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Consultant Dialog – Nicole Hallberg – Part 2

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Hi Stan,

It was once again a pleasure to chat with you. Please find below the questions I'd like you to think about for our meeting next week. The last questions I sent you were more open ended and purpose-finding in nature. Now that we have more of a handle on why, we're going to focus on how we achieve that purpose. Towards that end, these questions are designed more with an eye towards teasing out priorities and identifying end goals. Once we know where you're headed and what you're aiming for, we can begin to identify a way forward.

The How

  • Is Wikidelphia a library? A community locus, organized, curated and designed on principles of helpfulness, usefulness, and advancing a community and its members. Why or why not? In what ways is it similar or different?
  • What if anything is unique about Philadelphia, its community, and its needs, other than there being a Stan Pokras living in it? Should anything about Wikidelphia be designed differently to better serve Philly's particular needs? Or would a Wikicago or Wikiami look functionally identical if a Dan Pokras were to start one in those cities?
  • If you were to retire at some point in future and could hand the keys to Wikidelphia over to someone else you trusted for stewardship over the next 25 years, what would you like to see happen with it? Or would you rather close it down, because it existed to serve a very particular community at a particular time, and you hope that it will have accomplished that purpose?
  • Can you please define what a 'commercial cesspool' is? And what specifically makes it antithetical to Wikidelphia?
  • Values behind potential key progress indicators. Please indicate Yes or No:
  • * I'd like to see more web traffic. Y/N
  • * I'd like to hear about more exciting things happening as a direct result of people's use of Wikidelphia. If it's happening, I would like to hear about it. Y/N
  • * I'd like to be more recognized as the mind behind Wikidelphia. Y/N
  • * I'd like Wikidelphia to grow into a bigger organization with more people working on it than just me and my assistant. Y/N
  • * I'd like more people to know about Wikidelphia as a resource. Y/N
  • * The more contributors to Wikidelphia, the better. No number of active daily users is too high, conceptually, if we could build the infrastructure needed to support their activity. Y/N
  • * I'd like it if every single person in Philadelphia and the surrounding area knew about and used Wikidelphia, if we could build the marketing engine needed to inform and attract them. Y/N
  • * I'd like Wikidelphia to help solve a very particular social problem, or a few problems. Y/N
  • * I'd like Wikidelphia to make a specific contribution to society. Y/N
  • Which of these most closely describes your feelings about Wikidelphia in regards to revenue?
  • * A. I feel strongly that Wikidelphia does not and should not ever have revenue as an end goal/should operate without profit to protect its status as a neutral information resource.
  • * B. I wouldn't mind if Wikidelphia brought in some side revenue, but only if doing so would not detract or distract from its main purpose, whatever that may turn out to be.
  • * C. I feel agnostic about whether Wikidelphia does or does not bring in revenue.
  • * D. It would be great if it did, fine if it did not.
  • * E. I'd like to move towards potential revenue generation some day, but we can take our time getting there.
  • * F. Wikidelphia should be developed with the end goal of supporting itself someday.
  • * G. Wikidelphia should support itself as soon as possible, even if we have to change course to get there.
  • * H. None of these describe how I feel about revenue. Instead, I feel __________.
  • You indicated that each of the following indicated some measure of success in Wikidelphia's purpose. Can you rank them in order of importance? Can you name the single overarching purpose that unites them in common? Can you do it in six words or less?
  • * Creating opportunity
  • * Answering someone's very specific question
  • * Supporting/fostering a community of well-connected people
  • * Tackling a general social problem
  • * Solving a Philadelphia-specific problem
  • * Promoting helpfulness
  • * Helping to move humanity away from people killing, exploiting, and degrading each other and the planet
  • * Other ___________
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