Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2025/North-West Russia Wiki-Historians User Group
| Affiliate basic information | ||
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| What is the affiliate name? | North-West Russia Wiki-Historians User Group | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | Russian, English | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | Russian Federation | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | January-December | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2025 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | Красный | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | Екатерина Борисова | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | Promotion of North-West Russia history and cultural heritage related topics in different languages. | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | Strategic plan is under development. | |
| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | Most of decisions are made by group consensus. An executive board of 4 steps in if there's some disaggreement on vital topics. | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | No financial activity since 2022, all situational expences are covered by UG members themselves. | |
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | Everyone interested and active can participate in the decision-making. Currently (and since 2024) decision-making board consists of 4 people. | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | In 2025 1 wikimedian have added themselves into our group, now we have 36 signed up people. | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | 4 of our members were participating in organising different activities in Central Asia including Photo workshop in Bishkek and a conference in Tashkent, as well as local Wiki Loves Earth and Wiki Loves Monuments campaigns. Affiliate have hold an internal annual edit-a-thon and organized CEE Spring in Russian Wikipedia holding the role of the leading and most active Russian affiliate. Most of our members are involved into the content creation that was roughly counted here. | |
| Leadership and inclusion | ||
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
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| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | Our leadership is rather strong in organizing on- and off-wiki events, like photographic campaigns, edit-a-thons, photowalks etc. | |
| Is there any kind of succession plan for the affiliate leadership? | Currently, while our affiliate if rather small and stable, and taking situation in Russia into the account, we don't have any plans of succession of leadership, but have leadership backup plan for the cases of sudden abscence of one of the contactpersons. | |
| 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 conflicts of interests were disclosed. | |
Diversity balance (especially gender)
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| What is the diversity level of the affiliate leadership and membership body? | 20% of members are female, but all of them are active that makes them roughly the half of active members. | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | Our leadership is 50-50 (2+2) male and female with 1 male and 1 female contact persons. | |
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 have set of User Group policies that are in compliance with UCoC and laws of Russian Federation as well. | |
| 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. | We have an events tracking page. | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | Of the 36 total signed members of our user group 21 are active on-wiki contributors within the group topic. | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | Of the remaining 15, 4 are not active in-wiki but participate in offline and off-wiki activiies (finding sources, technical tasks, etc.), 4 are temporarily inactive due to different reasons, 6 are not active in user group mainline work and 1 have passed away in 2022. | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | All 4 of our leadership members and 1 other are involved in organizing online and offline Wikimedia events both in UG topics and out of them. | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | 18 members have participated in different activities throughout the 2025. | |
| Partnerships and collaboration | ||
| Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. | We have an events tracking page. | |
| 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) | Programs and events | |
| Community governace | ||
| Skill management | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | Financial stability | |
| Leadership skills | ||
| Diversity | ||
| 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? | Wikimedians of the Uzbek language User Group, Wikimedia Community of Kazakh language User Group, CEE Hub, Wikimedia CEE Spring | |