Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2018-20/Overview/Timeline

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Open call for participation in 9 Working Groups	Candidates assessment and selection	Announcement of WG members and first in-person meetings	Set-up continuation, WG diversification process	Scoping WG work with community input round	Materials and research analysis, including in-person discussions and online community feedback round	In-person working group meetings, in-person strategy discussions and online community consultation, drafting recommendations, WG and community discussions conclusion	Working groups put finishing touches on their work; working groups dissolve	Recommendations synthesis and analysis, community discussions, presenting synthesized recommendations to the movement and Board of Trustees	Integrating feedback into the recommendations, finalizing the recommendations	Final recommendations published; transition from recommendations to implementation
12 June–2 July 2018	3–19 July 2018	Wikimania 2018	July–October 2018	November 2018 – February 2019	March–June 2019, Wikimedia Summit 2019	July–September 2019, Wikimania 2019, Harmonization Sprint in Tunis	October 2019	November 2019–February 2020	March – April 2020	May – June 2020

Overview[edit]

In 2016, Wikimedia turned 15 and we started wondering about what we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years.
In 2017, the Movement embarked on a participatory and adaptive Movement Strategy Process, to define what Wikimedia will look like in 2030, and how we want our projects, our communities and the free knowledge ecosystem to evolve. The first major milestone was the publication and endorsement of the Strategic Direction.
In 2018, we started to explore how we can update our structures and programs so that we can successfully and strongly advance in our Strategic Direction. Movement organizations began to incorporate the concepts of Knowledge Equity and Knowledge as a Service in their strategic and annual plans. In addition, a coordinated, exploratory process was initiated at WMCON 2018 to define what structural changes are necessary for the movement to be ready for the future.
In the second half of 2018, working groups were established to develop concrete recommendations for structural changes in 9 thematic areas that would help us move forward in our strategic direction. Close to 100 Wikimedians formed into nine working groups, each focused on one thematic area. Work began by the end of the year.

In March 2019, the working groups produced scoping documents outlining a set of guiding questions that would help them analyze the Movement. Based on the initial scope, conversations, and research, the working groups began developing the first draft of the recommendations. While this was happening, broad-reaching conversations were also conducted on- and offline to identify needs and priorities from online communities and affiliate groups that could help shape the recommendations.
In June 2019, strategy salons - in-person meetings hosted by affiliate groups with their community members and a few external partners - started taking place. Between June and September, 48 strategy salons were held in 29 countries.
In August 2019, draft recommendations for change were published online and presented at Wikimania 2019. The Movement shared input, perspectives, and thoughts in person and online that the working groups could use to refine the recommendations.
In September 2019, the working groups developed the second iteration of the recommendations, 89 in total across the nine groups. Working groups dissolved by the beginning of November. At the end of 2019, a small team of writers (made up of former working group members) began synthesizing the recommendations to create one comprehensive, coherent set.
In early 2020, the synthesized, pre-final set of recommendations were published for the Movement to understand them, reflect on what they mean in their project, local, or thematic context, and provide feedback.
From March to April 2020, the extensive feedback was integrated into the recommendations. The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees also reviewed the recommendations once more following an earlier review in February, and requested some final revisions. After discussions, the revisions were integrated and the recommendations finalized.
In May 2020, the Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy Recommendations were published and shared with the Movement to start conversations to transition to implementation. It features 10 recommendations and 10 underlying principles and outlines a guide for change for how we will collaboratively create the future of our Movement.
Following the publication of the recommendations, the focus of Movement Strategy will be shifting, starting from June 2020, toward how to transition to the implementation phase.

Process steps, from scoping to recommendations[edit]

Discussing scoping documents at the Wikimedia Summit 2019. March 2019
Getting community input on draft recommendations at Wikimania 2019. August 2019
Synthesizing 89 recommendations into one set. October 2019 to January 2020
Community conversations. January to February 2020
Integrating input to create the final recommendations. March to April 2020
The Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy Recommendations are published. May 2020

Movement Strategy Conversations and Presentations at Events[edit]

Event	Date	Location	Core Team participants	Working Group participants
Wikimedia Foundation All Hands	January 27-31	San Francisco, USA	Nicole Ebber, Tanveer Hasan, Jodi McMurray, Mehrdad Pourzaki
2019
WikiConference North America 2019	November 8-11	Cambridge, MA, USA	Mehrdad Pourzaki, Kelsi Stine-Rowe, Ellie McMillan
WikiIndaba	November 8-10	Abuja, Nigeria	Tanveer Hasan, Douglas Ssebaggala
WikidataCon	October 25-26	Berlin, Germany	Nicole Ebber
Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2019	October 11-13	Belgrade, Serbia	Kaarel Vaidla, Tanveer Hasan
WikiCon	October 4-6	Wuppertal, Germany	Nicole Ebber, Abbad Diraneyya
WikiArabia	October 4-6	Marrakesh, Morocco	Mehrdad Pourzaki
Harmonization Sprint	September 20-22	Tunis, Tunisia	Nicole Ebber, Kaarel Vaidla, Bhavesh Patel, Mehrdad Pourzaki, Tanveer Hasan, Abbad Diraneyya
East Africa Strategy Summit 2019	September 7-8	Kampala, Uganda	Kelsi Stine-Rowe, Douglas Ssebaggala
Wikimania	August 14-18	Stockholm, Sweden	Nicole Ebber, Kaarel Vaidla, Bhavesh Patel, Mehrdad Pourzaki, Tanveer Hasan, Kelsi Stine-Rowe, Anna Rees
ESEAP Strategy Summit	June 29-30	Bangkok, Thailand	Mehrdad Pourzaki, Tanveer Hasan, Kelsi Stine-Rowe
Wikimedia Hackathon	May 17-19	Prague, Czech Republic	./.
Creative Commons Summit	May 9-11	Lisbon, Portugal	Nicole Ebber, Kaarel Vaidla
re:publica	May 6-8	Berlin, Germany	Nicole Ebber	Alice Wiegand (Advocacy)
Wikimedia+Education Conference 2019	April 5-7	San Sebastián, Spain	./.
Internet Freedom Festival	April 1-5	Valencia, Spain	./.
Wikimedia Summit	March 29-31	Berlin, Germany	All Core Team
IberoConf	February 8-10	Santiago, Chile	Tanveer Hasan
Wikimedia Foundation All Hands	January 27-Feb 2	San Francisco, USA	Nicole Ebber, Kaarel Vaidla, Jodi McMurray, Tanveer Hasan
Wikisammelan Kolkata 2019	January 11-13	Kolkata, India
2018
GLAM Wiki Conference	November 3-5	Tel Aviv, Israel	Anna Lena Schiller, Kaarel Vaidla
Mozilla Festival	October 26-28	London, United Kingdom	Nicole Ebber, Bhavesh Patel
Technology Conference	October 22-25	Portland, Oregon, USA	no Core Team, but WG representatives	Ryu Cheol (Product and Technology)
WikiConference North America	October 18-21	Columbus, Ohio, USA	Jodi McMurray
CEE Meeting	October 13-15	Lviv, Ukraine	Kaarel Vaidla, Tanveer Hasan
Northern Europe Meeting	October 6-7	Stockholm, Sweden	no Core Team representatives
Wikiconvention francophone	October 5-7	Grenoble, France	Kaarel Vaidla
WikiCon	October 5-7	Sankt Gallen, Switzerland	Nicole Ebber
Wikimania	July 18-22	Cape Town, South Afrika	Nicole, Kaarel, Jodi, Bhav, Anna Lena, Douglas, Anne