Task force/Living People/Timeline

February 2010

Week 1 (Monday, February 8, through Sunday, February 14):Recommendations to the Board, text

  • Starting with biographies and other text entries, sort previous findings to find the root issues that the Board can provide recommendations.
  • Correlate ideas that come from recommendations to policy writing in March.
  • Start the recommendations drafting page.
  • Start formulating ideas for non-text and/or Wikipedia related issues, broadening into Wikimedia projects.

Week 2 (Monday, February 15, through Sunday, February 21):Recommendations to the Board, projects

  • Formulate strategies for all projects, including text and non-text.
  • Discussion of relevance to what the Board can do, and what to put aside for community recommendations in April.
  • Refinement

Week 3 (Monday, February 22, through Sunday, February 28): Resolution of week 1

  • Refine recommendations about text (No more than ten points)
  • Draft and publish findings. These findings are open for editing until the end of the term of the task force, or submitted to the Board.

Week 4 (Monday, March 1, through Sunday, March 7): Resolution of week 2

  • Refine recommendations about non-text issues (No more than ten points).
  • Draft and publish findings. These findings are open for editing until the end of the term of the task force, or submitted to the Board.
  • Aquire statistics, as available, for relevant issues with living people (OTRS, on-wiki data).

March 2010

Week 1 (Monday, March 8, through Sunday, March 15): Living people policy

  • Examine the findings of recommendations, and what was decided can be put into policy
  • Examine the draft on meta

Week 2 (Monday, March 16, through Sunday, March 21): Drafting

  • Begin drafting revisions of the Living people policy for global application
  • Concentrate discussion on finalization of wording on the talk page

Week 3 (Monday, March 22, through Sunday, March 28): Finalize and reconcile

  • Finalize drafting of the Living people policy
  • Revisit finalized draft of Recommendations to the Board

Week 4 (Monday, March 29, through Sunday, April 4): Finalize Board proposals

  • Complete policy from draft to submission
  • Complete recommendations from draft to submission
  • Submit to the Board of Trustees