Evaluation/Call for participation
Lessons learned:
- People are willing to volunteer for a strategic planning process!
- Metalearnings: Some people need to be invited to participate.
- Unexpected result: We now have a huge volunteer database. How do we leverage that?
Application Summary
| All | Task Forces | |
|---|---|---|
| Submissions | 3047 | 2933 |
| Confirmed | 1988 | 1923 |
| Delta | -1059 | -1010 |
Almost everyone who submitted an application also applied to be on a task force.
A third of the apps submitted were never confirmed via email. That could indicate successful anti-spam/anti-spoofing, but it could also indicate /Usability problems.
Availability
| Availability | All | % | Task Forces | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 hour | 320 | 16.1% | 303 | 15.8% |
| 10 hours | 368 | 18.5% | 367 | 19.1% |
| 15+ hours | 199 | 10.0% | 196 | 10.2% |
| 5 hours | 540 | 27.2% | 521 | 27.1% |
| don't know/it depends | 561 | 28.2% | 536 | 27.9% |
Only 30% of those who applied to task forces had availability of 10 or more hours.
Countries
Fluency
Specialties
Regions
| Availability | All | % | Task Forces | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 276 | 13.9% | 267 | 13.9% |
| Asia | 830 | 41.8% | 805 | 41.9% |
| Europe | 885 | 44.5% | 856 | 44.5% |
| Latin America | 417 | 21.0% | 404 | 21.0% |
| Middle East | 316 | 15.9% | 308 | 16.0% |
| North America | 650 | 32.7% | 627 | 32.6% |
| Oceania | 146 | 7.3% | 141 | 7.3% |
Skills
| Availability | All | % | Task Forces | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Branding/marketing/business development | 531 | 26.7% | 522 | 27.1% |
| Communications/outreach | 754 | 37.9% | 736 | 38.3% |
| Data analysis/research | 934 | 47.0% | 907 | 47.2% |
| Facilitation | 309 | 15.5% | 298 | 15.5% |
| Fundraising | 148 | 7.4% | 143 | 7.4% |
| Law/policy/advocacy | 240 | 12.1% | 233 | 12.1% |
| Software development | 554 | 27.9% | 538 | 28.0% |
| Strategic planning | 616 | 31.0% | 600 | 31.2% |
| Volunteer management | 644 | 32.4% | 631 | 32.8% |
| Website operations | 604 | 30.4% | 592 | 30.8% |
Subjects
| Availability | All | % | Task Forces | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Censorship/content restrictions | 406 | 20.4% | 391 | 20.3% |
| Collaboration processes and tools | 464 | 23.3% | 449 | 23.3% |
| Content partnerships | 332 | 16.7% | 323 | 16.8% |
| Education | 985 | 49.5% | 963 | 50.1% |
| Governance models | 366 | 18.4% | 360 | 18.7% |
| Languages, internationalization | 618 | 31.1% | 600 | 31.2% |
| Mobile access | 353 | 17.8% | 346 | 18.0% |
| Multimedia | 574 | 28.9% | 561 | 29.2% |
| New wiki projects | 648 | 32.6% | 631 | 32.8% |
| Offline distribution/editing | 378 | 19.0% | 369 | 19.2% |
| Outreach/community diversity | 345 | 17.4% | 336 | 17.5% |
| Political issues | 563 | 28.3% | 545 | 28.3% |
| Quality assurance | 438 | 22.0% | 425 | 22.1% |
| Software development | 591 | 29.7% | 579 | 30.1% |
| Technology operations | 585 | 29.4% | 575 | 29.9% |
| Wikimedia Chapters | 301 | 15.1% | 297 | 15.4% |
Interest Statements
Skills Statements
