Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2024/Cascadia Wikimedians
| Affiliate basic information | ||
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| What is the affiliate name? | Cascadia Wikimedians User Group | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | English | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | United States | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | January–December | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2024 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | Peaceray | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | Jmabel | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | serves as the regional affiliate for the Cascadia region of North America, including the Northwestern United States (Oregon and Washington, also known as the Pacific Northwest) and British Columbia. Its mission is to support Cascadian Wikimedians in their Wikimedia-related endeavors and to partner with local organizations in their use of Wikimedia projects. | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | Sponsor and support meetups and edit-a-thons. Participate in WikiConference North America (WCNA), NARWHAL), and the North American Hub should it come to fruition. | |
| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | A few forms: general meeting once a year (Cascadia Wikimedians/June 2024 general members meeting), a board of directors, most de facto decisions about meetups and edit-a-thons occur in Seattle meetups. | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | There has been no financial activity for the past year. | |
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | Peaceray, Jmabel, SounderBruce, other members | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | We have not been changing dues. Our attendance ebbs and flows, ranging from a high of about 36 people at our Seattle Wiknic, about half a dozen at our general membership meeting and Wikidata day, and ranging from three to nine people at our monthly Seattle meetup. Our active participation is heavily skewed towards Seattle, but we will support activities elsewhere as requested. | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | In-person events in 2024
Seattle had over a dozen events in 2024, including:
Portland had one edit-a-thon assisted by Peaceray
WikiConference North America 2024
Inter-affiliate web meetings
Highlighted individual on-wiki participation
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| Leadership and inclusion | ||
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
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| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | Peaceray has served on two non-profit and two food cooperative boards. | |
| Is there any kind of succession plan for the affiliate leadership? | None | |
| Are there any trainings that affiliate leadership undergo before they assume their leadership position? | None | |
| Are there any requirements for affiliate leadership to disclose their conflict(s) of interests? | No | |
Diversity balance (especially gender)
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| What is the diversity level of the affiliate leadership and membership body? | 100% of our affiliate leadership & 80% of our membership is male. | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | The affiliate currently does nothing special for diversity. Our meetings and meetups are open to all and we listen to each voice. | |
Universal Code of Conduct compliance
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| How does the affiliate leadership ensure, enforce, and evaluate compliance with the Universal Code of Conduct obligations? | For the General Membership meeting, we linked to: | |
| Engagement and Collaboration | ||
| Please share the publicly available records of regular meetings, activities, events, or conference in the past year where the affiliate has participated. | Cascadia Wikimedians/June 2024 general members meeting | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | 100% of Cascadia Wikimedians are active editors. | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | 0% | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | Three: Peaceray, Oscar ., SounderBruce, & Jmabel | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | Three | |
| Partnerships and collaboration | ||
| Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. | Our events in Seattle can be found at Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/archive/2024 Seattle meetups.
In Portland, OR: Wikipedia:Meetup/Portland/Jewish Women Artists 2024 | |
| What would affiliate leadership list as the top 3 (three) capacities of the affiliate? (e.g. evaluation, community governance, programs and events, organizational governance and resource policies, conflict management, partnerships, fundraising, communication and media relations, contributor development, on-wiki technical skills, policy advocacy, etc) | Editing | |
| Conference participation and presentations | ||
| Movement participation: North American Wikimedians, WikiConference North America, and the North American Hub Research Project. | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | Diversity | |
| Outreach | ||
| GLAM | ||
| What are the organizations, community projects, or groups that the affiliate had been working or seeking to work with to develop and support the 3 capacities? | Anyone have suggestions? | |