Wikimedia movement

The Wikimedia movement is the totality of people, activities, and values which revolve around Wikimedia sites and projects:

• a collection of values shared by individuals (freedom of speech, knowledge for everyone, community sharing, etc.);
• a collection of projects (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons, Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikiversity, Wikibooks, Incubator...);
• a collection of activities (conferences, workshops, wikiacademies, etc.);
• a collection of organizations (Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia chapters, etc.), as well as some free electrons (individuals without chapters) and similar-minded organizations.

Wikimedia project logos

Simplified organizational chart of the movement, including roles and responsibilities

Comprehensive organizational chart and mindmap of the Wikimedia movement (June 2023)

Shared values

• a collection of values shared by individuals (freedom of speech, knowledge for everyone, community sharing, etc.);

Shared projects

• a collection of activities around Wikimedia projects:
  • Wikipedia, in more than 352 language versions,
  • other content related wikis, such as Wikisource, Wikibooks or Wikidata,
  • 'backstage' wikis or organizational wikis, such as this Meta-Wiki,
  • conferences, workshops, wikiacademies etc. (offline activities);

Wikimedia organizations

• a collection of organizations, as well as some free electrons (individuals acting outside any group) and similar-minded organizations:
  • Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Chapters,
  • Wikimedia Thematic Organisations,
  • Wikimedia User Groups.

The Wikimedia Foundation

The owner of the trademark Wikimedia is the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). Linked to the WMF are the Wikimedia Foundation's own organs and committees:

• board
• staff
• advisory board
• Independent Committees installed by the WMF board
  • Affiliations committee
  • Language committee
  • Funds Dissemination Committee

Wikimedia stakeholders

More generally speaking, Wikimedia stakeholders may also be part of the Wikimedia movement, i.e. readers of Wikimedia content, donors, schools, GLAM , similar-minded institutions, and companies co-operating with the Wikimedia Foundation or other Wikimedia organizations.

See also

• The post and the thread on foundation-l mailing list, started by Anthere, where the term and concept was launched.
• Communication issues musings of a dinosaur (about 17:30), Anthere's speech at Wikimania 2008.
• Scaling up: can Wikimedia Become A 300 Million People Movement By 2020? (about minute 4), Eloquence's speech at Wikimania 2009.
• Use of the term in Wikimedia mailing lists.
• History and meaning of the term in an extended Facebook discussion
• Complementary projects
• Le mouvement Wikimédia on French Wikibooks.