Wikimedia movement

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The Wikimedia movement is the totality of people, activities, and values that revolve around Wikimedia projects. It includes anyone who makes a valuable contribution to or consumes the product of Wikimedia's free knowledge initiative. It could be viewed as:

a collection of values ("free as in freedom" access to knowledge for everyone, community based collaboration, etc.);
a collection of activities (projects, conferences, workshops, wikiacademies, etc.);
a collection of organizations (Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Chapters, etc.), as well as similar-minded organizations and unaffiliated individuals. (See movement roles for further discussion.)

Sketch of the movement, putting people at the heart

People comprising the Wikimedia movement include, but are not limited to:

promoters, conveyors or users of free information for education and culture
- educators, and educational or cultural institutions
- students (at all degrees)
- social and educational NGOs
- content liberators
- digital restorationists
contributors
- editors, also known as Wikimedians (Wikipedians, Wiktionarians, etc.)
- developers (of MediaWiki for example)
- other volunteers
- localizers
- donors
Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Chapters staff, contractors, and volunteers
- Wikimedia Foundation Board
Jimmy Wales^{See interview}
Other stakeholders

Theory of change. A systems diagram showing causal loops between different aspects of the movement as well as the overall goals.
The post and the thread on foundation-l mailing list, started by Anthere, where the term and concept was launched.
Communication issues musings of a dinosaur (about 17:30), Anthere's speech at Wikimania 2008.
Scaling up: can Wikimedia Become A 300 Million People Movement By 2020? (about minute 4), Eloquence's speech at Wikimania 2009.
Use of the term in Wikimedia mailing lists. Which shows H. Cheney apparently coined the term on 21 June 2004, that is 4 years prior to the thread and post attributed to Anthere above.

See also