Annual plan (2014–2015)

This plan documents Wikimedia District of Columbia's program and organizational development plans for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015. Wikimedia DC embarked on a strategic planning process during fiscal year 2013–14, a process that will result in a completed strategic plan during this fiscal year. We have diversified our outreach efforts to include historical, scientific, and technological organizations, and we began improving our technical infrastructure to support program evaluation and contact management work.

This year, we are focused on increasing our outreach efforts to firmly establish our presence as knowledge workers while working to embed the values of the Wikimedia movement in our current partner organizations. We are developing an infrastructure of best practices and technologies that will boost our ranks as a membership organization and as a volunteer organization. Most crucially, we identify that these efforts are not isolated efforts, but interconnected efforts that will, in time, institutionalize Wikimedia DC as a Washington-based organization working to share the region's knowledge with the world.

Content programs

• WORKSHOPS
  • NIH
  • Education program
  • Capitol Hill

• INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERSHIPS (CULTURAL, SCIENTIFIC, GOVERNMENT)
  • We continue to build and nurture existing relationships
  • Eventual goal is to get them to progress in the nature of relationship (to workshops, content contributions, etc.)
  • Build on Leo's efforts, working with historical archives

• Cultural Partnerships Fellow
  • Works with Dominic, local institutions, and with the GLAM-Wiki Consortium
  • Could potentially house person in Smithsonian Institution
  • Funded by WMF (could we get another organization to provide funding?)
  • Set up position and recruit from October–December 2014; position filled from January–June 2015

Technology programs

• OPEN DATA
  • Wikidata and open data efforts

• Open Data Fellow
  • Works with Wikimedia DC; could potentially house this person in CREW, Sunlight Foundation, or GSA 18F
  • Potential funding sources: WMF, Sunlight, Cato, Google, Knight Foundation
  • Set up position and recruit from October–December 2014; position filled form January–June 2015

Community programs

• TRAINING
  • Workshop Facilitator
  • Campus Ambassador Training
  • GLAM Boot Camp
• PROMOTIONAL EVENTS
  • Public health summit
  • Diversity Conference
  • Attending other events
• SOCIAL SUPPORT

Notes

In 2013–2014 we are working on growing (more partners, bigger community), diversifying (different types of partnerships), and infrastructure (measuring outcomes, data storage mechanisms, organizational structure, strategic planning). Next year should focus on taking this built-up capacity and working to institutionalize the Wikimedia movement in the DC area through collaborations that improve Wikimedia projects, facilitated by dedicated fellows. The work of these fellows will provide valuable insight for the rest of the movement.

For the future

• Wikipedia for Activists
• Campus ambassador training. Cultivating DC-area campus ambassadors with help of resources from WEF. Rob from Georgetown would be helpful for this
• Program evaluation training
• Volunteer training will help us bring other people into our organization, allowing others to carry out work in fulfillment of our mission
• See User:James Hare/Wikiparty. Could we get funding to cover the development of this?