Dear all
Over the past few months I have been leading the process of reviewing and
refreshing Wikimedia UK's strategic framework, and developing a new
business plan for 2016 - 19. The draft strategic framework sets out a new
vision for the charity and I would welcome feedback from the wider global
community about our proposed direction of travel:
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2016_Strategy_Consultation
The planned outputs from the strategic planning process will be a clear,
concise strategic framework for the period 2016 to 2019, which outlines our
vision, mission, values, planned outcomes, strategic goals and objectives
and major programme strands, plus a three year business plan which puts the
strategy in context, articulating the external context and drivers, planned
priorities and programmes for the three year period and internal resources
including staffing and funding.
You can respond to the consultation by *Monday 30th May 2016 *by adding
your thoughts to the talk page or by sending an email to me on
lucy.crompton-reid(a)wikimedia.org.uk.
Thanks and best wishes
Lucy
--
Lucy Crompton-Reid
Chief Executive
Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 207 065 0991
Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and
Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered
Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT.
Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The
Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate
Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent
non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility
for its contents.*
Hello Wikimedians,
Twice a year, the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) meets to help
make decisions about how to effectively allocate movement funds to
achieve the Wikimedia movement's mission, vision, and strategy. For
this round, we met in person from May 13-15 to deliberate on five
plans and proposals, which were submitted by Wikimedia Armenia,
Wikimedia Norge, Wikimedia France, the Centre for Internet and
Society, as well as the draft annual plan of the Wikimedia Foundation.
We would like to thank all the organizations this round for submitting
these proposals.
We have posted our Round 2 2015-2016 recommendations on the annual
plan grants to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. [1] The
Board will review our deliberations and make a decision by July 1, 2016.
This round, we received grant requests of roughly $1.25 million USD,
and we have recommended roughly $1.14 million in annual plan grants
(though grants are made in local currency). Before we met in May, we
reviewed all of the proposals and additional documents submitted. We
were assisted in this review with some input from the FDC staff
assessments and analysis on impact, finances, and programs, as well as
community comments on the proposals.
There is a formal process to submit complaints or appeals about these
recommendations. Here are the steps for both:
Any organization that would like to submit an appeal on the FDC’s
Round 2 recommendation should submit it to the Board representatives
to the FDC by 23:59 UTC on 8 June 2016 in accordance with the appeal
process outlined in the FDC Framework. A formal appeal to challenge
the FDC’s recommendation should be in the form of a 500-or-fewer word
summary directed to the two non-voting WMF Board representative to the
FDC, Dariusz Jemielniak. The appeal should be submitted on-wiki, [4]
and must be submitted by the Board Chair of a funding-seeking
applicant. The Board will publish its decision on this and all
recommendations by 1 July 2016.
Complaints to the ombudsperson about the FDC process can be filed by
anyone with the Ombudsperson and can be made any time. The complaint
should be submitted on wiki, as well. The ombudsperson will publicly
document the complaint, and investigate as needed.
On a side note, all FDC members are flying back to their home
countries, so we might be able to respond only in a day or two,
On behalf of the FDC,
Matanya [1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_recommendations/2015-2016_ro…
Thank you Anders and Dariusz for the warm words.
The FDC invested a lot of time to write the recommendations, espcially in
regards to the WMF plan. Good to know that you've read the entire (long)
document :)
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Dariusz Jemielniak <darekj(a)alk.edu.pl>
wrote:
> Many thanks for the hard work. As I've been an observer to this round, and
> as a former chair of the FDC for six rounds, I can attest that you have
> done a very good job, discussing the details of all proposals.
>
> While people may disagree with your recommendations or opinions, the
> diligent approach and due care are, in my view, indisputable.
>
> Best,
>
> Dj
> 15.05.2016 7:30 PM "matanya moses" <matanya(a)foss.co.il> napisał(a):
>
> > Hello Wikimedians,
> >
> > Twice a year, the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) meets to help make
> > decisions about how to effectively allocate movement funds to achieve the
> > Wikimedia movement's mission, vision, and strategy. For this round, we
> met
> > in person from May 13-15 to deliberate on five plans and proposals, which
> > were submitted by Wikimedia Armenia, Wikimedia Norge, Wikimedia France,
> the
> > Centre for Internet and Society, as well as the draft annual plan of the
> > Wikimedia Foundation. We would like to thank all the organizations this
> > round for submitting these proposals.
> >
> > We have posted our Round 2 2015-2016 recommendations on the annual plan
> > grants to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. [1] The Board will
> > review our deliberations and make a decision by July 1, 2016.
> >
> > This round, we received grant requests of roughly $1.25 million USD, and
> > we have recommended roughly $1.14 million in annual plan grants (though
> > grants are made in local currency). Before we met in May, we reviewed all
> > of the proposals and additional documents submitted. We were assisted in
> > this review with some input from the FDC staff assessments and analysis
> on
> > impact, finances, and programs, as well as community comments on the
> > proposals.
> >
> > There is a formal process to submit complaints or appeals about these
> > recommendations. Here are the steps for both:
> >
> > Any organization that would like to submit an appeal on the FDC’s Round 2
> > recommendation should submit it to the Board representatives to the FDC
> by
> > 23:59 UTC on 8 June 2016 in accordance with the appeal process outlined
> in
> > the FDC Framework. A formal appeal to challenge the FDC’s recommendation
> > should be in the form of a 500-or-fewer word summary directed to the two
> > non-voting WMF Board representative to the FDC, Dariusz Jemielniak. The
> > appeal should be submitted on-wiki, [4] and must be submitted by the
> Board
> > Chair of a funding-seeking applicant. The Board will publish its decision
> > on this and all recommendations by 1 July 2016.
> >
> > Complaints to the ombudsperson about the FDC process can be filed by
> > anyone with the Ombudsperson and can be made any time. The complaint
> should
> > be submitted on wiki, as well. The ombudsperson will publicly document
> the
> > complaint, and investigate as needed.
> >
> > On a side note, all FDC members are flying back to their home countries,
> > so we might be able to respond only in a day or two,
> >
> > On behalf of the FDC,
> >
> > Matanya [1]
> >
> >
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_recommendations/2015-2016_ro…
> >
> >
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Actually those uploading images on the Wikimedia Commons FB page are
volunteers
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Social_media/Facebook> (I don't
think they're all listed there but probably the right place to start), I'd
encourage you to talk to them directly if you think there is a problem with
their uploads instead of jumping to conclusions and assuming it must be the
"evil WMF" doing it and using a great thread like this to try and score
some points against them.
For those interested:
I know that the verified channels which the Communication team posts on
frequently (Especially the Wikimedia <https://twitter.com/wikipedia> &
Wikipedia <https://twitter.com/wikipedia> twitter and the Wikipedia FB page
<https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia>) purposely follow a set of Best
Practices
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social_media/Best_practices#On_Wikimedia_Fo…>
that include very explictly "Do not post media that is not either owned or
co-owned by the Wikimedia Foundation (such as photos we take), in the
public domain or licensed under CC0". They do occasionally post other CC
images but only after getting explicit approval/permission from the
copyright holder including how to attribute etc.
On a personal basis I think the inability to post most CC images on SM
sites is a massive problem for the licenses as a whole (and for many free
licenses). This is not only because SM sites are such a large part of
modern life right now (and so we are cutting off an important audience who
we WANT using free images rather then repeatedly using more closed
copyrighted material, though they are still doing that now ALSO against the
SM Terms of Use) but it's also because it's so befuddling to people that
they generally ignore it encouraging people to ignore the licenses in
general. Not only the general public but those who know the licences well
think of them as designed to ALLOW sharing so the idea that they can't
share them is shocking to them (so they DO share them). In fact, contrary
to your accusation, I don't know of ANY other organizations that ensure
they are following the SM site Terms of Use and the CC licenses when
posting. I've even seen Creative Commons itself, on it's official Twitter
and Facebook accounts, posting CC images against the terms.
James Alexander
User:Jamesofur [Personal capacity, Staff account: Jalexander-WMF]
On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Toby Dollmann <toby.dollmann(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Peter,
>
> You are right.and truly we are spoiled for choice
>
> It is very satisfying to observe that some entries from professional
> photographers are nowadays explicitly stating their CC-BY-SA licences fo
> rCommons do not enable their copyrighted works to be uploaded to Facebook
> (and by implication to similar sites).
>
> eg: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cccefalon/fb
>
> And yet, I see that the Wikimedia volunteers on Facebook blissfully
> uploading "Pictures of the day" ignorant of all the legalese
>
> eg:
> https://www.facebook.com/Wikimedia.Commons/posts/1127382660617355:0
> https://www.facebook.com/Wikimedia.Commons/posts/1120943991261222:0
>
> Toby
>
> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 12:52 AM, Peter Southwood <
> peter.southwood(a)telkomsa.net> wrote:
>
> > How can one choose amongst those photos? They are all excellent.
> > Peter
> >
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> > started
> >
> > Commons Picture of the Year 2015 round 2 voting has started:
> > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2015.
> > There are many excellent finalists.
> >
> > Pine
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hi,
I'm just writing to give you a short report on how the Board is working on
improving its governance and communication.
In March <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2016-03>[1], Kelly
and I conducted an internal survey about our governance, preferences,
vision on how it can be improved. Geoff and Stephen (from our legal team)
have prepared a number of recommendations, based on the governance best
practices.
Currently, Maria and I are working on a proposal to the Board, that will be
discussed on Monday[
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_board_agenda_2016-05>2],
and that will address many of the issues that have been raised recently
about timely communication, the level of detail in reporting, as well as
transparency.
Following our discussions in Berlin, we're going to expand our onboarding
process for external/expert Board members. Apart from our regular
onboarding (which includes legal training, mentoring from senior Board
members, and for expert members - talking to people from the community, as
well as selected readings about wiki-culture), we are going to introduce a
short workshop, focusing on the most important things a person coming from
the outside should know.
I ran a short poll/discussion with the community
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_Governance_Commi…>[3]
on meta, to decide about the most important topics. "Copyright, copyleft
and everything in between" as well as "Values and community dynamics of a
global movement" have been selected.
Guy and Kelly are really interested and looking forward to participating in
the workshop at Wikimania, which will be also open to staff members. I've
been in touch with Ginevra and Lorenzo, who have graciously volunteered to run
the workshop
<https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Training_sessions/Proposals/Wikime…>[4],
possibly with some help from Asaf.
We are working quite hard on many fronts: the new ED search, the vacant
seats' fulfilment, internal governance improvements, communication,
onboarding processes, apart from our usual load. We still can do better,
and I hope we are on a right path.
best,
Dariusz Jemielniak, "pundit"
(a current WMF Trustee)
[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2016-03
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_board_agenda_2016-05
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_Governance_Commi…
[4]
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Training_sessions/Proposals/Wikime…
We are glad to announce our invited speaker lineup and 19 papers accepted
at the wiki research workshop <http://snap.stanford.edu/wikiworkshop2016/> we
will be hosting on May 17, 2016 at the *10th International AAAI Conference
on Web and Social Media* (ICWSM '16 <http://www.icwsm.org/2016/>) in
Cologne, Germany. If you're attending the conference and interested in
Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia research, please consider registering for
the workshop. This is the second part of a workshop previously hosted at WWW
'16 <http://www.icwsm.org/2016/> in Montréal, Canada, in April. For more
information, you can visit the workshop's website
<http://snap.stanford.edu/wikiworkshop2016/> or follow us on Twitter (
@wikiworkshop16 <https://twitter.com/wikiworkshop16>).
Invited speakers <http://snap.stanford.edu/wikiworkshop2016/#speakers-icwsm>
- *Ofer Arazy* (*University of Haifa*) Emergent Work in Wikipedia
- *Jürgen Pfeffer* (*TU Munich*) Applying Social Network Analysis
Metrics to Large-Scale Hyperlinked Data
- *Martin Potthast* (*Universität Weimar*) Wikipedia Text Mining:
Uncovering Quality and Reuse
- *Fabian Suchanek* (*Télécom ParisTech*) A Hitchhiker's Guide to
Ontology
- *Claudia Wagner* (*GESIS*) Gender Inequalities in Wikipedia
Accepted papers <http://snap.stanford.edu/wikiworkshop2016/#papers-icwsm>
- *Yashaswi Pochampally, Kamalakar Karlapalem and Navya Yarrabelly*
Semi-Supervised Automatic Generation of Wikipedia Articles for Named
Entities
- *Joan Guisado-Gámez, Josep Lluís Larriba-Pey, David Tamayo and Jordi
Urmeneta*
ENRICH: A Query Expansion Service Powered by Wikipedia Graph Structure
- *Ioannis Protonotarios, Vasiliki Sarimpei and Jahna Otterbacher*
Similar Gaps, Different Origins? Women Readers and Editors at Greek
Wikipedia
-
*Sven Heimbuch and Daniel Bodemer *Wiki Editors' Acceptance of Additional
Guidance on Talk Pages
- *Yerali Gandica, Renaud Lambiotte and Timoteo Carletti*
What Can Wikipedia Tell Us about the Global or Local Character of
Burstiness?
- *Andreas Spitz, Vaibhav Dixit, Ludwig Richter, Michael Gertz and
Johanna Geiß*
State of the Union: A Data Consumer's Perspective on Wikidata and Its
Properties for the Classification and Resolution of Entities
- *Finn Årup Nielsen*
Literature, Geolocation and Wikidata
- *Ana Freire, Matteo Manca, Diego Saez-Trumper, David Laniado, Ilaria
Bordino, Francesco Gullo and Andreas Kaltenbrunner*
Graph-Based Breaking News Detection on Wikipedia
- *Alexander Dallmann, Thomas Niebler, Florian Lemmerich and Andreas
Hotho*
Extracting Semantics from Random Walks on Wikipedia: Comparing Learning
and Counting Methods
- *Arpit Merchant, Darshit Shah and Navjyoti Singh*
In Wikipedia We Trust: A Case Study
- *Thomas Palomares, Youssef Ahres, Juhana Kangaspunta and Christopher
Ré*
Wikipedia Knowledge Graph with DeepDive
- *Lu Xiao*
Hidden Gems in the Wikipedia Discussions: The Wikipedians' Rationales
- *Sooyoung Kim and Alice Oh*
Topical Interest and Degree of Involvement of Bilingual Editors in
Wikipedia
- *Lambert Heller, Ina Blümel, Simone Cartellieri and Christian Wartena*
A Proposed Solution for Discovery of Reusable Technology Pictures Using
Textmining of Surrounding Article Text, Based on the Infrastructure of
Wikidata, Wikisource and Wikimedia Commons
- *Behzad Tabibian, Mehrdad Farajtabar, Isabel Valera, Le Song, Bernhard
Schölkopf and Manuel Gomez Rodriguez*
On the Reliability of Information and Trustworthiness of Web Sources in
Wikipedia
- *Ruth Garcia Gavilanes, Milena Tsvetkova and Taha Yasseri*
Collective Remembering in Wikipedia: The Case of Aircraft Crashes
- *Elena Labzina*
The Political Salience Dynamics and Users' Interaction Using the Example
of Wikipedia within the Authoritarian Regime Context
- *Fabian Flöck and Maribel Acosta*
WikiLayers – A Visual Platform for Analyzing Content Evolution and
Editing Dynamics in Wikipedia
- *Olga Zagarova, Tatiana Sennikova, Claudia Wagner and Fabian Flöck*
Cultural Relation Mining on Wikipedia: Beyond Culinary Analysis
OrganizersBob West, *Stanford University & Wikimedia Foundation*Leila
Zia, *Wikimedia
Foundation*Dario Taraborelli, *Wikimedia Foundation*Jure Leskovec, *Stanford
University*
I exchanged a walk on part in the war for a lead role in the cage.
I find myself tied and limited in my actions and projects. In order to
avoid the perception or potential for Conflict of Interests I have to act
extremely carefully in far too many parts of my life. Instead of being able
to pursue my projects or some projects at work - which I think would align
very well with our mission - I found myself trapped between too many
constraints. I feel like I cannot offer my thoughts and my considerations
openly, since they might easily be perceived as expressions of interests -
regarding my previous work, regarding my friends, regarding my current
employment.
This hit home strongly during the FDC deliberations, where I had to deal
with the situation of people deliberating a proposal written by my Best
Man, around a project that has consumed the best part of the previous
decade of my life. Obviously, I explained the conflicts in this case, and
refrained from participating in the discussion, as agreed with the FDC.
This hit home every time there was a topic that might be perceived as a
potential conflict of interest between Wikimedia and my employer, and even
though I might have been in a unique position to provide insight, I had to
refrain from doing so in order not to exert influence.
There were constant and continuous attacks against me, as being merely
Google’s mole on the Board, even of the election being bought by Google. I
would not have minded these attacks so much - if I would have had the
feeling that my input to the Board, based on my skills and experiences,
would have been particularly valuable, or if I would have had the feeling
of getting anything done while being on the Board. As it is, neither was
the case.
I discussed with Jan-Bart, then chair, what is and what is not appropriate
to pursue as a member of the Board. I understood and followed his advice,
but it was frustrating. It was infuriatingly limiting.
As some of you might know, Wikidata was for me just one step towards my
actual goal, a fully multilingual Wikipedia. I hoped that as a Trustee I
could pursue that goal, but when even writing a comment on a bug in
Phabricator has to be considered under the aspect that it will be read as
"it is a Board-member writing that comment" and/or “It’s a Googler writing
that comment”, I don’t see how I could effectively pursue such a goal.
It was at Wikimania 2006 in Boston, when Markus Krötzsch and I had lunch
with Dan Connolly, a co-editor of the early HTML specs. Dan gave me an
advise that still rings with me - to do the things worth doing that only
you can do. This set me, back then, on a path that eventually lead to the
creation of Wikidata - which, before then, wasn't something I wanted to do
myself. I used to think that merely suggesting it would be enough - someone
will eventually do it, I don’t have to. There’s plenty of committed and
smart people at the Foundation, they’ll make it happen. Heck, Erik was back
then a supporter of the plan (he was the one to secure the domain
wikidata.org), and he was deputy director. Things were bound to happen
anyway. But that is not what happened. I eventually, half a decade later,
realized that if I do not do it, it simply won't happen, at least not in a
reasonable timeframe.
And as said, Wikidata was just one step on the way. But right now I cannot
take the next steps. Anything that I would do or propose or suggest will be
regarded through the lense of my current positions. To be fair, I do see
that I should not be both the one suggesting changes, and the one deciding
on them. I understand now that I could not have suggested Wikidata as a
member of the Board. It takes an independent Board to evaluate such
proposal and its virtues and decide on them.
I want to send a few thank yous, in particular to the teams at the
Wikimedia Foundation and at Google who helped me steer clear of actual
conflicts of interests. They were wonderful, and extremely helpful. It
bears a certain irony that both organizations had strong measures against
exactly the kind of things that I have been regularly accused of.
I only see three ways to stay clear from a perceived or potential Conflict
of Interest: to lay still and do nothing, to remove the source of the
Conflict, or to step away from the position of power. Since the first
option is unsatisfying, the second option unavailable, only the third
option remains.
So I have decided to resign from the Board of Trustees.
It was not an easy decision, and certainly not a step made any easier by
the events in the last few months. I understand that I will disappoint many
of the people who voted for me, and I want to apologize: I am sorry,
honestly sorry, but I don’t see that it is me the Board needs now, or that
the movement needs me in that position. What I learned is that the profile
that allows someone to win an election is not the profile that makes an
effective Trustee.
But be warned that you will continue to hear from me, after a wikibreak.
Expect crazy ideas, project proposals, and requests to fund and implement
them. I will return to a more active role within the movement. I will be,
again, free to work on things that are worth doing and that only I can do.
I think that in that role I can be more effective and more valuable to the
movement, the Foundation, and for our mission.
Be bold,
Denny
Update: this has now graduated out of beta, and was enabled by default on
all wikis yesterday. If you don't want to see notifications from other
wikis on any given wiki, you can turn it off in your preferences (it's in
the "Notifications" tab).
For more information and some background, see the blog post we published
yesterday: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/05/12/cross-wiki-notifications/
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:03 PM, Roan Kattouw <rkattouw(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> In late 2015 and early 2016, the Collaboration team worked on building a
> cross-wiki notification feature: listing notifications from other wikis in
> the notification panel. We made this feature available on a small set of
> wikis [1] initially, and about six hours ago we made it available on all
> wikis as a beta feature.
>
> You can enable cross-wiki notifications by clicking the "Beta" link [2] in
> the top right corner (or top left in RTL languages) and enabling the
> "Enhanced notifications" setting. The notification panels (accessible
> through the bell and speech bubble icons in the top right/left corner) will
> now display an additional item telling you which other wikis you have
> unread notifications on, and you can click this item to expand it and see
> those notifications [3]. For more information, see the documentation on
> mediawiki.org [4], with mostly complete translations in 13 languages at
> the time of this writing.
>
> Because we don't have cross-wiki preferences, enabling the beta feature on
> one wiki doesn't automatically enable it on any other wiki. However, you
> only have to enable the beta feature to see cross-wiki notifications on a
> wiki, not to get them from that wiki. For example, if you only enable the
> beta feature on the French Wikipedia, you will see notifications from the
> French Wikisource, the Spanish Wikipedia and the Upper Sorbian Wiktionary
> even if you haven't enabled the beta feature on those wikis. In fact, if
> you've had an account for a while, you are likely to see some very old
> notifications from wikis you haven't visited in years; Magnus Manske
> tweeted a screenshot of this yesterday [5].
>
> Please try this out and let us know what you think! There's a talk page on
> mediawiki.org [6] where you can leave feedback. If you find a bug, please
> report it on Phabricator [7] or on the feedback page.
>
> Thanks a lot to the Collaboration team [8] as well as community liaisons
> Nick Wilson (Quiddity) and Benoît Evellin (Trizek) for their work on this
> over the past few months.
>
> --Roan Kattouw (User:Catrope)
>
> [1] All French wikis, all Hebrew wikis, Commons, Wikidata and
> mediawiki.org
> [2] Or go to [[Special:Preferences]] and click the "Beta features" tab
> [3]
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notification_panel_with_cross-wiki_…
> [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Notifications/Cross-wiki
> [5] https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/707712047065210882
> [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Notifications
> [7]
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projectPHIDs=…
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Hi everyone,
**Summary: I am delighted to invite you to join me for two upcoming office
hours, where I’ll answer community questions and share updates on the
Foundation’s work.**
It’s been a busy few weeks around the Wikimedia Foundation offices. We
shared our 2016-2017 annual plan, finished our quarterly reviews, and
attended Wikimedia Conference 2016 in Berlin with the Wikimedia affiliates.
[1]
In Berlin, I had the chance to do one of my favorite things: sit with
Wikimedians, listen, debate, and plan for the future. Of course, Berlin is
just one gathering, and there are thousands of other perspectives out
there. I want to hear more of these perspectives, and so I’m looking
forward to hosting two office hours over the coming weeks.
We plan to hold a traditional office hours on IRC, and will also experiment
with a video Q&A. We hope these different formats will make it easier for
more people to participate using their preferred communications channels.
We’ve chosen two different time zones, with the goal of reaching as many
people as possible. They are as follows:
*Video session*
*This session will be recorded, and the video will be posted on
Commons/Meta. Due to video conferencing limitations, we encourage advance
questions.*
Wednesday, 11 May 2016
00:00-1:00 UTC | 17:00-18:00 PDT [2]
*IRC session*
*This session follows the May monthly metrics meeting.[4] Like other office
hours, it will be held in #Wikimedia-office on Freenode.*
Thursday, 26 May 2016
19:00-20:00 UTC | 12:00-13:00 PDT [3]
We’re also collecting questions in advance for those who can’t make either
of those sessions. We’ve created a page on Meta where you can leave
questions or comments, check the details on the location of each session:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Executive_Director/May…
Please share this invitation with others you think may be interested!
I look forward to speaking soon,
Katherine
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[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016
[2] Time converter link:
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[3] Time converter link:
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[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings
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Katherine Maher
Wikimedia Foundation
149 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
+1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635
+1 (415) 712 4873
kmaher(a)wikimedia.org
