WikiForHumanRights/Organize

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For 2021 Organizing recommendations, see WikiForHumanRights/2021/Organize

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Organize

You can organize a number of events around the campaign theme ‘’Our Rights, Our Future, Right Now’’ that explores the rights that are critical right now in your community. You can explore this from a climate and sustainability lens, and organize activities from May-July or through a human rights lens with activities from August-December. For example, you might want to explore rights to education, housing, or even the human rights dimensions of displacement and humanitarian protection. While local movements protecting land, water, and ecosystems, or environmental laws, or how mining, logging, or industrial agriculture impact local ecosystems, might be interesting areas for climate and sustainability focus.

And if the Knowledge For a Sustainable Future theme feels more natural for you, you can organize events in any of the two cycles using this this guide to identify sub-themes relevant in your region that are critical for the future. These activities can include:

An edit-a-thon or editing workshop in your country/community
Organizing a localized mini editing contest in your country/community
Hosting a webinar explaining the role of Wikipedia in the Knowledge for a Sustainable Future and/or Our Rights, Our Future, Right Now theme
Try something else?

Regional Support for Organizers

Are you a country or community organizer rallying your community to participate in the campaign? we have experienced movement organizers working in your region to support you with the right information that is accessible in your language? Do you need help identifying the right kind of community activities to organize, a deep understanding of the campaign theme to align to your local context, the right tools to build your article list or submitting a rapid grant application? The regional coordinators are happy to lend you support in all the following ways and more.

Meet and connect with your regional coordinator to access this support where you need them:

Ruby D-Brown (talk) - Africa
Valentin Nasibu (talk) - Francophone Africa
Evelin Heidel & Luisina Ferrante - LATAM
Matej Grochal - CEE Region
Sandra Hanbo - Arabic-speaking Communities
Anita Braga & CalliandraDysantha -Portuguese-speaking Communities
Muhammed amine benloulou - Maghreb Region - Maghreb Environment

Please feel free to reach out to the regional coordinator in your region if you need their support.

Empowering Campaign Organizers

Are you an organizer supporting the work of the campaign in your country or region? We will be hosting occasional learning and support spaces to help you answer any questions . Please keep an eye out for updates on this page.

Resource for Organizers

For further information, see Resources subpage.

Organizing Tools

Creating your Dashboard

If you are organizing a local editing workshop or contest do create your dashboard under the WikiForhumanRight Program Dashboard

Other tracking tools

Depending on your activities there are other useful tracking tools which include:

Event Registration

Use the event registration tool for your event! This helps you promote your event on the Collaboration list, while making on-wiki registration effortless. Once registration is enabled, participants can register for the event by simply clicking the “Register” button. Whether you are running a single event, multiple events, or an event spanning more than 1 month, the event registration tool caters to your needs. You can adopt multiple registrations for your local activities if your event include one or all of the following:
- Local campaign featuring launch webinar, closing session, and capacity buildings
- Local campaign happening in more than one affiliated community or network of a particular Wikimedia community e.g. WikiForHumanRights 2025 in Nigeria happening in Anambra, Imo, Osun, Rivers, and Kogi states See here, for example.
- Local campaign spanning more than 1 month during the campaign cycle eg. WikiForHumanRights 2025 in Brazil with editathons in June and July. See here, for example.

Please see how to create multiple registrations or single registration for your local campaign activities. You can also access these video guides in Arabic, Spanish, Swahili, and French. You can request for organizer right for this tool using the guidelines here. Visit the project page to learn more about this tool.

Topic List

Here are the suggested topic lists and red links to get started.

Do you need help designing a new topic list? Here are some tools to help you think through this approach:

Guides

WikiforHumanRight Organizers' Guide
Guide to Hosting an Editing Workshop
Guide for hosting an edit-a-thon
Organizer's Guide
WikiForHumanRight 2022 Global Participant Guide

Resources for new editors

Links to Research Publications