Dear all
As many of you will be aware, in 2017 the Wikimedia movement set out a new strategic direction, which is that *By 2030, Wikimedia will become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge, and anyone who shares our vision will be able to join us**.*
Since July 2018, working groups made up of staff and volunteers from across the global Wikimedia movement have been working together to identify key guiding questions within nine thematic areas relevant to the movement. These were published last week in the form of *Scoping Documents https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Participate.*
There are three main ways of participating in the next phase of the movement strategy process, and responding to the questions posed by the working groups. These are as follows:
1. Contribute to on-wiki discussions through the talk pages on each of the nine thematic areas (by following the link to the scoping documents above) 2. Respond to the survey, which will be circulated in April (on here, and no doubt in other places/mailing lists) 3. Participate in a UK discussion, either in person or online
As the Strategy Liaison Co-ordinator for the UK, I would like to gauge interest in holding an in-person community conversation about this phase of the movement strategy. Please could you let me know if you would like to attend an event of this kind, and if so what would make it easier for you to do so - for example in terms of the location, time of day, time of week etc. I'd also like to hear from people who would be unlikely to attend an in-person meeting but could join some kind of conference call or hangout. Please feel free to email me directly rather than responding to the whole group, just for the sake of people's inboxes.
With many thanks and best wishes Lucy