Wikimedia-l December 2013

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Mobile starting page design for Zero users
by Yuri Astrakhan 06 Dec '13

06 Dec '13

Zero <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero> team would like to be more involved with the community, and discuss the functionality of the Zero starting page. For Zero users, when visiting m.wikipedia.org, we have to show a custom start page tailored to the specific mobile provider. A typical startup page has a custom banner, e.g. "Free Wikipedia provided by [Company]", and a list of common languages in that country. The language of the page is always set to the provider's default language. A partner suggested that we add some additional text on the startup page, as otherwise the page looks empty and not very inspiring. That text would be an HTML blob, similar to the WWW page, but significantly smaller due to most devices having a tiny screen. The text would be different depending on the default language set by the provider, and could also differ between various projects - Wikipedia vs Wikinews. The text would be stored on translatewiki, with the overrides residing in the project's MediaWiki: page. The text could be a one sentence "welcome to {{SITENAME}}", it could be some famous quote, a news item, word of the day, link to featured article, or anything else the community may decide to post. See sample screenshots for Android<http://media.crossbrowsertesting.com/users/47339/screenshots/full/zf03c69c9…>, iPhone<http://media.crossbrowsertesting.com/users/47339/screenshots/full/z219b703e…>, iPad<http://media.crossbrowsertesting.com/users/47339/screenshots/full/zf7c8f049…> ) What would be the best process to maintain that text? What other possible customization would be needed to make this beneficial? Please keep in mind that most of the users coming to this page will be directed there by the carrier advertising Free Wikipedia, so a lot of new users. P.S. If you think this discussion should be on meta<http://meta.wikimedia.org/>, please let me know of the best location.

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Registration open for Chapter Board workshop
by Chris Keating 06 Dec '13

06 Dec '13

***Registration is now open for the Wikimedia Boards Training Workshop in London, 1-2 March 2014.*** Are you a Board member of a Wikimedia Chapter or Thematic Organisation? Then this workshop is for you! We are drawing on expertise from within the Wikimedia movement and beyond to produce a two-day training session which will aim to give Board members the skills and knowledge to do a great job. The programme and venue details for the workshop is here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Boards_training_workshop_March_2014 You can register for the event here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/register?orderid=233759341483 Registration is open to all Wikimedia chapter / thematic org board members but those who have, or expect to recruit, staff will gain the most out of it. Registration costs £50, and accommodation options will cost £70 or cost £120 per night. There is a maximum of 20 places available. Some frequently asked questions: * Are there scholarships? Yes. If your chapter / organisation is not able to cover the costs, please fill in the "Will you require a scholarship to attend?" box on the form with an estimate of how much your travel will be. There will be a number of scholarships on offer. All scholarships offered will cover registration, food, accommodation and travel (no-one is expected to pay for this event out of their own pocket). We will be in touch with everyone requesting a scholarship within 2 weeks with a definite answer. * What if my attendance depends on visas / being re-elected? If you register but are unable to attend because of visa issues, or if you leave your organisation's Board before the workshop, we will offer your place to someone else from your chapter/organisation. Also, if you need a visa, Wikimedia UK will help (e.g. with a letter of invitation). * This is a great idea but is too far away from me - what can I do? This is a first step and hopefully, if it succeeds, there will be more similar events in future. (Hopefully not all of them will be in London or in English, either). If you feel that training and supporting boards is important, then you can also raise this in the calls for programme for the Wikimedia Conference and Wikimania. Regards, Chris on behalf of Wikimedia UK and the organising committee

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Where to redirect m.wikipedia.org?
by Yuri Astrakhan 06 Dec '13

06 Dec '13

http://m.wikipedia.org used to be a hard-coded redirect to English en.m.wikipedia.org, except for the users in the Zero program. We now have an ability to have complex redirection for that domain. How do you think m.wikipedia.org should behave? We could redirect m. to ... * the current www.wikipedia.org, which seems to work pretty well on the smaller device screens * send users to the main page of the user's default language - based on the browser settings (Accept-Language header) - and later possibly even based on user's own language prefernces * ... Obviously it should be similar for other projects like wikinews, etc. I am not a big fan of building a full blown page at the m. URL, as that would involve much more work without a clear benefit - there are already www and main pages available, why build another one. Thanks! --Yuri

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Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on December 11, 2013 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC
by Runa Bhattacharjee 06 Dec '13

06 Dec '13

[x-posted] Hello, The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting an IRC office hour on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 between 17:00 - 18:00 UTC on #wikimedia-office. (See below for timezone conversion and other details.) We will be talking about some of our recent and upcoming projects and then taking questions for the remaining time. Questions and any other concerns can also be sent to me directly before the event. See you there! Thanks Runa === Event Details === What: WMF Language Engineering Office hour When: December 11, 2013 (Wednesday). 1700-1800 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20131211T1700 Where: IRC Channel #wikimedia-office on FreeNode -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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New evaluation report on meta - WORKSHOPS
by Sarah Stierch 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

[pardon the cross-posting] Hi everyone! (Important areas bolded for people who are TL;DR types[1]) As you may remember, the Program Evaluation and Design team here at WMF has been doing evaluation of programmatic activities in the movement - with your help! THANK YOU! *We have released our next reporting page about our current focus programs on meta about WORKSHOPS. *We appreciate everyone's participation so far, and we've made improvements to the edit-a-thon page based on your feedback, including bolding highlights for those of you who seeking a high level view of our ongoing reporting. *A third page is now on meta, and ready for improvement and commenting. It's the WORKSHOPS page*, which provides information about: - Program basics and history - Response rates and limitations - Reported data evaluation - Priority goals as chosen by program leaders - How much budget and time goes into planning workshops - What participation is like at workshops - Recruitment, retention, and replication details. - Next steps (tool building, requests, support, etc) *Feel free to improve and make edits on the talk page. And of course, if you are a program leader/chapter that implements workshops and your data isn't represented, please contact me to submit your data*. *You can visit this new page here:* *https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Evaluation_portal/Library/Editing_workshops <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Evaluation_portal/Library/Editing_…>* We hope you find this report inspiring and helpful. *Our next report we'll post will be about GLAM content donations*. I'll send another email out about that soon. Happy evaluating, and be sure to visit us on Facebook[2] -Sarah [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/TL;DR [2] https://www.facebook.com/groups/programevaluation/ -- -- *Sarah Stierch* *Museumist, open culture advocate, and Wikimedian* *www.sarahstierch.com <http://www.sarahstierch.com>*

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The Wikipedia Library's Books and Bytes newsletter
by Jake Orlowitz 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

Books & Bytes Volume 1, Issue 2, November 2013 by The Interior (talk =B7 contribs), Ocaasi (talk =B7 contribs) Sign up for monthly delivery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/Re= cipients Read online: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/= Newsletter/November_2013 Wikipedia Library Highlights New accounts survey TWL is in discussions with several database providers to start new pilot programs for research account donations. Two of the largest research database organizations in the world, EBSCO Publishing and ProQuest, are both interested in learning which of their database services Wikipedians would be most interested in receiving. TWL has put together a survey to help with this, as well as gather more general information about usage, editor satisfaction and the direction Wikipedians would like to see their library moving in. The brief Google Forms survey takes 5-10 minutes, and will be sent out this week to TWL subscribers. JSTOR expired, extended The JSTOR pilot program, which gave 100 free accounts to top article writers, expired this month. Thanks to Steven Walling, an extension until the end of January was secured. Talks with JSTOR are ongoing to keep this valuable resource available free of charge to editors. Sign up for JSTOR. New Metrics New data from the Credo Partnership showed a 500% increase in links to the site in total since the program began. With much larger numbers in general, and a shorter time frame, the HighBeam increase of 390% as of May 2013 is also of interest. Special thanks to Johnuniq for compiling this data. If you are data-inclined, TWL always needs help compiling statistics. These stats are useful not only to our current partners, but also to encouraging prospective new partners to make donations. Help Needed: TWL Account Coordinator TWL is seeking a manager for the coordinated dispersal of donated accounts. The role involves watchlisting the application pages, vetting candidates using a fairly simple set of requirements (1 year activity, 1000 edits on any Wikimedia projects, having email enabled and an expressed desire to use the account for article work), and then emailing the access codes to users. As it stands, this would be not more 1-2 hours of work a week (though it will when new accounts are announced). Great communication and responsiveness so that subscribers get prompt replies to their applications is a must. If you are interested, please get in touch with The Interior or Ocaasi. Apply to be the new Account Coordinator. Wikipedia Visiting Scholars Along with the announcement of a position at George Mason University, a second institution plans to host a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar placement - University of California at Riverside Library.More details on this partnership should be announced in December and over a dozen universities are interested in attending an information session about the program in January. Also in December, George Mason will be seeking applications for their position. For more information on the Visiting Scholar program, see http://enwp.org/WP:WVS. Sign up to be a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar. TWL presents: American Library Association's mid-winter meeting The ALA is the largest library organization in the U.S. TWL has been accepted to present at their mid-winter conference in Philadelphia on January 25th from 1:30 to 3:00pm. The session will introduce academic librarians from around the country to the role Wikipedia can play in learning and research. We will use the session both to introduce TWL's mission and scope, and then to kick-off the Wikipedia Visiting Scholars program with an overview of the initiative and plenty of time for planning and questions. Over a dozen top universities have expressed interest in attending, which bodes very well for the future placing Wikipedians in official research affiliate positions. New Talk: The Future of Libraries and Wikipedia Ocaasi gave the first presentation of The Future of Libraries and Wikipedia to George Mason University. GMU Professor and THATcamp coordinator Amanda French brought students and librarians together for the event. The talk highlights the mission and pillars of Wikipedia, the Wikipedia Library's 5 goals, and 13 to explore the question, What if Wikipedia's was the internet's library? Spotlight on people: Another Believer and Wiki Loves Libraries Books & Bytes was pleased to interview two of the community's Wiki Loves Libraries event coordinators, IJethroBT and AnotherBeliever. This fall, both organised edit-a-thons, one in Chicago, and others in Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington. For this issue, we will present Another Believer=92s interview. Be sure to catch the December issue to hear about IJethroBT=92s experiences. Another Believer is Jason Moore, a Wikipedian based in Portland, Oregon. He works on articles on music and the arts, among other topics, and has been editing since 2007. He has organized three library-related edit-a-thons in the Portland area. His most recent event was at the Vancouver Community Library. What first attracted you to organising WLL events? My introduction to "real life" Wikipedia activity was an invitation to participate in an outreach project at the Wikimedia Foundation offices in San Francisco in 2010, followed by the Wikipedia 10 celebration in Portland, Oregon in 2011. From then on, I was hooked. I had found a community where my obsession with research, writing and the mission of Wikipedia required no explaining. I continued attending meetups and networking with Wikipedians, both online and offline. It was at Wikimania in Washington, D.C. where I received a thorough introduction to the GLAM-Wiki initiative, which promotes collaboration between the Wikipedia community and cultural institutions. Later that year, I was invited to help Multnomah County Library host an edit-athon at Portland's Central Library. The opportunity was appealing, giving purpose for a local meetup and a way for me to trial collaborating with a cultural institution. In your opinion, are library edit-a-thons a good way to recruit new editors ? Absolutely. There are always challenges with recruiting and retaining editors, but it certainly makes sense for the largest and most popular reference work on the Internet to collaborate with institutions that exist to collect and make information resources available to the public. People who visit their local libraries might be the type of individuals who enjoy conducting research, or see value in sharing information. Libraries and Wikipedia both have an educational component, and partnering with cultural institutions certainly brings legitimacy to the latter. Even with limited resources, libraries have the ability to assist with outreach efforts and organizing meetups. At your events, do you see more brand new editors, or editors with some prior experience? Events tend to attract both new and experienced editors. Often I distribute invitations to meetups on-wiki, which obviously attracts people who have already created accounts and have a habit of checking their talk page, even if only occasionally. Brand new editors are usually attracted by the institution itself, whether the participants are curious staff, volunteers, or members of the public. Generally, forms of outreach by the library include event listings on the website and event calendar, on-site signage, and perhaps a regional library newsletter. What can libraries do to make WLL events more successful? Offer incentives to increase traffic. These do not have to be costly or complicated. Perhaps a behind-the-scenes tour of the library, or a promotional partnership with another institution. For example, how cool would it be if a library associated with an art museum offered free admission to a special exhibit? Or a staff member offered a private tour of the permanent collection, followed by an edit-athon where Wikipedians wrote articles about notable artists or works of art? There are ways to make editing interactive and fun. At the library events I have attended, librarians have been great about being prepared and having select resources pulled from the shelves and available for attendees. This eliminates the need for editors to spend time searching for materials. You have organised several events over the years. How has your methodology changed since your first event? My methodology has changed little. The process begins with contact and planning with the institution, outreach and invitation distribution to Wikipedians and the public, and a request for educational and/or promotional materials from the Wikimedia Foundation. It is important to make sure the event space can accommodate a group of reasonable size and provides enough electrical outlets. Refreshments and extra laptops are not required, but always appreciated. The day of the event, I greet my contact(s), set up the space, distribute materials and generally make myself available to participants. Sometimes there is a specific agenda, but often there are enough new contributors that much of my time is spent answering questions, registering new users, providing an overview of Wikipedia, and helping with first edits.My methods have not changed, but I have learned that sometimes it can be beneficial to market some events to experienced Wikipedians and others to new users; mixing the two groups is never problematic, but new and experienced contributors have different motivations for attending. A group of experienced users can quickly generate content and collaborate on more challenging tasks, while new users often require lots of attention. I appreciate both groups, but recognize that mixing them does not always create the most productive environment. How have library staff responded to your event proposals? Librarians have responded positively, but I must confess that for each of the three library events that I have hosted, I was invited by the librarians themselves. I am willing to conduct outreach, but more often my problem is that I receive more invitations than I can accommodate. Regardless of the method of contact, the librarians I have worked with express an appreciation for Wikipedia and an understanding that this online reference work is unavoidable, serving an important purpose in our society. In each case, I felt that the librarians trusted my abilities and appreciated my willingness to collaborate with their institution. Which works better a focused approach. We will work on X,Y, and Z during the edit-a-thon. or a looser approach, Just drop by and work on what you want to? This is a great question, but one I find difficult to answer. Both approaches can work well, depending on who is in attendance and the general purpose of the event. If content generation is the goal, focus is better. For a general meetup, or an advertised "introduction to Wikipedia," a looser approach is more appropriate. What are some things to avoid when hosting an event? When I host an event, I assume the role of facilitator. I do not dictate how the meetup should be, or set firm expectations. I would never make anyone feel out of line for expressing their opinion, or stupid for asking questions. If you had one piece of advice for a new WLL event organiser, what would it be? Earlier this year, I was lucky enough to attend GLAM Boot Camp in Washington, D.C., where a guest speaker expressed the following words of wisdom that resonated with me: "one is better than none." In the context of event organizing, this means that there is nothing wrong with simply proposing and time and location for a meetup and then seeing if others are willing to join. It might take a few attempts to mobilize a small community. If I had a second piece of advice, it would be to have a good relationship with the librarian(s) or other contacts involved, make sure expectations are set, and align your reasons for hosting the event. Upcoming in December: Wiki Loves Libraries events Open History: Queens and Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon - December 6 at Queens Library, New York, NY If you're hosting a library event in December or January, please add it to collaborations page on Outreach Wiki and we'll put it in the newsletter! Books & Bytes Briefly LOC considers Wikipedia's disambiguation: The Library of Congress Subject Headings, an authoritative classification system in use in libraries all over the world, is an ever-evolving entity. In an article in the e-journal Library Philosophy and Practice, the author suggests that the LCSH should adopt Wikipedia-style disambiguation terms. Read the full article here via the University of Nebraska Library. (PDF) Dewey Deleted? An interesting Articles for Deletion discussion for our article List of Dewey Decimal classes explored aspects of copyright relating to the venerable library system. In related news, OCLC has begun to consider broadening Dewey's license from CC-BY-NC-ND (non-commercial, non-derivative) to CC-BY. CC 4.0: Creative Commons, which created and maintains Wikipedia's CC-BY-SA license, released version 4.0 of their widely used protocol. The Open Knowledge Foundation highlighted the key changes. OA Button Goes live: Open-Access Button, a new lightweight set of browser extensions to highlight when readers hit academic paywalls was released this month. You can get the button and let the world know when journal paywalls inhibit the free flow of knowledge and research. OAuth released: The Wikimedia Foundation finished it's implementation of OAuth. This has big implications for TWL research access integration, because it would let editors sign into third-party websites using only their Wikipedia login. The WMF blog the details. TWL Logo? A discussion was started about a TWL Logo, thinking about adapting existing community logos or starting from scratch. TWL would like to host a new logo competition in the next few months. Please join the discussion. December GLAMOUT: Wikipedia's GLAM consortium is hosting an online discussion Friday, Dec. 6 at 3pm (EDT). There is one spot left to participate, and anyone can listen in through Google Hangouts. The Wikipedia Adventure game goes beta: A new game which teaches how to edit Wikipedia in about an hour was released this week. TWA may be useful to librarians, education classes, and editathons as a friendly and interactive introduction to Wikipedia's technical, social, and policy best practices. Diversity Conference in Berlin: Hosted by WMDE, the event kicked off a global push to add Diversity to Wikipedia contributors and content at the first ever Wikimedia Diversity Conference. WMF blog has a nice overview of the event. You can sign on to the intiative at Meta:Diversity. TWL is always interested in ways to broaden our community and our content with better outreach and research. Free textbooks: ChemWiki, a program to create free and open chemistry textbooks received a grant of $250,000 from the National Science Foundation. The site nets over 2 million visitors a month. Open access and museums: The Mellon Foundation published Images of Works of Art in Museum Collections: The Experience of Open Access A Study of 11 Museums. Further reading There's lots of great digital library information online. Check out these neat resources for more library exploring. The Digital Shift: http://www.thedigitialshift.com In the library with the lead pipe: http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.o= rg Code4Lib: http://code4lib.org/ Digital Public Library of America: http://dp.la The Wikipedia Library partners Credo HighBeam Questia JSTOR Cochrane OCLC resources Reference Desk Resource Exchange Resource Guides Book Sources Online archives wikiprojects Libraries OA Bibliographies Books Journals Citation Unreferenced Fact check outreach Wikipedia Loves Libraries GLAM WMF Grant Thanks for reading! To receive a monthly talk page update about new issues of Books and Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newslet= ter/Recipients To suggest items for the next issue, please contact the editor, The Interior at https://Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/Suggestions. -Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi) @JakeOrlowitz jorlowitz(a)gmail.com

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How lovely live communication works worldwide
by Romaine Wiki 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

Somehow, I don't know how we get that happen, almost every time we use live communication to communicate about projects to enrich and improve the Wikimedia projects, something goes wrong in the communication. Besides the usual problems of connecting to the internet, a lot of software issues occur, then we have a microphone of someone that doesn't work in only one software programme, while it works in others, or we don't get sound out of the programme, programmes that need an account but refuse you to sign up. From Google Hangout, Skype to Mumble, all have issues. I think it would be lovely to have a piece of software maybe hosted by WMF that works for everyone to enable everyone to participate. Currently users are excluded because of insufficient software and it takes too much time to get everything working. The key of the Wikimedia projects is that everyone can participate, besides when it comes to live communication. Greetings, Romaine

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Invitation to WMF November 2013 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, December 5, 19:00 UTC
by Praveena Maharaj 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

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 -- Praveena Maharaj Executive Assistant to the VP of Engineering and Product Development +1 (415) 839 6885 ext. 6689 www.wikimedia.org

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[Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 9, Issue 48 -- 04 December 2013
by Wikipedia Signpost 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

News and notes: One decade of Wikisource; FDC recommendations raise serious questions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-12-04/News_a… Discussion report: Musical scores, diversity conference, Module:Convert, and more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-12-04/Discus… WikiProject report: Electronic Apple Pie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-12-04/WikiPr… Traffic report: Kennedy shot ''Who'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-12-04/Traffi… OOFeatured content: F*&! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-12-04/Featur… Arbitration report: ''Ottoman Empire–Turkey naming dispute'' case opens; New discretionary sanctions draft proposal available for review http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-12-04/Arbitr… Recent research: Reciprocity and reputation motivate contributions to Wikipedia; indigenous knowledge and "cultural imperialism"; how PR people see Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-12-04/Recent… Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-12-04 http://identi.ca/wikisignpost / https://twitter.com/wikisignpost -- Wikipedia Signpost Staff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost _______________________________________________ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l

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Wikimedia Israel elected new external board members
by Itzik Edri 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

Hi everyone, Earlier today Wikimedia Israel held its General Assembly. The Assembly elected 3 new board members and one member for the audit committee. In July 2013, the General Assembly authorized the board to extend the board with two board members from outside the community. These two members aimed to strengthen the board’s professional capabilities, bringing a new and fresh take on processes and activities, and contributing from their extensive connections and experience. I’m proud to introduce our new board members and audit committee: Prof. Karine Nahon <http://ekarine.org/about/>: an associate professor at the Information School (University of Washington), faculty adjunct at the department of Communication, affiliated faculty at the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement and former director of the Center for Information & Society in University of Washington. Currently, she co-chairs the Digital and Social Media track at HICSS. She as an expert in decision-making forums (nationally and internationally) and is publicly active on topics of open government. She acts as a member of the Israeli CIO (Chief Information Officer) Cabinet, member of the board of the Freedom of Information Movement, and board of the Workshop for Open Knowledge. She represents Israel in the UN in the committee for science and technology. Prof. [[Sheizaf Rafaeli <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheizaf_Rafaeli>]] is Professor and Dean at the School of Management (Graduate School of Business Administration) Haifa GSB, University of Haifa Israel and additionally Founder and Director of the Sagy Center for Internet Research and the Games for Managers Project. He has been writing in the popular press for the Globes and Calcalist financial and business newspapers, and for YNet, a leading news portal, where he has published hundreds of weekly columns. Over the past twenty five years he has taught courses on computers as media, and the social implications of new communication technologies, as well as numerous Information Systems' courses. Wikimania 2011 attendees were perhaps remembering him as the host of the opening event :). Shani Evenstein decided shorten her term as a board member, and the GA appointed Ido Ivri, who was a member of the audit committee, to replace her in the board till the next board election. Shani joined Wikimedia Israel after Wikimania 2011 in Haifa. She is a live proof of the contribution of Wikimania to a local chapter. She immediately began to develop the GLAM awareness in Israel, and successful created the connections and lead all of WMIL's GLAM collaborations, among them our successful cooperation with the Israeli Museum and the National Library. Her dedications to the movement and to the chapter were not limited to the GLAM projects and her touch was in many of Wikimedia Israel activities over the last few years. The Assembly and the board are thanking her for her dedication, energy, thoughts, ideas and her special contribution to WMIL. Ido Ivri, who will replace her on the board, is the Manager of Business Development and Innovation at the National Library of Israel, in the office of the Library's Executive Director. Ido is an open source/open content enthusiast, and has been a volunteer in Wikimedia-IL since 2011. He holds a B.Sc in computer science from the Hebrew University, and currently studying for an MBA in the Recanati Executive program in Tel Aviv University. Also, the Assembly decided to accept the board recommendation and to select external member of the community, Adi Zamir, as a member of the Audit committee - a step that will increase the ability of the committee to monitor and make external and independent review of the organization activities, as part of the professionalism steps of Wikimedia Israel. Adi Zamir has education and experience in various fields. She is a Senior Project manager, Training and organizational consultant for CEO's and lecturer at the academic college of Tel aviv–Yafo. Adi's brings to the audit committee her varied experience. We please that Prof. Rafaeli, Prof. Nahon and Ms Zamir agreed to join our community and support our vision. We have no doubt they will be a major force in the organizational development of WMIL and a great contribution to the movement in general. Regards, Itzik Edri Chairperson

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