Introducing Wikimedia Australia’s Draft 10-Year Strategic Plan – Share Your Feedback!
On behalf of the Board and staff of Wikimedia Australia I am pleased to share the Draft of our Strategic Plan 2025–2035, outlining the vision and priorities we will take forward for the next decade. Thank you to everyone who contributed ideas and suggestions at WikiCon Adelaide 2024. We now invite further community input to refine and finalise the Strategic Plan.
This plan builds on our achievements to date and sets ambitious goals to grow and strengthen our community, partnerships and impact across Australia and within the wider Wikimedia movement.
Why a 10 year plan?
In the rapidly changing digital landscape, long-term planning is essential to ensure Wikimedia Australia continues to support free knowledge, inclusivity, community and collaboration. Our draft strategy is built around four key strategic pillars, and aligns with the Wikimedia Movement Strategy 2030’s focus on knowledge as a service and knowledge equity. This ensures our efforts contribute to a more equitable and sustainable knowledge ecosystem.
The four strategic pillars
- Strategic pillar 1: Grow free knowledge – Diverse Australian contributors – including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples – will be empowered to expand free knowledge on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia platforms.
- Strategic pillar 2: Strive for knowledge equity – In our pursuit of free knowledge, we remain committed to knowledge equity. This means improving representation and diversity within our membership and the Wikimedia platforms to ensure inclusivity and to better reflect Australia’s rich cultures and histories, and those across our region.
- Strategic pillar 3: Build a stronger organisation – We will strengthen Wikimedia Australia’s capacity, resilience and leadership through governance, financial sustainability, organisational development and continual improvement.
- Strategic pillar 4: Celebrate our community – Through a shared purpose and shared ownership of and responsibility for free knowledge, we will celebrate our community and the unique contributions Australia makes to Wikipedia and Wikimedia platforms.
We want your input!
As members or participants in the Wikimedia Australia community, your insights and feedback are invaluable in shaping our strategic direction. We invite you to review the draft Strategic Plan 2025–2035 and share your thoughts, ideas and suggestions overall.
Additionally, we seek your input on which activities you suggest should be included in our next three year Activity Plan that will start us on our journey to 2035.
We are looking for your input on our long-term aspirations and the activities we will undertake in the short-term.
📅 Deadline for feedback: Monday 24 February 2025
To read the draft plan and contribute your feedback, please visit DRAFT 10 year WMAU Strategic plan: Community consultation.
You can share your thoughts by:
- Commenting directly on the draft document
- Emailing us at staff@wikimedia.org.au
- Request a Zoom call with Elliott and Belinda
- Joining our upcoming Special Community discussion 17 February 2025, 7pm AEDT
If you want to make any changes to the draft 10 year Strategic Plan, you are welcome to. Please use the 'Suggesting' mode for suggested changes to the text or 'Comments' to discuss anything in the document. If you are unsure how to use these features, please see these Google help pages for instructions:
Here is a reminder of our current 3 year WMAU Strategic Plan and Activity Plan 2022-2025 that concludes on Monday 30 June 2025.
This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of Wikimedia Australia. Your participation ensures that our strategy and activities reflect the needs and aspirations of our community.
Thank you for being part of this important stage – we look forward to your ideas and insights!
Links
- Draft Strategic Plan 2025–2035 for comment
- Current 3 year WMAU Strategic Plan and Activity Plan 2022-2025
- Wikimedia Movement Strategy 2030’s
Events
- DRAFT 10 year WMAU Strategic plan Community consultation — Monday 17 February 2025
As members or participants in the Wikimedia Australia community, your insights and feedback are invaluable in shaping our strategic direction. We invite you to review the draft Strategic Plan 2025–2035 and share your thoughts, ideas and suggestions overall at this special Community Meeting.
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