戦略/多世代

ウィキメディア財団の運動戦略施行と多世代の柱

ウィキメディア財団の使命は私たちに、「プロジェクトから得た有用な情報はインターネット上で無償で『永久に』公開し、維持」するように求めています。ウィキメディアのプロジェクト群を永続させるアプローチを特定する必要があり、私たちは運動戦略のプロセスを基盤として、ウィキメディアのプロジェクト群の最も重要な4つの側面、すなわちボランティアとコンテンツ、読者と資金を将来の世代に引き継ぐ必要があります。

In addition to the need to attract new generations of volunteers, the movement’s strategic direction also calls for broad commitments to serving Wikimedia content to more people and doing it equitably. If we are to become the “essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge,” we must explore ways of responding to changing needs in how readers find information, and we must ensure equitable inclusion of people from all backgrounds who wish to support our strategic direction.

ウィキメディア プロジェクトが多世代にわたるものであることを保証するにはどうすればよいでしょうか？

This is a question that has informed the work of the Wikimedia Foundation over the past year. Chief Product and Technology Officer Selena Deckelmann spoke about the need for a multi-generational approach in several community talks in 2023. Welcoming new wikimedians repeatedly came up in feedback from volunteers in Talking: 2024 and planning across generations has also informed the Foundation’s Annual Plan.

Here, we will begin laying out some of our initial thinking on a multi-generational approach that answers the combination of the ‘in perpetuity’ mandate of our mission and the strategic direction of our movement. We invite you to help co-create with us how this thinking develops. The approach includes four pillars (or building blocks) that we want to build out with more clarity to support the direction of the Wikimedia Foundation through 2030 and beyond. These are developing thoughts, and we welcome feedback and iteration.

なぜ今、多世代に焦点を当てるのでしょうか？

• Changes in search, social media and AI. A new generation uses new platforms to pursue information, and they particularly prefer information aggregated by people and personalities they trust. Search platforms are reacting by investing in AI-driven experiences, which is both an opportunity and a threat.
• Competition for contributors. People have many new rewarding, potent ways to share knowledge online easily and at scale – they can post videos, tweets, and photos in many places. The Wikimedia projects are not adding contributors at a sustainable rate.
• Contested content. Truth is more contested than ever before, and AI will be weaponized in fights to define truth online.
• Growing regulation. New laws and challenges to those laws pose threats to our model in jurisdictions of our current (e.g. US/EU) and growing (e.g. India) audiences.

ウィキメディア財団にとって運動戦略が求める「永続的」な義務にこたえ知識の公平性とサービスとしての知の方向性を満たす多世代の柱とは

To meet our mission, we must make Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects multi-generational – meaning that people for decades to come will contribute to and benefit from this corpus of knowledge. To meet this multi-generational approach, here are four pillars that we’ll need to invest in:

• Fuel volunteer growth. Nurture multiple generations of volunteers. For both experienced and new volunteers, answer the question: “Why should I volunteer?”
• Deliver trustworthy encyclopedic content above all. Enable the internet’s fundamental source of knowledge by addressing disinformation, misinformation and missing information in our ecosystem. Ensure that the Mediawiki software is sustainable into the future.
• Shape a changing internet. Bring encyclopedic content and volunteering to an internet driven by AI and rich experiences.
• 「無償」の将来に資金を。私たちの運動に持続する資金を提供するには、製品と収益それぞれの戦略を統一します。回復力を長期にわたって確保するには、各種取り組みを計画と開発の段階で調整します。

These pillars reflect that no matter how the Wikimedia movement and Wikipedia evolve in the coming years, it will remain a volunteer-driven effort to assemble trustworthy encyclopedic content. Those two elements are fundamental. And the biggest question is how those two fundamentals will translate into a rapidly changing internet – how will the world continue to access this volunteer-built encyclopedia? And finally, how will these efforts continue to be funded?

Our next step is to get more specific in terms of how we invest in those four pillars so that our efforts fit together to steward the Wikimedia movement to a successful future.