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Organigramm vun der Wikimedia-Bewegung

Comprehensive organizational chart and mindmap of the Wikimedia movement (June 2023)

The Wikimedia movement is the totality of people, activities, and values which revolve around Wikimedia sites and projects:

• a collection of values shared by individuals (freedom of speech, knowledge for everyone, community sharing, etc.);
• a collection of projects and activities;
• a collection of organizations (Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia chapters, etc.), as well as some free electrons (individuals without chapters) and similar-minded organizations.

Shared values

• a collection of values shared by individuals (freedom of speech, knowledge for everyone, community sharing, etc.);

Shared projects

• a collection of activities around Wikimedia projects:
  • Wikipedia, a méi wéi 364 Sproochversiounen,
  • other content-related wikis, such as Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons, Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wikidata, Wikisource, Wikiversity and Wikibooks
  • 'backstage' wikis or organizational wikis, such as this Meta-Wiki
  • conferences, workshops, wikiacademies, etc. (offline activities);

Wikimedia organizations

• a collection of organizations, as well as some free electrons (individuals acting outside any group) and similar-minded organizations:
  • Wikimedia Foundation and chapters,
  • Wikimedia Thematic Organisations,
  • Wikimedia Benotzergruppen.

The Wikimedia Foundation

The owner of the trademark Wikimedia is the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). Linked to the WMF are the Wikimedia Foundation's own organs and committees:

• board
• staff
• advisory board
• Independent Committees installed by the WMF board
  • Affiliations committee
  • Sprooche-Comité
  • Funds Dissemination Committee

Wikimedia stakeholders

More generally speaking, Wikimedia stakeholders may also be part of the Wikimedia movement, i.e. readers of Wikimedia content, donors, schools, GLAM , similar-minded institutions, and companies co-operating with the Wikimedia Foundation or other Wikimedia organizations.

Siehe auch

• The English Wikipedia’s Wikimedia movement article
• The post and the thread on foundation-l mailing list, started by Anthere, where the term and concept was launched
• Communication issues musings of a dinosaur (about 17:30), Anthere's speech at Wikimania 2008
• Scaling up: can Wikimedia Become A 300 Million People Movement By 2020? (about minute 4), Eloquence's speech at Wikimania 2009
• Complementary projects
• Le mouvement Wikimédia on French Wikibooks