Hello,
On behalf of the Ohio Wikimedians User Group, I'm pleased to present our
annual report, covering the period from July 2017 - July 2018 (yes, this
report is a bit late :) ).
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Wikimedians_User_Group/Reports/2017-18
Most of our activities in that time period were workshops and edit-a-thons
hosted by our Ohio State University student organization, Wikipedia
Connection. Otherwise, a lot of time was being spent preparing for
WikiConference North America 2018 - which just took place in Columbus,
Ohio, Oct 18-21 (we're pleased to say it went very well! - but that's for a
report another day).
Thank you,
Kevin Payravi
User:SuperHamster
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From: Pine
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Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] REMINDER: Invitation to the October 2018
Wikimedia Monthly Activities Meeting: Thursday, October 25th, 18:00
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 2:27 PM Fæ < faewik(a)gmail.com >
wrote:
> If you find several broadcast emails for the same meeting
useful, please
> join wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org. You can get
all the
> broadcasts you want there, including this one.
>
>
Fae
>
>
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2018, 09:35 Anders Wennersten,
< mail(a)anderswennersten.se >
> wrote:
>
> > I
disagree.
> >
> > For me it is perfect. I get the impulse to
get in and I know if I am
> > busy with other things. Reminder of
something in the future get lost
> > otherwise.
> >
>
> Anders
> >
> >
> >
> > Den 2018-10-26
kl. 10:22, skrev Fæ:
> > > Saw this message today. Almost all
readers of this list will find a
> > > broadcasted 30 minutes
reminder equally useless.
> > >
> > > Please revisit
this part of the WMF comms plan.
> > >
> > >
Thanks
> > >
Fae
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Hey All
The end of the year is extremely productive, rewarding and very busy for
the Wikimedia Fundraising team with fundraising occurring in 14 countries
and 4 languages. Just a quick update on our fundraising activities.
===Online Fundraising===
-
We were originally scheduled to run a fundraising Campaign in JAPAN
through September. Following the landfall of Typhoon Jebi, and extensive
damage to the country, we as a team decided to delay the fundraising
campaign to the first half of 2019.
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Since the beginning of October we have been running our desktop
fundraising banners in FRANCE. Mobile launched on Tuesday 9th. The banner
campaign is scheduled to run to the end of October.
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During the months of October and November we are also ramping up our
preparations for our main English fundraising banner campaign in USA,
CANADA, UK, IRELAND, NEW ZEALAND and AUSTRALIA. As with previous years,
that means running banners on English Wikipedia and emailing past donors.
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Regular banner testing will continue and intensify through the months of
October and November. This testing consists of a series of single and multi
hour tests and will increase in cadence as we get closer to December. We do
this to explore new ideas, test systems, improve workflows etc all in time
for the busiest period of the year. As previous years, the main push will
begin on or around Giving Tuesday, November 27.[1] We will look to
fundraise through the month of December.
-
E-mail fundraising in these countries has already begun where we ask
previous donors to reaffirm their support to Wikimedia. Just like the
banner campaign, we extensively test our appeals. The email campaign
started over the last week and will continue steadily through the rest of
this calendar year.
-
Another upcoming campaign will be Latin America consisting of BRAZIL,
PERU, URUGUAY, ARGENTINA, MEXICO, CHILE, COLOMBIA. We have worked closely
with the Iberocoop communities and affiliates in these areas to localise
the banner language. This campaign will be using a slightly different
format, running at a low percentage of page views and over a longer time
period. We are excited to see how this improves the effects of the campaign
on both community and the fundraising team.
===Major Gifts and Endowment===
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This week we announced a $2 million gift to the Wikimedia Endowment from
George Soros, founder of the Open Society Foundation. [2]
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Also announced recently, Amazon recently gave $1 million to the
Wikimedia Endowment. This is an important acknowledgement by the Internet
retailer of the need for the future sustainability of the Wikimedia
Projects. [3]
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Since the launch of the endowment in January 2016, the endowment has
raised over $27.5 million from generous donors, philanthropists, and
Wikimedia community members.
There are a number of ways you can help support the fundraiser:
-
Have specific ideas or stories we should tell via social media, banners,
emails etc.? We’re also looking for nice images, if you could point us to
your favorites from Commons. Please add them to our fundraising ideas page.
[4]
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If you need to report a bug or technical issue, please create a
Phabricator ticket. [5]
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If you see a donor on a talk page, OTRS, or social media with questions
about donating or having difficulties in the donation process, please refer
them to donate{{at}}wikimedia.org.
We 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]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/09/25/amazon-gift-wikimedia-endowment/
[3]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/10/15/george-soros-invests-future-free…
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2018-19_Fundraising_ideas
[5]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?template=1188…
--
Seddon
*Community and Audience Engagement Associate*
*Advancement (Fundraising), Wikimedia Foundation*
Putting our differences aside for a minute, one thing for which Maggie will have my eternal appreciation is her stepping into her current role during a time of higher-than-average chaos. I don't know how that felt from inside of WMF, but from my perspective that appeared to be generous and courageous.
Thanks for the update, Katherine.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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Hi all,
The agenda for the next Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees meeting, on
November 9-11, 2018, is now available on Meta-Wiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_board_agenda_2018-11
- Chuck
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