Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2024/Wikimedians of Latvia User Group
| Affiliate basic information | ||
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| What is the affiliate name? | Wikimedians of Latvia User Group | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | Latvian, potentially Latgalian and Livonian | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | Latvia | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | April-March | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2024-2025 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | Papuass | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | Feens | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | To preserve all knowledge in the Latvian language and Latvia. | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | * Improve quality and number of articles and other content in Latvian language in Wikimedia projects;
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| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | All decisions are made via community consensus and voting in the Latvian Wikipedia. | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | There is no annual budget for the affiliate. We operate with individual projects with the support of fiscal sponsors or donations. | |
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | Every member of Latvian Wikipedia community | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | The membership number did not change significantly. It is hard to give an exact number because there is no formal membership process; every contributor of Latvian Wikipedia has voting rights. | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | 2 article contests were organised with awards.
Members of the group attended Wikimania 2024 and CEE Meeting 2024, giving a presentation about Wikifunctions. | |
| Leadership and inclusion | ||
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
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| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | Social media, mentorship program | |
| Is there any kind of succession plan for the affiliate leadership? | No | |
| Are there any trainings that affiliate leadership undergo before they assume their leadership position? | No, leadership does not receive training. | |
| Are there any requirements for affiliate leadership to disclose their conflict(s) of interests? | No formal requirement | |
Diversity balance (especially gender)
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| What is the diversity level of the affiliate leadership and membership body? | There is a big issue with the gender gap; we have only a couple of female members, and they do not take leadership roles. | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | There are no mechanisms implemented. | |
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 members were introduced to concepts of UCoC via community discussion board messages. | |
| 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. | The notes are linked from the meetup page https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikip%C4%93dija:Vikitik%C5%A1an%C4%81s | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | Most of group members are active editors | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | There are only a few members who participate in our activities but do not edit. | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | In this period we had 2 event organizers | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | Around 25 people participated in the most active event, 10 of them members of the group | |
| Partnerships and collaboration | ||
| Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. | A local edition of CEE Spring 2024 was organised. Article contest Wiki Loves Food was organised. | |
| 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) | On-wiki technical skills | |
| Programs and events | ||
| Social media | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | Partnerships | |
| Organizational governance | ||
| Contributor development | ||
| 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, Wikimedia Eesti | |