Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2025/WikiDonne
| Affiliate basic information | ||
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| What is the affiliate name? | WikiDonne User Group | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | it, en as primary languages | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | Global | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | November 2024 - December 2025 | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2024-2025 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | Camelia | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | Loretta | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | Build an equitable and inclusive digital knowledge by empowering communities to close the gender gap across Wikimedia projects. | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | Identify and fill gaps in the representation of women, LGBTQ+ individuals, and non-binary people across Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Wikidata, etc.) and in all fields of knowledge | |
| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | Board of Directors meetings. The communications take place on the association's mailing list. | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | See the financial reports related page. | |
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | Board of Directors (3 members) | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | 40 paying members as a non-profit association | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | Photo contests, edit-a-thons, educational programs (extra curricular programs in schools and high schools, curricular intership in one university). | |
| Leadership and inclusion | ||
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
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| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | Organizing projects and events, education/training, governance, financial, strategy. | |
| Is there any kind of succession plan for the affiliate leadership? | Electoral regulation. | |
| Are there any trainings that affiliate leadership undergo before they assume their leadership position? | Not yet | |
| Are there any requirements for affiliate leadership to disclose their conflict(s) of interests? | Informal. Regulamentation draft. | |
Diversity balance (especially gender)
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| What is the diversity level of the affiliate leadership and membership body? | Almost 80% of our members are women. | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | All our Board members are women. | |
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? | Code of Conduct since 2017. The universal code of conduct is announced to apply during the meetings. No complaints received. Policy for a friendly and inclusive space with additional (minors security section). | |
| 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. | Resolutions. | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | 10 | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | 30 | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | 10 | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | 20 | |
| Partnerships and collaboration | ||
| Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. | Please see Report 2024-2025. | |
| 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 (certificated event organizer). | |
| Training (experienced trainers). | ||
| Communication and media management (SMM skills). | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | Fundraising. | |
| Evaluation. | ||
| Train new editors and leaders. | ||
| 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? | Emilia Romagna Theatre Foundation, University of Roma Tre, "Laura Bassi" High School of Bologna, "Carlo Sigonio" high school in Modena, VZona Association in Rome, Italian Women Library in Bologna, AIPH - Association for the Public History. | |