Annual Plan for Fiscal Year 2021–22

Status: Under Review

This plan covers Wikimedia DC's planned program activities and operations for the 2022–23 fiscal year, which begins on October 1, 2022 and ends on September 30, 2023.

Programs

The Wikimedia DC program portfolio for the 2022–23 fiscal year will be focused around two key program areas, institutional partnerships and contracts to support software or content development.

The institutional partnership program area includes programs whose principal objective is to leverage the resources, holdings, and expertise of institutions in the cultural, academic, and government sectors to improve the Wikimedia projects and other free knowledge repositories. This is achieved both through the direct contribution of institutional records, collections, and other holdings to such repositories under suitable free licenses, and through the participation of institutional staff and other affiliated individuals in such projects. Most of these events are edit-a-thons or training workshops, and they are now mostly online, that is, remote or virtual.

Over the course of the 2022–23 fiscal year, we will again collaborate with at least 20 institutional partners; we expect that this collaboration will continue to primarily take the form of individual virtual events, and we will continue to explore, develop, and adapt additional mechanisms of engagement to further enhance our institutional partnership program portfolio. As we continue to engage with both new and existing partners, we will ensure that at least 50% of our partnership activities address diversity in some form, including diversity of content and diversity of participation.

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Organizational Development

Wikimedia DC organizational development priorities for the 2022–23 fiscal year will focus on two key operational areas: evaluation and reporting and North American and community engagement.

Evaluation and Reporting

We have tended to evaluate our improvements to online Wikimedia works by numbers of editors and edits. We will develop the skills in the coming year at evaluating quality improvements, e.g. by using the ORES scoring scheme for edit improvements.

North American and Community Engagement

• We intend to join with other North American affiliates into a partnership called in WMF parlance a "Hub". This new collaboration should be able to earn a Wikimedia Foundation "Hub" grant, and help us expand our reach, membership, and stabilize our revenue levels. WMDC expects to have a substantial role in running the combined effort.