New Organizers?
A Learning Days Cohort
What are the core “things” you should know about the movement to start organizing?
3 main themes:
Movement -- Today
Tactics -- Tomorrow Morn
Tools --Tomorrow Aft.
Introduction activity!
Two truths and a lie!
Take 3 minutes and identify two “truths” about yourself, and a lie that might be believable.
Join a group of 3-4, and take turns telling two truths and lie. As a group, try to guess which items is the lie!
Movement, Community Building and Programs
An introduction to organizing in the Wikimedia movement
How is the movement organized?
Dumisani Ndubane
Where does your Group Fit in the Greater Scheme??
AFFILIATIONS COMMITTEE .
Jason Krüger for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. - Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. CC BY-SA 4.0
134 Affiliates and Growing
37 Chapters
88 User Groups
1 Thematic Organization
We are part of a BIG Ecosystem of the FREE KNOWLEDGE MOVEMENT
Wikimedia Chapters
are independent organizations founded to support and promote the Wikimedia projects in a specified geographical region (in most cases, a country)
REQUIREMENTS:
Wikimedia User Groups
are intended to be simple and flexible affiliates with far fewer requirements than chapters and thematic organizations.
REQUIREMENTS
Wikimedia Thermatic Organizations
are independent non-profit organizations founded to support and promote the Wikimedia projects within a specified focal area. Like chapters, and unlike user groups, they are required to have a legal structure, maintain detailed records on activities, maintain an expertise in their focal area, and share that expertise with the Wikimedia movement.
Wikimedia Allied Organizations
Are not officially Affiliated with Wikimedia Foundation, but share similar/Aligned mission/goals. They are eligible to apply for funding from WMF (and expected to provide reports for the grant) although they do not have to report on their annual activities.
Georges Fodouop
Co-founder Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group
Community programs:
Where should I start?
Alex Stinson - GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Community Programs Team
WMF and affiliate program staff
Community leaders
Online Editing Community
Partners and independent organizers
Who is doing community programs?
Why might you get involved in programs?
Local Community focused:
Movement focused:
Galleries
Libraries
Archives
Museums
Photo via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain/CC0.
Why GLAM partnerships?
GLAMs and Wikimedia:
Results from a WIR position in Serbia National museum in Leskovac CC-By-SA Miljan Simonović CC-BY-SA 3.0 |
What tactics are involved?
Sharing Institutional Collections and Data
Sharing Institutional Knowledge
Pavla Pelikánová, licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0.
How do I find out more?
Wikimedia with Libraries and the Wikipedia Library
Research Access
And library outreach
Davidpar CC-BY-SA 3.0
Libraries can benefit from a focus beyond GLAM:
Starting Your Community with Libraries
Wikimedia
in
Education
Help educators understand how students can learn from engaging with Wikimedia projects.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Anneke_Wolf (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Students_semapedia_workshop.jpg), „Students semapedia workshop“, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/legalcode
Actively facilitate the relationship between educators and the Wikimedia community.
anonymous (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Knit-schematic.png), „Knit-schematic“, size by no, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
Participate!
@wikieduprogram
Wikipedia & Education
WMF Community Programs
For licensing and image credits: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff_and_contractors
Nicole Saad
Education
Vahid Masrour
GLAM
Libraries
Sandra Fauconier
Alex Stinson
Jake Orlowitz
Sam Walton
Ben Vershbow
We highly recommend learning about Grants:
Join the session this afternoon at
Workshop:
What capacities can you develop?
New contributor engagement and
growth
This capacity focuses on the challenges, strategies, and activities that encourage new contributors to integrate with wiki-culture, persist and grow.
Programs & Events
This capacity covers everything related to making the event happen, including Venue, Accomodation, Wifi etc...
Designing an effective program for the planned type and composition of the event, also taking into account the logistics of the event, is a big challenge, and largely depends on commitment and experience by the organizers.
Pavla Pelikánová, licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0.
Partnerships
Partnerships include any relationship with non-Wikimedia organizations and individuals that are used to further the Wikimedia mission.
Some donate their copyrighted content (e.g. authors, photographers) or otherwise contribute to the mission (e.g. providing space for Wikimedian activities; offering professional training to Wikimedia volunteers).
Communications
Raising awareness about the Wikimedia movement, projects, and volunteers with a broader public audience.
This can include: working with the press, proactively offering stories to media organizations, participating in interviews, building messages, drafting announcements, leveraging social media and blogs, and more.
Tony Webster CC-BY-SA 2.0
On-wiki technical skills
Focuses on the resources, on-wiki spaces, and peer-to-peer mentorship/help available on wiki-related technical issues, e.g. creating/updating bots, graphics, templates, Lua programming, wiki markup.
Community governance
The Policy creation and re-evaluation includes all activities involving the definition, evaluation, and revision of new or existing community-based policies on the wiki.
The Governance roles capacity focuses on the formal or informal roles community members may have, to establish or enforce community policies and wiki norms. e,g Admins
Conflict management
emcompasses all the activities involved in raising, discussing, and resolving both inter-user and content-centered conflicts. It includes the various on-wiki spaces for discussing conflicts, as well as the formal and informal roles played by community members (e.g. mediators, admins, Arbitration Committees).
Policy and advocacy
Lobbying for changes to Local or regional Laws. This can include lobbying for changes to Freedom of Panorama laws, Copyright Laws and other sections of local laws that block or hinders creation and dissemination of Open knowledge and its platforms.
New contributor engagement and growth (Newbie-friendly in-person events; Help and tutorial resources, etc)�
Programs & Events (Logistics and organization; Event program (content) design, etc)�
Partnerships (Identifying & negotiating with prospective partners; Executing and evaluating partnerships, etc)�
Communications (Press statements, Social Media)�
On-wiki technical skills (Active Wikidata expertise; Templates; Bots; Lua scripting; CentralNotice, etc)�
Community governance (Policy enforcement; Governance Roles, etc)�
Conflict management (Conflict Resolution; Abuse and Harassment Control; OTRS Handling etc)�
Policy and advocacy (Lobbying for changes to Local or regional Laws)�
Share the capacities you think you would like to learn with folks around you.
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