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Communication and collaboration with partners

Coordinating Across Stakeholders requires ways to connect Wikimedians and partner organizations who are interested in technical and non-technical topics. For example, if a group of Wikimedians are interested in developing a translation tool, they should be able to look for partners who also want to collaborate on the same topic. The same goes for partners: they should also be able to find Wikimedians interested in collaborating with them. Communication channels should also be improved or developed where Wikimedians, developers and partners are able to collaborate on projects such as introducing modern technologies, and improving the Wikimedia user experience. While this Initiative has a focus on technical topics, it is open to and important to enhance collaboration between stakeholders on non-technical topics.

  • Create spaces for communication and collaboration between and with technical contributors to increase the scale and impact of our work and infrastructure sustainability:
    • Create a space for partners and other collaborators on specific content area workflows that require tools, updating, and improving.
    • Create a space for participation and communication for third-party developers.
    • Identify and resolve core barriers to make way for collaborative work on modern technologies, creating new interfaces, and improving our user experiences.
    • Improve communication channels and spaces between developers and communities to receive feedback as well as to create processes for mentoring, training, and organizing code review and documentation writing, among others.

Participate

Discuss

Join or start a discussion on Meta or the "Coordinate Across Stakeholders" space of the Movement Strategy Forum.

Create

Apply for a Movement Strategy implementation grant to create a project that advances this initiative.

Get help

If you need help in getting involved, please don't hesitate to get in touch directly with members of the Movement Strategy and Governance Team. They are here to help!

You can write to the team in any of 19 languages (listed on the team's page), by writing an email to: strategy2030@wikimedia.org

Initiative Project Stakeholder type Project lead Geography of the project Implementation Phase
30. Enhance communication and collaboration capacity with partners and collaborators Overall Initiative Coordination
30. Enhance communication and collaboration capacity with partners and collaborators Harmful Content Portfolio WMF Content Compliance Global Execution & Implementation
30. Enhance communication and collaboration capacity with partners and collaborators Peer Support Networks within the Wikimedia Movement WMF Trust & Safety Global Pilot
30. Enhance communication and collaboration capacity with partners and collaborators Chapter Capacity Building for Advocacy Program WMF Global Advocacy (Public Policy) Global Pilot
30. Enhance communication and collaboration capacity with partners and collaborators Human Rights Policy Community Engagement Plan WMF Global Advocacy (Public Policy) Global Execution & Implementation

Some of the past discussions, texts and old versions of Movement Strategy recommendations that can provide further context to this initiative: