Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan/2025-2026/Collaboration

Over the last few years we have continued to evolve and improve our collaborative planning process. The Wikimedia Foundation’s four overarching goals (Knowledge Equity, Infrastructure, Safety & Integrity, Effectiveness) remain constant, while the work and deliverables within them iterates on the significant progress made in the current year. Continuous conversations with the community inform our annual plan and we'll be documenting these here on this page.

Wikimedia Foundation
Annual Plan 2025–2026

Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan 2025–2026

• Summary
• Goals
• Collaboration

Get involved

There are several ways you can get involved and discuss the annual plan. Right now, our Chief Product & Technology Officer Selena Deckelmann is asking for your thoughts on questions that will shape the Wikimedia Foundation's priorities for next fiscal year.

We welcome your ideas now through 31st May 2025 and will update this page as new on-wiki and live discussions open in various channels and languages. These discussions are where the Wikimedians share their take on the proposed plans and share about their own goals for the upcoming year. Inspired by what so many others are doing in their own work, we continue to find opportunities to collaborate and learn from the planning processes and work of others in the Wikimedia movement as well as other partners. There will be many ways to engage: here on Meta-Wiki, in co-created community spaces, in person meetings, on Wikimedia project pages, and on community channels.

On-Wiki

A summary message to engage in annual plan conversation will be posted locally on various projects. The full version of draft annual plan materials with accompanying translations will live on this Meta-Wiki portal. You can collaborate with us on both local talk pages and here on the Meta-Wiki talk page, always in your preferred language. We will add links here to where the content has been posted as they become available.

Other conversations about the annual planning are also happening in other community channels on Discord and Telegram. We encourage you to join the discussions if you subscribe to these channels.

1. Meta-wiki
   • Community questions to shape next year's priorities
   • Conversations to shape the future of the Wishlist and discussions about the re-launched edition
   • Conversations on 3 focus areas dedicated to improvements targeting users with advanced rights – Page 1, Page 2, Page 3.
   • Conversations on Templates recall and discovery focus area case study
2. English Wikipedia
   • Village Pump discussion about contributor connection and collaboration
   • Inviting proposals for technical improvements to the Wishlist
   • Discussion to enable CampaignEvents extension
3. Wikimedia Commons
   • Proposal for a path forward for bringing together folks with a stake in Commons’ future
4. Farsi Community
   • WMF Annual Planning 2025-2026 discussions
5. Igbo Wikimedians
   • Igbo Wikimedians Discussions
6. Spanish Community
   • Inviting participation in the Community Wishlist
7. French Communities
   • Wikipedia Village pump discussion about feedback regarding own edits and how editing remains rewarding
   • Calling for participation in the Community Wishlist
8. Korean Community
   • Wikipedia Village pump discussion about WMF Annual Planning questions
9. Spanish speaking Communities
   • Wikipedia Café discussion about the types of feedback and recognition that are most motivating to editors and what inspires them to keep contributing
10. Tagalog Wikimedians
    • WMF Annual Planning 2025-2026 discussions
11. Portuguese speaking Communities
    • Wikipedia Esplanada discussion on how to help new generations of readers find Wikipedia content interesting and engaging
12. Arabic community
    • Inviting the community to answer questions to shape next year's priorities
13. Italian community
    • Discussion at the Italian Village Pump about what motivates people to contribute and what could be done to involve more people in advanced roles
14. Swahili Wikipedia - Inviting the community to engage in questions to shape the next FY priorities
15. Ukrainian community -
    • Discussion in Ukrainian Wikipedia
16. Polish community
    • Discussion in Polish Wikipedia
17. Hungarian community
    • Discussion in Hungarian Wikipedia
18. Romanian Wikipedia
    • Questions about editing
19. Turkish Wikipedia
    • Questions about editing
20. Greek Wikipedia
    • Questions about editing
21. Czech Wikipedia
    • Questions about editing experience

Co-created Community spaces

Staff and leaders from the Wikimedia Foundation will be joining existing community organized calls for two-way planning around next year’s draft annual plan. Additionally, Foundation staff will organize thematic calls that anyone can attend based on their area of interest. If you wish to join a call but interpretation is not available in your preferred language, email us at movementcommswikimedia.org, and we will make the necessary arrangements.

Meetings, events, calls and podcasts

Upcoming

1. CEE Catch Up (Date TBD)
2. WikiCauserie (Date TBD)
3. South Asia Open Community Call (Date TBD)
4. Afrika Baraza (Date TBD)
5. MENA Connect (Date TBD)
6. ESEAP community Meetings (Date TBD)
7. Podcast WikiAfrica Hour (Date TBD)
   

Previous

1. Wikimedia Foundation Discussions with the Commons Community
   • Impact and funding model 5 February 2025
   • Wikimania 2024
   • WikiCon NA 2024
   • Content organisation call
   • Tool investment priority - 15 January 2025
2. Community discussions about Products
   • Let's Connect Learning clinic: Tools for Wikimedia Communities
3. CAC hosted Conversation with Trustees 30 January (14:30 - 16:00 UTC).
4. Future Audiences community call February 6
5. Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024
6. Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024 - Temporary accounts
7. Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024 - Resource distribution
8. WikiCon North America 2024 - Commons Roundtable discussion
9. WikiCon North America 2024 - Hubs discussion
10. Former and current Foundation trustee workshop