 You cannot hear me. Hello, hello, hello. Okay, and real life, I assume that looks like real life. All right, hello, welcome everyone to this session. This, these are the implementing lightning talks, number two, and I'll share my screen with the bill. I hope that works out. Yes, this seems to work out. Okay, so my name is Cornelius. I work in the movement strategy and governance team. And we have normally a Yope, my colleague Yope, who is the movement strategy grants specialist would host this session that she lives in Hergeria. So it's a bit late for this session. So let's just, I'll start just quickly why we're doing this, what's about, what does it mean implementation? So the Wikimedia movement is in a strategy process since 2017 and back in 2020, the 10 recommendations and with more than 40 initiatives were published. And now we're in the second year of implementation and a couple of like many or a couple of affiliates have started to actually starting to implement, to make the movement strategy tangible, that operationalize and yes, to start working in it. And on each of the regional days here at Wikimedia, we are doing such implementation lightning talks where we showcase, we would like to showcase what Wikimedians are doing in each region to working on implementation of movement strategy. So yesterday we had already a session today and tomorrow we will have another session. We will have three speakers and but it seems, ah, and Douglas has arrived as well. So we have three speakers today and we hope that these lightning talks can be or could be a source for inspiration and also collaboration. So you're connected with those or like connect with our speakers afterwards or maybe you like what they are doing and you'd like to adapt it in your region or in your country or in your context. That's the idea of these lightning talks sessions. All right, so let's get started and our first speaker is Lukas, Lukas from Brazil. So I'm handing over to Lukas. I'm handing over to Lukas. Thank you. Thank you for your ideas. Well, hello everyone. I'm Lukas Pianta, I'm talking from Brazil. I've been a Wikimedian since 2018 and I'm currently working at Wikimovimento Brasil as a movement strategy analyst. First of all, I'd like to thank the movement strategy and governance team for the invitation and for the facilitation of the session. It's a pleasure and an honor to share the work we've been doing on implementation of the movement strategy within the Portuguese speaking community more specifically in Brazil. I'd also like to thank my community for all the work we've been doing together to make sure that our future as a movement will be equitable and diverse. And finally, to Great Douglas in Flavia whose work I'm looking forward to getting to know better today. Can you please pass to the next slide? Thank you. Well, since I talked about an equitable future, I'd like to start with the research we did last year. For six months, we have investigated the perceptions of the Portuguese speaking community about strategic topics such as equity and decision-making and governance. We wanted to know what the possibilities and the challenges for the implementation of the Elizabethan hub were. So we ran a consultation process with different stakeholders. In this consultation process, we interviewed mission-aligned organizations met with individual community members and with user groups and applied a questionnaire to the community. Finally, we published a report which is available in Portuguese. The data we collected during this process helped us to identify some challenges that were beyond the implementation of a hub. The questionnaire, for example, more than a half of the respondents told us that they were accessing information about the movement strategy for the first time during our research. In the meetings, members of our community told us that they would feel more linked to the movement strategy if the discussions, meetings and documentations adopted the Portuguese language as one of the possibilities besides English and Spanish. They also said they would like to find ways to have deeper knowledge about the different phases of the development of the strategic process since there are many documentations, pages and ongoing activities. In this sense, people we interviewed and met with told us that capacity building was important for them and their peers to connect with the Wikimedia movement and have a better level of achievement in their projects. Also, capacity building could be one of the main possibilities offered by a Luzofone hub. Finally, we found that before implementing a hub in our community, we needed more people engaged in the Luzofone strategic process. There was some preliminary work to do such as building a strategic process from our perspective based on our needs, potential challenges, possibilities and resources and finding the ways to bring more Luzofone people to the strategic process as a whole. In other words, we had an agenda, we wrote a screenplay, but there were not enough leading figures. So what to do? How could we make sure that from now on we would have a strategic process being developed from our perspective based on our needs, potentials, challenges, possibilities and resources? How could we find the people to do it? So we stepped back. Our decision was to develop a capacity building program focused on the movement strategy implementation. The project's name is Calibra, acronym for Brazilian leadership capacity building in Portuguese. This project is ran by Adriani Batata and I and has the support of a volunteer committee formed by other Brazilian Wikimedians who are Chico Venancio, Erika Zelini, Flavia Doria, who is here with us today, João Alexandre Peixanski, Chila Capeleto and Valério Mello. The goals are on the one hand to develop a training program for Brazilian Wikimedians focused on implementation projects within the Luzofone community and on the other hand establish a network and a culture of strategic discussions in our community. These goals are linked to the movement strategy recommendation number six, investing skills and leadership development. We are at the beginning of the project in the moment we are calling the first phase and our main work right now is on the priority initiative number 32, global approach for local skill development. What we wanna do in this phase is to develop a culture and provide a structure where Brazilian Wikimedians may have discussions, meetings and exchange information about the work they're doing, also the challenges and motivations. Those works, challenges and motivations allied with practical activities will help in answering some important questions about the form and content of a training program focused on the movement strategy implementation by Brazilian Wikimedians. Pranelius, could you please pass to the next slide? Thank you. The learnings I'd like to share with you today are the results from Wikicon Brazil 2022, which happened on July 23 and 24 in Sao Paulo when we ran different activities with Brazilian Wikimedians. These activities were a questioner, a strategic discussion and a training session which we designed to answer some important questions that are guiding our process towards the development of the training program. The goals that guided our activities were to find a common idea of leadership within the Brazilian Wikimedia community to acknowledge the importance of the regional context taking into account the Brazil has continental dimensions, to cooperate with networking among participants, to identify people interested in developing the practice of discussions about movement strategy and finally to identify challenges to the implementation of the priority initiatives by the Brazilian community. For the strategic discussion section, we plan a discussion based on the challenges for defining leadership within the Brazilian context where different regions have different cultures, needs and resources, and that is still centered in the South East, more specifically in Sao Paulo. While we were looking for characteristics, actions and abilities that could help us to define a Brazilian Wikimedian leadership, the participants engaged in a discussion about the viability of finding this common definition and suggested that we could take another path in order to design the capacity building plan. They suggested that it could be more productive if we did a mapping of what challenges are being faced by the people who are already working with movement strategy related topics and projects linked to the priority initiatives and try to find what capacity should be built in order to help them achieve their goals, develop their potentials and work for the implementation of the movement strategy within the Brazilian community. And the key point for developing the potentials of our community would be the regional context. Acknowledging the regional challenges could help us in understanding who are the leaders of our movement, what they do and what they need to keep on their good work. However, people seem to be resistant to the worst leader or leadership because they feel uncomfortable to let themselves be defined in this way. We also learned about the main interests of our community. In the survey, we gave respondents a list and asked them to select initiatives they were most interested in. Climate Week initiatives, partnerships with educational institutions and increasing the diversity of people and content within the Wikimedia movement were the ones that generated the most interest from the respondents. When asked what could help them to more satisfactorily realize the interest in those initiatives, most of them, most of the people chose the option of more time available followed by attending to capacity building programs, acknowledgement of the opportunities and more resources. However, we still need to work on connecting those interests with the movement strategy and contextualizing the way they are related to the priority initiatives. That's why we asked the respondents to leave their contact information with us so we could reach out to them and schedule more meetings to keep on discussing our challenges, interests, potentials and their connection with the movement strategy. And 89% of them shared their contact information with us which is leading us to the next steps of our process. Cornelius, you could please pass to the next slide. Thank you. Well, Calibra's goals follow Wikimovimento Brasil's theory of change and previous ongoing engagement with the strategic process. Wikimovimento Brasil has been facilitating discussions on the movement strategy locally and participating in global meetings to discuss and define implementation process. We also have members in the regional committees, the MCDC, and regularly attending to swear meetings. Our most recent and ongoing initiatives such as Wikimovimento Brasil's 2022 and Wikimovimento Brasil's own strategic process have been developed according to the movement strategy principles and recommendations working on bringing the perspective of an affiliate from the global south to the Wikimedia movement as a whole. As I said at the beginning of my talk in a short term, our goal as a project is to develop a culture and provide a structure. Our Brazilian Wikimedians may have discussions, meetings, and exchange information about the work they're doing. Also their challenges and motivations and all of its connections with the movement strategy. We wanna provide the community with resources, knowledge, and practical experiences that will work on the one hand as a means to start a capacity building process around the movement strategy and on the other hand as a resource of important information we need to gather to develop the capacity building plan. This plan will be addressed for those people and we want to make sure that it effectively addresses their needs. In the midterm, our goal is to have the plan published by February 23, so February next year, and then effectively use it to build capacity in our community. In the long term, we would like to see the new movement strategy implementation grants projects being implemented from Brazil and working together on developing a strategic process that effectively addresses the needs of the Brazilian and the Luciferan communities. So while this is the end of my presentation, I really appreciate your attention and patience, and I hope to hear from you if you have any questions. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much, Lucas. If you have any questions to Lucas, please write them in the chat so we can read them out. Unfortunately, we cannot invite you to speak here verbally, but yeah, any questions to Lucas? In case I have one question saved, but let's see if there's someone asking. Doesn't seem the case. Lucas, one question from my side. You have said that there seems to be resistance around the word leadership or using the word leadership. Did you discuss, or did you see alternatives? Alternative wordings that came up on the Brazilian context? Thank you, Cornelius. This is a very good question. Yeah, well, it seems that talking about developing capacities or possibilities for potential increasing, for example, seem to be more likely to have success because, well, it seems to me that people already are doing things and occupying positions of leadership in our community, but maybe they don't feel that they are all leaderships or maybe it may feel like they are, I know they are trying to make people believe that they are something that they may not be, but well, I think that maybe talking about those kind of words or initiatives or some practices that people could do as leaderships instead of talking specifically about leadership seems to me that is a good alternative. Thank you. Thank you for responding. Yeah, I'm just asking also because I remember similar conversations also in Germany where definitely leader is a complicated term, so that's why, yeah, but I think our German colleagues didn't find a good solution for this yet. Anyway, if you have further questions, you can also queue them, we can also ask Lukas later. At the end, if there's still time, we can come back to Lukas and ask him if there are any questions. So let's move on to our second speaker, Douglas. Please, just go ahead. Thank you, Cornelius. Thank you, Lukas, for that. And thank you, everyone, for watching us. My name is Sabagara Douglas. I'm a member of the Wikimedia Community User Group in Uganda, and I'm glad to share with you our work on initiative six, sorry, on recommendation number six of the Movement Strategy Implementation. Yeah, so let's connect is a foundation community-led initiative that seeks to meet recommendation number six of the Movement Strategy Implementation. And one of the things that we are trying to address is promoting human connections and mutual support, as well as developing an environment which is open for colleagues to share within the Wikimedia space. And it's basically looking at sharing skills with their peers. So that's mainly the objective of let's connect. Next slide, please. Yeah, so we've had quite a number of lessons, but I'll mention just a few of those. So we've realized that there's a lot of untapped potential, untapped skills within the movement, and there's a need to connect the challenges or skills that are faced by members within the movement because you realize that a given community might have a challenge, but then there's a solution to that challenge within another community. So that's something that is important as a learning point. Then the third one is that the program can help the growth and expansion of the Wikimedia movement. This has been realized through the fact there are some members who have subscribed to the let's connect program, but then they didn't know that they existed Wikimedia affiliates within their regions. So we've had a total of 140 Wikimedians who've registered for the program, but then you realize that some of them belong in given geographies, but they did not have an understanding of any Wikimedia activities. So the let's connect program has enabled them connect to their respective affiliates, thereby growing the network. Next slide please. Yeah, so one of the things that we are looking at for the future goals of our project is to connect with similar initiatives. Like I've just learned that this is something that's connected to what Lucas is doing in Brazil, but also there's the initiative on capacity, the capacity exchange pilot. So we're in contact with the members involved in that initiative from Wikimedia, Deutschland. And we're looking forward to see how we can be able to make the dots meet, because this is the capacity exchange pilot is something that links to the initiative that we are doing. So it is initiative, you can connect it with initiative 33, which is skill development infrastructure. But then ours, like the let's connect program links to initiative 31, global approach for local skill development, gathering data, matching peers, mentorship as well as recognition. So in the future, we look forward to connecting with similar initiatives. Then secondly, we hope to share resources and skills from the program. We are already doing this, but we hope to share more. We are already doing this through the skills directory. All the members that have signed up for let's connect have been identified as learners or sharers. And their skills have been outlined on meta. So there's a meta page which outlines the skills and learners plus all their details actually, they are displayed on meta and this enables connections to happen whereby anyone is free to check out profiles of given Wikimedia members and then they can easily connect to learn a given skill or they can connect to share a given skill with their peers. Then the other thing that we hope to do in the future is to evaluate, because it's already a learning process, you hope to evaluate, iterate and adapt our work. This is, this connect is in the, just completed the first phase. We are entering into the first phase, the second phase which we hope to review and be able to adapt accordingly. So, and you're welcome to, anyone is welcome to join the let's connect program. If you have any questions, I'll be looking forward to answering them. But also I have, I'm part of the let's connect working groups. So in case we are not able to answer some of the questions, the working group would be able to get back to those questions. Thank you so much. Over to you Cornelias. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you also for being awake at such an hour because what's the time where you live at the moment? Yeah, so it is 3, 14 a.m. I mean, the Easter weekend time zone. Thanks so much for joining. Yeah, it is not, it's not exactly a North or South American initiative, but thankfully that has jumped in. And I want to ask our colleagues, if there are any questions, that doesn't seem to be the case at the moment. Well, as I said, we can go back to Douglas and the end if there are questions, just write them in the chat box and we'll take note of it of them and read them out loud as soon as they're available. Now, Flavia, let's go to you. Your video looks very good now. No filters, no filters applied today. So go ahead. Thank you. Hi, everyone. Thank you, Cornelias. Thank you, Douglas. Thank you, Lukas. And thanks everyone in the chat. I can read you along. So I'm gonna start presenting myself. I'm Flavia Doria. I'm from Wikiaeditores LHCs and also the Wikimedia Foundation. My pronouns are she and her. I'm speaking from Brazil today. I'm a journalist. I'm graduated in social communication and I am a Wikipedian since 2020, the beginning of the pandemic. This is when I started, when I was born as a Wikipedian. I'm a member and organizer at the Wikiaeditores LHCs, an informal user group for women and non-binary editors who edit about women and non-binary people content. I'm also an ambassador for the Wikimedia Foundation for the LisaFond community and I'm a member of the leadership development working group. I'm a proud member. I can see now my face. I have my filter again, but let's keep going. Cornelius, if you can pass for the next slide. Thank you. So what's happened here is there, I started to realize there is a lack of accessibility and inclusion of underrepresented language communities in our movement. So coming from the LisaFond community, I am Brazilian, but I also live in Portugal and I keep this, I'm very present in both countries and I have this vision about the LisaFond community as a very marginalized community member. There's also a lack of knowledge about the movement itself and of course the movement strategy and the available resources. And I think this is a problem, especially when I'm working with women and non-binary people and people who are already marginalized in our movement. This inequality just gets bigger and bigger if you don't know much about the movement, if you don't know much about the resources. I also started to see this lack of knowledge about the movement, the resources and possibility. They link inequality within the LisaFond community. So it's not just about my community, my language community in comparison to other communities, but within the LisaFond communities, we have different levels of inequalities. Oh, I also want to comment that I put this image in this beautiful picture that we took in a digital phone that we organized, the Wiki editor is organized it. And I just put this image here because sometimes I think it's good for us to see who we're talking about when we're talking about who are the marginalized people in our movement. We have a specific vision about this. So if you can pass the next slide, please, Cornelis. So what have you learned in this process of thinking about all these inequalities and all these problems? And I started to think a lot about the need we have for translations, of course, because we're talking about a communication and information gap. And I realized that translations alone don't solve this existing communication information gap. At the same time, not providing translation increase these inequalities within the language community itself because you can imagine that in the LisaFond community that's my example, but you can apply in any language community. We have different levels of knowledge, of English knowledge. We have people who are very fluent in English, people who struggle a lot and people who don't speak English at all. So when we talk about having all of our materials and information in English, it may enforce this inequalities within our communities because we have people who keeps being benefits from the make-the-day-speak English. So people communicate differently and therefore they need different communication channels and approaches. So it's not just about is this in English or not. It's also about how we're communicating the information we have. And I realize that it does not work for everyone, especially if we're talking about marginal communities and if we're talking about women, non-binary people, people who represents a minority in our movement because meta is very specific and usually the people who likes to work with meta are more experienced users. And it's not just about that. It's not just about the platform itself or its ways, but what type of content meta it's good to provide. We need different levels of information for different audience, okay? So more targeted, adapted communication means also providing the same information but adapted to different degrees of familiarity. And I found out that talk to the community about hubs, leadership development, it's very hard if they don't even know what movement strategy was. And that's what I started to face in and that's why I started to think about communication. That's why I started to think about translation because I realized these people need to be integrated and in the movement itself. We have editors who edit for years on Wikipedia but they are not connected to the other, to our sibling project, to date, to hormones but the most important, they are not connected to the movement itself. Sometimes a lot of them don't quite understand what is the movement, what is the foundation, what is the different, which role in one place. So this is a communication problem. This is a problem about the distribution of information and for different audiences. Newcomers need a specific type of communication. More experienced users need another type of communication. So I understand that we have to go back to basics in certain communities like the Lucifer community so that they keep peace with the global movement. Cornelis, could you please share the next one. So what I am working right now and I think it's interesting to say that my project is an individual project. So I am working on that alone and I hope that inspires other people because sometimes we think that we need to be affiliated to someone or only user groups can make projects like that and that's not true. We can do some individual project like the one that I'm doing. So right now I am translating existing material and I am creating new materials about the movement strategy, specifically focus at the Lucifer community, of course, my community and those with few knowledge of the movement that it's the most important thing for me. I wanna talk to those who have very few knowledge about what the movement is. The translation of newly created material to English also for event well used by other communities. So I am translating a lot of materials, I'm translating the movement strategy playbook which is great, it's a very good material but it's a very long and extensive material. So I am transforming and adapting it to a more approachable content and I'm doing it in Portuguese and also I am translating this Portuguese material that I'm creating to English so people can use it in any other language community. This is the, we have here a slide of that material, this is a slide about the ways of collaboration in the movement based on the movement strategy playbook. The content is present as I say in Portuguese and in a more appealing way as well, it's adapted specifically for a newcomer audience and the way I think this material is in a way that they can, it can be suitable also for presentation so you can use it in any kind of introduction into movement strategy. Anytime you need to do a presentation, you will have a very educational material about what is the movement strategy and it goes deeper and deeper in every slide. And so about my goal, I guess my goal is to increase accessibility and access to information and resources to marginalize groups in the Lusophone community because the thing is about accessibility of information is that we might think the information it's already there but we need to do an active work, connect the people who really need this type of content in a more paid way or in a more deep found way. So yeah, I guess that's my goal with this audience and also my goal is that other people can apply this logic in their own community language. I guess that's it. Wonderful, thanks a lot, Fabia, thanks a lot for your work. Presenting, wonderful to see what you're doing. And I think, so yeah, as you say, it's so important to actually customize or to tailor our existing almost traditional communication to reach new audiences, wonderful to see that. Are there any questions to Fabio? Let's have a look at... I got one question that was, I think, directed to Lucas before and I think, and then there's a follow-up question that is based on it. So let's ask first the question, I'll give the question to Lucas. The question is, has the Portuguese-speaking community decided not to implement a hub? Can you... I think you have worked as well on the looser phone hub on the Portuguese-speaking hub, right? So could you share what the community has said about this or what the status of it is, Lucas? I'm not sure if you understand exactly what the question was from the news or maybe the audio of my computer. Sorry, maybe it's not... My question was, what's the status of the Portuguese-speaking hub that was planned or the idea that existed of having a hub for the Portuguese-speaking community, communities? Well, having a looser phone hub is something that... I may say that for myself, I still believe that it's something that's very important for us to have in mind. But, well, as I said, we stepped back because it seems that before having a hub, we still need to work on some other things. And as Flava said, something that happened during the research we did was that when we talked about hubs, it was not very clear for our community what could a hub do, what could not a hub do. And even the word hub was something that was questioned like what does it say to us when we talk about a hub, when we're speaking Portuguese? So what kind of experience do we want to have? What kind of experience we need from a hub, right? So I wouldn't say that there is a specific decision that there won't be a hub implemented, but I would say that maybe we didn't have and that's what we want to build the tools, the right tools or conceptual tools or even experience to work on it more effectively and decide what could we do with a hub. So I wouldn't say that there's a decision, but maybe there's... we still need to work on some things before taking this decision more specifically. I hope I answered your question. I think the question was answered. One thing also about your community, I think on the other side is also in general it is not clearly defined yet what a hub is or what a hub could be or what are the possibilities of a hub. So I think this is about still being discussed in moving certain spaces and events. I got a question from João to Flavia, which is based on the hub question as well. João asks, would a hub for the Portuguese-speaking community create these structures that is needed to sustain or to support the kind of work you're doing as a foundation contractor? Thank you. Thank you, João. This is a very, very good question and it's also connected to my work and Luca's work are very different and connected at the same time. I want to share that the reason why I started to do this translation project was because I want to understand what hub was and I started to have these conversations with my peers and I realized that in my community we have this very... a very complicated and not discussion, but it was very complicated for anyone to try to explain what hub is because a lot of people didn't even know what the strategy is. So as I said in my presentation, how can we talk about hub if they don't know there is a movement strategy going on? If there is a plan, there is a vision we need to share this vision first, we need to share this plan so we can debate with everyone because we keep talking about hubs with a small amount of people who understand what it is, but as I am very concerned about the marginalized people in our community, how can I say the hubs are going to do this work if I don't know if my community wants a hub? So I think first we need to do this communication and information to develop this work to inform everyone so they can have... so they can speak about it so they can form their own opinion about hubs and I don't know maybe... I do care about sustainability because this is just one person doing a small amount of work in terms of communication and information but maybe this is the opinion of a conversation maybe before today other people want to join me in bigger projects and we can work on sustainability but I think that... bringing hubs to this conversation it's to cut some steps that we need in our specific community the Lisbon community maybe it works for other communities but I don't know about ours but that's just my opinion Thank you Flavio there is a question also related to what you've talked about I didn't understand when did you start but can you already see more people engaging or engaging in movement strategy based on the information or based on the content you have already provided in Portuguese? Yeah, I think that the next step on this project should be exactly... it's a little matter but it's to communicate that we have communication on materials because now we need to talk about those people who want to be involved in the strategy because why do I care about strategy? because I'm a woman from the global south working on these matters when you work about gender gap when you work on minorities or marginalized communities strategy is very important strategy is good for us so of course I'm interested in strategy and I think a lot of people who do similar works are going to be very interested in this debate in this material they need to be informed about the strategy Thanks Flavio I got one question around three minutes left but there is one question for Douglas and the question to Douglas is do you also feel there is a lack of understanding about moving strategy in your community? What about having a hub? Is that discussed or known? Douglas, what can you tell us about that? Yeah, thank you Two minutes please because then we need to finalize Go ahead please I'll try to use one and a half minutes So yeah, it's a 50-50 understanding about movement strategy in our region I can say 50-50 because we've held community engagements within the region and also within the community that we come from like in Uganda In 2019 we had the East African Summit movement strategy summit but then it's been like three years down the road so there might have come new weak medians who might not know about movement strategy So that's why I say it's 50-50 and then about having hubs as a discussion Yes, it's worth it because one of the initiatives that we discussed and we realized that the community is interested in what skills development and there's a sort of understanding that a hub might be something that houses the different skills within the movement or where most members can connect but besides that, more importantly we have a project, a research project that we intend to do as the East African affiliates about hubs so we'll uncover and realize more once that the research project has taken place Thank you Thank you, Douglas I think that's a wonderful transition to my last slide, if it was because thank you to all of these three speakers Thank you to Lukas, Flavia and Douglas Tomorrow we have the next Lighting Talk session and in that Lighting Talk session I think Antony from Tanzania will also talk about the East African hubs idea if I'm correct So please join us tomorrow on August 13 from 1910 to 20 UTC You can also look at what we have talked what we have showcased yesterday and today's slides are available on comments and if you're interested in grants Thank you very much Thank you everyone