[Wikimedia-l] Releasing the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2019 sustainability report

Hi everyone, At Wikimania 2019, we shared information about the upcoming sustainability report for the Wikimedia Foundation. Today, we’re publishing that report in full. You can find an analysis of the report and what we’ll be doing next in our sustainability efforts on the Wikimedia Foundation website here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/09/19/how-the-wikimedia-foundatio… You can also read the full report on Commons here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Sustainability… The report was developed in collaboration with the Strategic Sustainability Group, a consultancy focused on helping organizations assess their environmental impact. It includes a summary of our current practices, identifies opportunities, and provides recommendations on how the Foundation can do better. While it focuses primarily on the environmental impact of the Wikimedia Foundation, rather than the movement as a whole, we view it as an important starting point for further work in this area. As an organization, there is much we’re already doing to limit our environmental impact, but there is also much work we still have to do. Over the next year, dedicated staff at the Foundation will be creating a sustainability policy framework to incorporate sustainability as a guiding practice in the organization. Thank you to the staff and many groups and individuals in the movement who worked with and encouraged us to take this important step to ensure Wikimedia is supporting a sustainable world. If you want to help spread the word, please retweet @Wikimedia and share the blog post from your own channels. Our hope is that this work will help build awareness around the need for organizations, and in particular tech companies, to adopt more sustainable practices. If you have questions or feedback on the report, we ask that you post them on the talk page on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sustainability Thank you, Lydia -- *Lydia Hamilton* (she/her) Director of Operations Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>