North American Hub Research Project
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- Update, Sept 2024, since this research report A likely next step after this finished report is for North American affiliates to agree to form a hub. A draft of an agreement is here: North American Wikimedians/Hub founding
Overview
[edit]In April 2023, Wikimedia DC was awarded a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation for the purpose of researching the feasibility of creating a North American Hub. A potential hub would consist of Wikimedia's North American affiliates, chapters, and user groups.
From May to December of 2023, a committee of representatives from North American chapters, affiliates and user groups, with administrative assistance from Wikimedia DC, worked to identify opportunities and barriers to movement participants across the North American continent in order to discuss and recommend service and support measures most useful to the community. A research-based assessment of the issues and challenges will serve as a basis for possibly initiating a North American Hub as an effective support organization for communities, affiliates, and contributors.
Research through virtual means focused on the opportunities and needs for North American Wikimedians in the U.S., Mexico, Canada, and the Caribbean.
Admin team, Wikimedia DC
[edit]- Ariel Cetrone Institutional Partnerships Manager
- Peter Meyer, President
- Sara Snyder, Treasurer
Advisory Committee
[edit]The project team meets regularly with an Advisory Committee made up of invited representatives from Wikimedia affiliates and event organizers. It expanded over the course of summer 2023 to have about 15 members and is now stable except when someone needs to have a substitute. The Committee members are invited to advise the project team throughout the project and to comment to the WMF Movement Strategy grantors afterward about the project effort.
- Advisory committee members
- Pharos, Wikimedia New York City, and designated committee chair
- Bluerasberry, Wikimedia LGBT+ and Wikimedia Medicine
- Sherry Antoine, AfroCrowd and Wikimedians of the Caribbean User Group
- Peaceray, Cascadia Wikimedians
- Louis Germain, Wikimedia Canada
- Étienne Beaulé, Wikimedia Canada
- Kira Wisniewski, Art+Feminism
- Frank Schulenburg, Wiki Education Foundation
- Doreva Belfiore, Philadelphia WikiSalon
- SJ, New England Wikimedians (NEW)
- Rosiestep, WikiWomen's User Group
- Lunita28mx of Wikimedia México
- Omar Sansi of Wikimedia México
- Bryan Hilderbrand, MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group
- Paula Kate Marmor, Wikimedians of Los Angeles
- Andrew Leung from WikiJournal User Group
- Stephen Brown of Wikimedians of Colorado User Group and Wikimedians of the U.S. Mountain West
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