Projekt:Podcast/Avsnitt 259
Avsnitt 259
Inspelningsdatum: 20 April 2024
Publiceringsdatum: 22 April 2024
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Extern länk: https://wikipediapodden.se/eva-martin-organizing-team-wikimedia-summit-2024-259/
Programanteckningar
Programledare är Jan Ainali.
Special episode
This is the first episode in a series of short interviews recorded at the Wikimedia Summit 2024 in Berlin. Here we meet Eva Martin from the organizing team and Wikimedia Deutschland.
In the next episode, we'll hear more about the Movement Charter, and then there will be six interviews with representatives from different affiliates. We will hear a bit about the affiliates themselves and their perspectives on the summit and the work on the movement charter.
Transcript
This is the first episode in a series of short interviews recorded at the Wikimedia Summit in Berlin in 2024. The main topic of the summit was the most recent draft of the movement charter and what feedback the affiliates could give to that. In the first episode we will meet Eva Martin from the organizing team and Wikimedia Deutschland.
Hello and welcome to Wikipediapodden and this is a special episode recorded at the Wikimedia Summit in Berlin 20th of April 2024. I'm your host Jan Ainali and I'm here with Eva Martin, program coordinator for governance and movement relationships at the Wikimedia Deutschland and in the organizing team for the summit. Hello Eva, nice to meet you here.
Very nice to meet you Jan.
So we're here at the Wikimedia Summit. Can you please give our listeners like a brief and general introduction to the summit, this kind of meeting?
Of course. I think that this year's is actually the 12th edition of the summit that used to be called the Wikimedia conferences and well the summit is really the place where the affiliates and the Wikimedia Foundation get together and discuss the future of our movement.
This year is a little bit different because we have a very specific topic. What is the purpose this year?
All right so traditionally we've been always talking about movement strategy at the summit and before the Wikimedia conferences and this year we have a very strong focus on a particular aspect of the movement strategy which is the future of our movement governance and I think many of you know that there has been a committee the MCTC that has been drafting the movement charter that is potentially going to redefine the way we work together as a movement in the future and that's the reason why we've designed this year's summit around this movement charter and the idea is to bring everyone together so the affiliates can review the current draft of the charter, discuss it, share opinions and ideally converge on the things that they like about the charter, the things that could be potential deal breakers and suggest alternatives for this but also just have deliberations and just come up with considerations that go even beyond the charter. That's the idea, that's the main purpose of this year's summit but there is a second purpose because as some of you may have heard this summit is going to be the last of its kind and what does this actually mean? Well it means that Wikimedia Deutschland is saying that that's the last summit that they will be organizing and therefore we also want to create space at this year's event so that the affiliates can get together and discuss what should be the future of affiliate gatherings.
That's very good and a wide and complicated topic and as an organizer of you're the host of this meeting what are the hopes of the outcome that like in your role that you can enable the summit to do?
Well first like we have a series of concrete outcomes or desired outcome that we hope we will be reaching by Sunday and when it comes to the track around movement governance the idea is that by the end of the summit the participants will have agreed on a list of outputs that will be reflecting the points that I mentioned earlier so will be reflecting the things that they really like about the charter the things that they would like to see changed and also just general considerations. That's the first thing that we really hope to reach by the end of the summit this general common understanding that will reflect what a majority of participants could agree upon and then concerning the second track around the future of affiliate gatherings well we know that you know during those three days we won't already come up with all the answers so we don't hope to have answered the question of where should it happen and when should it happen but at least we hope that there will be a general understanding around what the purpose of those events should be and also ideally a group of affiliates will have made a commitment to taking this forward and I really hope that by Sunday I can see smiles on the face of a few people that will be on stage and we'd say here we are and we're really motivated and we just commit to be working on you know designing a concept for the future of these events.
Yeah that would be a good outcome. I've been to a couple of these summits so I really feel the value myself. It's also sort of a summit that is a little bit different in the Wikimedia movement that it's not open to anyone who wants to attend it, it has never really been that way it's in the way it has been various ways who is it open to this year and what was the sort of the process to get to that?
Yeah so we always say that the summit is the affiliates conference so the affiliates are just like Wikimedia organizations in the movement the chapters the user group the thematic organization and we've added the ongoing hub projects to the list of potential participants for the summit and we know that the affiliates are just one part of the movement right we know this but we feel like they have common needs common interest and particularly they also need like space where they can get together and they can talk to the Foundation they can just discuss with their peers what should be the focus of their work in the next years and that's where we've decided to create this space for the affiliates only however not all the affiliates are represented at the summit there was a selection process people had to demonstrate previous engagement around the topic of movement governance we've had a series of online events before the summit that participants had to join to be eligible for the summit here in Berlin<and also we don't only have affiliate representatives at the summit we also have Foundation representative staff members also board members of the Foundation and this year because of the strong focus on movement governance we also have the MCDC that is present with us.
And finally, I imagine even though the participants will go home on Sunday or soon thereafter what will the like the continuous work with the results we're doing a lot of posters and discussions and taking notes how will that be sort of collected in the time to come just after here?
That's a very good question. So I would say from Sunday on it's not in our hands anymore but it's in the hands of the movement and I would say it's particularly in the hands of the MCDC that we will be handing over the results of the conversation to the MCDC and they will be working on the charter potentially integrating some of the feedback they've received here potentially and most probably not all of it because as I've said the affiliates are just a part of the movement not like the whole movement and therefore i would say the next steps would be to just follow up what are the development happening on the movement charter it should be up for a vote in June and then when it comes to the second track as I said I hope that there will be this group of committed affiliates that will be taking this forward and I really hope that they will also be informing the movement about the stages of their work in the common months. What I can say however is that the event organizers will make sure that everything that has been discussed here in Berlin will be documented available on Meta of course and we are always really happy to just do some knowledge transfer so if there are other event organizers in the movement that would like to reach out please do it always happy to help or at least always happy to just have conversations and try to just do some peer learning.
That's very nice to hear. Thank you Eva for taking time during this busy conference and thank you for organizing the summit.
You're welcome, thank you.
In the next episode we will hear a little bit more about the movement charter and then in the coming six episodes we will hear different affiliates and their perspectives on the work of the movement charter here at the wikimedia summit.