Dear all As I haven't heard from anyone about joining today - and it's pretty much the warmest day of the year so far where I live in Scotland! - I'm thinking of cancelling the community call on strategy at 2pm. *If anyone was hoping to join, do let me know. *Otherwise, I'd be very happy to see people at the next upcoming call, on:
*Thursday 12th September from 8 - 9pm* https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2749110721?omn=87877961059 Following feedback from the first community call, plus a staff away day this week, we have refined the strategic aims for 2025 - 2030 as follows: Strategic Aim 1: Hold equity, diversity and inclusion at the heart of the organisation and our charitable activities, increasing the involvement and representation of the global majority and other minoritised groups. Strategic Aim 2: Develop and diversify the UK community of contributors, volunteers and community leaders; recruiting new editors, celebrating and amplifying the work of longstanding contributors, and supporting effective project governance. Strategic Aim 3: Increase free, verified and open access to knowledge and information about the climate crisis and other important topics, by delivering impactful projects with relevant partners, and advocating for the release of content. Strategic Aim 4: Support the public’s ability to make informed decisions about critical issues by developing information literacy skills, promoting digital citizenship, advocating for the responsible use of AI, and campaigning for public policy measures that support and sustain a healthy information ecosystem. Strategic Aim 5: Elevate Wikimedia UK's influence and impact by communicating its work to a wide range of audiences; building visibility and profile and demonstrating thought leadership through our media activities, campaigns, research, publications and speaking engagements. Strategic Aim 6: Make a significant contribution to the overall Wikimedia ecosystem and the delivery of the Wikimedia 2030 strategy through international support, collaboration, leadership and innovation. Further feedback on the strategic aims is welcome and I've shared them in a google doc here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RRwd4w2f5snMDOj-VO4oxwDgHBlnz3EDYcANlcY4QVY/edit?usp=sharing> for your comments and suggestions. This document also includes our draft objectives relating to the second strategic aim, focused on community support and development. Thanks and best wishes Lucy ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Lucy Crompton-Reid <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 at 13:36 Subject: Re: How to input into Wikimedia UK's new strategy for 2025 - 2030 To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <[email protected]> Dear all Thanks to those of you who have shared their thoughts on Wikimedia UK's future direction and priorities, as we develop the chapter's next strategic plan (for 2025 - 2030). I will be holding video calls at the following times for anyone who would like to discuss the strategy in person: Monday 2nd September from 1 - 2pm Saturday 7th September from 2 - 3pm Thursday 12th September from 8 - 9pm Please rsvp to this email to let me know if you would like to join one of these calls. The zoom link is the same for all three sessions: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2749110721?omn=87877961059 The emerging strategic aims for 2025 - 2030 are as follows: 1. Put equity, diversity and inclusion at the heart of the organisation and our charitable activities, increasing the involvement and representation of the UK”s underrepresented or marginalised communities. 2. Support the public’s ability to make decisions about critical issues such as the climate crisis or health, by developing projects and partnerships that increase free, open access to knowledge and information and advocating for open policies and practice. 3. Support, develop and diversify the UK community of volunteers and community leaders, and amplify the work of Wikimedia contributors in the UK. 4. Contribute to the creation of a *healthy* information ecosystem by developing and delivering media and information literacy projects in schools and other education settings; campaigning for public policy measures that support ecosystem health; and advocating for changes in policy and practice across relevant sectors. 5. Elevate Wikimedia UK's influence and impact by amplifying its work to a wide range of audiences; building our visibility and profile through social and traditional media and innovative communications campaigns, and demonstrating thought leadership through research, publications and speaking engagements. 6. Support the reach and impact of the global Wikimedia movement through our UK programme as well as through international collaboration; acting as an advisor and thought partner, convening communities of interest through the creation of pilot hubs and other, less formal structures, and sharing evaluation, research and best practice. We will also be looking to increase our financial sustainability and resilience (including diversifying income) in order to support programme delivery. I'd be particularly keen to hear ideas for how Wikimedia UK can better engage/support/amplify the work of volunteers - but your input into any of these, including whether you think that this is the right direction of travel for Wikimedia UK, is very much welcomed. Thanks and best wishes Lucy On Mon, 1 Jul 2024 at 12:10, Lucy Crompton-Reid < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear all > > Wikimedia UK's current strategy runs until the end of the current > financial year (31st January 2025) and we are in the process of developing > a new strategic framework to guide the chapter's work over the next five > years. As the strategy will be one of the supporting documents for our next > funding proposal to the Wikimedia Foundation (to be submitted by the end of > September), we will be working on this over the summer. > > It would be great to get input into the new strategy from editors and > other volunteers. My plan is to hold a video call to discuss and explore > priorities, followed by asynchronous input over the summer (open to > anyone). At the AGM on Saturday 21st September, I will give a short > presentation on how the strategy has developed and key aspects of the final > draft. > > I am hoping to organise a call in the last two weeks of July, and would > *welcome > views on the time of the day/week that would most suit volunteers who would > like to participate* - for example, would a weekday lunchtime work, or > would an evening or weekend session be better? > > I know that not everyone is particularly interested in strategy, and that > even for those of you that are, there are already a lot of calls for > volunteers to input into Wikimedia strategy and governance issues currently > e.g. the movement charter, the recent Universal Code of Conduct > Coordinating Committee elections, and upcoming elections for Wikimedia UK > and Wikimedia Foundation trustees. Volunteers have limited time and I know > that for many of you, your priority will be on-wiki activities. So if there > are any ways of making it easier for you to provide input into issues that > matter to you, please do let me know. For example, there could be meetup > events where a member of staff could come along to gather views; or we > could create a very simple online survey. > > With thanks and best wishes > Lucy > > > > -- > Lucy Crompton-Reid > Chief Executive > -- Lucy Crompton-Reid Chief Executive -- Lucy Crompton-Reid Chief Executive
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