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[edit] Introduction to Global Development

Our Global Development Team at Wikimedia Foundation's Staff Retreat in October 2011

The Wikimedia Foundation's Global Development team exists to provide for focused efforts to build Wikimedia's projects in places we are not yet the ubiquitous knowledge resource that we are in places like Europe, North America and Japan. It resulted from the Wikimedia Strategic Plan that identified the need to attract new editors and readers to our projects in places where we haven't yet gained traction. Our work is focused on piloting approaches ourselves and via partners (chapters, community groups, like-minded organizations, individuals) to building our communities in high potential places. Our priority geographies are India, Brazil and the Arabic language countries and we seek to work actively with the community and chapters in other geographies where we can support community growth and knowledge access. We aim to ride the wave of mobile growth to reach the billions of people who are unlikely to access the Internet via a computer. We also serve the global movement via our communications, grants, global education, and research teams. The Global Development Team seeks to be an active participant in the work to generate knowledge of how we can strengthen and grow our projects in new places.

Our diverse team is a combination of staff and consultants located in India, Brazil, Egypt and the United States. We are committed to having local teams work on local issues so we are part of our working environments. The team includes 8 nationalities with 59% non-American and 75% of the San Francisco team has lived outside of the United States. It is a part of our job to connect with people around the world, so we travel frequently and seek to meet and listen to community members in the places where we work.

[edit] Global Development's work areas

Playing WMCZ's protected areas memory game at the WMF office
Global mobile with Wiki10 designs from around the world.

[edit] Mobile and offline

To achieve Wikimedia Foundation's strategic objectives to increase mobile page views, strengthen growth in the Global South and among female contributors, and retaining editors while engaging new editors, Wikimedia Foundation's mobile team is working to expand our audience in the Global South by partnering with mobile carriers there.

For a list of Wikimedia staff working on mobile projects visit Mobile_Projects/Team. From Global Development, Kul Wadhwa User:Kul, Head of Business Development, Amit Kapoor User:Akapoor (WMF), Dany Foy, Mobile Technical Manager, and Mani Pande User:Manipande are working on mobile projects. Jessie Wild User:jwild leads our work on offline projects.

[edit] Catalyst projects and regional programs

Global Development is currently focusing on growing Wikimedia the following regions: Brazil, India, and Arabic language countries.

[edit] Brazil programs

Jessie Wild User:Jwild, Special Projects Manager, is currently working with Everton Zanella Averenga User:Everton137 (a contractor focused on Brazil's education pilot program). A consultant to launch our activities in Brazil was announced in March. WMF is seeking to increase readership in Brazil and support the Brazilian community of editors. For information on our work to date in Brazil see Brazil Program.

[edit] India programs

Hisham Mundol User:Hmundol, Nitika Tandon User:Nitika.t, Shiju Alex User:Shiju, Noopur Raval, and Subhashish Panigrahi User:Subha WMF work as consultants to Wikimedia's activities in India. They are based on New Delhi, but support activities in various parts of India. The team's work in India is focused on building capacity within the community and supporting the development of scalable programs that support WMF's strategic objectives, and to build relationships with partners in the region. For more information and discussion about programs in India, please visit India Program.

[edit] Arabic language initiative

Visit Arabic Language Initiative page for more information about related projects and meeting. You can also check the project page on Arabic Wikipedia. Moushira Elamrawy User:Melamrawy (WMF), consultant, is the main point of contact for this initiative.

[edit] Education programs

The Wikipedia Education Program is currently active in Brazil, Egypt, India, Macedonia, Canada, and the United States: "The Wikipedia Education Program's vision is to mobilize and empower the next generation of human-knowledge generators to contribute to Wikimedia projects."

Frank Schulenburg User:Frank_Schulenburg is Director of the Wikipedia Education Program and his team includes Annie Lin User:Alin (WMF), the Global Education Program Manager, LiAnna Davis User:Ldavis (WMF), the Global Education Program Communications Manager, and Jami Mathewson User:JMathewson (WMF), the U.S. Education Program Associate (a consultant).

The programs in India, Brazil and the Arabic language countries are implemented in partnership with our consultants in those regions. Nitika in India and Everton in Brazil are the local coordinators.

Information about Wikimedia's education program can be found on the Outreach wiki and elsewhere:

[edit] Grantmaking

2011-2012 is the Wikimedia Foundation's third year of grantmaking to support movement groups. In 2010-11, we funded 44 grants totaling close to $300,000. The Wikimedia Foundation is happy to fund mission-aligned innovation-focused programs and activities through our grants program, and to offer non-financial assistance.

Asaf Bartov User:Ijon [1] and Winifred Olliff User:Wolliff [2] are the current global development team members focused on this work area. Please reach out to them with questions about the WMF grants program, or with questions about how to submit a grant request.

  • For information about the WMF grants program please visit our grants index: Grants:Index.
  • For a list of requests with links to submission please visit the requests subpage: Grants:Index/Requests.
  • For a list of reports with links to reports please visit the reports subpage: Grants:Index/Reports.
  • For information about the participation grants program, please visit our participation grants program index: Grants:Participation.
  • For a list of participation grant requests and reports with links to submissions and reports, please visit the participation grant requests subpage: Grants:Participation/Requests.

[edit] Fellowships and editor contribution campaign

Siko Bouterse User:Sbouterse (WMF) recently joined the Global Development team as Head of Fellowships. Read more about our Fellowships program here: Fellowships. Haitham Shammaa User:Haithams joined the team as Editor Growth and Contribution Program Consultant.

[edit] Global development research

Global development research is led by Mani Pande User:manipande, Head of Global Development Research and Ayush Khanna User:Akhanna, Data Analyst contractor.

[edit] Global communications

Our communications team includes Jay Walsh User:Jaywalsh, Head of Communications, Matthew Roth User:Mroth, Global Communications Manager, and Tilman Bayer User:Tbayer (WMF), Movement Communications consultant based in Germany. James Alexander User:Jalexander recently joined the team as Merchandise Manager. The communications team is part of the Global Development Team, but functions across all departments within the Wikimedia Foundation. Recent major projects include support of the Wikipedia blackout in response to SOPA and the celebration of WIkipedia's 10th anniversary in 2011.

[edit] Reports

You can follow the Global Development team's work on the Wikimedia Foundation blog

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