Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2025/North Carolina Wikipedians User Group
| Affiliate basic information | ||
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| What is the affiliate name? | North Carolina Wikipedians User Group | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | en-US | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | USA | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | May 1 to April 30 | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2025-2026 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | User:Gaurav | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | en:User:Jewicker | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | Our mission is to: (1) Connect with and educate fellow North Carolinians about the value of Wikimedia projects, (2) Increase and improve Wikipedia coverage of currently underrepresented groups (with a scope not limited to North Carolina-related topics), (3) Support the integration of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commons into K-12 and university instruction, and (4) Serve as a regional base of organizing, strategizing, and decision-making for the global Wikimedia movement. | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | Organize regular meetups and events to keep the local Wikimedia community active, engaged and connected | |
| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | Core team | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | No group-level funding. We sometimes get funding for specific events, such as Event:Wikicurious: Country Music's Mythology, but those are reimbursements for food and honorarium costs. | |
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | Three core team members, along with any planning meeting attendees | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | About the same (three active "core" members, plus usually 1-2 additional attendees at every monthly meeting) | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | None | |
| Leadership and inclusion | ||
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
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| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | Organizing events | |
| Is there any kind of succession plan for the affiliate leadership? | No | |
| 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 priority is to try to get more people to join our group, primarily by connecting with people who are interested in Wikimedia projects at events we host in the community, and inviting them to become more involved in the group, e.g. attending some of our monthly meetings. We see this as the path to bringing in more diverse active members, who could eventually become additional Core members. This would also make our group more resilient. So far this strategy has been successful at drawing diverse audiences: Our most recent in-person event, in March 2026, attracted 30 people, with a great deal of gender, age, background, racial, and ethnic diversity. The majority of the attendees signed up for our newsletter; it is too early to tell how much that will translate to regular attendance at our monthly meetings. | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | Too small to tell: decisions are made by the three Core members (2 male, 1 female, 1 POC) as well as any members who are attending a meeting. | |
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? | None at the moment, but we plan to incorporate this into our monthly meetings going forward. The core team agrees that we are fortunate not to have had any issues with violations of the Code, but we also know that trusting that trend to continue is not an optimal strategy. | |
| 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. | North Carolina Wikipedians/Monthly-Meeting/2026 North Carolina Wikipedians/Monthly-Meeting/2025 | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | Unknown, but we plan to conduct a survey on our mailing list this year to find out | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | Unknown, but we plan to conduct a survey on our mailing list this year to find out | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | Three Core members, plus three other active members who have organized various events this year. | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | We had significant participation at our Wikipedia Day event (30ish people) and Country Music Editathon 2026 events (30 participants). Some of our other events were poorly attended (0-3 attendees in addition to the organizers). | |
| Partnerships and collaboration | ||
| Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. | We organized the following activities this year:
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| 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) | Event organization | |
| Data-based projects on Wikipedia/WikiData | ||
| Teaching Wikipedia editing | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | Communications/promotion/marketing of events | |
| Group promotion | ||
| Organize more low-effort events that attract new editors | ||
| 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? | North America Hub, affiliates near us such as Wikimedia DC and Wikimedia NYC, trying to find more active members | |