Talk:World café (conversation)

Combine with Knowledge Cafe
Knowledge Cafe and World Cafe are the same thing. There isn't need for two articles.

144.167.36.139 (talk) 14:03, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

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Addition of information re how World Café events work
Below are a couple of suggested amendments to explain a little better what is involved in a World Café discussion. The following could be added to the end of the first paragraph:
 * Although pre-defined questions are agreed at the beginning, outcomes or solutions are not decided in advance. An underlying assumption of World Café events is that collective discussion can shift people's conceptions and encourage collective action.

The next part indicates the number of people involved, as well as the largest number of participants at a single event. It finishes by including references to organisations that have used World Café events, although avoids specifying who these were, which was a previous criticism of the article:


 * World Café events require at least twelve participants, but there is no upper limit. The largest number of people documented at a single World Cafe event was in excess of 10,000, in Tel Aviv, in 2011.

World Cafés have been used by a range of organizations. Fbell74 (talk) 08:12, 19 June 2017 (UTC).2


 * Comment (I'm going to leave it for someone else to actually answer this request):
 * do we really think that a book that includes stuff like "Symptoms of chakra-opening and kundalini-type arousal may begin to manifest. Energy runs, hearts open, and insights arise." could seriously be considered a reliable source for Wikipedia? Yes, it's published by a university press which should certainly know better.
 * in the first proposed addition, how does " ...outcomes or solutions are not decided in advance. An underlying assumption ... is that collective discussion can shift people's conceptions …" distinguish this from any other meeting or discussion?
 * reference 4 does not support a statement that "events require at least twelve participants", nor that "there is no upper limit", nor that an event in Israel is the largest documented (and that event was not a single meeting, but a co-ordinated series of 30 in various places).
 * Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:48, 20 June 2017 (UTC)


 * I think that the World Café approach attempts to utilise small groups to give participants space to voice their views. The aim is to ensure everyone gets a chance to be heard and any insights build on what's gone before. In this way the collective wisdom of the group is accumulated. It has been described as a way to ‘unlock negative opinions and misperceptions by enabling groups to listen to differing views..’ The idea is to break up group dynamics that might cause groupthink to get in the way of developing insights. The following reference describes this in more detail: I believe this is a differentiating factor and useful to understand the concept, without necessarily being unique to the method.


 * In terms of the numbers, the following is a source that deals with the numbers mentioned and I’ve added this in (with a correction to indicate that these are typical rather than set in stone). A supporting reference is included. The event in Israel comprised of approximately 30 participating World Cafe discussions taking place in 10 cities[?]. These were coordinated by the organisers to take place simultaneously, so I think it’s accurate to describe it as one event. I've amended this though, as I wasn't sure if it was actually the largest event. Fbell74 (talk) 09:48, 23 June 2017 (UTC)


 * , please undo the changes you've made to the text above my comment. By altering it after I'd replied you have made nonsense of what I wrote – please see WP:TPO. If you want to submit new text, please do so in a new post below. Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:49, 23 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I was trying to improve the text, based on your comments. I've tried to revert the text to the previous version, but am getting this error message - “The edit could not be undone due to conflicting intermediate edits; if you wish to undo the change, it must be done manually.” I'm guessing this is because it would remove your comments. I'll try finding the original version and copying that into the text instead. Fbell74 (talk) 09:28, 26 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Per the suggestion, I've replaced the amended text with the original. I'll submit a new post with the amendments that I made following the comments by Justlettersandnumbers Fbell74 (talk) 08:28, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Updated request with amended content
This is related to an earlier request, taking into account an editor’s comments. This can be taken as a replacement of the earlier request:

Below are a couple of suggested amendments to explain a little better what is involved in a World Café discussion. The following could be added to the end of the first paragraph:
 * Although pre-defined questions are agreed at the beginning, outcomes or solutions are not decided in advance. An underlying assumption of World Café events is that collective discussion can shift people's conceptions and encourage collective action.

The next part indicates the number of people involved, as well as the largest number of participants at a single event. It finishes by including references to organisations that have used World Café events, although avoids specifying who these were, which was a previous criticism of the article:


 * World Café events tend to have at least twelve participants, but there is no upper limit. Individual World Cafe events have numbered in excess of 10,000, in Tel Aviv, in 2011.


 * World Cafés have been used by a range of organizations.  Fbell74 (talk) 13:37, 27 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Pinging for this one. This request appears to be an addition to the last one. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 17:34, 2 August 2017 (UTC)


 * False alarm. I have decided to implement this request myself. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 00:39, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) - thanks for having a look at this request. I can see the changes you made and think they help to make the content clearer. I wondered about two things. The World Cafe event in Israel had around 10,000 participants across the country with around 1,000 tables in Tel Aviv itself. There isn't a lot in the way of sources to support this, although I did find this one Do you think it's worth mentioning it? The other point I thought about including was including references for the types of organisations that have used the World Cafe technique. These were originally detailed in sections e.g. 'Public sector organisations', 'Energy companies', but another editor thought that this was over-the-top and that including these organisations as references would be more appropriate. I took this on board and included it at the end of the suggested edits. I think it's pertinent to the subject that a reasonably wide range of organisations have used the world cafe technique. It would be good to hear your view though Fbell74 (talk) 15:27, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
 * The Israel event does seem worth mentioning, to illustrate that this idea scales to an extent, and one source for it is enough for basics. We just shouldn't make claims about it that cannot be supported with reliable sources.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ &gt;ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ&lt;  03:10, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Move proposal, April 2020
A possible move of this article (change of title) is currently being considered at. Biogeographist (talk) 20:44, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Knowledge café and Modified world café
The Modified world café is sourced in a similar way than the first, citing a free DOAJ article that doesn't report any citation and it is published by an academic peer-reviewed journal of the National University of Singapore, Centre for Medical Education. The paper showed positive outcomes in the context of Japanese clinical clerkship and it seems to be relevant for WP.

Maybe the two methodologies can be grouped in a unique section related to the variants of the subject article.Philosopher81sp (talk) 09:04, 26 September 2020 (UTC)