Congratulations to all the elected Board members! :) Thanks for sharing
these results.
Cheers,
Katy
On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 7:47 AM, Samat <samat78(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> On November 27, 2016 Wikimedia Hungary held a general meeting, which
> elected the board of the chapter for the next two year.
>
> The new boards is:
> * president: Péter Gervai (User:grin, re-elected)
> * executive vice-president: Tamás Mészöly (User:Samat, re-elected but new
> role)
> * financial vice-president: Balázs Viczian (User:Vince, new)
> * board member: Orsolya Gyenes (User:OrsolyaVirág, re-elected)
> * board member: Anna Krizsán (User:nyiffi, new member).
>
> Gábor Bihary (User:Peyerk) and Mónika Balogh (User:RepliCarter) resigned
> from the board.
>
> Best regards,
> Samat
>
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Hi everyone,
There's just a few more days to vote on the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey,
to help determine what WMF's Community Tech team will be working on next
year:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey
Everyone is invited to show your support for the features and changes that
you want to see. The top 10 proposals with the most support votes will be
Community Tech's to-do list for the year, and the wishes below the top 10
will be offered to other staff and volunteer developers as highly-valued
projects.
Voting ends on Monday at 23:59 UTC, so please come by and check it out
while there's still time to vote!
Danny Horn
Senior Product Manager, Community Tech
Screenshot of what I mean:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inline_donor_bannerbass.png
Inline ads are generally considered to be something that gets into
scummy advertising territory (for example even adblock plus's rather
questionable Acceptable Ad policy doesn't accept them).
On a related note the FAQ appears to be out of date:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/FAQ/en
Unless we are still in the 2015-2016 fiscal year.
--
geni
Dear Wikimedians,
Earlier this week I informed you that Christian Rickerts might become the
Undersecretary of State for the new Berlin ministry of economy, energy and
enterprises. This has been confirmed today and Christian has stepped down
from his WMDE role.
I am very pleased to announce that the WMDE Supervisory Board appointed
Abraham Taherivand as Interim Executive Director as of 8 December 2016.
Abraham has joined WMDE in March 2012 and is the Head of our Software
Development department. He has been on the transition team during the last
ED search, has headed our works council and has been appointed deputy of
the Executive Director recently. In his multiple roles, Abraham’s decisions
have always been made in the sense of the Wikimedia Deutschland as a whole.
With immediate effect, he has the full rights and duties of the Executive
Director and will also continue to lead the Software Development Department.
This solution allows us as a board to approach the next steps with the
necessary calmness and deliberate thought. On 28-29 January 2017, we will
meet for our regular board retreat and discuss all questions regarding the
permanent filling of the ED position.
Christian, once again a big thank you for your work with us.
Congratulations and a good start in politics. I would like to thank you,
Abraham, for your agreement to take on this crucial task and look forward
to the further, close cooperation with you!
I will keep you posted on future updates in the transition process.
For the Supervisory Board
Tim Moritz Hector
Chair
--
Tim Moritz Hector
Chair of the Board
Wikimedia Deutschland
As the year end approaches, here's a few important updates about the
Wikipedia Store:
Change in management: The Wikipedia Store project has moved under Michael
Beattie [1] and his team of amazingly experienced donor support agents. Sandra
Hust [2] will be the primary contact for internal orders, questions and
operations, while Michael Beattie will be responsible for the management of
the project itself. I [3] will remain responsible for the Volunteer
Giveaway Program. We hope this team will bring a much needed stability for
this project and allow us to streamline processes to match the new fiscal
year's budget.
Fulfillment partner: We will be migrating to a new fulfillment partner in
January. That means that the store will be closed through January for
inventory counting, shipping merchandise and setting up of new vendor. If
you think you or your organisation will need merchandise during January,
February and March (for Wikipedia 16 anniversary, editathons or just to be
given to volunteers), please plan to order them before December 31st.
(please note: deliveries may be delayed due to year end traffic). After
that date, the store (internal and external channels) will be closed and
unable to fulfill any orders until we have completed the transition to the
new vendor.
Let us know if you have any questions!
Cheers,
--
Seddon
*Advancement Associate (Community Engagement)*
*Wikimedia Foundation*
[1] mbeattie {at} wikimedia.org
[2] shust {at} wikimedia.org
[3] jseddon {at} wikimedia.org
Dear Wikimedians,
On Saturday, the Green Party has resolved the coalition agreement for the
future Berlin government and nominated their future government officials. The
new designated Minister of economics, Ramona Pop, asked Christian to become
her Undersecretary of State for the new Berlin ministry of economy, energy
and enterprises. Now things are going to happen quite quickly: The future
senate is scheduled to be constituted on December 8th. Right after that,
Christian would take on the new responsibility.
The Supervisory Board of Wikimedia Deutschland and Christian agree that
this is a great opportunity that he should accept. I also see this as a
huge compliment to our work at Wikimedia Deutschland.
We are aware that this opportunity brings a lot of change for our
organisation for the near future as well. Christian and I are currently
working on the next steps together with our staff and community. We will
provide you with regular updates regarding the transition process.
Thank you very much and kind regards
Tim Moritz Hector
--
Tim Moritz Hector
Chair of the Board
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V.
Hello all,
I'm glad to announce that for Wikidata's 5th birthday, we will organize a
great event, built by and for the Wikidata community.
The WikidataCon will take place on October 28th-29th, 2017, in Berlin. I
don't have a lot of details for now, everything will be built with the
volunteers, and the main information will be published here:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017
If you have any question or suggestion, feel free to talk to me :)
Bests,
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Communication Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
We got some great responses from last friday's question and definitely some
that we are going to test in our banner copy. So I will keep this format
going for as long as people feel engaged.
*Today's short answer question:*
*Why is it important that everyone in the world have access to knowledge?*
Answers on the following digital piece of paper:
https://goo.gl/forms/WfzqYJreEbYV9MPI2
Many Thanks
--
Seddon
*Advancement Associate (Community Engagement)*
*Wikimedia Foundation*
*NB: If this appears to be something that is going to last I will look at a
better open source solution for the form capture. *
Hello!
We are coming up to that time of year again with the launch of our English
fundraiser. Our E-mail campaign is already underway and in a little under
three weeks time, the banner campaign will launch in the US, UK, Canada,
Australia, New Zealand and Ireland on Giving Tuesday [1], November 29,
2016. We will continue to try and limit the disruption from these banners.
Our current expectation is to run our banners for all traffic for the first
two weeks. Following that we will some combination of either reducing the
amount of traffic being shown banners or the number of times a banner is
shown to each user. There will then be one last final push before the end
of December. It is my hope to update you after both of these stages with
our progress.
It is certainly no secret that it is a very important period for
fundraising as our December activities are responsible for raising around
45% of all movement funds. As we reported in last years fundraising report
[2] and at the September metrics meeting [3] we continue to adapt to the
shift in our readership from desktop to mobile. Over the last two years,
our e-mail efforts have played an increasingly major role in our
fundraising to counter this shift and will certainly be the case over the
next two months.
As always it’s critical for my team to have both broader staff and
community input in our fundraising efforts. This year we have been working
closely with the Reading product team along with members from both the
Reading and Editing design teams to improve our fundraising flow, in
particular, trying to keep closer to the new standardised Wikimedia UI
guidelines [4]. In addition to this, over the last five months we ran a
number of staff and community feedback sessions and we have been very
grateful to everyone who took part in those. They proved very successful in
providing both a constructive critical eye for existing banner and email
appeals as well being a source for a plethora of new ideas.
The plan is that we will run more of these in conjunction with some of our
major campaigns throughout the year. This will start with a series of
sessions focusing on the English Campaign and would like to invite you all
to a number of session being run over the next two weeks:
* Thursday 17th November @ 1300 UTC
* Thursday 17th November @ 1900 UTC
* Monday 21st November @ 0100 UTC
Please do sign up and find out more information [5]. Participation will be
via IRC, Youtube live & via Google Hangout for ease of participation.
As always if you have ideas and are not able to participate in these
sessions you can leave feedback on our Fundraising Ideas page where you can
see links to our current fundraising banners and current appeal text [5].
Over the last year: use of Phabricator [6] for bug reporting; event and
related content specific banners; improving the ease with which to dismiss
banners; numerous improvements to the language used; and country specific
images all came about from suggestions made on that page. So please do keep
the ideas coming and I would like to thank you all in advance both for your
input into the campaigns but more importantly the awesome work in building
one of the largest sources of freely accessible knowledge in human history.
I look forward to working with you all in the coming weeks.
Many Thanks
--
Seddon
*Advancement Associate (Community Engagement)*
*Wikimedia Foundation*
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giving_Tuesday
[2] 2015-2016 WMF Fundraising Report:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2015-2016_Fundraising_Report
[3] September 2016 Metrics Meeting Presentation:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/September_2016_Monthly_…
[4] Wikimedia Design Guide
Color palettes https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/M82
Collection of widgets: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/M101
Demo widgets in OOjs UI:
https://doc.wikimedia.org/oojs-ui/master/demos/#widgets-mediawiki-ltr
[5] To sign up for a feedback session -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/Community_Feedback_Series_2#Ses…
[6] To suggest new banners ideas visit the test ideas meta page -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2016-17_Fundraising_ideas
[7] To file a bug report or technical issue, please create a phabricator
Ticket -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?template=118862
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimania '17 conference
organizers, we are now seeking volunteers to serve on the Scholarship
Review Committee for Wikimania 2017
<https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania>. Wikimania
scholarships are a special type of Travel and Participation Support
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Grants:TPS>
offering, administered by the WMF in partnership with the Wikimania
host team, with the purpose of bringing active Wikimedians from around
the world to attend Wikimania. The scholarship review committee is an
important and diverse group of volunteers who help promote the
program and review/select applicants. We encourage people from all
Wikimedia wikis to apply, so that the committee can handle
applications in many different languages.
The main duties of the committee members are:
* Assist
the WMF
in determining the requirements
and criteria
for scholarship applicants
(
WMF will provide eligibility filtering as well as materials and tools
to the Scholarship Committee members
.
The Committee
will only review applicants after initial eligibility has been assessed by WMF
.)
* Assure that there is due consideration and a speedy response time to
all scholarship applications.
* Must be fluent in written English
(or c
an name local community member(s)
to
help them with English translations.
* Good communication skills.
* Passion, knowledge, and participation in the Wikimedia movement.
* Discretion and ability to handle confidential applicant information,
and objectively assess candidates.
* Evaluation of eligible applicants and delivering ranked list of
potential recipients to WMF (March '17)
* Evaluate the scholarship process afterward and provide feedback
* Prior attendance at previous Wikimania conferences and
/or
strong knowledge of the cross-project
Wikimedia community are a plus!
* Participation in periodic online meetings with
committee and WMF staff (You
will be working remotely using review system, email, skype, and IRC.
)
Estimated amount of time: 30 hrs (mostly in March '17)
If you're interested in serving please send email to eyoung(a)wikimedia.org
The deadline to apply is December 8.
Projected Timeline for Committee activity:
Mid-December: Preparations and on-boarding of Scholarship committee
Jan-mid-February: Promotion of program and submission of applications
End Feb to mid-March: Review, Evaluation, and Selection of recipients.
Please don't hesitate to contact me directly if you have any questions
about the program or what is involved.
Thanks, Ellie
Ellie Young
Events Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
<eyoung(a)wikimedia.org>
