Wikimedia Product/Perspectives

Overview
The Foundation’s Audiences department here publishes a set of 6 essays introducing key product themes relevant to Wikimedia today. We hope these position papers will provide a shared understanding of our collective thinking on key questions about Wikimedia’s software, and its 3-5 year future.

In these documents, we will put forward our departmental thinking on aspects of 6 key themes, which were identified by an organization wide generative design process. We hope this directional framing will help to guide our strategic and annual plans as we move into aligning the Foundation's work with the movement's strategy. These essays aim to provide a pragmatic synthesis of the significant pool of research on Wikimedia, and give reasoned arguments for our collective perspectives on how to move forward. In some cases they do so with detail and specificity, and in others we point out the high level direction we plan to pursue or area where we need to grow our understanding and develop additional competencies.

We hope this product and design thinking can help to guide conversations at the Wikimedia Technical Conference and beyond. Although we have much more to plan and explain, these overview essays give an initial take on what we need to build, change or maintain in order to deliver the change that will advance us towards our goals of knowledge equity and providing knowledge as a service across the free culture ecosystem.

Essays

 * 1) Trust
 * 2) Scale
 * 3) Augmentation
 * 4) Experience
 * 5) Tools
 * 6) Culture