Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2025/Wikimedia Community User Group Namibia
| Affiliate basic information | ||
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| What is the affiliate name? | Wikimedia Community User Group Namibia | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | English, Kuanyama | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | Namibia | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | May-April | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2025-2026 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | Martin Hipangwa | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | Shikoha Tautiko | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | To promote the creation and sharing of free knowledge through an open and accessible encyclopedia. We focus on Namibian cultural heritage , history, and content , aiming to effectively share this information with the broader public. | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | Our goals are to create awareness for Wikimedia and its projects and thus bring new volunteers on board, and help them to understand the benefits of Wikimedia in our country. We also want to improve and add contents to Wikimedia projects. We currently working toward having a strategic plan. | |
| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | We have established a Task Team that gathers inputs from all User Group members before any decision is taken. The Task Team will then deliberate on the inputs of all members, evaluate, and execute the decisions of our User Group. For now, the Task Team is interim in the decision making until the Board is Instituted and constituted. | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | During the period under review, Our User Group has not received any financial support. The User Group rely on the Rapid Funding that some of our User Group members secured, we also depends on resources that our members and partners put at our disposal. These has enable us to carry out the projects and campaigns | |
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | 6 Task Team Volunteers | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | 15 new members | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | FESPACO Project | |
| Leadership and inclusion | ||
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
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| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | Mentorship skills, Communication skills, Networking skills, Administration Skills, Digital Literacy Skills | |
| Is there any kind of succession plan for the affiliate leadership? | Yes | |
| Are there any trainings that affiliate leadership undergo before they assume their leadership position? | The only trainings that leaders received are the workshops by AfLIA and several Occasional Leadership Trainings by Wikimedia South Africa Chapter. Most of our leaders have not received any training in their area of responsibilities. We however share with them capacity building opportunities that Wikimedia provides in areas such as Women empowerment. | |
| Are there any requirements for affiliate leadership to disclose their conflict(s) of interests? | Yes | |
Diversity balance (especially gender)
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| What is the diversity level of the affiliate leadership and membership body? | Our leadership is 33% Women and 67% men | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | Our User Group leadership is comprised of 6 members of which four a men and two are women, thus women are always given favourable opportunities to share their viewpoint on any decision to be taken | |
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? | Our new members are provided with face to face and online sessions with the aim of educating to conduct themselves in a manner that show respect to others, to have empathy and conduct themselves in an ethical manner. All these sessions are in line with the Universal Code of Conducts. | |
| 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. | Please see our meta for meetings: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Namibia | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | 15 Active members | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | 20 non active members | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | Our User Group has the capacity of about 6 organisers | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | 40 participants | |
| Partnerships and collaboration | ||
| Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. | Please see our Event Report for 2025-2026 Activities: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Namibia#2024_Activities_&_Projects | |
| 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) | Communication and social media management | |
| Stakeholder engagement | ||
| Strategic management | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | Members Retention | |
| Organisational Governance | ||
| Sustainability | ||
| 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? | Goethe Institut, Ministry of Education, Youth , Sport, Arts and Culture, International University of Management , University of Namibia and Wikimedia South Africa | |