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Affiliate basic information
What is the affiliate name? Wikimedistas de Ecuador
Please list the languages supported by this affiliate Spanish
Please list countries where this affiliate operates Ecuador
Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) November 2023-November 2024
Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) 2024
Primary contact (user name) Freddy eduardo
Secondary contact (user name) Sageo
Goal delivery
What is the affiliate mission? Disseminate Wikimedia Foundation projects within Ecuador and improve the content related to the country in all of those projects.
What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. Among our goals are the following:
  • Develop educational programs for Ecuadorian schools and universities that involve Wikipedia and its sister projects as key drivers of change in digital education.
  • Organize, disseminate, and promote activities such as edit-a-thons, Wikimeetings, and workshops to engage the Ecuadorian community in the use of Wikimedia projects.
  • Collaborate with other communities and organizations in the development of education based on open access to free knowledge.
Organizational development
How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? We discuss decisions for the user group either during our virtual meetings our through the WhatsApp group that serves as our main communication platform.
What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. This UG has no funding.
Affiliate health and resilience
How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? Everyone
Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? This volunteer-led group operates without membership fees.
Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. A detailed overview of the activities we did last year can be found in this report Wikimedistas de Ecuador/Reportes/2024. Some of the highlights:
  • During this period we had the following editing workshops:
    • UBE editing workshop, held on November 17, 2023, for faculty members at the Bolivarian University of Ecuador. This session was a general workshop for faculty members, explaining what Wikipedia is, how to create accounts, the interface features, and basic editing rules.
    • Workshop on Strategies for Searching for Online References for Wikipedia, held on November 20, 2023.
    • 1st WikiFemTech editing workshop, held on February 10, 2024, for university faculty members and students, with the support of the Stemimistas group. This first session focused on user creation, an explanation of the Wikipedia interface, and workshop creation.
    • 2nd WikiFemTech editing workshop, held on February 19, 2024, for university faculty members and students, with the support of the Stemimistas group. This second session focused on searching for and including references to support articles, uploading multimedia files to Wikimedia Commons, and publishing completed articles.
  • During this period we perform a new activity called Wiki-interview, in which we interview Ecuadorian people related to culture or activism for whom there are not enough references as we believe there should be or who have not been featured enough in the press. We did the following (Commons links can be found in the linked report):
    • Wikiinterview with Ernesto Carrión, the first Wikiinterview, took place on January 25, 2024. The guest was writer Ernesto Carrión, with whom we spoke about his novel Triángulo Fúser.
    • Wikiinterview with María Paulina Briones, took place on April 1, 2024, and the guest was writer, editor, and cultural manager María Paulina Briones, in which we discussed her literary and publishing career.
    • Wikiinterview with Franchesca Jara, took place on June 11, 2024, and the guest was LGBT activist Franchesca Jara, with whom we discussed activism and the history of sexual diversity in the Ecuadorian city of Loja.
  • We also did photocoverages of many events (Commons categories can be found in the linked report). Among them:
    • 2023 National Day of Sex-Gender Diversity
    • 2024 March for International Women's Day
    • 2024 International Transgender Day of Visibility
    • 2024 Guayaquil LGBT Pride Parade
  • Other events:
    • Two of our members attended Wikimania 2024 in Katowice.
    • One of our members participated in the Wikiherramientas initiative of Wikimedistas de Uruguay and imparted a workshop for it.
    • We held an event to celebrate the 23 years anniversary of Wikipedia.
Leadership and inclusion
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? They are some of the oldest Wikipedia users from Ecuador, they have extensive experience in the Wiki movement and have traveled to numerous international Wikimedia events.
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? No
Are there any requirements for affiliate leadership to disclose their conflict(s) of interests? No
Diversity balance (especially gender)
What is the diversity level of the affiliate leadership and membership body? Around 80% of the members of the team are male and 20% are female. We have multiple LGBT+ members and one of them is part of the current leadership of the user group.
How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? We emphasize the necessity that events that have as goal closing the gender gap in content should be led by our female members, although it is not always possible.
Universal Code of Conduct compliance
How does the affiliate leadership ensure, enforce, and evaluate compliance with the Universal Code of Conduct obligations? We emphasize the UCoC at the start of every meeting and share the link to it with members in every event we hold. We also let everyone know that the UCoC also applies to communications outside regular meetings or events.
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. N/A
Community connection
How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? Around 10 are currently active.
How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? Around 4 offer support but do not actively edit in Wikipedia projects.
How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? We have 3 members that do most of the organizing duties.
How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? We have 27 members in the WhatsApp group that serves as our main communication channel. However, among them, around 10 are active users.
Partnerships and collaboration
Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. Please see our report Wikimedistas de Ecuador/Reportes/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) Ability to communicate effectively with other regional affiliates. We have great relationships with them and have a constant communication.
We have members that are very comfortable to lead training sessions or workshops for new users either in Wikipedia editing, Commons uploading and Wikidata.
What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? Ability to reach new Ecuadorian users.
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Ability to reach more Ecuadorian cultural institutions and how to present projects to them.
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 are part of Iberocoop. Besides that, we stay in contact and have participated in events with different regional affiliates in Latin America. We have also participated with affinity user groups, like Wikimedia LGBT+.
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