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Most organizing in the Wikimedia movement requires a highly specialized understanding of the topic gaps on Wikimedia projects and the experts, communicators or activists who can help fill them. To create this specialized knowledge, as a movement, we create communities of practice to make our projects more impactful, equitable and welcoming in the long term.

To create a community of practice for this course, we will be focusing on two important topics with the help of a global framework, the Sustainable Development Goals.  These two topics, the Gender Gap (embodied by SDG5:Gender equality), and Climate and other environmental crises (embodied by SDG14: Climate Action). We will use this topic area to demonstrate how to plan for a topic for impact, but as Wikimedia organizers you will probably apply the same skills to other topic areas.

As you will see throughout the examples, Gender and Climate Change knowledge can be both transformative for marginalized communities and challenge certain worldviews, but there is global consensus among experts about what we know about these topics. Often the experts recommend solutions for these problems that are somewhat controversial or radical -- and communicating knowledge about these topics is impactful.