Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2024/Esperanto and Free Knowledge
| Affiliate basic information | ||
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| What is the affiliate name? | Esperanto and Free Knowledge | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | Esperanto, Slovak | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | Slovakia, France, Cuba, regularly other European countries, historically other countries | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | January-December | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2024 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | KuboF Hromoslav | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | Agloforto | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | Support creation and wide spread of high-quality educational content in Esperanto language Wikimedia projects, and about Esperanto in Wikimedia projects. | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | # support for the creation, collection, and distribution of open content, principally via projects of Wikimedia Foundation Inc.;
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| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | The Board leads creation of Strategic plans, Annual plans and Annual budgets and the General Assembly approves them. The Board leads implementation of the Strategic plans and Annual plans within the limits of the Annual budgets, eventually changes Annual plans and / or Annual budgets. Depending on the type and severity of decision, it may stay at the work team, organ, or be communicated privately to members, or publicly using our Telegram group, mailinglists, website, social media and Wikimedia project Village Pumps. | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | Most of the finances comes from grants from Erasmus+ from the European Commision (around 10 000 EUR yearly). These funds are used to implement the Erasmus+ project. Additional around 250 EUR comes from member fees and national fundraising campaign. These funds are used to sustain our infrastructure, administration, travel, education etc. | |
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | 7 | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | Membership stable. | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | Talks, trainings, finishing an Erasmus+ project for creating a video course, handbook and in-person trainings, outreach using social media. | |
| Leadership and inclusion | ||
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
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| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | Strategy, project management, grants, technology | |
| Is there any kind of succession plan for the affiliate leadership? | no | |
| Are there any trainings that affiliate leadership undergo before they assume their leadership position? | no | |
| Are there any requirements for affiliate leadership to disclose their conflict(s) of interests? | no | |
Diversity balance (especially gender)
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| What is the diversity level of the affiliate leadership and membership body? | Leadership: 100% males, 0% females, 0% others. Membership: 100% males, 0% females, 0% others. | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | People of any gender are welcome to apply for leadership positions and vote for leadership positions. Strategic decisions are made with voting of all Regular members of any gender. | |
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? | We inform about UCoC in its Telegram group, mailinglists, social media and website. We have a Revision committee, a dedicated organ for ensuring that the organisation and our members follow all applicable rules. | |
| 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. | Annual report 2024 | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | 78% | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | 12% | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | 22% | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | 33% | |
| Partnerships and collaboration | ||
| Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. | Annual report 2024 | |
| 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) | Strategy | |
| Project management | ||
| Grants | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | Activists engagement | |
| Marketing | ||
| Leadership | ||
| 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, WMEU, WMCZ, WMPL, WMDE, E@I, UEA, TEJO, EKC Toulouse, BES, Kosmo Strategio, Eben Pagan, Integral Life | |