention and resources should be dedicated to answer to request of bug-fixing and improvements (including new features) by users | engineering, software development |
| 107 | Wikimedia should reimburse wikipedians who buy books, visit museums, travel, etc. to contribute to articles. | grants |
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