Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2021–22
Status: Draft
Let's fill in this draft annual report and compare to our past reports and to reports to WMF by other affiliates. There are too many comparison cases to read them all, but let's pick a few and just consider. We want our report to serve well as a report to the public and our members and also as an official report to WMF to sustain our status as an affiliate.
- Reports by other affiliates
- Our past Category:Annual_reports Annual activity reports and Category:Annual_financial_reports Annual financial reports -- always paired, one each, each year
My ideas for changes since previous years:
- (1) add a paragraph about nonprofit status
- (2) a new section describing research grants, because that’s now a sizable fraction of our revenue and activity, perhaps inside the Institutional Partnerships section
- (3) add pictures? or something else lively? name our officers explicitly?
- Let's look at what other chapters do. The big ones file huge reports. We can’t do that ; but maybe we could learn from what they are doing? What should we change?
- We can ask questions about what WMF wants at wadportal@wikimedia.org
- We are supposed to email about them to a list serve, it seems, and submit them to a “data portal,” here
-- Econterms (talk) 19:12, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
Status: Draft
This report describes the activities of Wikimedia District of Columbia during Fiscal Year 2021–22, covering the period from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022.
Programs
Institutional partnerships and public editathons
During the 2021–22 fiscal year, Wikimedia DC program activity focused in a single principal program area, institutional partnership.
Consistent with past program results, collaborative editing events, such as edit-a-thons and editing workshops, comprised the bulk of our institutional partnership program activity. Over the course of the fiscal year, Wikimedia DC supported a total of 30 events in partnership with 22 institutional partners, which included a broad spectrum of cultural, academic, and government institutions, non-governmental organizations, and other groups:
update to list of new year and appropriate links
- American Archive of Public Broadcasting
- American Statistical Association
- American University
- Anne Arundel County Public Library
- blackcomputeHER
- Charles Sumner School
- DC History Center
- Kensho Technologies
- Mastercard
- National Agricultural Library
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- National Museum of Women in the Arts
- Planet Word
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
- Smithsonian Institution
- Smithsonian Institution Archives
- United States Domestic Policy Council
- University of Maryland
- White House Gender Policy Council
- World Health Organization
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of these events were held online, not in person.
Research projects
Wikimedia DC has been invited to participate in research efforts. Research-related grants now form a sizable part of our activity.
Conferences
WikiConference North America 2021 and prep for 2022.
Organizational development
We had a big change of officers in January. Longtime president Kirill Lokshin, who understood all our systems, has moved on. Peter Meyer is now the president, John Sadowski vice president, Diane Shaw secretary, and Sara Snyder treasurer. The new officers have been learning their roles and systems. Our Institutional Partnership Manger, Ariel Cetrone, continues in her position.
The chapter had fallen behind on tax filings, and has now caught back up, with annual tax forms on its web site.
The Wikimedia DC Board of Directors held 6 meetings during the 2021–22 fiscal year, on November 15, 2021; January 23, 2022; February 7, 2022; May 16, 2022; July 18, 2022; and September 26, 2022. The minutes of the minutes are online.