Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2025/Wikimedians of the Uzbek Language User Group
| Affiliate basic information | ||
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| What is the affiliate name? | Wikimedians of the Uzbek Language User Group | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | Uzbek, English, Karakalpak, and Russian | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | January–December | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2025 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | Nataev | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | Artemev Nikolay | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | To contribute to the creation and dissemination of high-quality knowledge in the Uzbek language, empowering communities to access and share free knowledge in their native tongue | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. |
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| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | Most decisions are made by discussion. We hold monthly meetings, usually on the 17th of each month, to discuss key issues. | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | Our activities are entirely funded through grants. | |
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | everyone | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | Membership increased by three users in 2025. | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | All of the activities organized in 2025 (see below) were jointly organized by the user group members. | |
| Leadership and inclusion | ||
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
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| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | The affiliate leaders bring extensive experience in advocacy and outreach activities. | |
| 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? | The affiliate leaders have received training in management, maintaining community health, and conflict resolution, with more trainings planned. | |
| 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 currently includes only one female member, but we are actively working to address this imbalance. While there are more female members in the group overall, the gender ratio remains uneven. | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | We need to take more action to encourage gender diversity. | |
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? | New members are informed about the UCoC and instructed to familiarize themselves with it. In 2025, we also started to enforce UCoC in the Telegram group of the WOULUG. | |
| 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 keep a list of the monthly meetings. Additionally, meetings minutes are regularly shared with the members through the WOULUG Telegram group. | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | The user group has close to 30 active members. | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | The number of inactive members fluctuates over time but typically ranges between 5 and 15 at any given moment. | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | We have around six members who are very active in organizing events. | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | We had over a dozen members who regularly participated in activities during the reporting period. | |
| Partnerships and collaboration | ||
| Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. |
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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) | communication and media relations, | |
| partnerships | ||
| programs and events | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | community governance | |
| conflict management | ||
| fundraising | ||
| 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? | Members of the WOULUG have played a key role in encouraging collaboration in the Central Asian region, including through the Central Asia Collaboration initiative. | |