Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2024/Wikimédiens du Burkina Faso User Group
| Affiliate basic information | ||
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| What is the affiliate name? | Wikimédiens du Burkina Faso User Group | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | French | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | Burkina Faso | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | July 2023 - October 2024 | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2023-2024 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | MossiMousso | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | EKokou | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | The group's mission is to promote Wikimedia projects in Burkina Faso and to showcase the country's rich cultural and historical heritage on these different platforms. | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | * Promote Wikimedia projects in Burkina Faso * Raise awareness of the need for free knowledge sharing * Recruit and train active contributors to produce content on Burkina Faso * Set up a team of contributor-developers to develop gadgets and solutions around Wikimedia projects specific to Burkina Faso * Promote and teach Wikipedia and its sister projects in Burkinabe schools and universities. * Organize events during which volunteers will add content such as contributionathons, WikiGap, Art+Feminism, WikiLoves Women, WikiLovesEarth, PhotoWalks, etc. * Collaborate with museums, libraries, and other public or private institutions to promote the rich cultural and historical heritage of Burkina Faso on Wikimedia projects | |
| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | The process of formalizing our user group into a non-profit association is underway. As for the management of the group and the steering of the various activities, decisions are made by a core of 5 active contributors after meetings and discussions. | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | Our user group does not have any working capital at the moment. For some campaigns we ask for rapid grants to manage them.. | |
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | 5 people participate in decision-making. (EKokou, MossiMousso, KONATEYaya226, IdealCom and Séba79) | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | We are near tirthy members | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | Our recent activities are: Organizations of the Wiki Loves Earth campaign for the second time, organization of WIKIREMA2024, a writing residency initiated by the group during the African musical meetings in Ouagadougou and the holding of the 5th edition of the WikiGap campaign. | |
| Leadership and inclusion | ||
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
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| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | Communication, training, tutoring, mobilization and recruitment | |
| 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? | Not really. We learned from other existing user groups and support from some experienced contributors. | |
| 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? | We have about ten women among us. | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | 77 / 5 000 Leadership in our user group is assumed by both men and women. | |
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 do this during our training sessions and our campaign. | |
| 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. | Most of our meetings are physical. You can find some reporte on our meta page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikim%C3%A9diens_du_Burkina_Faso#Ev%C3%A9nements_pass%C3%A9s_et_rapports_d'activit%C3%A9s | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | MossiMousso, Yendifa, KONATEYaya226, IdealCom, EKokou,Vineke, Séba79, | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | About fifteen members are not active but contribute, depending on the campaigns and events | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | EKokou, MossiMousso, KONATEYaya226 | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | More than twenty or even thirty depending on the event. | |
| 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/Wikim%C3%A9diens_du_Burkina_Faso_User_Group_2023_Annual_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) | Program and events | |
| Training and partnership | ||
| Communication | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | Community governance | |
| Budget and report | ||
| Leadership | ||
| 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? | WikiFranca, Wiki Wake Up Afrique,Cour du Naaba,Wikimédia Côte d'Ivoire UG | |