Movement roles project

The movement roles project aims to clarify the roles and responsibilities of different groups working to support the international Wikimedia movement. These pages are developing recommendations to improve Wikimedia as a global network of organizations.

Active projects

These projects are all open to public input and revision:

Learning from peer networks to illuminate our design principles.

Draft of recommendations for Wikimedia Foundation board and Wikimedia groups

Other recommendations under consideration for the Foundation

• Create a Global Requests Committee to resolve difficult cross-project requests and issues
• Define good committee standards for committee chairs and workgroups.
• Prioritize better communication outside of English

Recommendations under consideration for the community

• Create a Chapter Council to reach consensus and resolve disputes among Chapters.
• Create a process to review new and old ideas for content projects
• Create the role of "Language Contact Person" for each language, improving on old Embassy and translator models.

History

At its October 2010 meeting, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved the direction of the group and encouraged all interested parties, particularly chapters and other stakeholders as outlined in the proposal, to engage in the process. The active participants will develop an initial draft of a 'charter' and recommendations, to be improved iteratively.

Chapters meeting 2010: a decision to organize thoughts on the matter Summer 2010: Initial MR proposal reflecting discussions to date Jan 2011: in-person meeting in Frankfurt (meeting notes) Jan 2011: topics drafted for a Wikimedia charter (draft charter topics)

Mar 2011: in-person meeting in Berlin (meeting notes) Spring 2011, #wikimedia-roles on Freenode Jun 2011: IRC update, Charter discussiopn (notes) Aug 2011 in Haifa at Wikimania

Links

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Findings and perspectives Responses to initial questions Learnings from peer organizations Why now? Models Mozilla Olympic movement Red Cross movement MSF (Medécins Sans Frontières) YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) Feedback from Sue (summary) Chapter meeting working group outcome 2011 Current players and their roles Longer list of draft recommendations Flow of funds, fundraising, prioritization, transparency, and allocation of resources Accountability Definitions: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/MR-definitions Strategy project Wikimedia Movement Community roles and governance Movement roles Task_force Movement_Roles Notes from the discussion at Chapters Conference Case studies of peer organizations Wikimedia chapters Recommendation Strategy 3: Chapters Network Chapters What is a Wikimedia Chapter? Chapter and Wikimedia Project Primary Challenges Requirements for future chapters Guidelines for future chapters Sub-national chapters Relevant groups / cooperative efforts Chinese Wikimedia Conference WiKansai WP:Wikipedia Loves Art

Groups Current players and their roles Roles Matrix. New group models Classification of groups Group definitions Complete notes of prior meetings 2010 Chapters meeting, Berlin Wikimania 2010, Gdańsk 10 September 2010 (by conference call) 24 September 2010 (by conference call) 15 October 2010 (by conference call 21 October 2010 (on IRC) 5 November 2010 (on IRC) 19 November 2010 (on IRC) 3 December 2010 (on IRC) 17 December 2010 (on IRC) 7 January 2011 (on IRC) 21 January 2011 (on IRC) 29 and 30 January in Frankfurt, Germany (with many notes) 4 February 2011 (on IRC) 11 February 2011 (on IRC) 18 February 2011 (on IRC) 25 February 2011 (on IRC) 4 March 2011 (on IRC) 11 March 2011 (on IRC) 18 March 2011 (on IRC) 24 March 2011 in Berlin, Germany 27 March 2011 in Berlin, Germany Spring targets for our work Wikimania summer 2011 overview