The document discusses some of the challenges faced by Wikimedia in maintaining an international organizational scope across its 28 chapters. It notes differences in culture, language, legal environments, and how free content is viewed. It also addresses questions around organizational structure, funding models, leadership approaches, and balancing active volunteers with professional staff. The overall message is the importance of understanding these cultural differences when operating globally.

1. Wikimedia: Striving for an International
Organisational Scope, The Importance
of Culture
Delphine Ménard
Wikimania, 9 July 2010

2. Wikimedia
● 28 chapters, and counting
● One model
● Wikimedia Foundation Strategy Process

3. Inter...
● National
● Cultural
● Linguistic
● Wiki-al
● ...

4. It's free... as in?
● Meaning of free
● Beer et al.
● Free of charge, free of rights etc.

5. Organisational culture
● Grassroots?
● Top down?
● Transversal?
● Different

6. Members or no members, that is the
question
● Wikimedia Foundation
● Greenpeace Deutschland
● Wikimedia Argentina

7. It's all about the money
● And how you handle it
● Non profit? For profit? Tax deductible?
(Sweden, UK)
● Check, credit card, Paypal?
● Legal environement

8. In The Not So Wild West
● Western leadership
● Does it work everywhere?

9. Volunteering, or professionalizing?
● Active members
● Staff
● United World Colleges

10. In the End
● It's all about taking a step back

11. Thank you
● delphine@notafish.org
● This presentation is under a CC-BY-SA 3.0
license