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Topics of interest

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The following table reports the results from a community survey that was launched in January 2024 to identify the needs of the communities across the region, where the indicated topics are classified into four groups.

Description
Strategic discussions: Top issues affecting the community that needs to be discussed in person are:
  • Future of the movement in CEE
  • Capacity development
  • Community building
  • Project planning
  • Cross-wiki projects
  • Strategies for increasing public awareness
  • Approaches to improving the quality of content
  • Attracting new volunteers
  • Active involvement of women in the Wikipedia movement
  • MCDC
  • Cooperation with the state
  • Edu Wiki
  • GLAM
  • Creative Commons
  • Movement Strategy
  • Youth issues
  • Partnerships
  • Strategic Planning
  • Fundraising
  • Development of the Wikimedia CEE Hub
  • Global governance
  • Enhancing organizational skills
  • Diversity
  • Community meetings
  • Community engagement
  • Institutional collaborations
  • Wikimedia Grants
  • Content gaps
Projects needs to work on in-person: Some of the projects or activities that need to be, partially or fully, planned in person are:
  • Community building
  • Capacity building
  • Volunteer retention
  • Cross-wiki projects
  • Creating new templates
  • Archiving of Internet resources
  • Enrichment of archiving templates
  • GLAM
  • Outreach
  • Workshops and Edit-a-Thons
  • Collaborative Content Creation and Verification
  • CEE Spring
  • Movement strategy
  • Increasing participation
  • Encouraging youth to contribute
  • Digitization
  • Organizing community events
  • CEE Hub
  • Editor retention
  • Project management
  • Conflict resolution
  • Organizational sustainability
Important goals, problems, or obstacles: Top issues:
  • Increasing collaboration
  • Promoting Wikimedia
  • Volunteer retention
  • Building projects together
  • Enhancing Content Diversity and Representation
  • Content Gap
  • Outreach and Inclusivity
  • Community engagement
  • Gender inequality
  • Capacity Building
  • Skill Development
  • Promoting inclusivity and diversity
  • Generative AI
  • Governance
Skills important for the community: Important skills that people need to learn are:
  • Networking and Relationship Building
  • Communication
  • Cultural Sensitivity
  • Conflict resolution skills
  • Discussion skills
  • Collaboration
  • Educational initiatives
  • Shared information
  • Critical Thinking and Evaluation
  • Fact-Checking Techniques
  • Community Engagement and Facilitation
  • Outreach
  • Project Management
  • Governance
  • Public speaking
  • Cultural knowledge
  • Leadership

Slogan

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The slogan for the conference is A Bridge to Knowledge!.

Submissions

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See: Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024/Submissions

Themes

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The themes of the conference will be defined based on the topics indicated in the submitted session proposals.

Timeline

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Activity Deadline Status
Call for submission opens 1 April 2024 00:00 (CEST)   Done
Announcement sent
  • to info-wmcee@wmceehub.org, wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
  • to Facebook groups
  • to Telegram groups
 1 April 2024   Done
First reminder sent
  • to Facebook groups
  • to Telegram groups
 1 May 2024   Done
Second reminder sent
  • to Facebook groups
  • to Telegram groups
 15 May 2024   Done
Extension announced
  • to info-wmcee@wmceehub.org, wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
  • to Facebook groups
  • to Telegram groups
 26 May 2024   Done
Third reminder sent
  • to info-wmcee@wmceehub.org, wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
  • to Facebook groups
  • to Telegram groups
 15 June 2024   Done
Call for submissions closes 15 June 2024 23:59 (CEST)   Done
Submissions are evaluated by the programme committee late June 2024   Done
Applicants are notified about final decisions July 2024   Done
Draft schedule published late July 2024   Done
Final schedule published August 2024
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