Hi Everyone,

Hope you are all well and safe! I wanted to take this moment to share two key updates with you all.

*WIKIMANIA 2022- Register Now!* https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration I hope you are excited as we are for Wikimania 2022 https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania scheduled from the *11th to 14th of August, 2022.* We are thrilled to announce that the *registrations for Wikimania 2022* https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration are now open, and would request you all to register yourself and share the same with anyone who would want to join us for the *festivities.*

Wikimania 2022 will be built around a virtual program, but there'll be many local in-person gatherings across the world including 5 in South Asia- *Bengaluru, **Bhubaneswar, Mangalore, Madurai (India)** and Dhaka, (Bangladesh)*- you can get more details here. https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/In-person_events The virtual programming for Wikimania 2022 will cater to participants across all timezones, you can find out more about the program here. https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program

Click here to know more about Wikimania https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania- Wikimedia movement’s annual conference celebrating all the free and open knowledge projects made possible by the volunteer community. ____________________________________

*Introducing the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2023 Annual Plan* https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/07/26/introducing-the-wikimedia-foundations-2023-annual-plan/ Each year, the Wikimedia Foundation shares an annual plan of its priorities and activities for the fiscal year, which currently runs from *July 2022 to June 2023*. The Foundation’s current Annual Plan is now anchored in the two strategic pillars of our movement strategy: *“knowledge equity”* and “*knowledge as a service*” and the *Annual Plan* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2022-2023 is centered around four main goals.

The process of identifying these goals also included a month of feedback and ‘two-way planning’ with Foundation staff and volunteers. There were over *12,000* pageviews of the draft plan on Meta-wiki (4x increase from last year) with *30+* contributors engaging on the talk page. Over *750* community members from all regions of the world (including South Asia) were reached through conversations that included multilingual support in *15* languages.

You can find an appendix of the feedback we received https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2022-2023/Feedback_Appendix in the final plan. This document is a starting point for what will be a highly iterative process of doing and learning in the months ahead. We invite your reflections and questions at any time on Meta. ________________________________

Happy reading and have a great week ahead!