Hello everyone,
I invited people to discuss how the LDN should look like and what should be
included in its scopes. Several people responded to the questions and I'm
listing the responses below, I'm not mentioning the names of individuals
who responded for privacy reasons.
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*it's a network of Wikimedia groups and organizations to increase
collaboration on leadership topics and share knowledge and experience. It
shouldn't be a hub or affiliate. Kinda like regional or thematic alliances
of countries where they all collaborate together. *
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*a group that encourages the different participants of the wiki movement to
create leadership. And as a network we must create ties between us to
support different things. *
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*it become an international meeting of Wikipedians. We can either elect to
be a hub, if we want to signify our target which is to help the
communities, much like the CEE Hub does in our region. While affiliate
allows to be recognised a separate Usergroup so we will be able to gain
easier placing and funding like the regional affiliates. So I propose
affiliate status. *
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*For me it's a gathering of Wikimedians wishing to have collaboration
between themselves in order to exchange expertise and leadership knowledge
that will result in the betterment of the Wikimedia movement as a whole *
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*LDN is a global network of volunteers who aim to foster robust leadership
in the Wikimedia movement. *
- *revitalising LDN and ensuring Wikimania representation and presence
in 2024, doing some online leadership sessions, possibly collaborating with
various affiliates and having specific support staff dedicated to the LDN.
Will do in person and mass transfer of expertise. And even helping the
participant to receive funding, through endorsing*
- *We do leadership development projects, together, in the form of
bilateral collaborations between the LDN partners, store the knowledge for
the rest of the world and understand how actually wikimedia leadership
works!*
I tried to collate the received responses and prepared the following text
to describe the LDN and its scopes:
*The Leadership Development Network (LDN) is a global network of
Wikimedians and Wikimedia groups who share the similar interest regarding
the unique leadership in the Wikimedia movement. The network attempts to
research, document and develop the unique leadership in the Wikimedia
movement through increased collaboration among its stakeholders, knowledge
and capacity sharing and empowering the movement participants to take
action regarding the movement leadership.*
*LDN is starting as a non-affiliate wikimedia entity but will seek to gain
affiliate status or turn into a hub if the stakeholders agree to do so in
the future.*
Please share your objections or concerns if you do not agree with any part
of this description text. If no objection arises, within October 25, we'll
update the LDN meta page with this description and step forward.
Best,
Rafi