Movement Strategy/About/Transition/Reports/Wikimedia Community Usergroup Uganda

General Information

Field	Information
Name of your group	Wikimedia Community Usergroup Uganda
Time and date of the event	7:00 - 9:00 PM (EAT), Friday 20^th November 2020.
Who attended?	5 Participants
	Douglas Ssebaggala Erina Mukuta Ivan Mulumba Geoffrey Kateregga Francis Ssekitto
	1 Female 4 experienced Wikimedians (5-6 years involvement) 1 Guest from the Creative Commons Chapter in Uganda. Mixture of Youths and adults
Who facilitated?	Douglas Ssebaggala (Open agenda and participatory approach).
Who took notes?	Douglas Ssebaggala (with a review from the participants)

Choose Your Top Priorities	Why is it prioritized?
Example: recommendation 2, improve user experience	Example: Having a more engaging interface will excite more people from our community to want to contribute to Wikimedia projects.
1. Recommendation 1: Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement	The usergroup has current funding and is part of the underrepresented or emerging communities, the Usergroup plans to carry out programatic activities aimed at increasing awareness about the Wikimedia Movement, retaining volunteers, partnerships, and environment sustainability initiatives.
2. Recommendation 8: Identifying topics for impact	The Usergroup is to develop and increase access to content that has historically been left out, finding out what people/communities need, and carrying out new initiatives that create impact with underrepresented communities.
3. Recommendation 4: Ensure equity in decision making	Regional collaboration, participatory decision making, and delegation can strengthen smaller (regional) affiliates and Wikimedia Communities.
4. Recommendation 7: Manage Internal Knowledge	Knowledge sharing via internal channels like WhatsApp, telegram, is usually not localised and is done on Adhoc basis without clear intentions

Choose Your Top Priorities	Why is it prioritized?
Example: recommendation 2, improve user experience	Example: Having a more engaging interface will excite more people from our community to want to contribute to Wikimedia projects.
1. Recommendation 1: Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement	Funding for underrepresented communities will increase awareness about the Wikimedia movement which will increase revenue generation, as well as online, and offline community sustainability initiatives.
2. Recommendation 8: Identifying topics for impact	Local content from historically ignored languages and underrepresented communities will avoid misinformation, bridge the content gap, and create impactful topics on Wikimedia projects.
3. Recommendation 4: Ensure equity in decision making	Delegation of some decisions to regional affiliates can lead to community engagement, and regional collaboration.
4. Recommendation 7: Manage Internal Knowledge	Knowledge sharing guidelines and platforms for local communities can create knowledge discoverability on meta, content curation, quality, and can avoid the usage of adhoc internal platforms which can easily hide knowledge from communities, as they (internal platforms) might not be publicly accessible.

Think of your existing resources, the movement’s vast resources, and the support infrastructure you may need for moving ideas forward.

Multi year grants e.g 3-5 years
Training and capacity building on fundraising models
Innovative/innovation grants, internal Partnerships, and institutional collaboration
Dedicated staff, year round activities, local language support and national outreach capacity.
Regional events, discussion platforms, coordinators, hubs, offices, and organisers.
Customisable guides and templates that can be localised.

Think global, movement-wide changes needed.