ਵਰਤੋਂਕਾਰ:SGill (WMF)/Summary July 1st to 9th

This is a short summary overview of the Source pages on Meta from 1st to 9th July of Cycle 3 discussion. Shortcuts used here rely on the established language and project code and languages are grouped alphabetically. For example, the Arabic language Wikipedia is Ar. To provide a rough sense of activities on the projects and platforms the Source pages summarize, the full summary by community text indicates how many source statements were available and therefore taken into account at the time of writing. (3s), for example, means 3 statements were available on the referenced source page at the time the summary was drafted.

Key Insight

1. The Western encyclopedia model is not serving the evolving needs of people who want to learn.
2. Knowledge sharing has become highly social across the globe.

Week 1

• Community members in Hi community one-on-one discussions (13s) said that we should not change our current encyclopedia model (ਫਰਮਾ:2030 cite) while we should make sure to include more audio-visual content and that content should also be made available in multiple languages.(ਫਰਮਾ:2030 cite)

• Pa community (12s) discussed during a meetup that we should lay more stress on audio-visual (ਫਰਮਾ:2030 cite) while the quality of the content should remain a priority. (ਫਰਮਾ:2030 cite) They talked about collaborations with like-minded organizations to include other model of learning (ਫਰਮਾ:2030 cite) and it was also discussed that a new project for question-answers should be started. (ਫਰਮਾ:2030 cite) Regarding 2nd insight some community members felt that Wikipedia should become more social (ਫਰਮਾ:2030 cite), appealing and interactive (ਫਰਮਾ:2030 cite) while some other felt that our goal is to build an encyclopedia and not to become a social media media platform.(ਫਰਮਾ:2030 cite)