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Midterm Learning Report

Report Status: Accepted

Due date: 15 January 2023

Funding program: Wikimedia Community Fund

Report type: Midterm

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General information

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This form is for organizations receiving Wikimedia Community Funds (General Support) or Wikimedia Alliances Funds to report on their mid-term learning and results. See the Wikimedia Community Fund application if you want to review the initial proposal.

  • Name of Organization: Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand Incorporated
  • Title of Proposal: Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand’s 2022 General Support
  • Amount awarded: 29479 USD, 45754.35 NZD
  • Amount spent: 9565.29 NZD

Part 1 Understanding your work

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1. Briefly describe how your strategies and activities proposed were implemented and if any changes to what was proposed are worth highlighting?

In this first year of General Support Funding we are learning that what we anticipated would be required as activities isn't always what is needed. Major take out is that we are hungry for progress and the volunteer hours given by the committee will need to be added to by staff if we are to maintain/add to the momentum of progress we have made to date.

A1 Not progressed as the in person strategy weekend for the Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand (WANZ) committee met the need. The weekend was a major success due to the excellence of the external facilitation provided by someone also experienced in governance training. Intend to run this weekend on an annual basis. see: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/MurielMary/Wikimedia_Aotearoa_New_Zealand_Strategy_Workshop/Report A2 Treaty of Waitangi awareness course sourced and completed by Committee to set a baseline of expected engagement to facilitate Treaty partnership and decolonisation. Excellent course and will be offered to all new committee members. A3 Strategy 2022-25 finalised. Consultation round with Users completed see: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XoqMupo_5TlLs_6xuMU-3KU5_Lzks8unwFRo4QuDVM4/edit?usp=sharing A4 Not progressed as not required A5, A6, A7, A8, A15 Progressing - taking more time and energy than first anticipated A9 ESEAP engagement has improved. Need more capacity in the group to sustain membership. Once WANZ setup is complete anticipate better participation A10, A20, A21 Ongoing A11, A16, A18, A26 Not started A12 Meetups happening regularly in Wellington and Online nationally - sporadic in Christchurch and Auckland. Not happening in Dunedin yet. Focus is Auckland. A13, A14. In progress. Working with Wikimedia Australia has shown value of employees to advance admin and organising A17. 1 delivered A19. Valuable investment as grants enable wider advocacy A22 A23 A24 Relationships are strengthening A25 Completed. First contract for services negotiated for group A27 Completed

2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you feel are being effective in achieving your goals?

  • Effectiveness of committee was hugely influenced by strategy workshop and exercises led by experienced professional facilitator
  • Regular meetings and commitment of committee members to keep an eye on the long term strategic goals and short term year plan of work
  • Shared online platforms to track committee workload (Trello), communication (slack), and committee information (boardpro) means information is easily accessible and supports the asynchronistic nature of the work of a volunteer committee where members are spread across New Zealand
  • Comms - while we are still working on a comms plan the regular nature of the online meetup and posts to the facebook group and twitter posts ensure that the wider user group gets regularly updated on progress of committee as well as ESEAP and WMF news. Provides User group members opportunities to feedback and engage with committee members

3. What challenges or obstacles have you encountered so far?

Lack of Capacity: The User Group / Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand (WANZ) committee have ambitious aims that require a lot of energy from committee members and NZ organisers. Recognising that both setting up an incorporated society and achieving organising and community engagement for the user group is a big ask and risks burn out. To continue to grow our effectiveness as an affiliate we need support staff.

Metrics: see comments in the metrics section Lack of clarity of "how to" be an affiliate. Moving from a user group to an incorporated society with a committee is "professionalising" the affiliate. What is expected by WMF of the affiliate is sometimes opaque and not well explained. However, we are well supported by Jacqueline Chen, Senior Program Officer, Community Resources WMF and are learning. Timezone, timeframes and expectations from WMF - often New Zealand's time zone isn't conducive to attending WMF workshops / online meetings. This is very frustrating. Timeframes for responding to requests for engagement with policy and admin of WMF are often short. WMF messaging often has the tone of requiring immediate action from volunteers who have busy lives and can’t always respond as expected - yet another reason why staff would be useful.

4. Please describe how different communities are participating and being informed about your work.

See annual report for 2022 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Group_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand/Annual_Report_2022

Main communities engaged with are New Zealand Arts, New Zealand Pacifika, New Zealand Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museum orgs, international biodiversity / natural sciences community New Zealand Pasifika project has seen the development of 3 new editors. One of the editors User:Kowhaiarewhana presented with the Project Lead User:Pakoire on the outputs and lessons from the project at the WOW2022 conference in Sydney, Australia. https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/WOW_2022_Worlds_of_Wikimedia_Conference They have also been invited to present at Wikimania 2023. GLAM communities are responding by continuing with their planned work programmes. WANZ supports their work with advice, editor mentoring, and encouragement. International biodiversity / natural sciences community are responding with growth in awareness of workflow and outreach / citizen scientist possibilities from using WMF projects as platforms. Open licensing of content created by that community is growing e.g. Individual scientists are encouraged and do release their images openly in iNaturalist. Requests from the community for User:Ambrosia10 to contribute to conferences, complete presentations, and write peer-reviewed papers on the value of Wikidata are increasing.

5. Please share reflections on how your efforts are helping to engage participants and/or build content, particularly for underrepresented groups.

Most successful projects in NZ have been facilitated by a single committed organiser with a number of others joining them to achieve the work. Regular communication during Meetups on the progress of these projects has helped ensure wider editor support. There's a balance to be found between individual initiatives and a coordinated content improvement plan. Users must be supported to organise impactful projects.

The WikiProject New Zealand/Pasifika Arts Aotearoa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_New_Zealand/Pasifika_Arts_Aotearoa led by User:Pakoire experimented with a new way of engaging with an underrepresented community. This included a pilot for a paid, fixed term residency programme where 3 New Zealand/Pasifika arts professionals were trained to edit Wikipedia and learn the value of this platform. These editors were also expected to talk about and show their wider Pasifka communities in New Zealand their editing work and how this raises the profile of significant people and content from this under-represented group. This project has created a good model to replicate to achieve better awareness and engagement from under represented groups. See annual report for other top content projects such as the Wikidata Thesis project, Critter of the Week Project, West Coast Wikisource Project. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Group_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand/Annual_Report_2022

6. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What have you learned so far about these areas during this period?

The major focus on learning this year has been on developing the incorporated society and learning how to be a more professional organisation including developing practices to ensure effective committee governance and impactful strategy that fits with the desires of our user base. The pace of work has been swift and a review of expectations may be needed to ensure organisers and participants do not suffer burn out.

Engaging with the wider ESEAP community - particularly at the ESEAP conference - has given a greater understanding of where the Aotearoa NZ affiliate is benchmarked with others in the hub. Completing analysis work on activities is time consuming. Retrospectives have been informal at best and need more consideration on how to ensure lessons learnt are identified, talked about and better options implemented.

7. What are the next steps and opportunities you’ll be focusing on for the second half of your work?

Reviewing list of activities & budget for 2022/23 to ensure they are achievable given current capacity & changes in costs.

Building on successful activities. Focussing on completing the work required to establish the incorporated society including holding an AGM and possible election of additional committee members. Improving the funding application and budget including taking the lessons learnt from 2022/23 in terms of capacity and impact to refine the activities and business plan for 2023/24.

Part 2: Metrics

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8a. Open and additional metrics data.

Open Metrics
Open Metrics Description Target Results Comments Methodology
# of volunteer hours organising Committee meetings, grant application hours, organising and facilitating events 500 291 Learning: Measuring this is hard. The number reported is less than the actual time invested in organising during the 1 July - 31 December reporting period

This number is an estimate based on the experience of the report writer. It’s difficult to establish an accurate baseline of organiser hours contributed where the report writer hasn’t been present during the organising. One mitigation and a step towards more accurate reporting would be to add organising time measures into reporting templates and expectations of reporting the same to funding applications provided to Wikimedia Aotearoa user group. There is organising time that is known to have not been included to date, due to a lack of an accurate estimate of or actual results / measurement, and there is likely other organising occurring that is both unknown and unmeasured.

Organiser definition: Wikimedians that organize events and funding, build contributor skills, facilitate and coach, build the community identity including identifying new people, set movement and affiliate strategy, develop partnerships and build networks, keep projects on track, propel campaigns producing quality content or communicate and publicize. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Wikimedia_Movement_Organizers_Study.pdf

User:Einebillion Diary / Recording of hours organsing or contributing to organising (minus meetup facilitation and committee attendance) since 1 July 86.5 hours Meetups 1 July - 31 December: 15 meeting. Facilitation 1 person x 2 hours, Documentation 1 person x 2 hours. Estimates based on experience 60 hours Wikiblitz between 1 July - 31 December: Facilitation for events hours total of 19.5 hours, organisation per Wikiblitz 2 x 4 hours per event. Estimated. 27.5 hours Editathons between 1 July - 31 December = 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Women_in_STEAM_Edit-a-thon_2022#Hours_spent_by_editors_organising_the_event 17 hours, facilitation 3.5 hours. Total 20.5 hours Committee meeting time 1 hour x 6 x 7 participants, organisation of agenda and minutes 2 hours x 6. Estimated 54 hours ESEAP/WOW conference presentations: delivery time 4 x 1 hour + 8 hours per presentation prep time 36 hours Comms and publicity contributions including report writing: 7 hours report writing Not counted were contributions of other organisers such as User:Ambrosia10 in network building with international natural environment scientific community, User:DrThneed in organising the New Zealand Thesis project or User:Giantflightlessbirds in organising the West Coast Task Force and Critter of the Week Project. Other WANZ committee members contributions to policy and administration of the WANZ affiliate. Other investment of time in communication and publicity.

Participant satisfaction % of participants satisfied or very satisfied with events (meetups, edit-a-thons, WikiCons) organised by Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand 75 N/A No Progress

No survey conducted to date. Given the quantity of work required to deliver the programme of activities and the administration of incorporated society set up, planning a survey to establish this metric may not occur.

Survey
# NZ GLAM partnerships sustained # of NZ GLAMs contributing to WMF projects and actively engaging with NZ User group community 4 4 High engagement with:

Auckland War Memorial Museum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Auckland_Museum) Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Museum_of_New_Zealand_Te_Papa_Tongarewa) Grey District Library (WestCoast Wikisource Project https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:West_Coast_Task_Force) Communication maintained with: New Zealand Parliamentary Library staff Significant engagement with and investment by the User group committee requires the institution investing in rights assessment and open licensing of the content they hold. This remains a hurdle for GLAM institutions. The User Group has targeted institutions in NZ who have an open licensing practice and see the User Group and user group members as partners rather than volunteers. These relationships rely on committed staff members within each institution.

Review of minutes of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand committee and User Group annual report https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Group_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand/Annual_Report_2022
Second month new editor retention percentage of editors who, having made at least 1 edit in the first 30 days after registration made at least 1 edit during the second 30 days 10 N/A Will not be reported on due to time required to assemble data. Interrogation of the data to report on this measure requires manual investigation of user accounts and editing history. The time commitment needed to report on this measure is not available from the report writer. This measure is also unlikely to be reported on at end of the reporting time due to the time required to gather the data. https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/wikimedia_aotearoa_new_zealand_2022/programs
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Additional Metrics
Additional Metrics Description Target Results Comments Methodology
Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities Organisers that organise/contribute to organising more than 1 event / programme during the grant period 10 11 Meetup organisers:

User:Einebillion User:Ambrosia10 User:Susan Tol (new) (1 meetup delivered this reporting period) User:MurielMary Other organisers of events / programmes not previously mentioned User:Giantflightlessbirds User:Pakoire User:AtticEdit (new) (1 event delivered, 1 in planning) Conference presenters and not previously listed: User:Beeswaxcandle User:Kowhaiarewhana (New) (1 event delivered, 1 in planning) User Group Committee and not previously listed: User:Marshelec User:Noracrentiss User:Schwede66

Organiser definition: Wikimedians that organize events and funding, build contributor skills, facilitate and coach, build the community identity including identifying new people, set movement strategy or affiliate or GLAM strategy in relation to WMF platforms, develop partnerships and build networks, keep projects on track, propel campaigns producing quality content or communicate and publicize. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Wikimedia_Movement_Organizers_Study.pdf

User Group Annual Report - events from July https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Group_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand/Annual_Report_2022 My Dashboard Campaign: Projects dating from July 2022 https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/wikimedia_aotearoa_new_zealand_2022/overview Meetups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/New_Zealand

Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Diversity of participants brought in by grantees N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Number of people reached through social media publications N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Number of activities developed # activities and programs developed and delivered by User Group and user base. 27 activities detailed in grant application + 3 additional programs/activities developed by users 30 5 4 Completed

17 Progressing 6 No progress to date + West Coast Task Force (output of West Coast Wikipedian at Large) Completed Critter of the Week Progressing West Coast Wikisource Project Progressing

Committee Trello Board recording progress on grant activities A1 - A27

My Dashboard Campaign: Projects from July 2022 https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/wikimedia_aotearoa_new_zealand_2022/overview User Group Annual Report for 2022 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Group_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand/Annual_Report_2022

Number of volunteer hours N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

8b. Additional core metrics data.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics Description Target Results Comments Methodology
Number of participants The number of participants in all activities is 75.

New participants: 15 Returning participants: 60 Measurement technique: The overarching dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/wikimedia_aotearoa_new_zealand_2022/overview and manual attendence numbers tracking for in person events, liaison, contacts.

75 0 Not reported on as too time consuming to manually assemble data from the sources available. Checking individual User accounts to prevent double counting would be required and takes too much time.

In addition to the Dashboard information detailing participants to editathons and projects there were also meetups held during the year, both online and in person, around New Zealand. These included:

Number of editors The number of people who edit Wikimedia projects as a result of grantee activities is 50.

New editor: 5 Inexperienced editors < year: 10 Established and active editors: 35 Measurement technique: The overarching dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/wikimedia_aotearoa_new_zealand_2022/overview and manual attendence numbers tracking for in person events.

50 50 This number reflects the signups to Dashboard

Campaign setting of dashboard lists editors against projects so editors are counted multiple times depending on project contribution. Also shows editors that join projects but don’t continue to edit or don’t edit at all. This requires extraction of data and spreadsheet manipulation to identify contributors. Some events have an online component. Contributors to some of these online events are not from New Zealand but are joining from Australia and possibly other countries. Breaking contributions down to new, inexperienced, and established requires manual investigation and is too time consuming and onerous on the report writer.

My Dashboard Campaign: Projects for all of 2022 as it was too much of a manual burden to separate out to only those projects starting from July 2022 https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/wikimedia_aotearoa_new_zealand_2022/overview
Number of organizers The number of organisers (Implementors, Connectors, Supporters) in all activities is 12. Of these, our target is that 2 will be new organisers that begin to contribute.

Measure: Manually list per activity / event in the User Group annual report https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Group_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand/Annual_Report_2022

12 15 Meetup organisers:

User:Einebillion User:Ambrosia10 User:Susan Tol (new) User:MurielMary Organisers leading or co-leading projects including wikiblitz, dashboard projects, wikicons, and editathons and not previously listed: User:Giantflightlessbirds User:Pakoire User:DrThneed User:AtticEdit (new) Conference presenters and not previously listed: User:Beeswaxcandle User:Kowhaiarewhana (new) User Group Committee and not previously listed: User:Marshelec User:Noracrentiss User:Schwede66 GLAM organisers not previously listed: User: Avocadobabygirl (new) User:Jetaynz

Organiser definition: Wikimedians that organize events and funding, build contributor skills, facilitate and coach, build the community identity including identifying new people, set movement or affiliate or GLAM strategy in relation to WMF platforms, develop partnerships and build networks, keep projects on track, propel campaigns producing quality content or communicate and publicize. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Wikimedia_Movement_Organizers_Study.pdf

Community anecdotal knowledge, dashboard for projects from July 2022, and meetup minutes.

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project Description Target Results Comments Methodology
Wikipedia EN-Wikipedia

Number of articles created: 100 Number of articles improved: 400 Measure: The overarching dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/wikimedia_aotearoa_new_zealand_2022/overview

500 215 West Coast Wikipedian at Large 24 new articles 160 improved articles

Women in Steam Ada Lovelace Day Editathon 3 new articles 28 improved articles Total 27 new articles, 188 improved articles Dashboard does not provide a numbered list of articles after filtering making it difficult to establish exact figures without counting line by line. Analysis shows that dashboard projects / editathons may not be as productive as individual editors with themed workflows. E.g. new editor User:Stitchbird2 has logged 28 new articles since 1 July 2022. The results do not include the work of individuals outside of the Campaign projects.

My Dashboard Campaign: Projects dating from July 2022 https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/wikimedia_aotearoa_new_zealand_2022/overview
Wikidata EN-Wikidata

Number of items created: 66,000 Number of revisions created: 250,000 Measure: The overarching dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/wikimedia_aotearoa_new_zealand_2022/overview

316000 601400 69,400 (new items created)

532,000 (Total revisions) Majority of Wikidata new items and revisions were the result of the New Zealand Thesis Wikidata project and the work of the data wrangler associated with the project see: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_NZThesisProject Excluding this project’s changes there were 122 new items were created and 1420 reversions. As the Wikidata project is finishing it’s unlikely that there will be a drastic change in numbers at year end unless another project eventuates. These figures do not include the work of individuals outside of the Campaign projects. It raises questions of Is knowing the patterns of editors outside of projects a metric worth knowing? And, if so, How do other affiliates track their user contributions?

My Dashboard Campaign: Projects dating from July 2022 https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/wikimedia_aotearoa_new_zealand_2022/overview
Wikimedia Commons Number of commons uploads: 2000

Measure: The overarching dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/wikimedia_aotearoa_new_zealand_2022/overview

2000 6840 This figure includes all uploads from 2022 listed in the dashboard.

Image uploads reflect the typical “long tail” of content creation. The majority of uploads from a variety of sources completed by 4 editors with a number of fewer contributions by around 20 others. My Dashboard only allows manual counting of editors contributing to Wikimedia Commons per project. This is a disincentive to completing a deep dive on numbers and patterns of contributions. The majority of contributions come from external sources rather than “own work”. The members of the user group have encouraged each other to approach government organisations, knowledge institutions, and individuals to request images be openly licensed on Flickr, iNaturalist, and government websites to enable contributions.

My Dashboard Campaign: Projects for all of 2022 as it was too much of a manual burden to separate out to only those projects starting from July 2022 https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/wikimedia_aotearoa_new_zealand_2022/overview
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

9. Are you having any difficulties collecting data to measure your results?

Yes. It’s not impossible to collect data for some of the measures set but some of the core measures require significant investment of time to manually collate the data. As such next year the reporting measures will be determined by what data is easily collected and analyzed.

The difficulties of collecting data for this report have been compounded by the situation where the Aotearoa New Zealand User Group has previously reported on a January to December activity year and is now reporting on the financial year of July to June. The user group reporting we have completed does not align with the activity report required by this report. We are in the process of consolidating our reporting to ensure this isn’t an issue for 2023/24.

10. Are you collaborating and sharing learning with Wikimedia affiliates or community members?

Yes

10a. Please describe how you have already shared them and if you would like to do more sharing, and if so how?

Collaborating with Wikimedia Australia on the #1Lib1Ref May campaign and the Australia/NZ Wikidata fellowship. This seems sustainable at present for the NZ user group. After the ESEAP conference and meeting people in person the intention is to continue to grow the relationship and more opportunities will develop in the future.

11. Documentation of your work process, story, and impact.

  • Below there is a section to upload files, videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, e.g. communications materials, blog posts, compelling quotes, social media posts, etc.). This can be anything that would be useful to understand and show your learning and results to date (e.g., training material, dashboards, presentations, communications material, training material, etc).
  • Below is an additional field to type in link URLs.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Group_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand/Annual_Report_2022

Part 3: Financial reporting and compliance

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12. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.

9565.29

13. Local currency type

NZD

14. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.

  • Upload Documents, Templates, and Files.
  • Provide links to your financial reporting documents.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zgWrRUOC0iqa20czbIUB4uQ1MG93h8Nt/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107989438205577828845&rtpof=true&sd=true

15. Based on your implementation and learning to date, do you have any plans to make changes to the budget spending?

Yes

15a. Please provide an explanation on how you hope to adjust this.

We are planning a WikiCon for March 2023 and this is more expensive than anticipated. We are looking to move funding from other activity lines to ensure the success of the event. The budget is currently under discussion with the Committee and we will be contacting our Programme Officer to discuss this once the budget is more set.

16. We’d love to hear any thoughts you have on how the experience of being a grantee has been so far.

The User group committee recognised that the activities we committed to in the application might change. The User Group committee was still forming and developing a workflow for business planning and budgeting. This has been a successful 6 months of learning and “professionalising” our approach as an affiliate. We are looking forward to continuing our progress for the next 6 months.

It’s been a challenging time making progress setting up the incorporated society whilst also trying to achieve the activities we committed to deliver as part of the grant application and this is likely to continue this year. The committee has enjoyed working together - we are becoming an excellent team of supportive, understanding, and hard working collaborators. There is no one on the committee that doesn’t spend significant amounts of personal time taking our affiliate forward. We have also greatly respected and appreciated the help and advice Jacqueline Chen has provided us. She is our main WMF contact and is very helpful at connecting us with who we need to talk to. It is a challenge trying to meet our own high expectations of what we want to deliver given the resources and time available to us. It’s becoming evident that our funding requirements in the near future will include staff. We are watching Wikimedia Australia and the additional organising capacity that two staff are bringing to their operation and we need that capacity. If Wikimedia Foundation were to support this it would greatly help us advance as both an affiliate and as representatives of the Wikimedia movement in Aotearoa New Zealand. On a final note we respectfully request that Wikimedia Foundation continue to strive to offer its online meetings and workshops to all timezones. Aotearoa New Zealand organisers are often unable to attend these opportunities for connection due to the time they are scheduled. Requiring staff to measure and report on the timezones offered for communicating their work and programmes with the Wikimedia community would be a useful piece of analysis for the WMF to complete.