{"id":2368,"date":"2012-04-26T14:30:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T18:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2012-04-26T11:56:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T15:56:09","slug":"daily-mission-refactoring-sister-project-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2012\/04\/26\/daily-mission-refactoring-sister-project-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission of the day: Sister Project Committee mesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been many threads about sister projects since I recently reraised the idea of fixing our process for reviewing new project proposals.\u00a0 The past two weeks saw a dozen brainstormers, a few etherpads with notes on how to <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Sister_Projects_Committee\/Draft_charter\">form<\/a> a related <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Sister_Projects_Committee\">committee<\/a>, 2 ideas for how to <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Project_staging\">stage<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:MF-Warburg\/SisProjCom_draft#ad_1:_New_Projects_Policy\">review<\/a> proposals to replace the current <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Proposals_for_new_projects\">dated process<\/a>, and a few serious new project proposals raised.\u00a0 Thanks to all of the enthusiastic participants, it brings back the visceral joy of being on a knowledge frontier that characterized the earlier days of Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a favorite project concept, ideas from an existing sister project, or related strategy proposals from our brainstorming two years ago: please <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Talk:Sister_Projects_Committee\">bring them up again now on Meta<\/a> to give the discussions a well-rounded and practical focus.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to summarize these threads and proposals today. \u00a0 I am eager to see us start to actively incubate new project ideas that experiment with gathering new <strong>types<\/strong> of knowledge.\u00a0 As a community we have the infrastructure to do this today, we just need a little more flexibility and guidance for how we empower enthusiastic project founders to create a new workspace and gather their initial community and visionaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been many threads about sister projects since I recently reraised the idea of fixing our process for reviewing new project proposals.\u00a0 The past two weeks saw a dozen brainstormers, a few etherpads with notes on how to form a related committee, 2 ideas for how to stage and review proposals to replace the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[211,213,709],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-metrics","category-wikipedia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-Cc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}