- Final Goal: The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has requested 2-4 specific recommendations on Community Health for January 12, 2010.
- Interim Target: By December 17, we narrow this list down to four broad areas (ideally), or more (realistically). Table is a guideline to help us evaluate.
List of potential recommendations
Proposed areas of recommendation
- Volunteer recognition: Support and incentives for good volunteers. (See also: Category:Proposals_for_volunteer_support and Category:Proposals for editor awards or rewards)
- Social Networking: New tools for collaboration and communication (See also: Category:Proposals_for_new_social_features)
- Interface/Tools: Making work easier and clearer for all editors (See also: Category:Proposals for improving usability)
- Dispute Resolution and Decisions: Fixing consensus-building, decision-making, and dispute resolution. (And, incidentally, policy-making.) (See also: Category:Proposals for reducing in-fighting)
- Organizational Structure: Improve governance, job assignments, and specializations (better leadership and non-leadership roles) (See also: Category:Proposals for reforming policy and governance of Wikimedia projects)
- Policy: Rethink policy (additions, removals, etc.) (See also: Category:Proposals for reforming policy and governance of Wikimedia projects)
- Vision and Goal-Setting: Set vision, goals, and targets to guide volunteers
- Research and Measures: Provide clearer measures of community health
Evaluation criteria
- Priority: importance
- Impact: effect on community, immediate and long-term
- Feasibility: realism, costs, risks
- Desirability: community acceptance
Decision tables
Short list: areas with potential
Area of Recommendation
|
Priority (#/5)
|
Impact (#/5)
|
Feasibility (#/5)
|
Desirability (#/5)
|
Total (#/20)
|
Volunteer Recognition
|
05 |
04 |
05 |
05 |
019
|
Social Networking
|
05 |
05 |
03 |
04 |
017
|
Interface/Tools
|
02 |
04 |
04 |
04 |
014
|
Decision making: Dispute Resolution and Policy.
|
04 |
04 |
02 |
05 |
015
|
Organizational Structure
|
00 |
00 |
00 |
00 |
00
|
Research and Measures
|
05 |
04 |
04 |
05 |
018
|
Note: - figures above were provided by User:Bodnotbod and pasted here at User:Randomran's request (see discussion page). Bodnotbod was not comfortable providing ratings for 'organizational structure.
List of deferrals: low value recommendations
Area of Recommendation
|
Priority (#/5)
|
Impact (#/5)
|
Feasibility (#/5)
|
Desirability (#/5)
|
Total (#/20)
|
Policy (Direct Changes)
|
03 |
03 |
02 |
01 |
09
|
Vision and Goal Setting
|
01 |
01 |
03 |
03 |
08
|
Help and Tutorials
|
01 |
01 |
04 |
02 |
08
|