In 2017, we set ourselves an ambitious goal: to become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge by 2030. So how can we get there? Our Movement has analyzed, discussed, and distilled ideas for our future into recommendations for how to bring this vision to life. These outline how we can grow sustainably and inclusively. They introduce ways we can make the most of new opportunities and meet the challenges of today and tomorrow. And how we can strive for knowledge equity and knowledge as a service. So that everyone – those already within our Movement and anyone who wishes to join – can play an effective role in capturing, sharing, and enabling access to free knowledge.

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On the following pages, you will find the first version of the movement strategy document, comprising 13 recommendations for change, principles that underlie them, and an outline of how these recommendations connect and are designed, as a whole, to help align with our strategic direction.

You can read this content in English, Arabic, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, and Spanish. The English version also contains a longer “Principles” section and expanded “Why” and “How” sections for each recommendation, which offer additional rationale and context. Beyond this, it features links to more detailed sections on “Community Input” for each recommendation. These insights have come from across the Movement and were put forward in online discussions as well as offline at strategy salons around the world and at Wikimania.

The content of the recommendations is highly interdependent. To understand how the recommendations all connect, we suggest reading the narrative of change first. We encourage you to read each recommendation and review it from the perspective of your community or context. If you feel inclined, please post your thoughts on each recommendation’s talk page or in active forums within your language community. If you don't wish to post your thoughts in a public forum, you can email your feedback on the recommendations to the Core Team via this address: strategy2030@wikimedia.org. To gain a deeper understanding of ideas that underpin the recommendations and have informed their development, please read through the principles that have informed the development of the recommendations. Finally, the process and future steps section outline the steps that have gotten us to this point and what happens next.

Read these recommendations as a PDF: If you'd like to read through the recommendations in an offline or all-in-one format, you can find a PDF of the core document here, the extended version here, and the cover note here.

Чернетки рекомендацій за робочою групою

Introduction

Нижче ви знайдете чернетки рекомендацій щодо структурної зміни нашого руху. Ці рекомендації розробили дев'ять робочих груп Вікімедіа 2030, і вони є ключовим інструментом для розбудови майбутнього нашого руху. Вони є першим поглядом на способи, у які ми можемо адаптувати структури нашого руху так, щоб вони допомогли нам просуватися у нашому стратегічному напрямку. Вони є початковою точкою для конкретних розмов про те, яке майбутнє ми хочемо створити разом.

Про що це?

Члени робочих груп невтомно працювали упродовж року, щоб вивчити рух, проаналізувати відгуки від спільноти, зібрані під час розмов у спільнотах, набути розуміння зовнішніх тенденцій і прийти до спільного бачення цілого ряду позицій.

Чернетки рекомендацій

Є дві версії рекомендацій:

повна версія з повними поясненнями та контекстом, як їх надали робочі групи, які над ними працювали, та
скорочені висновки, підготовлені для легшого ознайомлення та перекладу.

A second iteration of the recommendations was developed by the working groups in September 2019 after many on- and offline conversations with diverse stakeholders from across our movement; at Wikimania 2019, on the Talk Pages of the 1st iteration of the draft recommendations, and at many in-person events such as regional summits and strategy salons. The very first iteration of the draft recommendations were shared in August 2019, which you can find below, presented in full and abbreviated versions and with translations available.

Рекомендації не є остаточними. Для того, щоб довести їх до цього етапу, потрібні ваші відгуки! Голоси спільноти є необхідними для привнесення ширшої перспективи у зміни, що формуватимуть наше майбутнє. Це включає афіліати, групи та регіональні відділення, Фонд Вікімедіа, спільноти проектів, мов та регіонів. Ми б хотіли почути, що всі ці зміни означають для вас у вашому локальному чи тематичному контексті, що вам у них подобається, і де ви особисто бачите червоні сигнали. І звісно, завжди критично запитуйте, чи ці рекомендації підтримують стратегічний напрямок.

How to Share Your Feedback

Feedback plays a vital role in validating and challenging the draft recommendations. It’s helpful to have guiding questions to help Wikimedian communities and organized groups evaluate the meaning, importance, and quality of the recommendations. Here are some suggestions:

Read through the recommendations and provide your input on the talk pages of respective recommendations.
- What do you like about this recommendation? What do you dislike? Why?
- What does this recommendation mean for you in contexts that are meaningful to you - your language, your projects, your region, your affiliate group, your identity? How would you be affected?
- What is important to keep in mind when implementing this recommendation? What values and ideas are important to preserve? Are there any red lines we should not cross?
- Does this recommendation support our Strategic Direction to become the support system for the whole free knowledge movement?
Reach out to a Strategy Liaison in your language or for your affiliate to share feedback, or lead a conversation of your own.

What’s Next?

Open community input was accepted until September 15. After that date, working groups refined and harmonized their work using movement input as well as external advice and research.

Iteration 2 (September 2019)

Адвокація

Transparency: A global network of Wikimedia advocates is built on community driven rules of engagement. Processes for decision making are known and comprehensible. There are established entry points for those who want to be involved or want to initiate advocacy activities	Discuss
Diversity: Community actively seeks and provides a good environment and tailored pathways that attracts more people from a variety and diversity of languages and cultural backgrounds to engage in advocacy for Wikimedia on a local or global level	Discuss
Global conversation: There is an established communication process for community advocates to have central conversations about advocacy	Discuss
Knowledge management: There is constant knowledge management about methods, cases, success stories, and failures for all advocates to access and learn from, processed and maintained by, with and for them	Discuss
Advocacy Hub: Movement advocacy efforts are streamlined and reinforced by a hub run with and for current and future advocates	Discuss
Common positioning: The advocacy priorities of the Wikimedia movement are clearly articulated through a shared, highly visible and living document	Discuss
Partnerships: Advocates for the Wikimedia movement are able to collaborate with and build upon an existing global network of partners working on aligned advocacy issues	Discuss
Empowerment of advocates: Advocacy is recognized and encouraged as a valid pathway in the Wikimedia Movement	Discuss
Self-Determination: Subsidiary decentralisation should be a model of collaboration for advocacy across the movement	Discuss
Protection of Advocates: Advocates have access to clearly defined and accessible safety measures enabling them to work without having their personal and communal security compromised	Discuss

Розвиток спроможностей

Здоров'я спільноти

Різноманітність

Introducing people-centered principles within the Wikimedia movement	Discuss
Reaching a self-aware and dynamic structure aimed at community diversity and health	Discuss
Redesigning the platforms for more diversity of people and content experiences	Discuss
Planned community diversification	Discuss
Reflective policies for participation and governance	Discuss
Establishing partnerships in order to represent and protect worlds’ cultural diversity	Discuss
Decentralized administrative structure for resource allocation	Discuss
Bridging different local contexts and Wikimedia projects' notability and verifiability policies	Discuss

Партнерства

Provide the knowledge needed for understanding and solving global issues	Discuss
Wikimedia as steward of the Free Knowledge Ecosystem	Discuss
Shared ecosystem of services and tools for content partnerships	Discuss
Data partnerships approach to fulfill the vision of knowledge as a service for our partners	Discuss
Focus on knowledge equity when determining priorities for Partnerships	Discuss
Partnerships as part of a Distributed Vision	Discuss
Partnerships as a shared and equitable resource and activity	Discuss
Prioritise documentation	Discuss
Invest in sharing knowledge about partnerships across the movement	Discuss
Support the skills development of people working on partnerships	Discuss
Invest in the leadership potential of community members	Discuss
Establish recognition principles for new partners for attribution and content donation	Discuss
Additional research for areas where we have identified issues but haven’t made recommendations	Discuss

Продукт і технологія

Розподіл ресурсів

Set Common Framework of Principles for Resource Allocation	Discuss
Design participatory decision making for Resource Allocation	Discuss
Recognize privileges / Design for equity	Discuss
Distribute existing structures	Discuss
Build Thematic hubs – to provide services to the free knowledge movement long term	Discuss
Ensure flexible approach to resource allocation in a complex, fast moving and changeable space	Discuss
Allocate resources for capacity and sustainability	Discuss
Allocate resources to new types of partners/organisations (essential infrastructure of the free knowledge ecosystem)	Discuss
Include knowledge consumers	Discuss

Джерела надходжень

Click here to learn more about the recommendations by RS Working Group

Turn the Wikimedia API into a revenue source
Provide Paid Wiki-related Services
Monetize merchandise
Expand global fundraising
Develop non-fundraising revenue streams for affiliates
Set a goal of financial sustainability for all movement actors
Diversification of revenue channels

Ролі та обов'язки

Scenario	Discuss
All of this exists to support our primary purpose: free knowledge and its distribution (Original)	Discuss
&3. Decentralisation and self-management	Discuss
&5. Establish a Movement Charter	Discuss
Wikimedia movement organisations will be governed by inclusive, diverse, and accountable boards	Discuss
Capacity building	Discuss

Iteration 1 (August 2019)

Скорочені висновки чернеток рекомендацій

Підсумки були підготовлені для легшого залучення; також є переклади арабською, французькою, німецькою, гінді, мандарином, бразильською португальською та іспанською. Ці та інші переклади завантажуються по ходу готовності:

Адвокація

A global network of Wikimedia advocates is built on community driven rules of engagement. There are established entry points for those who want to be involved or want to initiate advocacy activities. Processes for decision making are known and comprehensible.	Discuss
Community actively seeks and provides a good environment and tailored pathways that attracts more people (professionals and volunteers) from a variety and diversity of languages and cultural backgrounds to engage in advocacy for Wikimedia on a local or global level.	Discuss
There is an established communication process for community advocates to have central conversations about advocacy.	Discuss
There is constant knowledge management about methods, cases, success stories, and failures for all advocates to access and learn from, processed and maintained by, with and for them.	Discuss
Movement advocacy efforts are streamlined and reinforced by a hub run with and for current and future advocates.	Discuss
The advocacy priorities of the Wikimedia movement are clearly articulated through a shared, highly visible and living document.	Discuss

Розвиток спроможностей

Здоров'я спільноти

Rules and regulations, decision making processes and leadership	Discuss
Community diversity and growth	Discuss
Safety	Discuss
Agile and responsive support of community health	Discuss

Різноманіття

Партнерства

*Note: some of the recommendations are not based on full consensus of all the members of the working group yet. We are looking forward to discussing the nuances of these at Wikimania.

“How might we build Wikimedia into an effective convener of impactful partnerships, coalitions, and collective action based on a shared vision of free Open Knowledge Movement, such as the “Big Open” framework? What should be the purpose of such partnerships?”

Summary of recommendations

A Framework that Supports Partnerships	Discuss
Partnerships as a shared and equitable resource and enterprise	Discuss
Partnerships as part of a Distributed Vision	Discuss
Partnerships need practices that foster institutional memory	Discuss
Define priorities for partnerships so that all key aspects of building the free knowledge ecosystem are covered	Discuss
A single point of entry for partners to engage with Wikimedia	Discuss

“How do we develop technical infrastructure, capacities and the support we need in order to be an effective partner to share ‘the sum of all knowledge” and fulfill the vision of knowledge as a service for our partners?”

A central infrastructure for content partnerships requiring technical solutions	Discuss
Technical Partnership For Developments under a shared vision and resource collaboration	Discuss
Partnership framework for harnessing modern technological developments	Discuss
Data partnerships approach to fulfill the vision of knowledge as a service for our partners	Discuss
Create an internal knowledge-base to curate details of partnerships across the movement	Discuss
Develop Capacity Building Modules for running partnership	Discuss

“How can we empower people and organizations working on partnerships within our Movement to get the support they need to fulfill our potential and carry out diverse, sustainable, effective and impactful partnerships?”

“How do we create an inclusive, movement-wide culture of sharing knowledge, skills, and practices on collaborations and partnerships - so that everyone in the movement can participate in and benefit from them?”

Recognition. Encourage proper attribution for content donations so institutions working with us are proud of their contribution and are acknowledged for their contribution	Discuss
Encourage partnerships focusing on Knowledge gaps and knowledge equity	Discuss
Documentation as a priority, not an afterthought, ending a barrier to participation and capturing our methodology and instructions in formats accessible for our global audiences	Discuss