Wikipedia:WikiProject WMF Relations

WikiProject WMF Relations

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Welcome to WikiProject WMF Relations. Our purpose is to ensure that editors receive the support they need to continue building the encyclopedia by managing relations between the Wikimedia Foundation and the English Wikipedia community.

Purpose

1. To identify and advocate for priorities of the community in relation to the Wikimedia Foundation
2. To support and foster communication between the Wikimedia Foundation and the English Wikipedia
3. To ensure that the English Wikipedia is suitably represented on the Board of Trustees

Goals

Determined through various community discussions, these reflect the current identified priorities of the community.

1. Ensure that fundraising communication is moral and accurate, and reflects the consensus of the 2022 Fundraising RfC
2. Work to give the community greater oversight of the grants process, and limit the number of grants going to organizations unrelated to any of the various WikiMedia Projects as well as preventing grants that would be a net-negative to our community.
3. Seek to make communication with Wikimedia Foundation more accessible to the community, by convincing the Foundation to engage more on the English Wikipedia
4. Seek to democratize the Wikimedia Foundation, by convincing the Foundation to increase the number of community-elected representatives on the board

These are draft goals, based on discussions during the WMF RfC Drafting Process. We expect to add, remove, and modify goals as we gather more information through discussions such as the WMF RfC's and through the discussions on the talk page.

Board of Trustees

The most effective location from which we can advocate for the priorities of our community is the Board of Trustees. To this end, every election year this project will focus on electing suitable candidates. This will involve:

1. Discussions with the community to identify community priorities. The identified priorities will also be reflected in our goals.
2. Identifying editors who support those priorities and have the requisite competencies to be effective on the Board of Trustees, and encouraging those editors to run
3. Creating a How-to-vote card
4. Getting consensus, through a formal discussion within the community, for the candidates and the card
5. Mobilizing the community to vote for those candidates

Discussion of this proposed method is currently taking place on the talk page.

Participants

1. BilledMammal (talk · contribs)
2. Jayen466 (talk · contribs)
3. Mebigrouxboy (talk · contribs)
4. Piotrus (talk · contribs)
5. Bluerasberry (talk) 20:03, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
6. Ciridae (talk · contribs)
7. Certes (talk · contribs)
8. Edward-Woodrow (talk · contribs)
9. shells-shells (talk · contribs)
10. Bilorv (talk · contribs)