Talk:Strategy/Archive/Strategic goals

G1 Develop Open Content

Focus on digital media acquisition?

G1 as currently phrased seems primarily focused on digital media acquisition – the points that stand out to me are "uploading of new content", "relationships with content-holding organisations that might be persuaded to release educational material", "organisations who need support or advice for the release of Open Content".

But the people and organisations that outreach efforts are aimed at hold human knowledge as well as copiable digital content. Part of what WMUK does is to build relationships with the people who possess that knowledge, so that some of that knowledge can be reflected in Wikimedia projects – witness the points listed here, which speak of outreach to universities and educational institutions, outreach to underrepresented social groups, as well as outreach to scientists, scholars, learned societies and funders to help experts improve targeted content areas of Wikipedia and its sister projects.

I would like to see these latter points fleshed out and emphasised a little more: it's not just about getting data from outreach partners, it's about actively involving them. Andreas JN 20:55, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Andreas this is a good point. Perhaps if G1.3 "G1.3 We are perceived as the go-to organisation by UK GLAM, educational, and other organisations who need support or advice for the release of Open Content." was changed to read development rather than release that would indicate more of an active process and engagement? I think the combination of G1 & G5 is also important here, although again perhaps some clarification re: Wikimedia communities and not just looking to work with existing communities, but to actually develop communities too. To some extent the Measures and targets and Activity Plan probably operationalise this to clarify, but of course we want our goals to properly reflect the true range of activities we do (and should) engage in so that may not be enough. Something to think about in any case and if you have any further thoughts on it they'd be much appreciated. Cheers Sjgknight (talk) 10:08, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Perception by GLAM, educational and other orgs?

"We are perceived as the go-to organisation" - I don't think it should be a goal that WMUK should be perceived as being anything (particularly since perception isn't necessarily the same as reality). Shouldn't this goal be something more along the lines of 'UK GLAM, educational, and other organisations have an increasing knowledge of what open content means, and are increasing the amount of material that they make available under free content licenses'? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:53, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

G4 Encourage and support technological innovation

'supporting Technical Communities' and 'increased awareness of the benefits of Open Content'

Some of the external communities we work with aren't strictly technical (e.g. Open Rights Group) and it's still an important area of our open knowledge work. I suppose a clarification is needed where in G4.1 we are focusing on technology development, and there is another area where we link with other groups to further open knowledge aims. Daria Cybulska (WMUK) (talk) 10:55, 7 February 2014 (UTC)