Dear all,
The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday,
December 5, 2013 at 7:00 PM UTC (11 AM PST). The IRC channel is
#wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net and the meeting will be broadcast as
a live YouTube stream.
The current structure of the meeting is:
* Review of key metrics including the monthly report card, but also
specialized reports and analytic
* Review of financials
* Welcoming recent hires
* Brief presentations on recent projects, with a focus on highest priority
initiatives
* Update and Q&A with the Executive Director, if available
Please review
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings for further
information about how to participate.
We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
Thank you,
Praveena
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Praveena Maharaj
Executive Assistant to the VP of Engineering and Product Development
+1 (415) 839 6885 ext. 6689
www.wikimedia.org
Hi,
Looking at the summary reports per language, I've noticed a linear,
significant increase in pageviews for many European languages (ro, bg,
hu, fr) Wikipedias in the last 3 months. This is not happening for
Asian languages or Russian and is not obvious from the report card.
Has anything changed in the reporting or the visit patterns for these
Wikipedias? It looks pretty weird to have a 100% increase for Romanian
in just 3 months [1].
Thanks,
Strainu
[1] http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryRO.htm
// For translated versions, please consult
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Call_for_Candidates_…
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Dear all,
The Affiliations Committee [1], the committee that is responsible for
guiding volunteers in establishing Chapters, User Groups and Thematic
Organizations and approving them when they are ready is looking for new
members.
The main focus of AffCom is to guide groups of volunteers in forming
affiliates. We make sure that the groups are large enough to be viable (and
advise them on how to get bigger), review bylaws for compliance with the
requirements and best practices, and advise the Board of the Wikimedia
Foundation on issues connected to Chapters, Thematic Organizations and User
Groups.
This requires communication with volunteers all over the World, negotiating
skills and cultural sensitivity and the ability to understand legal texts.
We try to get a healthy mix of different skill sets in our membership.
Key skills/experience that we are looking for in candidate members, are
typically:
is
* Excitement by the challenge of helping to empower groups of volunteers
worldwide
* Willingness to process applications through a set, perhaps bureaucratic
process
* Readiness to participate in (movement roles) political discussions on the
role and future of affiliates, models of affiliations, and similar questions
* 5 hours per week availability[2], and the time to participate in a
monthly ~2 hour phone meeting
* International orientation
* Very good communication skills in English
* Ability to work and communicate with other cultures, languages andcultures
* Strong understanding of the structure and work of affiliates and the WMF
* Knowledge of different legal systems, experience in community building
and organising is a plus
* Communication skills in other languages are a major plus
* Experience with or in an active affiliate is a major plus
In 2012 new types of affiliations were introduced and the role of the
Committee has increased in guiding through volunteers towards affiliation
models that empower them to further our mission, and making sure these
models meet the needs of the volunteers and the movement. We are looking
for new people to help, who are not afraid of the workload and are
motivated by helping other volunteers come together forming communities
that further our mission around the world.
Members are usually selected every twelve months for staggered two year
terms. The applications will be voted on by the current members not seeking
re-election, taking into account comments put forward by the committee's
members, advisers, WMF staff and board liaisons based on the above
membership criteria. A final decision will be made by the end of the year,
with new members expected to join on or around 1 January 2014.
If you are interested, You can send your applications with your full name,
contact data (e-mail address, wiki username), relevant experience and
motivation letter to our vice-chair Carlos Colina at jewbask AT
wikimedia.org.ve by December 5, 2013. You will get a confirmation that your
application came through.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email me or Carlos. We
are happy to chat or have a phone/VoIP call with anyone about our work, if
this helps them decide to apply.
Please distribute this call among your networks, and do apply if you are
interested.[3]
Best regards,
Bence Damokos
Chair,
Affiliations Committee
[1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee (please follow
the links and familiarize yourself with our work)
[2]: Our member standards of participation are at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Standard_…
[3] A translatable version of this call is avaliable at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Call_for_Candidates_…,
please help translate and distribute it among your networks!
tl;dr:
Wikimedia Conference 2014 in Berlin
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2014
Venue: Tagesspiegel Tagungszentrum, near Potsdamer Platz
Date: April 10-13, 2014
Registration: Will open in January
Dear Wikimedia friends,
It is my pleasure to invite you to come to Berlin for the 2014 Wikimedia
Conference.[1] We will be hosting the event from April 10-13 at
Tagesspiegel Tagungszentrum, in the heart of Berlin.
In addition, I am delighted that the Funds Dissemination Committee and the
Affiliations Committee will hold their annual meetings as part of the
conference as well. This will give us all the opportunity to talk, discuss
ideas, exchange experience, build capacities and shape the future of our
movement together. I am extending this invitation also to the board and
staff of the Wikimedia Foundation, and I hope that they again choose to
join us for a couple of productive days.
== Themes and program ==
The program team [2] has already kicked-off its planning process and is now
collecting topics and themes from all movement entities. Team members come
from several entities and countries in the movement, including the
Wikimedia Foundation, and generously volunteered to manage this process
together. They will present the major themes and goals for the conference
within the coming weeks.
The team is supported by Anna Lena Schiller, who is facilitating the whole
process in the months before and after the conference. Nicole Ebber, as
head of WMDE’s International Affairs unit, is a member of the program team
and will also liaise between the team, the event management and the
facilitator.
== Participation and registration ==
Based on the conference themes, the program team will make a recommendation
regarding the number and type (board, staff) of representatives per
affiliation. This includes a consultation with the AffCom to come up with a
decision upon inviting Thematic Organizations, User Groups and
affiliations-to-be.
We will open the registration in January, after the program team has
presented the conference
themes and goals. By following this order, we aim to motivate and consult
the participating organizations to send representatives and experts
according to the conference’s themes.
== Travel, accommodation and supply ==
We are delighted that the Wikimedia Foundation has agreed to cover the
general costs of the event.
Several organizations have included the travel and accommodation costs in
their FDC proposals, project and events or other WMF grants and are
responsible for covering these costs and booking their flights/trains
themselves. For all those who have not budgeted for the conference, travel
grants are offered and can be applied for in the registration process.
Their bookings will be handled by the WMF travel coordinator.
Following the same principle, we will offer standard 4-bed-rooms in a
hostel for everyone. Hotel beds will be available, but please not that the
travel grants only allow for the hostel accommodation. We will block a
range of beds in nearby hotels for that purpose.
Free food will be provided on all conference days at the venue, and
Wikimedia Deutschland will host a light dinner at the new WMDE office every
evening, plus a social program on Friday and Saturday.
Our event manager Wenke Storn will be the main contact for all questions
regarding the logistics, you can reach out to her and her team via
wmcon(a)wikimedia.de <wmcon(a)lists.wikimedia.de>.
On behalf of the Wikimedia Deutschland board, I am looking forward to
welcoming you in Berlin in April!
Best regards,
Pavel Richter
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2014
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2014/Programme_team
With kind regards,
Pavel Richter
Executive Director
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tel.: +49 - 30 - 219 158 260
Twitter: @pavel
Hi Megan,
Per the attached graph of the
https://frdata.wikimedia.org/yeardata-day-vs-sum.csv
data, your announced October 4th fundraising test on 100% of anonymous
users was anticlimactic. But what the heck did you do on September 2nd
and October 22nd, and would you please do that every day? Even if it
falls off at the same rate as the July test, that still means you
could produce an endowment sufficient to do away with fundraising at
current spending levels in less than eight months.
Best regards,
James Salsman
Hi all,
My team is doing some background research in to Wikipedia article creation
right now.[1] One question I'd like answer is which Wikipedias are
currently (i.e. this year) running bots to create many articles.
I know that Lsjbot has run (or is running) on Swedish (sv), Cebuano (ceb),
and Waray-Waray (war). It seems to me that, by looking at the stats for new
articles per day,[2] Dutch (nl) and Vietnamese (vi) Wikipedias might have
also been running bots? Am I wrong?
I'll be posting more about our article creation research work soon. We'll
need feedback from non-English Wikipedians in particular, since as a team
we only have extensive experience creating articles on enwiki.
Many thanks,
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Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation
2. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesArticlesNewPerDay.htm
Nicole Ebber wrote in the german Wikimedia Mailinglist:
> Beraten wurde
> das FDC während seiner Sitzung von Sue Gardner, Garfield Byrd, Stephen
> LaPorte, Asaf Bartov, Frank Schulenburg und Anasuya Gupta von der
> Wikimedia Foundation.
What are the reasons, that right wing "schlagende Burschenschafter" Frank
Schulenburg was allowed to participate in the FDC-Session?
In a lot of german universities "schlagende Burschenschafter" and
"Schlagende Verbindungen" are not allowed for good reasons.
Thomas7
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Der braune Mobbing-Skandal um Brummfuss und seine Naziwarnseite
Geldverschwendung beim Wikimedia-Verein
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Hello Denis,
Yes, you are right. Thanks for the correction. What I tried to say is that the chapter helped organizing, supporting the community as it is founded for.
It was a great conference!
Romaine
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Thank you for the report, Romaine. Please allow me a small, though
important correction: the WikiCon has always been an event organized
from within the community and not by the chapter itself. Wikimedia
Deutschland assists and supports the event-committee in every way as
wanted and needed, changing year by year from pure grantmaking to strong
organizational support.
Wikimedia Deutschland understands this event, where this year approx.
250 people met and worked collaboratively, as a climax of the German
communities' calendar. The amount of ideas, projects, discussions, and
real-life-interaction is overwhelming and very inspiring. Thanks to all
volunteers making this wonderful event possible now for the fourth time.
Best regards,
Denis Barthel
Hi everybody!
I just wanted to highlight our online contest, the Europeana Fashion Challenge.[1] We launched the Challenge during a week when three fashion edit-a-thons took place: in Sweden, Israel and Italy and the idea with the contest is to increase retention rate amongst the beginners and to attract more people to take part online. The edit-a-thons were productive, however, we have been having a hard time getting the participants/fashion experts to
sign up and participate in the contest so far. I am saying so far as
there still is 16 days left of the contest!
Now I would ask all
of you smart people for help! First of all to take a close look on the
pages for the Challenge and see if there is anything we could change to
make it easier to
participate? Secondly, to spread the word about the contest so that
other people take part! Everybody are welcome and there is a really nice book bundle sponsored by ten different fashion museums.
Best,
John
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Wikimedia Sverige
Project Manager
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