Wikimedia-Mouvement
The Wikimedia movement is the totality of people, organizations, activities and values which revolve around Wikimedia sites (such as Wikipedia) and projects, or anyone who makes a valuable contribution to Wikimedia's free knowledge initiative:
- a collection of values shared by individuals (freedom of speech, knowledge for everyone, community sharing etc.; see also founding principles);
- a collection of activities (Wikimedia projects, conferences, workshops, wikiacademies etc.);
- a collection of organizations (Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia chapters etc.), as well as individuals and similar-minded organizations.
More generally speaking, Wikimedia stakeholders are also part of the Wikimedia movement (readers of Wikimedia content, donors, schools, GLAM, similar-minded institutions, and companies co-operating with the Wikimedia Foundation or other Wikimedia organizations).
See also
- 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.
- Use of the term in Wikimedia mailing lists.