Hi All,
as discussed in London and Milan, I have submitted a presentation proposal for Wikimania 2013, aiming to present the first overview of Wikimedia Chapters in general, showing several metrics we have discussed (membership, financials, growth rates etc.) and looking for some benchmarks useful in a governance and peer reviews.
Please see: http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Chapters_in_Numbers
We all know it will be a difficult task to compare apples and oranges but we can take our chance, look at actual data and discuss the results. and if you want to state your interest, make a comment, suggestion or just help, contact me via mail or a wiki page (even there).
Moreover, in some near future I may approach you or your chapter to deliver me some data for this presentation. I will highly appreciate all the cooperation. :)
By the way: please highlight if you have any submissions associated with WCA, I would be glad to discuss/support/attend.
Sorry for the blatant marketing a personal submission on this mailing list =) but upon many requests we have decided to keep WCA things as open as possible and this is a part of our self-imposed next steps. :)
Best Regards, Michał "Aegis Maelstrom" Buczyński Wikimedia Poland, WCA Rep.
I have two presentations in at the conference, one specifically about the work of the WCA peer review task force :-) Links: * http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Peer_review_for_chapters... * http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Top_risks_for_Wikimedia_...
In a week or so's time, I will also start arranging a chapter/thorg/WMF "board members" training event, to run either the day before the Wikimania main schedule starts or later in the year if timing defeats us. Logistics and details of content have yet to be worked out (Wikmedia legal issues, risk management and financial reporting are the sort of core topics to address), but this seemed to be very warmly received by sufficient chapter folks, and certainly trustees of the WMF board, as an effective and economic way of ratcheting up our governance quality across the Wikimedia community.
Michał, I will be following up on "admin:fundraising:program" ratios. Obviously we can share any information we pull together in the area of metrics and performance indicators. There is never going to be a single metric which tells us "good" or "bad", that is why I like the idea of very simple one-page dashboard of key indicators and trends for a board ("executives" on any board need something they can crib from in 60 seconds while travelling to a meeting ;-) ).
PS I can't *guarantee* that my chapter will fund me to attend yet, the board cannot commit on which trustees are being sent until after we elect a new board in June.
Cheers, Fae -- faewik@gmail.com http://j.mp/faewm Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae
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