2024:Program/Failure is an option

Session title: Failure is an option

Session type: Lightning talk

Track: Community Health

Language: en

Failure must be an option! It must be embraced by the community if we are to grow and develop new opportunities.

Description

The movement has the appearance of being bogged down into ensuring that when a proposal is put up for funding all the boxes are ticked and will successful. To do this we grasp to one concept that has been proven and just create a cookie cutter version of that then kill it by over doing it. Back in 2005 Wikimania was a risk, who wants to talk about editing Wikipedia well 19 years later look a what has been created, look how important it is to keeping the community together. Now look at all the committees, all the approval process, the time limits, the rules, and host of demands that exist. Can we ever find our way to place where failure is an option, where the blocked editors get a second chance, where rule are there to be ignored not enforce by ironhands distilling every word to the enth degree.

How does your session relate to the event theme, Collaboration of the Open?

Risk adverse process close out opportunities to collaborate before they are even tested

What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?

Everyone can participate in this session

Speakers

• Gnangarra

COT member for the abandoned 2020 Wikimania in Bangkok, then a COT member for first online only Wikimania in 2021. The part of ESEAP's renewed hosting of Wikimania 2023 in Singapore. Was part of the community that formed Wikimedia Australia in 2009, I would continue to support WMAU activities before join the committee as Vice President, and later becoming President. I have been with the development of ESEAP since Washington in 2012, been part of organising ESEAP activities. I currently sit on the Wikimania Steering committee and have focused my energies back to photographic contributions on Wikimedia Commons.