Wikimedia Resource Center/For affiliate organizers
Contact and Questions
Learn about resources available to Wikimedia affiliates, including chapters, user groups, and thematic organizations.
Frequently asked questions – Business
Information about business matters related to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects.
Frequently asked questions – Wikimedia Foundation
Learn more about the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia.
Frequently asked questions – Content
For questions you may have about the content on Wikimedia sites.
Frequently asked questions – Participation
Learn more about participating on the Wikimedia projects.
Frequently asked questions – Research
Learn more about how to conduct research on the Wikimedia projects, including surveys, interviews, and data analysis.
Related pages: Learning and Evaluation News and Events
Skills Development
Learning and Evaluation Portal
Contact: Jaime Anstee
If you learned something new implementing a Wikimedia program or running an activity, capture this on a learning pattern and share it with the movement. Alternatively, if you are about to start a new project or activity, find advice, tools and ideas on how to troubleshoot through some of the most common problems.
If you are a program or project leader, and struggle to get your story across in reporting, this is your chance to learn a few tricks and resources to build a narrative. Through some key strategies you can improve the way you share about your efforts, the impact of the work in advancing the movement, and how others might benefit from your experience.
Contact: Chris Schilling
Community Capacity Development
Contact: Asaf Bartov
Wikimedia hackathons play an important role energizing our engineering community and connecting it to local groups.
Contact: Chris Schilling
Contact: User: TAndic (WMF)
Contact: Joe Sutherland
Related pages: Training modules (on Meta)
In the program reports, you will find aggregate data on standard Wikimedia programs from 2014 and 2015, and how to use this data.
The program toolkits condense a series of lessons on how to start, run and evaluate your program.
A vast collection of high-quality, freely licensed, user-generated informational material about Wikimedia projects. Here are cheatsheets, pamphlets, videos, brochures, and other things.
Wikimedia Movement Data & Insights
Contact: Jaime Anstee Tanja Andic
Related pages: Safety Survey, Equity Landscape, Affiliates Data Portal, Affiliates Surveys, Community Insights Surveys
Grants Support
Contact: Marti Johnson, Chris Schilling, Tanveer Hasan, Veronica Thamaini
How are grant programs working towards our shared vision? What impact are they having? In this section, you will find aggregate impact reports that look into each grant program, explaining what they achieve overall.
Programs Support
Contact: Jake Orlowitz
Contact: Alex Stinson
A directory of useful Wikimedia-related tools, including tools for metrics and working more efficiently.
Program resources: Edit-a-thons
Related pages: Program resources
Program toolkits: writing and editing contests
Find tools and share advice on how to start and improve writing and editing contests.
Program toolkits: photo contests
Contests are about so much more than creating content! Find tools and share advice on how to start and improve photo contests and events.
Wikimedians and educators have taught students around the world to contribute to Wikimedia projects. This toolkit contains resources they have tested and refined over the last ten years.
This page provides sample program metrics and additional resources for GLAM projects.
Program resources: conferences
This page provides guidelines, sample program metrics and additional resources for planning conferences.
A treasure trove of measures of success for anyone involved in the Wikimedia movement who wants to evaluate their programs.
A spreadsheet linking to tools that can be used in implementing and evaluating programs.
Resources for volunteer support
Contact: Connect/Volunteer supporters network
Software Basics
Is something not working as it should? You can do something about it by submitting a bug report.
Software Development
Contact: Johan Jönsson
The home of Wikimedia Research. Read up on the latest research, browse Wikimedia data sources, and browse archives of past work.
Global Reach Partnerships
Contact: Jack Rabah
Learn about the Global Reach Team's work in Asia and Eastern Europe
Latin America and the Caribbean
Contact: Jorge Vargas
Legal
Summary of situations when you are and are not allowed to use the Wikimedia trademarks.
Points of contact for various legal matters relating to the Wikimedia projects
Learn about the particulars of using copyrighted, non-free ("fair use") content on Wikimedia projects
Legal policies and procedures of the Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation Transparency Report
Biannual disclosure of requests and orders the Wikimedia Foundation receives from courts and law enforcement agencies
Learn about how public policy affects the Wikimedia projects and how you can get involved
The Legal Fees Assistance Program is a Wikimedia Foundation program established to help secure funds for legal assistance in appropriate cases for Wikimedia users who serve in a project governance role.
A portal for legal issues affecting the Wikimedia community
Communications
Contact: Victor Grigas
Contact: Samantha Lien
Contact: Zachary McCune
Contact: Ed Erhart, Aubrie Johnson
Learn how to do audience research, what you can learn from it, and find templates that you can use for your own research.
Contact: Greg Varnum
Contact: Greg Varnum
Related pages: Communications portal