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It has been about two decades since Wikipedia
went out: the encyclopedia, its sister projects,

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communities and the wider Wikimedia movement
have drastically grown since

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Demographics are changing in the world, there
are more young people than ever before and

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there are parts of the world where we are
less known. Access to and cost of technology

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is also changing in fast-paced and integrated
ways.

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Looking at the future we pose the question:
“What do we want to build or achieve together

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over the next ten years”?

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To answer this question, the Wikimedia movement
set out on a new experience in 2017: to openly

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create a ten-year strategy for the whole movement

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The start was a Strategic Direction that guides
the Wikimedia movement to the future. The

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Direction states that, “By 2030, Wikimedia
will become the essential infrastructure of

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the ecosystem of free knowledge, and anyone
who shares our vision will be able to join

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us”.

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This Direction is to be achieved through two
pillars: First, “Knowledge as a service:

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we will become a platform that serves open
knowledge to the world across interfaces and

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communities”

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And second, “Knowledge equity: we will focus
our efforts on the knowledge and communities

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that have been left out by structures of power
and privilege. “

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The Direction shows us where we want to be
as a movement in 2030. But we still needed

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to find a way to get there.

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In 2018, nine thematic areas were identified
to orient us towards the strategic direction.

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For each area, a working groups was set up
to draft recommendations. More than 90 people

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from across the Wikimedia movement came together
in the working groups.

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Many more Wikimedians also contributed by taking
part in community conversations and in local

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and regional meetings around the world Diverse
communities came together to identify issues

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that matter to them and discuss the kind of
open knowledge movement they want to be in by 2030

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At first, there were 89 recommendations with
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But after 3 drafts of the recommendations, 2 major movement-wide consultations,

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 and many community-led events,

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10 recommendations were finalized and shared in May 2020.

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In the process we also got 10 principles.
The principles are like the building blocks

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of the movement.

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The recommendations highlight areas where
we need cultural or structural changes to

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reach our strategic direction. Areas like
decision-making and resource allocation, knowledge

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management, coordination and user experience.

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The recommendations ask us to better evaluate ourselves, build on our strengths 

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and enhance diversity in content and contributions.

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With the recommendations in place, we need
to transition to implementing them. How do

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we decide which ideas should be implemented
first and which ones can come later? And who

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will work on which of them?

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The time has now come to put Strategy into
action. Within the recommendations, there

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are about fifty strong ideas and actions for
change, called "initiatives". Not all of them

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can be implemented at once, though

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During a series of virtual events, from September 2020 to January 2021, communities, affiliates

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and participants will collectively decide
which initiatives are of a higher priority

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for implementation in 2021.

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Based on those priorities, the Wikimedia movement
can then create an implementation plan together

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for 2021.

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Come join many other Wikimedians in the Movement Strategy Global conversations to help plan

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the priorities for our movement's future!