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This page is devoted to the programme development for the Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024.

Programme Committee[edit]

Topics of interest[edit]

The following table reports the results from a community survey that was launched in January 2024 to identify the needs of the communities across the region, where the indicated topics are classified into four groups.

Description
Strategic discussions: Top issues affecting the community that needs to be discussed in person are:
  • Future of the movement in CEE
  • Capacity development
  • Community building
  • Project planning
  • Cross-wiki projects
  • Strategies for increasing public awareness
  • Approaches to improving the quality of content
  • Attracting new volunteers
  • Active involvement of women in the Wikipedia movement
  • MCDC
  • Cooperation with the state
  • Edu Wiki
  • GLAM
  • Creative Commons
  • Movement Strategy
  • Youth issues
  • Partnerships
  • Strategic Planning
  • Fundraising
  • Development of the Wikimedia CEE Hub
  • Global governance
  • Enhancing organizational skills
  • Diversity
  • Community meetings
  • Community engagement
  • Institutional collaborations
  • Wikimedia Grants
  • Content gaps
Projects needs to work on in-person: Some of the projects or activities that need to be, partially or fully, planned in person are:
  • Community building
  • Capacity building
  • Volunteer retention
  • Cross-wiki projects
  • Creating new templates
  • Archiving of Internet resources
  • Enrichment of archiving templates
  • GLAM
  • Outreach
  • Workshops and Edit-a-Thons
  • Collaborative Content Creation and Verification
  • CEE Spring
  • Movement strategy
  • Increasing participation
  • Encouraging youth to contribute
  • Digitization
  • Organizing community events
  • CEE Hub
  • Editor retention
  • Project management
  • Conflict resolution
  • Organizational sustainability
Important goals, problems, or obstacles: Top issues:
  • Increasing collaboration
  • Promoting Wikimedia
  • Volunteer retention
  • Building projects together
  • Enhancing Content Diversity and Representation
  • Content Gap
  • Outreach and Inclusivity
  • Community engagement
  • Gender inequality
  • Capacity Building
  • Skill Development
  • Promoting inclusivity and diversity
  • Generative AI
  • Governance
Skills important for the community: Important skills that people need to learn are:
  • Networking and Relationship Building
  • Communication
  • Cultural Sensitivity
  • Conflict resolution skills
  • Discussion skills
  • Collaboration
  • Educational initiatives
  • Shared information
  • Critical Thinking and Evaluation
  • Fact-Checking Techniques
  • Community Engagement and Facilitation
  • Outreach
  • Project Management
  • Governance
  • Public speaking
  • Cultural knowledge
  • Leadership

Slogan[edit]

The slogan for the conference is A Bridge to Knowledge!.

Submissions[edit]

See: Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024/Submissions

Themes[edit]

The themes of the conference will be defined based on the topics indicated in the submitted session proposals.

Timeline[edit]

Activity Deadline Status
Call for submission opens 1 April 2024 00:00 (CEST) Done
Announcement sent
  • to info-wmcee@wmceehub.org, wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
  • to Facebook groups
  • to Telegram groups
 1 April 2024 Done
First reminder sent
  • to Facebook groups
  • to Telegram groups
 1 May 2024 Done
Second reminder sent
  • to Facebook groups
  • to Telegram groups
 15 May 2024 Done
Extension announced
  • to info-wmcee@wmceehub.org, wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
  • to Facebook groups
  • to Telegram groups
 26 May 2024 Done
Third reminder sent
  • to Facebook groups
  • to Telegram groups
 8 June 2024
Third reminder sent
  • to info-wmcee@wmceehub.org, wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
  • to Facebook groups
  • to Telegram groups
 15 June 2024
Call for submissions closes 15 June 2024 23:59 (CEST)
Submissions are evaluated by the programme committee late June 2024
Applicants are notified about final decisions early July 2024
Draft schedule published late July 2024
Final schedule published August 2024

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