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The purpose of this page is to keep track of past, present, and proposed conversations and meetings organized in the context of the Call for feedback: Community Board seats. If you are organizing an online discussion or a meeting, please list it here.

During the Call for Feedback the facilitation team is reaching out to as many stakeholders in the movement as possible. If you want to have a conversation or meeting organized for your group, community, project or affiliate, please contact us here, on Telegram, or via email at community-board-seats-cffwikimedia.org.

General[edit]

Conversations and meetings organized by the Call for feedback facilitators.

Conversations[edit]

Meta-Wiki

Talk pages with feedback.

Telegram Channels

WM Community Board seats group chat
Gobernanza WM Group chat intended for the Spanish community
Wikifranca Group chat intended for the French community
مجتمع مشاريع ويكي العربي Group chat intended for the Arab community

Meetings[edit]

Done 2021-02-02 - Three office hours
Done 2021-02-20: Four office hours, Call for feedback midpoint.
Done 2021-03-12 to 14: Four panel sessions, Call for feedback final sprint.

Projects and affiliates by language[edit]

General conversations and meetings open to any speakers of the language.

Wikipedia[edit]

Projects and affiliates by location[edit]

Conversations and meetings with a regional focus.

Middle East and North-Africa[edit]

2021-02-05: Meetup with Arabic community.
Done2021-02-12 7:00 PM UTC: Feedback Meet up with french North Africa
2021-02-09 6:00 PM UTC: Feedback meeting with Kurdish Wikipedia.
2021-02-19 6:00 PM UTC: Feedback meeting with INSM group & Iraqi Wikimedians.

Proposed

2021-02-09: Meetup with Iranian community.
2021-02-18: Meetup with Israeli community.
Meetup with Egypt User Group.
Meetup with Sudan User group.
Meetup with Levant User group.

Sub-Saharan Africa[edit]

2021-02-23 7:00 PM UTC - Meet up with some members of Wikimedia South Africa on Google Meet
2021-02-13 10:00 AM UTC - Meet up with some members of Open Foundation West Africa on Google Meet
Done 2021-02-10 4:30 PM UTC - Meet up with some members of Wikimedia Uganda User Group on Google Meet
Done 2021-02-09 12:00 PM UTC - Round 1 with French Sub Saharan communities
Done 2021-02-09 7:00 PM UTC - Round 2 with French Sub Saharan communities
Done2021-02-11 7:00 PM UTC - Round 3 with French Sub Saharan communities
Done2021-02-07 3:00 PM UTC - Meet up with some members of Wikimedia Tanzania User Group on Google Meet
Done2021-02-06 4:00 PM UTC - Meet up with some members of Wikimedia Nigeria User Group on Google Meet
Done2021-02-04 3:00 PM UTC - Meet up with some members of Wikimedia Ghana User Group on Google Meet.

Proposed via email

Meetup with members of Art and Feminism User Group (Proposed)

North America[edit]

Scheduled

Done 2021-02-20 8:00 PM UTC San Diego Wikimedians
Done2021-02-16 7:00 PM UTC: Meetup with Canada(French)
Done 2021-02-15 - Discussion during WALRUS call
Done 2021-02-01 - Informal discussion during WALRUS call.

Proposed

Wikimedia District of Columbia
AfroCROWD
Wikimedia New York City
Art+Feminism
Black Lunch Table
Attendees of the 2018 Wiki Bootcamp hosted by Wikimedia District of Columbia

Latin America[edit]

Done 2021-02-03 - First call for the Spanish-speaking community (Latin America and Spain) (Report).
Done 2021-02-22 - Wikimedia Colombia (Report)
Done 2021-02-23 - Wikimujeres (Report)
Done 2021-02-25 - Wikimedistas del Ecuador (Report)
Done 2021-02-26 - Wiki Movimento Brasil (Report)
Done 2021-03-07 - Second call for the Spanish-speaking community (Latin America and Spain) (Report)
Done 2021-03-09 - Wikimedia Chile (Report)
Done 2021-03-10 - Wikimedia México (Report)
Done 2021-03-11 Wikimedia Argentina (Report)

East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific[edit]

Done 2021-02-13- ESEAP Virtual General Meeting 6

Meet up with Wikimedia New Zealand (Proposed)

Done 2021-02-11-Meet up with Wikimedia Indonesia

Done 2021-02-08-Meetup with WikiBlind Community

Done 2021-02-07-Initial Meetup with Wikimedia Malaysia User Group

Meeting with Philwiki User Group (Proposed)

Done Meeting with Wikimedia LGBTQ+ Volunteers

Done Meeting with Wikimedia Australia (Scheduled)

Done Meeting with Wikimedia Korea

Done Meeting with Wikimedia Thailand

Done 2021-02-21 Initial Meeting with Wikimedia Taiwan

Done Meeting with Wikimedia Hongkong
Done Meeting with Filipino Wikimedia Volunteers

Meeting with Wikimedia Japan (Proposed)

South Asia[edit]

Communities and affiliates

Done Punjabi Wikimedians User Group - 8:30 pm, 8 February (IST): Report
Done Wikimedia Bangladesh - 7 pm, 9 February (BDT): Report
Done Telugu community - 7:30 pm, 9 February (IST): Report
Done Dehalvi Wikimedia Community User Group - 9 pm, 9 February (IST): Report
Done Kannada community - 9 pm, 12 February (IST): Report
Done Punjabi Wikimedians User Group - 3 pm, 13 February (IST): Report
Done Wikipedians of Goa User Group - 7 pm, 13 February (IST): Report
Done Odia Wikimedians User Group - 4 pm, 16 February (IST): Report
Done Gujarati community - 6 pm, 20 February (IST) Report
Done Kannada community & Karavali Wikimedians - 7:30 pm, 2 March (IST): Report
Done Wikipedians of Goa User Group - 6:30 pm, 3 March (IST): Report
Done West Bengal Wikimedians User Group - 8:30 pm, 4 March (IST): Report
Done Telugu community - 6 pm, 6 March (IST): Report
Done Dehalvi Wikimedia Community User Group - 9 pm, 6 March (IST): Report
Done Gujarati community - 12 pm, 7 March (IST): Report
Done CIS-A2K - 5:30 pm, 12 March (IST): Report
Done Nepali Wikimedians - 7 pm, 13 March (NPT): Report
Done Maithili Wikimedians - 8 pm, 13 March (NPT): Report

Proposed

Assamese community Bhojpuri community Bishnupriya community Doteli community Hindi Wikimedians User Group Marathi community Sanskrit community Tamil community Wikimedians of Kerala User Group Wikimedians of Santali Language User Group

Individuals

Done Meeting with Bishakha Datta (former trustee) - 4 pm, 24 February (IST): Report

Central and Eastern Europe[edit]

2021-02-02 - Online meeting with the Turkish Wikicommunity at "tuesday" meeting (WikiSali). During a meeting organized by Wikimedia UG Turkey, we provided a brief summary of the process we are facilitating.
2021-02-06 – Online meeting with the Russian Wikicommunity.
Online meeting with the Turkic Wikicommunity (Proposed).
Online meeting with the CEE Wikicommunity (Proposed).

Further countries in Europe[edit]

Scheduled

2021-02-16: Online meeting with Wikimedia Österreich
2021-02-17/18/19: Online meeting with Wikimedia CH
2021-02-17: Online meeting with Wikimedia Norge
2021-02-18: Online meeting LGBT+ DE
2021-02-18 12:00 PM UTC: feedbacks meetup with Europe (French) + Haiti
2021-02-19: Online meeting WikiWomenNetzwerk DE
WikiDonne User Group

Invited

Wikimedia Danmark
Wikimedia Deutschland
Wikimedia Italia
Wikimedia Nederland
Wikimedia Suomi
Wikimedia Sverige

Projects and affiliates by topic[edit]

Multiregional / multilingual conversations and meetings focussed on a topic.