User:DannyH (WMF)/2018 Product points of view

Overview
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Audiences department here publishes a set of 6 essays introducing key themes relevant to the future development of Wikipedia. We hope these position papers will provide a shared understanding of our collective thinking on key questions about the near term (3-5 years) future of Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia projects.

In these pages, we put forward our perspective on topics identified by an organization wide generative process. These essays aim to provide a pragmatic synthesis of the significant pool of research on Wikipedia, and give reasoned arguments for our specific perspectives on how to move forward. In some cases they do so with detail and specificity, and in others they point to a general direction, an area where we need to grow our understanding, or a competency we need to develop.

Although we have much more to learn, plan and explain, these overview essays give an initial take on what we need to build, improve or maintain in order to deliver the change that will advance us towards our goals of advancing the creation, collection and distribution of free knowledge in the world.

Essays

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