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'''36: What could local organizations bring to the movement?'''
==Community Support==
Side 1
workload → on many shoulders (sustainable)
volunteer careers
regional disperse
reaching to the wider community
legitimacy (of organisations with paid staff)
paid staff ← → volunteers
engagement in volunteering in chapters (WMNYC)
existing community and new volunteers → please them both
skill transfer to local groups
(high) travel costs → community
“official recognition” for CVs, etc. Signed agreements
be “rigorous” with “too active” volunteers to prevent burn-out
say “thank you” to volunteers
Awareness for the work done by the board (open mailing lists, e.g.)
Learn from other volunteer organisations
Welcoming culture
getting newbies started offline & online
Side 2
minimal bureaucracy, help with paperwork
linkers
reach out to like-minded communities and partner organisations
long-term development
service provider
support with things community members are leading capacities
one face to the customer
competitions, photographer meetings, editing competitions
technical support: software, edit-a-thon for bots
different language communities in one country → bring them together
awareness for different cultural contexts
promote volunteering (benchmarking with other volunteer organisations)
fundings / grants, minigrants, travel grants, etc.
lending technical equipment
how to keep volunteers involved?
reaching out to media + public about the volunteers’ work
support the change of policies in Wikipedia
Flexibility
Trust
Another flip-chart on community support
WLM / WLE
Attract new volunteers
Engage existing volunteers
Pre-Jury
Transborder photo group tour
one face to the customer
(internal coordination work)
shared patterns
==Diversity==
;Round 1:
Written on flipchart
Student projects; underrepresented topics
Wiki-Tuesdays; invite feminist organisations to contribute content in their field thematically
partner with national library + add to Wikisource
Gender-focussed workshops, dance, music, cultural themes, hobbies
onboard with wikisource first because it’s easier
Wikidata Hackathons
Female project groups
Retired people <3 {Seniors}
Disabled children edit-partner with hospitals
Hire disabled staff
minority / language speakers
Traditional music
Get Grandparents + Grandchildren to edit together
Mother’s day editathon <3
Get seniors to review content quality (not edit, if not techie)
Partner with other diverse groups
Reconsider NOR (no original research)! to include oral histories
Written on notes
We started a female project group to bridge the gender gap
Student projects
Bring into movement retired officials who have spare time to work
invite associations (historicians, scientists, feminists,...) to edit-a-thon oriented
Gender-Workshops
Thematic workshops
Christian education programme
ALC Education programme
LGBT outreach
initiate cooperations with international cultural centres
get local patriosh
educational projects
Wikiwomen in Macedonia
“It is a big problem!” No volunteers → no diversification
Meet-Up
GLAM-Projects
Ethnographic (bring local people including elderly)
Wiki Loves Earth (Contact with people who make nature photos)
Workshops for disabled children
Started cooperation with a feminist online community
WMID
Give grants to museums (diversity in content online)
Give part-time job and additional skills (diversity in languages campaign) + fund project
Give grants to traditional music to digitize in CC
Cooperation in projects with openstreetmap (diversity in local skills)
WLM and WLE
Reach out to cultural and ecological communities
Other thematic projects are similar
Love contest about army, can outreach to military museum
;Round 2:
Written on flipchart
Editing session at National Gallery
Editathons on women; women authors who are underrepresented women scientists
Outreach to domestic violence groups, international women’s day
Fashion content
Collaboration with institutions
Editathons only for women to increase community
Indigenous languages
Minority languages
Work on making diversification and tolerance a permanent value of the movement
Human Rights groups
First work on content,... that also increases contributors
Engage language minorities to contribute
Wikipedia Education Program (WEP)
Women Tend to take courses in humanities subjects: women writing about underrepresented content
FemWikiProject Serbia
Sysops
SheSharp (C#) (Engage female software developers)
Learn about your programs with Data + Wikimetrics
S.I.G. Special Interest Groups on Gender Gap
Written on notes
Learning with data about what works
Decentralisation (working with cities outside of the capital)
Promoting multi-language activities
Goal: Increasing number of members and having new ones where we don’t have any
Improving communication. Local groups?
Special interest groups for major community (the SIG in partnership with the chapter plan for the community)
Gender Gap
Indigenous languages
Work in values: collaboration, tolerance, understanding
Local metrics
Opening learning & evaluation resources and products (toolkits, reports) to the communities, to engage in dialogue and to include feedback
Facilitate learning in your own language
facilitate translation
Start programs that involve underrepresented age groups
;Round 3:
Written on flipchart
Education programs worldwide increase diversity of content + contributors
FemWikiSerbia <3
Female editions in educational programs from humanities courses
Literature and languages add diverse content
Partnerships with artists → articles about art
WikiWomen! <3
Arab world work
music of indigenous tribes + metaphysics
Newbie cafe
offline engagement
Meet-ups
WikiCamps
WikiClubs
Bilingual editing + translating
Translate “editing Wikipedia” booklet
Written on notes
We promote a topic of “female scientists” on annual Chinese Wikipedia online editing competition, which the topic is poor on zh_wp → around 30 articles created
WikiCamps, → Schools, Wiki Loves Science → Universities, WikiClubs → Schools, universities and all interested people
A colleague and I have reached out to our country’s state university to engage in field research and collection of Creative Commons data about indigenous (ethnic, endangered) tribes, including (and especially) music, function, folklore, languages, metaphysics
Education Program of Wikimedia Serbia (workshops, edit-a-thons)
FemWikiProject, Wiki Women Camp → FemWiki and LGBT
Education programs worldwide increase diversity of contributors and content. This is a fact {{citation available}}. By engaging young and old(er), m/f/lgbtq, people, places, cultures, languages we spread diverse free knowledge
WikiWomen
Arab Language
Young Wikipedians
Education Program in Humanities Courses
Gender Diversity (as more female in humanities)
Content diversity (more articles about arts and culture)
GLAM-Project (more information about local arts)
Focal point for diversity, facilitate local initiatives (inspire, etc.)
Translation & Localization of Editin / Illustrating / Evaluating Wikipedia
FemWiki
Education Program
GLAM-Cooperation
Supported a critical feminist editathon, coinciding with Ada Lovelace Day
Development of VisualEditor training to lower technical barriers for entry
Long-term plans for more diversity-themed outreach, such as to native organisations
A room of WikiWomen’s own: a monthly meet-up for newly female wikimedians to explore, discuss and edit Wikimedia projects (WMTW)
Bootcamps for newbies
“A room for Wikimomen’s own”: for female volunteers
Diverse participation of language communities in Wikimania scholarships
Made contacts with real-people (offline) who prefer to work in-person meetings. There are many active volunteers who can’t do help the open content + Wikimedia movement who prefer not to engage on wiki platforms/websites
Inspire + grants to new groups/individuals
We did some workshops from school to school and universities to promote the Wikipedia. And we got a lot of participants from different local areas (WMID)
We have some collaboration with the university to educate their student to contribute to Wikipedia (WMID)
We did a project together with OpenStreetMap to make a linking mapping content to Wikipedia articles (open content in Kalimandan project)
;Round 4:
Written on flipchart
Wiki Women Camp -- crossborders
Wiki librarian <3
promote upstream development of knowledge sources to create more reliable sources for WP
recruit indigenous people to participate
involve secondary school learners
Kiwix for offline engagement
Wikipedia Zero
Gender Gap is a priority in annual plan
fashion / art + feminism
partnership with feminist magazine
admin diversity boot camp
more research about harassment
systems for handling harassment
Diversify the board
make diversity visible
improve coverage of female scientists
Wiki Bombs!
Written on notes
WMZH: WP in Education → secondary schools / JBPedia / Kiwix
WMZH: African Languages Wiki
WMSE: diversified board, diversified views & competences, ideas
WMSE: visibility of such contributers → others can easier identify themselves
WMIT:
Diversity → Content & Gender Gap
What we do:
Gender Gap initiatives (talk to Ginevra)
Libraries & Librarians
Schools (Fashion Editathons)
What we could do:
Wikisources for dialects
Work with admins: teach them empathy
WMF: Wikipedia Zero
WMF: High level support (e.g. money) for education, gender programs to emerging communities in “Global South”
WMVE: Promote the Wikipedia in indigenous languages → new voices with no formal education and some things to say
WMUS-NYC: Editathons (Black lifes matters + Afrocrowd, Art + Feminism, LGBT, Latin American art, Asian, American, other events), Education (both students and topics, children’sliterature)
WMHU
article writing contests on topics where there is a content gap
photo contests to collect picture and knowledge from the whole country
increasing number of volunteers increases the diversity
future: opening to Hungarian communities abroad
WMUS-DC
What we do: Editathons that focus on specific topics, training new editors
What we could do: Advocacy for broader publication of knowledge; supporting upstream knowledge development; Wikipedia in native languages
WMPH:
What we do: Promoting sub-national Wikimedia communities because PH is an ethnolinguistically diverse country (+100 languages)
What we could do: Reaching out to new communities who may not have been exposed to Wikipedia: cultural heritage organisations through WMPH’s cultural heritage mapping project
Working with institute of neuroscience to improve the coverage of female scientists on Wikipedia in “Wikibombs”
WEP
1) Priorizing Gender Gap in our annual plan
2) Fashion / Art + Feminism edit-a-thon
3) 2 new women board members
4) Women in Education
5) Activity with feminist magazine “opzy”
Research the harassment problems
Better systems for reporting harassment and referring people that experience harassment to experts (not other community members, because mediating harassment is as significant emotional burden). Harassment limits diversity by excluding minorities by from coming back after a bad experience.
;Round 5:
Written on flipchart
Video campaigns: interviews featuring women contributors
Wikidata = diverse content
partnerships with NGOs
GLAM outreach, institutional partnerships
OER outreach
Charting Diversity (document with tools)
Translation of content
Diverse board: can’t be all male!
Face-to-face / offline meet-ups
WMF board can: expand Tea House
WMF board can: promote anti-harassment, civil discourse
public sector collaboration
diversity editathons for minority languages
Regular, recurring meet-ups and edit-a-thons
involve various sectors to fill content gaps
Food Festival
makerspaces
Hackerspaces
SISTCR projects
visualize diversity
Games (Wikidata Gender Game)
Focus on motivation
Reach out to everyone
Photography
Digital literacy outreach
use evaluation to learn
feedback from the public
Written on notes
Workshops and edit-a-thons about women → more women
about local languages → more editors in small Wikipedians
Edit-a-thons on a regular basis
Collaborations with universities and GLAMs
WMF should endorse and develop anti-harassment policy
Tea house & idea-lab projects should be made available locally
Wikidata / F(L)OSS-Community
Partnerships with NGOs
GLAM + OER outreach
“Charting Diversity” (publication)
Diverse your board
collaboration with 3rd organisations
focus on face-to-face communication instead of email / wikis / etherpads
open up the WMF to other languages, e.g. French / Portuguese / Arabic / Spanish / Chinese / Japanese
Nepal:
doing: FOSS, Photography, Government Agencies
planning: GLAM, Universities, Gender
Want to: NGO, Financial, Digital literary
Encourage translation of content
Encourage events in differents contexts, e.g. as satellite events to events organized by others, or in hackspaces
Have local, regional, national, thematic organisations to collaborate with
Build infrastructure that supports diverse contests / events / initiatives
Wikidata Gender Game
Make use of all the Wikimedia projects
Esperanto kaj Libera Scio:
Collaboration with World Esperanto Organisation about writing them articles on esperanto wikipedia
collaboration with World Youth E-Organisation about translation Esperanto themed articles to various language Wikipedias
Working with public sector, universities, feminists
WMIN:
gender edit-a-thons
age groups (students, elders), through video campaigns
languages (incubators)
content acquisitions
Collaborate with the Israeli / Arabic community
Edit-workshops with uni libraries for female students
GLAM partners from all parts of Norway
Diversity in our board
More collaboration between language projects
==Fundraising==
Different kind of resources: time vs. money
the question of who to accept donations from (i.e.g morally “weak” donors)
Explore & exploit local tax system
Grant funding for particular projects
Google Ads (in kind donations), usually free for non-profits
Sponsorships (don’t forget the chapter & grant agreements)
Donation boxes: getting the message out or getting big dollars?
Write Grant Proposals in public (think of licensing)
Getting expenses covered from partners (e.g. travel costs for workshop leaders), in-kind contributions!
Careful management of corporate partnerships
Take local mentalities into consideration (i.e. local is important)
Organisational memberships (take care of local law)
Long list of emails for people to ask for donations and email campaigns
Save all communication / written contracts
Collaboration with similar organisations (e.g. HotOSM)
Local organisations can help the WMF on local circumstances
“People see the relevance of what is in front of them”. Make yourself known!
Diversifying the revenue stream
Getting the local official status for a charity
Crowdfunding for projects
Pick-up the phone for donors
Changing tax system through advocacy
Refining the pitch. Clarify organisations’ identity
How can we support raising resources in emerging communities
International collaboration and thematic organisations/chapters/user groups
Sending merchandise and/or printed material and/or providing guidance
Let the right people work on fundraising (so not to burn volunteers)
Fundraising events
==Partnerships==
What are we good at / what do local org° bring to partnerships ?
credibility → by being able to set constraints
diversification (resources, topics, editors)
global partners for replication
transform organisations, transfer skills → create new ambassadors
analysis, think strategically!
Window for the wiki world and its functioning
get a bigger amount of material
Higher level of seriousness and credibility
Ability to lobby for changing existing regulations, e.g. grants in Indonesia
Pedagogy around Wikimedia projects
Be an alternative to creating new platforms (outreach!)
Possibility to have the help of partners (financial and logistic resources)
“Glocal” partnerships = best advantage
Providing means to institutions which don’t have money
Main curator of museum in Finland joined the board → have experts on the board
Local organisations can help weigh risks vs. benefits
What do we lack ?
tools do we have to manage partnerships? (contract, evaluation,...)
a narrative around “digital commons”
Looking for indirect impact as well, e.g. democracy in USA
Increase communication between strategy + field to reduce tensions and have more aligned actors
Key success factors for successful or impactful partnerships / key criteria for selection
Be clear about what you expect and require from the partner
Reach for higher impact
Assess the innovation level (within the partner organization and for the movement)
Focus on the content we receive to make sure we receive it
Define your target = what do you aim for?
Involve global partners to be able to replicated / scale projects in other countries (e.g. Women in Science)
Benchmark other local partnerships to reinforce your own
take care! = visions and wished not alway aligned between Wikimedia organisations and partners (not the same agendas)
Next big challenges around partnerships ?
How do we prioritize? (see dedicated section)
Ensure partnerships sustainability (see dedicated section)
Who will be the next partners ? (see dedicated section)
See Wikimedia organisations as partners
Define, acknowledge and assess the variety of impacts brought by partnerships (e.g. partners can act as door openers (vs. content donations)
How do we prioritize ?
Assess the partner’s readiness to work with Wikimedia
(co)-Define a proper strategy
Have volunteers willing to work
does the partnership target a specific audience ?
Do a content gap analysis (ex: black history ; activism ; etc.)
How to ensure partnership sustainability?
Mandatory awareness sessions prior to confirming a partnership
Look for an ambassador in the partner organisation
Partnerships agreements are a way to look at every single detail to make the most out of a partnership
Who will be the next partners after GLAM and Education ?
professional organisations / subject-oriented experts, e.g. architects
publishers, eg. WP Library
Thematic institutions (e.g. Medicine)
Research institutions for WMScience (Education + GLAM components)
FOSS organisations / Sharing staff of another FOSS organisation
Advocacy partners (e.g. Amnesty) fighting for rights (→ learning → sharing networks)
Lever for regional cooperation (=another type of partnership!)
IT Organisations
Tourism organisations
Open Source Communities → OSM / OKF / CC → help them structure
Entrepreneurs + Co-working spaces = good dynamics
next partners? Social innovation / collaborative economy / community have the same ideology and are already aggregated communities
Public media (new partner?)
==Advocacy==
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==Next steps==
Identify in our local organizations a working group / taskforce around “partnerships” who would be willing to address the following objectives.
Objective 1 : Share what already exists at movement level
Gather/assess among local orgs what tools already exist to select, formalize, follow-up and assess partnerships
out of this, select the most relevant tools and have them challenged by external org°?
Deliverable = partnership process & toolbox
Objective 2 : Identify the variety of impacts brought by partnerships and what impacts we should prioritize (short term & long term?)
Survey to be sent to partnerships managers in local organizations
Write a white paper around the various levels of impacts
Interact with Kourosh Karimkhany, new VP of partnerships at WMF to share around priorities
Deliverable = strategic recommendations around partnerships approach