Last weekend from April 19 to 21, I had the opportunity to attend the latest edition of the Wikimedia Summit, held in Berlin, a key meeting for Wikimedia Movement affiliates organized by the Wikimedia Foundation y Wikimedia Deutschland. The event focused on discussions on the Letter from the Movement and the the Global Council, critical aspects for the future of the Wikimedia movement. In parallel to these debates, I had the opportunity to meet in person with activists and representatives of women's groups whom he had only met on the screen and with whom Wikisphere wants to collaborate.
On the Charter of the Movement and the Global Council, from Wikisphere, we emphasize the need for clear and well-defined structures. As we publicly exposed on the Discussion page of the draft Charter, we are concerned about the excessive burdens on the Global Council without an adequate structure and advocate for a more meaningful inclusion of diverse communities in decision-making, ensuring that processes are fair and equitable. These interactions and discussions at the Summit reaffirm the importance of our active participation in shaping the future of the Wikimedia Movement, strengthening international collaboration and the exchange of ideas that are vital to our work at Wikisphere.
Despite the relevance of the central themes of the Summit, for me the most important thing about this meeting was to meet in person Farah Mustaklem from Wikimedia Levant, a group with which Wikiesfera has recently collaborated in the communiqué on Palestine, and to Owen Blacker from Wikimedia LGBT+, with whom we share space in the LGBT Wikiproject in Spanish.
It was also very important to be able to meet with Mariana Fossati from Whose Knowledge, Kira Wisniewski from Art & Feminism, Eliza Myrie 's Black Lunch Table, and Natasha Rault from Les sans pagEs, whose contributions to the movement in relation to the Wikipedia gender gap I had followed closely. These interactions underscored the richness of our global community and the power of in-person collaboration to strengthen our projects and our common mission.
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