We are 30 expert freelance Wikimedia professionals with decades of experience working with Wikipedia and its sister projects in all aspects, including content, community, technology, and governance.
We work with organizations aligned with the Wikimedia mission to share their knowledge and expertise with the world, and we support each other in our professional growth.
Our skills
Six areas of practice across the Wikimedia projects.
Community Organizing and Capacity Building
- Skills
- Community engagement, volunteer management, community liaising, facilitation, and workshop training.
- Areas
- Designing programs, projects and events, scholarship processes, collaborative drafting, and movement organizing.
Content, Research, and Article Writing
- Skills
- Article assessment, editing for notability and neutrality, and expanding special subjects.
- Areas
- High-stakes topics, including individuals and organizations, to improve sourcing, writing quality and counter misinformation by leveraging targeted references and extensive research for the Wikimedia projects.
Training, Education, and Public Engagement
- Skills
- Teaching undergraduate and postgraduate, mentoring, tutoring new users, conference keynotes, media interviews, and public writing.
- Areas
- Events and edit-a-thon and workshop facilitation, podcasting, and livestreams, multilingual programs.
Institutional Partnerships (GLAM)
- Skills
- Managing Wikimedian in Residence (WiR) programs, complex partnerships, copyright analysis, open licensing, Creative Commons, and Freedom of Panorama.
- Areas
- GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) partnerships, academic and higher education integration, guides and workbooks for institutional engagement.
Technology, Engineering, and Data Science
- Skills
- MediaWiki extensions, wiki hosting, Toolforge, MediaWiki API, user scripts, gadgets, page styling, semantic data models, SPARQL, QuickStatements, OpenRefine, PattyPan.
- Areas
- MediaWiki and Wikibase implementation, Wikidata Query Service, bulk ingestion and multimedia uploads, schemas, Translatewiki.
Strategy, Governance, and Grantmaking
- Skills
- Strategic planning, project design, governance issues, risk and reputation, and public funding.
- Areas
- Fundraising and grantmaking, proposal writing, budget creation, reporting, financial auditing, product strategy, and product marketing.
Members include
Freelancers and consultants who edit under their real names and rely on their professional reputations.
Code of Ethics
We are Wikimedians at heart, passionate members of the movement.
- We work for the benefit of the movement in collaboration with the community.
- We positively contribute and help the community learn while doing so.
- We give back with improved processes, tools, and documentation.
- We use our real names and rely on our professional reputations.
- We view each other as collaborators and share our expertise.
- We comply with all Wikimedia Foundation Terms of Use and local wiki policies.
Frequently asked questions
What are the benefits of using a Wikimedia consultant?
Wikipedia is part of Wikimedia. A Wikimedia consultant is a phenomenally competent guide for engaging, contributing, and organizing with Wikipedia's content, the sister projects (Commons, Wikidata...) and the broader community. Years or even decades of experience yield professional partnerships, measurable impact, and lasting influence and visibility. Highly ethical practitioners build trust and form relationships while avoiding blowback, wasted time, and false promises that violate community norms.
Who can join this group?
Experienced, expert, effective, and ethical Wikimedians who are freelancers or consultants accepting clients now or with multiple current clients.
What is the purpose of joining this group?
Make excellent practitioners visible, maintain high ethical standards, share stories, challenges, and solutions, refer clients to other members with specific skills, collaborate together and gain more work.
What is this group not?
A company, industry lobby, corporate influence group, association of PR or Marketing professionals, a paid editing agency, a formally recognized Wikimedia movement affiliate, or connected with or endorsed by the Wikimedia Foundation.
How do you handle conflict of interest?
We overwhelmingly work with nonprofits and mission aligned organizations, so we generally have an alignment of interest. That said, we fully abide by all Wikimedia Terms of Use and Conflict of Interest Policies and Guidelines across the movement and on local wikis. We disclose any client on behalf of whom we edit or advocate.
Is a Wikimedia consultant different than a Wikipedia consultant?
Wikipedia is the best known and most popular project that billions of people use and learn from each month. Experts in Wikipedia focus on improving its articles; however, the Wikimedia universe is large with huge, lesser known projects that focus on images, linked data, and technology. Each consultant has a different focus and set of skills, many geared towards Wikipedia, but what we have in common is that we are members of the broader movement called Wikimedia and committed to its success.
Contact us
Whether you're interested in our services or joining our network, get in touch and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Or write to info@consultants.wiki