Summary
Create a new small printed deliverable out of the Annual Plan.
- Goal(s): Inform, inspire, and excite staff about upcoming annual planning work
- Audience: All WMF Staff, Interested community members at Wikimania 2025
- Deliverable: Physical deliverable - printed cards/posters/booklet/calendar/etc
- Budget needed for printing and postage TBC
Timelines/Deadline
Aug 1, 2025 (prior to start of Wikimania) or earlier so it may be received prior to the start of FY24-25
Note: Second deadline is - Wikimedia Connect
Details
Create a small printed deliverable out of the Annual Plan that can be sent to staff to promote understanding and enthusiasm for upcoming annual plan work.
Initially, the idea is something that uses the relatively punchy objectives texts, such as:
- Both experienced and new contributors rally together online to build a trustworthy encyclopedia, with more ease and less frustration.
- Increased growth in encyclopedic content is achieved through tools and resources that are easier to access, reuse, improve, and can reliably ensure trustworthiness of the content as per policies and guardrails used on Wikimedia projects.
- A new generation of consumers arrives at Wikipedia to discover a preferred destination for discovering, engaging, and building a lasting connection with encyclopedic content.
- Improve our infrastructure, tools, and processes so that we are well-equipped to protect the communities, the platform, and our serving systems from different kinds of scaled and directed abuse while maintaining compliance with an evolving regulatory environment.
- Evolve the MediaWiki platform and its interfaces to better meet Wikipedia's core needs.
- Technical staff and volunteer developers have the tools they need to effectively support the Wikimedia projects.
Potential ideas:
- Playing cards deck similar to this year's deliverable - we may wish to iterate on the set so that it can include a game element.
- A small zine with cover and back page similar to the Product Perspectives papers
- A wall calendar with objectives that maps to the July24-June25 FY with some key dates highlighted
Requester details
Requester Name: @SDeckelmann-WMF, @Abit
Department/Team: P&T leadership
Other relevant stakeholders: @RHo, @mwilliams