International partnerships

Partnerships with international organizations

The Thematic hub is investing more resources in developing high value content partnerships with intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), such as UN agencies, as well as international non-governmental organizations (INGOs). These organizations have an enormous amount of high impact knowledge and content from all across the world, in many languages and valuable expertise – that so far has been underutilized in the Wikimedia movement as these partnerships do not fit neatly into traditional responsibilities.

Currently, the main focus is on content covering three topic areas: gender, climate change and biodiversity, and health. The three areas have been chosen based on the importance of sharing high quality knowledge in the areas, that all UN agencies are expected to have content in the areas from different perspectives and that there are active volunteers to work on the material.

Collaborate with us

We want to cooperate globally with Wikimedia organizations and individuals to develop and support partnerships with international organizations and their local offices. This includes international initiatives, such as WikiGap. We are also receiving many requests for Wikimedian in residence (WiR) positions. We are currently developing a learning program for WiR, and would love to discuss this with IGOs and INGOs. There are of course many more opportunities which we are open to discuss.

Having formal partnerships supports other Wikimedia organizations and community members to work with the organization. We are exploring how the movement can work together with international organizations. The success of partnerships depends on connections, trust and the success of collaborations e.g how widely content is being used across Wikimedia platforms.

There are many kinds of work that can be done with international organizations. If you work for an organization and are interested in sharing your content on Wikipedia we would love to hear from you partnershipswikimediase.

Work with international partnerships

This table includes partners we are currently working together with in different projects. For a complete list of all current and previous projects, see here.

Ongoing work

Partner (and workplan)	Outcomes	Uploaded work
EIB	Supporting their Wikipedian in Residence to share content on knowledge on Wikipedia First upload graphics and photographs Formalizing an agreement for future work	Graphics
FAO	Supporting them to share text and graphics from their publications First group of graphics shared	Graphics Publications
IEA	Creating project plan for future work with their publishing team Supporting trainees to edit articles. Trainees are editing with accounts "EnergyAnalyst1", "EnergyAnalyst2" etc. Working on their open access policy and its implementation Looking into formalizing an agreement for future work	Graphics
OHCHR	Identifying missing articles with their experts Exploring content campaigns around certain topics	New articles
UNESCO	Exploring how to build upon their previous 6 years of collaborating with Wikipedia Mass upload of content from their archives' collections	Photos
UNEP	Released their 9 flagship publications and all graphics under an open license and upload to Commons Exploring possible work with their publishing team	Flagship publications
UNFPA	Identifying key messages with their expert teams Exploring content campaigns around certain topics	Improved articles