2012 Five Year Plan/First draft

Draft 2012 Five Year Plan

The intention of this plan is to shape the direction of travel for Wikimedia UK over the next one, three and five years.

Can I remind you of our overall strategy as decided by Wikimedia UK's Board at the 2011 Board Strategy Day:

Vision

Free knowledge for all

Mission

Wikimedia UK’s mission is to help people and organisations build and preserve open knowledge to share and use freely.

Values

To value the contribution of volunteers

To encourage, involve and engage volunteers

To recognise that the contribution of volunteers is central to the activity of the organisation

To be transparent and open

To promote the value of free and open licences

To have respectful and professional working relationships internally and externally

To promote an open approach to learning and knowledge

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It is of course impossible to know the future with any real certainty but we should be aspiring to achieve great things over the next five years. To do so we have to know what they are!

This second draft was revised after comments form the community as of April 12th. It will be discussed by the WMUK board at its next Board meeting on the weekend of 20/21 April. I can still add comments.

After that a third draft will be re-circulated to the community for comment leading to its adoption.

Please use the discussion page for your ideas. Apologies for the pdf format but am not quite yet up to creating tables on Wiki.

This will be discussed at the Board meeting on April 21st and 22nd.

Jon Davies