The Wikimedia Foundation often reaches out to community for feedback and input in processes.
Learn more about ongoing collaborative work in the calendars below.


Note: This calendar is cleaned up each month at the beginning of the month.


Upcoming Consultations & Surveys

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Events are organized by the start date

Starting Month Start date End date Survey/Consultation Target audience Contact Organization Type (Consultation, Event, Survey, Vote)
September 2019 20190901 20191031 Community Insights 2019: Communities & Contributors Survey All Logged-in editors, affiliates, volunteer program leaders, external partners JAnstee (WMF) WMF Survey
November 2019 20191126 20191213 2019 Cloud Services annual survey All WMCS account holders Andrew Bogott WMF Survey


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Past Events

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Starting Month Start date End date Survey/Consultation Target audience Contact Organization Type (Consultation, Event, Survey, Vote)
November 2018 20181105 20181203 Trust and Safety/Community groups English Wikipedia ArbCom, Stewards, Ombudsman Commission, OTRS administrators JSutherland (WMF) WMF Survey
May 2018 TBD TBD Beta Cluster/Test Usage Survey Technical Contributors Community Jean-Rene Branaa (jbranaa) WMF:Release Engineering Survey
June 2017 20170601 20170630 Movement strategy: Cycle 3 discussions Organized groups and individual contributors in the movement Guillaume WMF Discussion
August 2017 20170809 20170813 Wikimania 2017, Montreal Wikimedia Community Ellie Young WMF/Wikimedia Canada Conference
August 2017 20170808 20170822 Roles of Tech Ambassadors and Tech Translators Tech Ambassadors, Tech Translators, prospective contributors, community at large Elitre (WMF) WMF Consultation/Event (online and at Wikimania)
Aug 2017 ?? ?? Wikipedia Education Program Perception Survey multiple stakeholders User:NSaad (WMF) WMF Survey
September 2017 20170908 20170910 WikiCon 2017 Leipzig, Germany. Wikimedians from Germany, Austria and Switzerland Raimund Liebert (WMAT), Merle von Wittich (WMDE), Lantus (WMCH) WMDE, WMAT, WMCH Event
September 2017 20170922 20170925 CEE Meeting 2017 Warsaw, Poland. Wikimedians from Central and Eastern Europe KHarold (WMF) WMF, Wikimedians from Central and Eastern Europe Event
October 2017 20171019 20171021 Francophone WikiConvention 2017 Contributors from various French-speaking communities. Benoît Evellin (Trizek) WMF (?) Event
October 2017 20171028 20171029 WikidataCon 2017 Communities/individuals working in Wikidata Lea Lacroix (WMDE), Guillaume Paumier WMDE/WMF (?) Event
November 2017 20171120 20171201 Research:Annual_Toolforge_Survey Toolforge project members BDavis (WMF) WMF Survey
November 2017 20171106 20171119 Community Wishlist Survey - proposals phase very active contributors, all projects Danny Horn WMF Survey
Nov/Dec 2017 20171127 20171210 Community Wishlist Survey - voting phase very active contributors, all projects Danny Horn WMF Survey
May 2017 20170514 20170514 meta:Characterizing Wikipedia Reader Behaviour/Robustness_across_languages dewiki (1:10), hewiki (1:2), rowiki (1:2), and jawiki (1:10) Leila Zia WMF Survey (testing)
May 2017 ?? ?? Wikimedia Foundation Board voting All logged in User:JAlexander-WMF WMF Vote
May 2017 ?? ?? FDC nominations voting All logged in, affiliates User:Delphine (WMF) WMF Vote
March 2017 20170306 20170310 Wikistats 2.0 Design: Round Two Wikistats (stats.wikimedia.org) users and community interested in statistics Dan Andreescu WMF Visual design consultation
March 2017 20170314 20170418 Movement strategy: Cycle 1 discussions Organized groups and individual contributors in the movement Guillaume WMF Discussion
March 2017 20170324 20170407 Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire Approx. 200 participants from February 2017 Inspire Campaign on outreach to outside knowledge networks I JethroBT (WMF) WMF Survey
April 2017 20170428 20170525 Movement strategy: Cycle 2 discussions Organized groups and individual contributors in the movement Guillaume WMF Discussion
March 20170331 20170402 Wikimedia Conference 2017 in Berlin, Germany ~200 participants from Affiliates, AffCom, strategy stakeholders KHarold (WMF) WMF, WMDE Event
October 2016 20161024 20161205 New Readers target countries Open to all, though most interested in people working with or in "target countries" New Readers team WMF Consultation
November 2016 20161107 20161120 Community Wishlist Survey - proposals phase very active contributors, all projects Danny Horn WMF Survey
Nov/Dec 2016 20161128 20161212 Community Wishlist Survey - voting phase very active contributors, all projects Danny Horn WMF Survey
Nov/Dec 2016 20161117 20161231 Hovercards graduation from beta Catalan, Greek, Russian, Italian, Hungarian Wikipedias, all projects Chris, Olga WMF Consultation
Dec 2016 / Jan 2017 20161222 20170116 New Readers explaining Wikipedia survey Active contributors in India and Nigeria Zack McCune WMF Survey
September 2016 20160920 20161016 Leadership Dialogue Affiliate, program, and online community leaders Jaime Anstee WMF Consultation
October 2016 20161003 20161111 Support and Safety : Community groups English Wikipedia ArbCom, Stewards, OmbCom, OTRS admins Joe Sutherland WMF Survey
October 2016 20161007 20161010 WikiConference North America Individual editors and user group representatives in North America KHarold (WMF); FloNight, RosieStep WM DC, WM NYC Event
October 2016 20161004 20161107 Potential Creative Commons license change Everyone Joe Sutherland, Stephen LaPorte, Jacob Rogers WMF Consultation
October 2016 20161014 20161114 Wikimedia Foundation Values Discussion Everyone Guillaume (WMF) WMF Consultation
October 2016 20161020 20161104 Research:Annual Tool Labs Survey Tool Labs project members BDavis (WMF) WMF Survey
October 2016 20161015 20161031 Community Engagement Insights - Performance Survey testing about 80 users across various audiences Edward Galvez WMF Survey
October 2016 20161024 20161205 New Readers target countries conversation Everyone interested Joe Sutherland and Anne Gomez WMF Consultation
October 2016 TBA TBA Brazil media relations survey - change (Portuguese) logged-in editors, Portuguese WP Asaf Bartov WMF Survey
October 2016 TBA TBA Conflict management survey - change (Ukrainian) logged-in editors, Ukraine WP Asaf Bartov WMF Survey
August 2016 20160815 20160915 Training Modules Functionary groups, community members, industry experts, academics, organisers Kalliope_(WMF) WMF Survey
August 2016 20160829 20160914 Copyright strategy Everyone Charles Roslof WMF Consultation
September 2016 20160906 20160920 Inspire campaign survey All editors contributing to the Inspire campaign during June 2016 on addressing harassment. Chris Schilling WMF Survey
September 2016 20160906 TBA Flow satisfaction survey Users who use or were used to user Flow on wikis that use Flow Trizek (WMF) WMF Survey
August 2016 20160827 20160829 CEE Meeting 2016 Affiliates in Central and Eastern Europe Susanna Mkrtchyan, KHarold (WMF) Wikimedia Armenia, WMF Event
August 2016 20160801 20160831 Interwiki Search Everyone Chris Koerner WMF Consultation
July 2016 20160705 20160801 Handling search queries with question marks at the end Everyone Chris Koerner WMF Consultation
August 2016 20160805 20160807 WikConference India 2016 - Chandigarh Wikimedians in India Ravidreams, KHarold(WMF) Community of Wikimedians in India, CIS, WMF Event
June 2016 20160626 20160708 Wikimania/Hackathon survey Wikimania attendees User:EGalvez (WMF) WMF Event
June 2016 TBA TBA Global Metrics Review Community Consultation Program leaders and WMF grantees Sati Houston WMF Consultation
July 2016 20160701 20160715 Browser testing user satisfaction survey Developers Željko Filipin WMF Survey
July 2016 20160710 20160717 Community Q&A for FDC nominees Everyone Delphine (WMF) WMF Consultation
May 2016 20160520 20160609 Community Consultation of Labs Terms of Use (Round 1) Labs Developers Zhou Zhou WMF Consultation
May 2016 20160531 20160630 Inspire Campaign on Addressing Harassment Everyone Chris Schilling WMF Consultation
June 2016 20160608 20160622 Content Translation community consultation for user feedback Users of Wikipedias in 14 languages Runa Bhattacharjee WMF Consultation
June 2016 20160613 20160621 Wikipedia.org Portal Survey Visitors to Wikipedia.org Deb Tankersley WMF Survey
June 2016 20160617 20160617 Global Reach Team: LATAM Office hours LATAM community members Jorge Vargas WMF Other
June 2016 20160622 20160623 Wikimania Hackathon 2016 - Esino Lario Wikimania attendees User:Rfarrand (WMF) WMF & WM Italia Event
June 2016 20160622 20160623 Wikimania Pre-Conference 2016 - Esino Lario Wikimania attendees WM Italia Event
June 2016 20160624 20160626 Wikimania 2016 - Esino Lario Wikimania attendees User:Iopensa & see full team WM Italia Event
June 2016 June June Executive Director Survey (link?) Editors, staff, many languages Katie Horn WMF Survey
May 2016 TBA TBA Brazil media relations survey - baseline (Portuguese) logged-in editors, Portuguese WP Asaf Bartov WMF Survey
May 2016 TBA TBA Conflict management survey - baseline (Ukrainian) logged-in editors, Ukraine WP Asaf Bartov WMF Survey
May 2016 20160525 20160526 WikiCite 2016 Wikipedians, librarians, researchers, others. User:Dario (WMF) WMF, WMDE Event
April 2016 20160411 20160530 Annual plan community review & Funds Dissemination Committee deliberations FDC, WMF, Affiliates Katy Love WMF Consultation
April 2016 20160406 TBA Portals Design Research Affiliates, program leaders, future program or affiliates Jaime Anstee WMF Survey
May 2016 20160510 20160517 Wikipedia.org Portal Survey Visitors to Wikipedia.org Deb Tankersley WMF Survey
May 2016 20160502 TBA Conversation about interactive map use Wikipedians primarily Chris Koerner WMF Consultation
May 2016 20160401 20160511 Affiliated selected board seats voting & decision Affiliates User:Laurentius WMF Board Vote
February 2016 20160215 20160418 Harassment Workshop Users User:PEarley (WMF) WMF Consultation
March 2016 20160315 20160415 Making Wikipedia interactive for readers Everyone Moushira/Jon Katz WMF Consultation
March 2016 20160325 20160401 Community Tech/Cross-wiki watchlist Active contributors Danny H WMF Survey
April 2016 20160402 20160430 Annual Plan Grant community review Community members interested in reviewing annual plans and budgets from affiliates and WMF Katy Love & Winifred Oliff & the Funds Dissemination Committee WMF Consultation
April 2016 20160420 20160421 Wikimedia Pre-Conference 2016 on Program Design, Evaluation, and Community Learning Wikimedia Affiliates Jaime Anstee WMF Event
April 2016 20160420 20160426 Wikimedia Conference 2016 Wikimedia Affiliates Cornelius Kibelka WMDE Event
April 2016 TBA TBA Flow satisfaction survey Flow users Benoît Evellin WMF Survey
April 2016 20160414 20160423 Notifications user survey (French) logged-in editors who use the Notifications feature, who have at least 1 unread notification. Second round is on FRwp and several other French-language wikis. Jonathan Morgan WMF Survey
March 2016 20160324 20160409 Notifications user survey (English) logged-in editors who use the Notifications feature, who have at least 1 unread notification. First round is on Enwiki and several other English-language wikis. Jonathan Morgan WMF Survey
March 2016 20160331 20160403 Wikimedia Hackathon 2016 Developers User:Rfarrand (WMF) WMF Event
January 2016 20160129 20160216 Program Capacity & Learning: Team feedback Affiliates, program leaders via email Edward Galvez WMF Consultation
December 2015 20151215 20160121 Wikipedia 15 All Zack + Comms WMF Event
November 2015 20151102 20151116 Civility & Harassment Survey Editors Kalliope Tsouroupidou WMF Survey
November 2015 20151109 20151122 Community Tech Wishlist Survey Editors, Core community Community Tech team WMF Survey
November 2015 20151119 20151123 Characterizing Wikipedia Reader Behaviour enwiki mobile users (at a rate of 1:2000) Leila Zia WMF Survey
November 2015 20151123 20151129 Discovery Search satisfaction survey enwiki users (a small percentage of) Moiz Syed WMF Survey
November 2015 20151116 20151216 Harassment Consultation Users Patrick Earley WMF Consultation
November 2015 20151130 20151214 Community Tech Wishlist Survey Voting Editors, Core community Community Tech team WMF Vote
December 2015 20151204 20160105 Future IdeaLab Campaigns Editors Chris Schilling WMF Consultation
December 2015 20151215 20160118 Wikimania Consultation Editors Sati Houston/Ellie Young WMF Consultation
January 2016 20160118 20160215 2016 Strategy consultation Contributors Maggie Dennis WMF Consultation
March 2016 20160304 20160318 Draft Strategy Consultation All users User:Mdennis (WMF) WMF Consultation
February 2016 20160224 20160328 Content Curation Inspire Campaign All users, esp. those seeking grants Chris Schilling WMF Consultation
February 2016 20160219 20160325 Review of Grantee Global Metrics All grantees and decision makers who have used Global Metrics. Sat Houston & Jaime Anstee WMF Consultation
February 2016 20160229 20160310 or earlier Characterizing Wikipedia Reader Behaviour enwiki mobile and desktop users (rate -> 2:100) Leila Zia WMF Survey
March 2016 20160324 20160326 WikiArabia 2016 Wikimedians in the Arab Region Kacie Harold (WMF contact) WMF Event
January 2017/February 2017 20170104 20170228 Community Engagement Insights - Performance Survey All Logged-in editors, affiliates, volunteer program leaders, external partners Edward Galvez WMF Survey
February 2017 20170201 20170228 Inspire Campaign on Outside Knowledge Networks All logged-in editors, 75+ edits. Chris Schilling WMF Event
February 2017 20170213 20170224 Training modules/Pilot testing All logged-in, with the goal being to get a diverse pool of respondents. Joe Sutherland WMF Pilot testing (in-depth survey, basically)
February 2017 20170203 20170217 Wikistats 2.0 Design: Round One Wikistats (stats.wikimedia.org) users and community interested in statistics Dan Andreescu WMF Design consultation
February 2017 20170213 20170227 New Wikimedia grants programs: Project, Rapid and Conference Grants All Project, Rapid, and Conference Grants grantees Alex Wang WMF Survey

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