Commons talk:Wikimedia Strategy 2017/Cycle 2/The Augmented Age
What impact would we have on the world if we follow this theme?
[edit]New contributors and volunteers will mostly come from young teenagers and youngers. They can bring impressions of new knowledge and information surrounding their lives to our community, which can be seen as fresh blood with full of nutrients, benefitting our organization's sustainability. Meanwhile, local problems and conflicts can also be reflected out from their voices in time. With collected knowledge in various fields, the reasons and impacts of problems can be identified and analysed, which contributes to their problems' solutions. If our voices with the supports of reasonable knowledge can be assembled to a sea of our own, our expressions can be heard one day, which will contribute to the sustainability of globalized civilization in many channels. May it be that world can be changed beautiful than our imagine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jason M. C., Han (talk • contribs) 12:31, 15 May 2017 (UTC) Jason M. C., Han (talk) 12:31, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
How important is this theme relative to the other 4 themes? Why?
[edit]Focus requires tradeoffs. If we increase our effort in this area in the next 15 years, is there anything we’re doing today that we would need to stop doing?
[edit]What else is important to add to this theme to make it stronger?
[edit]Before making it augmented, we should make it broad in both thought and action as I see MAXIMUM UTILIZTION IN SMALLER SCALE WILL LEAD TO GROWTH OF HUMANITY GROWTH INDEX (HGI) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Samvidsharma (talk • contribs) 11:51, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
- I am an editor who is not a geek or an IT professional (if they are not synonymous!). The site is not user-friendly to edit. One has to really knows what each item in the left menu column leads to, or be willing (as I am) to create a 10-page cheat sheet with tags and codes and what to do with them. Even so, I know I am not very efficient as an editor or cataloguer of images. PLEASE, hire a graphic designer who understands how non-geek users who want to edit interact with a page. What buttons do they need? What is their workflow and how does their interaction with the page change during the workflow? What can be graphically presented that is currently verbally presented. Then redesign the interaction with the site. Honestly, I believe that once the current generation of English-speaking IT professionals with adequate downtime to edit dies off, Wikimedia will face a huge shortage of free labor and wither. The barrier to participation is just too high. Downtowngal (talk) 02:23, 4 June 2017 (UTC)