Hi Anass,
Thank you very much for this report! It really highlights both the strength of the demand/need for hubs, and the many challenges that we will face in setting them up.
The list of areas where there is and isn't a consensus among the people you spoke to is very useful and clearly highlights some questions which need answers from a movement level.
I was also interested to read that Arabic-speakers firmly wanted an Arabic hub (or possibly two, depending on what scale the hubs end up as) - and not a "Middle East and North Africa" hub, let alone a "Middle East and Whole of Africa" hub. Given what you say in the report regarding the communities feeling they have little in common and different needs, this is understandable. But it does also raise the question of which hubs would cover/support the Turkish and Farsi communities. We are probably going to encounter many more questions of scope like this one as more areas take steps to define what they want from hubs.
Thanks,
Chris
On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 5:27 PM Anass Sedrati sedranas@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all,
I would like to inform you that I have published a report related to Wikimedia Regional Hubs https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hubs/Implementation/Regional_Hubs_Draft_Plan from the perspective of the Arabic speaking community. The report is ready, and complies background of the region, as well as different opinions and analysis of the community views on hubs, before providing recommendations on the way forward. It was funded by a rapid grant from the Wikimedia strategy & governance team.
I believe that this report can be useful for all of you interested in the implementation of Wikimedia hubs, and in the Wikimedia strategy in general. I am also encouraging those who can to create similar reports for their regions, so that experiences and insights are shared.
If anyone has a question, please feel free to contact me (through email or on Meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Anass_Sedrati), and I will be happy to discuss this further.
Have a good evening/day everyone!
Best regards,
*Anass SEDRATI* Wikimedia MA User Group
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