[Wikimedia-l] Save the date: Wikimedia Summit in Berlin, April 19-21, 2024

[Franziska Heine]

Dear Wikimedia Affiliates and Wikimedia Foundation representatives,

After the success of last year’s Wikimedia Summit[1], I am delighted to
share that the next Wikimedia Summit will take place again in Berlin on April
19-21, 2024. This event will be the opportunity for Affiliates from across
the globe and the Wikimedia Foundation to come together, connect, and
engage around how our Movement is governed. It will be the last Summit of
its kind – so let’s make it memorable and use it as a platform to grow
together as a Movement, moving towards our Strategic Direction 2030[2].
This can only be achieved with your engagement and participation.

I hope to see many of you during the Summit online engagement session this
summer and the Berlin event in 2024.

You will find below and on our Meta page further details around:

1/ What to expect at the Summit

2/ How to participate

3/ Who the organizers are

Kind regards,

Franziska



1/ What to expect at the Summit?

The Summit is the place for Affiliates and the Wikimedia Foundation to come
together to discuss the future of the Wikimedia Movement. The Wikimedia
Summit 2024 will focus on how the Movement is governed and build upon the
conversations from the Summit in 2022: how and at what level we make
decisions about money, technology, strategy, and affiliates, and how that
is written in the movement charter. The precise approach will be defined in
collaboration with participants and with the Movement Charter Drafting
Committee (MCDC)[3] as they approach the completion of their work to
reflect all needs.

2/ How to participate?

This year, an engagement process composed of a series of online events will
be introduced to prepare the work that will happen in Berlin and enable
everyone to meaningfully participate during the Summit. Therefore,
participation in one of the first online sessions happening in
August/September 2023 is a condition to attend the Summit in Berlin[4].
Further information around eligibility and registration can be found on the
event’s Meta page[5]. Please note that the affiliate’s compliance with
reporting (per WAD portal) is a pre-condition for eligibility[6].

Given the program focus on governance[7], people from Affiliates interested
in attending the Wikimedia Summit 2024 are encouraged to also engage with
Movement Governance and the charter drafts in the upcoming MCDC community
consultations[8] and at Wikimania in order to help in preparing the best
drafts for review.

3/ Who are the organizers?

Wikimedia Deutschland will be hosting the Summit and the online engagement
sessions in close collaboration and with the financial support of the
Wikimedia Foundation. You can direct your questions to the organizing team
at wmsum...@wikimedia.de.


[1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2022/Event-report

[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Direction

[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candidates


[4]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2024/How_to_participate

[5]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2024
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2024/Eligibility>

[6]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2024/Eligibility

[7]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2024/Program_Outline
[8]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Community_Consultation

-- 
Franziska Heine
Executive Director

Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23–24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. +49 (0)30-577 11 62-0https://wikimedia.de

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[Wikimedia-l] Vision and strategy papers for Wikidata and Wikibase are published

[Franziska Heine]

Dear all,


More than 7 years ago we started the development of Wikidata. We started 
out with the main goal of building a central data store for Wikipedia. 
Very quickly we expanded to also covering the other Wikimedia projects. 
Then came the interest from people outside Wikimedia to use Wikidata’s 
data to build their own apps, websites, visualisations and more. And 
last year we witnessed a significant interest in Wikibase, the software 
behind Wikidata.



This means our structured data work has expanded very significantly from 
what we started out with. At the same time, over these past few years, 
both WMDE [1] and the WMF [2] have spent significant time and invested 
in supporting the movement strategy work and aligning our organizational 
plans with the movement strategy.



Given all this interest, and this moment of opportunity and positive 
change, we felt it was time to sit together and get clarity on the next 
steps for our structured data work. It is important that we know what we 
want to achieve in the next few years, what our long-term hopes are for 
Wikidata and Wikibase, how these align with organisational and movement 
strategy, and what support and resources are required for their success.



The result of these conversations include one product vision paper and 
three product strategy papers that we are publishing today:



 *

   Vision: This paper gives a high-level overview of where we’d like to
   see Wikidata and Wikibase evolve and grow, based on the work of the
   past 7 years and many conversations with community members, movement
   partners, and other stakeholders.

 *

   Wikidata for Wikimedia projects: This paper dives deeper into how we
   see Wikidata developing in the context of the Wikimedia projects and
   how it can better support the projects.

 *

   Wikidata as a platform: This paper explores the value of Wikidata as
   a source of data for others outside Wikimedia to build upon.

 *

   Wikibase Ecosystem: This paper goes deeper into the idea of the
   Wikibase Ecosystem, a network of Wikibase instances which could
   share data and other capacities.


We are now inviting you to read the vision and strategy papers and give 
us your feedback. We are collecting this feedback until the end of 
October and will then integrate it as appropriate into a second 
iteration of the papers.



The papers are published at 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Strategy/2019. Please leave 
your feedback and questions on the associated talk page.


We are looking forward to reading your input.


Since this is my first mail to this list, a short introduction about 
myself: I joined Wikimedia Deutschland 2 years ago as the Head of 
Software & Development. I have been working with the Product, UX, 
Engineering and Community Communication people in my department to move 
this amazing project forward.



Regards

Franziska

Head of Software & Development, Wikimedia Deutschland


[1] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/Planning_2019/enand 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/Zukunftsprozess/EN


[2] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Direction

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