Wiki Movement Brazil User Group/Activities Plan 2023


This is the annual plan of activities of the Wiki Movement Brazil User Group (WMB) for the year 2023. WMB is based in Brazil and our mission is to be an agent in the activation, coordination and social transformation of open knowledge.

Wiki Movement Brazil User Group



Activities Plan for 2023


Brazil


2023


Introduction

WMB seeks to consolidate a sociotechnical infrastructure of the open internet with equity, reliability and security. From our actions, we hope to:

  • Develop voluntary, collaborative practices on the internet in Portuguese, strengthening the sense of community and visibility of underrepresented knowledge;
  • Consolidate scientific culture and processes of open knowledge in Brazil; and
  • Improve the quality, diversity, reliability and veracity of information available on the internet in Portuguese.

The Activities Plan for 2023 was approved by the General Assembly of WMB on July 22, 2022. The activities here were strategically designed to not only be sustainable, but also serve as a basis and support for activities in 2024 and 2025.

Strategy

This document is in accordance with our strategic plan for 2023-2025. This plan includes the following five strategic axes with its respective intentionalities:

(Re)imagine the sociotechnical infrastructure of the Wikimedia Movement

Lead processes and develop products and technologies in an autonomous South-South practice.

Articulate the Brazilian Wikimedian agencies

To contextualize autonomous Brazilian protagonisms in networks, participatory governance and safe spaces.

Foster and diversify partnerships for open knowledge in Brazil

To weave sustainable networks of cooperation and dissemination between peers of open knowledge and Brazilian wikimedian agencies.

Promote knowledge equity

To critically recognize the absences and activate the emergencies of marginalized communities and knowledge with fair and safe methodologies.

Densify and direct governance networks in the Wikimedia Movement

To coordinate strategic processes of the Portuguese-speaking community, partner affiliates and emerging political structures in the Wikimedia Movement.


Our strategic axes guide the organization of projects and the focus of collaborations. They are transversal, flexible and adaptable to changes in our ecosystem. The following activities plan is based on our strategic axes, as indicated in the first column.

For the purpose of organization, we divided activities in six areas, for which each responding to at least two strategic axes.

Program

Campaigns

Related strategic axes
  • (Re)imagine the sociotechnical infrastructure of the Wikimedia Movement
  • Articulate the Brazilian wikimedian agencies
  • Foster and diversify partnerships for open knowledge in Brazil
  • Promote knowledge equity
Objectives Code Activities Metrics
  • Reach and illustrate spaces that aren’t normally portrayed in Wikimedia projects in Portuguese to engage people and communities from different backgrounds;
  • Achieve partnerships with city governments, cultural centers, and local institutions to improve open knowledge coverage;
  • Diversify the partners network and resources to promote more access to the activities lead by WMB.
CWLM Wiki Loves Monuments
  • 200 editors
  • 150 new registered editors
  • 15.000 media files uploaded to Commons
  • Reach 18.000 monuments in Wikidata
CWLF Wiki Loves Folklore
  • 100 editors
  • 60 new registered editors
  • At least 500 media files uploaded to Commons
CWLPA Wiki Loves Pará
  • GLAMs
    • Outreach to 50 cultural institutions
    • At least 300 pictures of GLAM institutions uploaded after outreach
    • At least 50 Wikidata items improved on GLAMs
    • At least 5 GLAM partnerships
  • Wikicontest and edit-a-thons
    • At least 4 activities
    • At least 200 editors
    • At least 500 entries created/improved on Wikipedia in Portuguese
CWT Wiki Takes
  • 2 events in distinct cities
  • 2 mapping activities
  • 2 Wikipedia training for the local communities
  • 20 editors
  • 80 articles created/improved in Wikipedia
  • 100 items created/improved on Wikidata
  • 2.000 media files uploaded to Commons
CMiF Microfunding
  • Suport at least 4 grants from the community

Events

Related strategic axes
  • Articulate the Brazilian wikimedian agencies
  • Foster and diversify partnerships for open knowledge in Brazil
Objectives Code Activities Metrics
  • Promote a healthy environment in which to bond with other members, groups, and chapters from the Lusophone community and discuss activities and projects;
  • Strengthen WMB unity through social events and discussion spaces, as this helps align objectives and improve communication and debate skills.
EWdB Wikidata Birthday
  • 20 participants
EOGA Offline general assembly
  • 25 participants
  • At least 3 of the 5 Brazilian regions represented
  • 1 full report on the event activities and discussions to be provided for the community
  • 1 strategic discussion on the role of the Brazilian community in the open knowledge infrastructure
EMCP Meetups with the community and partners
  • 3 meetings/activities with WMB partners and the community
  • At least 6 free topic meetups with the community and WMB members

Outreach & Education

Related strategic axes
  • (Re)imagine the sociotechnical infrastructure of the Wikimedia Movement
  • Articulate the Brazilian wikimedian agencies
  • Foster and diversify partnerships for open knowledge in Brazil
  • Promote knowledge equity
Objectives Code Activities Metrics
  • Provide resources in Portuguese in different media formats (printed, videos, etc) for teachers and professors;
  • Support activities from education programs throughout Brazil, such as debate educational activities with professors, help with Outreach Dashboard, Mbabel, and other tools, create tutorial materials for students, etc;
  • Develop a welcoming and healthy environment for people from different backgrounds to equally have the opportunity to participate in and lead projects in the community;
  • Effectively communicate the local and broad Wikimedia community on WMB's projects and activities through different channels, such as monthly newsletters and blog posts on our website;
  • Increase the number of active members to keep activities running - and if not possible to expressively expand the community, at least maintain the current number of people active on projects, so no one is overloaded with too much work and gets worn-out;
  • Improve the Global South perspective representation on documentation of GLAM Wiki activities by producing a guiding documented and publicly available strategic plan with the Brazilian Wikimedia community and partners (GLAM professionals, open knowledge activists, scholars).
OCap Capacitation
  • Promote at least 4 capacitations focused on photography, programming and/or other topics of interest of the community
OEPW Education programs & workshops
  • At least 20 events/programs, of which at least 2 are capacitation events for educators and 10 are Wikimedia & Education workshops
  • At least 300 participants
  • At least 1 formal proposal/partnership for/with an University on a wiki extension course
  • Build at least 1 MOOC course on how to edit the Wikimedia projects
OTWE Training workshops & edit-a-thons
  • At least 40 events
  • At least 600 participants, with at least 200 editors
  • 2000 items, files, and articles created or improved; At least 500 of them about core topics of the Wikipedia in Portuguese
  • Systematic publicity and reporting on activities to be provided to the community
OUCF Uploads in continuous flow
  • 30.000 files uploaded/enhanced on Commons
  • 15.000 items uploaded/enhanced to Wikidata; At least 500 of them of Brazilian GLAM institutions
OPD Process documentation
  • Produce 2 detailed documentation on our GLAM-Wiki initiatives, education programs, and technical developments processes and or events
  • 10 printed or video resources to support the community activities and contributions from diverse platforms
OOC Organic communications
  • At least 10 monthly reports on community channels
  • At least 20 media appearances of activities promoted by WMB
  • Usage of village pumps/mass message to recurrently inform the community
  • At least 1 communication via social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and/or LinkedIn) per activity/project
  • Organization of a monthly communications calendar
  • Revaluation of Communications Strategic Plan every 12 months
  • Launch 1 new audio-visual product (such as a podcast/videocast)
OPart Partnerships
  • Establish at least 5 new formal institutional partnerships
  • At least 2 of those with institutions outside the Rio de Janeiro-São Paulo axis
  • At least 2 of those with focus on underrepresented communities
  • Support of programs/activities of at least 5 different institutions and organizations
ODev Developments
  • Build or improve the development of at least 2 tools or applications to help partners and the community activities
  • Capacitate at least 1 user through Outreachy
  • 1 documentation/detailed report about the roundtripping process integration with Tainacan

Administrative processes

Related strategic axes
  • (Re)imagine the sociotechnical infrastructure of the Wikimedia Movement
  • Foster and diversify partnerships for open knowledge in Brazil
  • Densify and direct governance networks in the Wikimedia Movement
Objectives Code Activities Metrics
  • Support WMB's member's local activities throughout working groups;
  • Increase WMB's financial capacity;
  • Develop WMB's technical and outreach tools and processes protocols.
APT Technical
  • Establish a wishlist for the community participate and orient the development products and resources of WMB
  • Establish a development/technical group to work with the community on creative solutions
AAF Administration & Finance
  • Build a protocol to reach new grant partners
  • Receive at least 2 fundings (not including the Wikimedia Foundation)
  • Carry out an organizational refactoring to improve transparency practices for administrative and financial activities
APCE Campaign & Events
  • Conduct a feasibility study for hosting Wikimania or other large events (such as GLAMWikiCon)
  • Produce a detailed documentation about the resources needed to conduct such event

Equity, Diversity and Decoloniality

Related strategic axes
  • Foster and diversify partnerships for open knowledge in Brazil
  • Promote knowledge equity
  • Densify and direct governance networks in the Wikimedia Movement
Objectives Code Activities Metrics
  • Diversify the activities and audiences of activities promoted by the group;
  • Research barriers and build protocols to establish and guarantee equity of participation and decision in processes.
EDDRD Research & Documentation
  • Produce at least 1 research focused on the notability criteria and/or contribution of knowledge of native peoples and other underrepresented communities
  • Establish at least 1 partnership with indigenous communities to work on wiki projects regarding their languages and culture
  • Produce at least 1 process documentation on increasing/establishing autonomy of GLAM-Wiki partners for wiki activities

Global Governance & Community Support Initiatives

Related strategic axes
  • Articulate the Brazilian wikimedian agencies
  • Foster and diversify partnerships for open knowledge in Brazil
  • Densify and direct governance networks in the Wikimedia Movement
Objectives Code Activities Metrics
  • Strengthen the presence of the Brazilian perspective in Wikimedia's global strategic processes;
  • Develop a culture of strategic discussions in the Brazilian community;
  • Reflect on and align activities with the recommendations of the 2030 Movement Strategy;
  • Establish partnerships with institutions that support the vision of the Wikimedia movement;
  • Disseminate the 2030 Movement Strategy in the Brazilian context;
  • Develop and strengthen local leadership;
  • Develop ties with affiliates who have linguistic, socioeconomic and cultural affinities.
GGCSIGG Global governance
  • At least 3 global strategy activities
  • Participation in or production in 4 media products on strategy
  • Development of at least 1 training program for new leaderships
  • Establish a policy making program for open knowledge in Brazil and other digital rights guidelines
GGCSICI Community Integration
  • At least 2 activities with LATAM and Caribbean partners
  • At least 2 activities with lusophone partners
  • Support for 3 non-WMB initiatives in Brazil

Risk Analysis

A detailed risk analysis is available for consultation here. The document presents risks associated directly with the four activity axes in the program plus general internal (organizational) and external (contextual) ones. The analysis includes:

  • A description of the risk and its associated consequences for the project
  • A probability rate
  • Its impact in terms of budget, quality, added value, team and time on a scale of 0 to 5
  • A general evaluation of the risk degree
  • Measures planned to avoid or mitigate the risk

This document will be updated quarterly.


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