Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting 2018/Documentation

Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting 2018

WikiNEM organizational compass

Purpose of the Northern Europe Wikimedia collaboration

To do awesome stuff together by establishing a framework for active collaboration in Northern Europe, identifying common issues and using our expertise and resources in dealing with and developing them.

Leadership

The way we lead ourselves is guided by

Empathy
Responsibility
Courage
Listening
Supportive environment, making action and participation possible
Fairness
Inclusivity
Motivation
Showing by doing
Vision aware
Communication

Vision

See the collection of visions for Wikimedia Northern Europe from participants.

WikiNEM open space topics

Below is the list of topics proposed by participants during the WikiNEM open space session. Each topic has a link to the discussion notes.

WikiNEM Topics Session 1

#	TITLE	HOST	PEOPLE	REPORT
1	Members are important for the chapter because...	Hogne	5	link to notes.
2	How can we support our region's minority and indigenous languages?	Jon Harald, Kim, Astrid	9	link to notes.
3	Good behaviour/bad behavour in Wikipedia	Johanna, Minna	6	link to notes.
4	Next steps for our cooperation	John Andersson	6	link to notes.
5	How will we be inclusive in the future	Heikki	2	link to notes.

WikiNEM Topics Session 2

#	TITLE	HOST	PEOPLE	REPORT
1	Are there nordic funding opportunities we can discuss	Astrid	4	link to notes
2	Wikimania, how can I help?	Johanna	4	link to notes.
3	What gender gap projects can we create together?	Jorid	8	link to notes.
4	Technology - what problems/ideas do the communities have?	Edgars	8	link to notes.
5	Costal maritime cultural and environment	Salvör	2	link to notes.

WikiNEM Topics Session 3

#	TITLE	HOST	PEOPLE	REPORT
1	~~Role of Wikimedia in changing media landscape: social goals, tech tools & partnerships in Nordic region~~		?	refocused into less general topic
2	Wikimedia PR: information material, raising awareness, public relations	Lennart, Karen, Finn	6	link to notes.
3	Regular regional "Mini-Wikimanias" in order to stimulate community and volunteers	Bengt	4	link to notes.
4	Education, universitites, Wikimedia in schools, training the teachers, MOOCs	name	7	link to notes.

WikiNEM Topics Session 4

#	TITLE	HOST	PEOPLE	REPORT
1	Communication platform	Mārtiņš and Matthias	9	link to notes.
2	GLAM partnerships	Axel	10	link to notes.
3	How can larger groups help smaller chapters and user groups grow?	Matthias	10	link to notes.
4	Where can we have next WikiNEM?	John	3	link to notes.

WikiNEM Topics Session 5 Sunday

#	TITLE	HOST	PEOPLE	REPORT
1	Mastering Notablility	Karen	5	link to notes.
2	Gender representation in our affiliates	Astrid	9	link to notes.
3	Abbriviation for our region	Heikki	4	link to notes.
4	Wiki Science competition	Ivo	5	link to notes.
5	Wikimania pre/post conference tours	Heikki	3	link to notes.
6	Establishing communiction on Meta	Matthias	1-3	link to notes.
7	Where to have the next WikiNEM	John	3	link to notes.
8	Wikipedia sister projects and collaborations	Märt	4	link to notes.

WikiNEM topics for action planning

Below is the list of topics proposed for action planning and next steps, based on the previous discussions. Each topic has a link to the action plan.

#	TOPIC FOR ACTION	HOST	PEOPLE	ACTION PLAN
1	How to cooperate in the Nordic region?	Jon and Matthias	roughly 14 people	link to action plan.
2	Gender issues for the region	Astrid	5	link to action plan.
3	Education collaborations	Minna	6	link to action plan.
4	Wikimedia PR	Finn, Karen	11	link to action plan.
5	GLAM Follow up	Merli	7	link to action plan.
6	Collaborations to support minority languages	Kimberli & Jon Harald	7	link to action plan.
7	Sister projects & outside collaboration	Märt	2	link to action plan.
8	Naming the collaboration in Northern Europe	Heikki	4	link to action plan

Organizational profiles

Wikimedia Eesti
Wikimedia Denmark
Wikimedians of Latvia
Wikimedia Sverige
Wikimedia Suomi
Wikimedia Norge

Lightning talks

Sofie
Opportunities with Wikimania in Northern Europe
Salvör
Small language Wikipedias on the example of Islandic Wikipedia
Mārtiņš
CEE Spring — running international article contest in 25 languages
Heikki
Rephotography - what, how and why
Finn
GLAM, uploads, licenses et al.
Jon Harald
Wikimedia Norge's Northern Sami project as an idea for Nordic cooperation
Merli introducing Ivo
Five examples on outreach activities in Estonia