Wikimedia Polska
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Affiliate code
| WMPL
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Country code
| PL
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Legal status
| Association
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Founding date
| August 14, 2005
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Approval date
| November 15, 2005
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Main office
| Warsaw
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Membership
| 125 (
members' list
)
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Staff
| 11
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Volunteers
| approx. 30 (permanent or regular)
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Official language(s)
| Polish
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President
| Tomasz Wszeborowski
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Incorporation paper
| Statut
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Reports
| Reports
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Affiliations
| Wikimedia Central and Eastern Europe
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Wikimedia CEE Hub
,
Wikimedia Europe
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Mobile number
| (+48) 790 290 842
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Website
| wikimedia.pl
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E-mail address
| kontakt
wikimedia.pl
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Mailing list
| WikimediaPL-l
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Facebook
| Wikimedia Polska
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YouTube
| Wikimedia Polska
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Wikimedia Polska
(
WMPL
,
Wikimedia Polska
) is an independent non-profit, membership-based organisation serving as a
Wikimedia chapter
in
Poland
. It was created during in 2005 and recognized as the fourth Wikimedia chapter. According to the
Bylaws
, the purpose of the Association is to
equate everyone's chances to access knowledge, both general and specific in the fields of science, culture, education and art
as well as to
promote and organise volunteering and charity
.
Every Polish citizen over the age of 16 as well as foreign residents of Poland may become regular members of the Association, provided that they have contributed to any of the
Wikimedia projects
, have filled a membership form, were accepted by the Board and have paid the annual membership fee, which is currently (2024) set at a minimum of 50 PLN. Corporate bodies may become supporting members of the Association but they are not allowed voting rights. As of January 3, 2024, Wikimedia Polska had 125 regular members.
Wikimedia Polska is supported primarily by voluntary donations from the general public. It has been recognised by Polish authorities as a
public benefit organization
since 28 March 2007 and it has been therefore possible for individuals to donate 1,5% of their
income tax
to the Association.
Board
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The Board is collectively responsible for and entitled to the governance and representation of the chapter. However, its main focus areas are: strategic planning and control, compliance, finance, fundraising, and overall capacity building. Programme ownership has been gradually delegated to the management team, and execution of the programmes has been delegated to staff and volunteers.
The Board is elected by the regular members for a two-year term at the General Assembly and consists of three to seven members, including the President, Secretary, Treasurer, and at least one Vice President. The current members of the Board were elected during the General Assembly on 25 June 2022 in Toru?.
The following members are currently serving on the Board:
Staff
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WMPL runs a number of programmes, chiefly in the areas of volunteer support, GLAM, and education. Among most successful programmes, there are:
- Wikigranty
(a popular microgrants programme),
- Wikiekspedycje
("Wikiexpeditions", a series of photographic expeditions to remote regions of Poland),
- Wiki Lubi Zabytki
(a highly successful edition of
Wiki Loves Monuments
, including the competition on the national level as well as accompanying exhibitions and other events),
- Etnokarpaty
("Carpathian Ethnography Project", a cross-border GLAM project conducted in cooperation with Wikimedia affiliates from Ukraine, Slovakia and the Czech Republic)
and much more. See details in yearly reports.
Wikimedia Poland has organized a number of national and local events. Its main multi-day conference is
Konferencja Wikimedia Polska
("Wikimedia Polska Conference", organized every late spring or early summer, where guests from the outside of Wikimedia world are invited and where general assemblies of WMPL are held.
Other events are thematic meetings like Winter or Spring Retreats (focused on editing workshops with an element of a forseen improvisation) and meetups for most active sister project communities, Wikisource and Wiktionary (
?rodłosłow
).
- E-mail
- kontakt
wikimedia.pl
- Mailing list
- WikimediaPL-l
, a moderated and private mailing list
- Postal address
- Wikimedia Polska
- al. Szucha 16/15, 00-580 Warszawa