Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2024/Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group
| Affiliate basic information | ||
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| What is the affiliate name? | Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | Burmese, English | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | Myanmar | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | January-December | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2024 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | Ninjastrikers | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | Zawthet | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | MWCUG aims to promote free knowledge and open-source culture in Myanmar, to increase the quantity and quality of Myanmar-related content on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, to support and empower local contributors through training, workshops, and community events, to help minority language users in Myanmar to set up their own Wikimedia projects, to preserve and promote Myanmar's rich cultural and linguistic heritage through digital documentation, to collaborate with educational institutions, cultural organizations, and other partners to expand access to knowledge, and to foster inclusivity and representation of Myanmar's diverse ethnic and linguistic communities within Wikimedia projects. | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | N/A | |
| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | ||
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | N/A | |
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | ||
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | 25 members (list) | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | technical assistance for new projects | |
| Leadership and inclusion | ||
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
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| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | TBD | |
| Is there any kind of succession plan for the affiliate leadership? | TBD | |
| Are there any trainings that affiliate leadership undergo before they assume their leadership position? | TBD | |
| Are there any requirements for affiliate leadership to disclose their conflict(s) of interests? | TBD | |
Diversity balance (especially gender)
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| What is the diversity level of the affiliate leadership and membership body? | TBD | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | TBD | |
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? | TBD | |
| 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. | Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group/Reports/2024 | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | About 10 members are contributing Burmese Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, Shan Wikipedia and other Myanmar-related projects. | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | ~10 | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | 1 | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | TBC | |
| Partnerships and collaboration | ||
| Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. | Discussion on Facebook group, IPBE assistance, promote Myanmar-related wiki projects on different media channels | |
| 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) | Communication and media relations | |
| on-wiki technical skills | ||
| Community | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | Increasing Participation | |
| Content Creation | ||
| Community Governance | ||
| 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? | sub-groups of MWCUG | |