User:Fuzheado/Wikiconference USA 2015

My keynote at Wikiconference USA 2015 is titled, "What Wikipedia Must Do."

You may ask, "What Wikipedia Must Do..." for what outcome? I'm intentionally vague, so people can make their own determination as to what these things will deliver.

I'll be highlighting eight "Must Do's" but will be highlighting some things first:

Bright spots

 * 1) Visual Editor hitting its stride, default as "on" for newcomers
 * 2) Numbers of active editors stabilizing and even growing
 * 3) Conversation on reputation has shifted from "should I trust" to "how accurate is" Wikipedia
 * 4) Fundraising is not a problem and an endowment is now a reality
 * 5) GLAM engagement and WiR positions robust and healthy
 * 6) We are celebrating 15 years in January 2016.

What Wikipedia Must Do

 * 1) Usability - VisualEditor and beyond, adapting to the eventual mobile majority, gamification to support novel ways of contributing, eg. Wikidata game.
 * 2) * We need to wake up to the mobile reality, finding ways to contribute from handsets
 * 3) * Will a "mobile editing" community emerge, and how might they interact (or not) with editors at keyboards and large screens?
 * 4) * The NY Times recently forced their journalists to only use the mobile NY Times site for 24 hours, in order to better understand the user experience on mobiles. The fear was that staff and consumers were increasingly out of touch. Same for Wikimedia?
 * 5) Social - Internally communicating and connecting to the outside world and real discussion pages.
 * 6) * Flow is effectively put on hold
 * 7) * Problem of getting better discussion interfaces still there
 * 8) * Our platform and practices are looking dated
 * 9) * How can we connect
 * 10) * Wikipedia was one of the original 'social' collaboration platforms during the blogging era, why do we reject the "social network" label so vigorously?
 * 11) Gender gap and diversity - More harassment means invitation culture at risk;
 * 12) * Women dissuading other women from participation is troubling. One is chance; two is a coincidence; three is a pattern.
 * 13) * Not just Gamergate, but latent sexism in our community from "Don't be a d*ck" to WP:PIMP
 * 14) Expert engagement - Engaging GLAM and like-minded institutions, academics, professional groups. Finding ways for experts to contribute besides direct editing of articles, and all the technology/policy details required
 * 15) Original content - Refactoring the vision for Wikinews. New ways of original reporting for Wikimedia projects via features/interviews, such as oral citations. Becoming Nat Geo 2.0
 * 16) Multimedia - Video, 3D, VR content. Collaborative multimedia tools for scripting, video editing, feedback, subtitling. Already engaging partners like: Mozilla, IA
 * 17) Partnerships - Interacting with "not-so-like-minded organizations," PR companies, building on PRCOM/Donovan House statement, engaging companies in WikiProject:Corporations? Recognizing our responsibility as the number one reference site
 * 18) Build trust between community and WMF - Recognizing and respecting what each side does well, tone down acrimonious commentary, create projects/spaces for regular collaboration and contact