Dear Wikimedia UK mailing list

I am hosting a zoom call next Tuesday 17th November, 5 - 7pm for en.wiki editors to have their say about what gets prioritised and resourced next year. The discussion will be from a global movement (rather than individual chapter) perspective, as we have been asked to facilitate something for the whole English Wikipedia community; but I would really like to hear from UK-based contributors about your needs and priorities.

You can sign up here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf6h49tEmEMGBwa4EIcPGmw6j3aGNeXWh2t9Le2esumI-pbrw/viewform to register your interest (you only need to give your email address, although answering the other questions would be helpful) and I will send out the zoom link on Monday 16th.

You can see the more formal invitation below, which I will be sending to the wider community mailing list later today.

Please note that we are also organising discussions focused on the 'Celtic Knot', but not a specific Wikimedia UK only conversation.

All best

Lucy

Join Wikimedia UK and Katherine Maher for a community discussion on our priorities for 2021

Tuesday 17th November from 5 to 7pm UTC

In 2017 the Wikimedia Foundation facilitated the creation of a strategic direction http://kiskeacity.bmetrack.com/c/l?u=B2712F1&e=113E0B7&c=77108&t=0&l=1320A9BA&email=VT85Y%2BMiOAU%2Fr%2FYvJCytmncGnDpkDc0NowUqtZzPSRwe2757PeXmYw%3D%3D&seq=1 to guide the global Wikimedia movement into the future. The goal 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.

Over the past three years, people from across the global Wikimedia movement have come together to discuss how we can work toward this. The result is a set of underlying principles and ten recommendations, each with accompanying initiatives and actions.

We are now in a transitional stage between the creation of the strategy and its implementation. This is a crucial moment to explore how the English language community can contribute to the implementation of the strategy, and have a say in how the recommendations are prioritised.

Inspired by the Movement Strategy's 10-year vision, Wikimedia UK would like to hear from volunteers based anywhere in the world who contribute to English Wikipedia about where the movement should focus its efforts in 2021.

The meeting will be held over Zoom on Tuesday 17th November from 5 to 7pm UTC. We will be joined by a number of Wikimedia Foundation staff members including:

Katherine Maher, Executive Director/CEO

Ryan Merkley, Chief of Staff

Mehrdad Pourzaki, Community Relations and Communications, Movement Strategy

Kaarel Vaidla, Lead Movement Process Architect

Please sign up to the event through this Google Form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf6h49tEmEMGBwa4EIcPGmw6j3aGNeXWh2t9Le2esumI-pbrw/viewform?usp=sf_link. The zoom link will be sent out in advance of the call. In the meantime you can find out more about the movement strategy and the ten recommendations here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations .

I look forward to seeing many of you at the meeting!

With best wishes

Lucy