Greetings Program Leaders and Evaluators!

Important updates from Learning and Evaluation:

== Introducing Global Metrics [1] in all WMF reports ==

Starting on September this year, we are going to put into effect a series of Global Metrics [1], that will help all parties involved understand the work being done through donors money. These will have the form of a table template that will be included in the reporting form. Grant officers, grantees and grant committee members have already been notified of these changes, and discussions were held on IRC on Thursday, September 4 and September 11. A coming blogpost on the Wikimedia blog will be available next week with more information. We have also developed a set of Learning Patterns for all seven metrics available on the Evaluation Portal [2].

== Second Round of Data collection coming soon ==

Next week our team will be sending out a call for voluntary submission for the second round of data collection. Previous data collection has allowed us to generate the first Program Reports (beta) [3]. Join us in learning and understanding Wikimedia programs!

== Setting Goals and Targets with a SMART criteria [4] ==

If you missed the virtual event, it is now available online [4]. The event, that took place on September 4, was followed by Office Hours on September 10. The virtual meet-up focused on using a SMART criteria to set goals and targets, with a focus on writing the Annual Plan proposal for the FDC. Visit the available resources on the Evaluation Portal [5] and reach out to the team for further questions!

== Upcoming event: Wikimetrics Overview [6] ==

On Wednesday, September 17 at 1500 UTC, we will host a new virtual event to showcase Wikimetrics. This tool has two new features: newly registered users, and editor survival threshold. The team will go over the tool step by step and will also enable two office hours of consultation via IRC channel #wikimedia-ped. Bring your user cohort and take active part in the event [6] !

== Ongoing question on the portal: the origin of Wikimedia Hackathons [7] ==

In order to both find out about the origin of Wikimedia programs, and engage program leaders in conversation on the portal, we have posted a question on the talk page of the Evaluation portal. If you have any information on Wikimedia Hackathons, how they started and who was coordinating the first one ever held, please comment on Meta [7] !  And feel free to share any questions around planning and evaluation of programs you may have.

As always, stay up-to-date by connecting on our portal [8].

On behalf of the Program Evaluation and Design team, thank you for your time and attention.