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Community Organizing Experience

The Community Organizing Experience team at the Wikimedia Foundation works to support organizers in our movement to build vibrant, resilient communities that can work together on content campaigns, events and activities. By supporting organizers with learning support, tool adoption and collaboration spaces, we hope to make the work of organizing in our movement easier and more joyful for our communities.

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The team

Euphemia Uwandu

Program Officer, Community Organizing Experience

Anbar Jayadi

Senior Process Analyst, Community Organizing Experience

How we work

The Community Organizing Experience team works to help organizers in the Wikimedia movement to

• Find contributors who are interested in working collaboratively on shared topical interests,
• Guide those contributors to work on topic areas that interest them, and
• Build a robust and vibrant community.

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  Deforestation in Nigeria Wikipedia editing Workshop at University of Nigeria, taken by Organizer Lab graduant Ngozi Osadebe
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  Organizer Lab Graduation call photograph 23/24
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  Alex Stinson facilitating a workshop on organizing tools and practice at Wikimania 2024
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  Euphemia Uwanda and Georges Foudep at Wiki Indaba 2023
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Engage

Are you struggling with part of your campaign?

• Request a design workshop to work on any part of your campaign. When making a request, try to tell us what part of the Organizer Framework you need most help on.
• Need help with identifying gaps on your wikis? We can help you build a list of actionable content.
• Need ongoing advising? We can provide ongoing advising for international campaigns.
• Need help designing a workflow for your activity? Request a technical consultation focused on tools and contribution strategies.

Do you want to stay in touch?

• Join our office hours
• Signup for our newsletter
• Follow or join Let’s Connect Sessions

Projects/Initiatives

Past Projects FY24/25

• Expanding Collaboration tools – we supported the product teams involved in the CampaignEvents extension, the Content Translation tool, and Machine Learning to strengthen how these tools support organizing.
  • We trained organizers to use the Event Registration tool and mark their content lists for inclusion in the Content Translation tool, most recently during the Celebrate Women campaign.
  • Previously, translation suggestions were based on a contributor’s past edits, or what is popular. Now, contributors can filter suggested edits using Wikipedia’s topic taxonomy, or choose a list that was built for a campaign, WikiProject, or other collaboration. This feature surfaces communities’ own content goals within core product workflows.
  • A survey of WikiProject contributors identified common challenges, such as finding participants, engaging newcomers, and keeping participants engaged in collaborations. It also identified a distinct set of concerns for non-English projects. Similarly, in-depth interviews with contributors in the language onboarding pilot suggested potential follow-on interventions.
  • We reviewed improvements to the language-agnostic topic classification models for Wikipedia articles. These models are used to suggest editing tasks and measure content gaps. More than 40 organizers and contributors with subject matter expertise in topics, such as the environment, biodiversity, arts and culture, gender, and marginalized identities helped to clarify our country, species, and gender labels.
• Central Notice Improvement Project – We facilitated a consultation with Central Notice administrators to improve the process for requesting banners to promote events and content drives. The consultation led to updated guidelines for Central Notice Requests, trainings, renewed enthusiasm from the admins, and reduced backlogs.
• WikiforHumanRights Campaign Refresh

Learn how to organize

Do you want to get started with organizing topics for impact campaigns or other initiatives? Here are some resources to get you started:

• Organizing Framework - a 2020 mapping of the steps taken by organizers to run and design campaigns
• WikiLearn - (Coming Soon) Self Taught Course Material on WikiLearn on Identifying Knowledge Gaps and Designing for Your Audience (based on the Organizer Lab)
• Learn how to use Event Registration Tool

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