On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Romaine Wiki romaine_wiki@yahoo.com wrote:
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
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Greetings,
Romaine
Hi Romaine,
thanks for you suggestion. I am a regular reader (and infrequent copyeditor) of "This Month in GLAM"; I think it is a great resource.
The scope of these monthly WMF reports is, roughly, the work of Foundation staff during that month. Recall that they started out as Sue's reports to the Board; they are a basic instrument of transparency and accountability for the Foundation. As such, their main focus is not on the kind of work by volunteers and chapters that's covered in the GLAM newsletter - these are often the topic of other posts on https://blog.wikimedia.org/ . The Communications section of the WMF report includes a list of external media coverage from that month, because that relates to the job of the Communications team, and the Signpost issues from each past month are listed there for similar purposes, and also because it reports a lot on the work of WMF staff ("lots of detailed coverage and news summaries").
That said, the separate monthly "Wikimedia Highlights" do indeed cover non-WMF work too, and have featured a lot of news from the GLAM newsletter - with a link back to the corresponding full story - in the past. (Admittedly a bit less often in recent months, but I seem to recall we had up to three TIMG-sourced highlights at one point.) These also get translated into various language each month. If you have suggestions for/from the upcoming April issue, feel free to leave them here before the metrics meeting on Thursday afternoon UTC: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Highlights#Movement_news_item...
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:
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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
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