 Hi everybody, welcome to the Wikimedia Monthly Activities Meeting for September 2018. I am Toby Negrin. I am the Chief Product Officer here at the Wikimedia Foundation, and I'm super excited to be the master of ceremonies today. So we have an awesome, actually really interesting agenda today. You are here. Welcome and introduction to agenda. We're going to have a movement, a quick movement update from me, and then we've got some really interesting folks to talk about Wikimedia, partnerships and global reach update. Then we're going to talk a bit about movement strategy, and then Q&A, and then Wikilove. So here's the movement update. So the Wikimedia Foundation released a gender equity report. This highlights the experience of 65 Wikimedians working together towards gender equity in our projects. The Community Engagement Insights 2018 report was published. Both of these are really interesting, and you should definitely take a look. In somewhat, I guess, more somber news, there was a drive to preserve the National Museum of Brazil knowledge. As many of you know, this amazing museum was destroyed in a fire and Wikimedians around the world, but especially in South America and Brazil have been moving photos of the collection into Commons. And then global preferences across Wikimedia wikis have been rolled out. This gives you fine grain control over preferences across all of the projects, and this is particularly useful for people who edit in more than one project a lot. So yeah. Editedona wins the 2018 Frida Award. I would encourage you to read this for yourself, because for a non-Spanish speaker, that's quite an award. Awesome. Amazon contributed a million dollars to the Wikimedia endowment, which is really great news. Kudos to all folks who made that happen. The European Parliament has rejected improvements, which would have helped bridge the gap between EU copyright law and how people use the internet. And finally, the Wikimedia Foundation released employee diversity data. And here's a shot from the Brazil Museum. Coming up soon. So there's going to be a Wikigraphis boot camp in India, actually in a few days. The conference in North America is later in October, and then there'll be a wiki tech storm at the end of October in the Netherlands. Okay, so now I'm going to introduce Douglas Scott to talk about Wikimedia 2018. Take it away, Douglas. Thank you very much. Hello, everyone. Could I please have the first slide? Thank you so much. So this is my presentation on, I was thinking of titling at Wikimedia sort of learnings and discoveries, but I decided to go with purpose and insights instead, I felt a bit more of an adaptable name for what we want to achieve here. But basically what I'm going to be talking about is my process, our process is a team for conceptualizing Wikimedia, why we wanted to do it, how we went about doing it, and then brush over some of the impacts and then finish off with where we hope to go from here after hosting Wikimedia. I'm sure that there are a couple folks in listening now who have helped out with hosting Wikimedia. Wikimedia is very much a group activity. I'd like to thank everyone both at the beginning and at the end who assisted in hosting Wikimedia. And I'd also like to thank everyone here who attended Wikimedia. I have to say it was a great honor and a privilege to be involved in hosting this year's Wikimedia. All right, to get started. Next slide, please. So I was going to ask everyone to tell me what they think Wikimedia is or any Wikimedia project. Because I often like to ask this question to people and it really played a very big role in conceptualizing our approach or at least certainly my approach to hosting Wikimedia. Now often when I ask people what is Wikimedia or any Wikimedia project, people usually give one of two, sometimes three answers. The most common answer is, well, Wikimedia is an encyclopedia. The second most common answer is, well, Wikimedia or a Wikimedia project is a technology platform that allows for things like Wikimedia to come into existence. If you could please press next. My opinion is that Wikimedia is a community. It's a community of like-minded individuals who have come together to produce a result, that result being the free encyclopedia that is Wikimedia, via the platform that is the media Wikiplatform, which is the technology platform. So if nothing else that you take away from my presentation today here is that Wikimedia, at least in my head, in my opinion, is community. Next slide, please. Community. Community. You're going to have to press it next about four times. I really wanted to emphasize community. There you go. Just keep on pressing it until the next slide goes. Community, community, community. So Wikimedia, therefore, is really very much about strengthening that community. Wikimedia is special in that it's, I shouldn't get my notes out, Wikimedia is very special in that it is the one event that we have as a community, which is for everyone. So Wikimedia, for example, is for Wikipedia editors in Africa, Wikikonference in Berlin, also a very important conference. That's more for a tighter, sort of more focused group of chapter leaders and community leaders in the community. But Wikimedia itself is very much focused on the broader community. Please press next. I've got a sub slide in there. Thank you. The first group that Wikimedia really focuses on is the community, the regulars, right? The people who we often see at Wikimedia who attend each year consistently. Then after that, there is, next slide, please, the local community. And catering to the local community is, in my view, just as important as connecting with the regulars. For the local community, it's a great resource to actually connect with the broader international Wikipedia movement for the very first time. Unless you're very lucky, it's unlikely that many people will attend a Wikimedia until it comes around to their host country. This is one of the reasons why we, as a community, feel it's important to host in a different country every year and to rotate it around, is so that the local community really gets that exposure broadly. Next slide, please. And then outreach. That is the third and final reason, at least in our approach to Wikimedia 2018, that Wikimedia exists. It provides this fantastic sort of once-in-a-lifetime vehicle for creating outreach on a local level with partners who you might otherwise never really connect with. It also really provides an opportunity to get local people who aren't otherwise involved in the community really excited and mobilized around issues that affect us and introduces them to our community. And that provides tremendous long-term opportunities for the chapter, for local Wikipedia editors, for further outreach moving forward. And so there's as much work to be done for a host group, if you're hosting Wikimedia, in terms of preparing Wikimedia, as well as in doing that follow-up with the outreach element, with people who wouldn't otherwise attend Wikimedia. Great. Next slide, please. Okay. Why we wanted it? So we were very lucky in that we had 10 years to think about Wikimedia and why we wanted it. We first applied for Wikimedia back in 2008 and as a chapter with Wikimedia South Africa and we applied semi-regularly since then. And we were actually very fortunate in not getting Wikimedia back then, because it gave us this long period of time to really think about why we wanted it and what we wanted to get out of it. And over that period of time, we really came to the conclusion as a chapter that we wanted to get four key things overall from hosting Wikimedia. One is to cement the existing community in South Africa. So existing Wikipedia editors, many of whom we've never met as chapter members, having a sort of a big event that is really a great excuse of a far more compelling reason to sort of come out and meet a person and meet face-to-face then say our annual AGM, that that's one key reason. A second key reason is to grow the local editing community. So and that ties in very strongly with that outreach component of why Wikimedia is important to us. Growing and it's also particularly important for South Africa and South Africa, the number of editors in proportion to the size of the country is really very low and also a lot of African language Wikipedia's which are in desperate need of love and attention and growing that community is very important. So I think you're going to need to go back a slide. And then the fourth reason is look, yeah, so and then the fourth reason is to raise awareness of the theme of the theme issues or the issues that relate to the theme. I'm going to cover the theme a little bit later, but I'm going to say this much that hosting Wikimedia every Wikimedia is is an opportunity to form a social consensus amongst our community on a particular issue. One of the most impactful Wikimanias to my mind was the one where the social consensus of gender inequality and gender bias sort of emerged as an issue that people became aware of. And we wanted to achieve something similar also looking at a type of bias, but really focusing more on on geographical biases, but I'll talk about that a little bit more. So what we needed to get from Wikimania as a chapter, also four things that we need to get from it. One was more members, chapter members. We had about 20, 25 members before hosting Wikimania. And we really wanted to sort of get get our members get our membership base expanded. The other one was volunteers. And that's and that's also a function of increasing the consciousness and the awareness and the mobilization of the existing membership. The fourth, the third thing we wanted to get from hosting Wikimania, a legacy issue, was increased local awareness of Wikipedia. Awareness in South Africa that a Wikipedia exists is actually relatively low and be that you can edit Wikipedia is also quite low. So there was space there to expand both awareness of Wikipedia as a thing as well as expand the consciousness, the awareness that you can edit Wikipedia. And also that that people are, are asked to edit Wikipedia that there's a need for people to edit Wikipedia in South Africa, especially in African languages. And then the fourth thing is, as I mentioned before, stronger language Wikis, so it's a nice segue, stronger language, language support for African language wikis. So things like, if you close our Wikipedia, Zulu Wikipedia, Tsutsu Wikipedia, these are language Wikipedia's, which are in great need of love. And the best sort of low hanging fruit way of getting people more involved in editing them is just being really public in the media about it and hosting a Wikimania being a very big in a very public event. That's a great interest to the media is a great way to sort of get on that soap box and really sort of plug that cause. Number three, build local networks for event support, long-term impact. That that sort of ties in everything, all of these sort of wants and needs from hosting Wikimania together, because in our experience, in order to really achieve this impact, having partners is a false multiplier. So we as a chapter are quite good at hosting, and say an editor or a training event or informing people about stuff or helping them when they want to come to us about Wikipedia related issues. But we are pretty bad, we're very bad at filling a room up with people to talk about this with. And partners are great, are very good at being able to fill a room full of people who are interested in the subject. And hosting Wikimania really does that partnership building. Next slide, please. So as you can tell, with these desires, with these needs, the objectives for hosting Wikimania are sort of quite obvious now. The first one is to build the local community, first and foremost in Cape Town, because that's where this Wikimania was being hosted. Secondarily, of course, and quite naturally, is South Africa as a whole, because we are the South Africa chapter for Wikipedia. And thirdly, is Africa in general? We want to support sort of African initiatives or initiatives regarding Africa in the context of our movement. And then finally, it's to do with the usual stuff regarding Wikimania, which is all the globally relevant support for all the rest of us in the rest of the world. The growing local community of editors, I really touched on that increased local awareness and how important that is as a core objective for us as a chapter, and leveraging Wikimania for this. Focus community consensus, I actually mentioned that in my previous slide as well, and supporting existing projects. Now, in terms of supporting existing projects, there were three that we really, really wanted, four that we really wanted to bring attention to. One was bias mitigation, and specifically the geographical dimension, hence the theme, bridging knowledge gaps, the Ubuntu way forward. The second one was decolonizing the internet. And that one really supported the first one of mitigating bias. And the third one was copyright advocacy. That's something that we as a chapter and myself personally have been quite involved in, in a South African context. And the fourth is AI awareness. This is also something that personally was, and for our chapter, actually, our chapter's got quite a strong interest in artificial intelligence, and its role in Wikipedia moving forward. What that means to the movement, how the movement as a community should discuss this issue, in what context, how to have the best informed discussions of a powerful technology such as artificial intelligence. Next slide, please. The theme, bridging knowledge gaps, the Ubuntu way forward. What is this all about? Well, I really mentioned that a key issue for us was talking about biases. This is something that has affected a lot of editors in Africa. I really wanted to bring attention to these geographical biases, such as that for an African editor, it's often quite difficult to create, say, articles on certain topics, discuss certain issues. For a myriad of reasons, one of which is a big one is references. Often, the knowledge ecosystem around, say, a topic doesn't really exist, a notable topic, which is another way of saying the references don't exist, and creating awareness of these geographically related problems to contributing to knowledge, to bridging those knowledge gaps is an important thing for other editors and the rest of the world to be conscious of. The second one is just to make people aware that these knowledge gaps exist, that the number of articles related to African content or South American content in English language Wikipedia or in other parts of the world, global South in general, just isn't as strong as it is and numerous as it is in, say, topics related to Europe and North America. And increasing that awareness was something we really, really wanted to bring a focus on. And that has an important effect for us as a movement broadly because there's going to be, the more content there is in Wikipedia that is relevant to people in a certain part of the world, the more likely they are to use it and engage in it. It's sort of a self-feeding cycle and Africa is one part of the world in my observation, which could use a bit of a kickstart in terms of additional content being added to it. Then the other one is just that if you've got a lot of people from one part of the world editing articles about a totally different part of the world and they're the predominant group of people editing that range of articles, then there's going to be an unconscious bias. No matter how well-intentioned those editors are and they are very genuinely very well-intentioned, there is going to be sort of a bias and it's going to be an invisible bias. And the only way to deal with that invisible bias is to increase the number of editors from the rest of the world and specifically from the part of the world, which the article is relevant to, such as an African topic, is to involve more people from that part of the world and from the rest of the world in editing it. And through this discussion, both this discussion in terms of number of edits made to an article as well as in the talk page, a more complete, a more full, more balanced, a more neutral point of view article is created. All right. Theme impact. Sorry, I'm going over my notes here. Okay. Next slide, please. So impact. What did we achieve in the Swikomania? I'm going to focus on just a few headline figures here. Next, press X, please. So the first thing is we expected to have 500 attendees and we were very surprised and delighted that we got 800 attendees. So that first impact metric we feel was achieved. In fact, at one stage, we were quite alarmed at the number of people coming to attend Wikomania that we actually within 24 hours, 24, 48 hours of opening the doors for Wikomania, we actually had to stop the on-site registration for people coming into attend because we were really worried we were going to run out of food and run out of space and other things. Sorry to interrupt. I just wanted to give a quick time check as well that we're a little over. Sorry. Thanks for that. Yeah, I'm going to try and rush through this. Next slide, please. So we also had sort of very good local attendants. We had over 100 local scholarships attend, over 100 people from South Africa attending who've given local scholarships and over 100 international scholarships attended. I don't have the exact numbers yet, but that representation in terms of scholarships is very good. Next slide, please. 200% increase in Wicca Media South Africa membership. We were very pleased with that. It's now our responsibility to the chapter to follow up on that and really cement that and engage with them for proper volunteer coordination. Next slide, please. 170 media articles, part of which were 35 individual interviews given over the course of Wicca Mania 2018. We feel that this is a significant and meaningful impact on the media landscape in South Africa that has raised awareness. We want to do a follow-up study before and after study to actually see how Wicca Mania in South Africa affected both African language, South African language Wikipedia as well as South Africa related content on Wikipedia, English language Wikipedia. Next slide, please. Learnings. Okay, so these are my learnings from hosting this year's Wicca Mania or advice that I would give to a future, the host of a future Wicca Mania. The importance of being flexible, knowing how to achieve your goals in the context of a changing situation. That's one thing. Plan way ahead of time. There's that old maxim that you plan relentlessly in the event that things change because things will change and that does happen, but planning really, really helps. Power of talking about a focus issue to death. Don't be in the early stages of hosting Wicca Mania like a year away. Don't be too shy of, if you've got a very focused issue you want to talk about, such as our theme, don't be shy of forming a very focused group of people and then talking about the issue to death because that has two very positive impacts. One is it gives you greater clarity and everyone else greater clarity on what the issue is and how to deal with it. And the other one is it's more likely to create a consensus within the team about what the issue is and how to go about dealing with it. One issue, multiple goals. That was another one. Another bit of an insight I would give. Outreach takes years. Start early. It's also hard to measure. That's another point I would like to raise. Laying the groundwork for the outreach component really started about three years ago. Just building context as we came across people. Sort of cultivating those contexts. Working out which people are most reliable and most interested in what we're about, all that sort of stuff. Volunteer and team accountability. My observation and a consistent observation I got from other people who hosted previous Wicca Manias is that only about a third of your volunteers are really, really reliable. The rest have varying degrees of lower levels of reliability. So be aware of that one third observation. That you are going to need a bigger team than you think you'll actually need because you're going to need those additional people to call on as other people who are less reliable sort of have to be replaced. Always talk about the issues with anyone. This really helps you conceptualize what you want to talk about. And this actually presentation is a good example of this. I only had an opportunity to talk about what I was presenting here with one other person yesterday. It was Lane Rosbury. And if I had an opportunity to talk about what I was going to talk about here more times with more individuals over a length of time, then I become more and more articulate about the topic. So being able to talk about the issue over and over again with different people really helps and it gives you a dynamic understanding of what the issue is that you really want to talk about. Next slide please. Wishlist. So following Wicca Mania, our wishlist is greater resources for chapter capacity to follow up on this. One thing we could do with this as a staff member or two to really follow up on this. Another one is that African languages need love and additional resources to help African languages specifically would also be welcome. This generally comes in the form of actually a human being who is dedicated to pursuing this. Expanded knowledge ecosystems around African topics and around topics which aren't fully covered in Wikipedia. That's also something we would really like to encourage. And that involves things like encouraging people to write, to set up resources that better documents say African history or African culture, which can then be used to reference Wikipedia articles. We do need to apologize, but we are like 10 past time, so we do need to. Okay, then last slide. And a friendlier space for new editors. That's something I'd also encourage. And I'd like to end off this presentation with a big thank you to everyone who helped make Wicca Mania possible. Wicca Mania is hosting Wicca Mania is as much a community effort as it is an individual effort is both a community effort in terms of connecting with the wider community as well as in the community that is the host team. And yeah, it's a real group effort. Thank you to everyone who made it possible. And that's it. Thank you, Doug Douglas. And as someone who's lucky enough to attend, it was really an amazing conference and I learned a lot about a lot of things. So without further ado, here is our own Jack Rabatt coming at us from Amman, Jordan to talk about partnerships and global reach. All yours, Jack. Hi, everyone. This is Georgina. Apologies, Georgina. The slide notes said Jack. It's okay, Toby. Yes. Hi, everyone. I'm Georgina. I'm the lead programs manager with the partnerships and global reach team. And today, my colleague Jack and I will be talking to you about two projects our team has been working on. I'll focus on a pilot project in India and Jack will focus on a digital skills and Wikipedia user guide project. So let's get started. Next slide, please. Introducing to you all Project Tiger. Next slide. So last year, the foundation in partnership with Google, the Center for Internet and Society and the Indian language Wikipedia communities launched a pilot project in India that we called Project Tiger to support local Wikipedia communities to create most requested but missing articles in Indian languages. So as part of this partnership, Google provided resources and funding for the project. CIS provided the on the ground project management and the Indian language communities took the lead in creating articles in Indian languages. The project's objectives were to support active and experienced Wikipedia editors through the donation of laptops and internet stipends, addressing existing Wikipedia content gaps through a language based writing contest and building the capacity of high potential communities. The pilot started late last year and ended in May 2018. Next slide, please. So once we launched the project, we started out with curating a list of topics for each participating language. In curating the lists, we considered topics that people in India were searching for but not finding content in Indian languages. We looked at topics that are locally relevant to people in India and topics that community members were interested in writing about. As I mentioned earlier, resources in the form of laptops and internet stipends were provided through a community-run application process. So the community created a steward committee to decide which applicants would receive resources and the committee reserved 20% of the resources for women with comedians. They wanted to ensure that there was diversity among the recipients. In March, we launched a writing contest and the writing contest ended in May of this year and the winning community will be rewarded with a three-day capacity building training that's currently scheduled for December this year. Next slide, please. So a few highlights from the pilot. I now will go over those in the next slide, please. So over 200 editors created 4,466 articles during the writing contest. Mind you, our target for the pilot was to create between 2,000 and 5,000 articles. So community did a great job in hitting that target. Punjabi Wikipedia was the best-performing community. They created over 1,300 articles. Next slide, please. So what did we learn? So right now our team is still in the process of finalizing project wrap-up and doing all the analysis. But there are a few things that we have learned from this pilot that we can share with you. The feedback we've received from participating community members is that the Tiger approach, that is providing resources and support to editors most in need and offering prizes, both individual and community prizes, has the potential to generate positive community health and impact in terms of galvanizing content creation. So even though recipients of the resources actively participated in the contest, it wasn't limited just to their participation. The wider community participated and that helped to create even more articles. Communities from emerging regions have expressed to us interest in the Tiger approach and wanting to customize it to their local context. They believe that the Tiger approach has the potential to encourage the creation of missing or underdeveloped content in their local languages. And lastly, we learned the importance of engaging the community prior to launching the project, but also during the life of the project. This helps to ensure clarity on the project purpose and project approach. And we found that, you know, building time into our work plan and really engaging in this outreach and engaging the community on the project and why we're trying to do this and what the outcomes are was really key to the success of the project. Next slide, please. So where do we go from here? I'm going to talk a little bit about what comes next in the next slide. So our team and Google are keen to build on the success of Project Tiger and we want to explore together with movement communities opportunities to expand and launch this approach to content creation and emerging language wikis. We're calling this the GLO program, that is growing local language content on Wikipedia program. Right now, our team is in the process of collaborating with Google and communities on a proposal for this approach. We're taking into account some of the results and learnings from Project Tiger and we hope to launch the GLO program at the beginning of Q3 of this fiscal year. Next slide. If you want to learn more about Project Tiger or have any questions, here are some links with information on the pilot on the writing contest. Feel free to contact me by email if you have questions and before I end, I'd just like to give a quick shout out to Dan Foy, my co-lead on this project for his support and useful insights. Thank you everyone for your attention and now over to you, Jack. Thank you, Georgina. Hi everyone, I'm Jack Robach. I'm coming to you live from Amman, Jordan. I'm the Regional Manager for Middle East Africa on the Partnerships and Global Reach team. I want to talk to you about a very exciting partnership with the GSMA called MIST, the Mobile Internet Skills Training Toolkit. Next slide, please. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the GSMA, they're the organization that represents mobile operators worldwide, including more than 750 mobile operators and 350 broader mobile ecosystem companies. These include handset manufacturers, software and internet companies. The GSMA is behind the industry leading mobile world congress event in Barcelona, which my team has been attending and presenting for the last five plus years. With a shared common interest and commitment to improve digital literacy skills, I work closely with the comms team to develop a Wikipedia module. I'd like to give a shout-out to Blanca Flores for her support and June of this year, we released a blog post announcing our partnership introducing Wikipedia as part of MIST and I'd like to give a shout-out to for his support. Next, close to 50% of the world's population still remains offline, the majority of whom are people living in rural areas in emerging countries. So based on GSMA's research, one of the main reasons why many still remain offline is due to low levels of basic digital literacy. So the GSMA's Connect team developed MIST. So what is MIST? They're a set of resources for organizations including mobile operators interested in teaching the fundamentals of the most commonly used internet services. WhatsApp, Facebook, Google, YouTube and now Wikipedia. MIST teaches new Wikipedia users how to find and read articles in their languages. It's a great opportunity to increase awareness and it works towards a sustainability development goal number four which is quality education for all. Next slide please. So how does this work? Mobile operators train their sales agents who train customers on their smartphone. Customers walk away with a deeper understanding of what they can use the internet for and how they can assist it. And these guides are actually translated in their native languages to ensure full relevance. Next slide please. So currently the Wikipedia model is available in English, Bengali, French, Hindi, Kenya, Rwanda and Swahili. And in a six month pilot that we did with a Rwandan mobile network operator, they trained more than 300 sales agents who trained 250,000 customers. And most recently over two months in Burkina Faso, a little pilot that we're doing there, 40,000 customers were trained. And to date we've had trainings in Tanzania, Chad, we've got Nigeria and Bangladesh in the pipeline and potential to expand this across Latin America as well. So we're very excited about this partnership. We feel this is a great first step in what could be a great model to address many other barriers. Next slide please. Here are some anonymous testimonies from the trainings we did in Tanzania last year. I'm currently working on a more in depth evaluation survey. I'm communicating this with the GSMA to try to explore ways where we could capture more feedback about the usage and benefits of the Wikipedia module. Next slide please. Another super cool fact is miss content and framework has been adapted by world leading organizations. For example, the World Bank currently working with the Pakistani government to create a network of digital ambassadors. Mozilla ran a year long funded research in Kenya called the Digital Observatory. The government in Rwanda is also working with Digital Opportunity Trust to create a network of digital ambassadors across and the University of Washington is working on an information project aimed at increasing literacy in Myanmar. Next slide please. So I encourage you to read the blog to check out the toolkit and to watch the video which highlights the pilot in Rwanda. Shukran and thank you. Thank you Georgina and Jack for showing us the glow in the mist. Dad joke. Sorry about that everybody. Okay so now I'm going to introduce Nicole Eber from Wikimedia Deutschland to talk about Wikimedia 2030 with a movement strategy date. Go ahead Nicole. Yeah thank you Toby and thanks all for having us in this meeting. I'm Nicole Eber, live from Berlin and together with Karel and Tanvir I will give an update on Wikimedia 2030 and this is the first of many presentations in a series as we have as we are planning to have to reserve a spot in this activities meeting also in the future so be prepared for more updates coming up. Next slide please. So last year the movement agreed upon a strategic direction and yeah a direction that unites us and one that will guide us towards the year 2030 and this is also where the title is coming from if you haven't noticed and this yeah but to become the essential infrastructure in the ecosystem of free knowledge our movement will need to adapt and also to evolve it will need to change. Next slide please. The question now is how do we actually make the change happen and what we want to do is together we want to build up we want to update our structures and programs so that we can successfully advance in our strategic direction. Next slide please and this change that that we are talking about this is happening in evolving parallel processes so on the one hand the programmatic level where each organization is each like movement organization or group is independently aligning their plans and their tactics with the strategic direction and in their own regional or thematic context for example what many of of you are doing currently is building strategic plans or three to five year plans or your annual plans and this is yeah what's happening already and what is of course also incorporating the groups and organizations interaction and support of the wiki media communities and then the other level is the structural level this is also happening across the movement and this is where working groups will identify structural changes that are needed in in different thematic areas that will be presented in a in a second as well to successfully implement our programmatic plans and these questions that will be tackled are for example and these are really only few examples who will make global decisions in our movement and for example how will resources be shared across the movement in the future next slide please and yeah who is actually working on this structural change it is first of all the the movement strategy core team that is presenting here right now and yeah that is building the process for the structural reform and also the working groups that my colleague Tanvir will be talking about in a second or in a minute probably next slide please and the the core team we are building the the process yeah the the the process for the structural changes and our responsibility is basically to support the working groups and also the movement overall with or by providing yeah providing this process by providing operations logistics and also focus and the theme is a mix of people from from the community from affiliates and also from the foundation and we are located all around the world or in on four different continents and across different time zones um next slide please so these are this is the the team we are currently eight eight people on the core team um it is carvel and barf who are the basically the architects who are designing and building the process um then we have Tanvir and Douglas who are the information who built the information and knowledge management team they um have been recently brought into the team and they are working very closely with the working groups and they are supporting also the working groups their their role is to ensure that everyone in the process and that means the group the working groups the movement and also the core team will have the information and knowledge they need to make this process a success and then we have Jody Annalena and Anna who are supporting um us to be successful as a team to to cut it a bit short and who are managing our responsibilities and also our team dynamics and I am um I'm leading the team and I am also the link to Catherine and to the Wikimedia Foundation who is owning the overall project next slide please and this is a wonderful photo that we took um I think three three weeks ago had uh our team meeting and this was actually the first time that we were that we all met in person um which was really really good uh for us to get get things moving forward and this is it already from my side and I'm now happy to hand over to Tanvir who will introduce the working groups concept to you thank you uh thanks Nicole I will just try and talk about three things what is the working group model why is the working group model important working group model is a set of conversations which are facilitated and enabled by people who come from different parts of a movement we have stakeholders from all parts of the movement we have volunteers we have community members we have staff members we have board so it is a pretty good representation of how our movement is currently functioning why did we go with the working model we went with the working model because these were the best options for us to develop recommendations that will help our strategic goal which is to achieve knowledge equity and also offer knowledge as a service the working group model provides us with the opportunity to discuss all of our themes that we have identified both at the level of a peer to peer discussion and also at the level of an individual and institutional level discussion how do the working groups work the working groups are working both in the method of synchronous communication and asynchronous way of getting tasks done they have online calls some of these working group calls are on a weekly nature some of them are meeting uh bi-weekly they also have parallel communication channels that are taking into account different time zones different kinds of commitments that they have but still keep a track of the tasks of the two things that they have decided and agreed upon a very happy thing to note is that the working groups have taken these discussions into creating of resources there is a resource that many working groups are creating towards material that can be used for the not only for these discussions but a larger community based discussions can i please move to the next slide i would just like to take quickly next slide please can i go to the next slide please i would like to come back to this later can i take the next slide please go to the next slide no the previous one think sorry slide number 46 if i'm not wrong slide number 46 sorry yes thank you so i would just try and try to summarize the role of all of the working groups advocacy is a working group that is taking into account the legal and political challenges and try to frame the public policies or to contribute to the public policies capacity building is a working group that is taking into account what capacities are we missing in the larger discussion of production of knowledge community health working group is trying to build a culture of trust and collaboration and augment these opportunities diversity working group is trying to map diversity gaps and create inclusive practices the partnerships groups partnerships working group is trying to scout for allies for wider impact and to make sure that the wikimedia projects are relevant product and technology working group is looking at future scenarios in the landscape of product and technology resource allocation groups has the responsibility of coming up with recommendations that are going to help equitable distribution of resources towards our movement revenue streams working group is looking at optimizing the potential of different revenue streams in the future circumstances roles and responsibilities working group is looking into the crucial responsibility of roles and the different kinds of responsibilities that different stakeholders will play in our movement can i please go back to the earlier slide slide number 45 please thank you the one thing that we are all excited about is the composition of the working group the composition of the working group right now indicates the kind of people that we would like to have across the table to bring not only opinions of concern but also arguments of dissent the working groups are right now represented with volunteers community members staff both from the foundation and also from the from different affiliates it also has a representation of both members what we are trying to do with the diversification process is to bring external allies and also domain experts who can contribute to our discussions on this note i would like to ask carol to talk more about the diversification process and take over thank you thank you turn mirror so two slides forward and we talk about the diversification and this is a work that the working groups have been doing currently since wikimania and we have tried to ensure the diversity within the working groups from the beginning from the application process we received 172 applications we worked with the steering committee to choose a really diverse representation into the working groups and this is something that we really think that is important throughout the process for three reasons we need to ensure that the diversity of perspectives we have in our movement will be reflected and represented in the working group discussions we need to manage existing biases and norms in an effort of not replicating them in working group conversations and we need to include diversity of expertise for well-informed and rich discussions within the working groups so i think having the diversity in the groups is really important for having good conversations for a future of wikimedia and that's why we have also worked together with working groups to think what are the current gaps that we have in working groups and what is the expertise we also need to add to these groups to have really good rich discussions and the next steps regarding this will be the actual outreach efforts so we have received first ideas from the working groups regarding the diversity we are currently working with the core team regarding the design of outreach and then in october we will be working together with the working groups to bring more diversity into the groups and and really improve the discussions that we will have around the future of wikimedia in these thematic areas next slide please so one important thing we also need to keep in mind is participation of of current existing communities and we are really looking forward to have your contributions there throughout the process you can currently as part of a diversification process still apply to become members of working groups or or to show your interest regarding certain thematic areas the applications are open at strategy portal so 2030.wikimedia.org and participate tab so you can still fill in a form and if not selected to a working group we'll be in touch with you regarding the questions on the specific thematic area that you are interested in and in the future we are looking forward to having community consultations free form input for scoping of working groups this will happen this year this calendar year and and then later on in the process we look forward to your feedback on on the work of working groups for just checking in or maybe course correction if needed in certain thematic areas and then in the end we look to community discussion around the actual recommendations and and see how we can move forward to to implementing these these guidance provided by the working groups and also one point is that we will be translating don't hesitate to to reach out and like our Nigerian colleagues are pointing on the slide please participate in the process please help us make the future of wikimedia better next slide please and these are the the places where you can reach out to us so we have the meta portal 2030.wikimedia.org please go there for more information use talk pages to reach out to us we will use movement events we will also participate like Nicole said on the monthly activities meetings in the future to provide updates from the process and if you have any suggestions please reach out to us and let us know we try to get back to you and even if we are not answering all the time to all the emails we are we are monitoring the discussions that happened on wikimedia.org on the talk pages and and we really appreciate the good suggestions and great feedback that we have received from the community members so far we try to take it into account we cannot meet all the expectations but it's really really good to know what you are thinking and and maybe maybe it's somewhat helps us to make the process better next slide please and we are going on different events where you can meet us in person and we can have a longer discussion about the strategy the process the diversification whatever is going to happen you can see the list of events we will be attending also on some events where we will be working group members don't hesitate to reach out to them have a good strategic discussion with them and I'm looking forward to have to having many great discussions with you on the events where I will be present and next slide please and these are the mail addresses so this is where you can reach out to us if any questions we'll be happy happy to receive any feedback and also we have a small minute left to answer questions right now the activities call right at the moment so this is it for my part thank you so much for a kind attention and participation in the strategy process thank you Nicole Tanvir and Carol um read time so if you if you need to go please please please go but we have a couple more items q and a that's a good thing to say right I mean just give you give you permission now it's time for q and a so yeah I guess folks in the room if you can go to the mic and then nothing on nothing on IRC so any any questions this memorial is a strange loop um sorry it's bad okay so that's about nine seconds on of uncomfortable silence which is the the signal to move on so now we're going to move on to uh wikile so oh wait last minute I see you have a question from IRC page asks um about the mi stt pilot so how large was that pilot in rwanda and what's the timeline for the next phases jack can you uh grab this one please yeah the pilot was a six-month pilot um and as I mentioned 250 000 customers were trained the next uh the next phase is actually a pilot that's happening in Burkina Faso that is a three-month pilot we're only two months into it uh with 40 000 the people trained um and I'm sorry I missed the second part of that question uh I think you answered it was what's the timeline for the next phases yes uh a couple months and then like I said in the pipeline we're looking at potential rollouts country-wide rollouts in rwanda um and uh and possibly Bangladesh and Nigeria but that's in the pipeline awesome thank you jack um any other questions okay uh next slide and if you have uh is this before wiki love okay and if you have ideas for um presentations that you'd like to see topics you'd like to see discussed please head over to um meta this url and uh finally it's time for some wiki love we've got some well there's some love come all right korey are you all right you have a little love no just a little all right sorry okay Victoria thank you uh so I saw some of you those of you that were in the office yesterday morning would have noticed that for a little while there the world's number five website wasn't accessible to you all um so I just wanted to uh give a a a uh a round of thanks to Eliza and the rest of the team for jumping in there diagnosing fixing um you know you guys did incredible job I know you know our infrastructure is complex it's kind of crafty uh and uh when we have you know um kind of disasters like that happening we know we have somebody to count on uh and you guys delivered yesterday so thank you so much really appreciate it thanks Victoria any other wiki love great just got a real quick one so uh because of what's going on in the U.S politics today it's there's some very unfortunate things happening in U.S politics today and it's prompting conversations across workplaces around the world on some really interesting and sensitive topics so I just wanted to give wiki love to people at workplaces everywhere especially ours because I know those conversations are taking place and I know for some folks that can be very intense and for other folks that can be very powerful and so I'm happy to see those taking place but just mindful of that and passing along love to everyone for that thanks Greg uh anything on IRC James yeah Delphine says special wiki love to Tanvir for being up at 2 30 a.m. man thanks Tanvir and also uh also a huge amount of wiki love for the South African chapter once more so I think we all share okay well thank you very much um there's a pizza in Catherine's office sorry kidding there is pizza in there is pizza for those of you in San Francisco there is pizza in Gargi over there and thank you again to all the presenters and to Greg for organizing