Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2024/Muj(lh)eres latinoamericanas en Wikimedia

Affiliate basic information
What is the affiliate name?		Muj(lh)eres latinoamericanas en Wikimedia
Please list the languages supported by this affiliate		Working language may be Spanish (es) or Portuguese (pt) and any other native language spoken in the region. Spanish is our priority language because it is by far the most spoken language in this region.
Please list countries where this affiliate operates		Our scope covers almost all countries in the territory known as Latin America, from Mexico to the South Pole, except for the small territories where English, French or Dutch are spoken.
Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December)		October-September
Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025)		2023-2024
Primary contact (user name)		User:Jaluj
Secondary contact (user name)		User:Laura Fiorucci
Goal delivery
What is the affiliate mission?		Our mission is to provide support to Latin American women of all ages in their projects related to wiki culture by organizing activities for the dissemination of free educational content.
What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one.		Our goal is to recruit women and increase the number of Latin American editors in all Wikimedia movement projects. See Planificación 2025
Organizational development
How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated?		The leaders make proposals. The decisions are made by the Council. We inform the rest of the members through emails and we have a Telegram group in which we share the news.
What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one.		Rapid Fund expenses
Affiliate health and resilience
	How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate?	The decisions are made by the Council which is made up of 11 women who come from different countries.
	Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)?	Members do not pay dues, this is a volunteer-led group. In the last twelve months, 37 new members joined the group, most of them women who participated in our training.
	Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights.	The group grew thanks to the training and workshops given by our volunteers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Mujereando and dozens of workshops.
Leadership and inclusion
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
	What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess?	The most important asset that the group leaders have is that they bring their extensive experience editing Wikipedia and sister projects. The leaders of the group have many many years of experience in the movement and know it very well. They are bureaucrats, administrators, and sysops and they have colaborated with the Strategy of Wikimedia movement and the writing of the UCC.
	Is there any kind of succession plan for the affiliate leadership?	One of the reasons why we have created the School for Female Leaders is because we know that long-term users will at some point abandon the movement and replacement of the new generations is needed.
	Are there any trainings that affiliate leadership undergo before they assume their leadership position?	Yes. We hope that as time goes by, future leaders will emerge from the School for Female Leaders. We hope that women who go through these courses can then inspire, encourage and motivate other women through positive influence.
	Are there any requirements for affiliate leadership to disclose their conflict(s) of interests?	No.
Diversity balance (especially gender)
	What is the diversity level of the affiliate leadership and membership body?	All members of the user group are women or identify as women. There is a wide geographical diversity, we have members from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, United States, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, El Salvador, Venezuela and Uruguay. There is also a wide age spectrum: our youngest member is 18 years old and the oldest is 66. There are members descended from indigenous peoples and people of African descent.
	How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate?	N/A
Universal Code of Conduct compliance
	How does the affiliate leadership ensure, enforce, and evaluate compliance with the Universal Code of Conduct obligations?	We adhere to Wikimedia's friendly space policy and respect the Universal Code of Conduct. We were actively collaborating in the ratification of the revised application guidelines of the Universal Code of Conduct (UCC). We are aware of its importance and try to promote understanding of the UCC and engage in proactive work to prevent violations. All our online and offline spaces are subject to the UCC. In fact, our group is about just that, creating pleasant and receptive environments for people who come for the first time. That is why we work individually and with women's groups, because women need safe spaces in which to consult other women.
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.		See Report. We have virtual meetings:
Community connection
	How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects?	At this moment we have 117 editor members registered on Meta Muj(lh)eres latinoamericanas en Wikimedia#Members who have user accounts and have edited.
	How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects?	At this moment we have 286 members registered in our group Facebook Mujeres Latinoamericanas en Wikimedia.
	How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement?	18 members have participated with initiatives since the group was formed in 2015. In 2024 the trainings have been projected by a single person, two members have organized the dissemination, the same two members have given all the trainings and 6 more members have participated by giving some specific class or workshop. The same two members who gave the training have organized the campaigns on Wikiquote.
	How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year?	71 women participated in all training we gave during 2024.
Partnerships and collaboration
	Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months.	Please see Mujeres latinoamericanas en Wikimedia/Mujeres latinoamericanas en Wikimedia/Reports/Pagina 14
	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)	The most important asset we bring is our extensive experience editing Wikipedia, our on-wiki technical skills. Over the years, we have honed our skills in navigating the platforms, understanding its guidelines, and creating high-quality content. This deep familiarity allows us to confidently teach others how to edit, guiding them through challenges and empowering them to contribute effectively. That is why we have created the School for Female Leaders and we are dedicated to providing training to teach quality editing. Our first-hand knowledge allows us to simplify complex concepts and provide practical advice, ensuring new editors feel supported and empowered as they begin their journey.
		Recruiting women in our main goal. One of our greatest achievements is having generated a safe, diverse and welcoming environment for female editors, who are encouraged to edit and do not feel insecure, fostering an environment of support and inclusion among Latin American collaborators to strengthen ties, a sense of belonging and community identity. Our meetings and trainings function as a safe and permanent space for meetings between Latin American women of all ages within the Wikimedia movement, which is why among our members there are women from many chapters and user groups in the region.
		The result of our work can also be seen in the content added to the projects.
	What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months?	Even though we work a lot, we cannot make our work visible. We need to improve communication and media relations. We want to position and make visible our work and the impact we are achieving in the media and on social networks. That is our biggest shortcoming. We are interested in keeping our blog active by writing articles and making ourselves known in society and for that we need availability of editors, writers and time. We are very interested in making Wikimedia's work visible where it is not known, fundamentally in Latin American countries where there are no affiliates or knowledge of Wikimedia.
		In our group there are plenty of ideas for new projects but we lack is financial support to put them into practice. For example, we need to create videos to show what we do but professional videos cost money. We need a zoom permanently for our meetings but that costs money. We need to create a website for our group but that costs money. We would like the Foundation to support more these types of initiatives coming from long-term volunteers who have a lot of experience in on-wiki editing.
		Volunteer work is exhausting. Without permanent funds we will not be able to continue sustaining our work pace. We need financial support so that the most bureaucratic activities, such as writing reports, doing translations, writing articles for our blog or generating new material, do not decline due to lack of volunteer hours.
	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?	We belong to Iberocoop.Groups of the Wikimedia Movement with which we have collaborated during the last year:Wikimedistas Artes de Nuestras Islas Wikimedistas de Republica DominicanaWikimedia Small Projects in SpanishWikimedistas El SalvadorWikimedia ColombiaWikimedia MéxicoWikiesferaWikimedistas de UruguayWikiAcción Perú We have participated in many international and regional campaigns and projects like Wiki Loves Women/SheSaid, Event:¡Alto! Mujeres haciendo historia, Interwiki Women Collaboration and Mujereando with many chapters and user groups in the region. We work with women's or feminist organizations and groups in several countries, like WINN, CIPAF (Dominican Republic), Museo de la Mujer (Argentina), SENACYT (Panamá), CIEPS (Panamá), UBAfadu and CPAU (Argentina), PUCP (Perú), UNHABITAT and but none of them provide us with financial support. We want to improve the management and self-management capacity of volunteers at Wikimedia and to do so we believe it is important that WMF invest in the development of skills and leadership in women in the region.