Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2024/Wikipedia & Education User Group
| Affiliate basic information | ||
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| What is the affiliate name? | Wikipedia & Education User Group | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | Our user group works in English, but our members support Wikipedia Education Programs in languages all over the world | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | N/A | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | January - December | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2024 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | Liannadavis | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | Bukky658 | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | Throughout the world, educators use Wikipedia and its sister projects as a teaching and learning tool. We are an international group that facilitates the work and supports the needs of global community working with Wikimedia in education. Our aim is to enhance and scale local and global educational efforts, advocate for use of Wikimedia projects in education, and elevate the narrative outside our movement. By engaging with formal and informal modes of education we believe every member of society will be able to know how to contribute to and learn from open knowledge through Wikimedia projects. | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | Support program leaders running Wikimedia in education projects globally | |
| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | Every two years, our General Assembly of membership elects our Board. The Board then makes decisions and runs projects on behalf of the user group. | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | The user group has no funding. | |
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | 5 | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | 41 new individual members and 7 new affiliate supporters joined in 2024. | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | * Education hub planning
More details here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/2024_Annual_Report | |
| Leadership and inclusion | ||
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
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| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | Knowledge of education programs, global representation and perspectives | |
| Is there any kind of succession plan for the affiliate leadership? | We hold board elections every two years, and held one in 2024 in which we added two new board members. | |
| 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 board is 60% female and 40% male. | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | Our board has representation globally; our five board members represent: North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America & Caribbean, and South Asia. This enables us to take different global perspectives into account when we make 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? | We highlight the UCoC at the beginning of every meeting. | |
| 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/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/Showcase | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | We did not collect this data in 2024, but will try to in 2025. | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | We did not collect this data in 2024, but will try to in 2025. | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | We did not collect this data in 2024, but will try to in 2025. (We expect it to be high, however, since that's the focus of our group.) | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | We had 71 members vote in our 2024 board election; we did not track who attended which activities, but we would generally say about that number have been active throughout the year. | |
| 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/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/2024_Annual_Report | |
| 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) | Global thematic unity | |
| Mentorship programs | ||
| Sharing and learning from others | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | Increased capacity | |
| Membership onboarding process | ||
| Sustaining engaged membership | ||
| 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? | Thematic hub conversations | |