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Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2024/Wikipedians of Slovenia User Group

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Affiliate basic information
What is the affiliate name? Wikipedians of Slovenia User Group
Please list the languages supported by this affiliate Slovene
Please list countries where this affiliate operates Slovenia
Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) January-December
Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) 2024
Primary contact (user name) User:Yerpo
Secondary contact (user name) User:Pinky sl
Goal delivery
What is the affiliate mission?
What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. List of goals:
  • To aid and encourage people to collect, develop and disseminate freely licensed educational content available for reuse, distributing and modifying by anyone, with focus on Slovene-speaking areas.
  • To encourage public and private galleries, libraries, archives and museums in Slovenia to make their holdings more broadly and freely available and to collaborate with these institutions in an effort to preserve Slovenian heritage.
  • To facilitate participation in international initiatives in the Wikimedia space, such as Wiki Loves Monuments.
  • To generally act as a conduit between the community of Slovene Wikimedia projects and the Wikimedia movement on an international level.
Organizational development
How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? Decisions are made collaboratively among members via the group's Telegram channel and in-person meetings.
What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. The group currently has no budget.
Affiliate health and resilience
How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? 5 active contributors
Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? No significant developments. Membership is unofficial.
Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. Key activities in 2024 included:
Leadership and inclusion
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? Wikimedia project expertise, event organization.
Is there any kind of succession plan for the affiliate leadership? No formal plan; rotation of leadership positions is an option if any active members expressed interest, based on community consensus.
Are there any trainings that affiliate leadership undergo before they assume their leadership position? n/a
Are there any requirements for affiliate leadership to disclose their conflict(s) of interests? Yes, leaders must declare any affiliations that could present a conflict of interest.
Diversity balance (especially gender)
What is the diversity level of the affiliate leadership and membership body? The group actively endorses gender diversity and inclusivity in participation.
How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? Gender-balanced composition of designated representatives (the only official function).
Universal Code of Conduct compliance
How does the affiliate leadership ensure, enforce, and evaluate compliance with the Universal Code of Conduct obligations? By actively monitoring on-wiki activities and accepting complaints.
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. Members have participated in:
Community connection
How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? 13
How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? 7 more or less inactive, of those 1 active in non-editing roles
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? 4
Partnerships and collaboration
Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. see the activity archive
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
communication and media relations
What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? community governance
organizational governance and resource policies
policy advocacy
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