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May 10, 2024 · 10 Recommendations. In 2017, a strategic direction to guide our Movement into the future was created: By 2030, Wikimedia will become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge, and anyone who shares our vision will be able to join us.
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Who will be in the world in 2030? Wikimedia envisions “a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.” But the Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia and the other free knowledge projects like Wikimedia Commons, do not currently serve the entire globe. And realizing this vision might become even more diffic...
How will people around the world be using communications technologies to find, create, and share information? There are many emerging information technologies to watch over the next 15 years, each of which has the potential to serve as: 1. competition for the attention of Wikimedia project users, 2. content or topics for Wikimedia projects, 3. pote...
How will people find trustworthy sources of knowledge and information? Research shows that, around the world, Wikimedia projects are vulnerable to government, political, cultural, or profit-driven censorship and misinformation campaigns, as well as outright falsified content. Various actors will exploit current and future technological developments...
How will the world learn in the future? Global literacy rates are increasing, although they vary in different geographic, political, and economic contexts. The Wikimedia projects have a role — and some might argue an obligation — in advancing literacy worldwide. But the literacy of the future looks different from basic literacy skills of the past. ...
How will we share culture, ideas, and information? Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs), along with other content- and asset-rich cultural organizations, are opening collections and archives and making them freely available online. This global movement demonstrates the public’s appetite for free open access to the knowledge, expertis...
How can we know what the world will look like in 2030 — and what the Wikimedia movement’s role in it will be? From 2015 to 2017, the Wikimedia Foundation has been pursuing a variety of perspectives to inform the Wikimedia 2030 process through consultation with movement members; expert interviews and group discussions; and scanning of industry, gove...
An exciting prospect for any researcher is a confluence of themes rising from disparate subject areas. In pursuing our research for this project we frequently had the sense of meeting ourselves coming and going, with similar ideas flowing into the same river from our different streams of inquiry. We offer five such rising themes here, ideas we enco...
Do now
1. Re-articulate and widely share your values statements, and do so in ways that enhance the urgency and the value proposition of the Wikimedia movement. 2. Clarify and reinvigorate the relationship between the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement globally. 3. Clearly define what you mean by the “Wikimedia movement” — who is in it and what roles they play. 4. Engage with other open knowledge players globally, identify areas of common interest, and join forces to mobilize against threats to t...
Do soon
1. Use Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town to complete a concrete plan for making Wikimedia projects invaluable across Africa. 2. Build internal capacity to scan for and respond to major changes in technology, policy, and user habits. 3. Invest in user experience testing and visual design. 4. Prioritize Wikipedia’s credibility, authority, and usability in education. 5. Consider and prepare for Wikimedia’s role in moments of natural and man-made disaster. 6. Reward and celebrate veteran volunteers — b...
Do by 2030
1. Retool for a more visual, aural, immersive, and tactile media future. 2. Rethink sourcing rules to validate non-Western forms of knowledge and information. 3. Continue to embrace the scale of your aspirations: We’ll never actually know everything, and that itself is beautiful.
For organizations in the open knowledge ecosystem
1. Mobilization: How will the broader open knowledge movement organize itself to better reach and inform policymakers, legal advocates, and other stakeholders in matters related to the future of the open internet 2. Representation: What joint funding initiatives can help insure that open internet advocates are present at key public policy discussions among internet governance entities such as ICANN, ISOC, IGF, and others that are more local and regional? 3. Policy: How will the open knowledge...
For funders
1. Field-building: Given the increasing frequency and intensity of threats to the digital public square, how can the philanthropic sector advance its own knowledge of relevant global players? 2. Streamlining: How can philanthropy support collaboration among open internet and knowledge organizations in order to advance their collective missions and help avoid duplication and gather strength? 3. Inclusion: How can philanthropy help ensure that new voices participate in the open knowledge moveme...
For the Wikimedia Foundation itself
1. Stewardship: How will the Wikimedia Foundation assert and balance leadership of the Wikimedia movement with its role fostering a robust volunteer culture? 2. Valuing difference: How will the Wikimedia Foundation articulate its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and to building a culture that welcomes, encourages, and supports the multiplicity of voices necessary to build the global movement, develop richer content, and become more relevant to more people? 3. Protecting users: H...
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Feb 8, 2018 · Wikimedia 2030: Wikimedia’s role in shaping the future of the information commons. By Wikimedia Foundation • 8 February 2018. Photo by Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0. Today we’re releasing an extensive research report about Wikimedia’s role in shaping the future of the information commons.
These are some of the recommendations for change that will guide the Wikimedia Movement to achieve the strategic direction adopted in 2017: “By 2030, Wikimedia will become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge, and anyone who shares our vision will be able to join us.”
Aug 10, 2017 · The strategic direction of the Wikimedia movement for 2030 is to become the roads, bridges, and villages that support the world’s journey towards free knowledge. We, the Wikimedia movement, will forge the tools and build the foundations for creating and accessing trusted knowledge in many shapes and colors.
Jul 26, 2022 · The movement strategy is an ambitious vision to 2030 that Wikimedia’s global community created together several years ago. This is part of our new approach to planning, introduced by our new CEO Maryana Iskander, as she joined in January 2022. Maryana’s top priority was evolving the way that we approached planning as a Foundation.
Apr 13, 2017 · How will projects like Wikipedia change over the next 15 years? What do we want to achieve together? To answer those questions, the Wikimedia movement has launched Wikimedia 2030: a global discussion to define Wikimedia’s future role in the world.
