Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2024/Arabic Wikimedians Usergroup
| Affiliate basic information | ||
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| What is the affiliate name? | Arabic Wikimedians Usergroup | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | arabic | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | thematic | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | ||
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2024-2025 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | Sarmad Yaseen | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | Dezedien | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | support, connect, and grow Arabic-speaking Wikimedians and their projects, while promoting knowledge equity and representation of the Arab world on Wikimedia platforms. | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | empower Arabic-speaking Wikimedians, enrich Arabic content, and create lasting partnerships that strengthen the Wikimedia movement in the MENA region. | |
| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | The group holds regular online meetings, and when possible, in-person meetings during conferences. Since members are spread across the world, decisions are made collectively through these meetings, ensuring inclusive participation regardless of location. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Arabic_Wikimedians_User_Group/Managment | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | no | |
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | 10 | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | the same | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | No significant activity in past 12 months. But
Several meetings were held within the group, including an activity focused on updating the group’s logo in support of Arabic Wikipedia knowledge. After discussions in the group’s Facebook messaging channel, the logo was adopted as the official one, aligned with the Wikipedia Spring 2024 design. see new logo https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ArabianNumericCommunity.png A meeting was held during Wikimania to relaunch the group through activities on Wikidata and Wikisource. | |
| Leadership and inclusion | ||
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
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| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | Communication, training and event management | |
| Is there any kind of succession plan for the affiliate leadership? | Yes, a succession plan is scheduled for 2025 to hand over to a new management team. | |
| Are there any trainings that affiliate leadership undergo before they assume their leadership position? | Yes, a succession plan is scheduled for 2025 to hand over to a new leadership. | |
| Are there any requirements for affiliate leadership to disclose their conflict(s) of interests? | We do not yet have a formal governance charter, as the group is still in an early stage of development. | |
Diversity balance (especially gender)
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| What is the diversity level of the affiliate leadership and membership body? | The group is a thematic and diverse user group, open to anyone who values and wishes to promote the Arabic language. | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | The group meets and decisions are made without gender discrimination. | |
Universal Code of Conduct compliance
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| How does the affiliate leadership ensure, enforce, and evaluate compliance with the Universal Code of Conduct obligations? | The group follows the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) and makes sure all its activities respect it, by adopting inclusivity and equity. | |
| Engagement and Collaboration | ||
| Please share the publicly available records of regular meetings, activities, events, or conference in the past year where the affiliate has participated. | No meetings have been made public. We only have a private discussion group on Messenger. | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | 10 | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | 0 | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | 4 | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | 4 | |
| Partnerships and collaboration | ||
| Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. | No significant activity in past 12 months. But
Several meetings were held within the group, including an activity focused on updating the group’s logo to highlight support for Arabic Wikipedia and the promotion of free knowledge. The most significant initiative carried out by the group, which also served as a way to engage members, was the logo change proposed by Farah during the events in Gaza, emphasizing the importance of proper encyclopedic documentation on the Arabic Wikipedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ArabianNumericCommunity.png | |
| What would affiliate leadership list as the top 3 (three) capacities of the affiliate? (e.g. evaluation, community governance, programs and events, organizational governance and resource policies, conflict management, partnerships, fundraising, communication and media relations, contributor development, on-wiki technical skills, policy advocacy, etc) | Capacity building of contributors | |
| Movement communication and partnerships | ||
| Program design and implementation | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | Setting up better rules and structure for how the group works. | |
| Making more partnerships with organizations and communities. | ||
| Improving fundraising and managing resources for activities. | ||
| What are the organizations, community projects, or groups that the affiliate had been working or seeking to work with to develop and support the 3 capacities? | WMF for help with governance. // Other Wikimedia affiliates to share experiences and build partnerships. // Regional institutions (libraries, universities, NGOs) for future projects. | |
