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Wikimedia CH
Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libres
Associazione per la promozione della conoscenza libera
Wikimedia CH
Switzerland
Location
Switzerland
Country code
CH
Legal status
non-profit organization
Founding date
April 14, 2006
Official language(s)
German
French
Italian
Romansh
Other language(s)
Swiss German
Alemannic
Arpitan language
Lombard
Portuguese
Spanish
Albanian
Serbo-Croatian
Website
Mailing list
Wikimediach-l
Libera.Chat
#wikimedia-ch
connect
WikimediaCH
Movement affiliates portal
Noticeboard
Reports
FAQ
Affiliates meetings
Affiliations Committee
Affiliate creation guides
Agreements
Board seats
WMF grants to affiliates
Chapters
(40)
AM
Wikimedia Armenia
AR
Wikimedia Argentina
AT
Wikimedia Österreich
AU
Wikimedia Australia
BD
Wikimedia Bangladesh
BE
Wikimedia Belgium
BR
Wikimedia Brasil
CA
Wikimedia Canada
CH
Wikimedia CH
CL
Wikimedia Chile
CO
Wikimedia Colombia
CZ
Wikimedia Česká republika
DE
Wikimedia Deutschland
DK
Wikimedia Danmark
EE
Wikimedia Eesti
ES
Wikimedia España
FI
Wikimedia Suomi
FR
Wikimédia France
GB
Wikimedia UK
GE
Wikimedia Georgia
HU
Wikimédia Magyarország
ID
Wikimedia Indonesia
IL
Wikimedia Israel
IT
Wikimedia Italia
KR
위키미디어 한국
MX
Wikimedia México
NL
Wikimedia Nederland
NO
Wikimedia Norge
NZ
Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand
PL
Wikimedia Polska
PT
Wikimedia Portugal
RS
Викимедија Србије
SE
Wikimedia Sverige
TH
Wikimedia Thailand
TW
Wikimedia Taiwan
UA
Вікімедіа Україна
US-DC
Wikimedia District of Columbia
US-NYC
Wikimedia New York City
VE
Wikimedia Venezuela
ZA
Wikimedia South Africa
Thematic organizations
(2)
CAT
Amical Wikimedia
WPM
Wikimedia Medicine
Wikimedia user groups
(143)
A+F
Art+Feminism User Group
ACD
AfroCROWD User Group
ALB
Wikimedia Community User Group Albania
ARE
Wikimedians of United Arab Emirates User Group
AWUG
Arabic Wikimedians User Group
AZ
Azerbaijani Wikimedians User Group
BA-SRP
Wikimedians of Republic of Srpska
BAQ
Basque Wikimedians User Group
BDI
Wikimedia Community User Group Burundi
BEN
Wikimédiens du Bénin User Group
BFA
Wikimédiens du Burkina Faso User Group
BLT
Black Lunch Table Wikimedians
BOL
Wikimedistas de Bolivia
BWA
Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana
BY
Wikimedia Community User Group Belarus
CEE
Wikimedia Community User Group CEE Spring
CI
Wikimedia Community User Group Côte d'Ivoire
CMW
Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group
COD
Wikimedians of Democratic Republic of Congo User Group
COG
Wikimedians of Republic of Congo User Group
CPH
Commons Photographers User Group
CYP
Wikimedia Community User Group Cyprus
DCW
Deoband Community Wikimedia User Group
DWU
Dagbani Wikimedians User Group
DZ
Algeria Wikimedians User Group
ECU
Wikimedistas de Ecuador
EG
Egypt Wikimedians User Group
ELiSo
Esperanto kaj Libera Scio
ESP-WE
Wikiesfera Grupo de Usuarixs
GDV
Gender Diversity Visibility Community User Group
GH
Wikimedia Ghana User Group
GIN
Wikimedia Community User Group Guinea Conakry
GR
Wikimedia Community User Group Greece
GUC
Wikimedistas Wayuu User Group
GWU
Gungbe Wikimedians User Group
HDW
Hindi Wikimedians User Group
H-GAPS
H-GAPS User Group
HKG
Wikimedia Community User Group Hong Kong
HTI
Wikimedia Community User Group Haiti
IE
Wikimedia Community Ireland User Group
IMD
Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group
INA
Inari Saami Wikimedians User Group
IN-KL
Wikimedians of Kerala User Group
IN-MR
Marathi Wikimedians User Group
IN-TE
Telugu Wikimedians User Group
IQ
Iraqi Wikimedians User Group
IR
Iranian Wikimedians User Group
JPN
Wikimedians of Japan User Group
JWK
Jenga Wikipedia ya Kiswahili
KAS
Kashmiri Wikimedians User Group
KAZ
Wikimedia Community of Kazakh language User Group
KVL
Karavali Wikimedians User Group
KWU
Kurdish Wikimedians User Group
LAG
Wikimedians of Lagos User Group
LEV
Wikimedians of the Levant User Group
LGBT
Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group
LSP
Les sans pagEs User Group
LV
Wikimedians of Latvia User Group
MA
Wikimedia MA User Group
MAI
Maithili Wikimedians User Group
MATH
Wikimedia Community User Group Math
MDG
Wikimedia Community User Group Madagascar
MKD
Wikimedia MKD User Group
MLA
Muj(lh)eres latinoamericanas en Wikimedia
MLI
Wikimedians of Mali User Group
MLT
Wikimedia Community User Group Malta
MMR
Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group
MW-SG
MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group
MYS
Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia
NAM
Wikimedia Community User Group Namibia
NER
Wikimedia Community User Group Niger
NG
Wikimedia Community User Group Nigeria
NGA-HA
Hausa Wikimedians User Group
NGA-IG
Igbo Wikimedians User Group
NGA-YO
Yoruba Wikimedians User Group
NP
Wikimedians of Nepal
NWR-Hist
North-West Russia Wiki-Historians User Group
NZL
Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand
OFWA
Open Foundation West Africa
PAN
Punjabi Wikimedians User Group
PER
Wikimedians of Peru User Group
PH-ADV
Wiki Advocates Philippines User Group
PH-WC
Philippine Wikimedia Community User Group
PWU
Paiwan Wikimedians User Group
LK
Wikimedia Community User Group Sri Lanka
ODW
Odia Wikimedians User Group
ROU-MDA
Wikimedians of Romania and Moldova User Group
RWA
Wikimedia Community User Group Rwanda
SAT
Wikimedians of Santali Language User Group
SEN
Wikimedia Community User Group Sénégal
SGP
Wikimedians of Singapore User Group
SQ
Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group
SSA
Wikimedia Community User Group South Sudan
STE
Wikimedia Stewards User Group
SUD
Wikimedia Community User Group Sudan
SVK
Wikimedians of Slovakia User Group
SVN
Wikipedians of Slovenia User Group
TCD
Wikimedians of Tchad User Group
TGO
Wikimedia Community of Togo User Group
TJK
Tajik Wikimedians User Group
TN
Wikimedia Tunisia User Group
TR
Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey
TRK
Wikimedians of Turkic Languages User Group
TWG
Tremendous Wiktionary User Group
TWU
Tyap Wikimedians Proposed User Group
TZA
Wikimedia Community User Group Tanzania
TZM
Wikimedians of Tamazight User Group
UGA
Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda
US-CAS
Cascadia Wikimedians User Group
US-GAP
Georgia Piedmont Wikimedians User Group
US-IN
Wikimedians of Indiana User Group
US-LA
Wikimedians of Los Angeles User Group
US-MN
Wikimedians of Minnesota User Group
US-NCT
North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians User Group
US-NE
New England Wikimedians
US-OH
Ohio Wikimedians User Group
US-SAN
San Diego Wikimedians User Group
VNM
Vietnam Wikimedians User Group
WAL
Wikimedians of Western Armenian Language User Group
WAM
Wikipedia Asian Month User Group
WB
Wikibase Community User Group
WBG
West Bengal Wikimedians User Group
WCK
Wikimedia Community User Group Kenya
WCS
WikiClassics User Group
WDG
WikiDonne User Group
WDU
Wikimedistas de Uruguay
W&E
Wikipedia & Education User Group
WGU
Wikimujeres Grupo de Usuarias
WIR
Women in Religion Wikimedia User Group
WIS
Wikimedians of the Caribbean User Group
WJ
WikiJournal
WK?
Whose Knowledge?
WPL
Wikimedia and Libraries User Group
WNA
WikiConference North America
WOW
Wikimedians for offline wikis
WREN
Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network User Group
WSC
Wikisource Community User Group
WSD
Wikimedians for Sustainable Development
WSP
Wikimedia Small Projects in Spanish User Group
WT
Wikitongues User Group
WUL
Wikimedians of the Uzbek language User Group
WW
WikiWomen's User Group
WWH
Wiki World Heritage User Group
ZMB
Wikimedia Community User Group Zambia
Wikimedia CH
is a Swiss non-profit organization, whose mission is to disseminate and promote free knowledge for a smarter and more open society. It supports free content projects and in particular the
Wikimedia Foundation
’s projects in Switzerland.
The association was founded on 14 May 2006 in the restaurant of the train station in Olten, and reunites authors and users of Wikimedia projects of all Swiss official languages (German, French, Italian and Rumantsch) as well as the Alemannic dialects and English.
It is recognised as a
local chapter
by the Wikimedia Foundation. However, it remains a financially and legally independent entity with its own rules and leadership. Wikimedia CH does not host any of the Wikimedia Foundation’s projects and has no editing rights over them.
Wikimedia CH focuses on five strategic impact directions: GLAM, Education, Community, Outreach and Innovation. To support these efforts, the association relies on the organisational enablers of communication, fundraising, technology and know-how, diversity, inclusion and equity.
Useful links
Official website
Calendar
: it can be updated by staff members as well as by volunteers, and it shows the events planned throughout Switzerland, regardless of language.
Wikimedia CH on
Commons
(and
all categories related to WMCH
WMCH
Members
Wikipedia
Project Switzerland
Contact
: info
wikimedia.ch
Support for the community
The content on Wikipedia and its sister projects is entirely created thanks to the efforts and engagement of volunteers. It is central for Wikimedia CH to support their work, and it does so by providing a wide range of services.
Reimbursements and scholarships
: Wikimedia CH pays for travel and accommodation expenses when you participate to events related to Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia CH also awards numerous scholarships every year, even for major events such as WikiCons or Wikimania. Application deadlines and conditions are always communicated in advance. For more information on the guidelines and the specific procedure for application, see WMCH's
Scholarships policy
. Check out WMCH's
General reimbursement policy
as well for more details.
Microgrants for your project or activities
: if you are a volunteer currently active in one of the Swiss languages (German, French, Italian or Rumantsch) and you need financial support for your own project, which has an impact on Wikimedia projects, you can turn to Wikimedia CH for a microgrant (from 1 to 1’000 CHF). A committee composed of staff, members and board members will review your application and decide whether you will be granted the financial contribution. Here’s to the microgrants page on Meta:
Wikimedia CH/Micro-Grant
Project grants
: if you are planning a bigger project (for example a Wikipedia workshop, an edit-a-thon or an open-source hackathon) that requires a bigger financial support, you can apply for a Wikimedia CH grant (from 1’001 CHF). Your activity needs to improve one or more of the planned activities of Wikimedia CH (connected with its programs Education, GLAM, Community, Outreach and Innovation), and should pursue clear outcomes and impacts. Here you can find more information:
Wikimedia CH/Grant
Volunteer certificate
: if you need a certificate that confirms your volunteer work, with information about the nature and extent of your commitment in the Wikiverse, you can ask Wikimedia CH to provide such document. Please contact the responsible Community Manager in your region.
Care services
: Wikimedia CH is providing several services to promote a constructive and welcoming atmosphere within the community and to help resolve problems. Check out
Wikimedia CH/Community Care
for more details.
Programmes and activities
Wikimedia CH is active in the following areas:
Community
Support and promote the work of volunteers who add content or give visibility to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and other sister projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Wikimedia CH follows 4 basic principles: no influence on content, respect of personal rights, neutral point of view, embracing diversity.
Here you can see what the community is currently up to:
Wikimedia CH/Calendar
and the
WikiProject Switzerland on Wikipedia
GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)
Help Swiss memory institutions share their curatorial knowledge, collections and resources in a digital manner, on global platforms, making Swiss cultural heritage more accessible to the world.
Education
Support the development and adoption of effective educational practices in a digital world through activities on media and information literacy (MIL), teaching about web technologies and contributing to Wikimedia projects. The focus is on students and teachers at all levels of education, but also on other interested parties in a lifelong learning perspective.
Innovation
Provide an experimentation space for creative ideas, tools and models around various focus areas (e.g: climate change, education, GLAM, etc.). WMCH aims to play a role in technological innovation and topics of open source and open software through flexibility, creativity and proactivity.
Outreach and communication
Advocate for issues such as copyright and net neutrality by actively participating in working groups and coalitions to advance digital and open-source themes in society and politics, in line with the political direction and stance of the Wikimedia Foundation and other chapters. WMCH also supports civic action groups with expertise about the Wikiverse.
Fundraising
Collect donations for the aforementioned programmes and general operations of the association, in accordance with its bylaws.
Organisation
The
Board of directors
is elected once a year by the General Assembly and consists of a President and four to six other members. See the
current board
Since 2016, the association has neither a headquarters nor a physical office. Its
team members
work from home and are based all over Switzerland. See the
current staff
Bylaws and policies
Friendly space policy of Wikimedia CH
Conflict of interest policy.
The bylaws of the association, as well as all other important documents such as current policies and annual reports are to be found on Wikimedia CH’s website:
wikimedia.ch/en/about/basic-information
Languages
In Switzerland, Swiss German is the most widely used language on the workplace (over 60%), followed by standard German (over 30%), French (nearly 30%), English (20%) and Italian (nearly 10%). Over 2/3 of people over the age of 15 regularly use more than one language.
That said, more than 25% of people living in Switzerland don't speak a national language as mother tongue. Portuguese is the most commonly spoken foreign language in Switzerland, followed by Spanish, Serbian, Croatian and Albanian.
In this context, Wikimedia CH uses four languages: English, German, French and Italian. For everyday work, the staff communicate mainly in English. Official documents are always produced in all four languages. People are free to also reach out in Romansh or in Swiss German, but the answer will be in one of the four mentioned languages.
Reports
The current reports of all chapters are
listed here
Impact report 2025
Proposal form 2025
Impact report 2024
Progress report 2024
Financial statements incl. auditors report
and
Annual report
for 2023 and
Progress report 2023
Financial statements incl. auditors report
and
Annual report
for 2022
Financial statements incl. auditors report
and
Annual report
for 2021
Financial statements incl. auditors report
and
Annual report
for 2020
Financial report and auditor's report
and
Annual report
for 2019.
Financial report and auditor's report
and
Annual report
for 2018.
Financial report
auditor's report
and
Annual report
for 2017.
Financial report
auditor's report
and
Annual report
for 2016.
Annual report
Financial report
and
auditor's report
for 2015.
Annual report
and
Financial report
for 2014.
Annual report
and
Financial report
for 2013.
Annual report
and
Financial report
for 2012 (links to the website of Wikimedia CH).
Annual report
and
Financial report
for 2011 (links to the website of Wikimedia CH).
Summary of the board governance workshop that took place on 14 July 2016
See also
Wikimedia CH
on
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia CH
on the
German Wikipedia
Wikimedia CH
on the
French Wikipedia
Wikimedia CH
on the Italian Wikipedia.
Language – facts and figures
en:Languages of Switzerland
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Categories
Wikimedia CH
Wikimedia affiliates in good standing
Annual report submitted
Wikimedia CH
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