Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2025/Bay Area Wikipedians User Group
| Affiliate basic information | ||
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| What is the affiliate name? | Bay Area Wikipedians User Group | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | EN, FR, ES | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | United States, California | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | January-December | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2025 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | e_mln_e | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | ElanHR | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | Sustaining and expanding the community of editors and supporting collaborations with GLAM organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | https://drive.proton.me/urls/HE95FQD0V8#z8PaVeEoMcWV | |
| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | Vote of the membership | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | Our fiscal sponsor is WikiDC. Our current Rapid Grant can be found here. Its financial report will be published in April 2026. | |
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | 15 | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | increase | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | Wiknic, Birthday, WikiGameJam, Lunch and Learn | |
| Leadership and inclusion | ||
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
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| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | Social media communication, non-profit management, Wikidata datasets management and fundraising, mediawiki and technical infrastructure skills, events organizing, academic research skills | |
| Is there any kind of succession plan for the affiliate leadership? | We formalized the yearly election process, and have begun documenting all processes and establishing shared tools (password manager, emails, etc) | |
| Are there any trainings that affiliate leadership undergo before they assume their leadership position? | Fundraising capacity, awaiting UCOC training | |
| Are there any requirements for affiliate leadership to disclose their conflict(s) of interests? | Yes, during elections | |
Diversity balance (especially gender)
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| What is the diversity level of the affiliate leadership and membership body? | About 30% women, large diversity in languages. We do not ask members to report other demographic data due to the stated preference for privacy | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | The composition of our voting members and committee reflects that of our participants. The mentorship available further supports gender diversity at all level. | |
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? | To our knowledge, the planned training modules have not been released by the foundation. The organizing committee keeps the UCOC page on watchlist to get updates.
In practice, at the beginning of every event, and in all of our online communication channels, we remind participants of the UCOC, and have designated point of contacts if issues need to be reported. The organizing also has training in conflicts mediation and harassment prevention. | |
| 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. | These records can be found in our rapid grant report (which has yet to be finalized as it runs until April). | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | We have around 50 regular members, attending several events a year, all of whom are active editors. | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | Our members are all active. We do have around 100 subscribers on our mailing list whose editing statud is unknown. | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | 4 | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | Around 500 | |
| Partnerships and collaboration | ||
| Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. | 12 meetups, 1 panel, Wikipedia Day, Wiknic, two editathons (women's history month, Wikipedia loves Pride), one GLAM partnership/event, one Wikigamejam. | |
| 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) | contributor development | |
| technical skills | ||
| programs and events | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | communication and media relation | |
| fundraising | ||
| administrative capacity | ||
| 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? | WikimediaNYC | |