Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2025/Wikimedia Community User Group Tanzania
| Affiliate basic information | ||
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| What is the affiliate name? | Wikimedia Community User Group Tanzania | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | English | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | Tanzania | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | May 2024 – April 2025, | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2024 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | Antoni Mtavangu | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | Otto Nyongole | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | Establishing the presence of the Wikimedia Movement in Tanzania as well as creating awareness of Wikimedia projects to Tanzanians, editing and adding contents to Wikimedia projects on SwahiliWiki (swwiki) and EnglishWiki (enwiki). Also the group serves on recruiting and training people on how they can be a part of Wikimedia through editing and adding contents to Wikipedia and its sister projects. | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | Wikimedia User Group Tanzania goals | |
| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | The Wikimedia Community User Group Tanzania Board helps in the day-to-day administration of the user group. The Board, in collaboration with the community, contractors and volunteers, ensure that the user group goes by its annual planned activities. It acts as an advisor and sometimes supervises the implementation of our programs. The board currently constituted is made of all 5 first subscriber members (4 voting and one non-voting member). The user group is electing a community board seat, a voting seat. | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | ||
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | The community has 5 Board members (4 voted and 1 non voted) | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | 47 Members, no recent data page not updated Wikimedia Community User group Tanzania Members | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | Normal events and Editathons in collaboration with the community and other affiliates | |
| Leadership and inclusion | ||
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
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| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | Long-term volunteer contribution to the Wikimedia projects; project management; partnership; strategy building | |
| Is there any kind of succession plan for the affiliate leadership? | Will be holding Election for a term of 3yrs | |
| Are there any trainings that affiliate leadership undergo before they assume their leadership position? | In 2024, the group recruited 12 (8 men and 4 women) volunteers to “engage in a leadership program” | |
| Are there any requirements for affiliate leadership to disclose their conflict(s) of interests? | ||
Diversity balance (especially gender)
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| What is the diversity level of the affiliate leadership and membership body? | ||
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | ||
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? | The Community observes UCoC in all:
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| 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. | Here is a link to Wikimedia community User Group Tanzania Meta page with Community activities, links to events pages and meetings for the last year 2025/2025.Wikimedia Community User Group Tanzania/Annual Report 2024/2025 | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | At least 30 | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | TBC (To be counted) | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | Active trained Event organizers at least 5 (Antoni, Otto, Clement, Pellagia, Alex) | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | At least 9 | |
| Partnerships and collaboration | ||
| Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. | Monthly editathons; Telegram group discussions; College outreach; volunteer leadership program(12 members received training); WikiIndaba Host preparation; Wikimania Nairobi COT participations(Two members involved) ; On Wiki technical training in collaboration With Africa Wiki mentor. | |
| 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) | Education | |
| programs and events, | ||
| Community | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | Policy and Advocacy | |
| Content creation and Editing | ||
| On-Wiki technical skills | ||
| 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? | Wikimedia Tanzania Technical space, Train the Trainer" (TTT) Curriculum Development, WikiShule Yetu, Maono yetu | |