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Part 1 of 2 - General Information

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Field Information
Name of your group Wikimedia Community User Group Kenya
Time and date of the event 4th & 12th December, 2020 (18:00 EAT)
Who attended? 18
  1. Winnie Kabintie
  2. Teri Wanderi
  3. Abdulahi Abdi
  4. Carol Mwaura
  5. Josephine Ejay
  6. Esther Josephine
  7. Esther Nyanga
  8. Judy Mwaniki
  9. Mary Nyambura
  10. Noreen Likimani
  11. Sarah Itenya
  12. Ruth Andiye
  13. Faith Mwanyolo
  14. Nyakundi Nyambane
  15. Terry Boke
  16. Ruth Andira
  17. Cosmas Chumba
  18. Sean Obell
Who facilitated? User:Ms_Kabintie and User: TeriWanderi
Who took notes? User: Princess Gabriella

Part 2 of 2 - Prioritization

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Q1. Which recommendations will respond to your community’s needs?[1]

Choose Your Top Priorities   Why is it prioritized?
Example: recommendation 2, improve user experience Example: Having a more engaging interface will excite more people from our community to want to contribute to Wikimedia projects.
Example, knowledge management is important for the global movement (recommendation 7) Example: As a movement, we need to better document our work to create opportunities for learning.
1.Improve User Experience Members unanimously agreed that having a onse stop place with resources for newcommers to learn more about wikipedia projects and editing would go along way in enhancing effeciency.
2.Invest in leadership and capacity building It was also agreed that the movement should invest in enhancing the leadership skills of editors and community leaders as a way of safguarding the sustainability of the movement.
3.Identify Topics of Impact By indentigying topics of impact, the community will be able to organise projects in various niches and appeal to people with diverse interests.

Q2.From the recommendations, which specific actions and changes would you want prioritized in 2021?[2]

Choose Your Top Priorities   Why is it prioritized?
Example: recommendation 2, improve user experience Example: Having a more engaging interface will excite more people from our community to want to contribute to Wikimedia projects.
Example: under allocation of resources  (recommendation 4), we are interested in “the Movement should play a guiding role in resource allocation.” Example: A flexible resource allocation framework will allow us to respond to our needs and be able to lead work relating to movement strategy.
1. Improve User Experience -Initiative 11 Resources for newcomers

we felt that this will remove the bottlenceks in participation and act as an introduction guide in the wikisphere

2.Invest in leadership and capacity building - Initiatives 31 Global approach for local skill development - gathering data, matching peers, mentorship, recognition, 32 Leadership development plan and 33 Skill development infrastructure Members collectively agreed to partcipate in a skilss assesment exercise to identify our strengths and gaps
3.Identify Topics of Impact - Initiatives 36 Identify the impact of Wikimedia projects & content, Identifying impactful topics,37 List of high-impact topics and Bridging content gaps The inititives align to our present activities in wikipedia project like Wiki Loves Africa, Afrocine, Wiki loves erath etc.
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Q3. What human capacity and / or financial resources do you need to work on implementation?

Think of your existing resources, the movement’s vast resources, and the support infrastructure you may need for moving ideas forward.

We agreed that having our community recognised as a user group is a key process in the immplemnetation of the movement strategy in Kenya. Consequently we had a meeting on this agenda and invited guest speakers from the Tanzania and Uganda user groups to provide insights on this.

We were advised to indivindually increase our edits inorder to meet the minimal threshold required. We resolved to conduct a series of edit-a-thons aligned to our identified Areas Of Impact.

We would therefore need financial resources to host the edit-a-athons and meet-ups as well as resources to engage someone to carry out the surveys needed for our skilss assesment excercise.

Q4. Which initiatives do you think should be the top focus for global coordination?

Think global, movement-wide changes needed. 

31 Global approach for local skill development - gathering data, matching peers, mentorship, recognition, 32 Leadership development plan and 33 Skill development infrastructure
Initiative 11 Resources for newcomers

22. Movement Charter 24. Global Council

Notes

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  1. ↑ There are 10 recommendations to choose from. Think of the work you’re already doing in your community and what else you want to do. At the same time, think of the whole Wikimedia movement and what we should prioritize globally to face the future.
  2. ↑ Think about the initiatives that will respond to your community’s needs. Each of the 10 recommendations has multiple changes and actions or initiatives. There are 45 all together.
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