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Wikimedia Strategy Salon in Tbilisi, December 22, 2019

The Strategy Salon of the Wikimedia Foundation was held in the capital of Georgia, in Tbilisi, December 22, 2019. Experienced Wikimedia project participants from Georgia, active Georgian Wikipedia editors and experienced Community participants was participated in the Strategy Salon. During the Salon, we discussed the future of the Wikimedia movement and the Wikimedia Foundation. The Strategy Salon was run parallel to the Georgian WikiConference 2019. Conference was dedicated to the development of Wikimedia projects in Georgia and in the Georgian language, as well as issues related to knowledge creation and dissemination.

The recommendations developed during the Strategy Salon will be taken into account by Wikimedia UG Georgia for the organizationally developed, as well as for the development and promotion of the Wikimedia Movement in Georgia.

Date and location

Day : 22 December 2019
Time : 12:00 – 15:00
Place : Gallery Palace Hotel, 5 Ingorokva Str., Tbilisi, Georgia

Participant List

Name	Username
Jaba Labadze	Jaba1977
David Asriashvili	David1010
Mikheil Chkhikvadze	Surprizi
George Melashvili	Melberg
Iakob Makharadze	იაკობ მახარაძე
Anastasia Jgharkava	NaswKai
Nino Turmanidze	Nina1009
Tornike Diasamidze
Luka Karkadze	Luka shenko1994
Ekaterine Maisuradze
Mariam Kvartskava	Marikuna-115
Manana Shekiladze
Beka Baiashvili	Beqabai
Leila Karajaeva	To-likalik
Nikoloz Zivzivadze	ნიკოლოზ ზივზივაძე
Emin Akhmedov
Giorgi Okropiridze	გიო ოქრო
Razmik Badalyan
Davit Shubitidze	Shubitidze2004
Akaki Balanchivadze	AkakiBalanchivadze
Nia Chelidze	nia chelidze3
Mishiko Gelashvili	misho2004
Nino Saginashvili
Zurab Lebanidze	ზურა6446
Nato Chitishvili
Dalila Elisashvili	daliladalo
Malakhanum Gulieva
Lale Askerova
Aisel Babaeva
Raznahan Gumbatov
Aihan Mansurov
Dali Gamkhvetelashvili

Organizers and Facilitators:

Wikimedia UG Georgia
Mehman Ibragimov Chairman of Wikimedia UG Georgia

About Wikimedia UG Georgia

More photos of Wikimedia UG Georgia.

Wikimedia Community User Group Georgia, also UG-GE or Wikimedia UG Georgia, is an officially registered non-profit (non-commercial) legal entity representing the Wikimedia Foundation User Group, created by active members of Wikimedia contributors living in Georgia, who are interested in organizing and participating in outreach activities on a national level. It aims to promote and participate in the projects offered by the Wikimedia Foundation and to organize the Georgian community. One of its core missions is to aid and encourage people to collect, develop and disseminate knowledge and other educational, cultural and historic content in the public domain or other licenses that allows everyone to freely use the knowledge, and to distribute and modify said content for free.

What were we talking about

At the Georgian WikiConference, Wikimedia UG Georgia presented its annual report on all projects and the organization's work. We thoroughly discussed all issues related to the organization’s activities, as well as discussed problematic issues related to Wikimedia UG Georgia projects. At the conference, both Wikimedia UG Georgia representatives and all interested persons spoke. The conference also presented a plan for next year.

During the conference there was also a discussion about the strategic development of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) and additional recommendations for the WMF were developed that will also be taken into account by Wikimedia UG Georgia.

Summary of the Discussions

During the salon, participants tried to develop recommendations on general problematic topics, as well as on specific issues, mainly on capacity building. Our recommendations for the Wikimedia Foundation during second strategy salon are listed below:

It will be great if the Wikimedia Foundation develop and create the main guidelines for people who want to create new projects or programs for the development of Wikimedia projects. (For exmp.: If a specific person or community wants to create a wiki-school for beginners and there are no guidelines for working in Wikimedia projects. When creating such guidelines for them, the work will be facilitated.)
Wikimedia Foundation should pay more attention to such Wikimedia organizations that work in problematic regions and countries. More attention should be paid to Wikimedia project participants from these countries as they need more support.
The Foundation should make more efforts to bridge the gender imbalance between the number of Wikimedia project editors. more efforts are needed to attract female representatives to Wikimedia projects.
Wikimedia Foundation should pay more attention to the development of small language Wikimedia projects in order to preserve and provide people with access to such projects.
We must create friendly guides for newbies to Wikimedia projects.
To train participants and develop Wikimedia projects, we need to pay more attention and finances.

Financial Report

#	Purchase	cost (GEL)	cost total (USD)
2	Renting a place and meals	826 ₾ (GEL)	289 $ (USD)
3	Transport service	110 ₾ (GEL)	40 $ (USD)
4	Bank & Post service fees	113 ₾ (GEL)	37 $ (USD)
Actual cost grand total			366 $ (USD)

Was on balance : US$ 376
Remaining Funds : US$ 10

Note: changes in numbers depend on currency exchange.

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