What we truly need: Ideas to make our Wikimedia Movement more innovative

During the past months, we have been busy working on possible solutions for the challenges of our Movement in strengthening our innovative capacity. We organized a series of ideation workshops, bringing together stakeholders and partners to collaborate and brainstorm ideas on how to foster innovation in our Wikimedia Movement. 

Despite being in the early stages of our efforts, we are excited to share our progress. During this ideation phase, we have been able to create not just a list, but an entire catalog of innovative ideas for different activities and formats that bring innovation in Free Knowledge to the forefront:

Explore this booklet of ideas and be inspired. Feel free to pick any idea of your liking, and perhaps we will see you develop it further as a prototype in your own community and local contexts. 

Our Selection of Innovation Concepts

For now, we have chosen to advance and initiate our own Prototyping Phase with a pick of the following five concepts: (Photos from Idea Napkins)

• Create radical experimentation spaces: A courage festival for failure and learning
• Build a challenge platform where problems we want to solve in the Movement are presented as challenges, anyone from the Movement can come forward and tackle one of them, share ideas on how to solve them, and build solutions
• Offer regular 1-week Design Sprints, a fast-paced method to build and test a prototype in just five days
• Build an investment accelerator for potential innovations, dedicated to the funding of innovation activities in the Movement
• Create a continuous Loop Meln training program that offers education on new technologies and how to use them for Wikimedia

These concepts were selected based on idea selections with our partners. Most importantly for us, was the originality, urgency and feasibility of the ideas. 

We would love to hear your thoughts on these ideas as we go into the next phase of realizing them! We invite you to share your thoughts on our Idea Napkins by simply leaving a comment below!