Hello dear friends,
I’m happy to provide you with an update about what happened since the
Wikimedia Conference in Berlin. Some of the conference participants met
again at the WMCON Follow-Up Day before Wikimania and build upon certain
topics.[1]
As it is my role as the Program and Engagement Coordinator for the
Wikimedia Conference, I’m tracking what happened around the main issues of
the conference. You can find all the details on Meta.[2]
If you’re interested in certain topics, please don’t hesitate to contact
the respective thematic ambassadors. Also, if you feel that specific
aspects are missing, drop me a line.
By the way: Have you seen our lovely grant report on the Wikimedia
Conference? It contains a lot of learnings for the movement and might be
useful for preparing future movement conferences of any kind.[3]
Best regards
Cornelius
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Program_and_Engag…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Documentation_and…
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_DE/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/…
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_DE/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Report>
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_DE/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Report>
For your convenience, I have copied the summary of the sessions here. For
details, photos and links, please check the report on Meta.[2]
== Movement Roles ==
* At the WMCON Follow-Up Day Nicole Ebber held a session regarding the idea
of a “Movement Roles” consultation. People agreed that such a broad themed
consultation wasn’t useful and should be focused on a certain issue.
== Partnerships & External Grants ==
* At the WMCON Follow-Up Day, John Andersson led a first session regarding
external grants processes and needs among affiliates. Together with the
PEC, next steps to pursue are mapping the current interested and
responsible persons for external grants among the chapters and creating a
kind of knowledge sharing hub on Meta for that topic.
* At the WMCON Follow-Up Day, Anne-Laure Prévost (WMFR) led a session on
partnerships, partnership processes and hurdles to reach them. Anne-Laure
will publish a summary of the session soon. If you’re interested in that
topic or would like to share your process creating a partnership with an
institution, reach out to her!
=== Advocacy / Public Policy ===
* At the WMCON Follow-Up Day, Dimi Dimitrov collected and gathered further
input and added them to the brainstorming list. Based on the five core
policy areas (Copyright, Censorship, Access to Knowledge, Intermediary
Protection, Privacy & Surveillance), the WMF Legal Team will start to
produce “policy white papers” and publish them on a proper site.
=== Governance ===
* Tim Moritz Hector (chair of the board of WMDE) and Abraham Taherivand
(chair of the transition committee), publish a document of lessons learnt
on how Wikimedia Deutschland managed its Executive Direction transition
phase.
== Communication ==
* Based on the Communications session at the Wikimedia Conference 2015,
Michael Jan (WMDE) and the WMF Communications team publish the Movement
Communications skill page on Meta. Please add your information, ideas and
questions.
* At Wikimania 2015, the WMF Communications Team and members of the
Communications Committee (ComCom) met to discuss several issues. Based on
the conversations, the WMF Communications team plans (until September 30)
to improve and reevaluate this list, to map people on the ComCom maing
list, to find out who wants to stay on the list and to assess and clarify
list membership criteria.
=== Community Support ===
* The VSN published its working paper and gathered further input for it at
the WMCON Follow-Up Day.
* Sati Houston and Asaf Bartov published her report on the results of her
research on needs and ways to support emerging communities in June. The
report was published on Community Capacity Development Framework.
* Based on Abraham Taherivand’s presentation at the Wikimedia Conference
2015 on user-centered software engineering, Birgit Müller is a continuous
exchange with Wikimedia Israel to implement a similar process in the Hebrew
Wikipedia.
=== Miscellaneous ===
* Cornelius Kibelka (PEC) supports the CEE meeting organisers in the
program developing process. The process is based on gathering questions and
needs of its members and members-to-be on Wikimedia CEE Meeting
2015/Questions&Needs. At the CEE meeting, Cornelius will start to gather
thematic input for the next Wikimedia Conference.
* The WMCON2015 organising team (Nicole Ebber, Cornelius Kibelka, Wenke
Storn, Daniela Gentner) published an extensive report including learnings
on the Wikimedia Conference 2015. At the WMCON Follow-Up Day at Wikimania,
Nicole presented her plan and timeline for the next Wikimedia Conference.
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Cornelius Kibelka
Program and Engagement Coordinator (PEC)
for the Wikimedia Conference
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
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