Hi everyone,
as detailed by Erik earlier [1], the Foundation is changing its
reporting from the monthly cycle that has been in place since 2008 to
a quarterly rhythm. A main reason being to better align it with the
quarterly planning and goalsetting process that has been extended to
the entire organization since Lila took the helm. The first of these
new quarterly reports is set to come out on February 15, and while the
content is being filled out over the next week, we wanted to provide
an opportunity for the entire community to comment on the planned
structure.
The main objectives and design principles for this report are:
* Accountability: Help our movement and our supporters understand how
we spend our effort, and what we accomplish.
* Learning together: Highlight important internal & external data,
trends and lessons.
* Presentable: Anyone, from volunteer to the executive director,
should be able to present the work of the WMF using this report.
* Reasonable effort: Pull as much as possible from existing sources,
e.g., quarterly review slide decks & minutes.
We have decided that this iteration of the new report will appear in
the format of a slide deck suitable for a 90 minute presentation,
which means that it will need to focus on the highest priorities in
each area, linking to the quarterly review documentation and other
material for further detail.
See the mockup (linked below) for the intended structure, which
includes the following sections:
*Key metrics (expanding the "Data and Trends" section of the previous
monthly reports, adding a red/green/yellow indicator to provide
context on whether each number is seen as concerning, positive or
neutral), and overall insights/takeaways from this quarter
For each priority work area:
*What we said (previously set goals) and what we did (results).
*What we learned (how should the results impact the work going
forward? What insights can the Foundation or the movement take away?)
and concluding with:
*What's next (excerpt of the highest priority goals for the next quarter)
The draft structure (with mocked up content - not the actual report
yet) can be found here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_reports
Please leave comments there. We will try to take them into account
while tweaking the structure further, and of course, this being the
first iteration, we are likely to make many further changes for the
next quarterly report.
Note: This report is going to cover the second quarter of the
Foundation's fiscal year (October-December 2014). The remaining
monthly reports under the old model until September have all been
published by now, you can find them at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_reports .
[1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaannounce-l/2014-November/001…
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Tilman Bayer
Senior Analyst
Wikimedia Foundation
IRC (Freenode): HaeB
Dear all,
The next WMF metrics and activities will take place on Thursday, February
5, 2015 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.
Each month at the metrics meeting, we will:
* Welcome recent hires
* Present reports/updates that are focused on a key theme or topic. The
theme for February’s meeting is: Global South
* Engage in questions/discussions
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 Product & Strategy and the VP of
Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation \\ www.wikimediafoundation.org
Dear all,
Is there a way to know how many people use Wikipedia per interface language? Said in other words, I want to know how many people display the Wikimedia project interface in the different version of German and Alemannisch.
Thanks for your help
Charles
___________________________________________________________
I use this email for mailing list only.
Charles ANDRES, Chief Science Officer
"Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge –
www.wikimedia.ch <http://www.wikimedia.ch/>
Skype: charles.andres.wmch
IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch <irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch>
OTRS does not even bother replying to the consents I send them. Thus the
images I have received releases for get deleted. Going forwards I am simply
uploading to En Wikipedia. Not ideal but not sure what the solution is.
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James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
Hi everyone,
FYI:
Wikimedia CH launches its micro-grants program for 2015.
Please find below the message that we were sending out today to announce this to our communities.
What might be a matter of particular interest to you:
In order to be eligible for a WMCH micro-grant (1- 500CHF ≈ 1 - 540USD ), people must
* be active in a Wikimedia project in one of the Swiss languages (German, French, Italian or Romansh)
* AND coming from Switzerland
** OR coming from a country with no Wikimedia chapter
** OR a country with a Wikimedia chapter not receiving FDC funding (e.g. no unrestricted grant)
Best wishes and in case you have any questions, please get back to us.
Muriel for Wikimedia CH
Anfang der weitergeleiteten Nachricht:
> Von: Muriel Staub <muriel.staub(a)wikimedia.ch>
> Betreff: [Wikimediach-l] Announcement: Micro-Grants
> Datum: 4. Februar 2015 13:25:46 MEZ
> An: Wikimedians in Switzerland <wikimediach-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Antwort an: Wikimedians in Switzerland <wikimediach-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
> Liebe Wikimedianer/innen in der Schweiz,
>
> wir freuen uns, hiermit das Micro-Grants Programm von Wikimedia CH für das Jahr 2015 zu lancieren.
> Falls du in einem Wikimedia Projekt aktiv bist und ein kleines Budget brauchst, um eine bestimmte Aktivität oder ein Projekt umzusetzen, kannst du mit Hilfe des folgenden Links einen Antrag dafür einreichen:
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CH/Micro-Grant/de
>
> Auf dieser Seite auf Meta findest du auch alle weiteren Informationen, die dir in Bezug auf einen erfolgreichen Antrag für ein Mikro-Budget weiterhelfen, und zwar in deutscher, französischer, italienischer und englischer Sprache.
>
> Falls du Fragen hast oder deine Idee besprechen möchtest, wende dich gerne an die Community Liaisons von Wikimedia CH.
>
> Dein Wikimedia CH Team
>
> ——
> Chers Wikimédiens de Suisse,
>
> Nous sommes heureux de vous annoncer le lancement du programme des Micro-grants de Wikimédia CH pour l'année 2015.
> Si vous êtes un Wikimédien actif et que vous avez besoin d'un micro-budget pour mettre en place une activité qui impactera un projet Wikimédia, vous pouvez soumettre votre requête sur Meta via le lien suivant:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CH/Micro-Grant/fr
>
> De plus, vous y trouverez des informations supplémentaires pour soumettre votre demande en allemand, en français, en italien ainsi qu'en anglais.
>
> En dernier lieu, sachez que les coordinateurs régionaux de Wikimédia CH se tiennent à votre disposition pour échanger sur vos idées et répondre à vos questions.
>
> Cordialement,
> Wikimédia CH
>
> ——
> Cari Wikimediani della Svizzera
>
> Vi informiamo stiamo lanciando il nostro programma di Micro-grants per 2015.
> Se sei un Wikimediano attivo ed hai bisogno di un micro-budget per realizzare le attività che abbiano un impatto sui progetti Wikimedia, basta inviare la richiesta su Meta:
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CH/Micro-Grant/it
>
> Su Meta si possono trovare ulteriori informazioni in italiano, francese, tedesco, e inglese.
>
> Infine i Community Managers di Wikimedia CH sono a vostra disposizione per domande e per discutere le vostre idee.
>
> I nostri migliori saluti,
> Wikimedia CH
>
> ——
> Dear Wikimedians in Switzerland
>
> We’re glad to inform you that we launch the Micro-grants Program of Wikimedia CH for 2015.
> If you’re an active Wikimedian and you need a micro-budget to realize an activity or a project with an impact on a Wikimedia Project, submit your request on Meta with the help of the following link:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CH/Micro-Grant
>
> On Meta you’ll also find all further information that you need to successfully apply in german, french, italian and english language.
>
> Last but not least, the Community Liaisons of Wikimedia CH are glad to answer your questions or to discuss your idea beforehand.
>
> Our very best wishes,
> Wikimedia CH
>
> _______________________________________________
> http://wikimedia.ch Wikimedia CH website
> Wikimediach-l mailing list
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l
I applied for OTRS a while back and was turned down. Not sure why. I have
arranged the release of 10s of thousands of medical images and uploaded
nearly a thousand myself. Am involved in dozens of collaborations with like
minded organizations and I have a good grasp of copyright. Anyway I now
have someone to ping when I need a faster response.
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
Hi all,
The past weekend was great! Wikimedia was at FOSDEM, the Free and Open
Source Software Developers' European Meeting, organised as the university
ULB in Brussels, Belgium! We had there a stand with flyers about Wikipedia,
Wikimedia, Wikimedia Belgium, and a lot of goodies.
In the Wikimedia movement we often discuss the Gendergap, as one of the
gaps we have. Wikipedia/Wikimedia looks very much likes FOSDEM, but there
the Gendergap is even larger. Wikipedia/Wikimedia needs a more social
development, we need software which enables users to form groups in an easy
way. The female contributors to Wikipedia do like two things: having in
person meetings to socialize with other editors, and second they need more
social software. The education extension is a primitive form of what is
needed. We need an extension where users easily can form groups (namespace
Groups: or something, used by an extension), where they easily can see the
recent changes of edits of group members only, to be able to actively
interact with other group members and having a long term participation in
Wikipedia. Having software where users, interest groups or a group of
editors from an external organisation can work together.
To translate it for the tech community: Wikipedia needs a kind of
*phabricator* with groups, tasks, assignments, and so on, but then for on
Wikipedia itself.
Yes, Wikipedia is not a social network, but we need to create an
environment in what we enable people to have a collaboration on a more
visible way (if people want to).
That is my clear conclusion after this conference where I spoke with a lot
of women about editing on Wikipedia, but also based on many project of the
past years we organised.
At FOSDEM I also spoke with someone from the Dutch government who is
working on creating an open source free licensed dictionary for words that
are used in specific parts of the government and they like to do a project
with Wikimedia!
They also like to re-use the data from Wiktionary, but they experienced
that that was a bit difficult. So a large donation of words for Wiktionary
is on its way!
If anyone is interested to go to next years FOSDEM and want to help at the
stand, where we also like to include more information about MediaWiki, let
us know!
Romaine
Hi all,
During March we will be running an Inspire Campaign to proactively source
and support new projects aimed at addressing Wikimedia’s gender gap:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire_Grants_%E2%80%93_Gen…
Our goals are two-fold:
1. Experiment with running scalable themed campaigns in IdeaLab to incubate
more initiatives aimed at having a focused collective impact.
2. Proactively support community initiatives aimed at increasing gender
diversity in contributors to, and content of, Wikimedia projects.
Why are we piloting with a gender gap theme? A variety of initiatives are
needed to increase diversity and reduce systemic bias on Wikimedia
projects, but so far these haven’t emerged organically at scale. Without
taking time to focus together on increasing gender diversity in our content
and contributors, this trend is likely to continue. WMF’s Individual
Engagement Grants and Project and Event Grants could support such
initiatives, and we're interested to learn how specifically inviting
proposals in this area can have an impact.
March is WikiWomen’s History Month, and it’s a great time to focus extra
attention and energy together on addressing the gender gap.
We need your help! We’re looking for volunteers to join our team in the
following roles:
1. Community organizers: Spread the the word about the campaign to your
local communities, maintain a friendly space in IdeaLab, facilitate
development of ideas and project teams. (March)
2. Translators: Translate campaign content and gender gap resources into
your language. This is a global campaign, so all languages are welcome.
Some languages we’d particularly like to be able to support include:
Spanish, Arabic, Malayalam, Telugu, and Ukrainian. (February and March)
3. Funding committee: Facilitate development of ideas to grant proposals,
support idea-creators to improve proposals, greenlight projects for funding
via either Individual Engagement Grants or Project & Event Grants. (March
and April)
If you’re interested in any of the above roles, please signup under
“Participants” on the planning page or email Siko or Alex by February 10th.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire_Grants_%E2%80%93_Gen…
Warm regards,
The Inspire Team
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Siko Bouterse
Head of Individual Grants
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org
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