Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2024/Wikisource Community User Group
| Affiliate basic information | ||
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| What is the affiliate name? | Wikisource Community User Group | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | mostly English | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | worldwide | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | January-December | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2024 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | VIGNERON | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | NANöR | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | The User Group focus is to support the Wikisource community in international communication tasks, outreach to external groups, coordination of software tools development, and facilitate fundraising according to its member needs. | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | Improve contents on Wikisource
Improve the ease to edit Wikisource | |
| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | The process is mostly informal, there is no board yet (it's in discussion) and each case and request is dealt specifically. | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | N/A | |
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | N/A (at least the 2 primary and secondary contacts) | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | We don't really have a member list with clear criteria. We use Wikisource_Community_User_Group#Interested_users who went from 137 to 157 people. | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | See Wikisource Community User Group/2024 Report | |
| Leadership and inclusion | ||
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
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| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | The group is good at connecting with each other on various channels. | |
| 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)
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| What is the diversity level of the affiliate leadership and membership body? | The primary contact is an European man, the secondary contact is an Arabic woman. | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | N/A | |
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? | The UCoC is reminded during meetings. | |
| 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. | See Wikisource Community User Group/2024 Report | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | Hard to measure, around 50 persons are active in the broad sense. | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | Again, we don't measure that. Also a lot of persons are "hidden", they are active directly on Wikisource and self-listed themselves as members but don't report anything to the group (we don't know if they don't do anything or just forgot to report). | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | Around 10. | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | 10 to 20 members joined the online monthly meetings. Around the same numbers (not always the same persons) are active on Meta, Telegram, social media, etc. | |
| Partnerships and collaboration | ||
| Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. | See Wikisource Community User Group/2024 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) | Connection | |
| Flexibility | ||
| Diversity | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | Governance | |
| Technical | ||
| Communication | ||
| 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? | N/A | |