Dear Pine and Lodewijk,
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and feedback. I would like to comment
on some of your concerns in my role as the Process Architect.
The scope for all groups has been defined in quite a broad way, mainly to
keep the level of conversations high and mitigate the risk of too much time
being spent on details and tactical issues. For the Technology & Product
group for example, we think that there are more benefits in connecting them
than separating people with expertise and connections within both areas.
We are indeed looking for high commitment in the Working Groups as we would
like the participants to be well informed and effective in the
conversations. Working Group members will not only be participating in
discussion meetings, but reading through existing materials, research and
preparing for the meetings. In addition to that, we expect some time to go
to contextualizing these materials and carrying the conversations from the
Working Groups into their “home” groups and communities – and vice versa.
This takes time and we want to be clear about it, as to avoid Working Group
dropout, burnout and ensure the presence of the diverse perspectives
throughout the process.
For both volunteers and staff members it will mean prioritizing. That is
the reason we are encouraging discussions inside your communities, groups,
collaboratives and organizations to decide who are the best representatives
of your perspectives and expertise. For many organizations and groups, the
coming year will be a transition year, with time set aside for strategic
planning and a redistribution of responsibilities within the organization
or group. As to individuals - it is of course up to them to decide what
they can manage and not and what are the priorities in their contributions.
Thank you so much for the feedback targeted towards ensuring clarity around
the process and some of the specific points regarding participation in the
Working Groups.
Have a great continuation to the week!
Kaarel
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> From: Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>
> Date: 2018-06-13 14:57 GMT-07:00
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Open Call for Working Group
> members
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> The number of hours (a minimum of 5 hours, each week) is indeed very
> significant - especially as a minimum per week (which means that the
> average will more likely end up around 8-12 hours?). I understand that a
> significant commitment is necessary (an average of 1 as suggested by Pine
> will unlikely produce anything more than a few mailing list discussions,
> I'm afraid).
>
> Just to set expectations clearly: I read that the grants department is
> scaling back their community facing activities (and I guess also other
> activities) to free up time to work on the strategy. I read that the FDC is
> 'skipping' a round to do the same. Is this the general expectation for
> other volunteers as well?
>
> This is probably all a conscious choice - but I'm afraid it will
> self-select for a certain type of participants that can make a 9 month
> commitment for such a time investment. I'm guessing you already considered
> having working groups with tiers - where you have some people with a large
> time commitment, and some people with a more reasonable commitment? That
> may have helped in diversification.
>
> Best,
> Lodewijk
>
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 1:30 PM Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Nicole,
> >
> > Generally I like how the groups are organized. I have a few questions and
> > comments.
> >
> > 1. The Product & Technology working group seems like it has a large scope
> > for a single group. Also, the people who are in that working group will
> > probably want to sync with TechCom and with the "Platform Evolution"
> > initiative. Have you considered dividing this group's responsibilities
> into
> > two (or more) groups, and how to synchronize this group's work with
> TechCom
> > and the Platform Evolution initiative?
> >
> > 2. It appears that Working Groups page asks for members of the groups to
> > commit to a minimum of five hours per week for nine months. That seems to
> > be a very high commitment to ask from volunteers, especially when people
> > would be adding their WG activities on top of their existing
> > responsibilities and/or de-prioritize other valuable Wikimedia activities
> > in favor of WG activity. Also, if I estimate 10 members per group times 9
> > groups times 5 hours per week times 39 weeks, then that means that the WG
> > activities would consume 17,550 volunteer hours, which seems excessive. I
> > suggest that you reduce the commitment that you request to an average of
> > one hour per week per person, which would likely result in more people
> > being willing to volunteer and reduce the diversion of people's time from
> > other valuable activities, and that you accordingly make any necessary
> > adjustments to plans for paid staff to support the WGs.
> >
> > 3. Has the budget for the 2nd phase of the strategy process been
> published?
> > I am not asking for a promise that the process will cost a fixed amount,
> > but I would hope to see detailed cost estimates and explanations of how
> > estimates were made.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Pine
> > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 6:24 PM, Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber(a)wikimedia.de
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Dear Wikimedians,
> > >
> > > Following up on Katherine’s email from last week[1], we are today
> > > opening the call for Working Group members for 9 Thematic Areas (yes,
> > > we added one more!).
> > >
> > > == Working Group members ==
> > > The Working Groups will map the present situation of their Thematic
> > > Area, the obstacles and opportunities, as well as needed changes to
> > > advance our movement in our strategic direction. They will identify
> > > possible strategies for making these changes and develop concrete
> > > recommendations for the movement on how to ratify and implement
> > > them.[2]
> > >
> > > Working Group members will need to be able to invest a minimum of 5
> > > hours per week, but that time might vary depending on the workflow
> > > that each group agrees upon. Members of the Working Groups are
> > > expected to act in the interest of the movement, not in the interest
> > > of their own organization or community.
> > >
> > > == Selection of members ==
> > > We are looking for a maximum of 15 members for each of the 9 groups.
> > > For best results we will need a diverse set of members from across the
> > > movement. We have developed a set of criteria, to ensure the necessary
> > > expertise, diversity, and representation.[3] We will assemble a
> > > Steering Committee to decide upon membership of the Working Groups in
> > > close coordination with the Core Strategy Team.[4]
> > >
> > > == Apply to become a working group member ==
> > > We encourage everyone with an interest in the strategic conversations
> > > to apply for becoming a Working Group member in their topic of
> > > expertise. We recommend that movement organizations and groups create
> > > internal processes for the selection of their candidates to avoid
> > > multiple, competing applications.
> > >
> > > The call will be open until June 25, 2018. ***Please apply via this
> > > application form.[5]*** To prepare your application, you can consult
> > > the overview of the questions asked in the form on Meta.[6]
> > >
> > > == Next steps ==
> > > We expect to be able to announce the Working Group members in the
> > > second week of July, so that the working groups can be assembled,
> > > onboarded and ready to start working before Wikimania. The first step
> > > for the groups will be to agree upon their set-up and scope of work.
> > > At Wikimania, we plan to convene the attending Working Group members
> > > in the Strategy Space to discuss and refine their road to the
> > > recommendations and ensure exchange between the groups.[7]
> > >
> > > We invite you all to familiarize yourselves with the existing
> > > documentation of the Working Group(s) of your interest,[8] add
> > > comments, additional input or share your concerns via talk pages Your
> > > comments will be then be taken into consideration by the respective
> > > Working Groups.
> > >
> > > We are looking forward to working and having these long-awaited
> > > conversations with many of you!
> > >
> > > In the name of the Strategy Core Team,
> > > Nicole
> > >
> > > [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-
> > > June/090417.html
> > > [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_
> > > movement/2018-20/Working_Groups
> > > [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_
> > > movement/2018-20/Working_Groups#Who_should_join_the_Working_Groups?
> > > [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_
> > > movement/2018-20/Working_Groups/Steering_Committee
> > > [5] https://goo.gl/forms/zVElm0hLT9eZvqwF3
> > > [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_
> > > movement/2018-20/Working_Groups/Apply/Form
> > > [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_
> > >
> movement/2018-20/Working_Groups#What_is_the_timeline_for_Working_Groups?
> > > [8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_
> > > movement/2018-20/Working_Groups#What_are_the_key_thematic_areas?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Nicole Ebber
> > > Adviser International Relations
> > > Wikimedia Movement Strategy Process Lead
> > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
> > > http://wikimedia.de
> > >
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Hi,
All WMF wikis have a "Disclaimers" link at the bottom.
The target page often includes language that sounds legal, but they can be
edited by people who don't have any official legal role or certification.
Is there a general, global policy about how the name of this link is
translated, and about what is written on the page where it leads?
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I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Hello friends,
We are pleased to announce that *Wiki Loves Love* is recruiting volunteers
for the international team.
Application deadline: August 1, 2018
*But What Is WLL?*
Wiki Loves Love (WLL) is an international photography competition of
Wikimedia Commons that is to take place — with the subject love
testimonials — in various locale places. The primary goal of the
competition is to collect photos of love testimonials through human
cultural diversity such as monuments, ceremonies, snapshot of tender
gesture, and miscellaneous objects used as symbol of love; to illustrate
articles in the worldwide free encyclopedia Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia
Foundation (WMF) projects.
*Positions Open:*
Communication and media
Community liaison
Community outreach
Finance team
Tech team: to design banners and templates
Find out more on: https://t.co/D1yeNclTRm
Don't forget to spread the word!
Cheers!
Rupika Sharma
Dear Wikimedians around the world
Anthere and I are very excited to announce that the Wiki Loves Women
project will soon be launched in both Tanzania and Uganda after being
funded through the WMF's Project Grant program. We are very excited to be
joined by the following team members that will be part of the project in
these countries:
*Tanzania*
-
*Team leader: Maryam Mgonja (assisted by Iddy) *
- Training events manager: Antoni Mtavangu (assisted by Iddy)
- Database manager: Maryam
* Mgonja* (assisted by Iddy)
- Content manager: Antoni Mtavangu(assisted by Iddy)
- Marketing manager: Maryam
* Mgonja *(assisted by Antoni)
- Media communications and liaison at a local and the national level:
Iddy John (assisted by Antoni)
- Partner liaison: Iddy John (assisted by Maryam)
*Uganda*
- Team leader.: Douglas Ssebaggala
- Training events manager - Erina Mukuta
- Database manager -Alice Kibombo
- Content manager -Ivan Mulumba & Alice Kibombo
- Marketing manager - Kateregga Geoffrey and Steve Bukulu
- Media communications and liaison - Kateregga Geoffrey and Steve Bukulu
- Partner liaison- Douglas Ssebaggala
You can read more about the project here:
http://www.wikiloveswomen.org/2018/06/19/wiki-loves-women-launch-tanzania-u…
Over the course of the project, there will be several opportunities for
global engagement with the project. So it is truly a global project! Follow
the project's actions and the global drives via these social media links:
- www.wikiloveswomen.org
- www.facebook.com/wikiloveswomen
- twitter.com/wikiloveswomen
Thank you so much!
warmest
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Dear all,
two months ago, the Wikimedia Conference 2018 took place in Berlin,
Germany. Wikimedia Deutschland hosted and organized the conference, which
was funded by a WMF grant. We have now published the grant report for it:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/WMDE/Wikimedia_Conference…
The grant report includes the evaluation of the participants survey. Thanks
to all 184 participants who took part in the survey. Take a deeper look
into the results:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Feedback_evaluati…
>From February until May, Vira Motorko, project manager at Wikimedia
Ukraine, supported us in organizing the conference within WMDE's exhange
program "Visiting Wikimedian". You can read a blog post about her
experience in the Wikimedia blog:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/06/20/visiting-wikimedian-ukraine-to-berlin/
Thank you all,
best regards,
Cornelius
(on behalf of the WMCON team)
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Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
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Dear members of the Wikimedia community,
On behalf of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, I write to
confirm that the board has approved [1] the full slate of the FDC’s Round 2
2017-2018 recommendations [2] for the Annual Plan Grants. In this round, 5
organizations will be receiving a total of roughly US $1,517,363. Grants
are made in local currency, so the USD figure is approximate.
The Board wants to thank the Funds Dissemination Committee members and
staff for the time and effort they have put into this process, as well as
all members of the community who have participated in this round of review,
analysis and deliberations. We appreciate and value the efforts put in this
process.
Thank you to all the organizations who submitted proposals in this round,
and for the work that the volunteers and staff of these organizations have
put in to further our movement’s mission.
Volunteers are at the heart of the Funds Dissemination Committee. We are
lucky to have a committee comprised of nine dedicated community members who
give a lot of their time and energy into making this funding program a
reality. We thank you all for your work this year!
[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Board_approval_of_FDC_
recommendation_(2017-18,_Round_2)
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_
recommendations/2017-2018_Round_2
Best regards,
antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv, on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of
Trustees
*NOTICE: You may have received this message outside of your normal working
hours/days, as I usually can work more as a volunteer during weekend. You
should not feel obligated to answer it during your days off. Thank you in
advance!*
Hello all,
A year ago, the WMF Fundraising team ran an experiment showing donation
appeals on Facebook. While the experiment was valuable, we need more
experience and data to properly assess Facebook’s viability as a potential
revenue channel. This is important to us because leveraging Facebook’s
broad audience allows us to meet our users where they prefer to engage
online.
Over the last few months, we have been working on content variations for a
new experiment, trying content more closely based on the messaging that
already performs well on Wikipedia. *I’m writing today to say we will be
launching our second Facebook ads experiment on Monday, June 18.*
We would like to note we are approaching this test with caution and are
making every effort to protect our donors’ information. We’ve been working
closely with the Foundation’s Legal team to re-review Facebook’s latest
policies and terms of service before a single ad is placed. We are not
uploading our donor lists to Facebook for any list matching or donor
suppression (meaning active Wikipedia donors may see these ads). All ads
will direct donors to the Foundation’s hosted donation pages, and we are
not sending Facebook any conversion metrics or personally identifiable
information on who donates from the ads we run.
The parameters for this experiment are very similar to those my colleague
Sam laid out in his email last year, which I am including below for
reference. The high level details are:
*WHEN:* Beginning Monday, June 18 - appx June 30
*WHO:* Facebook users in the US who speak English. We will do some more
specific demographic targeting based on age, education, and interests, but
are deliberately starting by casting a wide net for this experiment.
*COST: *We are committing $5,000 USD in a cost per click agreement. If this
experiment shows promising results, we may commit more funds to additional
creative tests.
Facebook advertising is not yet a fixture of our long-term fundraising
strategy; this is simply an experiment to help us gauge how valuable this
platform could be to us in the future. If we decide to more permanently
integrate Facebook into our budget and strategy, we will follow up.
If you have questions about this experiment, please don't hesitate to ask.
Thanks,
Caitlin
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Samuel Patton <spatton(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 10:58 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising pilot on Facebook
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi everyone,
I'm writing to let you know about a project we're trying on the
Foundation's fundraising team. Thanks to all the help and advice we've
received from our colleagues in Communications, Legal, and Community
Engagement.
*I've posted this announcement as an update on Fundraising's Meta Page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/Updates>, and would be happy
to answer questions and keep the discussion up there.*
Over the next three weeks, the Advancement team will be conducting a small
fundraising pilot on Facebook and Instagram. This will involve sponsored
posts, served in English to people in the United States, that will direct
users to donate to the Foundation using our own donation processing pages.
Fundraising is always interested in exploring new ways to reach people who
find value in Wikipedia and are interested in supporting the Foundation’s
mission. Advertising across social networks is a proven and popular way for
nonprofits to find new supporters and build organizational awareness, and
we’re excited to dip our toes into this.
Like the many tests we run for Fundraising, this pilot will involve
experiments testing different imagery, copy, and calls to action. We hope
to answer the question: how well does our on-Wikipedia.org messaging
perform when presented on another site? It will also examine how our
appeals perform across demographic and interest groups.
*Where will the ads appear?*
This pilot will use “sponsored posts,” which is what Facebook calls content
that appears in the news feed of Facebook users.
They will also appear on Instagram as “sponsored stories” that appear
within the flow of photo and video posts users scroll on that network.
(Instagram is a Facebook property.)
They will not appear as banners, pop-ups, or display ads that appear
alongside the news feed. This is a test in what is called “native”
advertising, meaning it uses the same content display area that users
expect from Facebook and Instagram.
*How will you target your ads?*
In addition to the broad parameters of language (English) and country
(U.S.), we have identified a few target audiences that might respond
particularly well to our appeals: educators, philanthropists, and frequent
consumers of news. We will build these audiences based off self reported
information about educational achievement, news readership, and
philanthropic interest. I've included details on each audience below. In
addition to these, we have discussed the value of comparing effectiveness
across other characteristics - age, gender, etc.
A large part of the value in running this experiment is to *learn* whether
there are any demographic differences in how people respond to our
messaging. If this experiment does give us compelling info about who is
more likely to donate, that is exciting! And we'll talk as a group about
what to do with that knowledge.
*Can users opt out?*
Of course. Users can hide individual ads if they are not of interest to
them. This is also something we can measure to better understand how to not
annoy or impose on social media users in future fundraising drives.
*Who is working on this?*
Fundraising is partnering with the social media folks in Communications to
run this test. The promotion and measurement of ads is being managed by a
small company called Middle Seat.
*Will you keep us in the loop?*
Absolutely. By July 15 we intend to share an overview of our testing so far.
Stay tuned for more updates!
sam
-----------------------
*Possible target audiences:*
*STUDENTS & EDUCATORS*
*How likely to donate are current students and educators?*
Age: 18 - 65+
Target: Current students above high school level and educators based on
self-reported “job title”
Reach: 1,000,000+
*PHILANTHROPISTS*
*How likely to donate are Facebook users interested in both philanthropy
and donating to charitable causes?*
Age: 18 - 65+
Target: Facebook users with self-reported interests in philanthropy and
donating to charity
Reach: ~460,000
*NEWS READERS*
*How likely to donate are Facebook users whose behavior suggests they’re
daily news consumers?*
Age: 18 - 65+
Target: Facebook users with interests and behavior that suggests daily news
consumption
Reach: ~1,000,000
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