Talk:Towards a five year plan 2013-18/Draft goals

Comments from Mike Peel

I have to say, I'm quite impressed by this - I think this is a great start towards setting out our 5-year goals. Well done to those that have put this together!

Here's a few comments from me to get us started on discussing this:

• 24 hours is an extremely long service outage. If that happens say once per year, that means that the service has 99.7% uptime - 99.9% is much more typical. Can I suggest aiming for something more like 2 hours?
• "Ensure that we have at least two other non-English language projects" - should 'projects' here be 'activities'? (to avoid confusion with the Wikimedia projects, such as the different language Wikipedias)
• I think the bullet point "Content improvement could do with one/two lines about Education/GLAM, e.g." under content improvement shouldn't be there?
• I think there's still some confusion about what is a 'goal' vs what metrics measure how well we've achieved that goal. E.g. the bullet points under 'Develop volunteer base' are all metrics, while those under 'Empower volunteers' are all goals. Perhaps the metrics can be turned into goals, and the metrics moved off into a target document?

Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:00, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments Mike. I'm really pleased you like this. I'll have a look at your comments in more detail later but to respond quickly to the 24hr outage question - the simple answer is I plucked that number out of the air. I wasn't sure what was reasonable and knew that someone would turn that into a reasonable figure :) Also, projects vs activities = sensible comment and that can definitely be updated to avoid any confusion. Thank you. Stevie Benton (WMUK) (talk) 07:42, 5 June 2013 (UTC)