Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2024/Wikimedians of Tamazight User Group
| Affiliate basic information | ||
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| What is the affiliate name? | Wikimedians of Tamazight User Group | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | Shawiya | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | Algeria, Canada | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | January-December | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2024 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | Rachid Hamatou | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | Reda Kerbouche | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | The main mission of the Wikimedians of Tamazight User Group is to promote and support the creation, development, and dissemination of free knowledge in the Tamazight language and about Tamazight culture across Wikimedia projects. | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | The goals of the Wikimedians of Tamazight User Group are centered on the promotion and preservation of the Tamazight language and culture through Wikimedia projects. The group aims to increase the quantity and quality of Tamazight content across platforms such as Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and Wikimedia Commons. It supports contributors who write and edit in Tamazight and encourages community participation through workshops, edit-a-thons, and outreach events. The user group also seeks to collaborate with educational and cultural institutions to enhance content creation and visibility. A key objective is to promote the use of Tamazight in digital spaces and foster a sustainable, active community of Tamazight-speaking Wikimedians. Additionally, the group advocates for language diversity within the Wikimedia movement and contributes to the development of tools and resources—such as keyboards and orthographic guidelines—that facilitate editing in Tamazight. Through these efforts, the group actively participates in global Wikimedia initiatives while representing the Tamazight voice and perspective. | |
| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | An executive board changing every 2 years, the Community vote for the board | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | We are not funded by any grant | |
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | 2 | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | there are 1 active new member | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | we Have 10 active members (training, speakers in the conferences, contest participation, ...ex) | |
| Leadership and inclusion | ||
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
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| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | Communication, Project leading, Conference organisation, Training for the Tamazight languages platform. | |
| 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? | No | |
| 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 an issue to find females contributors because of the local culture. But we have a 2 active disable contributors | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | Our two affiliation leadership are both male. | |
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? | Every time we have a new member we dedicate a time to explain him/her the 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/Wikimedians_of_Tamazight_User_Group#Reports | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | from all our contributors we have 10 active member | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | this last year we have 2 inactive members but they lead an offline project, when they will comeback again to us we will have a big number of contents | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | 3 | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | 10 | |
| 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/Wikimedians_of_Tamazight_User_Group#Reports | |
| 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) | Programs and Events | |
| Training | ||
| Content Creation | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | attraction new members | |
| funding | ||
| Marketing the events | ||
| 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 don't have a Legal partner this year | |