Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Sources/Wikimedia UK

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What group or community is this source coming from?

Name of group	Wikimedia UK
Virtual location (page-link) or physical location (city/state/country)	56-64 Leonard Street, London, EC2A 4LT
Location type (e.g. local wiki, Facebook, in-person discussion, telephone conference)	Wikimedia UK office, in-person discussion
# of participants in this discussion (a rough count)	7

Summary

Summary for the discussion: Wikimedia UK met on Monday 11th April to start cycle one, phase one of the Wikimedia Movement Strategy process. With 7 of us present, we conducted the majority of our discussions as one group and separated into two groups to create our thematic statements. Our conversation led us to identify the following key themes;

- Facts matter/transparency

- Diversity

- Preserving all cultures

- Influence for openness (advocacy)

- Emerging communities

- Biggest intangible heritage asset

- Beyond text

- Tech as an accelerator

- Partnerships and other sectors

Flip charts and post-its from Wikimedia UK's phase one, cycle one discussion of the movement strategy process

Line	Statement (summary sentence)	Keywords
1	We should encourage diversity of open knowledge by empowering communities to share their cultural heritage with the rest of the world	diversity, open knowledge, communities, cultural heritage
2	Wikimedia should push for all governments to be public domain by default	governments, public domain
3	We should endeavour to accelerate and innovate the process of learning aided by technological advances	accelerate, innovate, learning, technological advances
4	We should be guided by collaboration with like-minded organisation to increase resources and overcome hurdles to the creation of and access to free knowledge	collaboration, creation, access
5	We should aim to beat fake news and promote evidence based, democratic decision making	fake news, evidence