08-09, 10:00–10:55 (Poland), Lviv (21+22+23) (interpretation)
Language: English
The Affiliations Committee is a Wikimedia community-run committee entrusted with advising the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees on the approval of new movement affiliates: national and subnational chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups.
Each year, the committee improves its approaches to working with the community and introduces innovations into its work. Therefore, it is crucial for us to convey these changes to the community.
We want to introduce the community to our work and hear people's questions, ideas, and concerns to improve our work.
The Affiliations Committee, a Wikimedia community-run committee, makes recommendations to the Board of Trustees of WMF on the recognition, approval, and existence of Wikimedia movement affiliates and for facilitating the creation of those organizations. In other words, the Committee helps Wikimedians from all around the world self-organize into chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups and to gain official recognition from the Wikimedia Foundation.
We can guide you through the founding process of your organization by helping you to prepare bylaws, answering questions about what the Foundation expects from an affiliate, providing help and advice on solving common technical, trademark, administrative, and community-building issues, and—if appropriate—by approving limited financial support for starting up your activities (such as covering the costs of registration and running initial projects).
So, we want as a committee to share our latest updates with the community to make things easier for them. This will help the community to understand our work better. And we will also answer questions from the community that they care about.
With the participation of members of the Board of Trustees of WMF, we also want to present the Affiliates Strategy and answer the community's questions related to this process.
Session recording: https://youtu.be/y5rg4dIxH0A?list=PLhV3K_DS5YfJ1xyY0LNDNX3RKyRQEXOdB&t=2190
The Committee contributes through its work to improve the sustainability of the Wikimedia Movement for the future, including through collaboration and supports diversity in affiliations.
What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?* –Average knowledge about Wikimedia projects or activities
How do you plan to deliver this session?* –Onsite in Katowice
What other themes or topics does your session fit into? Please choose from the list of tags below. –Collaboration, Affiliates, Capacity building
Since January 2020, Member of the Affiliations Committee.