North American Hub Research Project/Reading materials
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Let's share materials to help our committee members and the community understand the Wikimedia Hub landscape.
Terms[edit]
Existing Hubs[edit]
- Wikimedia Europe -- policy and advocacy-focused
- ESEA Hub -- East Asia
- Wikimedia CEE Hub -- Central and Eastern Europe
- WikiFranca -- for French speakers anywhere
- Eastern Africa Regional and Thematic Hub (EARTH)
Useful sources[edit]
- Wikimedia Europe - presentation for future members.pdf
- Re partnerships with WiRs by WMUK and WMIT: [1]
- List of WMF hubs in research and development
- Interviews and ongoing discussions on podcast series about Movement: WIKIMOVE
- CEE newsletters: CEE/Newsletter/Archives, June 2023, April-June 2023, May 2023
- Anass Sedrati. 2021. Regional Hubs Draft Plan. It discusses affiliate-cooperation possibilities among Arabic-speaking Wikimedians and the results of Sedratis extensive documented interviews. (Notes on Sedrati, 2021)
- Marc Miquel Ribé, Kaarel Vaidla, Francesc Fort, and Anna Torres. 2021. Wikimedia 2030 movement strategy : How an inclusive open strategy process has placed people at the centre. BiD: textos universitaris de biblioteconomia i documentació, núm. 47 (December). <https://bid.ub.edu/en/47/ribe.htm>. DOI: 10.1344/BiD2021.47.05 (Notes on Miquel Ribé et al., 2021)
- Discussion of the "principle of subsidiarity": Principle of subsidiarity, [2]
- Readings for Sept 2023 Summit prep meetings: Strategic direction 2030, defined in 2017-18, Recommendation #4 - Ensure equity in decision-making (May 2020) (cited as a reason to have hubs), current Charter drafts, WMDE paper on Wikimedia governance
- LATAM HUB DISCOVERY, slideshow by Wikimedistas UY -- presented at a conference, date and authors uncertain -- they conducted 14 interviews with 18 participants who were representatives from chapters or users in Europe or the Latin American and Caribbean region. There was uncertainty about the meaning of a Hub but support for the idea of working together