 Thank you for joining us this morning, afternoon, evening, wherever you are. I am Yoke Wang-Pam, Movement Strategy Implementation Specialist at the Wikipedia Foundation and part of the Movement Strategy and Governance Team. In my role on the team, I work to support our communities to make sure they have access to the opportunities that enable us all to effectively contribute to advancing movement strategy. Thank you everyone for joining us again. Our speakers for today, you might have read the program already but I will announce our speakers again and if I mention your name to our speakers just please put your hand up and wave just in case. I know everyone, all of our speakers are outstanding members of the community and probably need no introduction but just in case. So Tony is here. Tony speaking this morning. Tony, a quick wave from you. Thank you. Ivana is here. She'll also be speaking today. Ivana, thank you. Kanika, Kanika can you wave for us please? Awesome. Natalia, Natalia please wave. All right so this morning you'll be hearing from all of these amazing people about the work that they've been doing that's very related to these concrete projects that are tied to movement strategy. The movement strategy implementation, some of you might know, some may not know but movement strategy implementation is actually already happening across various communities currently. These projects are tangible ongoing projects that demonstrate how, where and when and what ideas are truly implementable. In the session today you'll hear from the people who are leading or co-leading on these projects and you'll learn more about what movement strategy means in very practical terms. If you had previously asked yourself a question about how your community can start a project or what opportunities or resources are available to support you and your ideas we're hoping that you find some of those answers in our time together. You'll hear a lot less from me and more from our amazing speakers today so listen out for the thoughts that the speakers will share about future goals on their projects. I believe that that's probably a place where you might find some inspiration or opportunities to connect and collaborate. So I'll invite our first speaker this morning, Tony. Thank you for joining us over to you. Hi, hi everyone. I'm Tony Ristovsky, one-time editor on Wikipedia from 2010 and apart from that I'm also a board member of the user group Shadow Knowledge and Shadow Knowledge this year started a new project that is connected with movement strategy. That project is initially for the minority languages that we have in Macedonia. That is the Romanian language and Romanian language that are small communities between 10 to 30,000 speakers in the country. So we tried with this project and the movement strategy to finally build some of the editors and to train the editors of these languages here in our country. So we firstly started like making a server with Google Forms to see how they know about Wikipedia, how they learn the language, if the language is really spoken or not. And also we take these forms to see if percentage of how many people actually know to write on these languages because these languages are minority languages like I said and they are not included in the public schools. So they often they speak and they write on other languages like Macedonian, Albanian and they are not included in the schools like Romanian and Romanian languages. So they often lack like they don't know how to use the language in a written form. That's why part of that, part of these languages, we also started with Macedonian Sign Language because these people are often neglected in our communities. So it is like only Macedonian language but not Macedonian Sign Language and this population is actually quite a lot in our country like 5,000, 5 to 10,000 people actually have difficulties to speak or to hear so they use sign language. So that's why we included this language in our grant and we started with these communities to work about creating videos and with these videos to bring closer the link. So maybe next slide it's okay. We also, what we learned so far, we learned that under these languages I have a lot of dialects that are not included in the official script and they because we have interviews with members of these communities and they speak that they don't have they don't have official dialects but they are using dialect. Also Macedonian Sign Language community told us that they don't know Macedonian language although they are Macedonians. Like they have difficulties to speak and write on Macedonian so now we have to involve these communities on some other way in our next phase of the project. Also it is a really like problem that we face with these communities is that they are lack of materials like materials in written, in digital form, like they often use auto form and they often learn the language in auto form, not in the written form. So we are working with our partners about next phase to assist in finding and creating materials about next phase. What our goals with this project is actually like I said in the first slide is that we now it is like to creating a community with editors to create and these editors after that to create content that are relevant in these communities. Like we like to choose and to read articles in Macedonian or Albanian or English version but we are offering now them help to have articles in their own language. Also it is like we would plan to have a long term cooperation with these partners like we have a partner from one partner from every community, like one partner from Romanian community, one partner from Mani language community and one partner from Macedonian sign language community and that is like we are speaking like not just finishing this project but also to have a fair ground to continue the project with them in the future, not just clearly with Romanian or Romanian Wikipedia but just to include the partners in our own project in Macedonian Wikipedia. Now also this is the first time it's like offering again to to have like a written form of their own language to have like to to to to have on some on some space. This is like short introduction of the project so if you have a question so please Bill. Okay thank you so much Tony as you know your work is always I think it's always fascinated me. There are some questions that I see in the chat already and so I'll raise this first question. He says this is from Ziko. Ziko says great what Tony says concrete concentrate on relevant content. He called it community content planning. All right that's not a question. Yeah we know we know we speak with our partners to have a concrete like article plan of articles like article list after that in next phase to be created these articles not to be created by ourselves but from our partners so yes. Okay I see someone here mentions you can't see the slides apologies for that but we will be sharing the slides following our session. Right do we have any other questions I learned that some some of us are still searching out interpretations and feed loop so that might delay some of the questions coming in. It's okay you can't see his name is okay our speaker from Macedonia this morning is Tony Kostovsky someone's asking for your name. Yeah I see. Thank you. Well thank you very much Tony perhaps some questions will come come through specifically for you and so we could just circle back maybe at the end of our session if we have a little more time. Thank you as always for your amazing amazing work and supporting communities that are so disadvantaged. All right on to our next speakers for now. Ivana and Kanika. Ivana and Kanika I guess who's going to be presenting. They will both be presenting and you can throw questions of both of them and you can both answer at any time. Yes yes hello everyone okay yes we can start. So hello everyone I'm Ivana Mojadovic from Wikimedia Serbia I work as program and community manager at Wikimedia Serbia and I'm here today with Kanika Tamani from Wikimedia Deutschland we are going to talk about our collaboration within the Wikimedia Accelerator Unlock. We can move to our next slide. So to give you just a bit of a background on our collaboration and on this accelerator when Unlock was created we I mean Germany was thinking about our movement so our movement is diverse and our movement is a big and multicultural but we still face some challenges in terms of underrepresented communities who wants to contribute and access free knowledge. So we still have some obstacles that we want to change and we definitely think that innovation and not just technical one but also social ones are the crucial for mastering these challenges and achieving the knowledge equity. Within the Unlock we are searching from pathways that can actually drive and nurture these innovative capacities and also create sustainability and stay relevant. So to be more concrete what is Unlock all about we can move to the next slide. So Unlock is actually a project that promotes innovative ideas and a project that breaks down the social and technical barriers that are actually preventing people from accessing and contributing to the free knowledge. This is not a typical and standard grant proposal grant project right. It is actually a program that supports change makers and activists and technologists and creative minds but by listening to their specific needs for their projects and giving them the set of coaching and trainings and mentorship activities that they can go through over the course of several months. We are actually looking for people outside of the movement and also from the movement. Why we're doing this is because we are searching for this different perspectives and we are looking forward to involving more people to the movement and also learning from them and learning about these new angles from people outside of the free knowledge community. This is a program that has been launched by Wikimedia Deutschland in 2020 and so far there have been two editions of the program. 10 projects were supported and also 80 applications were received. As for the program in 2020, we do have some new things we want to share with you. We can move to our next slide. So we created new alliances Wikimedia Deutschland and Wikimedia Serbia joint forces as we like to say it and also created a partnership with Impact Hub Belgrade in order to co-design the unlock program not just in terms of creating the calls for projects and selection process but also creating the set of specific trainings and specific mentorship program project needs. In this year we also have this regional focus meaning that we are focusing on German speaking area but also western Balkans and this is a good thing for us because we are diversing the program because we are giving the opportunities for people from less developed countries to join and also we are giving them opportunities for peer-to-peer exchange for them to learn from one another. In 2020 we accepted and supported seven projects. You can see this on the link in the presentation if someone is not seeing the presentation they will see it afterwards. But just to give you a glimpse of the project ideas we are supporting, I'm just adding two examples. The one is Inclusio. Inclusio is a program that this is actually going to gather the human, sorry, so this is going to gather human generated audio descriptions of visual content to the blind and visually impaired. So we are overcoming the gap for people who are blind that cannot access visual content. Also Machs Passe is a project that is fostering political sensitive translation and by creating the crowd sourcing platform and they are looking forward to create this sensitivity in translation. So far we have been doing this. We are in the middle of the project so we are working with themes and we are learning a lot and also we are facing some challenges but this second part will be explained by Kanika in more detail. Yes, thanks a lot Ivana for the introduction and hi to everyone I'm Kanika and I would like to share with you some open questions or challenges we are trying to address. We certainly acknowledge the challenges we know as well as those we don't know yet and we are testing and experimenting a lot in this collaboration since there's no blueprint or as we call it recipe with regrets to how to set such an innovating and driving program within our movement with regards to how to really implement movement strategy to get to where we want to be. So one of the open questions that Hannah we're dealing with is how to achieve knowledge equity with social and technical innovations, how to create an environment where emerging and marginalized communities as participants, as co-designers, as experts within the unlock project can devise their own technologies system and social structures. I think that's really much related to the contextualization so how do we best contextualize such a program that invites all participants to collaborate and strengthen their innovative capacities. But it's not only about this kind of technical or techy side of innovation we want to achieve with unlock so I think this collaboration with Wikipedia, Serbia and Impact Hub also you know put us to some challenges. So how to strengthen cross-affiliate collaboration, what are more creative ways and innovative ways, ways that can see power and generate more balanced partnership and how do we collaborate with people and institution like Impact Hub that are not from the immediate open knowledge movement. Next slide please. So these were the challenges and what we have learned so far is that the bunch of different perspectives into our program and therefore also into the movement which can be definitely beneficial. We I think having been working to what's narrowing down the power gap between this or in this collaboration and finding ways of collaborating that well you equally the resources each of us bring in. So it does not mean that it does not mean equal workload because it would be unfair but it rather really closely looked into what capacities, what roles, what needs each parties so in this collaboration has. It has been challenging also in communication and I think this is a big learning for us to how do we best communicate into the movement so explaining what is unlock, what is an acceleration, innovation driving program, as well as to new communities outside the movement so what is free knowledge and what is knowledge equity and also one of the key learning is obviously that unlock is not a program about producing ready-made innovations and then just bring it into the communities that's not the goal. It's more like an iterative way of working on something new which means that we need to be ready for taking risks and also willing to accept that some of the ideas may become successful and some may not. We are still in the process so more learnings will be shared and more learnings to come so we are looking for this and for updates just follow us on our social media accounts so there's an unlocked Twitter as well as an unlocked link in account I hope you can see the link in the chat as well. The last slide, what are our future goals so I think there are two points that we would like to mention so first of all we would love to see this program the unlock program to really become freely adaptable changeable depending on the geographic cultural and economic context within our movement and we also would love to think big and yeah kind of creating more structures and resources to drive innovation within our movement like you know building an ecosystem to innovate in free knowledge I just add the link here to our thought and ideas and kind of first mapping of how to do so so yeah go through this this kind of idea and yeah send us some feedback on that but in in some I think what we would love to see is obviously a movement-wide commitment to recommendation nine so innovate in free knowledge I think we would love to see more incentives and I think that we would love to figure out ways and you know approaches how to involve movement stakeholders as well as other mission-aligned organizations so you know overcoming this kind of not-invented-year syndrome okay yeah I think that's it fantastic thank you so much Kanika thank you Vanna for sharing this amazing work it's always interesting when we come up with innovations but innovations that are homegrown are definitely interesting um in the interest of time we will go run to our next speaker but sorry just a minute before that there are two questions Kanika and Yvanna if you can answer those sort of together who runs impact hub bell grade and then how many members does what we just said yeah have and we can answer that quickly in a minute yeah so I can answer yeah okay we have around 200 uh members in our organization a little bit over it 2030 yeah I think related to impact hub bell grade so it's in kind of a an association in bell grade so they have yeah probably founders and co-founders running um so it's it's it's a kind yeah and then an association as far as I know and it's also part of a global network so there are many many impact hubs in the world like you know many many shutters and within our movement so I think we could also share some links um about impact up here as well okay all right fantastic um just a quick note that for those who might want to pick up the slides so you can find those links that are being shared you can find them on our program on meta I'll share some more information on that as we wrap up but going on to our next speaker this morning last but definitely not the least Natalia um we'll share about her project thank you Natalia thank you and hello everyone it's amazing to be here at Wikimedia with you it's always it's always so exciting to to attend Wikimedia I will be talking about the project we are doing in Wikimedia Poland around providing for safety and inclusion and this project comes from a thought that if you really want to have safe and inclusive communities and projects we need to take care of people who actually work towards this safety and in Wikimedia projects we rely on safety with volunteer functionaries usually those are admins who take care of very difficult and complex cases they react to harassment they work on conflict resolution they react to vandalisms and yet they do this work without per training or preparation to do it which is if you think of the importance and the sensitivity and the difficulty of this work it's kind of surprising that we don't prepare them to do it and what we also don't have in the movement is we don't in the movement we don't have a culture of support and consultation and a network of peer support built around those those roles and this leads to two kind of situations one of them is that admins who know that they don't really know how to handle specific situations especially long-going conflict situations and they don't feel that they have the tools to do it and they know that they will be heavily criticized for their mistakes they tend to kind of not interact with those kind of situations which on one hand makes the situation unresolved and hurting community health and on the other hand it puts a lot more load on the admins who still work with that and the solution we came up with is using a peer support framework to help admins to both gain the skills that they need both in terms of their own resilience to stress and harassment and in terms of them working with specific problems giving them soft skills to tackle them and also creating a peer support group for them so that they can talk about the challenges learn from each other support each other in in different areas we will be having a series of meetups online meetups which will end with an admin conference live hopefully during which we will be giving expert training to our functionaries in polish wikipedia and supporting like peer support between them and facilitating it and we hope that in the end they will be ready to better serve the communities they will be safe from burning out and burning out is a big problem in wikipedia communities especially that burning out is something that affects the people who care the most so if we don't take care of burnouts we we lose the most precious of our valentias and we hope that in the end we will be able to to build like no better how to create peer support networks and that they maybe will be possible to use in other places of the movement and in other groups and that we will have healthy communities supported by well-prepared people to do so and I was so very cautious about time that I think that's a lot left and I would be super happy to talk about it and ask any questions both here on the movement strategy forum I could talk about it okay thank you so much Natalia but yes we have so much more time now which is really great we can sort of go go back and ask a few more questions but I'll throw one question at you Natalia just to give us a little more context in understanding sort of the needs of editors and helping them find those safe spaces to well helping them find those safe spaces as I recall your work is sort of building on foundational research that has already been done would you mind sharing with us some of the biggest findings from that research that sort of spurred and led to your project kicking off thank you for this question because it's really important to know so we had interviews and surveys among admins we are still collecting the data and structuring it but what we found out is that the people who actually work on addressing harassment often become victims of harassment themselves which is if you think of it very difficult especially in terms of for example female admins who can also be targets of harassment outside of this role this is a huge burden but also male admins and any other groups so this is one thing that if someone wants to address and react on harassment they may become victims themselves and the other thing that we found that there is a significant level of stress related to taking care of community health and safety and that the and that the admins don't necessarily know how to handle this stress in a way that wouldn't damage them well I dare to say mental health and to and to have resilience to to work on that so those are our findings the finding that very pleasantly surprised me and I'm and I didn't expect that but I'm very happy that this is what we found is that the admins basically have a feeling that their work is recognized in the communities so that they can actually rely on that yeah so I think this is what we found awesome there's a question in the chat I'll ask that question so you can answer it but when we come back Tony I will have a question for you so we can come back and learn a little more from your work but some sorry I can't see the name clearly in chat but the question is which will such efforts be taken globally that is on all projects um probably re-echoing a question I don't know you previously let's all yeah I haven't heard the the last your last sentence could you please repeat if it was addressed to me yes yes the question the question in chat here is you know whether such efforts will be taken globally that is on all projects and there's some thought sort of purchasing that point how important safe culture is but it's not easy and you know learning the best ways to address aggressive behavior but a key question is will such efforts be taken globally well hopefully because at the end of the project we'll be providing a report and some or good practices that we found out and that we already did and I hope that it will inspire and be rebuilt in different communities and that in the end we will have a safer and kinder movement and my POV is that we cannot have a good movement without taking care of how we feel in it so I really hope that it will spark in different places in the movement right yes we do hope it does spark and you know as you're listening to Natalia share what's happening feel free to connect like we said the ideas today are meant the projects that are shared today are meant to also inspire and motivate us so if this sounds like a project you'd like to take up and translate or see it happen in your community feel free to connect and and get it happening Tony I have one question for you on on the project you're working on a research your project is still at that research phase and Kirill who's your co-project feed on this shared in the chat that you'll be sharing the details of that research but I'm curious if there's one piece of the research that you wouldn't mind sharing with us right now what's the most um interesting or the most encouraging thing that you're beginning to find from from the research uh I think that's uh that's will be from the Macedonian sign language community because that uh that fact that they they are not using Macedonian language in uh they're like in they don't understand it actually surprised me and give give us like uh idea and opportunity to use different models to to bring the knowledge to to this community in another way uh also we need to think during this one of the we have some ideas how this community to be included in the next phase that that fact actually surprised me I learn uh completely new information uh from the interview and the survey so this is like uh I think it will be good for us the good from them because we will bring something completely new for this community which is often like like I said it's often neglect from state authorities from the general public and about Natalia I'm looking forward to this report to read it's actually yes it's very nice to to to have a finally like somebody to to to think about uh admin health uh and how how we are feeling because I'm I'm also in the position of admin so this is very nice yeah all right um thank you so much thank you Tony thank you Natalia um Kanika Ivana would you like to share something with us quickly in the last um in in 30 seconds before I wrap up um we have about a minute to go sorry but my outro is super short so just a quick throw if you'd like to share something with um people listening do you want to share something nothing yet it comes a little bit out of the blue but um I mean we are in in in in in the middle like in the process and of course of the program and I think um we can see um many ideas that um are progressing right now and maybe it's just a sneak peek um I think the program is now half time we will have a further look on it and um by the end of October we will have like to know the final presentation that we would love to invite you to join obviously so yeah stay tuned all right that's awesome so thank you to everyone who has joined us this morning the conversations have been rich I loved listening to um our project partners please feel free to find the slides on the program those are shared um and a lot of the details you'd like to catch up on are on those slides thank you and thanks to everyone for joining us um this morning as well um sorry just to also say that you can reach out to the movement strategy and governance team to discuss any inspiring ideas that you might have for movement strategy implementation project in your community um we're happy to support and as you can see from um the projects that are currently ongoing the strategy focus of making sure that we're supporting whether it's underserved typically underrepresented communities but emerging communities as well it's a big focus for the movement strategy and governance team that equity piece um is something we harp on as much as possible so make sure to shine a light on your community by bringing your thoughts and your ideas for projects um uh to to the spotlight thank you very much Tony thank you very much Ivana love you um Natalia love