Dear community
I am very pleased to be able to announce that the board of Wikimedia UK has
formally adopted a five year strategy for the charity:
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Overview_of_strategy
The strategy sets out not only our mission ('to help people and organisations
create and preserve Open Knowledge, and to help provide easy access for all’)
but also the way in which we aim to achieve that in practice.
To ensure that our day-to-day activities are closely focussed on attainment of
our mission, we have committed to record and publish a wide range of measured
outcomes which will indicate, on an ongoing basis, how we are performing
against a range of strategic goals. These measured outcomes will build up
over time into a comprehensive picture of the practical impact the charity has
been able to make.
In preparing the strategy we consulted widely with own Wikimedia UK community,
the Wikimedia community at large, other chapters, the Wikimedia Foundation, and
interested individuals. The draft strategy documents were open for public
consultation during the month of February, and feedback received was taken into
account along with staff and board contributions. We have replied to the
community feedback on-wiki: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Strategy_consultation
We are confident that as the end result of this process we have a robust
strategy that will serve us well in the years to come. It will enable us to
maintain and track challenging but achievable targets while retaining
operational flexibility to focus our day-to-day efforts on whichever individual
activities and initiatives will best help us achieve practical impact.
We would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the process, and we look
forward to continuing to work with the community with renewed focus and vigour.
Best regards
Michael
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Michael Maggs
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