Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2024/Wikimédia Magyarország
| Affiliate basic information | ||
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| What is the affiliate name? | Wikimédia Magyarország | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | Hungarian | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | Hungary | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | January-December | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2024 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | Samat | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | Grin | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | To empower and promote collecting, organising and distributing human knowledge and giving every single person free access to the sum off all human knowledge. | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | (1) The purpose of the Association is to support the collection, systematization and distribution of human knowledge, and to ensure access to it for the most people possible.
(2) The Association endeavours to achieve the distribution of knowledge through free content, its purpose is to support and promote the creation and distribution of such content and to support and promote a legal, financial and technical environment that facilitates this. (Under free content, in line with the Definition of Free Cultural Works version 1.0, we mean works that can be freely used, studies, distributed or modified by anyone.) (3) The Association endeavours to achieve the collection and systematization of free content through the self-organising communities creating such content, above all Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.'s (a non-profit organisation registered in Florida, USA, hereinafter WMF) other projects, primarily by supporting the activities of these projects. (4) The Association primarily supports free content in Hungarian, or those regarding Hungarian subjects in other languages, but it may cooperate with other organisations with similar goals aimed at different languages. (5) The activities of public utility to be pursued by the association under CLVI. Act of 1997. 26. § c)[4] paragraph:
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| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | The main decision-making body is the General Assembly, which meets at least twice a year. Between the General Assemblies, the executive management of the organization is carried out by the Board, which is supervised by the Supervisory Committee, on the basis of an annual plan approved by the General Assembly. All meetings and votes are public unless dealing with sensitive matters. The minutes and decisions of the meetings are published on the association's website. | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | Financial Statement (in English), more detailed Financial Report (in Hungarian) | |
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | 16 members and a guest participated on the General Assembly, of which 4 are female. | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | There was no significant change in the number of members: the number of members increased by 2 during the year, from 53 to 55. | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | Please refer to the Activity Report. | |
| Leadership and inclusion | ||
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
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| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | Communication, administration | |
| Is there any kind of succession plan for the affiliate leadership? | There is no formal leadership succession protocol. (There were initiatives in previous years, but no interest.) | |
| Are there any trainings that affiliate leadership undergo before they assume their leadership position? | Although there is no formal training, there is a mailing list and a Matrix channel where new board members can ask questions at any time. | |
| Are there any requirements for affiliate leadership to disclose their conflict(s) of interests? | Yes, based on local legislation. According to the Bylaws, see here (in Hungarian). | |
Diversity balance (especially gender)
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| What is the diversity level of the affiliate leadership and membership body? | Our leadership team is 60% female and 40% male, and our membership is 20% female and 80% male. | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | The gender of the members does not play a role in decision-making. | |
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? | The Universal Code of Conduct and the Friendly Space Policies have been translated into Hungarian (UCoC and FSP) and linked on each event page. Participants are explicitly reminded to comply with them. There have been no behavior issues within the affiliate (either online or offline) for years. | |
| 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. | There are separate pages for the meetings: | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | We do not have statistics on the edits made by members, but affiliate membership is not conditional on having a Wikipedia editing background or even on being registered. | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | We do not have statistics on the edits made by members, but affiliate membership is not conditional on having a Wikipedia editing background or even on being registered. What's more important is that the affiliate members actively participate in its activities. | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | About 10% of affiliate members actively participate in organizing affiliate activities. | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | 44% of affiliate members participated in an organized activity related to Wikimedia during 2024. | |
| Partnerships and collaboration | ||
| Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. | Please refer to the Activity Report. | |
| 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 | |
| fundraising | ||
| organizational governance and resource policies (well established system) | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | volunteer retention (both affiliate members and Wikimedia community) | |
| organizational capacity | ||
| organizational governance and resource policies (due to planned organizational changes) | ||
| 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 CEE Hub, Volunteer Supporters Network, Executive Directors Group | |