Strategy
The original Wikipedia strategy may have been little more than 'produce 1000 Nupedia drafts in a year', but it has developed significantly over time.
Background
When the first elected Trustees took their seats on the Board, there were a variety of discussions about where the Foundation should set its sights.
- Early discussions: mailing list threads from Anthere and Angela from late 2004 were often about related topics
- Strategic goals: a few open meetings about goals, and some discussions on the wiki (1), ensued
The Mission and Vision statements were revisited in 2006/2007 to help lay uniform foundations for future work. The idea was for this to happen at least once a year, though we seem to have skipped 2008 – hence our 2009 strategy planning.
In late 2006 there was also an internal discussion of strategy with facilitated meetings of Board members and others, resulting in a few one-year planning documents. These do not seem to be public, though many resulting conversations are.
Most discussions about project and Foundation-wide planning have been held on mailing lists (first wikipedia-l, then foundation-l); or on Meta.
Wikimedia strategic planning efforts
- eventually, this could use a timeline
- Founding the Board in the first place... involved some strategic planning
- SWOT -- the Board undertook a SWOT analysis in 2006
- brainstorming ideas related to the above
- Strategic planning 2009 -- formal large scale planning process first announced in May 2009.
- As of May 2009, a formal process of strategic planning is being planned for the coming year. Threads about how to proceed have been floated on foundation-l, and three one-year contracts to facilitate the process have been posted. The strategic planning process focuses on finding actionable strategies for the Wikimedia Foundation/Movement, answering what and how questions concerning participation (outreach), reach (non-editing users) and quality. Wikimedia strategy doesn't coincide with Wikipedia strategy.
Wikipedia strategic planning efforts
See related discussions on Wikipedia itself, from WP:1.0 to w:WP:WikiProject Council (for quality and participation)...
- Many of the big discussions across Wikipedia (BLPs, Civility, language editions) relate ultimately to what Wikipedia is and what we want it to be.