Hello Tilman,

Thanks for composing the report and sending it.

In section 9.2.6 I saw the Wikipedia Signpost. Perhaps it is also possible and interesting to add another newsletter that describes a mayor field of interest for Wikimedias in the world. For two years and three months now we publish every month a newsletter about what happened in the Wikimedias regarding GLAM in the past month. Each month the new edition can be found on http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter

At the moment I am at GLAM WIKI conference (organized by Wikimedia UK) in London, together with more than hundred other participants, with one of them Kat Walsh.

If there are any questions or wishes to help out, please let me know.

Greetings,

Romaine

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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:55:48 -0700 From: Tilman Bayer tbayer@wikimedia.org To: wikimediaannounce-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Staff All wmfall@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation     Report,    March 2013 Message-ID:     CAPDdKA5Yj6GR9YamGhdCoDni+SY6Sc_Mp4_B_TCz+4c0zRDj-g@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Hi all,

please find below the WMF report for March 2013, in plain text.

As always, the editable and formatted version has been published on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_March_2013

and the reports are being posted on the Wikimedia blog, too: https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/corporate/wmf-monthly-reports/

As usual, we are also publishing a separate "Highlights" summary. Please consider helping non-English-language communities to stay updated, by providing a translation: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_March_2013

Many thanks to those who have translated the February "Highlights" into Asturian, Catalan, Danish, German, Spanish, Maltese, Russian and Simplified Chinese (and partially into some other languages like French, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål andTraditional Chinese)!

While still focussing on WMF activities, the "Highlights" include a small selection of the most noteworthy events from the whole movement. Suggestions for the upcoming April issue are welcome until May 1 at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Highlights#Movement_news_item... .

Regards, Tilman

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Wikimedia Foundation Report, March 2013

<Video: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF_Monthly_Metrics_Meeting_April_4,... Video of the monthly Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting covering the month of March

Contents

* 1 Data and Trends   * 2 Financials   * 3 Highlights       o 3.1 Lua speeds up pages and empowers Wikimedia's technical         contributors       o 3.2 Mobile uploads launch for apps and the mobile web       o 3.3 First Individual Engagement Grants awarded to innovative         community projects       o 3.4 Wikipedia Zero wins award, reaches new users       o 3.5 Ombudsmen meet, might expand mandate   * 4 Engineering       o 4.1 VisualEditor       o 4.2 Editor engagement       o 4.3 Mobile       o 4.4 Other engineering news   * 5 Fundraising       o 5.1 Major Gifts and Foundations       o 5.2 Annual Fundraiser   * 6 Grantmaking and Programs       o 6.1 Strategic Goals Metrics       o 6.2 Grantmaking           + 6.2.1 Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)           + 6.2.2 WMF Grant requests approved in March 2013           + 6.2.3 WMF Grant reports accepted in March 2013           + 6.2.4 Participation Support requests approved in March 2013           + 6.2.5 Individual Engagement Grants           + 6.2.6 Editor Growth and Contribution Program           + 6.2.7 Wikimania Support           + 6.2.8 Brazil               # 6.2.8.1 Institutional Partnerships               # 6.2.8.2 Hirings               # 6.2.8.3 Data & Experiments               # 6.2.8.4 Education               # 6.2.8.5 Online tutorials               # 6.2.8.6 Communications               # 6.2.8.7 Medicin Wikiproject               # 6.2.8.8 Community and High School       o 6.3 Programs           + 6.3.1 Wikipedia Zero           + 6.3.2 Global Education       o 6.4 Learning & Evaluation   * 7 Human Resources       o 7.1 Staff Changes       o 7.2 Statistics       o 7.3 Department Updates   * 8 Finance and Administration   * 9 Legal, Community Advocacy, and Communications Department       o 9.1 LCA Report, March 2013           + 9.1.1 Contract Metrics           + 9.1.2 Trademark Metrics           + 9.1.3 Domains Obtained           + 9.1.4 Coming & Going           + 9.1.5 Other Activities       o 9.2 Communications Report, March 2013           + 9.2.1 Major announcements           + 9.2.2 Major Storylines through March           + 9.2.3 Other worthwhile reads           + 9.2.4 WMF Blog posts           + 9.2.5 Media Contact           + 9.2.6 Wikipedia Signpost   * 10 Office of the Executive Director   * 11 Visitors and Guests

== Data and Trends ==

Global unique visitors for February:

*483 million* (-1.12% compared with January; +1.53% compared with     the previous year)     (comScore data     http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/unique_visitors for all     Wikimedia Foundation projects; comScore will release March data     later in April)

Page requests for March:

*21.5 billion* (-1.1% compared with February; +24.8% compared with     the previous year)     (Server log data     http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyAllProjects.htm,     all Wikimedia Foundation projects including mobile access)

Active Registered Editors for February 2013 (>= 5 mainspace edits/month, excluding bots):

*78,083* (-7.53% compared with January / -2.43% compared with the     previous year)     (Database data     http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/active_editors, all Wikimedia     Foundation projects.

*Report Card* (integrating various statistical data and trends about WMF projects) for February 2013:

http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/

(Definitions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Metric_definitions)

== Financials ==

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF_Revenue_%26_Expenses_February_20... Wikimedia Foundation YTD Revenue and Expenses vs Plan as of February 28, 2013     <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF_Expenses_by_Functions_February_2... Wikimedia Foundation YTD Expenses by Functions as of February 28, 2013

(Financial information is only available through February 2013 at the time of this report.)

All financial information presented is for the Month-To-Date and Year-To-Date February 28, 2013.

Revenue     $35,650,340 *Expenses:*     Engineering Group     $9,379,205 Fundraising Group     $2,411,055 Grantmaking & Programs Group     $3,935,546 Governance Group     $504,987 Legal/Community Advocacy/Communications Group     $2,029,585 Finance/HR/Admin Group     $3,702,999 Total Expenses     $21,963,377 Total surplus     $13,686,963

* Revenue for the month of February is $1.89MM vs plan of $276K,     approximately $1.61MM or 585% over plan.

* Year-to-date revenue is $35.65MM vs plan of $30.46MM, approximately     $5.19MM or 17% over plan.

* Expenses for the month of February is $4.25MM vs plan of $4.03MM,     approximately $215K or 5% over plan, primarily due to higher capital     expenses offset by lower personnel expenses, internet hosting, and     grant expenses.

* Year-to-date expenses is $21.96MM vs plan of $25.94MM, approximately     $3.98MM or 15% under plan, primarily due to personnel expenses,     capital expenses, internet hosting, FDC grants executed, WMF project     grants, and travel expenses partially offset by higher legal     expenses and bank fees.

* Cash position is $40.68MM as of February 28, 2013.

== Highlights ==

=== Lua speeds up pages and empowers Wikimedia's technical contributors ===

On March 13 https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/11/lua-templates-faster-more-flexible-pages/, Lua https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language) was enabled for templates on all Wikimedia wikis. The existing syntax for wikitext templates is complicated and limited: it does not offer loops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_(computing), for example. With Lua, editors can now use a real programming language https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/14/what-lua-scripting-means-wikimedia-open-source/, in which they can also contribute to programming projects outside Wikimedia. For Wikimedia wikis, Lua means a big performance gain in widely used templates, such as citations. For example, 300 citations on an English Wikipedia article now render in 3 seconds instead of 18 seconds https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/presentation/d/1gMw12QMPn0Xj_5tiUi1WBtzyREU7YIph7ZjmgdS0PiE/edit#slide=id.gb8d4f86e_026.

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mobile_web_upload_button.PNG%3E The new image upload button in an article on the mobile version of the English Wikipedia

=== Mobile uploads launch for apps and the mobile web ===

On the mobile version of Wikipedia, smartphone users can now easily upload a lead image https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/28/add-an-image-to-this-article-uploads-now-live-on-mobile-wikipedia/ to Wikipedia articles that lack one. Also in March, the Mobile team released a dedicated app for Wikimedia Commons https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/11/putting-commons-contributions-in-your-hand-mobile-app-uploads/, allowing media uploads from Android and iOS devices.

=== First Individual Engagement Grants awarded to innovative community projects ===

The recipients of the first Individual Engagements Grants were announced https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/29/wikimedia-individual-engagement-grantees/ on March 29. These grants fund projects by individuals or small teams for a duration of six months. Among the largest of the eight funded grants are "The Wikipedia Library https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Library" ($7500), which aims to give editors access to reliable sources, donated by publishers, "The Wikipedia Adventure https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Adventure" ($10,000), an on-wiki game for new editors, and a project to collaboratively define a vision for the future of Wikisource https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Elaborate_Wikisource_strategic_vision (10,000 Euros).

=== Wikipedia Zero wins award, reaches new users ===

Wikipedia Zero, which gives people around the world mobile access to Wikipedia free of data charges, won the 2013 SXSW Interactive “Activism” award https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/13/wikipedia-zero-wins-2013-sxsw-interactive-activism-award/, beating four other finalists. Also in March, Wikipedia Zero became available to more than 55 million additional subscribers in Russia, as part of a partnership with Beeline (VimpelCom). This was the biggest launch for the Wikipedia Zero team to date. The same month, a new Wikipedia Zero partnership with Axiata Group was announced https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/19/axiata-wikipedia-zero-partnership/, which will expand the program in Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh this year.

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia-Ombudsman-Commission-Publi... Four of the Ombudsmen during their visit at the WMF office

=== Ombudsmen meet, might expand mandate ===

In March, the Foundation's LCA https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LCA team hosted five out of seven members of the Ombudsmen Commission in San Francisco, where these community members from around the world met with each other in person for the first time https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/01/privacy-policy-complaints-on-wikipedia/. They consulted with various WMF departments and provided input regarding privacy topics and the work of administrators. Formed in 2006, the Ombudsmen Commission is currently tasked with investigating complaints of alleged Privacy policy https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy violations on behalf of the Board of Trustees. It has been proposed that the Commission should also be allowed to handle complaints about the global CheckUser policy https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CheckUser_policy and Oversight policy https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Oversight_policy. An RfC (request for comment) about this is being prepared.

== Engineering ==

A detailed report of the Tech Department's activities for March 2013 can be found at:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/March

Department Highlights

<Video: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sneak_Preview_-_Wikipedia_VisualEdit... "A Sneak Preview of the Wikipedia VisualEditor", narrated by Trevor Parscal (uploaded March 1, 2013)

=== VisualEditor https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor ===

/(Accessible introduction to what the Visual Editor is https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/12/07/inventing-as-we-go-building-a-visual-editor-for-mediawiki/)/

In March, part of the team worked on infrastructure for the major new features that they'll be adding in the coming months. We aim for VisualEditor to be the default way all users edit our sites by July 2013, so it needs to let everyone edit the majority of content without needing to use the usual "wikitext" editor. This will mean adding support for references, (at least) basic templates, categories and images, each of which is a very large piece of work. This month the team primarily worked on draft designs and initial code to ensure users can edit categories and templates.

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:VisualEditor-Parsoid_-_...

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor-Parsoid_-_2012-13_Q3_qu... Slides from the VisualEditor/Parsoid quarterly review (see also slides https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_2013-04_Metrics_deck.pdf from the monthly metrics meeting)

The VisualEditor team undertook its first ever "Quarterly Review https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews" (minutes https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/VisualEditor-Parsoid,_2013-03-27), whose slides <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor-Parsoid_-_2012-13_Q3_qu... detail these designs, the work done to date and expectations for the near future. The alpha version of VisualEditor on mediawiki.org and the English Wikipedia was updated twice, adding better input and selection support, fixing a number of bugs, and restructuring the back-end so that the new features will be simpler to create.

The Parsoid https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid team (who are creating the parsing program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing that translates plain wikitext into HTML annotated for easy editing, and /vice-versa/) continued writing specifications, fixing bugs, and improving how Parsoid deals with different human languages, newlines and whitespace, and transclusion. They wrote a blog post explaining their challenges https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/04/parsoid-how-wikipedia-catches-up-with-the-web/. And late in March, C. Scott Ananian joined us as a contractor. Welcome!

=== Editor engagement https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_editor_engagement

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Monthly_Metrics...

Fabrice Florin presenting about Notifications (slides https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/presentation/d/1cknqzVqRBPffahIBWc_npox_EGae03QU08F6PI7LAck/edit#slide=id.g19a9245b9_2_6)

In March, the editor engagement features team worked on three projects: Notifications, Article Feedback and Flow.

For Notifications (formerly code-named 'Echo'), we developed a range of new features, including: the 'thanks' and 'user rights' notifications, as well as HTML email notifications. We also started to collect our first metrics and prepared a socialization plan for our upcoming release on the English Wikipedia later this month.

For Article Feedback, we deployed a new version of the tool on the French and German Wikipedias, for evaluation by their communities. Final features include 'discuss on talk page' and 'auto-archive. The tool was temporarily turned off on the English Wikipedia, where we expect to re-deploy it on an opt-in basis as soon as practical.

Design work continued on Flow. We continued creating a "Portal" that will engage discussion about Flow at three locations (mediawiki.org, meta, and the English Wikipedia), and performing research.

The Editor Engagement Experiments https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editor_Engagement_Experiments team largely placed other projects – such as guided tours https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/guided_tours, EventLogging https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EventLogging, and others – on hold to focus on two key initiatives: the "Getting Started https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GettingStarted" process for onboarding new Wikipedians https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/onboarding_new_Wikipedians, and on making the redesign of account creation and login https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/account_creation_user_experience a permanent, internationalized part of MediaWiki core.

For the Getting Started project, the team launched a new version on English Wikipedia, which included a new landing page with additional types of tasks suggested for brand new editors to try. The list of tasks is now generated by a basic recommender system https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Onboarding_new_Wikipedians/Recommender_system built by Ori Livneh, which gathers, filters, and delivered a fresh list of tasks automatically for every editor. This new backend paves the way for releasing the "getting started" feature on other projects, after we've completed data analysis and testing to understand which kinds of tasks are ideal for first time editors. Additionally, Matt Flaschen collaborated with the Editor Engagement Features team to build notifications https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo to welcome new editors and invite them to contribute via the Getting Started.

For the account creation and login work, S Page, Munaf Assaf, and the rest of the team rebuilt our design to work with MediaWiki core, and solicited reviews from outside the team. We currently plan to launch both interface redesigns on an opt-in basis in April, to have editors test the localization and other functional aspects of the forms via a URL parameter, before we enable them as default.

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Monthly_Metrics...

Maryana Pinchuk presenting mobile image uploads (slides) https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/presentation/d/1EW-Io5mTXeNwaPBGvAefqvvQ2-wIs9x4tioZtTcllJg/edit#slide=id.gb84d9a88_015

=== Mobile https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Mobile_engineering

We have a stable version of the mobile-optimized website, which everyone on a smartphone uses by default, and we have a beta version that logged-in Wikimedia users can opt to use to see features we're still building. When functionality is polished enough, we promote it from the beta site to the stable site. In March, we added the ability to easily upload a lead image https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/28/add-an-image-to-this-article-uploads-now-live-on-mobile-wikipedia/ to articles that lack one in the stable version of the mobile site. We also helped users by giving them a temporary fix to an issue we discovered that made logging in hard or impossible for some users of newer mobile web browsers; that problem had prevented a number of users from being able to upload photos via the mobile site. We are now well on our way to reach our goal of 1000 unique uploaders/month by the end of June 2013. Check out the mobile app dashboard http://mobile-reportcard.wmflabs.org/ to see mobile contributions via the website and via apps.

Also: we've added thumbnails of lead images from articles in the mobile watchlist view, as well as a "last modified" timestamp on articles in the stable version of the mobile site. We are currently focusing on some performance enhancements for the mobile site. In April we will graduate the "uploads dashboard" feature from beta to stable, will further refine our photo upload features, and will let beta site users see and use a feature to identify articles on subjects near your current location.

The Mobile team that makes dedicated Wikimedia mobile apps have created an initial version of the Commons photo uploader app https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/11/putting-commons-contributions-in-your-hand-mobile-app-uploads/ for Android; it is available for download in Google Play. The iOS version is still in beta, but should be available in the Apple app store next month.

In March, Wikipedia Zero https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mobile_partnerships added new telecom partners (such as Axiata Group Berhad https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/19/axiata-wikipedia-zero-partnership/), fixed some technical problems, and onboarded new staff. We also won an SXSW Interactive "Activism" award for Wikipedia Zero https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/13/wikipedia-zero-wins-2013-sxsw-interactive-activism-award/. (see also the general "Highlights" section)

Max Semenik, Arthur Richards and Faidon Liambotis held an OpenStreetMaps mini-hackathon at Open Source Days 2013 in Copenhagen https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/Wikimedia_Mapping_Event_2013. During the event, they agreed on an implementation strategy for a future WMF mapping cluster. The cluster would serve OSM "tiles" and thus help integrate OSM functionality better into Wikimedia sites, and help with our mobile apps which already make use of OSM data.

=== Other engineering news ===

* Lua scripting     https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/11/lua-templates-faster-more-flexible-pages/     has launched on all WMF wikis, making templates faster and making     pages more flexible. You can read that post to understand what to do     on your wiki to take advantage of this, and you can also read about     the implications for Wikimedia's future     https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/14/what-lua-scripting-means-wikimedia-open-source/     (see also general "Highlights" section)   * We redesigned the Translate interface     https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/25/redesigning-the-translation-experience-an-overview/     and made other progress     https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/12/new-release-of-the-mediawiki-language-extension-bundle-and-other-updates/     on translation and language-related tools.   * We have fresh, friendly instructions on reporting a technical     problem     https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/18/how-to-create-a-good-first-bug-report/     and invite you to help prioritize problems to fix     https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/19/help-wikimedia-squash-software-bugs/.   * Our designers are collaborating with the Noun Project     https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/13/the-noun-project-and-the-wikimedia-foundation-host-an-iconathon-to-create-an-encyclopedia-collection-of-free-icons/     towards creating an "Encyclopedia Collection" of free icons.   * Our Operations group (the systems administrators who keep our     servers running) has started a twice-monthly meeting with other     engineering teams, to keep communication flowing about requirements     and possible upcoming problems or infrastructure needs.   * The User Metrics API https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_Metrics     launched; it's a service that allows researchers to perform cohort     analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohort_study on various data     sets, making it easier to measure the effects of programs and     platform experiments among discrete sets of users. The Analytics     group https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics, which works on software     to make statistics about Wikimedia available, is currently working     on improving the web-based user interface, to make it available for     use outside of Wikimedia Foundation staff in the coming months.

== Fundraising ==

Department highlight

* The fundraising team ramped up testing in languages and countries     that were not included in the year-end 2012 campaign, raising     approximately $5 million USD.

=== Major Gifts and Foundations ===

* Received a $250,000 grant from Peter Baldwin and Lisbet Rausing.

=== Annual Fundraiser ===

* The fundraising team ran banners in languages and countries that     were not included in the year-end 2012 campaign (US, UK, Canada,     Australia, New Zealand, France, Switzerland, Germany). Approximately     $5 million USD was raised from this campaign in the month of March.     Banners were taken down on March 31, 2013. Any future testing will     be announced on the Fundraising 2013 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2013 page     on Meta.   * Patricia Pena visited India and researched user feedback and     possible opportunities for local processing in the country. We     interviewed roughly 20 donors and networked with over 20 Indian     payment providers.   * The fundraising tech team continued to add new payment options     including Boletos for Brazil and Direct Debit for Spain,     Netherlands, and Austria. In addition, the team added the option to     make a recurring credit card donation for countries where this was     not previously offered.   * Megan Hernandez, Katie Horn, and Bryony Jones visited Japan, a top     donor country, and met with 3-5 Japanese donors every day during the     week of March 11. The team tested 10 different messages and designs     and developed a high performing fundraising banner.   * Victor Grigas produced brief video introductions to the VisualEditor     <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sneak_Preview_-_Wikipedia_VisualEdit... (see above)     and the Wikipedia Education Program     <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Wikipedia_Education_Program.webm... (see below).

== Grantmaking and Programs ==

Department Highlights

* Launched Wikipedia Zero with Beeline (Vimpelcom) in Russia, largest     single operator to date (55+ million subscsribers)   * First round of Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) approved and     announced     https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/29/wikimedia-individual-engagement-grantees/!   * Round 2 2012-2013 proposals to the Funds Dissemination Committee     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals were submitted on 1 March 2013 and have     been open to community review from 1 March to 31 March.

=== Strategic Goals Metrics ===

Metric     Value     MoM     MoM%     Chart Global South Active Editors (5+ edits in main namespace)     15.5k     -317 -2.0% Decrease     [1] http://gp.wmflabs.org/graphs/global_north_south_active_editors

=== Grantmaking ===

==== Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) ====

* Proposals for Round 2 2012-2013 were submitted on 1 March 2013. 4     proposals were submitted (presented alphabetically) :       o Wikimedia Czech Republic         https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals/2012-2013_round2/Wikimedia_Czech_Republic/Proposal_form       o Wikimédia France         https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals/2012-2013_round2/Wikim%C3%A9dia_France/Proposal_form       o Wikimedia Hong Kong         https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals/2012-2013_round2/Wikimedia_Hong_Kong/Proposal_form       o Wikimedia Norge         https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals/2012-2013_round2/Wikimedia_Norge/Proposal_form   * *Community review:* From 1 March until 31 March, members of the     Wikimedia community commented on the four funding proposals     submitted to the FDC https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals (Wikimédia France     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:FDC_portal/Proposals/2012-2013_round2/Wikim%C3%A9dia_France/Proposal_form,     Wikimedia Hong Kong     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:FDC_portal/Proposals/2012-2013_round2/Wikimedia_Hong_Kong/Proposal_form,     Wikimedia Norge     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:FDC_portal/Proposals/2012-2013_round2/Wikimedia_Norge/Proposal_form,     and Wikimedia Czech Republic     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:FDC_portal/Proposals/2012-2013_round2/Wikimedia_Czech_Republic/Proposal_form)     during the one-month open comment / community review period.     Comments and questions were submitted for each proposal: each     proposal discussion page had at least 20 distinct authors and at     most 34 distinct authors. 111 was the maximum total number of edits     made on the discussion pages of any proposal, and 79 was the minimum     total number. The comments addressed many topics, including     expressing overall support or concern for a proposal, questioning     the specifics of financial tables, stating concerns about an     entity's plans to hire staff, and requesting more information about     specific programs. Questions and comments from the community will be     summarized and reflected in the FDC staff assessments published on     April 8, and will be considered by the FDC when it deliberates in     Milan in late April.   * The Progress report form https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Progress_report_form was     finalized and made ready for use by entities funded in 2012-2013     Round 1 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals/2012-2013_round1, who will     submit their first progress reports before 30 April 2013. Entities     may submit their reports from their proposal hub pages in the FDC     portal.

==== WMF Grant requests approved in March 2013 ====

* Grants:WM IN/Program Grant Quarter 1 2013     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_IN/Program_Grant_Quarter_1_2013: Grant to support     the activities of Wikimedia India during the first quarter of 2013.   * Grants:WM Wikisym/2013 WikiSym OpenSym Conference     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_Wikisym/2013_WikiSym_OpenSym_Conference: Grant to     support the annual WikiSym conference.   * Grants:Jackson Peebles/Video and Interactive Tutorials     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Jackson_Peebles/Video_and_Interactive_Tutorials:     Jackson will use screen capture software to author video tutorials     with potential interactivity for certain Wikipedia tools and processes.   * FF portal/Recommendations/Fotofahrt im Heißluftballon     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FF_portal/Recommendations/Fotofahrt_im_Hei%C3%9Fluftballon:     Flow funding request to support aerial photography projects in Germany.   * FF portal/Recommendations/Faculty of Economics Skopje     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FF_portal/Recommendations/Faculty_of_Economics_Skopje: Flow     funding request to support Wikipedia education activities at the     Faculty of Economics in Skopje.

==== WMF Grant reports accepted in March 2013 ====

* Grants:Abbas Mahmood - Creative Commons Community in Kenya/CC Kenya     Formative Meeting/Report     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Abbas_Mahmood_-_Creative_Commons_Community_in_Kenya/CC_Kenya_Formative_Meeting/Report   * Grants:WM US-DC/Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 USA/Report     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_US-DC/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_USA/Report   * Grants:WM US-DC/Events 2012/Report     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_US-DC/Events_2012/Report   * Grants:WM ZA/Wiki Loves Monuments/Report     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_ZA/Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Report   * Grants:WM IN/Bootstrap Grant/Report     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_IN/Bootstrap_Grant/Report   * Grants:WM HU/Annual Program Plan 2012/Report/Q4     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_HU/Annual_Program_Plan_2012/Report/Q4   * Grants:WM NL/Annual Program Plan 2012/Report/Q4     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_NL/Annual_Program_Plan_2012/Report/Q4   * Grants:WM SE/Annual Program Plan 2012/Report/Q4     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_SE/Annual_Program_Plan_2012/Report/Q4

Contractor Kevin Gorman has published a review of the Wikimedia Foundation’s grants program https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Retrospective_2009-2012 from fiscal year 2009-2010 through fiscal year 2011-2012.

==== Participation Support requests approved in March 2013

* Participation:SarahStierch/NMLA Conference     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:SarahStierch/NMLA_Conference   * Participation:Thelmadatter/Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin     American Library Materials     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Thelmadatter/Seminar_on_the_Acquisition_of_Latin_American_Library_Materials   * Participation:Umbrellas000/US OpenGLAM Launch Weekend, Open     Knowledge Foundation     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Umbrellas000/US_OpenGLAM_Launch_Weekend,_Open_Knowledge_Foundation   * Participation:Bdcousineau/US OpenGLAM Launch Event     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Bdcousineau/US_OpenGLAM_Launch_Event   * Participation:Hlong-lib/US OpenGLAM Launch Weekend, Open Knowledge     Foundation     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Hlong-lib/US_OpenGLAM_Launch_Weekend,_Open_Knowledge_Foundation   * Participation:Tedder/Legislative Data and Wikipedia Conference     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Tedder/Legislative_Data_and_Wikipedia_Conference   * Participation:Cryptic C62/Legislative Data Workshop     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Cryptic_C62/Legislative_Data_Workshop   * Participation:Lpagola/LibreGraphicsMeeting     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Lpagola/LibreGraphicsMeeting

==== Individual Engagement Grants ====

The IEG Committee completed its review, and WMF announced https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/29/wikimedia-individual-engagement-grantees/ that all 8 recommended projects have been selected https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-engaging for round 1 funding.

The selected projects are:

* Build an effective method of publicity in PRChina     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Build_an_effective_method_of_publicity_in_PRChina, led     by zh:User:AddisWang https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AddisWang,     funded at $350. Addis and a small team of volunteers based in     mainland China will be experimenting with social media campaigns to     grow awareness of Wikipedia in China.   * Replay Edits https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Replay_Edits, led by     w:User:Jeph_paul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jeph_paul, funded at     $500. Jeph is building a MediaWiki gadget that creates a visual     playback of the edit history of a Wikipedia article, allowing users     to see an article’s change over time.   * The Wikipedia Library https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Library,     funded at $7500 and The Wikipedia Adventure     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Adventure, funded at $10,000, will     both be led by w:User:Ocaasi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ocaasi.     For the Wikipedia Library, Ocaasi will be building and consolidating     partnerships with reference providers donating access to reliable     sources for Wikipedia editors, and improving the systems for     managing these programs. The Wikipedia Adventure is an on-wiki game     that will be piloted on English Wikipedia using the Guided Tours     extension to determine whether this type of interactive learning is     an effective engagement strategy for new editors.   * Consolidate wikiArS to involve art schools     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Consolidate_wikiArS_to_involve_art_schools, led     by w:User:Dvdgmz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dvdgmz, funded at     7810 Euros. The WikiArS outreach program builds partnerships with     art and design schools to teach students to create images for     donation to Wikimedia Commons and for use in Wikipedia articles.     This grant will support focused experimentation in the existing     Catalan program’s models that can allow the initiative to scale and     to be sustained as an international program.   * Elaborate Wikisource strategic vision     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Elaborate_Wikisource_strategic_vision, led by     User:Micru https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Micru and User:Aubrey https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Aubrey,     funded at 10,000 Euros. This project brings together the global     Wikisource community and other stakeholders to define a vision for     the project’s future. They’ll begin work on near-term goals that can     be accomplished by volunteers on-wiki, and investigate paths forward     for longer-term improvements to Wikisource.   * MediaWiki data browser https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/MediaWiki_data_browser,     led by User:Yaron K. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Yaron_K., partially funded at     $15,000 in order to pilot the initial concept. Yaron’s project will     create a framework to allow any user to easily generate apps or     websites to browse sets of structured data that exist on Wikipedia     and other projects running on MediaWiki.   * MediaWiki and Javanese script     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/MediaWiki_and_Javanese_script, led by     User:Bennylin https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bennylin, has been provisionally approved     for funding at $3000, provided that a couple of dependencies     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/MediaWiki_and_Javanese_script     can be satisfied. This project will provide technical support using     a “train-the-trainers” model that teaches volunteers how to use     Javanese script online, facilitating the transcription of Javanese     texts to projects like Javanese Wikisource.

==== Editor Growth and Contribution Program ====

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Editor_Growth_and_Contribution_Progr... Logo of the Editor Growth and Contribution Program

A landing page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tambayan_Philippines/Get_started for Geo-targeted Editors Participation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geo-targeted_Editors_Participation was created on English Wikipedia, and an invitation to edit was displayed using the geo-targeted centranl notice to readers from the Philippines, where readers were encouraged to registed an account and were surfaced random stub articles about local topics to improve.

==== Wikimania Support ====

* Hired Ellie Young, Contractor to take the lead on orchestrating     Wikimania! Welcome, Ellie!   * Finalizing review of Wikimania Scholarship applications. Over 1200     applicants with 660 who made it into round 2 of the review process     (i.e., non-spam). Committee of 9 voting members thoroughly reviewed     and scored applicants. Anticipated ~100 scholarships through WMF.

==== Brazil ====

===== Institutional Partnerships =====

A debate on governance with Ação Educativa, WMF and a member of the community took place, to trigger a debate on meta. The report on the meeting has been published https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programa_Catalisador_do_Brasil/Planejamento_2012-2013/Parcerias/Governan%C3%A7a and is now open for debate.

===== Hirings =====

* Job positions of the Brazilian Wikipedia Education Program for     substituting the current contractor opened! (with coverage by big     media, thanks to Tom)

===== Data & Experiments =====

* Translation of the Meta Page Research:Data https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Data     into Portuguese is ongoing     https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Central_de_pesquisas/Portal_de_dados/tradu%C3%A7%C3%A3o.   * Prototype of the Data Center     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pt:Wikip%C3%A9dia:Central_de_pesquisas/Portal_de_dados     has been developed and is being debated: the proposal is to have a     central page with data and tutorials for anyone to work on data     creation and analysis.   * IRC meetings     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pt:Wikip%C3%A9dia:Projetos/Wikip%C3%A9dia/Reuni%C3%B5es     to debate proposals for Analyses and Data Center page   * Henrique’s onboarding in SF: Henrique attended the Python conference     and various meetings in SF as part of his onboarding.   * An initial proposal for data analyses and experiments     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programa_Catalisador_do_Brasil/Planejamento_2012-2013/An%C3%A1lise_de_Dados_e_Experimentos     has been published on Meta and is being debated.

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikip%C3%A9dia_na_Universidade_-_FGV... Wikipédia na Universidade - FGV SP (direito)

===== Education =====

Partnerships with universities

* FGV SP (Getulio Vargas Foundation): A lecture at FGV Law School in     São Paulo for about 70 people has taken place, with the     participation of a WMF team and one volunteer. The university has     tried to implement actitivies at Wikipedia but faced difficulties in     having the content accepted. They’re restructuring the project with     our support now.   * Gama Filho: several videos http://www.youtube.com/wikipediapt to     invite students from the University to engage in the translation     course/partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation have been produced.

===== Online tutorials =====

We’ve catalyzed and provided a first translation version for online tutorials https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pt:Wikip%C3%A9dia:Training. The community has imported the pages and is customizing the material.

===== Communications =====

* The community has approved the recreation of communications channels     as blogs     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pt:Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada/propostas#Blog_da_Wikimedia.2FWikip.C3.A9dia.3F     - though the br.wikimedia claims it should be under their website     http://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:%C3%81gora/Blog_Wikimedia/Wikip%C3%A9dia%3F.     We should run a test on the Correio da Wikipédia     https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Correio_da_Wikip%C3%A9dia     for one month and check the signpost distribution system and would     publish that on br.wikimedia too, for customization.   * Catalyzed initiative of a journalist volunteer who started     interviewing volunteers     http://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:%C3%81gora#Entrevista_com_editores     to write stories about them

===== Medicin Wikiproject =====

* Bot: improvements have been made and it’s ready to be tested on the     real environment by the community (request for bot approval     https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Rob%C3%B4s/Pedidos_de_aprova%C3%A7%C3%A3o/Wikiprojetosbot)

===== Community and High School =====

* The bridge reported last month built between the community and High     School Peretz became the subject of an article     http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/tec/1251093-colegio-em-sp-estimula-alunos-a-editar-e-melhorar-a-wikipedia.shtml     in Folha de S.Paulo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folha_de_S._Paulo. The     newspaper has also produced an online tutorial     http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/tec/1251021-gravada-aprenda-a-editar-artigos-e-a-criar-novas-paginas-na-wikipedia.shtml.

=== Programs ===

==== Wikipedia Zero ====

/(see also general "Highlights" section)/

* Launched Wikipedia Zero with Beeline (Vimpelcom) in Russia, largest     single operator to date (55+ million subscribers)   * Completed partnership contract and announcement with Axiata,     expanding partner base of Wikipedia Zero to 410 million subscribers   * Wikipedia Zero received the 2013 SXSW Interactive Award for "Activism"

<Video: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Wikipedia_Education_Program.webm... The Wikipedia Education Program, in video form! (narrated by Annie Lin and LiAnna Davis) <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Monthly_Metrics...

Rod Dunican presenting about the impact of the Education Program (slides https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/presentation/d/1UYnRWTJ18JGCfeb747L-W8clStCrecCibxQQchrFIYA/edit#slide=id.gb7714626_047)

==== Global Education ====

Highlights:

* Egypt term wrapped up with a celebration conference in Cairo.   * Classes started in Egypt, Jordan, and Algeria, as part of the     Wikipedia Education Program Arab World     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ar:%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%AC_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%84%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85.   * Volunteers proposed new thematic organization to run U.S. and Canada     Education Programs, the Wiki Education Foundation     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation.

Egypt program celebrates end of second term

The second term of the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt wrapped up with a celebration conference at Cairo University. Dr. Abeer Abd El-Hafez, a professor of Spanish from Cairo University, opened the conference and spoke about the spirit of the program and its importance in the lives of students and teachers in terms of skills development and new experiences. Faris El-Gwely, the education program consultant who runs the program in Egypt, shared results from the second term, and the best students and Ambassadors from the program received certificates recognizing their hard work. Students and professors also shared information about their experiences in the program. Check out photos from the event. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Second_Celebration_Conference,_Egypt-February_2013

U.S. student shares special Wikipedia story

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Article_Photo.jpg%3E Jacqueline McCrory

University of San Francisco master's student Jacqueline McCrory wrote the Wikipedia article on habitat conservation plans for her class with Professor Aaron Frank in spring 2012 — and was then astonished to discover that she'd been assigned to read the article in a different class in fall 2012! Jacqueline talks about how her Wikipedia article experience gave her additional responsibility at work and kudos from professors in her department in a post on the Wikimedia Foundation blog. Read the post. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/13/student-assigned-to-read-a-wikipedia-article-that-she-wrote/

Quebec professor's work featured in WMF blog

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lauriers_C%C3%A9gep_de_Chicoutimi06.... Simon Villeneuve's students

Professor Simon Villeneuve of physics and astronomy at Cégep de Chicoutimi, a college in Quebec, has been using Wikipedia as a teaching tool in his classroom since 2008. Overall, his students have created more than 150 articles on the French Wikipedia on topics related to astronomy and physics, and Simon has learned a lot about the best ways of doing Wikipedia assignments. Read a post he wrote for the Wikimedia blog about his work. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/07/quebec-school-project-improves-french-wikipedia/

News coverage highlights Poland, Ukraine programs

An article in the Global Post highlights the work being done in Poland and Ukraine related to the Wikipedia Education Program. The Ukraine program ran a pilot last term that produced 23 improved articles. The Poland program is working with a university to replace a bachelor's thesis with a Wikipedia article. Learn more by reading the article. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/130313/wikipedia-academic-thesis-Poland-Ukraine-Egypt

Education project improves Catalan Wikipedia

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sagrada_Familia_nave_roof_detail.jpg... Sagrada Familia nave roof detail, an example of modernism in Barcelona.

Esther Solé from Amical Viquipèdia wrote a post for the Wikimedia Foundation blog about the "Viquimoderisme" project to improve articles related to modernism on the Catalan Wikipedia. Around 100 art history students at the University of Barcelona are working with researchers to create new articles on Catalan modernism, a topic important to the cultural history of Catalonia. Esther's report highlights their learnings from the initial phase, and they're currently embarking on the second phase, in which a museum in Barcelona will also offer students access to resources they can use in their articles. Read more about the project. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/21/viquimodernisme/

Online student trainings deemed a success

A post on the Wikimedia Foundation blog highlights the successful development of an online training for students piloted on the English Wikipedia with the United States and Canada programs. In the post, author Sage Ross describes how early feedback and user testing has led to iterative improvements to the content of the training. This term, more than 400 students (about one third of all students participating in the program) have successfully completed the training. Read more about the online training. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/20/online-training-for-newcomers/

Education Program featured in video

Wikipedia Education Program Communications Manager LiAnna Davis and former Program Manager Annie Lin were featured in a video describing the basics of the education program. In the short video, Annie and LiAnna describe how the program works and talk about the impact the program has had in the last three years. Watch the video. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/19/wikipedia-education-program-video/

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Professor_Ruy_de_Queiroz.jpg%3E Professor Ruy de Queiroz

Brazil professor featured on Wikimedia blog

Professor Ruy de Queiroz of Brazil is one of the pioneers of using Wikipedia in his classroom. In 2005, he was browsing the Portuguese Wikipedia in logic and theory of computation — his study areas — and found the Portuguese version lacking in comparison to the English version. Over the last seven years, he and his students have added content to more than 125 articles on the Portuguese Wikipedia in an effort to improve access to information. Read more about his work. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/26/ruy-de-queiroz-profile/

=== Learning & Evaluation ===

* Working with the Analytics and E3 teams to expand the UserMetrics     API tool to address the needs of the G&P partners at large   * Plagarism study along with the Wikipedia Education team, working on     tools to be able to query based on article categories, editor type,     and contribution types   * Program mapping study, creating database of all funding mapped to     programs. Thanks to volunteer Rosie Lewis for this awesome work!

== Human Resources ==

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Monthly_Metrics...

Gayle Karen Young presenting about hirings in the first quarter (slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NHoqUo8prz3GGWluoar3Y5hj5MvXMkf-YTSa33FfYhM/edit?usp=sharing)

In March, HR has made some changes to our benefits providers, namely a broker change and a flexplan provider change. HR also hosted the second remote employee task force meeting with a focus on improving in-office technology for better remote participation, which Office IT has been assiduously improving. We have also been working on analyzing our compensation structure, and our 401k committee has been working to add new low fee index funds and find a new plan advisor.

=== Staff Changes ===

New Requisitions Filled

* Adam Baso, Senior Software Developer (Engineering)   * Yuri Astrakhan, Senior Software Developer (Engineering)

New Contractors

* Dan DeJarnatt (HR)   * Kristan Johnson (Fundraiser)   * Meron Kristos (Finance)   * Andrey Valkov (Fundraiser)   * Ellie Young (Grantmaking & Programs)

Contract Extended

* Oona Castro (Grantmaking & Programs)   * Jeroen DeDauw (Engineering)

Departures

* Peter Gehres (continuing as contractor)   * Svetlana Istrati   * Patrick Reilly

Contracts Ended

* Zoe Bernard   * Darrin Fox   * Aaron Halfaker   * Ian Poirier   * Jawad Qadir   * Mike Wang   * Anita Whites

New Postings

* A/P Clerk   * Communications Volunteer   * Development Associate   * Software Engineer | Language Engineering   * WordPress Developer (Contract)

=== Statistics ===

Total Requisitions Filled     March Actual: 134     March Total Plan: 175     March Filled: 2, Month Attrition: 3,     YTD Filled: 43, YTD Attrition: 21     6 Position canceled for FY

Remaining Open positions to fiscal year end     34 (8 of which are on hold)

=== Department Updates ===

Real-time feed for HR updates

http://identi.ca/wikimediaatwork or http://twitter.com/wikimediaatwork

== Finance and Administration ==

* Review of FDC round 2 proposals for the FDC.   * Completed Wikimedia Argentina site visit report which will be     presented to the WMF Audit Committee at their summer meeting.   * Completed Version 1 of the WMF annual plan, which is now being     reviewed by the WMF Senior Level Team and the WMF Board of Trustees.   * Reviewing options for Foreign Exchange management beyond the big     international banks to receive and distribute funds for the global     movement.

== Legal, Community Advocacy, and Communications Department

=== LCA Report, March 2013 ===

==== Contract Metrics ====

* Submitted : 17   * Completed : 20

==== Trademark Metrics ====

* Submitted : 26   * Approved : 2   * Pending : 20   * Denied : 3   * Approval not needed : 1

==== Domains Obtained ====

* wikipedia.us   * wikipedia.is   * softwarewikipedia.com   * wikispecies.org   * wikimedia.gr

==== Coming & Going ====

* Two legal interns’ spring internships are coming to an end. Thanks     to Ava Miller and Megumi Yukie for all of their help this semester!   * One of our contract attorneys, Ian Poirier, left the Foundation for     a permanent opportunity and we wish him the best in his new job!   * We welcome Elaine Wallace, a talented and experienced attorney who     will be volunteering her time with us over the next few months.

==== Other Activities ====

* Community Advocacy hosted a meeting in the office of 5 out of 7 of     the Ombudsman Commission both to facilitate their work with each     other and their assistance with various staff on WMF initiatives     (see also general "Highlights" section)   * Community Advocacy set up the first of a series of phone calls for     WMF management with highly connected community members around the world.   * Legal continues to work through the trademark registration process     to protect our marks around the world.

=== Communications Report, March 2013 ===

In March we successfully issued another major announcement for Wikipedia Zero, highlighting a partnership with Axiata that will bring WP Zero to countries in Southeast Asia. We also worked closely with the executive team on news of Sue Gardner's upcoming departure from the Foundation. The team is also rotating our group of Communications volunteers, and hoping to bring in about four new volunteers to help us with day to day media monitoring and reporting.

==== Major announcements ====

/Axiata partners with the Wikimedia Foundation to offer free mobile Wikipedia access through Wikipedia Zero https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Axiata_partners_with_the_Wikimedia_Foundation/

18 March 2013 - Axiata Group Berhad and the Wikimedia Foundation     today announced a partnership to offer Wikipedia on mobile devices     free of data charges to Axiata customers throughout Asia.

==== Major Storylines through March ====

/WMF ED Sue Gardner to leave Foundation/ (Mar 27, 2013)

This month’s major news story focused on Sue Gardner’s announcement that she would be stepping down later this year once a successor for her position has been identified, to focus on defending the free and open Internet. Mostly positive-tone coverage of the news largely followed a highly visible story published by the NY Times shortly after Sue made the announcement on the WM Blog and on public and community mailing lists.

(blog post)     https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/27/sue-gardner-departure-announcement/     http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/a-driving-force-behind-wiki...     http://www.stern.de/digital/online/fuehrungssuche-beim-online-lexikon-wikipe...     http://www.webpronews.com/sue-gardner-to-depart-wikimedia-foundation-uncomfo...

/BP Edits to WP make headlines/ (Mar 20, 2103)

A flawed CNET story from mid-March sparked substantial coverage of a BP staffer’s presence on English Wikipedia. The original story accused the staffer of rewriting a number of BP related articles. Subsequent coverage was mostly critical of BP for its actions. Some coverage speculated that the BP staffer may have operated within the approved ‘policies’ around COI editing.

http://prweek.tumblr.com/post/45989772176/wikipedia-editors-have-accused-a-b...     http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/bp-accused-of-rewriting-wikipedia-r...     http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/21/bp-wikipedia-page_n_2923363.html     http://www.salon.com/2013/03/21/bp_edited_its_own_environmental_record_on_wi...

/Wikipedia Zero / Axiata / SXSW/ (Mar 8, 2013)

In early March Wikipedia Zero was honored with its first major accolade, the SXSW Interactive award. Later in March Wikipedia Zero launched its first major initiative in southeast Asia, further extending the number of global customers who will be able to access WP without data charges into the hundreds of millions.

http://www.informationweek.in/Mobile/13-03-21/How_Wikipedia_plans_to_use_mob...     http://www.popularmechanics.com/how-to/blog/sxsw-wikipedia-for-non-smartphon...

==== Other worthwhile reads ====

How Jimmy Wales’ Wikipedia Harnessed the Web as a Force for Good | Wired | March 2003

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/03/jimmy-wales-wikipedia/

Jane Goodall apologizes for plagiarizing Wikipedia | March 22

http://www.dailydot.com/culture/jane-goodall-plagiarized-wikipedia/

Wikipedia, meet Lua! | March 18     (blog post)     https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/14/what-lua-scripting-means-wikimedia-ope...     http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/18/wikipedia-crowdsourcing-site-performance-s...     http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Wikimedia-adopts-Lua-for-page-generat...

==== WMF Blog posts ====

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/

Thirty-two blog posts in March, with bilingual posts https://blog.wikimedia.org/tag/multilingual-post/ in German, Dutch, Portuguese, Catalan, Czech, and French. Some highlights:

* *Parsoid: How Wikipedia catches up with the web     https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/04/parsoid-how-wikipedia-catches-up-with-the-web/*

* *WikiAfrica project welcomes and trains Cameroonians to contribute     to Wikimedia sites     https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/15/wikiafrica-space/*

* *Evaluating the success of Wikimedia Czech Republic’s Mediagrant     https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/18/evaluating-czech-mediagrant/*

* *The recent UK report and movement governance     https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/19/movement-governance-recommendations/*

==== Media Contact ====

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room/Media_Contact#March_2013

==== Wikipedia Signpost ====

For lots of detailed coverage and news summaries, see the community-edited newsletter “Wikipedia Signpost” for March 2013:

* Volume 9, Issue 9     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2013-03-04,     04 March 2013   * Volume 9, Issue 10     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2013-03-11,     11 March 2013   * Volume 9, Issue 11     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2013-03-18,     18 March 2013   * Volume 9, Issue 12     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2013-03-25,     25 March 2013

== Office of the Executive Director ==

Sue Gardner announced https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/27/sue-gardner-departure-announcement/ that she plans to leave her position as Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, to focus on defending the free and open Internet. She will remain fully engaged as Executive Director until her successor has been recruited, which is expected to take at least six months.

== Visitors and Guests ==

Visitors and guests to the WMF office in March 2013:

1. Teemu Leinonen (Aalto University)
2. Ken Collier (Thoughtworks)
3. Dan Garry (Ombudsmen Commission)
4. Lev Gloukhenki (Ombudsmen Commission)
5. Leif Larsen (Ombudsmen Commission)
6. Thomas Goldammer (Ombudsmen Commission)
7. User:Erzbischof (Ombudsmen Commission)
8. Erin Reading (NPS)
9. Gershon Bialer (EventLogging Workshop)
10. Mlitn (EventLogging Workshop)
11. Piotr Bablok (EventLogging Workshop)
12. Jonathan March (EventLogging Workshop)
13. Valerie Ball (KPMG)
14. Gour Lentell (BiNu)
15. Ton Chookhare (UC Berkeley Haas MBA Tour)
16. Franzi Mare (UC Berkeley Haas MBA Tour)
17. Nikita Kiselev (UC Berkeley Haas MBA Tour)
18. Thomas Malec (UC Berkeley Haas MBA Tour)
19. Julio Santil (UC Berkeley Haas MBA Tour)
20. Joseph Zhou (UC Berkeley Haas MBA Tour)
21. Vishel Shah (UC Berkeley Haas MBA Tour)
22. Lauren Fernandez (UC Berkeley Haas MBA Tour)
23. Abigail Feuer (UC Berkeley Haas MBA Tour)
24. Sarah Walker (UC Berkeley Haas MBA Tour)
25. Adi Rubinovich (UC Berkeley Haas MBA Tour)
26. John McLear (Etherpad Project)
27. Idoia Valencia (Mondragon Unibertsitatea)
28. Mikel Garcia (Mondragon Unibertsitatea)
29. Borja Pinedo (Mondragon Unibertsitatea)
30. Patrizia Varela (Mondragon Unibertsitatea)
31. Eneko Sieso (Mondragon Unibertsitatea)
32. Asier Lopez (Mondragon Unibertsitatea)
33. Beñat Egaña (Mondragon Unibertsitatea)
34. Lucia Vazquez (Mondragon Unibertsitatea)
35. Goio Arana (Mondragon Unibertsitatea)
36. Tomas Tamayo (Mondragon Unibertsitatea)
37. Jon Jimenez (Mondragon Unibertsitatea)
38. Kim Dodson (consultants)
39. Randall Benson (consultants)
40. Mark Oppenheim (m|Oppenheim)
41. Mikel Gazzia (SMASH co-op)
42. Christine Cavanaugh-Simmons (CCS Consulting Inc)
43. Deb Wolter (Red Bamboo Consulting)
44. Mary Gardiner (TAI)
45. Simon Turkalj (Simon Turkalj Associates)
46. Patrick Dippery (COO and Co-Founder, Collabriv)
47. Nimish Gautam (visitor)
48. Thomas Shaffer (Change.org)
49. Patrick Chen (Change.org)
50. William Adams (Full Circle Group)
51. Glenn Turner (Advanced Mobile Notary)
52. Simon Cross and guest (Praekelt foundation)
53. Drew Paroski (Facebook)
54. Grant Joung (Thoughtworks)
55. Brian Bocchino (Gravity People)
56. Roman Garcia (User:Blurpeace

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Blurpeace) 57. August Wissmath (volunteer) 58. Philip Steele (Pension Architects) 59. Michael Rom (Pension Architects) 60. Kunal Mehta (User:legoktm https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legoktm) 61. Brian Behlendorf (Cofounder of the Apache Software Foundation and     Board Member of the Mozilla Foundation) 62. Liliana Bounegru (DataDrivenJournalism.net, European Journalism Centre) 63. Mat Dryhurst (Director of Public Programming, Gray Area Foundation     for the Arts) 64. Jonathan Gray (Director of Policy and Ideas, Open Knowledge Foundation) 65. Jay Nath (SF Mayor's Chief Innovation Officer) 66. Timothy Vollmer (Manager of Policy and Data, Creative Commons) 67. Gregg Servis (Full Circle Group) 68. Brett Victor (guest speaker) 69. Andrew Lih (Author and guest speaker) 70. Doug Hessel (Johnson & Dugan) 71. Virginia Sutton (Johnson & Dugan) 72. Linda Lam (Johnson & Dugan) 73. Andrea De Ville (Radford) 74. Zachary Osman (Radford)

-- Tilman Bayer Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB