Fellow Wikimedians,
I’ll be attending this year's annual Wikimedia Summit
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2019> on behalf of our
user group. The conference is from 29–31 March in Berlin. In short, the
goal of this conference is to work out more details for the Wikimedia
Movement's 2030 strategy. I've attached an email from conference Program
Coordinator Cornelius Kibelka that has more details on the movement
strategy "scoping drafts
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Partici…>"
if you're interested.
In simple terms, there are two main buckets of people attending:
1. 2030 strategy working group members
2. Non-working group members who are part of Wikimedia affiliates (I'm
in this bucket)
My primary purpose at this conference is to represent the perspective,
needs, and aspirations of our Chicago Wikimedia community as they relate to
the Wikimedia Movement's 2030 strategy. Along with other affiliate
representatives, I'll be conversing with and giving feedback to working
group members on strategy. There are 9 working groups, each focusing on a
different aspect of the movement. From my own perspective and conversations
with many of you, these aspects are where I think our community is most
involved:
- Fostering more diversity on Wikimedia projects
- Advocacy
- Capacity building
- Partnerships (building relationships with institutions of knowledge)
I'll therefore be focusing on these aspects of movement strategy at the
conference. Feel free to reply to this email thread or reach out to me
personally if you have any questions, comments, or anything to add! I'll be
sure to report back what I've learned after the conference.
All the best,
Brian Choo
User:Airplaneman <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Airplaneman> on
Wikipedia
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Cornelius Kibelka <wmsummit-list(a)mailing.wikimedia.de>
Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 6:02 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia Summit 2019] Get ready to talk about the future at the
Wikimedia Summit (aka: Scoping Documents are online)
To: Wikimedia Summit Participants mailing list <
wmsummit-list(a)mailing.wikimedia.de>
Dear Wikimedians,
Start preparing for this year’s Wikimedia Summit: the nine working groups
of the Movement Strategy Process have produced scoping documents that are
now live! And the groups are looking for answers about how to shape the
future of our movement. These documents will be at center of the Wikimedia
Summit program - check them out on Meta [1] and bring your ideas and input
with you to Berlin.
We’ve set ourselves the ambitious goal of becoming the essential
infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge by 2030. How can we adapt
to ensure our movement is future ready? What are the biggest opportunities
that could drive this evolution? These scoping documents outline guiding
questions, and the Wikimedia Summit is one of the key forums where we will
start to find solutions and help create actionable recommendations for
change.
We encourage all of you to read the documents before the Summit, discuss
with other members of your group and come ready to jump straight into these
topics.
On a side-note: At the same time, from today until mid-April, there is an
online community conversation (on Meta, in several languages, and via
survey) on these questions. Both the insights gathered online in these
conversations and offline at the Wikimedia Summit will feed into the
analysis and recommendation phase of the strategy process.
If you have any questions regarding the scoping drafts, we recommend you
post these on Meta, where the working group members can answer. If you have
any questions regarding the Wikimedia Summit itself, please do not hesitate
to reach out to me.
Happy reading!
Cornelius
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Partici…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/2019_Co…
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Cornelius Kibelka
Internationale Beziehungen | International Relations
Vorstandsteam | Office of the ED
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
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