2008/10/31 Jay Walsh jwalsh@wikimedia.org:
Hey all,
Very pleased to announce the official release of our first-ever Annual Report today.
Hosted on-wiki: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report
And blogged up here: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/10/31/wikimedias-first-ever-annual-report/
We'll have lots of time to prep for the next annual report, so please share any feedback or thoughts on how we can make improvements.
Hi Jay,
This is a very beautiful document, in design and meaning, and I think it represents Wikimedia really well. I would be really proud to show it to someone and say "I am a part of this".
As a Commoner I am pleased that we have been clear in communicating our milestones. :)
If anything my only complaint would be that I would like to see two or four more pages highlighting the work on the projects. One column for *seven* projects is kind of tragic. Next time ask the community to help write that part?? I am boggling a bit that that didn't happen this time.
From Michael's chair letter:
It would be tragic if, 20 years from now, humanity were still divided into those able to afford edu- cation and those who could not. The idea of universal access to the sum of all human knowledge has been planted in the soil of history. Let us work together in nourishing it, so that it may become a garden.
A last comment...with the donor listings, it may be a nice point to list the number of donors who gave less than $1000 (if not their names :)) as a point about the long tail and how lots of little contributions add up to something significant overall, rather like wiki edits...
cheers Brianna