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Principles

Glossary

For sustainability of our movement infrastructure, the wikimedians across the movement have shared a need for better financial sustainability and support systems for people working on key areas of development in the different regions of the world. The general overview inclines towards empowering the local bodies - affiliates, regional and thematic organizations by assisting them with opportunities of independent growth with leadership, technology/expertise and fundraising for balance and equity in the movement to achieve our strategic goals.

Diversification of revenue channels for affiliates by

Enabling local affiliates and allied organizations to be able to independent fundraising via:[1]

  • Grants and revenue streams from local bodies like government institutions and departments.[2][3]
  • Independent donations from local fundraising campaigns.

Wikimedia merchandize.[4]

  • Technical and legal support for affiliate fundraising.[5]

Empowerment to the network of local organizations by:

  • Enabling the organizations and affiliates financially to have paid staff for advocacy.[6]
  • Documentation should be made available for the movement advocates with a range of material, conceptual resource and expert support.[7][8]
  • Enable affiliates develop legal status in their countries.[9]
  • Creation of regional advocacy hub.[10]
  • Empowering movement’s capacity building via communication and legal department.[11]
  • More efforts need to be done for advocacy and awareness raising about free knowledge outside of digital/technological field so that other sections of the population are sensitized to free knowledge issues.[12]
  • Providing a WMF liaison in each region/geographical zone/linguistic zone for advocacy.

Improve Technical Contributor Engagement

The movement should provide technical infrastructure to facilitate technical volunteer contributors with:

  • Software License's Keys.[13]
  • Allocation of grants for short term tech projects.[14]
  • Better technical documentation about the MediaWiki software.[15]
  • Share technical tools across language versions, especially for sister-projects.[16]
  • Improved access to technological events and projects for non-English speaking communities.
  • Prioritization should be on improving the interface for mobile editing in different wiki projects.[17]

Establish recognition principles for new partners with:

  • Better media coverage about the movement’s brand image, values and different wikimedia project to facilitate the advocacy in a region.[18]
  • Development of tools and infrastructure that align with contemporary institutional practices in communication, so that Wikimedia engagement can more easily fit into organizations’ communication workflows.[19]
  • Regional collaborations with movement partners, allied organizations, thematic organizations must be empowered/ capacity trained as well in order to collaborate with potential partners.[20]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Portugese community conversations, May 2019, Revenue streams thematic area
  2. ↑ Organize local donation requests, engaging more with companies, governments and other big organizations.(Côte d'Ivoire strategy salon, August/September 2019, Revenue streams thematic area).
  3. ↑ WMF should encourage local affiliates to build financial partnerships with local partners (universities - official governmental bodies) to fund them directly without having WMF involved in the process (Arabic community conversations, June 2019, Revenue streams thematic area).
  4. ↑ Wikimedia community near Manila, Philippines, May 2019, Revenue streams thematic area.
  5. ↑ We should be able to support the system that allow the affiliates to legally support the fundraising via services such as technical training (Spanish community conversations, June 2019, Revenue streams thematic area).
  6. ↑ There should be paid positions within the WMF for each region of the world (Arabic community conversations, May 2019, Resource allocation).
  7. ↑ Documentation/database of existing partnerships (both involving WMF and affiliates) in different regions should be created (Hindi community conversations, June 2019, partnerships thematic area).
  8. ↑ A documented track and record of past partnerships for WMF and all affiliates shall be kept in order to be a reference for any future work (Ghana strategy salon, July 2019, partnerships thematic area).
  9. ↑ WMF should support affiliates in obtaining a legal status in their country so that they can have successful partnerships (Spanish community conversations, May 2019, partnerships thematic area).
  10. ↑ An advocacy hub (online) shall be created (Arabic community conversations, September 2019, advocacy thematic area).
  11. ↑ The WMF should help its affiliates get a local legal status. (Community conversations at WikiConvention Francophone, September 2019, Roles & Responsibility thematic area).
  12. ↑ Improve Local governance of affiliates May 2019 ((Arabic community conversations, May 2019, roles & responsibilities thematic area).
  13. ↑ Software License's Keys should be provided to technical volunteer contributors (Hindi community conversations, June 2019, Product & Technology thematic area).
  14. ↑ Create new grants for short term tech projects (Hindi community conversations, June 2019, Product & Technology thematic area).
  15. ↑ Produce better technical documentation about the MediaWiki software (or, if it already exists, make it more accessible) to allow appropriation by other developers (French Strategy Salon (Lyon), July 2019, Product and Technology thematic area).
  16. ↑ Tools sharing between various language versions of wikisources (Hindi community conversation, March-April 2019, Product & Technology thematic area).
  17. ↑ Wikimedia Foundation should prioritize developing mobile editing tools, and a more personalized editing interface. (ESEAP strategy summit, July 2019, Product & Technology thematic area).
  18. ↑ artnerships need good PR and media coverage of the projects and activities (GLAM Macedonia Strategy Salon, July 2019, Partnerships thematic area).
  19. ↑ The WMF should promote the development of tools and infrastructure which align with contemporary institutional practices in communication, so that Wikimedia engagement can more easily fit into organizations’ communication workflows. (WREN (Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network), March 2019, Partnerships thematic area).
  20. ↑ ESEAP (Affiliates, WMF, Regional and Thematic organizations like Iberocoop, WikiFranca, May 2019, Partnerships thematic area).
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