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Establishing a Wikimedia knowledge base

Managing the Internal Knowledge of the Wikimedia movement entails establishing a Wikimedia knowledge base. This base (possibly an independent platform) would be a central place to organize and access all the learnings and documentation of the movement. The knowledge base will need to allow participatory content creation, to support multiple languages, and to allow effective searching for and navigation of knowledge resources through metadata. The knowledge base will require maintenance. The maintenance plan can involve community members in creating content, encouraging workshops to improve content, and dedicating staff to support it.

• Establish a knowledge-base system with access to all Movement learning assets.
  • Design the knowledge-base to be user-friendly, participatory, functional, multilingual, and searchable to store all the internal knowledge resources of the Movement so contributors can be aware of what exists and where to find it.
  • Create clear documentation regarding infrastructure development and scalability to transparently engage more Movement stakeholders.
  • Encourage the creation of metadata for every piece of internal knowledge to support its findability through search tools.
• Encourage the growth and maintenance of this knowledge-base following these practices:
  • Encourage sprints with focused scope to avoid cost and time overruns.
  • Adapt content, training, and learning to local contexts and involve diverse communities to ensure knowledge is accessible and available in multiple forms.
  • Provide dedicated staff to assist with content curation, discoverability, quality assurance, user support, and to facilitate peer-to-peer matchmaking.
  • Support the creation of reports to measure and evaluate the Movement’s progress accurately, thus creating better awareness and setting informed priorities.
    — Manage Internal Knowledge

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Implementation projects

Initiative	Project	Stakeholder type	Project lead	Geography of the project	Implementation Phase
35. Facilitate a culture of documentation	Overall Initiative Coordination	WMF	Movement Strategy & Governance	Global	Research & Needs Assessment
35. Facilitate a culture of documentation	Chapter Capacity Building for Advocacy Program	WMF	Global Advocacy (Public Policy)	Global	Pilot
35. Facilitate a culture of documentation	Case studies	WMF	Learning and Evaluation team		Discontinued
35. Facilitate a culture of documentation	Learning patterns	WMF	Learning and Evaluation team		Discontinued

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Related documents and discussions

Some of the past discussions, texts and old versions of Movement Strategy recommendations that can provide further context to this initiative:

• Advocacy recommendation #4: Knowledge management
• Capacity building recommendation #2: Matching human assets and online knowledge resources with capacity building needs
• Community Health recommendation #3: Building the leadership of the future
• Partnerships recommendation #9: Invest in sharing knowledge about partnerships across the movement
• Partnerships recommendation #5: Focus on knowledge equity when determining priorities for Partnerships