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Greatest Vulnerabilities for MediaWikiPotential Solutions/Mitigations
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1.0Lack of Organizational Structure
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1.1- Who are key decision makers?A - Stakeholders
B - Wikimedia Foundation
C - Developers
D - End Users
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1.2- How are decisions made?A - Create decisioning model
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1.3- What is prioritization methodology?A - Explore prioritization methods and obtain consensus on its use
B - Periodically evaluate the prioritization methodology for greater efficiency
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1.4- How is quality assessed and controlled?A - Determine areas needing review or cleaning
B - Develop processes to review for quality in needy areas
C - Create quality policies and controls to ensure quality
D - Clean dirty areas/items to align with new policies
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1.5- How are contributions accepted and acknowledged?A - Consolidate current processes related to contributions in a common page/location
B - Communicate and establish an acknowledgement/reward system
C - Elicit contributor feedback to enhance the acknowledgement/reward system
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2.0Conflicting Description(s) of MediaWiki's Purpose & Function
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2.1- What is MediaWiki in its most simplest description?Create a single sentenced description by combining descriptions from https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Differences_between_Wikipedia,_Wikimedia,_MediaWiki,_and_wiki&oldid=2149487; https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Project:MediaWiki_is_not_Wikipedia&oldid=2045349; https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual:What_is_MediaWiki%3F&oldid=2155259; and https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki&oldid=1446376
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2.2- Is this simple description unique enough to not be confused with other entities?A - Create list of similar entities (i.e. enwiki, Wikimedia Labs, Wikitech, etc.)
B - Analyze single sentence descriptions of similar entities
C - Revise MediaWiki single sentence description to honor unique characteristics
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2.3- Can every reference within/without MediaWiki site match this simple description?A - Determine where descriptions of MediaWiki reside
B - Edit the description in those locations or place the new simple description in the most prominent position (usually at the top)
C - Contact administrator of inaccessible location informing them of the newly revised simple description
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3.0Decentralized Communication(s) of Efforts
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3.1- Where are active projects/efforts listed?
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3.2- Who is working on which efforts/projects?
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4.0Scope Creep & BreachDEFINE SCOPE
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4.1- What is MediaWiki's scope of function, practice/operations, and service?
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4.2- How is MediaWiki's growth scaleable?
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4.3- How to capture and foster innovations among varying subgroups (i.e. SemanticWiki)?
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4.4- How to align/guide and encourage thematic explorations within centralized focus and objectives?
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4.5- What other Wikimedia projects share similar goals/objectives/outcomes?
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4.6- What specific functions/services of other Wikimedia projects are identical to MediaWiki?
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4.7- What unique functions/services of MediaWiki are seperate from other Wikimedia projects?
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5.0Failed Alignment with the Wikimedia Foundation's Strategic Goals & Roles
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5.1- What ways does WMF currently engage with MediaWiki contributors?
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5.2- What expectations does the WMF have of MediaWiki's resources?
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5.3- What vulnerabilities occur for the WMF when not aligned with MediaWiki?
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5.4- What successes have been achieved by MediaWiki?A - Faciliates greater sharing of knowledge among multiple people, especially within 3rd party enterprises (i.e. NASA)
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6.0No Established Means for Securing Necessary Resources
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6.1- What are current known and proposed necessary expenditures and/or related expenses?A - Create an extension store
B - Develop extension management system
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6.2- How were/are known past and current expenses paid for?A - Amazon Hosting - $32.07
B - Perpetual license, initially limited license - Cost??
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6.3- What innovative alliances/partnerships MediaWiki can establish to secure resources?
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