Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2018-20/Reports/Process overview

Global Collaboration and Big Ideas:
How the Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy Recommendations Were Created

Building our future together

In 2017, Wikimedians created a strategic direction to guide the Wikimedia Movement into the future: By 2030, Wikimedia will become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge, and anyone who shares our vision will be able to join us.

Between 2018 and 2020, people from across our Movement came together in an open and participatory process to discuss how we can advance in the strategic direction. This process was initiated to develop recommendations for change in Movement culture and structures that would enable us to move toward our strategic direction and the goals of knowledge equity and knowledge as a service. What the process became was a radical effort for international collaboration that brought together hundreds of Wikimedians from across the world to discuss and create recommendations for the future of the Wikimedia Movement.

On the pages that follow, you will find stories, reflections, and insights about how the Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy Recommendations were developed.

Sections of this report

1. Getting Started	8. Synthesizing the Recommendations
2. Working Groups Established	9. Synthesized Recommendations Published
3. Work Begins	10. Finalizing the Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy
4. Drafting Recommendations and Discussing the Future	11. Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy Recommendations Published
5. Recommendations Draft 1 Published	12. Focus On: Movement Strategy Community Conversations
6. Refining and Harmonizing the Recommendations	13. Focus On: Talking Strategy at Events around the World
7. Working Group Transition

Getting started

Preparation started in March 2018. A small core team was set up to guide and support the process, and more team members joined over the course of the following year as the work itself expanded and grew. This second phase (developing the strategic direction was phase one) of the Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy Process officially started in April 2018 at the Wikimedia Conference. The Movement Strategy Track within the conference focused on laying the groundwork for working groups to conduct research and draft recommendations for structural and systemic change within our Movement to enable us to advance in our strategic direction. Eight thematic areas were identified to enable us to advance in our strategic direction: Advocacy, Capacity Building, Community, Diversity, Partnerships, Resource Allocation and Revenue Streams, Power Dynamics, and Technology.

Following the Wikimedia Conference, the core team started planning how to set up the working groups.

Movement Strategy core team in Berlin, September 2019

		Learn more about the start of the Movement Strategy Process Phase II
		What is the Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy Process? Mailing list update from March 2018 Mailing list update from June 2018 with initial thematic area list Report about the Movement Strategy Track at Wikimedia Conference 2018

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