Wikimedia movement

Organization chart of the Wikimedia movement

The Wikimedia movement as a mindmap (2013, work in progress)

The Wikimedia movement consists of the people and groups of people sharing common goals and activities with regard to creating and supporting free knowledge educative content:

• a collection of values shared by individuals (freedom of speech, knowledge for everyone, community sharing etc.);

• a collection of activities around Wikimedia Projects:
  • Wikipedia, in more than 250 language versions,
  • other content related wikis, such as Wikisource or Wikibooks,
  • 'backstage' wikis or organisational wikis, such as this Meta-Wiki,
  • conferences, workshops, wikiacademies etc. (offline activities);
• a collection of organizations, as well as some free electrons (individuals acting outside any group) and similar-minded organizations:
  • Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Chapters,
  • Wikimedia Thematic Organisations,
  • Wikimedia User Groups.

More generally speaking, Wikimedia stakeholders are also part of the Wikimedia movement (readers of Wikimedia content, donors, schools, GLAM , similar-minded institutions, and companies co-operating with the Wikimedia Foundation or other Wikimedia organizations).

The owner of the trademark Wikimedia is the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). Linked to the WMF are:

• Its own organs and committees:
  • board
  • advisory board
  • committees installed by the WMF board
    • Affiliations committee
    • Language committee

See also

• The post and the thread on foundation-l mailing list, started by Anthere, where the term and concept was launched.

• Communication issues musings of a dinosaur (about 17:30), Anthere's speech at Wikimania 2008.

• Scaling up: can Wikimedia Become A 300 Million People Movement By 2020? (about minute 4), Eloquence's speech at Wikimania 2009.

• Use of the term in Wikimedia mailing lists.