User:Cscott/2030 vision

'' This is still a draft from my notes at the 2017 all-hands. I'll come back and write this up properly later! ''

What would the Wikimedia projects look like in 2030?

My answer: one wiki for the world.

One wiki.

No barrier between projects or languages

Machine translation. Broadband.

Everyone working together on one project, all economic classes, all countries, all languages, w/o barriers.

* Yet* respecting language and cultural differences

But we can talk to each other without barriers

And we can work on shared projects, where our goals align, without forcing our perspective on others.

For example, there will probably not be peace in the middle East in 2030. People will disagree about what countries and capitals are there. Different countries and cultures will continue to disagree on *facts* like where country boundaries are. Not everyone will use the categories of English wikipedia. But we are working together, respecting our differences, and being kind.

I'd also like to think that all of the non-encyclopedia projects have fulfilled their dreams to the extent that wikipedia currently has. So wikiveristy is working on the diamond age, and wikibooks are considered standard textbooks in many places, and wikisource on par with libraries and archives in the same way that wikipedia has reached par with Britannica.