Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2024/Wikimedia Ghana User Group (Sample)
NOTE: THIS IS A SAMPLE REPORT.
The report data was picked from a Sample used for Wikimedia Foundation Affiliate Strategy discussions.
| Affiliate basic information | ||
|---|---|---|
| What is the affiliate name? | Wikimedia Ghana User Group | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | English | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | Ghana | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | January-December | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2024 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | Owula kpakpo | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | Sandiooses | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | improve and promote Wikimedia Foundation's knowledge projects in Ghana – especially the English Wikipedia; recruiting and training others to contribute to the wikis, creating opportunities for people interested in volunteer work, and forming partnerships that will promote Wikimedia projects in Ghana | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | 2024-25 grant proposals | |
| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | The Wikimedia Ghana User Group Board helps in the day-to-day administration of the user group. The Board, in collaboration with the community, contractors and volunteers, ensure that the user group goes by its annual planned activities. It acts as an advisor and sometimes supervises the implementation of our programs. The board currently constituted is made of all 3 first subscriber members (two voting and one non-voting member). The user group is electing a community board seat, a voting seat. | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | 2023-24 SAPG financial report | |
| Affiliate health and resilience | ||
| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | The board has two voting members (Justice Okai-Allotey and Enock Seth Nyamador) and one non-voting member (Sandister Tei) | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | 37 members (list); no data about 2023, the page is not updated; the template on the main page mentions 187 volunteers | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | Regular events (editathons, collaborations with other Ghanaian organizations) as well as special project (Wikidata for Education) | |
| Leadership and inclusion | ||
| Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership | ||
| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | Long-term volunteer contribution to the Wikimedia projects; project management; partnership; strategy building | |
| Is there any kind of succession plan for the affiliate leadership? | ||
| Are there any trainings that affiliate leadership undergo before they assume their leadership position? | In 2023, the group recruited 20 volunteers to “engage in a leadership program in early 2024” (“to establish a talent pool to build their capacity to take up governance, program management, training and ambassadorial roles in the medium to long term”) | |
| Are there any requirements for affiliate leadership to disclose their conflict(s) of interests? | Unknown | |
| Diversity balance (especially gender) | ||
| What is the diversity level of the affiliate leadership and membership body? | ||
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | ||
| Universal Code of Conduct compliance | ||
| How does the affiliate leadership ensure, enforce, and evaluate compliance with the Universal Code of Conduct obligations? | TBC; no mention of UCoC in the group website yet | |
| 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. | Wikimedia_Ghana_User_Group_/_Annual_Report_2023 | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | TBC; most members are active in the English Wikipedia | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | TBC | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | 4 organizers (listed at https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/wikimedia_ghana_ug_content_creation_program_2023/overview) | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | 439 new and existing editors throughout the projects in 2023; 108 Wikidata for Education participants; 17 Ghanaian attendees in the 2023 WikiIndaba conference (in-person or hybrid) | |
| Partnerships and collaboration | ||
| Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. | Weekly editathons; Telegram group discussions; IPBE assistance; travel and data support; volunteer leadership program; WikiIndaba attendance; policy and advocacy works (particularly around Freedom of Panorama); Wikidata for Education | |
| 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) | Education | |
| Community | ||
| Policy advocacy | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | Increasing Participation | |
| Content Creation | ||
| Policy and Advocacy | ||
| 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? | Developers Academy (Dambai), Koforidua Tech Hub (Koforidua), Ho Node Hub (Ho), Dansyn ISO (Bolgatanga), HOPin Academy (Tamale), Code Coast (Cape Coast), Duapa Werkspace (Takoradi), The Enterprise Village (Accra), and Suncity Hub (Sunyani). | |