Wikimedia 2030

Our strategic direction: Service and Equity

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.

We, the Wikimedia contributors, communities, and organizations, will advance our world by collecting knowledge that fully represents human diversity, and by building the services and structures that enable others to do the same.

We will carry on our mission of developing content as we have done in the past, and we will go further.

Knowledge as a service: To serve our users, we will become a platform that serves open knowledge to the world across interfaces and communities. We will build tools for allies and partners to organize and exchange free knowledge beyond Wikimedia. Our infrastructure will enable us and others to collect and use different forms of free, trusted knowledge.

Knowledge equity: As a social movement, we will focus our efforts on the knowledge and communities that have been left out by structures of power and privilege. We will welcome people from every background to build strong and diverse communities. We will break down the social, political, and technical barriers preventing people from accessing and contributing to free knowledge.

Building Wikimedia's future together

Read our Wikimania Strategy Space report and blog post.

What does the Strategic Direction entail for the Wikimedia affiliates, communities, and our broader ecosystem? What structural changes are needed for us to follow the set direction, taking our global, regional as well as local contexts into consideration? The first step of the Movement Strategy process in 2018 took place at the Wikimedia Conference 2018. By now, Working Groups are being established from a broad range of stakeholders, and will formulate recommendations in consultation with the movement.

Sessions in the official Wikimania program

Wikimedia Movement Strategy Space

Overview

Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the Strategy team will host a Movement Strategy Space (32 floor, room 3203). During the day, there will be sessions open to all who want to learn more about the next steps in the strategy process, what the role of the working groups will be, and how to participate in the process.

Both Friday and Saturday night there will be a Strategy bar from 21.00, to relax, have a drink, and informally chat about anything and everything, and the strategy of course!

Friday

10:30-13:00 (closed session) Welcome and onboarding for Working Group members

16:00-17:00 What are the strategy working groups?

Objective: to explain what the thematic working groups are and how you can get involved in the process.

22:00 Strategy bar: relax, have a drink, and chat about the strategy.

Saturday

10:30-12:30 Come & Tell - what needs to change in our movement? (open session, for Working Group members and everyone interested in the thematic areas)

Part I: Roles and Responsibilities, Revenue Streams, Resource Allocation 10:30-11:30

Part II: Partnerships, Capacity Building, Advocacy 11:30 - 12:00

Objective: To share your views on the structural changes needed in the movement under the 9 thematic areas and ask questions about the process.

14:00-15:30 Come & Tell - what needs to change in our movement? (open session, for Working Group members and everyone interested in the thematic areas)

Part III: Community Health, Diversity, Technology + Summary of part I, II and III

Objective: To share your views on the structural changes needed in the movement under the 9 thematic areas and ask questions about the process.

22:00 Strategy bar: relax, have a drink, and chat about the strategy.

Sunday

10:30-12:30: Strategy in Regional and Thematic Groups (open session, all are welcome)

Objective: If you are involved in a regional collaboration or network, then come and share your perspective on how the thematic working groups should bring in regional perspectives in their work.

Main contacts

Facilitators

Bhavesh Patel
Anna Lena Schiller

Schedule

Unless otherwise noted, this is the schedule for the sessions we are hosting in our strategy space (room 3203, 32 floor)


	Friday 20 July	Saturday 21 July	Sunday 22 July
10:30-12:30	(10:30-13:00) Strategy Working group members meeting (closed)	Come & Tell - what needs to change in our movement? Part I: Roles and Responsibilities, Revenue Streams, Resource Allocation Part II: Partnerships, Capacity Building, Advocacy	Strategy in Regional and Thematic Groups	10:30-12:30
14:00-15:30	Wikimedia 2030 – strategy session (main program, room Mexico City).	Come & Tell - what needs to change in our movement? Part III: Community Health, Diversity, Technology Summary	Working Group members: Clarify next steps, Q&A	14:00-15:30
16:00-17:00	What are the strategy working groups?	Wikimedia and the spirit of Ubuntu: The power of unity in action (main program, room Mexico City)		16:00-17:00
22:00	Strategy Bar	Strategy Bar		22:00