Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2024/New England Wikimedians
| Affiliate basic information | ||
|---|---|---|
| What is the affiliate name? | New England Wikimedians | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | English, Spanish | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | United States | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | January-December | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2024 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | Phoebe | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | Sj | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | To support Wikimedians and their work across New England | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | Providing outreach and assistance to individuals and groups interested in hosting Wikimedia-related events such as group discussions and edit-a-thons. | |
| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | Email consensus, or delegated to event organizers | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | No group account; self-funding projects | |
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | Per above, varies by event. | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | Steady membership; a few departures and arrivals in the region | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | Participated in WikiPortraits projects at Sundance and SXSW, and helped organize the WikiHouse at SXSW which included a day of events hosted by each of Creative Commons, WMF, and WMNYC | |
| Leadership and inclusion | ||
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
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| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | University contacts, streamlined events, legal aid | |
| Is there any kind of succession plan for the affiliate leadership? | yes | |
| 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? | yes | |
Diversity balance (especially gender)
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| What is the diversity level of the affiliate leadership and membership body? | Leadership, such as it is: 50% M/F.
Membership: we do not track any demographics about members. | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | Not explicitly. | |
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? | Informing about its existence, standard reference for events. | |
| 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. | https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_England_Wikimedians/Reports | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | Among list members: unknown. Among members signed up on Meta: at least 42% of the 77. | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | At most 58% of the 77. | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | 10 | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | 20+ | |
| Partnerships and collaboration | ||
| Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. | wiki.haus, wikiportraits.org & sxsw, wiki x AI hackathon, Boston and Beyond editathon, Women in Science editathon @ BU, Queer Women of New England editathon @ BPL
Individuals also presented their work at Wikimania and at WikiConference North America/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) | Categoricality | |
| Interlibrary-loan-fu | ||
| Convening space | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | Swag output | |
| Comms | ||
| Inter-regional coordination | ||
| 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? | BPL, WMNYC, Wiki Edu, Citation Needed | |