Projekte/Strategy2017+: Unterschied zwischen den Versionen

As an association, we aim for results-oriented management, i.e. we concern ourselves with the question of what we seek to achieve for our impact groups (communities, partner organisations, etc.) and in their personal and wider social environments with our services and activities.

In the summer of 2015, the board and staff of Wikimedia Austria (WMAT) began to plan a schedule for the coming years. In a first step, efforts focused on creating a basis for further discussion, in particular the definition of objectives and matching key figures for performance assessment.

In a final step, during this year's strategy meeting, we set the course for the association's development until 2020. Ongoing activities were assessed in terms of their contribution to the achievement of these targets, while gaps and potential for further development were identified.

''Our target vision for Wikimedia Austria in the year 2020 is an organisation that …''

* develops and successfully implements fundamentally new ideas in the field of free knowledge,

* is regarded as a pioneer and reliable partner by communities and partners in the German-speaking countries (DACH) and CEE regions and

* secures at least 25% of its funding from sources outside of the Wikimedia Foundation.

In order to achieve this vision we are dedicated to pursuing the process of professionalisation begun during the past strategy phase, i.e. the collaboration of volunteers and full-time professional staff. For the period until 2020, we expect a moderate growth in this respect of approx. 25-30% in terms of budget and employees. The bulk of this growth shall be generated independently of the Wikimedia Foundation through third-party funding.

The roadmap is subject to revision in autumn 2017, in order to align it with the wider movement strategy which is currently being developed by the Wikimedia Foundation and will be presented during Wikimania in Montreal in August 2017.