Update from Movement Strategy, call for nominees - African-Wikimedians

10 Jun 2020

(Sorry for being late sharing it here, I had posted it already in the
Facebook chat and the Telegram group)

Hi WikiIndaba friends,

The Movement Strategy core team is proud of having reached the milestone of
sharing the final recommendations in mid May [1]. We have been engaging
with affiliates, communities, the Wikimedia Foundation, and other
stakeholders eversince to ensure the recommendations and principles are
received and understood.

Phase 2 of Movement Strategy is wrapping up

As shared in an email earlier [2], phase 2 of Movement Strategy has wrapped
up with the finalization of the recommendations, bringing to an end the
mandate of the working groups, writers, reviewers, strategy liaisons, and
other individuals who contributed to this movement-led process.  The core
team is also concluding its work by the end of June. We are reflecting on
what we have learned together and making sure that the volumes of knowledge
generated in the process is made available for the benefit of the movement
as well as a smooth transition to implementation.

The transition to implementation

...
 From here, focus and collaboration will shift to the
implementation of the recommendations and the required transition steps to ensure
the process
remains open and transparent. The Movement Strategy principles [3] will be
the guiding framework to ensure transition will be inclusive and empowering
for the movement. The global pandemic forced us to cancel this year’s
Wikimedia Summit in Berlin and we lost the chance to work together. Yet, we
gained the opportunity to expand the circles of participants in virtual
implementation discussions. Particularly, the aim is to better include
online contributors, technical developer communities, and smaller user
groups.

The transition to implementation needs to be carefully and inclusively
designed, with multiple pathways for engagement and with urgency so the
momentum that we have generated together over the past two years is not
lost. Implementation discussions will take place virtually commencing
September 2020. The goal is to produce a one-year plan that identifies
which parts of the recommendations need to be worked on first, in what
sequence, and with what resources and support structures.

Call for nominations

Online engagement with a high number of diverse participants from across
our movement will be challenging. Therefore, the Wikimedia Foundation is
convening a small design group to collaboratively shape the transition to
implementation, including the setup and scope of the virtual events. The
idea for the design group is to bring together community members reflecting
different parts and regions of the movement (CEE, ESEAP, Indaba, Iberocoop,
North America, South Asia, WikiArabia, WikiFranca), representatives from
the EDs and chairpersons groups, and WMF staff. The design group will have
project management and facilitation support.

Open design will be used for this work so anyone interested can
participate, share insight, and provide feedback on the discussions. Community
members and Movement Strategy enthusiasts who are not part of the design
group are invited and highly encouraged to provide feedback online in
parallel as reviewers, and to later take part in the decisive virtual
discussions.

For the design group, we are asking for one individual nomination from
the WikiIndaba
group:

   -

   The task will be to work with a diverse group of people from across the
   movement to design how the process of online events will be set up.
   -

   The nominee should be familiar with the Wikimedia movement, interested
   in strategy, and ideally an active online contributor from the projects OR
   from an underrepresented community.
   -

   The work is scheduled to begin in the third week of June and planned to
   conclude at the end of July.
   -

   During this time, you will meet 5 times virtually as a whole group for
   two hours each time, and you will be expected to carry out some
   asynchronous work in between meetings.
   -

   Please also consider diversity criteria during the nomination.
   Traditionally we have lacked prolific online and technical contributors in
   the discussions, and there has been an inclination towards male
   participants and those from high-income “Western” countries. We hope that
   you can help us bring a more diverse range of perspectives into design
   discussions.

We will organize office hours Wed. June 10 @ 17:00 UTC (Google Meet link
<https://meet.google.com/uun-pzmb-kti>) and Thurs. June 11 @ 08:00 UTC (Google
Meet link <https://meet.google.com/rva-yqaq-zdk>) to answer any questions.
We are also available to clarify things via email, in your wiki or on
social media. Kindly indicate your nominee by June 22 via email directly to
me with strategy2030(a)wikimedia.org in CC .

We look forward to hearing your thoughts and receiving your nominee for the
Movement Strategy transition design group. In the meantime, please don’t
hesitate if you have any questions.

Best,

Cornelius

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…

[2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2020-June/094960.html

[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…

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