Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)
Why does the questionnaire seemingly exclude the WMF? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/User_guide#Preparing_to_Take_the_Organizational_Effectiveness_Questionnaire If the WMF is one other organized group in the sentence A Wikimedia chapter, user group, thematic organization or other organized group, that would be nice to spell out. Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Why does the questionnaire seemingly exclude the WMF? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/User_guide#Preparing_to_Take_the_Organizational_Effectiveness_Questionnaire If the WMF is one other organized group in the sentence A Wikimedia chapter, user group, thematic organization or other organized group, that would be nice to spell out. No, .. from the survey itself: Throughout, we use the phrase “Wikimedia Organization” to refer to chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups. And on the first page of questions there is a drop down What is the name of your organization? , which excludes the WMF. On that field, what if I am a member of multiple listed organisations? Should I fill in the survey multiple times? -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)
Thanks Anasuya! That's quite a comprehensive survey but instructive to fill out. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:46 AM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: No, .. from the survey itself: Throughout, we use the phrase “Wikimedia Organization” to refer to chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups. And on the first page of questions there is a drop down What is the name of your organization? , which excludes the WMF. I think the intro sentence just needs to be updated to include the WMF. The WMF is in that dropdown. I did have to hunt to find it when I filled the survey out; it would be much easier if that list were alphabetized. Sam ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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Thank you for this initiative and all the hard work that went into creating these tools and resources! I'm really looking forward to the results and learnings of the next steps. At the moment, from our perspective the biggest challenge of the planned process is to overcome the language barrier: If we want to include our volunteers, especially the non-Board members, we'll have to translate the questionnaire and some general information first. While this is probably doable for German or French quickly enough to meet the deadline on December 21, it might be a major challenge for smaller langugage communities. Would it be possible for interested organizations to get in touch with the Foundation in order to get help in this regard? Best Claudia -- Executive Director Wikimedia Österreich - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Siebensterngasse 25/15 1070 Wien Austria +43 699 141 28615 www.wikimedia.at http://www.wikimedia.at/ Am 01.12.2014 um 22:56 schrieb Anasuya Sengupta: tl;dr Request for Wikimedia organizations to take a survey on organizational effectiveness, that will help us understand and support each other better: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire Dear friends and colleagues of the Wikimedia movement: The Wikimedia Foundation's Grantmaking team has initiated a project with TCC Group - a consulting firm focused on social impact - and the larger Wikimedia communities, to help Wikimedia organizations of all shapes and sizes (including user groups, chapters, and thematic organizations), to improve their effectiveness and their ability to have impact for the movement. The project was initiated in response to growing interest and conversations by volunteers and organizations, to better understand how organizations in particular have impact in the Wikimedia movement, which is unique in that it is online, growing extraordinarily fast, and created and supported almost entirely by volunteers. The project seeks to help Wikimedia organizations better understand 1) how impact is defined from an organizational perspective in their contexts, 2) what strategies Wikimedia organizations use to achieve that impact, and 3) what resources and skills Wikimedia organizations may need to be more effective in the strategies they choose to pursue. In the first “impact” stage of the project, TCC interviewed several organizations, administered an impact survey to all organizations, and attended Wikimania 2014 in London where the project was discussed with AffCom, an informal organizational effectiveness working group, the FDC and other grantmaking committees, as well as many other individuals in the movement. TCC also conducted in-depth research on three organizations, resulting in case studies illustrating different organizational models leading to impact. Many thanks to those of you who took your valuable time to participate in one or more of these exchanges; Wikimedians around the globe created the foundation for this work. The second and third stages of the project involve development of an online organizational effectiveness questionnaire, a user guide to help organizations interpret their results, and an organizational effectiveness learning center, which may help organizations think about the different strategies they are using and how they could build specific capacities to be more successful with those strategies. *Learning center: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Learning_center. *User guide: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/User_guide *Questionnaire text: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/Questionnaire *Link to take questionnaire (can be used once per IP address, but more links can be requested): https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire The learning center is intended to be a base from which Wikimedia organizations can grow their knowledge and share their own experiences and best practices. TCC worked closely with a handful of Wikimedia volunteers from different organizations to design the Questionnaire you are about to take. Wikimedia Foundation has provided funding for this project and has consulted closely with TCC over the course of the engagement. Please note that the questionnaire is not intended to be a test of individual organizations in any way; the Foundation will not be provided with individual organization results. As part of this consultation, TCC will aggregate findings from the movement-wide Organizational Effectiveness Questionnaire and provide them to the Foundation’s grantmaking team, along with a “capacity building roadmap” to help the team - and the wider movement - think about how organizations can build capacity for specific program strategies. *We request that you respond to the questionnaire by December 21st*, so that TCC can collate the results and share it with all of us early in the new year. Please let us know if you have any difficulties or
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)
I assume this survey is only for organizations that have been recognized by AffCom? We are still struggling to get ours (despite the fact that we are one of the most productive educational groups), so I thought Id at least answer the questionnairre, but under name of organization the only option is to select from a group of pre-determined names. This even though the instructions say that they welcome responses from informal groups. Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 13:31:00 +0100 From: claudia.ga...@wikimedia.at To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations) Thank you for this initiative and all the hard work that went into creating these tools and resources! I'm really looking forward to the results and learnings of the next steps. At the moment, from our perspective the biggest challenge of the planned process is to overcome the language barrier: If we want to include our volunteers, especially the non-Board members, we'll have to translate the questionnaire and some general information first. While this is probably doable for German or French quickly enough to meet the deadline on December 21, it might be a major challenge for smaller langugage communities. Would it be possible for interested organizations to get in touch with the Foundation in order to get help in this regard? Best Claudia -- Executive Director Wikimedia Österreich - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Siebensterngasse 25/15 1070 Wien Austria +43 699 141 28615 www.wikimedia.at http://www.wikimedia.at/ Am 01.12.2014 um 22:56 schrieb Anasuya Sengupta: tl;dr Request for Wikimedia organizations to take a survey on organizational effectiveness, that will help us understand and support each other better: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire Dear friends and colleagues of the Wikimedia movement: The Wikimedia Foundation's Grantmaking team has initiated a project with TCC Group - a consulting firm focused on social impact - and the larger Wikimedia communities, to help Wikimedia organizations of all shapes and sizes (including user groups, chapters, and thematic organizations), to improve their effectiveness and their ability to have impact for the movement. The project was initiated in response to growing interest and conversations by volunteers and organizations, to better understand how organizations in particular have impact in the Wikimedia movement, which is unique in that it is online, growing extraordinarily fast, and created and supported almost entirely by volunteers. The project seeks to help Wikimedia organizations better understand 1) how impact is defined from an organizational perspective in their contexts, 2) what strategies Wikimedia organizations use to achieve that impact, and 3) what resources and skills Wikimedia organizations may need to be more effective in the strategies they choose to pursue. In the first “impact” stage of the project, TCC interviewed several organizations, administered an impact survey to all organizations, and attended Wikimania 2014 in London where the project was discussed with AffCom, an informal organizational effectiveness working group, the FDC and other grantmaking committees, as well as many other individuals in the movement. TCC also conducted in-depth research on three organizations, resulting in case studies illustrating different organizational models leading to impact. Many thanks to those of you who took your valuable time to participate in one or more of these exchanges; Wikimedians around the globe created the foundation for this work. The second and third stages of the project involve development of an online organizational effectiveness questionnaire, a user guide to help organizations interpret their results, and an organizational effectiveness learning center, which may help organizations think about the different strategies they are using and how they could build specific capacities to be more successful with those strategies. *Learning center: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Learning_center. *User guide: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/User_guide *Questionnaire text: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/Questionnaire *Link to take questionnaire (can be used once per IP address, but more links can be requested): https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire The learning center is intended to be a base from which Wikimedia organizations can grow their knowledge and share their own experiences and best practices. TCC worked closely with a handful of Wikimedia volunteers from different organizations to design the Questionnaire you are about to take. Wikimedia Foundation has provided funding for this project and has consulted closely
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)
OK I see now the box for other not as an option for a name (which is how these things are usually set up) but underneath the original question. From: osama...@hotmail.com To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: RE: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 06:27:14 -0700 I assume this survey is only for organizations that have been recognized by AffCom? We are still struggling to get ours (despite the fact that we are one of the most productive educational groups), so I thought Id at least answer the questionnairre, but under name of organization the only option is to select from a group of pre-determined names. This even though the instructions say that they welcome responses from informal groups. Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 13:31:00 +0100 From: claudia.ga...@wikimedia.at To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations) Thank you for this initiative and all the hard work that went into creating these tools and resources! I'm really looking forward to the results and learnings of the next steps. At the moment, from our perspective the biggest challenge of the planned process is to overcome the language barrier: If we want to include our volunteers, especially the non-Board members, we'll have to translate the questionnaire and some general information first. While this is probably doable for German or French quickly enough to meet the deadline on December 21, it might be a major challenge for smaller langugage communities. Would it be possible for interested organizations to get in touch with the Foundation in order to get help in this regard? Best Claudia -- Executive Director Wikimedia Österreich - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Siebensterngasse 25/15 1070 Wien Austria +43 699 141 28615 www.wikimedia.at http://www.wikimedia.at/ Am 01.12.2014 um 22:56 schrieb Anasuya Sengupta: tl;dr Request for Wikimedia organizations to take a survey on organizational effectiveness, that will help us understand and support each other better: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire Dear friends and colleagues of the Wikimedia movement: The Wikimedia Foundation's Grantmaking team has initiated a project with TCC Group - a consulting firm focused on social impact - and the larger Wikimedia communities, to help Wikimedia organizations of all shapes and sizes (including user groups, chapters, and thematic organizations), to improve their effectiveness and their ability to have impact for the movement. The project was initiated in response to growing interest and conversations by volunteers and organizations, to better understand how organizations in particular have impact in the Wikimedia movement, which is unique in that it is online, growing extraordinarily fast, and created and supported almost entirely by volunteers. The project seeks to help Wikimedia organizations better understand 1) how impact is defined from an organizational perspective in their contexts, 2) what strategies Wikimedia organizations use to achieve that impact, and 3) what resources and skills Wikimedia organizations may need to be more effective in the strategies they choose to pursue. In the first “impact” stage of the project, TCC interviewed several organizations, administered an impact survey to all organizations, and attended Wikimania 2014 in London where the project was discussed with AffCom, an informal organizational effectiveness working group, the FDC and other grantmaking committees, as well as many other individuals in the movement. TCC also conducted in-depth research on three organizations, resulting in case studies illustrating different organizational models leading to impact. Many thanks to those of you who took your valuable time to participate in one or more of these exchanges; Wikimedians around the globe created the foundation for this work. The second and third stages of the project involve development of an online organizational effectiveness questionnaire, a user guide to help organizations interpret their results, and an organizational effectiveness learning center, which may help organizations think about the different strategies they are using and how they could build specific capacities to be more successful with those strategies. *Learning center: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Learning_center. *User guide: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/User_guide *Questionnaire text: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/Questionnaire *Link to take questionnaire (can be used once per IP address, but more links can be requested): https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire The learning center is intended to be a base from
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Anasuya! That's quite a comprehensive survey but instructive to fill out. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:46 AM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: No, .. from the survey itself: Throughout, we use the phrase “Wikimedia Organization” to refer to chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups. And on the first page of questions there is a drop down What is the name of your organization? , which excludes the WMF. I think the intro sentence just needs to be updated to include the WMF. The WMF is in that dropdown. I did have to hunt to find it when I filled the survey out; it would be much easier if that list were alphabetized. True enough, there it is, between the Netherlands and India. Anyway .. how should we fill this in for multiple organisations? -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)
Gerard, I'm not sure I understand this concern. Data of all kinds are important, but in this case, the questionnaire is meant to help organizations reflect on how they make the strategic choices they do, and what more we can do, as individual organizations and collectively across the movement, to be effective. These questions are not answered by numbers alone, as by context and resource mapping and analysis. Perhaps if you gave me examples of the data you believe we should be collecting/sharing, I would understand better? Warmly, Anasuya On Dec 1, 2014 11:22 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, I would assume that statistics are an important tool. There are many statistics I can think of off the top of my head that make sense in this context., WHERE ARE THEY... Given that this is a WMF initiative, why are the statistics not there.. You have the capability ! and the need is obvious when the ED says that metrics are how chapters are evaluated.. Thanks, GerardM On 1 December 2014 at 22:56, Anasuya Sengupta asengu...@wikimedia.org wrote: tl;dr Request for Wikimedia organizations to take a survey on organizational effectiveness, that will help us understand and support each other better: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire Dear friends and colleagues of the Wikimedia movement: The Wikimedia Foundation's Grantmaking team has initiated a project with TCC Group - a consulting firm focused on social impact - and the larger Wikimedia communities, to help Wikimedia organizations of all shapes and sizes (including user groups, chapters, and thematic organizations), to improve their effectiveness and their ability to have impact for the movement. The project was initiated in response to growing interest and conversations by volunteers and organizations, to better understand how organizations in particular have impact in the Wikimedia movement, which is unique in that it is online, growing extraordinarily fast, and created and supported almost entirely by volunteers. The project seeks to help Wikimedia organizations better understand 1) how impact is defined from an organizational perspective in their contexts, 2) what strategies Wikimedia organizations use to achieve that impact, and 3) what resources and skills Wikimedia organizations may need to be more effective in the strategies they choose to pursue. In the first “impact” stage of the project, TCC interviewed several organizations, administered an impact survey to all organizations, and attended Wikimania 2014 in London where the project was discussed with AffCom, an informal organizational effectiveness working group, the FDC and other grantmaking committees, as well as many other individuals in the movement. TCC also conducted in-depth research on three organizations, resulting in case studies illustrating different organizational models leading to impact. Many thanks to those of you who took your valuable time to participate in one or more of these exchanges; Wikimedians around the globe created the foundation for this work. The second and third stages of the project involve development of an online organizational effectiveness questionnaire, a user guide to help organizations interpret their results, and an organizational effectiveness learning center, which may help organizations think about the different strategies they are using and how they could build specific capacities to be more successful with those strategies. *Learning center: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Learning_center . *User guide: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/User_guide *Questionnaire text: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/Questionnaire *Link to take questionnaire (can be used once per IP address, but more links can be requested): https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire The learning center is intended to be a base from which Wikimedia organizations can grow their knowledge and share their own experiences and best practices. TCC worked closely with a handful of Wikimedia volunteers from different organizations to design the Questionnaire you are about to take. Wikimedia Foundation has provided funding for this project and has consulted closely with TCC over the course of the engagement. Please note that the questionnaire is not intended to be a test of individual organizations in any way; the Foundation will not be provided with individual organization results. As part of this consultation, TCC will aggregate findings from the movement-wide Organizational Effectiveness Questionnaire and provide them to the Foundation’s grantmaking team, along with a “capacity building roadmap” to help the team - and the wider movement - think about how organizations can build capacity
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)
Hi Nemo and John, The questionnaire is not meant to exclude WMF at all, instead the wording was meant to _include_ all forms of Wikimedia 'organization'. So yes, the phrase can be easily modified. And as SJ points out, WMF is on the list too. :-) Anasuya On Dec 2, 2014 12:34 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Why does the questionnaire seemingly exclude the WMF? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_ effectiveness/Tool/User_guide#Preparing_to_Take_the_ Organizational_Effectiveness_Questionnaire If the WMF is one other organized group in the sentence A Wikimedia chapter, user group, thematic organization or other organized group, that would be nice to spell out. Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)
Hi John, I think it's really up to you and the organizational team(s) you represent. If you are critically involved in the program and org leadership of more than one, you're welcome to respond more than once. In this case, we'd ask you to make sure you have more than just your responses from each organization. This might affect a few folks across the movement, so I'm glad you asked. Warmly, Anasuya On Dec 2, 2014 12:46 AM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Why does the questionnaire seemingly exclude the WMF? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/User_guide#Preparing_to_Take_the_Organizational_Effectiveness_Questionnaire If the WMF is one other organized group in the sentence A Wikimedia chapter, user group, thematic organization or other organized group, that would be nice to spell out. No, .. from the survey itself: Throughout, we use the phrase “Wikimedia Organization” to refer to chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups. And on the first page of questions there is a drop down What is the name of your organization? , which excludes the WMF. On that field, what if I am a member of multiple listed organisations? Should I fill in the survey multiple times? -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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Thanks, Sam. Will work on making the drop down easier to access. Anasuya On Dec 2, 2014 2:38 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Anasuya! That's quite a comprehensive survey but instructive to fill out. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:46 AM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: No, .. from the survey itself: Throughout, we use the phrase “Wikimedia Organization” to refer to chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups. And on the first page of questions there is a drop down What is the name of your organization? , which excludes the WMF. I think the intro sentence just needs to be updated to include the WMF. The WMF is in that dropdown. I did have to hunt to find it when I filled the survey out; it would be much easier if that list were alphabetized. Sam ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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Hi Anasuya, Is there by any chance a public list of the questions asked in the survey? I've just clicked through a few pages and noticed that some questions need a little preparation to answer truthfully. It would be helpful if the questions could be looked up in advance. Thank you for your help, Sebastian ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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Hi Sebastian, are you looking for this: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/Questionnaire Best Claudia Am 02.12.2014 um 18:03 schrieb Sebastian Moleski: Hi Anasuya, Is there by any chance a public list of the questions asked in the survey? I've just clicked through a few pages and noticed that some questions need a little preparation to answer truthfully. It would be helpful if the questions could be looked up in advance. Thank you for your help, Sebastian ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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Would it be possible for interested organizations to get in touch with the Foundation in order to get help in this regard? Best Claudia Hi Claudia, Thank you for the appreciation and your help - as so many others on this list - in thinking through this questionnaire and next steps. Thanks too for raising the question of languages; a critical one. In the introduction to the questionnaire, we do say that if language is an issue (as we well understand it could be), folks should contact Winifred ( orgeffectiven...@wikimedia.org for convenience) for any support around this. If the deadlines need to be pushed back for that reason, we can certainly work that out together. Warmly, Anasuya ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 5:28 AM, Leigh Thelmadatter osama...@hotmail.com wrote: OK I see now the box for other not as an option for a name (which is how these things are usually set up) but underneath the original question. Thanks, Leigh - we're working on changing the way the box is configured, so it's more intuitive. We do encourage informal groups to take the questionnaire, as you notice, since it's useful to see what of these questions (and possible responses) might apply to groups like yours. Anasuya From: osama...@hotmail.com To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: RE: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 06:27:14 -0700 I assume this survey is only for organizations that have been recognized by AffCom? We are still struggling to get ours (despite the fact that we are one of the most productive educational groups), so I thought Id at least answer the questionnairre, but under name of organization the only option is to select from a group of pre-determined names. This even though the instructions say that they welcome responses from informal groups. Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 13:31:00 +0100 From: claudia.ga...@wikimedia.at To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations) Thank you for this initiative and all the hard work that went into creating these tools and resources! I'm really looking forward to the results and learnings of the next steps. At the moment, from our perspective the biggest challenge of the planned process is to overcome the language barrier: If we want to include our volunteers, especially the non-Board members, we'll have to translate the questionnaire and some general information first. While this is probably doable for German or French quickly enough to meet the deadline on December 21, it might be a major challenge for smaller langugage communities. Would it be possible for interested organizations to get in touch with the Foundation in order to get help in this regard? Best Claudia -- Executive Director Wikimedia Österreich - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Siebensterngasse 25/15 1070 Wien Austria +43 699 141 28615 www.wikimedia.at http://www.wikimedia.at/ Am 01.12.2014 um 22:56 schrieb Anasuya Sengupta: tl;dr Request for Wikimedia organizations to take a survey on organizational effectiveness, that will help us understand and support each other better: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire Dear friends and colleagues of the Wikimedia movement: The Wikimedia Foundation's Grantmaking team has initiated a project with TCC Group - a consulting firm focused on social impact - and the larger Wikimedia communities, to help Wikimedia organizations of all shapes and sizes (including user groups, chapters, and thematic organizations), to improve their effectiveness and their ability to have impact for the movement. The project was initiated in response to growing interest and conversations by volunteers and organizations, to better understand how organizations in particular have impact in the Wikimedia movement, which is unique in that it is online, growing extraordinarily fast, and created and supported almost entirely by volunteers. The project seeks to help Wikimedia organizations better understand 1) how impact is defined from an organizational perspective in their contexts, 2) what strategies Wikimedia organizations use to achieve that impact, and 3) what resources and skills Wikimedia organizations may need to be more effective in the strategies they choose to pursue. In the first “impact” stage of the project, TCC interviewed several organizations, administered an impact survey to all organizations, and attended Wikimania 2014 in London where the project was discussed with AffCom, an informal organizational effectiveness working group, the FDC and other grantmaking committees, as well as many other individuals in the movement. TCC also conducted in-depth research on three organizations, resulting in case studies illustrating different organizational models leading to impact. Many thanks to those of you who took your valuable time to participate in one or more of these exchanges; Wikimedians around the globe created the foundation for this work. The second and third stages of the project involve development of an online organizational effectiveness questionnaire, a user guide to help organizations interpret their results, and an organizational effectiveness learning center, which may help organizations think about the different strategies they are using and how they could build specific capacities to be more successful with those strategies. *Learning center: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki
[Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)
tl;dr Request for Wikimedia organizations to take a survey on organizational effectiveness, that will help us understand and support each other better: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire Dear friends and colleagues of the Wikimedia movement: The Wikimedia Foundation's Grantmaking team has initiated a project with TCC Group - a consulting firm focused on social impact - and the larger Wikimedia communities, to help Wikimedia organizations of all shapes and sizes (including user groups, chapters, and thematic organizations), to improve their effectiveness and their ability to have impact for the movement. The project was initiated in response to growing interest and conversations by volunteers and organizations, to better understand how organizations in particular have impact in the Wikimedia movement, which is unique in that it is online, growing extraordinarily fast, and created and supported almost entirely by volunteers. The project seeks to help Wikimedia organizations better understand 1) how impact is defined from an organizational perspective in their contexts, 2) what strategies Wikimedia organizations use to achieve that impact, and 3) what resources and skills Wikimedia organizations may need to be more effective in the strategies they choose to pursue. In the first “impact” stage of the project, TCC interviewed several organizations, administered an impact survey to all organizations, and attended Wikimania 2014 in London where the project was discussed with AffCom, an informal organizational effectiveness working group, the FDC and other grantmaking committees, as well as many other individuals in the movement. TCC also conducted in-depth research on three organizations, resulting in case studies illustrating different organizational models leading to impact. Many thanks to those of you who took your valuable time to participate in one or more of these exchanges; Wikimedians around the globe created the foundation for this work. The second and third stages of the project involve development of an online organizational effectiveness questionnaire, a user guide to help organizations interpret their results, and an organizational effectiveness learning center, which may help organizations think about the different strategies they are using and how they could build specific capacities to be more successful with those strategies. *Learning center: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Learning_center. *User guide: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/User_guide *Questionnaire text: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/Questionnaire *Link to take questionnaire (can be used once per IP address, but more links can be requested): https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire The learning center is intended to be a base from which Wikimedia organizations can grow their knowledge and share their own experiences and best practices. TCC worked closely with a handful of Wikimedia volunteers from different organizations to design the Questionnaire you are about to take. Wikimedia Foundation has provided funding for this project and has consulted closely with TCC over the course of the engagement. Please note that the questionnaire is not intended to be a test of individual organizations in any way; the Foundation will not be provided with individual organization results. As part of this consultation, TCC will aggregate findings from the movement-wide Organizational Effectiveness Questionnaire and provide them to the Foundation’s grantmaking team, along with a “capacity building roadmap” to help the team - and the wider movement - think about how organizations can build capacity for specific program strategies. *We request that you respond to the questionnaire by December 21st*, so that TCC can collate the results and share it with all of us early in the new year. Please let us know if you have any difficulties or questions: the WMF contact for this process is Winifred Olliff. Please contact us with questions or suggestions at orgeffectiven...@wikimedia.org. Many thanks to all who offered their time and expertise to the different stages of this project. We hope this tool will be useful to you in your work, and we welcome your continued feedback. Warm regards and looking forward to our continued work together! Anasuya -- *Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of GrantmakingWikimedia Foundation* Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)
Hoi, I would assume that statistics are an important tool. There are many statistics I can think of off the top of my head that make sense in this context., WHERE ARE THEY... Given that this is a WMF initiative, why are the statistics not there.. You have the capability ! and the need is obvious when the ED says that metrics are how chapters are evaluated.. Thanks, GerardM On 1 December 2014 at 22:56, Anasuya Sengupta asengu...@wikimedia.org wrote: tl;dr Request for Wikimedia organizations to take a survey on organizational effectiveness, that will help us understand and support each other better: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire Dear friends and colleagues of the Wikimedia movement: The Wikimedia Foundation's Grantmaking team has initiated a project with TCC Group - a consulting firm focused on social impact - and the larger Wikimedia communities, to help Wikimedia organizations of all shapes and sizes (including user groups, chapters, and thematic organizations), to improve their effectiveness and their ability to have impact for the movement. The project was initiated in response to growing interest and conversations by volunteers and organizations, to better understand how organizations in particular have impact in the Wikimedia movement, which is unique in that it is online, growing extraordinarily fast, and created and supported almost entirely by volunteers. The project seeks to help Wikimedia organizations better understand 1) how impact is defined from an organizational perspective in their contexts, 2) what strategies Wikimedia organizations use to achieve that impact, and 3) what resources and skills Wikimedia organizations may need to be more effective in the strategies they choose to pursue. In the first “impact” stage of the project, TCC interviewed several organizations, administered an impact survey to all organizations, and attended Wikimania 2014 in London where the project was discussed with AffCom, an informal organizational effectiveness working group, the FDC and other grantmaking committees, as well as many other individuals in the movement. TCC also conducted in-depth research on three organizations, resulting in case studies illustrating different organizational models leading to impact. Many thanks to those of you who took your valuable time to participate in one or more of these exchanges; Wikimedians around the globe created the foundation for this work. The second and third stages of the project involve development of an online organizational effectiveness questionnaire, a user guide to help organizations interpret their results, and an organizational effectiveness learning center, which may help organizations think about the different strategies they are using and how they could build specific capacities to be more successful with those strategies. *Learning center: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Learning_center . *User guide: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/User_guide *Questionnaire text: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/Questionnaire *Link to take questionnaire (can be used once per IP address, but more links can be requested): https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire The learning center is intended to be a base from which Wikimedia organizations can grow their knowledge and share their own experiences and best practices. TCC worked closely with a handful of Wikimedia volunteers from different organizations to design the Questionnaire you are about to take. Wikimedia Foundation has provided funding for this project and has consulted closely with TCC over the course of the engagement. Please note that the questionnaire is not intended to be a test of individual organizations in any way; the Foundation will not be provided with individual organization results. As part of this consultation, TCC will aggregate findings from the movement-wide Organizational Effectiveness Questionnaire and provide them to the Foundation’s grantmaking team, along with a “capacity building roadmap” to help the team - and the wider movement - think about how organizations can build capacity for specific program strategies. *We request that you respond to the questionnaire by December 21st*, so that TCC can collate the results and share it with all of us early in the new year. Please let us know if you have any difficulties or questions: the WMF contact for this process is Winifred Olliff. Please contact us with questions or suggestions at orgeffectiven...@wikimedia.org. Many thanks to all who offered their time and expertise to the different stages of this project. We hope this tool will be useful to you in your work, and we welcome your continued feedback. Warm regards and looking forward to our continued work together! Anasuya -- *Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of
