Mobile web/Mission

Mission statement

Our mission is to create high quality, intuitive features that empower a global community of readers and editors to access and develop the sum of all human knowledge on any Internet enabled device

Drafting process

Brainstorming for the mobile web team's mission statement.

Positives

These are the qualities that we believe the team must embrace in order to be truly successful.

• Have the power to engage a more diverse audience+++
• Refocussing on the goal/mission - better quality, more contributors, more editors++
• Staying true to the 'brand', or the ideals++
• Compelling/intuitive interface; but not so 'easy' that it degrades quality of content++
• Creating NEW wiki-audience+
• Mobile is unique in being able to help with contributor goal
• Recognizing that mobile will continue to grow (eg mobile traffic surpassing desktop)

Negatives

These are the qualities we believe would lead the team to failure.

• Doing things without communicating well, buy-in with the community++++
• The way we build things is shoddy, not focussed on performance; we're sloppy++++
• A mixed-message; becoming a weird social media thing - maintaining QUALITY+++
• Creating associations with OTHER sites, services - becoming too much like them+

Mantras

These are the things we can imagine telling ourselves in order to stick to the positive qualities outlined above.

• We are the hope of the internet!+++++
• We have the same goal! We are not eachother's enemies (especially during code review)+++++
• (Fast) self-aware failure is always an option ++++
• Drink vodka! Fall asleep.++++
• Finding inspiration in the stories - remember why you're here+++
• Inspire other people to get involved! Bring them into our community+++
• We're all here for the same reasons; trust one another +++
• We make the internet not suck!++
• Remember that we're not just doing this for white, english speaking males 25-35++
• Remember the end goal, rather than focussing on the journey++
• The teammates get you through the hard times
• Why are we here, what are our reasons for being here?

Goal for final mission statement

• Keep it short, 2-3 sentenes
• Something we can refer to in times of hardship

http://blogs.sitepointstatic.com/examples/tech/css3-starwars/index.html

• Finalize mission statement before next kickoff meeting; where it will be read

Draft mission statements

Enter your draft mission statements below.

Mobile web's mission is to iteratively and collaboratively empower the global community to contribute to and consume the sum of all human knowledge through a web browser on a mobile device. Arthur Richards (talk) 00:32, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

Draft 2: Our mission is to create intuitive, performant interfaces on a mobile device that empower and engage the global community to contribute high quality material in order to maintain and diversify our existing community and ensure the survival of the sum of all human knowledge. Jdlrobson (talk) 22:02, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Our mission is to create high quality features on mobile devices that empower a global community of readers and editors to access and grow the sum of all human knowledge. Maryana (WMF) (talk) 22:58, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Our mission is to create high quality and intuitive features on mobile devices that empower a global community of readers and editors to access and grow the sum of all human knowledge. Jdlrobson (talk) 17:02, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Our mission is to create high quality, intuitive features on mobile devices that empower a global community of readers and editors to access and grow the sum of all human knowledge. [Too many 'and's :)] Kaldari (talk) 06:55, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Our mission is to create high quality, intuitive features for mobile devices that empower a global community of readers and editors to access and grow the sum of all human knowledge. Max Semenik (talk) 18:24, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Our mission is to create high quality, intuitive features that empower a global community of readers and editors to access and grow the sum of all human knowledge on any web-enabled device. [Not sure about "web-enabled", but I'd like it to be more general than "mobile device." Plus, let's not forget that we'll be trying to conquer the desktop too ;)] JGonera (WMF) (talk) 18:42, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Our mission is to create high quality, intuitive features that empower a global community of readers and editors to access and develop the sum of all human knowledge on any Internet enabled device Jdlrobson (talk) 20:05, 8 July 2013 (UTC)