Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2024/Wikimedians of Turkic Languages User Group
| Affiliate basic information | ||
|---|---|---|
| What is the affiliate name? | Wikimedians of Turkic Languages User Group | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | Altai, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Chulym, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar, Dobrujan Tatar, Dolgan, Gagauz, Karachay-Balkar, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Khakas, Kumyk, Nogai, Shor, Siberian Tatar, Tatar, Tofa, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvan, Uyghur, Uzbek, Sakha | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Russia | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | January-December | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2024 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | Mehman | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | HakanIST | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | Promote awareness of the Turkic Wikimedia projects and support and develop Turkic communities; | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | 1. Promote awareness of the Turkic Wikimedia projects;
2. Support and develop Turkic communities; 3. Engage the community and gain new contributors for the User Group and Wikimedia projects; 4. Cooperate with other institutions with similar missions and visions to promote free knowledge movement in Turkic countries; 5. Legalization of FoP in Turkic countries; 6. Increase content about Turkic people in Commons. | |
| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | The decision is made at a general meeting of the User Group members. | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | We don't receive grants. There is no financial activity | |
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | All members of UG | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | In 2024, 9 new members joined the UG | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | Members of our User Group participated in Wikimania 2024 and the Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024 in Istanbul | |
| Leadership and inclusion | ||
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
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| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | Communication, advocacy, organization | |
| 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 | |
| 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? | Our leadership team is 70% male and 30% female. | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | The UG provides everyone with equal opportunities when making decisions. | |
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? | UG adheres to UCoC and also encourages its members to become familiar with the policy and to follow this policy | |
| 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_Turkic_Languages_User_Group/Meetings | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | 80% | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | 18% | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | About 20 | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | More than 50% | |
| Partnerships and collaboration | ||
| Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. | Wikimedia CEE Meeting 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) | partnerships | |
| programs and events | ||
| on-wiki technical skills | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | organizational governance and resource policies | |
| conflict management | ||
| communication and media relations | ||
| 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 Turkey | |