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# After understanding key areas across and within communities:

## Aggregate common themes across communities, and specific needs within communities

## Identify common/scalable resources and solutions, and then collaborate with specific and interested communities to discuss possible community capacity building through WMF support (incl. funding capacity-building activities or services), mentorship or partnership.

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== Structure of the report ==

From community interviews, eleven capacities surfaced as key areas for capacity development, but only seven are included in this phase of the report. The four capacities that were not included were: Planned activities, Volunteer engagement for planned activities, Learning & Sharing (including Evaluation), and Organizational Effectiveness.

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# '''Governmental / political climate''': Governmental points-of-view span a wide range, creating both obstacles and opportunities. Some obstacles identified were outright suspicion (e.g. suspicion of civil society or self-organization outside state or religious groups), inhibiting governmental policy (e.g. on neutral point of view or freedom of expression on the wiki), and active intervention (e.g. promotion of particular points of view on local-language Wikipedias). Conversely, some governments have perceived Wikimedia projects as vehicles for education and language preservation, and have extended support to local volunteers (e.g. by providing language dictionaries or encyclopedias).

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== New contributor engagement and growth ==

''New contributor engagement and growth'' encompasses all activities that encourage new contributors to integrate with wiki-culture, persist and grow. However, it does not include outreach activities that encourage potential new contributors to contribute.

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* Discuss and possibly introduce new practices to interested communities

* Support regular off-wiki low-barrier events, including funding (via WMF grants)

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== Community governance ==

''Community governance'' can include:

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* Compile wiki-specific resources on conflict management practices from other communities, and make them available in multiple languages.

* Plan and fund local-language workshops for interested community members on conflict management by local professionals.

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== On-wiki technical skills ==

''On-wiki technical skills'' focuses on the resources, on-wiki spaces, and peer-to-peer mentorship/help available on wiki-related technical issues, e.g. creating/updating bots, graphics, templates, Lua programming, wiki markup.

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* Messaging resources, e.g. some frequently asked questions and answers for press & outreach

* Plan and fund local-language workshops for interested community members on media relations by local professionals

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== Partnerships ==

''Partnerships'' include any relationship with non-Wikimedia organizations and individuals that are used to further the Wikimedia mission. This can include partnerships with: