Global Majority Wikimedia Technology Priorities/Empower inclusive development
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Empower inclusive development by fostering Global Majority communities to co-create tools that address their needs, making an equitable distribution of funds and nurturing ownership and mentorship for sustainable progress, and prioritizing Wikimedia projects that are chronically underfunded and underdeveloped
Context
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Solutions
- Increase the number of projects of the Global Majority funded;
- Increase the number of Global Majority developers that give maintenance to tools and projects;
- Increase the support given to chronically underfunded and underdeveloped Wikimedia projects.
Key Performance Indicators
Community engagement
- Satisfaction scores from Global Majority communities on the recent developments through meetings and forms;
- Engagement rate of members actively participating in planning and feedback sessions;
- Number of people in the consultation processes over time;
- Diversity of stakeholders involved in projects and developments;
- Engagement rate of newcommers from Global Majority;
- Number of Global Majority individuals participating in mentorship programs.
Events
- Number of training workshops and capacity-building events held in Global Majority regions.
Projects
- Number of ideas and feedback points that are implemented in the projects and developments;
- Number of project leadership roles held by Global Majority individuals;
- Number of training programs and developments projects provided specifically for the Global Majority communities;
- Number of projects funded per region and community.
Deliverables
Consultation meetings
- Consultation meeting with developers and language community members to set right expectation and understand the priorites for development besides making both developers and langauge community memebrs to be on the same page around the understanding.
Participation in events
- Participation in talks and panel discussions of the community members and developers for greater exposure of challenges around building an inclusive tech (in all aspects like gender, regional, and project representation).
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- Recording and archiving the sessions for future reference and accessibility;
- Releasing program-end reports with stats on various project developed/bugs fixed/patches done/new project ideas and open space for collaborations/improvements for the same.
Organising events
- Organising Wiki Technical spaces Awareness workshops in educational instituions where electronics and software engineering related courses are taught to gather the target tech pool of people interested in volunteering;
- Introduce WikiClubs at engineering and tech educational instituions with proper mentorship program, project and end program academic credits upon successful completion;
- Host online webinars or workshop series/course on topics such as project management, software development best practices, and inclusivity in tech for reaching a broader audience of Global Majority developers;
- Introduce small technical developments and imrpove language community's undertsanding around tech (like scripts, bugs, tool usage and reporting issues) and bring out memebrs who are interested in programming/development in the long run.