Hello everyone,

Today, the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Engagement department is launching Wikimedia Space https://space.wmflabs.org, a platform for movement https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_movement organizers, affiliates, contributors, partners, and the Foundation to share news, questions, and conversations.

Learning from others has been the bedrock for development and growth in our movement. With this platform, we want to promote these sorts of enriching exchanges by welcoming people from every background to build strong and diverse communities, breaking down the barriers for entry to our movement, and focusing our efforts on facilitating collaboration, including from communities that are new to our movement.

Wikimedia Space is a single place for collaboration, comprising Blog https://space.wmflabs.org/ and Discuss https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/ hubs. The Blog section provides a movement-wide platform for project updates, recent events, and shared learnings. We have designed editorial guidelines that allow everyone to share their news with others. Wikimedia Space also allows anybody to add an event, which can be discovered in a calendar https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/c/events/l/calendar or a map https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/c/events/l/map of the movement. We want this new space to be safe and welcoming, especially for newcomers, and this is why it is governed by a code of conduct https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/guidelines, and relies on active community moderation.

Wikimedia Space is currently a prototype, built on WordPress https://wordpress.org/ and Discourse https://discourse.org/. While at present it only operates in English, it will evolve to include multiple languages in the near future. This project is only possible with your participation. Spread the news and join Wikimedia Space https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/how-to-join-wikimedia-space/113!

Read more about the features you’ll find on our blog post. We have also published posts on how to make this space yours, so it can best serve your needs. You can find all the documentation for this project on its page on Meta.

See you at Wikimedia Space!

*María Cruz * \ Communications and Outreach Manager, Community Engagement \ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. mcruz@wikimedia.org | Twitter: @marianarra_ https://twitter.com/marianarra_