Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2024/Wikimedia Community of Kazakh Language User Group
| Affiliate basic information | ||
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| What is the affiliate name? | Wikimedia Community of Kazakh language User Group | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | Kazakh, Russian | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | Kazakhstan | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | January-December | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2024 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | Batyrbek.kz | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | Kayir | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | Advancing and Promoting Kazakh Content and Topics on Wikimedia Platforms, as well as maintaining Wikimedia-wide projects in the area | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | Expanding Free Knowledge and Media in Kazakh and other languages in Kazakhstan | |
| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | Most of decisions are made by group members on Telegram chat of our community. | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | Report for WLE is available in https://wmf.fluxx.io/dashboard/index | |
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | Around 10 most active users with suggestions coming from 2-3 (and no objections coming from other members so far)) | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | Relatively same number of applicants, many participants joining but only some of them being active | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | Details are here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_of_Kazakh_language_User_Group/Reports/2024 | |
| 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, recruiting new members. | |
| 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 did not receive training, but we plan to provide it 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? | We currently have few active female participants in our group (one is a senior and an admin), but we are working on addressing the gender gap within our affiliation. | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | We include above mentioned female participant in our discussions and currently we don't have any disagreements | |
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 compliance 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/Wikimedia_Community_of_Kazakh_language_User_Group/Reports/2024 | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | In Kazakh Wikipedia (our main active project) we have at least 50 active participants monthly, out of which 15 participants make more than 100 edits monthly, we also have 1 active member in Kazakh Wiktionary, and we have around 10 people engaging in WLE and CEE WikiSpring events | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | List of non-active users vary throughout the year. We are currently working on increasing the number of regularly active members (though it is enough for now to maintain our main projects) | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | 6-10 members are actively involved in organizing projects and events. | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | More than 100 people participated in our events. | |
| 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/Wikimedia_Community_of_Kazakh_language_User_Group/Reports/2024 | |
| 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) | Communication and media relations | |
| Programs and events | ||
| Contributor development | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | On-wiki technical skills | |
| Conflict management | ||
| Contributor development (with focus on quality rather than quantity) | ||
| 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 plan to discuss collaboration ideas in the upcoming Central Asian WikiCon https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Central_Asian_WikiCon_2025 | |