Wikipedia & Education User Group/Working Groups/Outreach and Engagement Working Group

Welcome to the Outreach and Engagement Working Group!

Summary of Working Group Pilot Implementation


Activities	Outputs	Outcomes
Appoint seven to eight regional representatives Publish a Newsletter with active participation from diverse community members.	Gather ≥20 stories/month (4 per region) for the newsletter 18 issues of the newsletter were shared	50% of stores highlighted come from underrepresented community 20% increase in readership directly or through other regional channels and reuse There have been 10% of stories in local languages. Affiliates and organisers feel supported and confident to share their stories, and it has been useful for their local recognition. Communities report that reading the stories has supported them in shaping their work.
Host knowledge exchange online meetings for affiliates and community members to showcase their knowledge and exchange methodologies.	Host 10 knowledge exchange meetings	Participants feel it is a safe space to connect with peers and are learning about cross-regional work. Participants feel that they gather knowledge that shapes their work. At least 30% of affiliates working in education participate actively in these online sessions

Feedback from EduWiki Hub Action 2025

1. What ideas do you have to develop knowledge exchange online meetings so that they serve as a learning space between the educational community? What key communities should be part of these calls?

- Partnerships, Lightning talks, Participation Engagement, Fundraising and local & interregional collaboration to exchange ideas.
- Work with situation problems/big challenges
- Reginal meetings, global meetings
- Open with external partners, others close for Wikimedia communities to share
- Focus on closing gaps—resources, digital, etc.
- We can think of methodologies like having one situation-problem to look at together and bringing everyone to brainstorm around this.
- Have a clear audience and language for these sessions.
- Diverse participation.
- Give people the chance to express themselves in their language.

2. What contents should the newsletter include? What would be the best way to get people to actively contribute to the newsletter?

- Passing the pen: inviting new countries and regions
- Video on how to submit newsletters, shorts, videos
- Questions suggested by our groups to simplify the newsletters
- Collaboration with WMF to highlight newsletter(promotions)
- Amplify social media
- Extracting ideas from existing newsletters
- Promote on social media(eg wmf insta)
- Highlight newsletter content on social media including WMF pages, so people would see the visibility opportunities
- Hub could support regional partnership opportunities, external funding opportunities in the various regions
- Organize by theme, invite guests to give brief talks on best practices, challenges (lightning talks videos). If enough attendees, break up groups for reflecting discussions with prompts
- Audiovisual content
- Radio
- Podcast
- Other formats
- More stories - experiences, narrations, we have an oral tradition.
- Resources to contribute to the newsletter - way to make it easier for those struggling with access to internet, computers, time.
- Share reality behind the work : Share things that aren’t usually shared - beyond programmatic work such as political debates, things that generate “conflict” or programe difficulties.
- Make access easier for those not familiar with movement or digital access.
- Express stories in local languages and formats.

What would make you feel that the hub has achieved its goals in this area (what are the indicators that it has done well!)

- Increased social media engagement
- Fundraising
- Partnerships
- Accessible resources
- More universities and institutes, and students
- Diversity - new voices
- Participaation - quantity and quality.
- Renovation

What would a good working group for this service look like? Think of things like diversity of participants, level of commitment, skills they should have….

- Platforms for meeting and regional (timezone)
- Support for Zoom and other platforms
- Capacity building training for new members (leads)
- 2 representatives per region (7 * 2 = 14)
- Money/support; salary for leads
- Rotating leadership and roles
- For nominating: application process and interview
- Integrity of support (language)
- Garatizar una participation diversa
- Sign language.
- Various languages
- People from outside of the movement related to educational institutions.

Goal

TBC

Services

TBC

Members

TBC

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