Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2024/WikiClassics User Group
| Affiliate basic information | ||
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| What is the affiliate name? | WikiClassics User Group | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | Our user group works in English, but our members speak many languages (mainly German, French, Italian, besides English) | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | Mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium etc. | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | August-August | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2024-2025 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | User:Alexmar983 | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | User:Jahl de Vautban | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | Improve the quality and the amount of information about classical antiquity on Wikimedia platforms | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | see WikiClassics User Group#Goals | |
| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | The decision are made collectively, by pinging everyone on the talk page of the User group and finding consensus | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | No financial report | |
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | Everyone participate in the discussion | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | Two members unsuscribed, two subscribed | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | see WikiClassics User Group/Reports/2024#Content-related activities | |
| Leadership and inclusion | ||
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
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| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | The main users are long-term active editors involved in discussions and events related to the classical world, not only on the Wikimedia side but also with academia. The main leadership is multilingual which helps to maintain good contacts with a wide-ranging community. | |
| Is there any kind of succession plan for the affiliate leadership? | No | |
| Are there any trainings that affiliate leadership undergo before they assume their leadership position? | No, leadership does not receive training | |
| 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? | We have 29 males, 5 females and 5 undisclosed gender participants | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | Our leadership team is 100% male | |
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? | We expect affiliates to known the UCoC and stick to it in every situation | |
| 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. | No meetings in the period | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | Out of 39 affiliates, 30 are active (77%) | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | Out of 39 affiliates, 9 are inactive (23%) | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | The activities are mainly organised by the leadership, so 3 persons | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | Only 7 persons total participated in the activities (16%) | |
| Partnerships and collaboration | ||
| Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. | The affiliate co-organized one event : WikiCite 2025 | |
| 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 networking | |
| academia interactions | ||
| social media communications | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | frequency of internal communication | |
| long-term planification | ||
| interactions with other affiliates | ||
| 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 CH, University of KU Leuwen's Trismegistos, University of Leipzig LAGL, Wikidata:WikiProject IDEA, https://sunoikisisdc.github.io/ | |