[Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy Playbook - A Manual for Global Collaboration

Hi everyone, It has now been one year since the Wikimedia 2030 recommendations have been published. To mark that anniversary, I am delighted to present “The Movement Strategy Playbook”[1], a comprehensive document that contains insights into the key practices and lessons learned from this global open strategy. The Movement Strategy Playbook highlights experiences of Wikimedians who participated in movement strategy between July 2018 and June 2020. During this period, working groups developed the movement strategy recommendations and principles, with input from community members, from affiliates, and the Wikimedia Foundation. This process was supported by a core team, which I led, featuring a mix of people who worked for the Wikimedia Foundation or for Wikimedia Deutschland. This level of global collaboration is a first for the Wikimedia Movement. And this type of organisational open strategy process – global, transparent, iterative, inclusive – is unique. My sincere hope is that it will set a benchmark for collaboration in our movement, both in terms of how this kind of collaboration can be done and also what to be mindful of. I hope it is useful for others in the movement, particularly as we move toward implementing the recommendations. One fantastic thing about the Playbook: It is not ready, and probably never will be! It is a living document with space for contributions from everyone in the movement and beyond. On each lesson’s page, you can add your suggestions for tools or ideas that could help make the insights even more actionable. The playbook will continue to evolve and grow, and will become even better with every participatory and inclusive process that we as a movement complete. If you want to learn more about exactly how all of this was done, I encourage you to also read this outstanding overview[2], which was put together by the movement strategy core team and chronologically outlines each step that was taken to create the recommendations. I’d like to say a huge heartfelt thank you to everyone who took part in this process: all the working group members, the community members, as well as affiliates and the Wikimedia Foundation who provided input and helped shape the recommendations, and of course to my wonderful colleagues in the movement strategy core team. It’s been such an exciting, eventful, exhausting and overly rewarding experience for me to navigate through this endeavour with you all. And now: Happy reading! Nicole Note that we have also published a blog post with more context and key findings on the global Diff blog[3] as well as on Wikimedia Deutschland’s blog, in both English and German[4]. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Reports… [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Reports… [3] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/05/25/movement-strategy-playbook-creating-a… [4] https://blog.wikimedia.de/2021/05/25/ein-regelbuch-fuer-open-strategy-das-m… -- Nicole Ebber Director Movement Strategy and Global Relations Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 30 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de Keep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia, Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our newsletter (in German): https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/ Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.