Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan/2025-2026/Collaboration
Over the last few years we have continued to evolve and improve our collaborative planning process. The Wikimedia Foundation’s four overarching goals (Knowledge Equity, Infrastructure, Safety & Integrity, Effectiveness) remain constant, while the work and deliverables within them iterates on the significant progress made in the current year. Continuous conversations with the community inform our annual plan and we'll be documenting these here on this page.
Get involved
[edit ]There are several ways you can get involved and discuss the annual plan. Right now, our Chief Product & Technology Officer Selena Deckelmann is asking for your thoughts on questions that will shape the Wikimedia Foundation's priorities for next fiscal year.
We welcome your ideas now through 31st May 2025 and will update this page as new on-wiki and live discussions open in various channels and languages. These discussions are where the Wikimedians share their take on the proposed plans and share about their own goals for the upcoming year. Inspired by what so many others are doing in their own work, we continue to find opportunities to collaborate and learn from the planning processes and work of others in the Wikimedia movement as well as other partners. There will be many ways to engage: here on Meta-Wiki, in co-created community spaces, in person meetings, on Wikimedia project pages, and on community channels.
On-Wiki
[edit ]A summary message to engage in annual plan conversation will be posted locally on various projects. The full version of draft annual plan materials with accompanying translations will live on this Meta-Wiki portal. You can collaborate with us on both local talk pages and here on the Meta-Wiki talk page, always in your preferred language. We will add links here to where the content has been posted as they become available.
Other conversations about the annual planning are also happening in other community channels on Discord and Telegram. We encourage you to join the discussions if you subscribe to these channels.
- Meta-wiki
- Community questions to shape next year's priorities
- Conversations to shape the future of the Wishlist and discussions about the re-launched edition
- Conversations on 3 focus areas dedicated to improvements targeting users with advanced rights – Page 1, Page 2, Page 3.
- Conversations on Templates recall and discovery focus area case study
- English Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- Farsi Community
- Igbo Wikimedians
- Spanish Community
- French Communities
- Korean Community
- Spanish speaking Communities
- Tagalog Wikimedians
- Portuguese speaking Communities
- Arabic community
- Italian community
- Swahili Wikipedia - Inviting the community to engage in questions to shape the next FY priorities
Co-created Community spaces
[edit ]Staff and leaders from the Wikimedia Foundation will be joining existing community organized calls for two-way planning around next year’s draft annual plan. Additionally, Foundation staff will organize thematic calls that anyone can attend based on their area of interest. If you wish to join a call but interpretation is not available in your preferred language, email us at movementcomms(_AT_)wikimedia.org, and we will make the necessary arrangements.
Live calls and podcasts
[edit ]- (Upcoming) CAC hosted Conversation with Trustees 30 January (14:30 - 16:00 UTC).
- Wikimedia Foundation Discussions with the Commons Community
- (Upcoming) Impact and funding model 5 February 2025
- Wikimania 2024
- WikiCon NA 2024
- Content organisation call
- Tool investment priority - 15 January 2025
- CEE Catch Up (Date TBD)
- WikiCauserie (Date TBD)
- South Asia Open Community Call (Date TBD)
- Afrika Baraza (Date TBD)
- MENA Connect (Date TBD)
- ESEAP community Meetings (Date TBD)
- Podcast WikiAfrica Hour (Date TBD)
- Community discussions about Products
Conferences and events
[edit ]- Wikimania 2024 Sessions:
- Charts, the successor of Graphs: A secure and extensible tool for data visualization
- Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem
- Trust and Safety Product 2/2: Temporary Accounts are coming
- Product and Technology Initiative areas
- Volunteer archetypes: How might we nurture future generations of Wikimedia volunteers?
- WMF Proposed Changes to Grantmaking: Regional Funds
- Future of MediaWiki: A sustainable platform to support a collaborative user base and billions of page views
- A happier, healthier, more impactful Community Wishlist
- Parsoid is coming! How do I keep up? [[Wikitext]] in 2024.
- Organize better: Tools for events, WikiProjects, and collaborative activities
- State of Wikifunctions
- State of Language Technology and Onboarding at Wikimedia
- Wikimedia Foundation AI activities update
- WMF Future Audiences experiments: Exploring the future of free knowledge
- "Written by AI" - How to moderate content on wikis in a changing Internet?
- Fireside Chat with the Wikimedia Foundation Executives
- Improving Wiki Workflows with GenAI: A practical workshop
- Community Conferences and Meet-Ups
Social media and instant messaging platforms
[edit ]Wikimedia Foundation staff also connect with volunteers in places where they are active on other platforms. If you are active on any of the platforms below, please join us in sharing your priorities and reflections for next year.