Dear all,
Following up on my message from a few weeks ago about prior meeting
outcomes of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees [1], Maryana and I
wanted to share more information about the board’s most recent meeting in
June 2022.
The Board spent most of the meeting reviewing the Wikimedia Foundation’s
Annual Plan, which the Board unanimously approved. This plan is a summary
of the Foundation’s goals for the coming 2022—2023 fiscal year [2]. The
plan is now anchored in the strategic direction of our movement strategy:
knowledge equity and knowledge as a service. It identifies the Foundation’s
focus on regions and on projects. Thank you to volunteers who provided
input. There were about 12,000 pageviews of the plan on Meta-wiki (4x
increase from last year) with 30+ contributors engaging on the talk page
from across 8 wikis, including Arabic, Swedish, German Wikipedias,
Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. 750+ community members from all regions of
the world were reached through ‘two-way planning conversations’ that
included multilingual support in 15 languages [3]. The final version
includes an appendix and summary of the feedback we received from these
processes. The Board of Trustees will continue to partner with Maryana and
Foundation leadership to share information and invite co-planning with
communities as the year progresses. Please continue to share any
reflections and questions about the Annual Plan on Meta; while the plan has
been approved, we welcome opportunities to explain, elaborate, or take into
account (and for future planning) things not considered before [4].
There were a few other items on the meeting agenda including an update on
the Universal Code of Conduct, reviewing [5] the Foundation’s annual
environmental sustainability report [6] and approving a working capital
policy for the Foundation [7].
In the spirit of making the board’s work more visible to others, two
observers from the Movement Charter Drafting Committee joined the Board
meeting and the Board hosted an open call with Wikimedia Foundation staff
immediately following the meeting.
The Board will also host a session at Wikimania for conversation and
answering questions on these topics or others that you may have. We plan to
meet again in September in Berlin in conjunction with the Wikimedia Summit.
We hope to see some of you there.
Nat and Maryana
[1]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2022-2023
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2022-2023/…
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2022-…
[5]
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Updating_Environmental_Sus…
[6]
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/06/27/wikimedia-foundations-carbon-footprin…
[7]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/June…
Best regards,
antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv
Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
*NOTICE: You may have received this message outside of your normal working
hours/days, as I usually can work more as a volunteer during weekend. You
should not feel obligated to answer it during your days off. Thank you in
advance!*