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AM
Wikimedia Armenia
AR
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AT
Wikimedia Österreich
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Wikimedia Australia
BD
Wikimedia Bangladesh
BE
Wikimedia Belgium
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Wikimedia Brasil
CA
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Wikimedia CH
CL
Wikimedia Chile
CO
Wikimedia Colombia
CZ
Wikimedia Česká republika
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Wikimedia Deutschland
DK
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EE
Wikimedia Eesti
ES
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FI
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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
The
Wikimedia United States Coalition
is a framework to organize the founding of a strong group of
Wikimedia chapters
and
Wikimedia thematic organizations
in the
United States
, and to promote cooperation among them. Chapters in the United States, unlike existing chapters in other nations, may be founded on a
metropolitan and regional-scale
level, because of the unique issues of uneven population density throughout the country, and the relative unimportance of state boundary lines. Discussions about a national
Wikimedia US
chapter have waxed and waned over time. A new
research project
on how to structure cooperation among the WMF affiliates in North America started in 2023.
Wikimedia New York City
and
Wikimedia DC
were the first regional chapters in the United States.
Wiki-Conference New York 2009
at
NYU
was the first live venue at which this framework was developed among aspirant US chapter organizers. A full list of affiliates in the US can be see at
North American Wikimedians
Metropolitan level operations
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The general distribution of US population , metropolitan areas and
megaregions
United States chapters may be founded on the level of
metropolitan areas
, which are informally defined urban areas surrounding major cities, with a local orientation as
community groups
. It may be practical to extend the regions of operation significantly beyond the Census definition of the metropolitan area, since many parts of the United States are not in any metropolitan area.
Existing efforts have focused on the participation of those engaging in
Wikipedia Meetup events
, which is a good way to get started organizing, and it may be helpful for regions of operation to be roughly congruent with the area for which travel to such events is convenient. The utilization of the
Geonotice
tool, and hopefully other improved geoip tools in future, is a good path to build up such local organization in the medium term.
It may be helpful to look at C. Etzel Pearcy's 1973
redrawn map of the United States
explanation
) of "natural" borders centered on major concentrations of population.
In areas where the major concentrations of population are not too divergent from state boundary lines (or where population is not dense at all, as especially in the rural West), it may be most beneficial to simply define chapters on a state-level basis.
The regions of operation of chapters will not be strictly defined, but people may participate in whatever chapter (or chapters) it is convenient or preferable to them to attend the meetings of.
See also:
User:Kelly Martin/US regions
Function of the coalition
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The function of the coalition will be to promote the founding of new chapters, and to maintain a forum for communication among the different chapters.
This might include the organization of community-based nationwide efforts such as the in the example of
Wikipedia Loves Art
, but on a more regular basis it would also involve joint activities among neighboring chapters in the organization of larger events, and if there is more than one chapter in a state, the coordination of state-level promotional activities.
Local entities
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Main article:
Wikimedia United States Coalition/Local entities
The coalition should also explore the issue of how organize local chapters or groups in a coordinated or non-coordinated manner:
Shall we establish completely autonomous, local chapters (e.g. Wikimedia NYC, Wikimedia DC, Wikimedia SF)
Shall there be a national entity, with local subchapters or affiliates, that files for group exception with the IRS and loosely ties together affiliates through common purpose? (local units can either be separately incorporated or not)
Shall there be regional entities with local affiliates? (e.g. Wikimedia Northeast US, Wikimedia Midwest US, Wikimedia Rocky Mountain Region...)
Communities showing potential for new chapters
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US metropolitan areas
with over 2 million people; these may be the most fertile grounds to found chapters—but if your metro only has 1 million, don't be discouraged!
The communities showing the greatest potential for new chapters are those that have successfully organized multiple
Wikipedia Meetup events
in the past, or have shown the potential to do so.
Northeast
(in
Wikimedia New York City
New York City
Philadelphia
(see historical
Wikimedia Pennsylvania
discussions)
Pittsburgh
Washington, DC
(see
Wikimedia DC
New England
(see
Wikimedia New England
discussions)
Boston
Connecticut
Maine
New Hampshire
West Coast
Seattle
(see
Wikimedia Cascadia
discussions)
Oregon
(see
Wikimedia Cascadia
discussions)
San Francisco
(see
Bay Area Wikipedians User Group
, also see
Wikimedia California
and
Wikimedia Cascadia
discussions)
Southern California
(see
Wikimedia California
discussions)
South
Florida
(see
Florida Librarians of Wikipedia
Georgia
(see
Georgia Piedmont Wikimedians User Group
North Carolina
(see
North Carolina Wikipedians
Texas
Tennessee
Midwest
(see
Wikimedia Midwest
discussions)
Chicago
Colorado
(see
Wikimedians of Colorado User Group
Detroit / Ann Arbor
Indianapolis
Minnesota
Ohio
(see
Ohio Wikimedians User Group
St. Louis
Topeka
Events
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Regional WikiConferences
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Wiki-Conference New York
Discussion of this framework occurred at
Wiki-Conference New York 2009
and
Wiki-Conference New York 2010
All chapters-interested folks in the US were invited to attend and represent their region. We were also glad to be joined by some like-minded friends pursuing their own efforts in Canada, as well as by Free Culture groups from across New England, who have their own experience with national and local chapters to share.
West Coast WikiConference
Also, check out
West Coast WikiConference
as a forum for similar regional discussions.
National multi-events
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An annual calendar:
US Multi-Events
Wikipedia Day US
(January)
Great American Wiknic
(July)
Wikipedia Takes America
(September)
Wikipedia Loves Libraries
(October/November)
Communication
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It is also hoped that some of this conversation can take place on the
WikimediaUS-l
mailing list.
Mailing lists
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Local mailing lists include:
Atlanta e-mail
Boston e-mail
Cascadia e-mail
Colorado e-mail
Colorado Wikipedia list
DC e-mail
Midwest e-mail
Minnesota e-mail
Mountain West Wikipedia list
Ohio e-mail
NYC e-mail
San Francisco e-mail
IRC
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After moving to Libera, the best current location for discussion on IRC would be
#wikimedia
connect
as there are not currently maintained regional channels.
WALRUS committee
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Shortcut
WALRUS
Communities represented on WALRUS committee.
The '
ikimedians
ctive in
ocal
egions of the
nited
tates' (
WALRUS
) committee is a preparatory stage of the national Coalition, consisting of a partnership of existing and actively planned chapters (
Wikimedia NYC
and
Wikimedia DC
), along with leading Wikimedian activists and meetup organizers in the other regions of the US.
The WALRUS home on English Wikipedia is at
WP:WALRUS
Through this effort, cities across the US celebrated
The Great American Wiknic
in June 2011 and again in June 2012.
Communication and meetings
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The
WikimediaUS-l
mailing list is home to related discussions.
Starting in 2012, the mailing list schedulde monthly IRC meetings (for a time on the second Wednesday) at
#wikimedia-us
connect
meetings at 9pm Eastern Time, 6pm Pacific Time
2018 Meetings
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skipped for Wikipedia Day
February 2018
March 2018
skipped for Art+Feminism
May 2018
Skipped for summer break
July 2018
August 2018
September 2018
October 2018
November 2018
December 2018
previous years
2012
March 1, 2012
April 11, 2012
May 9, 2012
June 13, 2012
July 11 & 14, 2012
@ Wikimania
August 8, 2012
September 12, 2012
October 10, 2012
December 19, 2012
2013
January 16, 2013
February 13, 2013
March 13, 2013
April 10, 2013
May 8, 2013
June 12, 2013
July 17, 2013
August 14, 2013
October 16, 2013
Meetings resumed via video conference in 2016
March 2016
April 2016
May 2016
June 2016
July 2016
August 2016
September 2016
October 2016
November 2016
December 2016
2017
January 2017
February 2017
April 2017
July 2017
Representatives
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Region
Group
Category
Representatives
Northeast (regional contact: NYC)
US-BOS metro, New England
New England Wikipedian Meetup
Wikimedia New England
Meetup / Observer
User:Emufarmers
US-NYC metro
Wikimedia New York City
Official Wikimedia chapter
User:Megs
User:Pharos
US-PHIL metro
Wikipedia Meetup Philadelphia
Meetup / Observer
User:Smallbones
US-PITT metro
Wikipedia Meetup Pittsburgh
Allegheny Wikimedians
Meetup / Observer
User:Piotrus
User:Chris troutman
West Coast (regional contact: SF)
US-SF metro, US-OR
Wikipedia Meetup San Francisco
Meetup / Observer
Pete F
US-LA metro
Wikipedia Meetup Los Angeles
Meetup / Observer
User:Fuzheado
Cascadia
Cascadia Wikimedians
Official Wikimedia user group
User:Peaceray
Portland
Wikipedia Meetup Portland
Meetup / Observer
User:Another Believer
US-SEA metro
Wikipedia Meetup Seattle
Meetup / Observer
User:Peaceray
South (regional contact: DC)
US-DC metro
Wikimedia District of Columbia
Official Wikimedia chapter
User:Harej
User:Kirill Lokshin
US-FL
WikiProject Florida
Observer
User:Donald Albury
User:FloNight
US-FL
Florida Librarians of Wikipedia
Wikimedia User Group
User:Gamaliel
US-ATL metro
Wikipedia Meetup Atlanta
Meetup / Observer
User:Jenniferjuniper
User:Ganeshk
US-NC
North Carolina Wikipedians User Group
Official Wikimedia user group
User:Sodapopinski7
US-TX/US-HOU
WikiProject Texas
WikiProject Houston
Observer
User:WhisperToMe
Midwest (regional contact: Midwest)
US-CHI metro
Wikipedia Meetup Chicago
Meetup / Observer
User:I Jethrobot
User:TonyTheTiger
US-CO
Wikipedia Meetup Colorado
Meetup / Observer
User:Buaidh
User:Gaurav
US-DET metro
Wikipedia Meetup Detroit
Wikipedia Meetup Ann Arbor
Meetup / Observer
User:PeRshGo
US-EVV metro
Wikipedia Meetup Evansville
Meetup / Observer
User:Bob the Wikipedian
US-MN
Wikipedia Meetup Minnesota
Meetup
User:Jonathunder
User:Innotata
US-STL metro
Wikipedia Meetup St. Louis
Meetup / Observer
User:Mark Schierbecker
US-OH
Ohio Wikimedians User Group
User Group
User:SuperHamster
Wikimedia United States Federation, Inc
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There was in the past some thought being given to founding a legal entity, a
Wikimedia United States Federation, Inc
. This would have been a 501c3 nonprofit, whose organizational members would consist of all official Wikimedia chapters in the United States, as well as recognized chapters-in-formation groups that have chosen a board and have achieved a sufficient level of organizational maturity. A decision has been made to shelve such a proposal for now.
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