Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2024/Kurdish Wikimedians User Group
| Affiliate basic information | ||
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| What is the affiliate name? | Kurdish Wikimedians User Group | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | Kurdish | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | Iraq, Turkiye, Iran and Syria | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | January - December | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2024 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | Mohammed Sardar | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | Bikarhêner | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | Promote and encourage use of Kurdish on all Wikimedia projects, Increase in number and quality of articles in Kurdish Wikipedia. Spread and promote the idea of being a Wikian among the Kurdish people through online activities and physical outreach in schools, universities, institutes, libraries and more. | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | ||
| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | The Kurdish Wikimedia community consists of a four-member board, which makes the main decisions through online meeting & WhatsApp chat. | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | 2023 financial report | |
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | 4 (Mohammed Serdar, Huseyin, Serchia, Aram) | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | 26 members (+ we had one wikimedian residence), 5 external voluntieers | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | editathons | |
| 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? | Not yet | |
| Are there any trainings that affiliate leadership undergo before they assume their leadership position? | Not yet | |
| 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? | Yes, we have three leaders from Iraq and one from Turkey | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | ||
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? | ||
| 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. | 2024 | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | 17 | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | 9 | |
| 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? | 17 | |
| Partnerships and collaboration | ||
| Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. | 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) | Programs and events | |
| on-wiki technical skills | ||
| Leadership skills | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | Conflict Management | |
| communication and media relations | ||
| partnerships | ||
| 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? | ||