Thank you for the update Maryana :)
Flo
Le 06/09/2022 à 21:16, Samuel Klein a écrit :
Seconded — thank you for these continuing updates, and for always
inviting conversation. Essential, even when it takes time for those
seeds to sprout.
🌍🌏🌎🌑
On Tue., Sep. 6, 2022, 7:11 p.m. Craig Newmark,
<craig.newm...@gmail.com> wrote:
Maryana, much appreciated!
Craig Newmark, craigslist founder
craignewmarkphilanthropies.org <http://craignewmarkphilanthropies.org>
On Tue, Sep 6, 2022, 9:53 AM Maryana Iskander
<miskan...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
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Hi everyone,
I’ve started my ninth official month as CEO of the Wikimedia
Foundation. Based on feedback from this list and elsewhere, I
am trying to proactively communicate every few months on my
priorities and what I continue to learn.
I regularly return to the five ‘puzzles’
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Chief_Executive_Officer/Maryana%E2%80%99s_Listening_Tour/The_Puzzles>I
identified in my original letter to you. For me, these
continue to pose big questions about our role in the world and
our ways of working with each other. I’ve mentioned that one
highlight of the year so far has been bringing colleagues
together – volunteers, editors, affiliates, Foundation staff,
board members – to reconnect at a human level. Many of you
have shared with me the need for more spaces that can help us
build (and rebuild) relationships and trust.
As more communities return to in-person events, I have
benefitted from spending time with volunteers at WikiCon
Brasil and at the Wikimania meetup hosted in Cape Town. I look
forward to participating in-person and virtually at many more
regional gatherings in the months ahead.
I am writing today to provide you with an update on the three
priorities I identified in January.
Priority 1: Strategy and Planning
My first priority remains focused on strategy and planning. In
June, we shared the successful adoption of the Wikimedia
Foundation’s Annual Plan
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2022-2023>.
It is now anchored in the strategic direction of our movement
– knowledge equity and knowledge as a service – and it
identifies the Foundation’s strengthened focus on regions and
on projects. This plan benefited from the contributions and
feedback of hundreds of volunteers who provided input on-wiki
and through other multilingual channels of communication.
We’ll share updates on progress before the end of the calendar
year on the Annual Plan meta page and in other forums. Our
intention is to continue asking for guidance and input from
volunteers, affiliates, and communities.
I mentioned in my April message that the Wikimedia Foundation
has grown very rapidly over the past 3 years as part of its
medium term plan – increasing its budget by more than 30% in
the past year with the addition of more than 200 new people
since 2020.This growth will not continue as we stabilize and
make sure that new resources are delivering maximum impact for
our mission. The Foundation’s approved budget represents a 17%
increase, most of this is inflationary and other year-on-year
costs. Funding to other movement entities (individual and
affiliate) grew by 24% percent.
While the annual plan is an important start, it does not
address all of the significant strategic issues facing
Wikimedia – none of which can be solved in a single year.
Within the framework of our movement strategy and emerging
charter, I plan to continue partnering with Foundation
stakeholders and communities in co-planning approaches to
tackle strategic issues that an annual plan cannot fully
address. The Board of Trustees will help kick this off with
strategic planning engagements at the board’s upcoming meeting
in Berlin. This will be followed by important conversations
about strategy implementation at the Wikimedia Summit
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2022>(returning
for the first time since 2019).
Priority 2: Leadership
I highlighted in January that CEO transitions are disruptive
for most organisations and change often continues after a new
leader has arrived. I have been trying to build a broader
leadership team at the Wikimedia Foundation as I focus on
successfully onboarding new hires, investing more in internal
talent management, undertaking succession planning for key
roles, and providing stronger communications support for the
Foundation’s senior team.
Product/Technology
My top priority when I joined was to actively step in and
support the Foundation’s product and technology teams while we
recruited executive leadership of these mission critical
functions with a new Chief Product and Technology Officer.
This goal has been achieved
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/06/13/wikimedia-foundation-welcomes-selena-deckelmann/>as
Selena Deckelmann is now officially on board at the Wikimedia
Foundation after a successful nine-year career at Mozilla,
most recently as the head of Firefox. She is reaching out to
learn from our technical contributors and volunteers, and can
be contacted directly at sdeckelm...@wikimedia.org
<mailto:sdeckelm...@wikimedia.org>.
Advancement
Having assessed the Wikimedia Foundation’s leadership
structure, I have decided not to create or resurrect any
additional C-level roles at this time. Instead, we will add
more organization-wide responsibilities to existing leadership
roles in order to increase accountability, improve
coordination, and reduce silos. I am pleased to share that
Lisa Gruwell (lgruw...@wikimedia.org
<mailto:lgruw...@wikimedia.org>)will assume additional
responsibilities as a Deputy to the CEO while also remaining
the Chief Advancement Officer. I believe this will provide the
Foundation with further leadership stability as well as
provide important institutional memory given Lisa’s 12+ years
of Wikimedia experience.
In that time, Lisa has delivered an unparalleled track record
of results throughout every chapter of the Foundation’s
history since its inception. She has supported communities
around the globe and engaged allies in embracing the vision of
Wikimedia. Lisa is always looking to the future and asking how
we can deepen the impact of our work. She often channels the
voices of our contributors, readers and donors – I have seen
firsthand how deeply Lisa cares about this mission and the
people who make it possible from those at the Foundation, in
our movement, and around the world.
Legal
Working closely with General Counsel Amanda Keton, we recently
appointed Stephen LaPorte (slapo...@wikimedia.org
<mailto:slapo...@wikimedia.org>) as Deputy General Counsel.
This is a key role that the Foundation’s legal team has had
for several years. In addition to leading the Legal Affairs
and Public Policy teams for the last decade, Stephen has built
a track record of effective partnership with communities to
support our technical aspirations, while seeing around the
corners of the policy landscape to protect and expand free
knowledge. We will all benefit from Stephen’s experience and
wisdom in this role.
Communications
The Foundation’s communications department is led by Vice
President Anusha Alikhan (aalik...@wikimedia.org
<mailto:aalik...@wikimedia.org>) to support strategic efforts
for external, movement, and Foundation audiences. Anusha
joined Wikimedia in 2019 from the Knight Foundation and has
prior experience as a freelance journalist, editor and lawyer.
Her leadership of the communications team recognizes Anusha’s
capabilities as a consummate communications professional, her
embodiment of Wikimedia’s values, and her unwavering
commitment to equity and inclusion.
Finance & Administration
Jaime Villagomez (jvillago...@wikimedia.org
<mailto:jvillago...@wikimedia.org>) remains our Chief
Financial Officer, very capably overseeing the Foundation’s
finance and administration teams to steward our finances,
strengthen the operational infrastructure of our movement, and
enable the Foundation to better meet its strategic objectives.
Talent & Culture
Alongside an experienced team of leaders, I am temporarily
heading up our Talent & Culture department in order to learn
more about what is needed at this time – I plan to make
further leadership decisions by the end of the year.
Chief of Staff
Finally, I have redefined the Chief of Staff role to support
the broader organization and movement, not only the CEO.
Communicating regularly and effectively, not just to relay
information but to create shared understanding across diverse
stakeholders, is one of the most important capabilities we
need at the Foundation, and this role is intended to help us
all. Nadee Gunasena(ngunas...@wikimedia.org
<mailto:ngunas...@wikimedia.org>) recently became Chief of
Staff after four years of executive communications support at
the Wikimedia Foundation. Many of you may already know Nadee
as someone who stands ready to help affiliates and community
members with communications and other needs.
Priority 3: Values and Culture
Strategy, planning and leadership are necessary ingredients
for success. My experience has taught me that values and
culture often matter more. I have been on a journey seeking to
understand how the Wikimedia Foundation’s organizational
values
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Values>are
lived in practice. And how values can clarify what others
should expect of us. This feels like an important question
now, especially given how much has changed at the Foundation
since these were first penned in 2016. We are beginning those
conversations between now and December following input from
employee groups, our Board of Trustees, as well as data from a
recent all-staff survey. I am always interested to hear from
others who also think about values and how they shape
organizational culture and performance.
I haven’t stopped asking for time to keep learning from all of
you - thank you to those who have reached out for more
conversations and to share perspectives. I can always be
reached directly at miskan...@wikimedia.org
<mailto:miskan...@wikimedia.org>.
Maryana
Maryana Iskander
Wikimedia Foundation CEO
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