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• Title: Regional CEE Meeting focusing on sharing and learning took place for the fifth time in Dilijan, Armenia
• Opening text (35 words): As a platform for creating and maintaining regional network, venue for exchanging experiences and learnings and catalyst for organizing collaborative projects, Wikimedia CEE Meeting is the cornerstone of Wikimedia Central and Eastern Europe regional collaborative.
• Intro text (goes before images): Although the discussions around having a CEE meeting started already in 2005, it took a more concrete form during meet-up on Wikimania in Haifa in 2011 and as a result the first meeting took place in Belgrade, Serbia in 2012. Throughout the years the involvement of regional communities has increased - for 2014 meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine a community consulted needs assessment was carried out for the first time and 2015 meeting in Voore, Estonia had an international program committee. In 2016 wider community was actively involved already in the bidding process for 2017 meeting. Evidently CEE Meeting continues to grow as a collaborative effort.

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• Participants of CEE Meeting 2015 in Voore telling their experience about CEE Meetings
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The idea and theory of change behind CEE annual meeting is rather simple - by getting people from the same region together and engaging them in real life discussions, workshops and social events, communities are strengthened and capacities are developed, partners become part of regional collaboration, and the public gets engaged with wikimedia projects, so that we build an established regional network of local Wikimedia affiliates and external partners, with wider public engagement. (See also logic model of CEE Meeting)

On one hand this results in more competent community members who have had a chance to exchange experiences and learnings, increasing their capacity and ability to perform on the local level. On the other hand it provides an excellent support for building networks and implementing number of great project ideas. For example 100wikidays, Wikimedia CEE Spring and Wikidojo are just some of the outcomes of CEE Meetings. This year there were discussions around education and GLAM projects and there is a high probability of increased CEE collaboration on these fields in near future.

For Wikimedia Eesti regional meeting is especially important because of the possibility to receive concentrated learnings from peers in an unmediated form. For a small chapter such transmission of knowledge is of very high value. On the other hand discussions and sharing on regional meetings provide a chance to multiply the impact that Estonian experiences and accumulated know-how has on Wikimedia movement. Having a chapter for such a small community is a luxury and Wikimedia Eesti tries to be worthy of this recognition by taking an active role on international level. Wikimedia CEE Meeting is an excellent platform for increasing the value of local competence and not only for the Estonian chapter.

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• Wikimedia Central and Eastern Europe
• Wikimedia CEE Meeting

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