Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Sources/Wikimedia Israel discussion
Information
editWhat group or community is this source coming from?
| name of group | Wikimedia Israel |
| virtual location (page-link) or physical location (city/state/country) | Tel-Aviv, Israel |
| Location type (e.g. local wiki, Facebook, in-person discussion, telephone conference) | in-person discussion |
| # of participants in this discussion (a rough count) | 31 (16 women, 15 men) |
Summary
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Summary for the discussion:
| Line | Statement (summary sentence) | Keywords |
| 1 | In order to expand cooperation in the field of education, it is important that the Academy recognize the contribution of lecturers to Wikipedia as one of the criteria for evaluation of advancement and tenure | Wikipedia, Cooperation, Academia, Education |
| 2 | As part of the cooperation between Wikipedia and academia, the process should be made much more accessible to lecturers in order to encourage cooperation | Wikipedia, Cooperation, Academia |
| 3 | We need to try and expand cooperation between us and the educational institutions, even before the academy, so that when the students reach the academy, they will already be experienced | cooperation, education |
| 4 | By 2030, we must ensure that Wikipedia is based on reliable sources | Wikipedia, sources, reliable |
| 5 | It is possible that in five years' time, articles will not be written by human editors, but in a computerized form | Articles, Editors, Computers |
| 6 | We need to think about ways in which people with disabilities can contribute more | People, Disabilities, Contribute |
| 7 | We need to make wikipedia the "hub" of all knowledge | Hub, knowledge |
| 8 | It is important to try to work together with disadvantaged groups, and to create additional collaborations in this manner | Disadvantaged-groups, Collaborate |
| 9 | We need to protect different languages at risk in Wikipedia. Such as Yiddish and Ladino | Languages at risk, Yiddish, Ladino |
| 10 | Wikipedia should be an enjoyable learning space, a place for creating knowledge and communication between different groups, which will begin in high school | Wikipedia, Learning-space, Knowledge, Communication |
| 11 | The academic world is miserly in sharing its knowledge. We Should think how to give credit to experts who contribute to Wikipedia in their core knowledge | Wikipedia, Contribute, Academia |
| 12 | Regarding to academia: the main contribution that experts can make in their professional knowledge is not necessarily in the niche in which they study, but in their ability to look in general | Academia, Experts, Contribution |
| 13 | We must be careful not to spread beyond our capabilities and beyond our resources | Spread, Capabilities, Resources |
| 14 | We need to think about how we create a system that respects diverse approaches | Respect, Diverse-approaches |
| 15 | It is worthwhile to consider adding additional content to articles other than information and pictures, such as various testimonies | Wikipedia, Additional-content, Testimonies |
| 16 | It is important to expand and intensify the link between the various projects of Wikimedia | Wikimedia, Projects, Link |
| 17 | Wikimedia is based on volunteer editors. It is very important to promote a courteous attitude toward users, and try to reduce aggression Behaviors | Wikimedia, Editors, Courteous-attitude, Aggression Behaviors |
| 18 | It is necessary to strengthen the cohesion of the community, also by strengthening the personal connection (through face-to-face meetings) | community, cohesion, meetings |
| 19 | It is worthwhile to encourage personal connections between members of the community, based on common interests | Personal-connections, Community |
| 20 | We need to break the white hegemony currently in Wikipedia. We must act to reach audiences such as prisoners, refugees, Bedouin women, and other disadvantaged communities | Wikipedia, White-hegemony, Disadvantaged-communities |
| 21 | Wikipedia has grown on the basis of providing free information to the public. Now we are in a period of information overload. Wikipedia may have to reinvent itself as a source of quality information, which will be reflected in a closer link to the education system | Wikipedia, Free-information, Quality-information, Education |
| 22 | In order to increase the number of articles in areas where there is a shortage, we must work with external bodies dealing with these areas | Wikipedia, Articles, External-bodies |
| 23 | Emphasis should be placed on articles dealing with local issues, at the expense of articles dealing with universal issues | Wikipedia, Local-issues, Universal-issues |
| 24 | Bridging the knowledge gaps requires strengthening the connection with educational institutions and academia | knowledge-gaps, Educational-institutions, Academia |
| 25 | Regarding the cooperation with educational institutions: we need more experts to assist in the process, as well as a more comprehensive training process for teachers, possibly as part of teachers' seminars (Consensus) | Cooperation, Educational-institutions, Teachers |
| 26 | There is a need to increase cooperation between languages. Maybe create a translation project to locate required domains that allows translation by language | Cooperation, Languages, Translation |
| 27 | The direction in which the world progresses is automation. we need to focus on better translation software. | Translation, Automation |
| 28 | Regarding the previous statement: We are not a translation organization. Our goal is to create content. We do not need to submit it to other languages beyond our languages | Translation, Content |
| 29 | There are differences of opinion between the emphasis on the quantity of articles, and an emphasis on the quality of articles. There is a claim that the quantity will eventually win - that is the meaning of making all information available | Quantity, Quality |
| 30 | Our goal should be the dissemination of Wikipedia culture - through local guidance and guidance of people who create content | Wikipedia, Culture, Dissemination |
| 31 | Accessibility needs to be extended, including to communities with disabilities (vision, hearing, etc.) | Accessibility, communities, disabilities |
| 32 | Regarding the previous statement: We are not here to make the information available to all the different languages - we are here to bring information, and that is it. In addition, an emphasis on accessibility may lead to the spillover from the project's original purpose | Accessibility, communities |
| 33 | Regarding the 2 previous statement: The basic question is whether we are dealing with the creation of a better world, or the expansion of knowledge alone. On the basis of this answer, our conduct depends | Accessibility, communities |
| 34 | Without an emphasis on reliable information, Wikipedia has no meaning. It is the facts that determine, and what the majority thinks is irrelevant | Wikipedia, Reliable information, Facts, Majority-opinion |
| 35 | The movement has a historic role to play as an active factor in the struggle against people who deny or distort the facts (fake-news). This is done by uncompromising adherence to the importance of the facts. | Wikimedia, Fake-news, Facts |
| 36 | Instead of the existing model of Wikipedia, as an encyclopaedia with many different fields of knowledge, Wikipedia may need to be separated into into knowledge domains, where each community will engage in an individual field of knowledge, and develop professionalism in it. | Wikipedia, Fields of knowledge, Separate |
| 37 | We should adopt the model of striving for consensus, as is done in the English Wikipedia | Consensus, Wikipedia |
| 38 | In many cases there are different and contradictory views. In such cases, our goal should be to try to reflect these positions on all sides | Different-views, Reflect |
| 39 | The purity of information must be preserved within Wikimedia, on Wikipedia as well as on other projects | Wikimedia, Purity of information |
| 40 | The purity of information also applies to images. It is important to keep accurate data about the various images | Purity of information, Images |
| 41 | As part of our cooperation with external partners, it's important to avoid paying for content, as it conflicts with the goals of our movement | Cooperation, External partners, Paid-content |
| 42 | The wikimedia Foundation should allow the various wiki-projects wide latitude as possible | WMF, Wiki-projects, Latitude |
| 43 | We need to think about how to cooperate with external partners, without distorting the content created in this framework | Cooperate, External-partners, Distorting, Content |
| 44 | We need to think about expanding our cooperation with external partners, while maintaining the purity of facts and information. | Cooperate, External-partners, Purity of facts |
| 45 | To ensure the continued technological compatibility of the movement, we should consider cooperation with groups and organizations of programmers | Technology, Compatibility, Cooperation, Programmers |
| 46 | As an organization based on volunteers, in order to expand the activity and move to new areas, there are cases in which external assistance must be used for payment | Volunteers, Expand, Payment |
| 47 | The cooperation between the volunteers and the external organization that works for a fee, makes the difference, and produces effective results | Cooperation, Volunteers, External-organization |
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