Movement Learning and Leadership framework[edit]

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Fundamental

Emerging

Expanding

Elevated

Learning and Leadership Development

Design for Access

Provide guidance & tutorials to become familiar with Wikimedia
Direct volunteers to consolidated resources and wikis/projects related to interests and languages
Create awareness of the benefits of volunteering and the many ways to contribute

Connect to communities a newcomer can learn from
Identify and make it easier for newcomers to find and connect to local community
Increase translation of learning and support resources
Provide internet/device support
Offer a Question/answer hotline or group
Create list of movement trainings and events and make visible to all users
Increase WMF onsite support to create more access for development
Create awareness and encourage participation in movement trainings & workshops
Prioritize conference attendance/scholarships to those who have never been
Require event scholarship recipients to conduct a share out of learnings with their community
Increase support for unaffiliated communities and communities where English is not prevalent
Validate wiki involvement with certifications to support working with partners and establish recognition of volunteer work
Provide grants/stipends for mentors to train others
Support Affiliations or former organizations in creating access or direct to resources and opportunities in the movement
Create an easier to navigate resource system/ make it easier for people to ask Questions
Advertise/ broadly recruit for roles and opportunities
Rotating roles and responsibilities/ creating role term limits
Create thematic open calls and public postings to invite new people who may be engaged through various topics
Define and share the ways you can engage in movement
Provide connection to other projects in the movement
Increase invitations - invite others to events, conferences, chat groups, Facebook pages, community meetings, editathons, talk pages, etc.
Direct volunteers and encourage them to apply for scholarships
Publicize trainings and events where people can get more connected and emerged
Direct volunteers to notice boards, sign posts, places to stay up to date and connected
Record/document trainings, conference learnings to share with others and serve as a resource to the community
Pseudonym support for those in dangerous politic areas
WMF support for issues of censorship - provide guidance to people in these circumstances and connect them with similar communities
Less restrictions around grants
Designate tasks and responsibilities to others
Invite others into discussions
Broaden opportunities for others to get involved
Do not limit engagement by setting unrealistic experience requirements
Invest in conferences to form, train, and support leaders in the movement
Create ladders of engagement that can serve as guides for how volunteers can engage and gain experience
Provide support for graceful exits and wiki-breaks
Offer off-boarding interviews to share knowledge, networks, and ongoing work with community
Create templates for off-boarding
Designate tasks and responsibilities to others

Build for a Community of Practice

Provide clear direction of what to read, groups to join, where to go for help, etc.
Hold regular community meetings and opportunities to engage
Plug volunteers into local and relevant chat groups

Use supportive and welcoming dialogue
Offer newcomer meetups
Assign experienced editors to new editors
Participate in mentoring (mentor/mentee)
Share best practices/ values/ behaviors
Provide encouragement
Encourage newer members to help teach others to engage and prevent burnout
Offer local community gatherings to build connection
Define and promote ways to give back to community and help others get where you are
Create accountabilities/ hold people accountable for their actions
Create safe spaces to ask questions and provide answers
Connect people based on interests and ideas
Create an environment of enablement and empowerment
Create terms for roles to prohibit burnout and expand opportunities to learn and grow
Create opportunities for repetitive learning and spaces to show what they learned and how they've applied it
Create communication (chat) groups to answer questions and foster community and volunteer connection
Elevate great community work to show recognition and also allow volunteers to learn from other communities
Be inclusive
Send messages that show others their contributions are important
Recognize people’s skills and how they work best
Learn from other organizations/ communities
Create space for new voices/ don’t hold onto power
Bring online and offline communities together
Reach out to other groups with aligned themes to collaborate and expand the reach and scope of a project.
Guide and motivate others
Adapt a train the trainer model to avoid burnout and increase knowledge sharing
Nurture cooperation
Recognize and fill gaps in content, community, leadership representation, access, etc.
Broaden community participation
Build space and process for knowledge sharing
Create clear role definitions, expectations, and regular reviews
Set terms for roles to create accountability and allow opportunity to step back and make room for others
Offer certifications or more formal recognition systems
Support volunteers by creating opportunities for others to learn and grow
Celebrate wiki-breaks by showing support for their next steps or new chapters

Develop skills and capacities to support the Movement

Communicating on wiki - what, where, how
Tutorials of the wikis, editing basics, policies, etc.
Recognizing and reporting harassment

Using Sandbox
Understanding Open source
Creating wiki categories
Referencing
Balancing time when volunteering
Friendly interactions
Wikipedia Adventure
Outreach
Getting connected to the movement
Running events
Apply your skills by teaching others - fully grasping what you are studying
Building partnerships
Onwiki technical skills
Writing reports
Supportive + welcoming dialogue
Project Management
How to be a mentor and transfer skills/ offer support
Community Organizing
Grant proposals
Retention strategies
Public relations
How to manage a team
Giving and receiving feedback
Representing the needs/ voices of community
Fundraising
Lobbying
Negotiation
Training for specific roles
Impact Evaluation
Functionary coaching
Screen editing
Bias training
Transparent communication
Problem solving
Code templates
Building healthy communities
Articulating wiki experience into resume/ professional experience
Report writing
Community assessment
Retention strategies
On/offline facilitation
Avoiding burnout
Data informed decision making
Participatory decision making
Policy
Civil discourse
Governance
Skill assessment and development of others
Succession planning
Mediation
Journey reflection (reviewing your journey to think about what you could replicate or do to help others)
Influencing change
Strategic planning
Conflict management
Storytelling (communication
Power/privilege training
Developing ladders of engagement for newer volunteers
Contextual awareness
Sharing power

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Design for Access - List[edit]

Fundamental

Emerging

Deepening

Elevated

Learning and Leadership Development

Design for Access

Build for a Community of Practice

Support for skill development/ learning

back to top

Provide guidance & tutorials to become familiar with Wikimedia
Direct volunteers to consolidated resources and wikis/projects related to interests and languages
Create awareness of the benefits of volunteering and the many ways to contribute
Connect to communities they can learn from
Identify and make it easier for newcomers to find and connect to local community
Increase translation of learning resources
Provide internet/device support
Offer a Q&A hotline
Create list of movement trainings and events and make visible to all users
Increase WMF onsite support to create more access for development
Provide more grants for participating in movement trainings/workshops
Prioritize conference attendance/scholarships to those who have never been
Require event scholarship recipients to conduct a share out of learnings with their community
Increase support for unaffiliated communities and communities where English is not prevalent
validate wiki involvement/ certification to support working with orgs and recognition of their work
Provide grants/stipends for mentors to train others
Affiliations or former orgs create access to resources and opps - need more support for this process
Create an easier to navigate resource system/ make it easier for people to ask Qs
Advertise/ broadly recruit for roles and opportunities
Rotating/ creating role term limits
Open calls and public postings inviting ppl to participate in conferences, events, etc - advertise topic may bring in new ppl
Define and share the ways you can engage in movement
Provide connection to other projects in the mvmt
Increase invitations - invite others to events, conferences, chat groups, FB pages, community meetings, editathons, talk pages, etc.
Direct them and encourage them to apply for scholarships
Publicize trainings and events where ppl can get more connected and emerged
Direct to notice boards, sign posts, places to stay up to date and connected
Record/document trainings, conference learnings for others to learn
pseudonym support for those in dangerous politic areas
WMF support for issues of censorship - how to guide ppl in these circumstances or connecting with similar communities
Less restrictions around grants
Designate tasks and responsibilities to others
Invite others into discussions
Create templates for off-boarding
Broaden opportunities for others to get involved
Do not limit engagement by setting unrealistic experience/ requirements
conference to form, train, and support leaders
create ladders of engagement - ways for ppl to gain experience to progress
Support for graceful exits and breaks
Off-boarding interviews to share knowledge, networks, WIP with community
Create templates for off-boarding
Off-boarding interviews to share knowledge, networks, WIP with community
Designate tasks and responsibilities to others

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Build for a Community of Practice - List[edit]

Fundamental

Emerging

Deepening

Elevated

Learning and Leadership Development

Design for Access

Build for a Community of Practice

Support for skill development/ learning

back to top

Provide clear direction of what to read, groups to join, where to go for help, etc.
Hold regular community meetings/ opportunities to engage
Plug volunteers into local/ relevant chat groups
Use supportive and welcoming dialogue
Newcomer meetups
Assign experienced editors to new editors
Participate in mentoring (mentor/mentee)
Share best practices/ values/ behaviors
Provide encouragement
Encourage newer members to help teach others to engage and prevent burnout
Offer local community gatherings to build connection
Define and promote ways to give back to community/help others get where you are
Create accountabilities/ hold ppl accountable for their actions
Create safe spaces to ask questions/provide answers
Connect people based on interests and ideas
Create an environment of enablement and empowerment
Create terms for roles to prohibit burnout and expand opportunities to learn and grow
Create opportunities for repetitive learning and spaces to show what they learned and how they've applied it
Create communication (telegram) groups to answer Qs and foster community and connection
Elevate great community work to show recognition and also allow ppl to learn from other communities
Be inclusive
Send messages that show others their contributions are important
Recognize people’s skills and how they work best
Learn from other organizations/ communities
Create space for new voices/ don’t hold onto power
Bring online and offline communities together
Reach out to other groups with aligned themes to collaborate and expand the reach and scope of a project.
Guide and motivate others
TtT model to avoid burnout and increase knowledge sharing
Nurture cooperation
Recognize and fill gaps in content, community/ leadership representation, access etc
Broaden community participation
Building space/ process for knowledge sharing
Clear role definitions, expectations, and regular review
Set terms for roles to create accountability and allow opportunity to step back/break and make room for others
Offer certifications or more formal recognition systems
support others by creating opportunities for others to learn and grow
Celebrate wiki- breaks/ show support for next steps or new chapters

Support for skill development/learning - List[edit]

Fundamental

Emerging

Deepening

Elevated

Learning and Leadership Development

Design for Access

Build for a Community of Practice

Support for skill development/ learning

back to top

Communicating on wiki -what, where, how
Tutorials of the wikis, editing basics, policies, etc.
Recognizing and reporting harassment
Using sandbox
Open source/the world of Open
Creating categories
Referencing
Balancing time when volunteering
Friendly interactions
Wikipedia Adventure
Outreach
Getting connected to the movement
Running events
apply your skills by teaching others - fully grasping what you are studying
Building partnerships
Onwiki technical skills
Writing reports
Supportive + welcoming dialogue
Project Management
How to be a mentor and transfer skills/ offer support
Community Organizing
Grant proposals
Retention strategies
Public relations
How to manage a team
Giving and receiving feedback
Representing the needs/ voices of community
Fundraising
Lobbying
Negotiation
Training for specific roles
Impact Evaluation
Functionary coaching
Screen editing
Bias training
Transparent communication
Problem solving
Code templates
Building healthy communities
Articulating wiki experience into resume/ professional experience
Report writing
Community assessment
Retention strategies
On/offline facilitation
Avoiding burnout
Data informed decision making
Participatory decision making
Policy
Civil discourse
Governance
Skill assessment and development of others
Succession planning
Mediation
Journey reflection (reviewing your journey to think about what you could replicate or do to help others)
Influencing change
Strategic planning
Conflict management
Storytelling (communication
Power/privilege training
Developing ladders of engagement for newer volunteers
Contextual awareness
Sharing power