Affiliations Committee/Reports/2017

October 2017

As of October 31st, 25 of the 37 Wikimedia Chapters and 1 Thematic Organization (68%) were up-to-date with their required reporting and 64 of the 82 User Groups (78%) were up-to-date with required reporting.

For the latest information on compliance status, click here to view the Affiliate Status Report page.

User Group Applications

The Affiliations Committee works with new groups seeking recognition as a Wikimedia User Group. The past quarter continued with typical flow of new User Groups with new applications and 5 new user groups created. There were 11 applications in progress and/or under review from groups at the time of this quarterly reporting.

Chapter & Thematic Organization Applications

The Affiliations Committee also works with user groups to review their bylaws and application materials for the purpose of seeking recognition as a chapter or thematic organization. The committee does this in order to assist more developed user groups to communicating how they meet the current guidelines for chapters recognition and to determine its recommendation to the board with regard to recognition.  

There were no user groups with applications in the process at the time of this quarterly reporting.

Click here to view the current applications pipeline on meta.

Affiliate Conflict Intervention

The committee has recently formed a subcommittee to attend to the growing number of affiliate conflict situations being brought to the committee. In addition to applications pipelines, the committee has also been attending to 5 open affiliate conflict situations.

July 2017

As of July 31st, 21 of the 39 Wikimedia Chapters and 1 Thematic Organization (50%) were up-to-date with their required reporting and 67 of the 78 User Groups (86%) were up-to-date with required reporting.

For the latest information on compliance status, click here to view the Affiliate Status Report page.

User Group Applications

The Affiliations Committee works with new groups seeking recognition as a Wikimedia User Group. The past quarter continued with typical flow of new User Groups with new applications and 6 new user groups created. There were 7 applications in progress and/or under review from groups at the time of this quarterly reporting.

Click here to view the current applications pipeline on meta.

Affiliate Conflict Intervention

In addition to applications pipelines, the committee has also been attending to 3 open affiliate conflict situations and resolved one.

April 2017

As of April 30th, 32 of the 39 Wikimedia Chapters and 1 Thematic Organization (80%) were up-to-date with their required reporting and 64 of the 72 User Groups (89%) were up-to-date with required reporting.

For the latest information on compliance status, click here to view the Affiliate Status Report page.

User Group Applications

The Affiliations Committee works with new groups seeking recognition as a Wikimedia User Group. The past quarter saw a decrease in new applications and 6 new user groups created. There were no additional applications in progress and/or under review from groups at the time of this quarterly reporting.

Click here to view the current applications pipeline on meta.

Affiliate Conflict Intervention

In addition to applications pipelines, the committee has also been attending to 4 open affiliate conflict situations.

January 2017

As of January 30th, 32 of the 40 Wikimedia Chapters and 1 Thematic Organization (78%) were up-to-date with their required reporting and 59 of the 67 User Groups (88%) were up-to-date with required reporting.

For the latest information on compliance status, click here to view the Affiliate Status Report page.

User Group Applications

The Affiliations Committee works with new groups seeking recognition as a Wikimedia User Group. The past quarter saw a decrease in new applications and only 1 new user groups created. There were no additional applications in progress and/or under review from groups at the time of this quarterly reporting.

Click here to view the current applications pipeline on meta.

Affiliate Conflict Intervention

In addition to applications pipelines, the committee has also been attending to 2 open affiliate conflict situations.