Annual Plan for Fiscal Year 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 our 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. These efforts work together to institutionalize Wikimedia DC as a Washington-based organization working to share our knowledge with the world.

Content programs

In 2015 our content programs will focus on encouraging individual content contributors and empowering broader institutional participation. During the last fiscal year we hosted several edit-a-thons with institutions in various subject areas, including the fine arts, chemistry, history, and law. These events allowed us to build connections with these organizations and to develop a list of over 100 potential Wikipedia editors. Through the research of Emily Temple-Wood, our Vice President and an Individual Engagement Grant recipient of the Wikimedia Foundation, we have developed a program to train small groups of motivated individuals in writing Wikipedia articles through recurring events. Our goal this year is to implement this program in at least two organizations. We will also continue to host regular edit-a-thons with organizations that share our goals.

Wikipedia Workshops

Wikipedia Workshops build on the edit-a-thon concept that has been successfully implemented at Wikimedia DC events. While edit-a-thons as currently carried out are successful promotional events that give participating individuals and organizations a taste of editing Wikipedia, they have not been proven effective to recruit people to become Wikipedia editors. The workshop concept developed by Wikimedia DC works to improve the editing skills of participants through small instructional groups and pre-scheduled recurring events.

We are currently planning two workshop programs in Washington, DC, one focused on art history and another on public health. Our goal is to recruit ten participating editors and one facilitator for each program. Each program will run once a week for four weeks, focusing on creating

Edit-a-Thons

• Capitol Hill

Institutional Partnerships

• Build on Leo's efforts, working with historical archives
• Eventual goal is to have a US GLAM-Wiki Coordinator who helps Dominic and the Consortium

Education Program

Technology programs

• OPEN DATA
  • Wikidata and open data efforts

Community programs

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