User:Christof Pins (WMDE)/sandbox2019/Movement Report 2018/Overview
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Organization edit
Wikimedia Deutschland is looking back on a busy 2018. Our staff grew slightly to 116, our membership to over 65,000. In late 2017, the board had added two new members through the process of ‘cooptation’ (as opposed to election), lending crucial expertise in areas of accounting and technology. These new members spent a year actively serving on the board and on committees. The self-perpetuation process has continued in 2019.
The organizational chart was simplified by merging some departments, resulting in three departments: Central Services, Programs and Software Development.
The board reaffirmed WMDE’s commitment to commission staff to support and co-lead the movement strategy process and approved the respective agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation.
We began an organizational strategy development journey “Designing the Future” (in German: “Zukunftsprozess”), by developing new formats and artefacts, including trend/environmental analyses. We then proceeded to identifying, discussing and prioritizing strategic options that will guide program work and annual planning for the next few years. This process recognizes the movement strategic direction, considering how Wikimedia Deutschland can strengthen knowledge as a services and knowledge equity for the German-speaking and the international communities that we support. The plan for 2019 was then based on the outcomes of this strategy development journey.
In a parallel fashion leadership and staff developed a set of organizational, value-based guiding principles that will inform how the organization does all programmatic work. These are focused on acting as a learning, impact oriented organization that makes community driven and data-based decisions, works collaboratively with communities and within the knowledge ecosystem and that contributes significantly to the international movement.
Programs edit
Wikimedia Deutschland's Plan and Budget 2018 was approved by WMDE's Board of Directors and WMDE’s General Assembly on November 18, 2017. As per this Annual Plan 2018, we were focusing our programmatic work on three fields of action:
In this report, we are describing the work of Wikimedia Deutschland in these three fields of action during the year 2018. Wikimedia Deutschland’s work in previous years and more detailed descriptions of past programs and initiatives can be found in previous reports and plans. A new plan 2019 was developed in the fall of 2018, keeping the fields of actions from previous years, but expanding our strategic directions for each of these fields and making sure our planning follows a more impact-oriented, multi-year approach.