Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2024/North-West Russia Wiki-Historians User Group
| Affiliate basic information | ||
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| What is the affiliate name? | North-West Russia Wiki-Historians User Group | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | Russian, English | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | Russia | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | January-December | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2024 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | Красный | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | Екатерина Борисова | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | Promotion of North-West Russia history and cultural heritage related topics in different languages | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | Maintain and enlarge free knowledge and media on the said region. | |
| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | Most of decisions are made by group consensus. An executive board of 4 steps in if there's some disaggreement on vital topics. | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | All affiliate spents are fund by its member expences. | |
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | Everyone interested and active. | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | No new or resigned members in 2024 | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | 4 of our members were leading different activities in Central Asia. Affiliate have hold an internal annual edit-a-thon and organized CEE Spring in Russian Wikipedia taking the role of the leading and most active Russian affiliate after a closure of Wikimedia Russia. Most of our members are involved into the content creation that was roughly counted here. | |
| Leadership and inclusion | ||
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
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| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | Communication, accounting, event organizing, skills training. | |
| 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? | In 2024 our leadership members haven't received trainings but we're planning to do so in 2025. | |
| 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? | Our active members kind of diverse (15 male, 7 female). | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | Our leadership is 50-50 (2+2) male and female with 1 male and 1 female contact persons. | |
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? | Our policies are in compliane with UCoC. | |
| 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/North-West_Russia_Wiki-Historians_User_Group/Events | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | Of the 35 total signed members of our user group 20 are active on-wiki contributors within the group topic. | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | Of the remaining 15, 4 are not active in-wiki but participate in offline and off-wiki activiies (finding sources, technical tasks, etc.), 4 are temporarily inactive due to different reasons, 6 are not active in user group mainline work and 1 have passed away in 2022. | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | All 4 of our leadership members and 1 other are involved in organizing online and offline Wikimedia events both in UG topics and out of them. | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | 19 members have participated in different activities throughout the 2024. | |
| Partnerships and collaboration | ||
| Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. | https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North-West_Russia_Wiki-Historians_User_Group/Events | |
| 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) | Community governace | |
| Skill management | ||
| Programs and events | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | Leadership skills | |
| Financial stability | ||
| Diversity | ||
| 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? | Wikimedia Community of Saint Petersburg User Group, Wikimedians of the Uzbek language User Group, Wikimedia Community of Kazakh language User Group | |