WikiAfrica Hour #18: How Usergroups are run
Channel: Wiki In Africa
Date: 2022-11-25

It's a discussion about building, reviving, managing and recognizing communities.

Guests include: 
* Tochiprecious - Co-founder, Igbo Wikimedians User Group
* Candy Khohliwe - Program Coordinator, Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana
* Manavpreet Kaur Staff liaison, Affiliations Committee
* Dumisani Ndubane Former Staff liaison, Affiliations Committee

📚CHAPTERS📚
0:58 Introduction of topic
2:11 Introduction of guests

Panel 1: User groups
4:18 The evolution of the Igbo Wikimedians User Group [Tobechukwu Precious]
7:50 Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana [Candy Tricia Khohliwe]
11:29 Accessing the right type of funds, and onboarding new members [Tobechukwu Precious]
17:04 Steps taken so far towards revitalising the Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana [Candy Tricia Khohliwe]
21:40 The level of coordination needed [Tobechukwu Precious]
25:25 What key roles did you choose to bring on board? [Candy Tricia Khohliwe]
29:19 Dealing with internal conflicts that could arise [Both]
36:08 Advice for co-founding and coordinating a User Group [Both]

Panel 2: Affiliations Committee- Manavpreet Kaur 
43:36 Introduction of Manavpreet Kaur 
43:50 Clarify the differences between terms like Wikimedia User Group, Wikimedia Affiliate, Wikimedia Chapter
46:12 What is the Affiliations Committee? What are the roles of the committee?
48:40 How many people usually make up this committee? How are the members chosen?
51:46 The process of recognising a user group, affiliate or chapter
1:00:42 What is required to keep and maintain a recognised status?
1:05:12 What steps could a user group take to become a chapter if need be? 

1:12:00 Q+A: Is it mandatory to be a registered organisation to be an affiliate [Manavpreet Kaur]
1:12:55 Q+A:  Is it possible for a country affiliate to have board members from a different country on the board?  [Manavpreet Kaur]
1:14:03 Q+A: Is it common that applications for user groups are denied? [Manavpreet Kaur] 
1:17:26 Q+A: What support was missing when you were getting started with your affiliate? [Tobechukwu Precious & Candy Tricia Khohliwe]
1:20:35 Q+A: Is the criteria being set fair across all countries? [Manavpreet Kaur]
1:24:30 Q+A: For User Group is it important to have a Meta Page [Ceslause Ogbonnaya] 
1:25:15 Q+A: Is there a way for prospective different Wikimedian (language) editors to form a User Group? [Tobechukwu Precious]
1:27:10 The Wiki Africa Hour News: November 2022

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