Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2024/Ohio Wikimedians User Group
| Affiliate basic information | ||
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| What is the affiliate name? | Ohio Wikimedians User Group | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | English | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | United States of America (specificially, the state of Ohio) | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | July-June | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2024 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | SuperHamster | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | Antony-22 | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | To support and develop the Wikimedia movement and community in Ohio. | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | Our goals are:
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| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | Ohio Wikimedians primarily discusses and communicates via its talk page on Meta Wiki. Decisions are driven by on-wiki consensus from affiliate members, and announcements are made via messages (with a "ping" template available to mass-ping all members for important updates). | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | Ohio Wikimedians received a rapid grant from the Wikimedia Foundation to organize Wiki Loves Monuments 2024 in the United States. Wikimedia NYC served as the fiscal sponsor for this grant. Ohio Wikimedians otherwise did not directly have finances through this report period. Several Wikimedia projects and events in Ohio received funding and in-kind through other groups and organizations. | |
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | Any members of Ohio Wikimedians are welcome to join discussions to determine consensus on decision making. | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | Through this reporting period, Ohio Wikimedians membership was fairly static, at just under 40 members. | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | Ohio Wikimedians served as the grantee and provided organizing support for Wiki Loves Monuments 2024 in the United States; several editathons were held at Ohio universities, including the Ohio University Images in Commons at Ohio University. | |
| Leadership and inclusion | ||
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
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| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | Local and online events | |
| Is there any kind of succession plan for the affiliate leadership? | If the current leaders step down, it is expected that they suggest successors from the active membership. | |
| Are there any trainings that affiliate leadership undergo before they assume their leadership position? | No, leadership does not receive formal training. | |
| 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? | Our current two leaders are both male.
We do not currently collect demographic information of our members so exact percentages are currently not able to be calculated. | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | All impactful decisions are made between discussions open to all members. If specific backgrounds, viewpoints, and experience would be helpful for a discussion, we try to seek individuals out who can provide that. | |
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? | All Ohio Wikimedians activities, events, and spaces are subject to the Wikimedia Foundation Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC). See the FAQ for more details. Ohio event organizers are encouraged to communicate these expectations to event participants. | |
| 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. | Our annual reports are linked at Ohio_Wikimedians_User_Group#Annual_Reports | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | Please consult our 2025 Outreach Dashboard for member editing activites and metrics. | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | Please consult our 2025 Outreach Dashboard for member editing activites and metrics. | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | We had roughly 5 members organize acitvities within or targetting Ohio, representing roughly 12% of our membership. | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | Our events primarily target the public and non-members (e.g. students at universities, and participants of Wiki Loves Monuments). We estimate roughly 15% of our members participated in wiki-related events in Ohio. | |
| Partnerships and collaboration | ||
| Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. | Activities from the July 2024 - June 2025 timeframe included:
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| 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 | |
| Partnerships | ||
| Contribute development | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | Policy advocacy | |
| Communication and media relations | ||
| 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? | We have historically had Wikimedians and librarians organizing events at Ohio University and Ohio State University. We'd like to see more regular Wikipedia events at more universities, and potentially with other educational institutions. We also see an opportunity to partner with local historic societies to encourage participation in Wiki Loves Monuments. | |