WIKIMOVE

What is in this episode? 

In this episode we go back to the origins of movement strategy. We shed a light on some of the concepts that are foundational to the strategy and to how Wikimedia projects are governed since the beginning: decentralization and subsidiarity. Our guests explain where these concepts came from, and why they are central to the future governance model. We explore what decentralization could mean in practice for areas such as fundraising, software development and advocacy. 

Our guests are… 

Claudia Garad, Executive Director of Wikimedia Österreich since 2012, member of the Roles & Responsibilities Working Group during phase 2 of the Movement Strategy process, President of Wikimedia Europe since 2022

Guillaume Paumier, Wikimedian since 2005, working for the Foundation since 2009, architect of the first phase of movement strategy which led to the strategic direction.

Show notes:

Subsidiarity & Self-Management

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy/Principles#Subsidiarity_&_Self-Management 

Reinventing Organizations

https://reinventingorganizationswiki.com/en/ 

https://www.reinventingorganizations.com/ 

Working Group Roles & Responsibilities

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Iteration_2/Roles_%26_Responsibilities/2%263#Q_2-2_What_is_your_thinking_and_logic_behind_this_recommendation? 

Collective impact model

https://collectiveimpactforum.org/what-is-collective-impact/

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What's in this episode?

We talk with two veteran functionaries about the system of governance for Wikipedia and what the challenges are. We learn about IP blocks and notability criteria. We ask provocative questions like… does Movement Strategy make everything worse? Does the system need to change or do the people need to better learn to obey the rules? What can be done to strengthen our community governance and the people holding it up? (Note: this will not be the last conversation we will host on these issues, as other voices should be surfaced too)

Our guests are...

Florence Devouard, co-executive Director of Wiki in Africa, former Steward and WMF Chair, active Wikipedian since 2002

Martin Rulsch, Wikimedia Steward (volunteer) and project manager at Wikimedia Deutschland (employee), active Wikimedian since 2005

Show notes:

Wikipedia Functionaries: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Functionaries 

Stewards:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards 

Notability criteria: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability 

Series of articles about IP Blocks on Diff: 

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/12/16/proxy-blocks-equity-and-growth/

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In this episode we talk with Denny Vrandečić and Lydia Pintscher about the software products that are changing the way the Movement leverages data to move towards the strategic direction of knowledge equity and knowledge as a service. Lydia gives an update on what is happening with Wikidata, and Denny shares about a newer project - Abstract Wikipedia, which aims to let more people share more knowledge in more languages. Abstract Wikipedia allows people to create and maintain Wikipedia articles in a language-independent way. A particular language Wikipedia can then translate the article into its language. We also touch on Wikifunctions, and large-language models and how it all relates.

Our guests are...

Lydia Pintscher, Portfolio lead for Wikidata at Wikimedia Deutschland

Denny Vrandečić, Founder of Wikidata and currently leading the development of Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia at the Wikimedia Foundation

Show notes:

Wikifunctions:

https://wikifunctions.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Main_Page 

Abstract WIkipedia:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia 

Linked Open Data Strategy:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LinkedOpenData/Strategy2021

Wikidata:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page 

ChapGPT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT 

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Our unique and complex movement can sometimes be hard to navigate, particularly for newcomers. In this special episode we answer questions from volunteers who recently joined the Wikimedia Movement and would like to better understand our strategy 2030. We talk about the genesis of the strategy, the future we envision for our movement and we also touch upon key issues related to knowledge equity and global governance.

Our guests are...

*Sharon Naa Deedei Tagoe, Volunteer at the Open Foundation West Africa

Sharon studies at the Ghanaian University and joined the Movement in 2022.

*Likambo Isaac Kangu, diaspora coordinator for the UG South Sudan in the Refugee settlements in Uganda

Likambo Isaac Kangu is a South Sudanese refugee living in Uganda. He joined the Movement in August 2022.

*Ruby Damenshie-Brown, Senior Program Officer at the Open Foundation West Africa

Ruby joined the movement in 2019, she volunteered in different roles and contributed as a Fellow to the global campaign for WikiforHuman rights 2022 of the WMF.

Show notes:

Movement Strategy Recommendations:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy/Recommendations

Movement Strategy Principles:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Strategy/Principles

Strategic Direction

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017

Movement Charter

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter

Kiwix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwix

Kiwix4school

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kiwix4Schools_Project

Let's connect

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Knowledge_Sharing/Connect

Capacity Exchange

https://capacity-exchange.wmcloud.org/

Movement Strategy Funds

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund

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In this episode we talk with Anass Sedrati and Pepe Flores, two distinguished Wikimedia activists from emerging communities. They share about the enthusiasm and the struggles that can be found everywhere on the globe where Wikimedians are growing their communities. We talk about how the movement can best support these communities, and how we can build a governance model that gives them a voice. Anass and Pepe also give us an insight into their work with the Movement Charter Drafting Committee.

Our guests are...

Anass Sedrati, Co-founder and board member of Wikimedia Morocco User Group, founding member of Wikimedians of Tamazight User Group, and Arabic Wikimedians User Group. Member of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee.

Pepe Flores, President of Wikimedia Mexico and member of the Movement Charter Draffting Committee

Show notes:

WIKIMOVE Evaluation survey:

https://lime.wikimedia.de/index.php/837944?lang=en 

Wiki Movimento Brazil Strategic Manifesto:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manifesto_Estrat%C3%A9gico_-_Wiki_Movimento_Brasil_(2023_-_2025)_-_en.pdf 

Rights Con:

https://www.rightscon.org/ 

WMF research grant:

https://research.wikimedia.org/index.html 

GLAM Wiki Conference survey:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd3e4CC5nb_AbmYGzh0I8LasJ8cFiwZwm8r0gFDs6YFtm6DJQ/viewform 

Movement Charter Content:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Content 

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Regional and thematic hubs continue to be the hot topic among many Wikimedians pursuant to the strategy recommendations. Many affiliates and volunteers have done hub-like work for a long time, and hubs now seem to provide a vehicle to formalize and financially sustain that work. The idea of having structures that help people share resources, do fundraising together, and make decisions at the regional level reverberates with many. Today we have Johnny Allegre and Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska to give us updates on hub activities in Asia and Eastern Europe.

Our guests are...

Johnny Alegre, President of Philippine WIkimedia Community UG and member of the ESEAP Hub

Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska, Community Support Team Manager at Wikimedia Poland and member of the CEE Hub Interim Steering Committee

Show notes:

Evaluation survey:

https://lime.wikimedia.de/index.php/837944?lang=en

Wikimedia Europe :

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Europe

Is Wikimedia Europe a hub? :

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/09/09/is-wikimedia-europe-a-hub/

Movement Charter:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter

Wikimedia Summit documentation:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2022/Documentation

ESEAP Hub:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ESEAP_Hub

CEE Hub:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Hub

Wikimedia Podcasts:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_media#Audio_podcasts

Wiki Africa Hour:

https://www.wikiinafrica.org/project/wikiafrica-hour/

Wiki Update:

https://podbay.fm/p/wiki-update

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What’s in this episode?

In this episode we talk about new projects to connect the people of our movement for mutual aid. Our movement is constantly growing and diversifying, all across the globe. New people are joining and new communities are forming every day. As volunteers and as staff of affiliates, they are having to acquire new skills, figure out how to organize, form organizations, do outreach and advocacy, and work with institutions and governments. For every skill or piece of knowledge that a Wikimedian is looking for, there is probably another Wikimedian who has figured it out or has the answer. But how do they find each other?

Our guests are...

*Rebecca O'Neill, Project Coordinator of Wikimedia Community Ireland since 2017

*Jessica Stephenson, Evaluation Program Officer with the Community Resources at the Wikimedia Foundation since April 2021

Show notes:

Capacity Exchange project:

https://capacity-exchange.wmcloud.org

Let’s connect:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Knowledge_Sharing/Connect

The world according to Wikipedia:

https://open.spotify.com/show/7GYUUzZ6lkioUypxo5C7ov

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What’s in this episode?

In this episode we talk with three Wikimedians who are trailblazers for including marginalized voices into the Wikimedia projects. Lucy Crompton-Reid, Daniel Bögre Udell and Kiril Simeonowski are active in different but complementary projects that implement Recommendation 8, Topics for Impact. You can find out about new formats for creating oral citations, a toolkit in the works for surfacing marginalized knowledge and first ideas on helping to create Wikipedias with marginalized language communities. Join us for this and to find out about Wikidata’s 10th Birthday!

Our guests are...

*Kiril Simeonovski, Kiril is president of Shared Knowledge and a leading Wikimedian from the region of Central and Eastern Europe and has been actively contributing to the Wikimedia projects since 2008.

*Daniel Bögre Udell, Daniel is a co-founder and the Executive Director of Wikitongues, which supports language revitalization projects on every continent.

*Lucy Crompton-Reid, Lucy joined Wikimedia UK as Chief Executive in October 2015. She is on the British Library Advisory Council and sits on the board of The Audience Agency and Visible Theatre.Show

Show notes:

Wikidata 10th birthday:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday

Identify topics for impact:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Identify_Topics_for_Impact

Capacity development for underrepresented communities:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Shared_Knowledge/Capacity_development_for_underrepresented_communities 

Language diversity Hub and Wikitongues:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Language_Diversity_Hub_and_Wikitongues 

Cluster H

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transition/Discuss/Cluster_H 

Wikitongues: 

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitongues 

WMDE money paper:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Decentralized_Fundraising,_Centralized_Distribution.pdf&page=2 

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What’s in this episode?

We are looking back at years of complaints about how Wikimedia technology is outdated and exclusive. Non-encyclopedic forms of knowledge are still impossible or hard to insert into our existing formats. The last big innovation from our movement is Wikidata, which is now almost ten years old. Movement Strategy calls on us to innovate our technical and social systems so that new and marginalized communities can join and share their knowledge. We talk about the UNLOCK accelerator program, how it is being implemented in collaboration with WMS and WMDE this year, and explore how the movement can become more of an innovation ecosystem.

Our guests are...

*Kannika Thaimai, Program lead of the UNLOCK accelerator at Wikimedia Deutschland

Before joining Wikimedia Deutschland in 2019, Kannika worked in a social startup and supported other social startups through their various development phases.

*Ivana Madžarević, Program and Community Support Manager at Wikimedia Serbia

Together with Kannika, Ivana runs the accelerator program for innovation in our movement. Before joining Wikimedia Serbia 8 years ago, Ivana worked many years in the NGO sector.

Show notes:

Inspiring Women

https://podcast.wikiloveswomen.org/podcast-item/islam-elbeiti/ 

Wiki Learn Platform

https://learn.wiki/ 

Soundlogo of Wikimedia 

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo 

CEE regional event

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2022 

Wikiindaba

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Indaba 

UNLOCK Accelerator 2022

https://www.wikimedia.de/unlock/ 

Innovation paper 

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/Innovation_Engine/Building_an_ecosystem_to_innovate_in_free_knowledge 

Audiopedia

https://www.audiopedia.org/ 

GovDirectory

https://www.govdirectory.org/ 

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What’s in this episode?

Wiki Movimento Brasil surveyed the Portuguese speaking communities about some of the big juicy concepts in the MS20230 recommendations - equity in decision making, leadership development and diversity. By doing that, they reached many community members not previously engaged. In this pod they talk about the insights, opportunities and challenges that emerged. These Wikimedians are showing the way of how we can make the strategy come to life at community level, and jointly figure out what our next steps are locally and regionally. We also talk about money, building communities and the Movement Charter Drafting Committee….

Our guests are…

• Érica Azzellini, Wiki Movimento Brasil's Community Manager

Érica is in charge of community support, partnerships and strategy development at Wiki Movimento Brasil. She is also a member of the movement charter drafting committee.

• Lucas Piantá, Wiki Movimento Brasil’s Strategy Working Group

Lucas works as researcher on the movement strategy implementation in the lusophone community. He serves on a number of committees including the Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Committee.

Show notes:

Hackathon 2022

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022/Schedule/Wikimedia

Open data day small grants

https://opendataday.org/

Wiki Loves Earth 2022

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2022

Digital Services Act

https://wikimedia.brussels/dsa-political-deal-done/

UCoC -Results of the community vote

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Enforcement_guidelines/Voting/Results

re:publica

https://re-publica.com/en

Reimagining Wikidata from the margins

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Reimagining_Wikidata_from_the_margins

WikiCon Brasil 2022

https://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCon_Brasil_2022

Movement Charter Drafting Committee

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee

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