Talk:2012 Five Year Plan/First draft/Counterproposal
I've rewritten this a lot to reflect where I think our priorities should be a little different from those you had before. Edit away if you think I'm wrong or could be improved.
- Thanks for contributing! I think you need to be a bit more specific, long lists (particularly of things that we may or may not do - this is a plan, not a brainstorm, so let's actually decide what we want to do) aren't particularly useful. We need SMART targets. --Tango (talk) 22:14, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
- I'm a little wary of making a plan before we have brainstormed the options (and by we I mean more than just me and you) and it's hard to set SMART criteria until you have a plan. Filceolaire (talk) 23:13, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
- Brainstorm, with targets, added. Now how do we get this reviewed? Should we just move it to the article page as it is and work on it there? Filceolaire (talk) 23:44, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Cultural Partnerships
Should this be one of our priorities for the next five years? What should our target be? Proposed targets
- In five years time there should be one thousand organisations large and small in the UK who have declared themselves friends of Wikipedia and have had at least one training session or editathon. WMUK should undertake or support whatever organisational and/or software development, is needed to support this objective. Filceolaire (talk) 23:17, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
- WMUK should work with volunteers in other countries to help them develop similar links to at least one thousand organisations outside the UK. Filceolaire (talk) 23:17, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Software development
Should this be one of our priorities for the next five years? Filceolaire (talk) 23:07, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
What is the best way to choose which project to back? Filceolaire (talk) 23:07, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Proposal software development should be limited to programs which support the other strategic objectives as these requirements are identified over the five years. Filceolaire (talk) 23:30, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Major new project
Should WMUK start a major new open culture project? Filceolaire (talk) 23:07, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
What is the best way to choose which project to back? Filceolaire (talk) 23:07, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Free school textbooks from kindergarden to A-level
This would have a significant effect on the country. It could be replicated and spread to other countries.
- It could leverage the work already done in Wikipedia, Wikibooks and Wikiversity. It could attract new editors. Filceolaire (talk) 23:07, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Proposed targets
- Produce a 'Good' Wikipedia article and a good Wikiversity teaching guide on each of the topics in the syllabus for England and Wales, for Scotland, for Northern Ireland.
- WMUK to carry out the public relations and publicity and other support functions needed to recruit the new volunteers needed to achieve this.
Oral history project
A project to encourage people to record the reminiscences of witnesses to history.
- It could leverage the work done in dozens of existing oral history projects around the country.
- It could encourage schools and school children to participate in Wikimedia.
- It could encourage custodians of existing archives of recordings (the BBC Mass History project, the English Folk Dance and Song society) to release these. Filceolaire (talk) 23:07, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Proposed target
- Develop guidelines (selecting subjects, lighting, sound, staging, which questions) for recordings.
- Five thousand hours of new recordings uploaded to wikimedia in five years
- Five thousand hours of existing recording by other uploaded within five years.
- One hundred schools and other organisations working to find subjects and make recordings for us.
Something else?
Can anyone come up with another major free culture project we could tackle.
Infrastructure, finance, membership
I don't think that targets for membership numbers or staff numbers or even money raising are particularily SMART. They can become an end in themselves. My proposal:
Proposed targets
- Over the next five years develop WMUK in whatever way is neccessary to support the programmes above. Filceolaire (talk) 23:44, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
- That's not specific or measurable. Also, the main purpose of the infrastructure is to support programmes beyond the next 5 years. --Tango (talk) 00:06, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
- It's not meant to be specific or measurable. The specific and measurable targets are all above related to our mission. The success of the organisation is measured purely by how well it supports the mission targets. Plans for expansion etc. are year to year tactical plans prepared by the CE and are not part of the five year strategic plan. Filceolaire (talk) 06:11, 19 April 2012 (UTC)