Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2024/Wikimedians for Sustainable Development
| Affiliate basic information | ||
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| What is the affiliate name? | Wikimedians for Sustainable Development | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | English | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | All | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | January-December | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2024 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | Ainali | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | Daniel Mietchen | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | The group's focus includes work on all topics related to sustainable development, including in particular the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (also known as the Global Goals). The user group is a cross-project, cross-language and transnational group that welcomes and supports contributions to all Wikimedia projects. We aim to partner with organizations that are actively working towards a world with sustainable development whether they are NGO's, academic institutions, public bodies of different levels or even perhaps companies in order to create, collect and curate knowledge. | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | For 2024, the user group had no goals. During the year, goals for 2025 and a strategy were developed. | |
| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | Decisions are usually made in the monthly user group meetings. Minutes are saved on wiki, and shared in the Telegram group and on social media. | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | The user group has no budget nor money and haven't had any since it was founded. | |
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | 13 | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | No significant changes, organic growth with 34 (non-paying) members to a total of 247. | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | Notable activities:
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| Leadership and inclusion | ||
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
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| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | Experience from leading a Wikimedia chapter, both as chairman and CEO. | |
| Is there any kind of succession plan for the affiliate leadership? | Not yet. | |
| Are there any trainings that affiliate leadership undergo before they assume their leadership position? | Not yet. | |
| Are there any requirements for affiliate leadership to disclose their conflict(s) of interests? | No requirements, but they do so voluntarily. | |
Diversity balance (especially gender)
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| What is the diversity level of the affiliate leadership and membership body? | We don't have any metrics for the members. The leadership is, unfortunately, not very diverse. | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | No specific strategy yet. | |
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? | All meetings were held on Jitsi, using Etherpad to take notes. In both places, the universal code of conduct was announced to apply to the meeting. No complaints have been received. | |
| 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. | Please see them listed on 2024 report page. | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | We don't have the tools to measure that, please provide it for us. | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | We don't have the tools to measure that, please provide it for us. | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | We haven't asked our members that. | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | ~30 | |
| Partnerships and collaboration | ||
| Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. | List (excluding internal meetings):
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| 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) | topical knowledge | |
| Wikimedia movement knowledge | ||
| on-wiki technical skills | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | organizational governance | |
| membership activation | ||
| partnerships | ||
| 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? | Not identified yet, partly in the annual plan for 2025. | |