Wikimedia movement

Organization chart of the Wikimedia movement

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

The Wikimedia movement is the totality of people, organizations, activities and values which revolve around Wikimedia sites (such as Wikipedia) and projects, or anyone who makes a valuable contribution to Wikimedia's free knowledge initiative:

• a collection of values shared by individuals (freedom of speech, knowledge for everyone, community sharing etc.; see also foundation principles);
• a collection of activities (Wikimedia projects, conferences, workshops, wikiacademies etc.);
• a collection of organizations (Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia chapters etc.), as well as individuals and similar-minded organizations.

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).

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.