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Heather Walls

28 Jan 2015 28 Jan '15

3:07 p.m.

Dear everyone! I’m happy to share with you the Annual Report from the Wikimedia Foundation for 2014 -- Knowledge is a foundation <https://annual.wikimedia.org>.[1] We published last Wednesday, but I'm just catching up enough to send the email. (Pardon me.) This year, we are telling the story of Wikimedia in the context of free knowledge, and releasing it as web version (wiki, too!) so that we can share that story with even more people. Knowledge is a foundation. It is a foundation for human potential, a foundation for freedom, a foundation for opportunity. Our mutual project, Wikipedia, is part of the global support structure for free knowledge. Most importantly, people are the foundation of Wikipedia. We are inspired by thousands of contributors who support the projects, and are excited to share a little bit about Dr. Netha Hussain, Jacek Halicki, Dumisani Ndubane, Dr. Adrianne Wadewitz, Ihor Kostenko, Dorothy Howard, Ram Prasad Joshi, and Jake Orlowitz. Thank you for the myriad of contributions you make, from coding to writing, editing to programs, and uploads to donations. We've written a blog post about the process we went through this year, and how we settled on the concept of 'knowledge as a foundation.'[2] You can participate in the wiki version of the report here, and soon help with translations [3] Thank you very very much, Heather & the Wikimedia Foundation Communications team 1. https://annual.wikimedia.org 2. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/21/annual-report/ 3. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/Annual_Report/2013-2014 -- Heather Walls Communications Design Manager I Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street I San Francisco, CA 94105 heather(a)wikimedia.org

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Anna Stillwell

28 Jan 28 Jan

5:49 p.m.

Heather, This is beautiful. And I happened to love your presentation. I enjoyed seeing you taking the stage and remain uniquely Heather... with really good, non-cheesy ideas about identity, branding, design and communication. And "knowledge is a foundation"... well, that phrase just f&#@ing rocks. Well done, /a On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Heather Walls <hwalls(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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-- Anna Stillwell Senior Learning and Org Dev Lead Wikimedia Foundation 415.806.1536 *www.wikimediafoundation.org <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org>*

Victoria Shchepakina

6:49 p.m.

Thank you Heather! It is absolutely beautiful! On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Anna Stillwell <astillwell(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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Dear everyone! I’m happy to share with you the Annual Report from the Wikimedia

Foundation

for 2014 -- Knowledge is a foundation <https://annual.wikimedia.org>.[1] We published last Wednesday, but I'm just catching up enough to send the email. (Pardon me.) This year, we are telling the story of Wikimedia in the context of free knowledge, and releasing it as web version (wiki, too!) so that we can share that story with even more people. Knowledge is a foundation. It is a foundation for human potential, a foundation for freedom, a foundation for opportunity. Our mutual project, Wikipedia, is part of the global support structure for free knowledge. Most importantly, people are the foundation of Wikipedia. We are inspired by thousands of contributors who support the projects, and are excited to share a little bit about Dr. Netha Hussain, Jacek Halicki, Dumisani Ndubane, Dr. Adrianne Wadewitz, Ihor Kostenko, Dorothy Howard, Ram Prasad Joshi, and Jake Orlowitz. Thank you for the myriad of contributions you make, from coding to

writing,

editing to programs, and uploads to donations. We've written a blog post about the process we went through this year,

and

how we settled on the concept of 'knowledge as a foundation.'[2] You can participate in the wiki version of the report here, and soon help with translations [3] Thank you very very much, Heather & the Wikimedia Foundation Communications team 1. https://annual.wikimedia.org 2. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/21/annual-report/ 3.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/Annual_Report/2013-2014

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Richard Ames

6:55 p.m.

Agreed, it looks great! Is there a PDF version available or will there be? Where, please? Thanks, Richard. On 29/01/15 07:07, Heather Walls wrote:

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Dear everyone! I’m happy to share with you the Annual Report from the Wikimedia Foundation for 2014 -- Knowledge is a foundation <https://annual.wikimedia.org>.[1]

Nurunnaby Hasive

11:18 p.m.

Its nice. Thank you Heather! On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:55 AM, Richard Ames <richard(a)ames.id.au> wrote:

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Agreed, it looks great! Is there a PDF version available or will there be? Where, please? Thanks, Richard. On 29/01/15 07:07, Heather Walls wrote:

Dear everyone! I’m happy to share with you the Annual Report from the Wikimedia

Foundation

for 2014 -- Knowledge is a foundation <https://annual.wikimedia.org>.[1]

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Gerard Meijssen

29 Jan 29 Jan

4:11 a.m.

Hoi, This is a celebration of Wikipedia.. It is as if all the other projects do not exist. If that is the Wikimedia Foundation, I feel very much left out. It is as if everything else the Wikimedia Foundation stands for does not matter. Thanks, GerardM On 28 January 2015 at 21:07, Heather Walls <hwalls(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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Austin Hair

7:35 a.m.

I know Gerard is always saying this, but... wow. Yeah. It kind of hits you in the face. On an unrelated note, is there a particular reason we're highlighting two of our (more than two) former board members in the bottom section? Austin On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Asaf Bartov

11:43 a.m.

On Jan 29, 2015 4:35 AM, "Austin Hair" <adhair(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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On an unrelated note, is there a particular reason we're highlighting two of our (more than two) former board members in the bottom section?

Yes: it is that unlike the other former board members, those two were on the board during the year the report covers. A.

Austin Hair

11:51 a.m.

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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On Jan 29, 2015 4:35 AM, "Austin Hair" <adhair(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On an unrelated note, is there a particular reason we're highlighting two of our (more than two) former board members in the bottom section?

Yes: it is that unlike the other former board members, those two were on the board during the year the report covers.

That's what I initially thought, but I was sure the board and reporting terms were staggered differently. It does indeed look like there was an overlap of a month or two; my mistake for not actually checking Austin

John Mark Vandenberg

5:10 a.m.

https://annual.wikimedia.org/2014/#editcounterinfo says "The edit counter is a live count of all edits across all databases in Wikimedia’s servers. How does it work? Every five minutes or so, the system queries the databases in the Wikimedia cluster for the sum total of all edits on the Wikimedia projects, and updates this number in a cache. This version queries that cached number of edits using a custom script. It picks a number smaller than the total cached number, displays that, and starts counting upward. Every few minutes it checks for a new, updated total count. If the live counter has gotten ahead of itself, and the latest cached number is smaller than the script's current count, it jumps back to that; otherwise it keeps counting. The number usually runs about 3 to 5 minutes behind the actual total number of edits on all the Wikimedia projects. Edit Counter homepage" ---- Sounds great, however, the homepage link at the bottom leads to http://tools.wmflabs.org/wmcounter/ which returns HTTP ERROR 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable , and says " No webservice The URI you have requested, /wmcounter/, is not currently serviced. If you have reached this page from somewhere else... This URI is part of the wmcounter tool, maintained by Emijrp. That tool might not have a web interface, or it may currently be disabled. If you're pretty sure this shouldn't be an error, you may wish to notify the tool's maintainers (above) about the error and how you ended up here. If you maintain this tool You have not enabled a web service for your tool, or it has stopped working because of a fatal error. You may wish to check your logs or common causes for errors in the help documentation." On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Heather Walls <hwalls(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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Anna Stillwell
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Heather Walls
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Nurunnaby Hasive
Richard Ames
Victoria Shchepakina