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Gregory Varnum
Communications Strategist (Contractor)
Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org/>
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> On Oct 20, 2016, at 12:23 PM, Gregory Varnum <gvarnum(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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> Sent on behalf of Tony Le and Jaime Villagomez.
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> Greetings,
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> The audit report of the Wikimedia Foundation and frequently asked questions about the audit report for the fiscal year ending 30 June 2016 are now available at: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Financial_reports <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Financial_reports>
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> The audit is conducted annually as a part of our financial oversight, and provides an overview of basic information about the organization's financial position and its overall financial health. This audit report has been approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Audit Committee -- a board subcommittee -- and presented to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees for their review.
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> Please contact us via email if you have any questions.
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> Thank you,
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> Jaime Villagomez, Wikimedia Foundation Chief Financial Officer (jvillagomez(a)wikimedia.org <mailto:jvillagomez@wikimedia.org>)
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> Tony Le, Wikimedia Foundation Controller (tle(a)wikimedia.org <mailto:tle@wikimedia.org>)
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Hello,
As you might already be aware, the Wikimedia Foundation is currently
consulting the community on a potential upgrade to Creative Commons
Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International as the default license in the
Wikimedia Terms of Use. You can learn more about the license and join the
discussion on Meta-Wiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/Creative_Commons_4.0
As part of this consultation, we are hosting an office hour on IRC, in the
#wikimedia-office channel, from 14:00–15:00 UTC on Wednesday, October 19.
It will be staffed by several attorneys in the Foundation's Legal Team to
discuss the license and other questions in the discussion. You can learn
more about joining the IRC office hour here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
To propose discussion topics ahead of time, feel free to add them here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/Creative_Commons_4.0/IRC_offic…
If you have any questions or comments about the license, please do join the
discussion! We hope to see you there.
Best regards,
Joe Sutherland
Community Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation
Dear all,
I am pleased to announce, on behalf of the Affiliations Committee, the
recognition of a new Wikimedia User Group: Tremendous Wiktionary User
Group [1]
The idea behind this new User Group is to promote and develop
Wiktionaries, raise the awareness of this project and collaborate not
just between wiktionaries but also with other projects such as Wikidata.
Welcome, Wiktionarians!
1:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/Tremendous_Wiktionary_User_Group
--
"*Jülüjain wane mmakat* ein kapülain tü alijunakalirua jee wayuukanairua
junain ekerolaa alümüin supüshuwayale etijaanaka. Ayatashi waya junain."
Carlos M. Colina
Socio, A.C. Wikimedia Venezuela | RIF J-40129321-2 |
www.wikimedia.org.ve <http://wikimedia.org.ve>
Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Affiliations Committee
Phone: +972-52-4869915
Twitter: @maor_x
El logotipo y el nombre de Wikimedia, Wikimedia Venezuela, Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Incubator, Wiktionary y otros proyectos relacionados son marcas registradas usadas bajo permiso expreso de su titular, la Fundación Wikimedia, Inc., una organización sin fines de lucro. Otros nombres y marcas pertenecen a sus respectivos propietarios.
Asociación Civil Wikimedia Venezuela (Wikimedia Venezuela) | RIF.: J-40129321-2 | Los Teques, Estado Miranda. Venezuela
Dear Wikimedia friends,
For the 9th time since the Funds Dissemination Committee was created, the
Annual Plan Grants process needs your eyes, brains and analytic skills.
Since October 1st, 11 Wikimedia affiliates have posted their proposal for
review by the FDC...and you. These consist of annual plans and budgets,
with a detail of what programs and activities those organizations are
planning for the year 2017.
This opens the time for community review, a month long process in which we
need as many people as possible giving their feedback on the proposals,
asking questions or clarifications and analyzing the initiatives that our
movement affiliates have developped for the year to come.
In November, the FDC will meet to make recommendations to Wikimedia
Foundation's Board of Trustees on how to allocate movement funds to these
affiliates in order to achieve the most impact. Your input and
participation will be valuable as they make these recommendations.
You can find the proposals linked from the Community review portal here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2016-2017_round_1
The organizations whose proposals, plans and budgets are available for your
review include:
Amical Wikimedia, Wikimedia Argentina, Wikimedia CH, Wikimedia Deutschland
e.V., Wikimedia Israel, Wikimedia Nederland, Wikimedia Serbia, Wikimedia
Sverige, Wikimedia UK
Wikimedia Ukraine, Wikimedia Österreich
You can leave your feedback on the proposal discussion page.
Visit the annual plan grant portal [*] for more information about the
program, the FDC, or upcoming milestones. You can reach the FDC support
staff at FDCsupport(a)wikimedia.org. More information about past APG rounds,
recommendations, reports from organizations can be found on the proposal
page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals
*More about community review*:
The APG proposal submission date is followed by a 30-day open comment
period, when anyone is invited to provide input on and ask questions about
a specific proposal on its discussion page.
Applicants are also expected to respond to input and questions during this
period, although they are not able to change the proposal form itself after
the submission date.
The FDC will review the discussion pages during their deliberations in
November as one of many inputs to the decision-making process. While anyone
may comment on proposals after the open comment period closes on 31
October, the FDC may not be able to take comments made after this period
into consideration when reaching its decisions.
*How to review*:
Please visit the community review page to view the proposals being
considered and follow the instructions. While the proposals are only
available in English, your comments can be in any language.
*Why your feedback matters*:
We hope this open comment period will add to an in-depth and robust review
of each proposal, and help keep our grantmaking transparent and
collaborative. The FDC highly values feedback and insights from the
Wikimedia community in making its funding recommendations.
Thank you for the time you’ll take to review these proposals,
Best,
Delphine
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Delphine Ménard
Program Officer, Annual Plan Grants
Wikimedia Foundation
Dear all,
I am honoured to announce, on behalf of the Affiliations Committee, the
recognition of another Wikimedia User Group, and the last one for the
day: Art+Feminism [1][2]
Art + Feminisim aims to improve the coverage of women and the arts on
Wikipedia, by organizing edit workshops and sessions. On March of each
year, a simultaneous Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon takes place in
many countries. Actually, over 2,500 people at more than 175 locations
participated in this year's event. Awesome, eh? 8-)
Welcome, colleagues!
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism
2: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Art%2BFeminism_User_Group
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"*Jülüjain wane mmakat* ein kapülain tü alijunakalirua jee wayuukanairua
junain ekerolaa alümüin supüshuwayale etijaanaka. Ayatashi waya junain."
Carlos M. Colina
Socio, A.C. Wikimedia Venezuela | RIF J-40129321-2 |
www.wikimedia.org.ve <http://wikimedia.org.ve>
Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Affiliations Committee
Phone: +972-52-4869915
Twitter: @maor_x
El logotipo y el nombre de Wikimedia, Wikimedia Venezuela, Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Incubator, Wiktionary y otros proyectos relacionados son marcas registradas usadas bajo permiso expreso de su titular, la Fundación Wikimedia, Inc., una organización sin fines de lucro. Otros nombres y marcas pertenecen a sus respectivos propietarios.
Asociación Civil Wikimedia Venezuela (Wikimedia Venezuela) | RIF.: J-40129321-2 | Los Teques, Estado Miranda. Venezuela
Dear all,
I am pleased to announce, on behalf of the Affiliations Committee, the
recognition of a new Wikimedia User Group, the third one today: GLAM
Macedonia User Group [1]
As its name indicates, the group is composed of wikimedians, teachers
and researchers interested in organizing projects and events with the
participation of different GLAM and educational institutions in Macedonia.
Welcome!
1: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Macedonia_User_Group
--
"*Jülüjain wane mmakat* ein kapülain tü alijunakalirua jee wayuukanairua
junain ekerolaa alümüin supüshuwayale etijaanaka. Ayatashi waya junain."
Carlos M. Colina
Socio, A.C. Wikimedia Venezuela | RIF J-40129321-2 |
www.wikimedia.org.ve <http://wikimedia.org.ve>
Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Affiliations Committee
Phone: +972-52-4869915
Twitter: @maor_x
El logotipo y el nombre de Wikimedia, Wikimedia Venezuela, Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Incubator, Wiktionary y otros proyectos relacionados son marcas registradas usadas bajo permiso expreso de su titular, la Fundación Wikimedia, Inc., una organización sin fines de lucro. Otros nombres y marcas pertenecen a sus respectivos propietarios.
Asociación Civil Wikimedia Venezuela (Wikimedia Venezuela) | RIF.: J-40129321-2 | Los Teques, Estado Miranda. Venezuela
Dear all,
I am pleased to announce, on behalf of the Affiliations Committee, the
recognition of a new Wikimedia User Group: Whose Knowlegde? [1]
Our colleagues are organizing their efforts to correct the skewed
representations of knowledge across the different Wikimedia projects and
the internet as a whole. It is open to everyone who wants to help
correcting the bias on our projects, especially those wikimedians who
identify as women, LGBTQI and people from lesser-developed countries
-yeah, I saved a kitten :-)
Welcome aboard!
1: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Whose_Knowledge%3F
--
"*Jülüjain wane mmakat* ein kapülain tü alijunakalirua jee wayuukanairua
junain ekerolaa alümüin supüshuwayale etijaanaka. Ayatashi waya junain."
Carlos M. Colina
Socio, A.C. Wikimedia Venezuela | RIF J-40129321-2 |
www.wikimedia.org.ve <http://wikimedia.org.ve>
Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Affiliations Committee
Phone: +972-52-4869915
Twitter: @maor_x
El logotipo y el nombre de Wikimedia, Wikimedia Venezuela, Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Incubator, Wiktionary y otros proyectos relacionados son marcas registradas usadas bajo permiso expreso de su titular, la Fundación Wikimedia, Inc., una organización sin fines de lucro. Otros nombres y marcas pertenecen a sus respectivos propietarios.
Asociación Civil Wikimedia Venezuela (Wikimedia Venezuela) | RIF.: J-40129321-2 | Los Teques, Estado Miranda. Venezuela
Hi Ellie,
(Breaking this into a separate thread)
1. Thanks for the link to the evaluation criteria (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016_judging_criteria>
wiki/Wikimania_2016_judging_
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016_judging_criteria>criteria
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016_judging_criteria>). Those
look like they are well developed.
2. On the topic of goals and strategy, let me be more specific about what I
think Wikimania could leverage from the Wikimedia Conference. Over the past
two years, since the hiring of the Program and Engagement Coordinator for
the Wikimedia Conference, WMCON has had extensive documentation about its
planning, goals, and evaluation. See:
1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016
2.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016/Documentation_and…
3.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016/Feedback_evaluati…
4. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016/Report
5. https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMCON_Follow-Up_Day
6.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference/Program_and_Engagement…
While extensive documentation does not automatically imply that the
conferences were successful, I believe that WMDE is making valuable efforts
toward (1) helping attendees to prepare for the conference in order to
maximize the value of the conference to them and their organizations, (2)
documenting goals for the conference, (3) documenting how well the
conference was received, (4) documenting what subsequent actions in
Wikimedia affiliates were influenced by information exchanges or
relationship developments at the conference, and (5) documenting whether
conference goals were achieved. I would hope that Wikimania could take some
inspiration from the Wikimedia Conference in these areas. I am cc'ing
Cornelius from WMDE in case he would like to add any comments.
Regarding staff support for conferences, I'm glad to hear that WMF is
providing more paid staff support for Wikimanias. I would like to see this
trend continue, both for Wikimania and for national conferences. Depending
on volunteers to exhaust themselves in order to plan and execute
conferences is a circumstance that I think we would all like to avoid.
Volunteer time is a precious resource. I am keen on achieving economies in
the WMF budget, and I am also keen on achieving movement strategic goals.
Event support, for Wikimania and regional/thematic conferences, is one of
the domains where careful additional investment of WMF resources could be
valuable, whether by adding WMF staff/contractor time or adding resources
for affiliates to hire event contractors. I hope that these factors will be
included in WMF's consideration of its future goals, strategy, and resource
commitments for Wikimania and other conferences.
Regards,
Pine
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Ellie.
>
> On the topic of event safety, I am wondering if there is a standard
> checklist that WMF uses when narrowing potential sites for Wikimanias and
> if you could make that checklist public. Perhaps it is public already but I
> don't know where to find it.
>
This is what we were using for the past few Wikimanias. It is public.
I reference it in the recent posting as well. I will be updating this
since we are no longer doing the competitive bidding process but it does
have a lot of information and is pretty accurate.
Regarding Wikimania goals and strategy, I'd like to suggest that WMF take a
> look at what our friends in WMDE have done with the Wikimedia Conference to
> increase focus on specific topics and to make conference outcomes a bit
> clearer and more measurable.
>
WMF funds with a grant this conference and works closely with WMDE.
There was a proposal a couple of years ago to have a paid program and
events coordinator who would provide continuity year to year and liaise
with other conferences/groups. There is also paid meeting planner as well
as staff support from the WMDE itself.
> I also like that WMDE devotes significant staff support to the conference,
> which decreases the burden on volunteers; I would like to see a similar
> shift for Wikimania so the event is less dependent on heroic efforts from
> volunteers. I realize that there is financial cost involved with increased
> staff support for conferences; this is one area in which increased
> expenditure makes sense to me.
>
We started that in London and Mexico City Wikimania with my position and a
paid local coordinator (Esino Lario was an exception where the local team
received a grant and handled pretty much everything.)
> I look forward to hearing about further developments.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pine
>
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Wikimedia Foundation
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Dear all,
I have prepared a status report on Board transparency and published it on
Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_Governance_Commi…
Please feel free to share your thoughts/comments/suggestions on the talk
page. I do not pretend to be able to affect/influence the whole situation.
Thus I started by publishing the summary of how the things are at this
moment from my point of view, including current thoughts for possible
changes and next steps.
I have tried to keep to the structure of the page on the BGC task on Board
transparency:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_Governance_Commi…
I intend to be as transparent as possible while talking about transparency.
And I would expect the same from you. But please be respectful to others
and assume good faith. We are not pointing at some “bad” people; we are
trying to improve how the system works, so that fewer things depend on who
is (or is not) a member of the Board of Trustees, who is the secretary of
the Board, etc.
I am really thankful that the Wikimedia movement has introduced me to lots
and lots of fantastic people. I just want us to work better together.
And here is the link again:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_Governance_Commi…
Best regards,
antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv
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