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(WMF Board blog post) Board service: Every board needs a bit of maintenance

by Jay Walsh

(This is the second in a series of monthly blog posts by the members of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. This month's post is by Board member Alice Wiegand on the topic of Board governance, and is available in English, Deutsch, Español, and Indonesian.) From: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/02/28/board-service-every-board-needs-a-bit… Board service: Every board needs a bit of maintenance Posted by Alice Wiegand on February 28, 2014 For all the differences among the 40 regional organizations (chapters) and one thematic organization in the Wikimedia movement, there is one feature that is found at all the registered Wikimedia organizations: a volunteer-basedsupervision and control committee. For the Wikimedia Foundation, it is the Board of Trustees, at Wikimedia France, it is the Conseil d'administration, with Wikimedia Germany, it is the Präsidium, and of course there are a number of other different names. For simplicity, here I use the term "board" for all these bodies. Enable the board to do its job We often take for granted that a committee composed of individuals with different expectations, experiences and knowledge can find its way into its tasks just by itself. That it manages them well and effectively, always acting and communicating openly and professionally. But can that really always be assumed? Is it not in fact extremely difficult to come together as a group to figure out individual strengths and weaknesses, and build up trust? Two things that I think are essential for functional boards: a) the ability and willingness to delegate and b) the ability and willingness to accept and promote different positions and constructive confrontation within the board. Both are only possible if the committee has agreed on basic internal rules and procedures and if it accepts that it needs to evolve constantly as a body. A board needs to keep pace with the organization's development, to fulfill its oversight obligations at each stage of development of the organization, and at the same time support the organization, promote its development and frame its strategic direction. If the entire board deals with the question of how to become or how to remain able to work, it is running in circles, and tasks are not carried out. What could be more appropriate than to entrust a smaller group with these issues, thereby relieving the entire body immensely? BGC - a committee in the background Since 2010 there is such a group in the board of the Wikimedia Foundation: the Board Governance Committee (BGC), whose chairman I have been since joining the Board in 2012. Why am I doing this kind of work in particular? I actually find it fun to deal with policies and the development of processes. I believe that it is generally helpful to have a resource for looking things up, a resource that is understandable for everyone, and I know that the Board of Trustees has not yet reached its own ideal conception of a board. And to this, I can and I want to make a contribution. Even though we publish our annual agenda and the minutes of our meetings on Meta, our work is naturally more in the background and is only known to few people. The BGC's purpose is to ensure that the Board fulfills its legal and fiduciary obligations, and that it improves its control function, efficiency and effectiveness. Sounds good, but what does that mean? Traditionally, a BGC takes care of the composition of the board, finding suitable candidates and preparing the appointments. Since the Foundation's Board only partly consists of appointed board members, and we consider additional areas such as policies and our own evaluation to be as important as the composition of the board, our BGC has an extended scope of tasks. In essence, the Wikimedia Foundation's BGC takes care of three areas: 1. policies and processes, 2. composition of the board, 3. training and evaluation of the board. Specifically, this includes - for example - the Board Handbook, the search for new board members like most recently Ana Toni, the support of the community and Wikimedia organizations in the respective selection processes for board members by the Board liaisons or an Elections Committee, the 360-degree feedback for board members and the evaluation of the entire body. The latter is currently taking place in close collaboration with the HR Committee. In the board's daily business, the BGC is positioned especially well to regularly question processes and threads. From time to time, this includes reminding the Board to concentrate on tasks that nobody else can do. Depending on the size and structure of the organization, this can mean different things. For example, the board of the Wikimedia Foundation does not itself create the annual plan, that's the job of the ED, in person of Sue Gardner (see the process summary). Our responsibility as the Board is to provide directive input for the annual planning. In contrast, at organizations without full-time employees, the annual plan is created by the board itself. It is important to identify this explicit area of responsibility for each board. Because that is the challenge to face, which should be any Board's main focus. Development is not an end in itself A Board must not only take care of itself - but it may not lose sight of its own development, either. Under the assumption that a Board's constellation in the wikiverse changes relatively quickly, it must ensure to become able to work effectively within a short time (and continue to be so). The board must develop as the organization does, because only then can it ensure a trusting and fruitful cooperation in the board and - if applicable - between the board and the management. Regularly questioning its own working methods and self-conception is part of this. The trick is to implement the necessary legal or rational procedures and processes, without losing yourself in a cage of rules. A working group, whether it is called BGC or completely different, can provide valuable support - in every board. I'm looking forward to the Boards Training Workshop in early March in London. We all can learn from each other, we only haven't yet found the right ways to share our ideas and experiences in this matter. Alice Wiegand (User:Lyzzy) has been serving on the WMF Board of Trustees since 2012 as a Chapter selected trustee. She has been involved with chapter and movement issues for many years and served on the Board of Wikimedia Deutschland from 2008 to 2011. Deutsch Board-Service - Ein wenig Pflege braucht jedes Board Bei allen Unterschieden zwischen den 40 regionalen Organisationen (Chapter) und einer thematischen Organisation (Thematic Organization) im Wikiversum gibt es ein Merkmal, dass sich bei allen eingetragenen Wikimedia-Organisationen wiederfindet: ein ehrenamtlich tätiges Aufsichts- und Kontrollgremium. Bei der Wikimedia Foundation ist es das Board of Trustees, bei Wikimedia France das Conseil d'administration, bei Wikimedia Deutschland ist es das Präsidiumund natürlich gibt es noch eine Reihe weiterer unterschiedlicher Bezeichnungen. Der Einfachheit halber nutze ich hier den kurzen Begriff "Board" für all diese Gremien. Das Board arbeitsfähig machen Wir nehmen es so oft als gegeben hin, dass ein Gremium, zusammengesetzt aus Individuen mit unterschiedlichen Erwartungen, Erfahrungen und Kenntnissen, von alleine in seine Aufgaben findet, diese gut und effektiv bewältigt und dabei immer offen und professionell agiert und kommuniziert. Aber kann das wirklich vorausgesetzt werden? Ist es in Wirklichkeit nicht ungemein schwer, als Gruppe zueinander zu finden, individuelle Stärken und Schwächen herauszufinden und Vertrauen aufzubauen? Zwei Dinge sind meiner Meinung nach unabdingbar für funktionsfähige Boards: a) die Fähigkeit und die Bereitschaft zur Delegation und b) die Fähigkeit und Bereitschaft, unterschiedliche Positionen und konstruktive Konfrontation innerhalb des Boards zu ermöglichen und zu fördern. Beides ist nur möglich, wenn das Gremium sich auf grundlegende interne Regeln und Abläufe geeinigt hat und es akzeptiert, dass es sich als Gremium ständig weiterentwickeln muss. Ein Board muss mit der Entwicklung der Organisation Schritt halten, um seine Aufsichtspflichten in jedem Entwicklungsstadium der Organisation erfüllen zu können und diese gleichzeitig zu stützen, ihre Entwicklung zu fördern und ihre strategische Ausrichtung zu gestalten. Wenn sich das gesamte Board damit beschäftigt, wie es arbeitsfähig wird oder bleibt, beißt sich die Katze in den Schwanz und die eigentlichen Aufgaben bleiben liegen. Was liegt näher, als mit diesen Fragen eine kleinere Gruppe zu beauftragen und so das gesamte Gremium immens zu entlasten? BGC - ein Komitee im Hintergrund Seit 2010 gibt es eine solche Gruppe im Board der Wikimedia Foundation, es ist das Board Governance Committees (kurz BGC), dessen Vorsitzende ich seit meiner Aufnahme in das Board 2012 bin. Warum ich gerade das mache? Ich habe tatsächlich Spaß an der Beschäftigung mit Richtlinien und der Entwicklung von Prozessen. Ich glaube, dass es grundsätzlich hilfreich ist, etwas zum Nachschlagen zu haben, was jeder nachvollziehen kann und ich weiß, dass auch das Board der Foundation seine Ideal-Vorstellung eines Boards noch nicht erreicht hat. Und hierbei kann und möchte ich einen Beitrag leisten. Auch wenn wir unsere jährliche Agenda und die Protokolle unserer Treffen auf Meta veröffentlichen, bleibt unsere Arbeit naturgemäß eher im Hintergrund und ist nur wenigen bekannt. Zweck des BGC ist es sicherzustellen, dass das Board seine rechtlichen und treuhänderischen Verpflichtungen erfüllt, und dass es seine Steuerungsfunktion, Effizienz und Effektivität verbessert. Klingt gut, aber was bedeutet das? Traditionell kümmert sich ein BGC darum, die Zusammensetzung des Boards zu prüfen, geeignete Kandidaten zu finden und die Ernennungen vorzubereiten. Da das Board der Wikimedia Foundation nur zum Teil aus ernannten Board-Mitgliedern besteht und wir weitere Arbeitsfelder wie Richtlinien und unsere eigene Evaluation für ebenso wichtig wie die Zusammensetzung des Boards erachten, ist das Aufgabenspektrum unseres BGCs erweitert. Im Wesentlichen kümmert sich das BGC der Foundation um drei Bereiche: 1. Richtlinien und Prozesse, 2. Zusammensetzung des Boards, 3. Ausbildung und Bewertung des Boards. Konkret zählen dazu zum Beispiel das Board-Handbuch, die Suche nach neuen Boardmitgliedern wie zuletzt Ana Toni, die Unterstützung von Community und Wikimedia-Organisationen bei den jeweiligen Auswahlprozessen für Board-Mitglieder durch Board-Kontaktpersonen oder eine Arbeitsgruppe Wahlen, das 360-Grad-Feedback für Board-Mitglieder und die Evaluation des gesamten Gremiums. Letztere erfolgt derzeit in enger Zusammenarbeit mit dem HR-Komitee. Im Tagesgeschäft ist es funktionsbedingt vor allem das BGC, das regelmäßig Abläufe und Diskussionsfäden in Frage stellen kann. Dazu zählt von Zeit zu Zeit auch, das Board daran zu erinnern, sich auf das zu konzentrieren, was niemand sonst machen kann. Abhängig von Größe und Struktur der Organisation kann das unterschiedlich sein. So erstellt das Board der Wikimedia Foundation den Jahresplan nicht selbst, das ist Aufgabe der Geschäftsführung, in Person von Sue Gardner (siehe den Überblick über den Planungsprozess). Unsere Aufgabe als Board ist es aber, richtungsweisenden Input für die Jahresplanung zu geben. Bei regionalen Organisationen ohne hauptamtliche Mitarbeiter wird ein Jahresplan im Gegensatz dazu von dessen Board selbst erstellt. Wichtig ist, diesen expliziten Aufgabenbereich eines jeden Boards zu identifizieren. Denn dem muss es sich stellen, und der sollte auch Arbeitsschwerpunkt eines jeden Boards sein. Weiterentwicklung ist kein Selbstzweck Ein Board darf sich nicht nur um sich selbst kümmern - es darf aber seine eigene Weiterentwicklung auch nicht aus den Augen verlieren. Unter der Voraussetzung, dass sich die Konstellation eines Boards im Wikiversum relativ schnell ändert, muss es dafür sorgen, in kurzer Zeit arbeitsfähig und effektiv zu werden (und zu bleiben). Das Board muss sich wie die Organisation weiterentwickeln, denn nur so kann es sicherstellen, dass eine vertrauensvolle und befruchtende Zusammenarbeit im Board und - wenn gegeben - zwischen Board und Geschäftsführung stattfindet. Das regelmäßige Hinterfragen der eigenen Arbeitsweisen und des Selbstverständnisses gehört dazu. Die Kunst dabei ist es, die juristisch notwendigen oder vernünftigen Verfahren und Abläufe einzuführen, ohne sich dabei selbst in einem Käfig aus Vorschriften zu verlieren. Eine Arbeitsgruppe, egal ob sie BGC oder ganz anders heißt, kann hierbei wertvolle Unterstützung leisten - in jedem Board. Ich freue mich auf den Boards Training Workshop Anfang März in London. Wir alle können voneinander lernen, auch wenn wir noch nicht die richtigen Wege gefunden haben, um uns in diesem Sinne auszutauschen. Alice Wiegand (User:Lyzzy) ist seit 2012 ein von den regionalen Organisationen ausgewähltes Mitglied im Kuratorium der Wikimedia Foundation. Sie beschäftigt sich seit vielen Jahren mit Belangen der regionalen Organisationen und der Bewegung und war Mitglied des Vorstands von Wikimedia Deutschland von 2008 bis 2011. Español Servicio de la Junta: cada junta necesita algo de mantenimiento Debido a todas las diferencias entre las cuarenta organizaciones regionales (capítulos) y unaorganización temática en el movimiento Wikimedia, existe una característica que se encuentra en todas las organizaciones Wikimedia registradas: un comité de supervisión y control integrado por voluntarios. Para la Fundación Wikimedia, esta se trata de la Junta Directiva; en Wikimedia Francia, se trata delConseil d'administration; en Wikimedia Alemania, es el Präsidium; y por supuesto que hay una serie de otros nombres diferentes. Para simplificar, aquí utilizo el breve término <<Junta>> para todos esos órganos. Permitir que la junta pueda hacer su trabajo A menudo damos por sentado que un comité integrado por individuos con diferentes expectativas, experiencias y conocimientos, puede encontrar su camino en sus tareas por sí mismo. Eso es lo que gestionan bien y efectivamente, siempre actuando y comunicándose abiertamente y profesionalmente. ¿Pero en verdad puede asumirse que siempre es así? ¿No es en los hechos extremadamente difícil reunirse como grupo para descubrir las fortalezas y debilidades individuales, y construir confianza? Creo que son esenciales dos cosas para las juntas funcionales: a) la aptitud y disposición para delegar y b) la aptitud y disposición para aceptar y promover diferentes posiciones y confrontaciones constructivas dentro de la Junta. Ambas son posibles sólo si el comité acordó reglas internas básicas y procedimientos, y si acepta que necesita evolucionar constantemente como órgano. Una junta tiene que seguir el ritmo de desarrollo de la organización, para cumplir con sus obligaciones de vigilancia en cada etapa del desarrollo de la organización, y al mismo tiempo apoyar a la organización, promover su desarrollo y el marco de su dirección estratégica. Si toda la junta se ocupa de la cuestión de cómo ser o cómo seguir siendo capaz de trabajar, se está ejecutando en círculos, y las tareas no se llevan a cabo. ¿Qué podría ser más apropiado que que confiara a un grupo más pequeño estos temas, aliviando así el cuerpo entero inmensamente? BGC - un comité en segundo plano Desde 2010 existe un grupo como esté en la Junta Directiva de la Fundación Wikimedia Comite de Gobernanza de la Junta(Governance Committee o BGC, en inglés), del cual soy presidente desde que me uní a la Junta en 2012. ¿Porqué hago este tipo de trabajo en particular? Actualmente encuentro divertido lidiar con políticas y desarrollo de procesos. Creo que por lo general es útil contar con un recurso para onservar las cosas, un recurso que sea entendible para todos, y sé que la Junta Directiva todavía no ha alcanzado su propia concepción ideal de una Junta; y para ello, Yo puedo y quiero hacer una contribución. A pesar de que publicamos nuestra agenda anual y las actas de nuestras reuniones en Meta, nuestro trabajo es naturalmente mayor en segundo plano y es conocido por pocas personas. El propósito del BGC es asegurarse de que la Junta cumpla sus obligaciones legales y fiduciarias, y que mejore su función de control, eficiencia y efectividad. Suena bien, pero ¿qué significa esto? Tradicionalmente, un BGC se encarga de la composición de la Junta, buscando candidatos adecuados y preparando los nombramientos. Ya que la Junta Directiva de la Fundación se compone sólo en parte por miembros designados, consideramos otras áreas como políticas y nuestra propia evaluación tan importantes como la composición de la Junta, nuestro BGC tiene un amplio espectro de tareas. En esencia, El comité de Gobernanza de Junta de la Fundación Wikimedia se ocupa de tres áreas: 1. Políticas y procesos, 2. Composición de la Junta, 3. Capacitación y evaluación de la Junta. Específicamente, esto incluye - por ejemplo - la Guía de la Junta, la búsqueda de miembros nuevos de la Junta como Ana Toni, la más reciente, el apoyo a la comunidad y a las organizaciones de Wikimedia en sus respectivos procesos de selección de miembros de sus Juntas por los coordinadores de la Junta Directiva o un Comité Electoral, laretroalimentación de 360-grados para miembros de la Junta una evaluación completa. Esta última se está llevando a cabo en colaboración con el Comite de Recursos Humanos. En los asuntos cotidianos de la Junta, el BGC está especialmente bien posicionado para cuestionar procesos y subprocesos. Cada cierto tiempo, esto incluye recordar a la Junta concentrarse en tareas específicas que nadie más puede realizar. Dependiente del tamaño y estructura de la organización, esto puede significar diferentes cosas; por ejemplo, la Junta de la Fundación Wikimedia no crea por si misma el plan anual, que es el trabajo del Director Ejecutivo, Sue Gardner (ver el Resumen del proceso). Nuestra responsabilidad como Junta es proporcionar de información directiva par ala planificación anual. En contraste, en las organizaciones que no tienen empleados a tiempo completo, el plan anual lo realiza la Junta en sí misma. Es importante identificar esta área específica de responsabilidad de cada Junta; debido a que este es el desafío a encarar, que debe ser el foco principal de cualquier Junta. El desarrollo no es un fin en sí mismo Una Junta no sólo debe ocuparse de si misma - pero tampoco debe perder e vista su propio desarrollo. Asumiendo que la constelación de una Junta cambia relativamente rápido en el wikiuniverso, debe asegurarse de ser capaz de trabajar de manera efectiva en un lapso corto de tiempo (y continuar siéndolo). La Junta debe desarrollarse como lo hace la organización, porque sólo entonces puede asegurarse un cooperación en confianza y fructífera en la junta - y en su caso - entre la junta y la gerencia. Cuestionar regularmente sus propios métodos de trabajo y su concepción de sí mismo es parte de esto. El truco es poner en práctica los procedimientos y procesos legales o racionales necesarios, sin perderse en una jaula de reglas. Un grupo de trabajo, ya sea que se llame Comite de Gobernanza o tenga un nombre completamente diferente, puede proporcionar un valioso apoyo - en cada junta. Con miras al próximo Taller de capacitación de juntas a principios de marzo en Londres; todos nosotros podemos aprender de cada uno, aún no hemos encontrado la manera correcta de compartir nuestras ideas y experiencias al respecto. Alice Wiegand (User:Lyzzy) es parte de la Junta directiva de WMF desde 2012 miembro elegido de un Capítulo. Ella ha estado involucrada en aspectos realacionados con el capítulo y el movimiento por varios años y fue parte de la Junta de Wikimedia Alemania desde el 2008 al 2011. Bahasa Indonesia Layanan Dewan: Setiap dewan membutuhkan sedikit pemeliharaan Untuk semua perbedaan diantara 40 organisasi regional (majelis) dan satu organisasi tematik di gerakan Wikimedia, salah satu fiturnya dapat ditemukan di semua organisasi terdaftar Wikimedia: yaitu berdasarkan kesukarelaankomite pengawasan dan pengendalian. Untuk Yayasan Wikimedia, ada Dewan Pengawas, di Wikimedia Perancis, ada Conseil d'administration, di wikimedia Jerman, adaPräsidium, dan tentunya masih banyak lagi dengan nama lain. Untuk kemudahan, kami disini memberikan nama pendek "dewan" untuk semua badan organisasi. Memudahkan dewan melakukan pekerjaan mereka Kami juga sering mengetahui bahwa komite terdiri dari individual-individual dengan harapan, pengalaman, dan pengetahuan yang dapat menemukan cara untuk menyelesaikan tugasnya dengan sendirinya. Komite tersebut dapat mengatur diri mereka dengan baik dan efektif, selalu bekerja dan berkomunikasi secara terbuka dan profesional. Namun dapatkah itu selalu dapat diasumsikan? Bukankah pada kenyataannya sangat sulit untuk bekerja bersama-sama dalam tim untuk memahami kekuatan dan kelemahan setiap individual, dan membangun kepercayaan? Dua hal saya pikir sangat penting untuk dewan fungsional; kemampuan dan kerelaan untuk menerima dan mempromosikan setiap posisi dan konfrontasi yang konstruktif secara berbeda di dalam dewan. Keduanya hanya akan terjadi jika komite telah menyetujui peraturan dan prosedur internal yang dasar, dan jika diterima maka akan berevolusi secara konstan sebagai sebuah lembaga. Dewan perlu menjaga langkah dengan pengembangan organisasi, untuk memenuhi kewajiban pengawasan pada setiap tahap pengembangan organisasi, dan pada waktu yang sama mendukung organisasi, mempromosikan pengembangannya dan kerangangka arah strateginya. Jika seluruh dewan setuju dengan pertanyaan bagaimana untuk menjadi atau bagaimana untuk tetap dapat bekerja, bekerja di dalam lingkaran serta tugas yang tidak dilakukan. Apa yang dapat lebih tepat dari mempercayai kelompok kecil dengan masalah ini, sehingga meringkankan tugas lembaga secara keseluruhan? BGC - komite yang melatar belakangi Sejak 2010 terdapat kelompok di lembaga dari Wikimedia Foundation: Board Governance Committee (BGC), di mana saya sebagai ketua telah bergabung dengan dewan sejak 2012. Mengapa saya melakukan pekerjaan ini secara khusus? Saya benar-benar menemukan minat untuk bertransaksi dengan kebijaksanaan dan pengembangan dari proses. Saya percaya bahwa secara umum sangat membantu untuk menemukan sumber daya untuk mencari apapun, sumber daya yang dimengerti oleh semua orang, dan saya tahu bahwa Dewan Pengawas belum mencapai konsep yang ideal untuk dewan. Dan untuk ini, saya dapat dan saya ingin untuk memberikan kontribusi. Walaupun kami telah menerbitkan agenda tahunandan pertemuan di Meta, pekerjaan kami tentu saja berada di belakang layar dan hanya diketahui oleh beberapa orang saja. Tujuan BCG ialah untuk menyakinkan bahwa Dewan memenuhi kewajiban pergadaian dan keabsahan, dan meningkatkan fungsi kontrol, efisiensi dan efektivitasnya. Kedengarannya bagus, namun apa artinya? Secara tradisional, BGC mengurus komposisi dari dewan, menemukan kandidat yang tepat dan mempersiapkan pertemuan. Sejak Dewan Foundation hanya sebagian yang terdiri dari anggota dewan tertunjuk, dan kami mempertimbangkan area tambahan seperti kebijakan dan evaluasi kami sendiri menjadi sepenting susunan dewan, BGC kami telah memperluas cakupan tugas. Secara esensial, BGC Wikimedia Foundation mengurusi tiga area: 1. Kebijakan dan proses, 2. Susunan dewan, 3. Pelatiahan dan evaluasi dewan. Khususnya, hal ini termasuk -contohnya- Buku pegangan anggota Dewan, perekrutan anggota dewan paling terbaru Ana Toni, dukungan komunitas dan organisasi Wikimedia di bagian prosed tertentu untuk anggota dewan perwakilan atau komite pemilihan, 360-degree feedback untuk anggota dewan dan evaluasi seluruh badan organisasi. Yang terakhir saat ini sedang berlangsung kerjasama erat dengan Komite Humas. Dalam tugas dewan sehari-hari, ikut diingatkan bahwa Dewan harus berkonsentrasi pada tugas yang dimana orang lain tak dapat lakukan. Tergantung dari ukuran dan struktur organisasi, ini bisa berarti banyak. Contohnya, Dewan Yayasan Wikimedia sendiri tidak menentukan jadwal tahunan, dikarenakan penentuan tersebut adalah tugas ED, orangnya adalah Sue Gardner (lihat ringkasan proses). Tugas kami sebagai Dewan adalah untuk menyediakan masukan langsung untuk perencanaan tahunan. Sebaliknya, dalam organisasi dengan pegawai tetap, rencana tahunan dilakukan oleh dewan itu sendiri. Sangatlah penting untuk menentukan area tugas untuk tiap dewan. Dikarenakan banyak halangan yang akan dihadapi, yang tentu harus menjadi fokus utama Dewan. Pengembangan bukanlah tujuan akhir Dewan tidak boleh hanya mengurus hal ini - tetapi juga tidak hilang sasaran pada pengembangannya sendiri. Dengan asumsi konstelasi Dewan di dunia wiki yang secara relatif terus berganti, diharuskan mampu bekerja secara efektif dalam waktu yang pendek (dan berterusan). Dewan harus berkembang dan bergerak seperti organisasi, dikarenakan hanya dengan ini dapat dipastikan kepercayaan dan hasil dari kerja sama dalam dewan dan -mungkin saja- di antara dewan dan manajemen. Secara reguler mengevaluasi metode pekerjaan sendiri dan pembuatan konsep sendiri adalah bagian dari ini. Triknya adalah untuk menerapkan prosedur dan proses yang legal dan rasional, tanpa kehilangan arah di kungkungan peraturan. Kelompok kerja, terserah apakah itu BGC atau sesuatu yang berbeda sama sekali, dapat memberikan dukungan yang berharga - di setiap kedewanan. Saya menantikan untuk ikut serta di Lokakarya Pelatihan Dewan diawal maret nanti di London. Kami dapat mempelajari satu sama lainnya, kami hanya belum menemukan jalan yang tepat untuk membagi ide dan pengalaman tentang hal ini. Alice Wiegand (User:Lyzzy) telah melayani Dewan Pengawas WMF sejak tahun 2012 sebagai anggota Majelis yang dipercaya. Dia telah terlibat dengan majelis dan isu isu organisasi untuk beberapa tahun dan melayani Dewan Wikimedia Jerman dari tahun 2008 sampai pada tahun 2011.

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Call for Individual Engagement Grant proposals and committee members

by Siko Bouterse

Hi all, The Wikimedia Foundation and the Individual Engagement Grants Committee invite you to submit and review proposals for community-led experiments to improve Wikimedia! Individual Engagement Grants support individuals and small teams to organize projects for 6 months. You can get funding to turn your idea for improving Wikimedia projects into action, with a grant for online community organizing, outreach and partnerships, tool-building, or research. Funding is available for a few hundred dollars up to $30,000. Proposals for this round are due 31 March 2014: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG We're also seeking new committee members to help review and recommend proposals for funding. Candidates are invited to sign up by 9 March 2014: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Committee Some examples of projects we've funded in the past: *Organizing social media for Chinese Wikipedia ($350 for materials)[1] *Improving gadgets for Visual Editor ($4500 for developers)[2] *Coordinating free access to reliable sources for Wikipedians ($7500 for project management, consultants and materials)[3] *Building community and strategy for Wikisource (EURO 10000 for organizing and travel)[4] You can read more on the WMF blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/tag/individual-engagement-grants/ Hope to have your participation in this round! Best wishes, Siko [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Build_an_effective_method_of_pub… [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Visual_editor-_gadgets_compatibi… [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Library [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Elaborate_Wikisource_strategic_v… -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate <https://donate.wikimedia.org> or click the "edit" button today, and help us make it a reality!*

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The Signpost -- Volume 10, Issue 8 -- 26 February 2014

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Wikimedia Foundation Report, December 2013

by Tilman Bayer

Hi all, please find below the WMF report for December 2013, in plain text. As always, the editable and formatted version has been published on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_December_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,_December_2013 Many thanks to those who have translated the November "Highlights" into Spanish, French, Indonesian, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, and Chinese (help continues to be welcome for completing the partial translations in Hebrew, Italian, Turkish, Albanian and some other languages)! Apologies for the unusually late posting of the December report. The January report should go out shortly. Regards, Tilman -- Wikimedia Foundation Report, December 2013 <Video: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF_Monthly_Metrics_Meeting_January…> Video of the monthly Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting covering the month of December <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/2014-01-09> (January 9, 2014) Contents * 1 Data and Trends * 2 Financials * 3 Highlights o 3.1 New brochure explains how to edit Wikipedia o 3.2 "Drafts" feature provides a gentler start for Wikipedia articles o 3.3 Recipients of Annual Plan Grants (FDC) and Individual Engagements Grants (IEG) announced o 3.4 Successful year-end online fundraising campaign * 4 Engineering o 4.1 VisualEditor o 4.2 Editor engagement o 4.3 Mobile * 5 Fundraising o 5.1 Major Gifts and Foundations o 5.2 Annual Fundraiser * 6 Grantmaking o 6.1 Annual Plan Grants (Funds Dissemination Committee) o 6.2 Project and Event Grants + 6.2.1 Grants awarded in December 2013 + 6.2.2 Reports accepted in December 2013 o 6.3 Travel & Participation Support + 6.3.1 Requests awarded in December 2013 + 6.3.2 Reports accepted in December 2013 o 6.4 Individual Engagement Grants + 6.4.1 Reports accepted in December 2013 o 6.5 Grantmaking Learning and Evaluation * 7 Programs o 7.1 Wikipedia Zero o 7.2 Wikipedia Education Program + 7.2.1 Global programs + 7.2.2 Arab World Program + 7.2.3 Communications o 7.3 Program Evaluation and Design * 8 Human Resources o 8.1 Staff Changes o 8.2 Statistics o 8.3 Department Updates * 9 Finance and Administration * 10 Legal, Community Advocacy, and Communications Department o 10.1 LCA Report, December 2013 + 10.1.1 Contract Metrics + 10.1.2 Trademark Metrics + 10.1.3 Domains Obtained + 10.1.4 Coming & Going + 10.1.5 Other Activities o 10.2 Communications Report, December 2013 + 10.2.1 Major announcements + 10.2.2 Major Storylines through December + 10.2.3 Other worthwhile reads + 10.2.4 WMF Blog posts + 10.2.5 Media Contact + 10.2.6 Wikipedia Signpost * 11 Visitors and Guests == Data and Trends == Global unique visitors for November: *533 million* (+9.95% compared with October; +0.42% compared with the previous year) (comScore data <http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/unique_visitors> for all Wikimedia Foundation projects; comScore will release December data later in January) Page requests for December: *18.270 billion* (-4.0% compared with November; -9.4% 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 November 2013 (>= 5 mainspace edits/month, excluding bots): *74,803* (-1.33% compared with October / -4.88% 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): 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_November_2…> Wikimedia Foundation YTD Revenue and Expenses vs Plan as of November 30, 2013 <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF_Expenses_by_Functions_November_…> Wikimedia Foundation YTD Expenses by Functions as of November 30, 2013 (Financial information is only available through November 2013 at the time of this report.) All financial information presented is for the Month-To-Date and Year-To-Date November 30, 2013. Revenue 14,609,876 *Expenses:* Engineering Group 6,589,458 Fundraising Group 1,439,053 Grantmaking Group 720,055 Programs Group 723,516 Grants 950,624 Governance Group 302,012 Legal/Community Advocacy/Communications Group 1,367,697 Finance/HR/Admin Group 3,029,513 Total Expenses 15,121,928 Total deficit (512,052) /in US dollars/ * Revenue for the month of November is $2.96MM versus plan of $8.83MM, approximately $5.87MM or 66% under plan. * Year-to-date revenue is $14.61MM versus plan of $16.71MM, approximately $2.1MM or 13% under plan. * Expenses for the month of November is $2.89MM versus plan of $3.73MM, approximately $844K or 23% under plan, primarily due to lower personnel expenses, capital expenses, internet hosting, payment processing fees, and travel expenses partially offset by higher outside contract services and recruiting expenses. * Year-to-date expenses is $15.12MM versus plan of $18.43MM, approximately $3.31MM or 18% under plan, primarily due to lower personnel expenses, capital expenses, internet hosting, legal fees, payment processing fees, staff development expenses, and travel expenses partially offset by higher outside contract services and recruiting fees. * Cash position is $38.8MM as of November 30, 2013. == Highlights == <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Editing_Wikipedia_brochure_EN.pdf> The new "editing Wikipedia" brochure === New brochure explains how to edit Wikipedia === The Education Program team completed work on an entirely new version of the Welcome to Wikipedia brochure <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/14/editing-wikipedia-print-guide-new-con…> (now titled "Editing Wikipedia <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Editing_Wikipedia_brochure_EN.pdf>"). It is also available for translation into other languages <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Wikipedia_(Bookshelf)/2013_e…>. === "Drafts" feature provides a gentler start for Wikipedia articles === In December, the new Draft namespace <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Draft_namespace> was launched on the English Wikipedia <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/12/20/new-draft-feature/>, as requested by the local community. It gives all users (registered or anonymous) the option start new articles as a draft, instead of publishing them immediately (which can carry the risk that the new article is nominated for deletion before it can be improved). Drafts are marked by a "Draft:" in the page title, and are not visible to search engines. <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mbazzi_Farmer_association.JPG> Paul Kikuba is leading an IEG project to set up a Wikipedia center in the village of Mbazzi, Uganda === Recipients of Annual Plan Grants (FDC) and Individual Engagements Grants (IEG) announced === In December, 11 Wikimedia organizations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round1> were awarded annual plan grants totaling $4.4M, following the recommendations of the volunteer-run Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) in the first round of requests for 2013/2014. The approved amount was lower than the overall requested amount of US$5.94M, affirming the FDC's guidance to the organizations to be thoughtful about growth. Also in December, the selection of seven projects for the second round of Individual Engagements grants (IEG) was announced <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/12/16/new-individual-engagement-grantees-to…>. They focus on activities from outreach to tool-building, all aimed at connecting and supporting the community. === Successful year-end online fundraising campaign === The WMF fundraising team ran the year-end online fundraising campaign <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2013> in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Roughly $18.7 million USD was raised from more than one million donors in December. During the two weeks when the campaign ran at full capacity, the team created and tested approximately 250 different banners. Banners will be run in other countries and languages throughout 2014. == Engineering == A detailed report of the Tech Department's activities for December 2013 can be found at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/December Major news in December include: * a retrospective on Language Engineering events <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/12/10/language-engineering-events-language-…>, including the language summit in Pune, India; * the launch of a draft feature <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/12/20/new-draft-feature/> on the English Wikipedia, to provide a gentler start for Wikipedia articles. === VisualEditor <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Portal> === In December, the VisualEditor team worked to continue the improvements to the stability and performance of this interface that allows users to edit wiki pages visually rather than using wiki markup. Most of the team's focus was on major new features and fixing bugs. There is now basic support for rich copy-and-paste from external sources into VisualEditor, and a basic tool to insert characters not otherwise available on users' keyboards. Work also continued on a dialog for quickly adding references using citation templates. The Parsoid <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid> team, which is developing the parsing program that converts wiki markup to annotated HTML (and back) behind the scenes of VisualEditor, continued their relentless work to eliminate bugs and incompatibilities. Problems arose during the migration to node 0.10, the platform that runs Parsoid. The team rolled back the upgrade, investigated and fixed the issue. Testing has also been improved so that similar issues are caught in the future. Last, the team created several requests for comment <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/requests_for_comment> concerning architectural components of the MediaWiki platform. <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Growth_team_update_Jan_2014.pdf?pag…> Presentation slides from the Growth team === Editor engagement <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_editor_engagement> === In December, we enabled Flow <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow> to a few selected pages on mediawiki.org (Talk:Flow <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Flow> and Talk:Sandbox <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Sandbox>) and collected feedback about the features and design to date from the community (read the summary <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow/Research#Experienced_Users>). Throughout the feedback period, we worked on implementing design changes, such as a more compact view of the board and a different interface for topic and post actions, as well as different visualizations of history information, based on the comments of users testing the software. We also began a straw poll about launching Flow as a beta trial in the discussion spaces of WikiProject Breakfast, WikiProject Hampshire, and WikiProject Video Games on the English Wikipedia. Based on the outcome of these polls, we hope to deploy Flow to those pages in January. The Growth <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth> team spent time working on product development and research for upcoming Wikipedia article creation <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_article_creation> improvements. First and foremost, the team fulfilled a request from the English Wikipedia community to launch the new Draft namespace <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Draft_namespace> there (see also the general "Highlights" section). Pau Giner and others on the team simultaneously began design work on future improvements to drafts functionality <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/12/20/new-draft-feature/>, including recruiting for usability testing sessions. <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Metrics_update_mobile_apps_20140109…> Presentation slides from the mobile apps team === Mobile <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Mobile_engineering> === During the last month, the Wikipedia Zero <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero> team continued to make it easier to configure partnerships with telecommunications carriers that offer access to Wikipedia at no data cost to their mobile subscribers. They also implemented a global landing page redirector for mobile Wikipedia website access. Last, the team started working on an HTML5 webapp proof of concept as an option for rebooting the Firefox OS app. The Mobile web projects <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_web_projects> team has been working on finishing the redesign of the overlays and mobile on-boarding. The "Keep going" feature has been changed to a workflow that asks users to add blue links and includes a tutorial. This is consistent with what we've learned about how guiding users helps accomplish more edits, and it fits into more of micro contributory workflow that we want to experiment with. We've also worked on an A/B test displaying an edit guider for users signing up from the left nav menu. This is mirroring the edit guider that displays for users signing up through the edit call to action. It also is consistent with the behavior that the desktop site will be displaying to users as a result of the OB6 A/B test <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Onboarding_new_Wikipedians/OB6>. The mobile apps <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps> team added saved pages, article navigation, and language support to the mobile Wikipedia app. During the quarterly planning meeting, it was decided to postpone photo uploads from our market release plan in favor of text editing. == Fundraising == Department Highlights We completed the Big EN fundraising campaign for the 2013-2014 FY. === Major Gifts and Foundations === * We received a $1 million grant from Brin Wojcicki Foundation. * We raised over $1.5 million in mid-sized gifts from family foundations, donor advised funds, and large individual donations. === Annual Fundraiser === * The fundraising team ran the year-end online campaign in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Roughly $18.7 million USD was raised from more than one million donors in December (preliminary numbers as donations are still settling). Year-to-date, approximately $32 million has been raised from online fundraising banners. The campaign ran full blast for two weeks. In that time, the team created and tested approximately 250 different banners and sent 2.6 million emails to donors from previous years asking them to give again. The team responded to 15,000 reader emails during the month of December. A full report will be posted publicly in 2014, and we will continue to update the Fundraising page on Meta-Wiki <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2013>. Banners will be run in other countries and languages throughout 2014. == Grantmaking == Department highlights (See also the general "Highlights" section) * The WMF Board of Trustees approved the recommendation of the *Funds Dissemination Committee for 2013-2014 Round 1*, awarding 11 annual plan grants to the 11 entities applying in this round <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round1>. The overall request was for $5.94M, and the final approval was for $4.4M, affirming the FDC's guidance to Wikimedia organizations to be thoughtful about growth. * At the end of the second quarter of FY2013-14, ~$6.2M has been distributed in *grants spent*, 25% to groups or individuals in the global south. Overall, 4% of the total spend has gone directly to individuals, and <1% has gone towards work related to redressing the gender gap. See Grants Quarterly Metrics <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_%26_Evaluation/Quarterly_Me…> for breakdown by grants program. * Conducted overview analysis of the Travel & Participation Support <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Support/Analysis> program. We are excited by the diversity of the program, and launching a discussion to discuss future scope of work <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Design>. <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Annual_Plan_Grants,_FDC_presentatio…> Presentation slides === Annual Plan Grants (Funds Dissemination Committee) === * The WMF Board of Trustees approved <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Board_decisions/2013-2014_round1> the *recommendation of the Funds Dissemination Committee for 2013-2014 Round 1 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_portal/FDC_recommendations/2…>*, awarding 11 annual plan grants to the 11 entities applying in this round <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round1>. New grant terms will begin on 1 January 2014 for most grantees, who are currently working with WMF to execute grant agreements and receive funding. * The WMF Board of Trustees also responded to *the two appeals made after the committee's recommendations, by Wikimedia India and WIkimedia Israel <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_portal/Appeals_to_the_Board_…>*. The WMF Board of Trustees upheld the recommendation of the Funds Dissemination Committee in both cases. * The *staff summary of Q3 progress reports* for grants awarded in 2012-2013 Round 1 and Q1 progress reports for grants awarded in 2012-2013 Round 2 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2012-2013_round1/Staff…> was published on 21 December 2013, along with comments on the discussion page of each entity's report, which are linked to from this summary page. * Q3 is the last cycle of progress reports for most grants awarded in 2012-2013 Round 1, as impact reports will be due by 31 March 2014 for most entities with a grant term ending 31 December 2013. Q2 reports for entities awarded funding in 2012-2013 Round 2 will be due by 30 January 2014. * The *initial list of eligibility* for Round 2 2013-2014 has [[Grants:APG/FDC_portal/Eligibility_checklist/Current_round|been published]. All organizations that submitted Letters of Intent expressing their interest in the Round 2 for Annual Plan Grants are categorized by their current eligibility status on this table. Entities will have until 15 March 2014 to complete these gaps. Please reach out to FDCsupport at wikimedia.org if you have any questions about this status table. === Project and Event Grants === * 3 grants were approved and 2 grant reports were accepted in December 2013. ==== Grants awarded in December 2013 ==== * Grants:WM_CZ/Presentation_&_Outreach_II <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_CZ/Presentation_%26_Outreach_II> supports the promotion of Wikimedia projects and cultural partnerships in the Czech Republic, and consolidates on the successes of its previous grant. * Grants:PEG/Jayanta_Nath_-_Kolkata_Wiki_Community/Kolkata_Book_Fair_2014 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Jayanta_Nath_-_Kolkata_Wiki_Comm…> to set up a Wikimedia booth at the Kolkata Book Fair, the world's largest non-trade book fair, Asia's largest book fair and the most attended book fair in the world (1.5M people are estimated to attend). * Grants:PEG/WM_ID/Areca_Vestiaria_Bird_Club_-_Discover_Biodiversity_of_Sulawesi_Photographs <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_ID/Areca_Vestiaria_Bird_Club_…> to upload photographs demonstrating the biodiversity of Sulawesi (Indonesia). ==== Reports accepted in December 2013 ==== * Grants:PEG/Wikimedia Cipta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wikimedia_Cipta> was provisionally accepted on 24 December 2013, pending final submission of complete receipts to document grant expenses. * Grants:WM_US-NYC/Short_term_funding_program <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_US-NYC/Short_term_funding_program> was accepted on 4 December 2013. === Travel & Participation Support === * A Scope of Work <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Design> document is underway, for a phase 1 redesign of Travel and Participation Support program pages. Simplicity, accessibility, and publicity will be key goals of this phase. Complete plans for the redesign and accompanying process changes will begin in January 2014. * 3 grants were approved and 2 grant reports were accepted in December 2013. ==== Requests awarded in December 2013 ==== * Grants:TPS/Daniel_Mietchen/22nd_Annual_International_Conference_on_Intelligent_Systems_for_Molecular_Biology <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Daniel_Mietchen/22nd_Annual_Inte…> * Grants:TPS/Ben_Moore/22nd_Annual_International_Conference_on_Intelligent_Systems_for_Molecular_Biology <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Ben_Moore/22nd_Annual_Internatio…> * Grants:TPS/Daniel_Mietchen/58th_Annual_Meeting_of_the_Biophysical_Society <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Daniel_Mietchen/58th_Annual_Meet…> ==== Reports accepted in December 2013 ==== * Grants:TPS/Seeris/PanelFreeCulture/Report <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Seeris/PanelFreeCulture/Report> * Grants:TPS/Oren_Bochman/WikiSym_2013/Report <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Oren_Bochman/WikiSym_2013/Report> === Individual Engagement Grants === <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF_Monthly_Metrics_Meeting_January…> Siko Bouterse presenting about IEG (slides <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_2014_Metrics_IEG_-_TPS.pdf>) *Round 2 grantees* have been announced <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/12/16/new-individual-engagement-grantees-to…>. 7 projects were recommended by the IEG committee and approved for funding by WMF, representing a broad range of projects focusing on activities from outreach to tool-building, all aimed at connecting and supporting community. Grantees are trying out new ways of engaging with women and young Wikipedians, fostering participation in Africa, and supporting cartographers, researchers and developers to better engage with projects like Commons, Wikidata, and Wikipedia. The selected projects for 2013 round 2 are: * *Wikimaps Atlas <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikimaps_Atlas>*, led by Arun Ganesh and Hugo Lopez, funded at $12,500. Hugo and Arun will be building a system to automate the creation of maps in standardized cartographic style using the latest open geographic data. With new workflows and scripts, they aim to make it easier for Wikimedia's cartographers to generate and update maps for use in Commons, Wikipedia, and beyond. * *Mbazzi Village writes Wikipedia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Mbazzi_Village_writes_Wikipedia>*, led by Paul Kikuba with collaboration from Dan Frendin, funded at $2880. This project is a collaboration between Mbazzi villagers, Wikimedia Sweden, and the Wikimedia Foundation to build a Wikipedia center in Uganda where volunteers can to contribute to Luganda Wikipedia, particularly focusing on articles related to sustainable development. * *What is about - C'est quoi. A series of communication tools about Wikipedia in Cameroon <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/What_is_about_-_C%27est_quoi._A_…>*, led by Marilyn Douala Bell and Iolanda Pensa with collaboration from Michael Epacka, funded at EURO 15,000. The team in Douala, Cameroon will engage local artists to create comics, video, and other materials to raise awareness about Wikipedia and free knowledge. * *Visual editor gadgets compatibility <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Visual_editor-_gadgets_compatibi…>*, led by Eran Roz and Ravid Ziv, funded at $4500. The team aims to map, organize, and surface lists of gadgets used in different language versions of Wikipedia to improve sharing of gadgets across language communities. They'll also be piloting and documenting an approach for adapting the most-used gadgets for Visual Editor compatibility. * *Wikidata Toolkit <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikidata_Toolkit>*, led by Markus Krötzsch with collaboration from students and researchers at Dresden University of Technology, funded at $30,000. Markus' team will develop a demonstrator toolkit for loading, querying, and analysing data from Wikidata. The project experiments with ways to give developers, researchers, and Wikimedians easier access to use Wikidata in applications, research, and other projects. * *Women Scientists Workshop Development <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Women_Scientists_Workshop_Develo…>*, led by Emily Temple-Wood, funded at $9480. Emily is piloting a model of regular, incentivized editing workshops aimed at college-aged women to encourage them to become regular contributors to Wikimedia projects and combat systemic bias with quality content. If the approach is successful, she'll use lessons learned in order to develop a scalable kit for other groups to use. * *Generation Wikipedia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Generation_Wikipedia>*, led by Emily Temple-Wood and Jake Orlowitz, funded at $20,000 (provisional approval only, until legal dependencies can be satisfied). This project would pilot a week-long summer conference for young Wikipedians and Wikimedians from around the globe to connect, share skills and build leadership and community capacity among our newest generation of editors. The *10 grantees from Cameroon, Uganda, India, Israel, France, Italy, Germany and the United States* will begin their projects in the new year; most will run from January through June 2014. Progress and learning will be shared regularly on their meta-wiki pages. Complete *feedback from the IEG committee and round 2 proposers* will be gathered in January 2014, to help us continue to improve the process for everyone. An early learning from round 2 is that we did not have as many proposals as we'd have liked to review, and as such we were not able to scale up the number of grants made beyond the pilot round. For the next round, we intend to try some new ways to publicize the program, and will shorten/simplify the review schedule <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-applying> to avoid losing proposers along the way. ==== Reports accepted in December 2013 ==== * Grants:IEG/Consolidate_wikiArS_to_involve_art_schools/Final <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Consolidate_wikiArS_to_involve_a…> * Grants:IEG/MediaWiki_data_browser/Final <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/MediaWiki_data_browser/Final> * Grants:IEG/Elaborate_Wikisource_strategic_vision/Final <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Elaborate_Wikisource_strategic_v…> === Grantmaking Learning and Evaluation === * *First Employee Study*: conducted a light analysis of trends in hiring of first employees by our chapters and thematic organizations. See the full results on Meta-wiki <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_First_Employee_Survey/20…>. We found that chapters tend to hire once the administrative work of the group becomes too much to be handled by volunteers or the board, and the first position is either an executive director or an office manager as their first employee. Regardless of job title, all jobs seemed to contain a significant amount of administrative work. Interestingly, we also saw that chapters are hiring sooner following recognition of AffCom than they have in the past. * *Survey learning resource*: Created a survey learning resource <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Evaluation_portal/Shop/Qualtrics> for grantees and other community members: Qualtrics. We had two IEGrantees who took advantage of the resource, and one chapter is now experimenting as well. Usefulness for grantees ... " I really enjoyed the fact that the WMF helped us with the Qualtrics software. And it struck me as a very good way to help the wider community: provide software and tools for evaluation, surveys, analytics, whatever. " Aubrey - Individual Engagement Grant grantee, Final Report <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Elaborate_Wikisource_strategic_v…> * *Overall studies by grant program*: Created centralized space for all evaluations by grants program <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_%26_Evaluation/Research_pro…> * *Scholarship scoring system*: Worked with the engineering team to develop a tool to rate applications for Wikimania scholarships (which open in January!). Thanks to everyone involved in making that happen! This is very necessary for managing the ~1200 applications that come in and are scored by a global committee. * *Travel and Participation Support Program*: finalized overview study of TPS; see: Grants:TPS/Support/Analysis <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Support/Analysis>. We found that 77% of these grantees are new to the grantmaking program, 49% are from the global south, and 30% are women. We are very excited about the diversity of the program and positive feedback of participants, and thankful for the great ideas that emerged from this study. We are looking forward to ongoing discussions around the scope of this program! <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amount_of_time_before_hiring_employ…> Results from the First Employee Study <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Participation_Support_analysis_requ…> 49% of Travel and Participation Support grantees are from the Global South == Programs == Department highlights * Launched *Wikipedia Zero in Bangladesh* with Grameenphone * The Education Program team put finishing touches on a complete revamp <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/14/editing-wikipedia-print-guide-new-con…> of the '*Welcome to Wikipedia brochure* (now titled Editing Wikipedia <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Editing_Wikipedia_brochure_EN.pdf>) in December. (see also the general "Highlights" section) * The Program Evaluation team released the second *Program Evaluation report, about Editing Workshops <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Evaluation_portal/Library/Editing_…>*. === Wikipedia Zero === * Launched Wikipedia Zero in *Bangladesh* with Grameenphone, resulting in a 50% increase in mobile page views in the country in December. That brings us up to 24 launched operator partners in 22 countries. Our total free page views in December were over 47 million (note: we are missing some operator reporting in Analytics queue). * Airtel Kenya *Wikipedia via Text* pilot in progress, with over 40K unique users so far. * Ingrid Flores joined WMF as *Partner Manager* for Wikipedia Zero. Ingrid brings a wealth of experience in mobile business development and marketing from 12 countries across 4 continents. She is in charge of expanding Wikipedia Zero and increasing usage in Latin America and Asia. * Carolynne Schloeder, Director of Mobile Programs, and Taweetham Lim, a Thai Wikimedian, joined our *Thai partner dtac* for their corporate social responsibility (CSR) day. dtac is equipping computer labs and providing free internet access to schools in rural Thailand. They are promoting Wikipedia to *students* as part of the CSR program. This is a great model we would like to expand to other partners in conjunction with our local communities. * Carolynne spoke at *Telenor's Youth Summit* in Oslo. Telenor selected social entrepreneurs from each of their markets for a leadership program in connection with the Nobel Peace Program. The participants had lots of ideas for Wikipedia growth in their home markets, which we are exploring. While in Europe, Carolynne also met with our partner Orange, and joined the Brussels community for a meet-up (thank you Brussels Wikimedians!). * Carolynne also presented Wikipedia Zero via Google hangout at an event in *Yemen* organized by Rashad Al-Khmisy, a local Wikipedian. Judging by the Q&A session, there is interest for the program in Yemen. * The *dev team* implemented a global landing page redirector for mobile Wikipedia website access, added support for staged configuration submittals, enhanced interstitials based on input from the field from Wikipedia Zero markets, amended compression proxies support and added general bug fixes. === Wikipedia Education Program === ==== Global programs ==== At the mid-point in the fiscal year, December was a time of reflection and evaluation with a focus on strategy and next steps. * The Wikipedia Education Program team had a two-day *strategy summit* to evaluate our overall educational program and Arab World goals and activities. * We continued interviewing candidates for the *Global Education Program Manager position*. * Developer Andrew Russell Green and Communications Contractor Sage Ross, in collaboration with the Growth team, began planning for a more flexible suite of software to *replace the current Education Program MediaWiki extension*. * In the English Wikipedia /training for students/, we added a trial interactive section using *GuidedTours* to test its usability and potential. ==== Arab World Program ==== * Tighe Flanagan, the Arab World Education Program Manager, took part in the *Arabic Web Days Conference <https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/gallery/ctld501jlm0c5ofdkriatinn3sg?pid=…>* organized in Sana'a, Yemen via Google Hangout to talk about the education program in the region. Carolynne Schloeder, Director of Mobile Programs, also took part in via Google Hangout to talk about Wikipedia Zero. * The *education extension* was enabled on the Arabic Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ar:%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B5:%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3>. Since the current semester is winding down, it will be used for the start of the spring semester in February. ==== Communications ==== * We put finishing touches on the complete revamp of the Welcome to Wikipedia *brochure* <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/14/editing-wikipedia-print-guide-new-con…> (now titled Editing Wikipedia <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Editing_Wikipedia_brochure_EN.pdf>) in December. The online version is now available on Wikimedia Commons. Design files and printed copies will be available in January. * Communications Manager LiAnna Davis worked on an *online training* that leads people interested in starting an education program in their region through the steps needed to create a successful pilot. The training will be available on the Outreach wiki in January. * Two blog posts: o Student club Wiki Borregos contributes to Wikimedia projects <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/12/05/wiki-borregos-fall-2013/> (5 December) o Egyptian students help narrow gender gap on Wikipedia <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/12/09/egypt-gender-gap/> (9 December) * Two newsletters: o 3 December <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program/News/3_Dece…> o 17 December <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program/News/17_Dec…> === Program Evaluation and Design === The Program Evaluation and Design had a busy month, releasing a new evaluation report, participating in the GLAMout hangout, traveling, and starting our call for surveys with the community. * At the beginning of December, we launched our second Program Evaluation *report about Editing Workshops <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Evaluation_portal/Library/Editing_…>*. Findings from this ongoing evaluation include poor retention and recruitment successes, but a lot of room for experimenting with workshop program design. Community discussion has been taking place on the talk page, and we encourage your participation. * Our Program Evaluation Community Coordinator Sarah Stierch participated in the December *GLAMout*. GLAMout brings together GLAM professionals and Wikimedia community volunteers active in GLAM, to discuss the latest GLAM-Wiki news and projects. Stierch discussed the Program Evaluation and Design teams evaluations about edit-a-thons and workshops, and how the GLAM-Wiki community can partner with our team to evaluate and develop program design. o An outcome of the GLAMout is a new pilot project with Wikimedia DC, who will be working with our team to develop evaluation and design techniques, including survey design, in their upcoming 2014 strategic plan. o View the video here <https://plus.google.com/u/0/hangouts/onair/watch?hid=AP36tYfl2IYsRm0yv4cAMx…>. o Programs Director Frank Schulenburg *visited Wikimedia UK and Wikimedia Switzerland* offices alongside representatives from Grantmaking. The goal of Schulenburg's visit was to answer questions about evaluation and help these two chapters further examine their evaluation goals and programmatic activities. * Our interns, Edward Galvez and Yuan Li, have been busy developing methodology *research about the value of inputs for Wikimedia programs*. This includes extensive research into the dollar value of volunteer work (to implement a program, not make edits), the value of volunteering gained from not contributing to employee benefits, and into the standardization of purchase power of Wikimedia grants across countries. This research work will impact our look at returns on investment, and the value of the work that Wikimedia volunteers put into program implementation. This report will soon be moved to meta, and used for future evaluative work. We're excited about this research: as far as we know it's the first of its kind in the Wikimedia movement. * We put out a *call for surveys* to the community ("Have you created or collected surveys for your program implementations? <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Evaluation_portal/Parlor/Questions…>"). This ongoing collection asks that Wikimedians who have developed surveys related to programs send them to our team so we can get a good idea of what and who the community is surveying. This allows us to see how we can support the community, survey-wise. We have been receiving surveys via wiki and email, and so far have collected 21 surveys from 14 chapters, organizations, and individuals. We are providing feedback to program leaders about their surveys, when requested, and will continue to collect surveys as we move into the survey support phase. * The team continues to *evaluate other programs*, with pending evaluation releases about: WIki Loves Monuments, other photo upload initiatives, GLAM content donations, and the Wikipedia Education Program, to be released in January and February. <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:January_2014_Metrics.pdf?page=2> HR presentation slides == Human Resources == Conducted Executive Director and Chief Communications Officer *interviews/, hosted the annual/* /holiday gathering'/ in coordination with the Administration department, completed *benefits open enrollment* for United States employees, *year-end payroll* for US employees was wrapped up, *employee engagement survey* results are in, though they need to be analyzed and published. Supported the Community Advocacy side of LCA with an *FBI training* session, and the upcoming *employee handbook* underwent another round of legal review. Ongoing heavy work in immigration, contractor renewals, hires, and recruiting continued, rolling into 2014. === Staff Changes === New Requisitions Filled * Ingrid Flores, Partner Manager (Programs) * Jeff "Gage" Gerard, Operations Engineer (Engineering) * Nuria Ruiz, Data Engineer (Engineering) * Sherah Smith, Software Engineer (Engineering) * Moiz Syed, UI Designer (Engineering) Conversions * David Chan, Software Engineer (Engineering) * Marc Ordinas, Software Engineer (Engineering) New Volunteer * Janet Go (Engineering) New Contractors * Manprit Brar (Legal) * Ryan Lane (Engineering) Contracts Extended * Antonella Amatulli (Fundraiser) * Michael Beattie (Fundraising) * KaMan Bhattacharya (Fundraiser) * Emily Blanchard (Human Resources) * Patrick Earley (Engineering) * Andrew Garrett (Engineering) * Sandra Hust (Fundraiser) * Bryony Jones (Fundraiser) * Erica Litrenta (Engineering) * Sahar Massachi (Fundraising) * Heather McAndrew (Human Resources) * Kartik Mistry (Engineering) * Keegan Peterzell (Engineering) * Kristie Robinson (Fundraiser) * Sage Ross (Programs) * Sherry Snyder (Engineering) * Moriel Schottlender (Engineering) Contracts Ended * Alice DeBois-Froge * Joey Hess * Stefan Petrea * Yuko Sakata New Postings * VP of Engineering * Software Engineer- Growth (Features) * Software Engineer- VisualEditor (Features) * Software Engineer- Languages (Internationalization) * Software Engineer (Mobile) * QA Automation Engineer (Platform) * Software Engineer Data Analytics (Analytics) * Full-Stack Developer (Analytics) * Operations Security Engineer (Technical Operations) * Governance Administrator (Grantmaking) * Senior Recruiting Manager (Human Resources) * Sr. Operations Engineer (Tech-Ops) * Operations Engineer (Tech-Ops) === Statistics === Total Requisitions Filled December Actual: 161 December Total Plan: 182 December Filled: 7, Month Attrition: 0 YTD Filled: 29, YTD Attrition: 13 Remaining Open positions to fiscal year end 32 === Department Updates === Real-time feed for HR updates http://identi.ca/wikimediaatwork or http://twitter.com/wikimediaatwork == Finance and Administration == * Continuing work on the new design of the *sixth floor space*. The goal is to optimize the space for both capacity and functionality. * With the Grantmaking team, KPMG completed the site work for our *grantmaking evaluation*. The purpose of the voluntary evaluation is be able to report to the Audit Committee on the status of the WMF grantmaking program from a compliance, controls and best practices perspective. The final report will be presented to the Audit Committee <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Audit_Committee> at one of its meetings by KPMG. * Working on completing the *insurance renewal* process. The goal of this renewal cycle is to continue to improve coverage on an incremental basis. * For the month of November our *investment fund* had a market value of $12.8 million. It had an estimated annual return of 3.2% and estimated annual income of $413,863. == Legal, Community Advocacy, and Communications Department == === LCA Report, December 2013 === * December has been a busy month highlighted by the public release of the WMF Board's updated *governance handbook* <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/12/26/wikimedia-foundation-governance-handb…>, a document prepared through extensive collaboration between the Board of Trustees, the Board Governance Commitee, and the legal team. The handbook incorporates many broadly applicable governance best practices and is publicly available under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 3.0 license in order to further the Foundation's commitment to transparency and to serve as a useful resource for the community generally and for other like-minded organizations. * December also saw the legal team continue to engage with community consultations on the *new draft Privacy Policy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy> and Access to Nonpublic Data Policy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_to_nonpublic_information_policy>*. The Privacy and Access to Nonpublic Data Policies discussions have grown to more than 150,000 words - not yet ready for the List of Longest Novels <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_novels> but getting there! Some of the privacy discussion also expanded beyond the Meta talk pages, with the legal team responding on the Foundation blog <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/12/24/handling-our-user-data-a-response/> to an appeal from the German Wikipedian community about data protection. * We also continued to deeply engage with the public *consultation on the Trademark Policy* <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Trademark_policy>, which is nearing 50,000 words. In addition, based on a 75 day community consultation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Logo/Request_for_consultation> on Meta, concluded on December 8th, the legal team recommended to the Board that the Foundation withdraw trademark registration and protection for the Community logo. * Feedback has been invaluable in improving both Trademark and Privacy Policies, and so we encourage additional comments before end of the consultation period (January 15th for the Privacy Policy and January 18th for the Trademark Policy). * Following a call for input from the European Commission on *modernizing European copyright laws* to allow greater access to online content, we launched a project to draft a response on Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/European_Commission_copyright_consultation>. We invite interested community members to collaborate in drafting a response to the Commission's questionnaire before January 27th. European chapters, led by Dimitar Dimitrov, will also be drafting and submitting a response. ==== Contract Metrics ==== * Submitted : 30 * Completed : 23 ==== Trademark Metrics ==== * Submitted : 10 * Pending : 7 * Denied : 2 * Approval not needed : 1 ==== Domains Obtained ==== popwikipedia.com, wikibooks.pt, wikidata.pt, wikimedia.com.pt, wikinews.pt, wikiquote.pt, wikisource.pt, wikiversity.pt, wiktionary.pt ==== Coming & Going ==== * We are sad to say farewell to Elaine Wallace, who has been advising the Foundation on a pro-bono basis since April 2013. She will become the general counsel of Benetech, a technology non-profit, so we look forward to continuing to work with her. ==== Other Activities ==== * Community Advocates came together in the office in San Francisco with most of the community liaison team from Product to talk about ongoing and upcoming major *product deployments and community engagement*. * Community Advocacy took part in training related to its work with the *emergency email system*. === Communications Report, December 2013 === December was a relatively quiet month for Communications. The annual fundraising campaign kicked off, accompanied by steady social media and light media/blog traffic through the month. The team was pleased to share the news about WMF ED Sue Gardner's receipt of the first ever Knight Foundation Innovation Award. A slew of end-of-year media and blog posts around the world covered a range of Wikipedia topics, including most controversial and most-read articles, as well as a round of new 'listicle' style posts. ==== Major announcements ==== *Wikimedia Foundation launches tenth-annual online fundraising campaign <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Press_releases/Wikimedi…>* (3 December 2013) The online fundraising campaign aims to raise $20 million, while the remainder of the Wikimedia Foundation's funding will come from individual gifts given outside the year-end campaign, and from foundation grants. ==== Major Storylines through December ==== WMF launches its annual fundraiser (throughout December) Coverage of this year's annual fundraiser (largely positive) ran the gamut - from encouragement to donate, lists including WMF as a cause of choice, and praise for Sue Gardner's donation Thank You letter. Venture Beat [1] <http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/03/wikipedia-starts-new-fundraising-appeal-f…> Digital Nirvana (on Sue's letter) [2] <http://thedigitalnirvana.com/2013/12/eight-reasons-this-wikipedia-thank-you…> Engadget [3] <http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/31/non-profit/> Network World [4] <http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/84377> Researchers list most significant historical figures, thanks to Wikipedia (10 December 2013) Author/researchers Skiena and Ward made headlines after publicizing their new book "Who is Bigger?" [5] <http://www.whoisbigger.com/> which lists the most significant figures in history, and leans largely on Wikipedia as a source. With Jesus Christ as the leading figure, mostly favorable coverage spread widely via Christian bloggers and media outlets. Daily Mail [6] <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2521212/Wikipedias-10-significant-p…> PS Mag [7] <http://www.psmag.com/culture/jesus-christ-historys-most-successful-meme-712…> Christianity Today [8] <http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2013/december/nine-people-jesus-…> Draft feature makes for a gentler start for new Wikipedians (20 December 2013) A blog post by Pau Giner and Steven Walling outlining a new draft article writing feature for Wikipedia received significant and positive coverage in late December. Coverage highlighted that new users should benefit by building better, new articles that are less likely to be rapidly deleted. WMF blog post [9] <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/12/20/new-draft-feature/> Wired UK [10] <http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-12/23/wikipedia-draft-tool> Engadget [11] <http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/23/wikipedia-adds-draft-feature/> IB Times [12] <http://www.ibtimes.com/wikipedia-draft-feature-encourages-new-writers-creat…> TheNextWeb [13] <http://thenextweb.com/media/2013/12/23/wikipedia-introduces-draft-feature-g…> Vandalism on EN Wikipedia makes news (27 December 2013) Some briefly visible template vandalism on English Wikipedia caused a flurry of social media and mainstream media coverage speculating that Wikipedia may have begun to offer sponsored content. The vandalism featured a racially charged message about the U.S. president, but was likely visible for less than 30 minutes. Canada.com [14] <http://o.canada.com/technology/internet/racist-image-appears-on-wikipedia-a…> The Atlantic [15] <http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/no-wikipedia-is-not-e…> Wikimedia's Erik Zachte profiled in Wired magazine (27 December 2013) The December issue of Wired Magazine features Wikimedia's own stats guru Erik Zachte in its pages. The lengthy profile discusses Erik's history with the projects and his motivations and tactics for crunching the Wikimedia project's numbers. Wired magazine [16] <http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/12/erik-zachte-wikistats/> WMF's Sue Gardner receives Knight Foundation Innovation Award (16 December 2013) Sue Gardner received the first-ever Knight Foundation Innovation Award at a ceremony hosted by CUNY in New York in December. As part of the award, Sue named open government platform startup MuckRock the recipient of a $25,000 grant. Poynter [17] <http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/233963/knight-innovation-award…> Knight Foundation [18] <http://www.knightfoundation.org/press-room/press-release/wikimedia-foundati…> WMF Blog announcement: Sue Gardner to receive first Knight Innovation Award <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/12/16/sue-gardner-knight-innovation-award/> ==== Other worthwhile reads ==== Wikipedia's Secret Multilingual Workforce MIT Technology Review [19] <http://www.technologyreview.com/view/522681/wikipedias-secret-multilingual-…> Royal Society appoints a Wikipedian-in-Residence BoingBoing [20] <http://boingboing.net/2013/12/20/royal-society-appoints-a-wikip.html> Wikipedia to debut at Kolkata Book Fair Times of India [21] <http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-12-25/internet/45561187_1_…> Israeli Wiki hackers help out 'the family' at Hackathon Times of Israel [22] <http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-wiki-hackers-help-out-the-family-at-ha…> ==== WMF Blog posts ==== Blog.wikimedia.org published 25 posts <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/12/> in December 2013. Seven posts were multilingual <https://blog.wikimedia.org/tag/multilingual-post/>, including versions in German, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese, Arabic, and Polish. Some highlights from the blog: *In legal victory, German court rules Wikimedia Foundation need not proactively check for illegal or inaccurate content <https://https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/12/02/legal-victory-german-court-wi…>* (December 2, 2013) *Using social media to engage Wikipedia readers and editors in China <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/12/04/using-social-media-to-engage-editors-…>* (December 4, 2013) *The Winner of Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 Is... <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/12/10/wiki-loves-monuments-2013-winners/>* (December 10, 2013) ==== Media Contact ==== Media contact through December 2013: wmf:Press room/Media Contact#December 2013 <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room/Media_Contact#December_2013> ==== Wikipedia Signpost ==== For lots of detailed coverage and news summaries, see the community-edited newsletter "Wikipedia Signpost" for December 2013: * Volume 9, Issue 48 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2013-12…>, 4 December 2013 * Volume 9, Issue 49 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2013-12…>, 11 December 2013 * Volume 9, Issue 50 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2013-12…>, 18 December 2013 * Volume 9, Issue 51 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2013-12…>, 25 December 2013 == Visitors and Guests == Visitors and guests to the WMF office in December 2013: 1. Roselyn Lima (PRN) 2. Ben Knight (Loomio) 3. Vivian Maidaborn (Loomio) 4. Tommy Schroder 5. Roselyn Lima (PRN) 6. Brian Noguchi (Lever) 7. Ana Akhtar (KPMG) 8. Caitlin Durling (KPMG) 9. Kathy Reich (Packard Foundation) 10. Taylor Keep (Vital) 11. Fangjin Yang (Metamarkets) 12. Deep Ganguli (Metamarkets) 13. Cindy Hawley (Gallagher) 14. David Peters (Exbrook) 15. Dwight Wilson (Collabriv) 16. Pam Dannenberg (EK Health) 17. Bryan Hurren (Facebook/Internet.org) -- Tilman Bayer Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB

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WMIT bulletin no. 70 - February 20, 2014

by .mau. (maurizio codogno)

Hi all! the new bulletin from Wikimedia Italia (#70) is available. This time we wrote about our forthcoming Members' Meeting, "Adopt a Wikipedia article at Degasperi" and "Wikipedia goes to school" educational initiatives, Museums and the Web conference, and future appointments As usual, a link has been added to meta, at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Italia…; more-or-less raw text of the bulletin follows below. ciao, .mau. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= == Members' Meeting: the date is set == It is again time for the members of Wikimedia Italia to come together! The event is scheduled for '''Saturday, April 5, in Florence''' at [ http://florence.impacthub.net/about-us/faq/ The Hub]. It is particularly important to participate in this assembly, given the weight that the items on the agenda will have on the future of Wikimedia Italia: the participants will renew part of the Board, approve the budgets, screen the positions of members who do not comply with the fee payments ( all those members whose membership has expired in December 2012 will be considered forfeited). We invite you to regularize as soon as possible your membership status by paying the annual membership fee, in order to participate actively in the meeting: as usual, only members in good standing with the payment may vote. Do not miss the forthcoming communications: full agenda, logistical details and the link to the list of on-line registration are coming! == Adopt a Wikipedia article at Degasperi == About 400 students of the [http://www.istalcidedegasperi.it/ Istituto di Istruzione Alcide Degasperi] at Borgo Valsugana in Trentino are participating in the project [[Adotta_una_voce_di_Wikipedia_al_Degasperi|Adopt a Wikipedia article at Degasperi]]. Guided by a series of lectures by expert Wikipedians [[Utente:Jaqen|Jaqen]] and [[:it:Utente:CristianNX|CristianNX]], students had the opportunity to learn how to contribute to the world's most popular online encyclopedia. The workshops were completed in December 2013, but the project has yet to live its most intense phase: each class has adopted a set of articles, and will have until April 5, 2014 to publish them on Wikipedia. The stakes are high: every boy of the working group judged best will receive as gift an iPad mini 16GB Wi-Fi. For the number of students and for the great synergistic work which involved the Institute, Wikimedia Italia and the local community, the initiative has had a strong echo: [ http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Adotta_una_voce_di_Wikipedia_al_Degasperiseve… newspaper articles] were published and RAI had a [ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=390882157723176 television service] in their local news. That the best ones win! == Museums and the Web: Archeowiki, present! == [http://mwf2014.museumsandtheweb.com/ Museum and the Web] is the largest international conference devoted to the relationship between museums and cultural venues on one side and digital culture (social media, mobile tour, augmented reality) on the other side. This year the event takes place in Italy, '''in Florence, from February 19 to 21''' at Palazzo Vecchio. The title of the 2014 edition is '''Open Museums and Smartcities: Storytelling and Connected Culture''': at the heart of the debate there will be tools and best practices that enable one to link the cultural heritage with the communities of the ''smart-cities'' of the future. Among the proposed projects that have passed the selection which ended on December 31, there is also our [http://www.archeowiki.it/ Archeowiki - New "archaeologists" in Lombardy. Real and virtual paths], a project by Wikimedia Italia together with other partners (Association MiMondo - Gruppo Archeologico Ambrosiano (G.A.Am.) - Non-European collections of the Castello Sforzesco - Fondazione Passaré) and supported by Cariplo Foundation. To recount the [ http://mwf2014.museumsandtheweb.com/proposals/archeowiki-when-open-source-s… of Archeowiki], arrived in recent weeks in its peak stage, Anna Antonini and Sara Chiesa (Non-European collections of the Castello Sforzesco) will be present in Florence. To participate in the conference it is necessary to [http://mwf2014.museumsandtheweb.com/attending/ register on the site]. Archeowiki is a project that is giving us great satisfaction and makes us really proud: it approaches young students, elderly and disabled people to the less known cultural heritage of Lombardy and makes young guides and Wikipedians protagonist in this journey to discover the collections of archaeological finds. You can browse through photos of the project activities [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Archeowiki here], or support it by going to [http://www.sostienilacultura.it/chi-siamo/progetti/this page]. == Wikipedia goes to school @ Asti == The '''educational potential of Wikipedia''' seems to be more and more evident, together with the importance of educating young students on how to make good use of it. The associations [http://www.we-land.com/ weLand] and [ http://www.creativeasti.com/design/ CRE[AT]IVE], already partners of Wikimedia Italia in the realization of Wiki Loves Monuments, are launching [http://www.we-land.com/wikipedia-va-a-scuola/ a pilot project] to bring Wikipedia in the high schools of Asti. Teachers of the territory are offered the opportunity to attend a training course taught by expert Wikipedians; to apply and participate, teachers need to download the appropriate [ http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/File:Modulo-adesione-Wikipedia-va-a-scuola-As…], fill it and send it to the address [mailto: info(a)we-land.com info(a)we-land.com] before the end of February 2014. At that same e-mail address, the promoters of the project will also respond to any other questions and inquiries related to the initiative. The best invitation to join may be read in the letter signed by the board of Weland: ''We look forward to jointly open a new chapter in the history of education and the sharing of culture!'' == Appointments == * February 22: [http://wiki.opendataday.org/Matera2014 Open Data Day Matera 2014] will be held at Palazzo Lanfranchi in Matera, from 10.00 to 19.00, with a meeting entitled "Cultural population and transparency: for a culture of all people." On the occasion of the [http://opendataday.org/International Day of OpenData], Matera organizes an event in which a mapping of public goods will be started, also thanks to the decision of the Municipality of Matera to adopt the [ http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/partecipa/amministrazioni-pubbliche-enti-e… Loves Monuments resolution] and release some cultural heritage under a [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licenze_Creative_Commons CC-BY-SA license]. All maps will be put on [http://www.openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap], while the collected data will be published on the OpenData portal of the Municipality of Matera. The hashtag chosen to communicate the initiative on social networks is [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23openmatera2014&src=hash#OpenMatera2014]. * February 27: [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Virginia_GentiliniVirginia Gentilini] will give a presentation on Wikipedia at the headquarters of the [http://www.fmach.it/ Fondazione Edmund Mach] in San Michele all'Adige, as part of a collaboration between Wikimedia Italia and the Institute of Agriculture belonging to the Foundation. * February 27-28, Rome: L[http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Sannita Luca Martinelli], member of Wikimedia Italia, will speak about Wikidata on the occasion of the international conference [ http://www.aib.it/attivita/congressi/c2014/fsr2014/ Faster, smarter and richer. Reshaping the library catalogue], promoted by the [ http://www.aib.it/ Italian Libraries' Association]. * March 1, Perugia: The [ http://www.comune.perugia.it/approfondimenti/augusta Augusta Library of Perugia], in collaboration with the municipal administration, organizes the first edition of [http://www.comune.perugia.it/notizie/wiki-loves-perugia'''Wiki Loves Perugia''']. The meeting will be held at the Colle di Porta Sole Library from 9.30 to 13.30, and it is designed to improve Wikipedia entries related to Perugia and its cultural heritage. This first edition has gone so well that the entries are all booked already, so follow the progress of the initiative to take part in the next round! * March 14, Milan: Pierfranco Minsenti, digital librarian, will participate in the [http://www.convegnostelline.it/relatori1.php?IdUnivoco=69 Convegno delle Stelline] with a speech entitled ''Wikipedia as a collaborative work environment for a cross-community of libraries''. The aim is to define the impact on librarians of the collaboration of to Wikipedia.

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The Signpost -- Volume 10, Issue 7 -- 19 February 2014

by Wikipedia Signpost

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Proposed amendment to the Wikimedia Terms of Use

by Stephen LaPorte

Hello all, We are asking for community input on a proposed amendment to the Wikimedia Terms of Use regarding undisclosed paid editing. The amendment is currently available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Japanese, and we welcome further translations and discussion in any language. For your review, you may find the proposed amendment and background information here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/Paid_contributions_amendment Please join the discussion on the talk page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Terms_of_use/Paid_contributions_amendm… Thank you for sharing your thoughts and comments. -- Stephen LaPorte Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation *For legal reasons, I may only serve as an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation. This means I may not give legal advice to or serve as a lawyer for community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity.*

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Wikimedia Mexico. January report

by Salvador A

Dear community: By means of this mail and on behalf WMMX Board and volunteers i share with you the monthly report of our chapter corresponding to January 2014. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Mexico… We suffered a delay in translating our past reports, for the same reason I share also our reports of October, November and December of 2013: https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/October_2013 https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Noviembre_2013/en https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Diciembre_2013/en During 2013 we wrote down our reports in our own wiki (mx.wikimedia.org), from January 2014 on you will find them also on Meta. I have included the index of our reports in Wikimedia_Chapters/Reports https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports I want to draw your attention specially to our report of October, since it contains the information and links to the activities of Iberoconf 2013. Sorry if I don't copy the content of the reports here but it would be too much information. Regards!

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WIkimedia Nederland report for January

by Sandra Rientjes Wikimedia Nederland

The report on Wikimedia Nederland activities in January is now available: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Nederl… . It is also included as plain text in this message. Sandra Rientjes Directeur/Executive Director Wikimedia Nederland tel. (+31) (0)30 3200238 mob. (+31) (0)6 31786379 www.wikimedia.nl *Postadres*: * Bezoekadres:* Postbus 167 Mariaplaats 3 3500 AD Utrecht Utrecht COMMUNITY: supporting and mobilising volunteers and editors - New years reception.The National Library of the Netherlands and the National Archive of the Netherlands hosted the Wikimedia Nederland New Years Reception 2014 on the 18th of January. After a word of welcome by the organisers a few new projects were presented. Visitors could also visit the current exhibition<http://www.gahetna.nl/bezoek-ons/tentoonstelling/geheugenpaleis>of the National Archive, get a tour through the depots<http://www.kb.nl/voor-uitgevers/beschijving-depot-collectie>of the National Library, follow a short course on editing Wikipedia or join a guided tour through The Hague. The reception ended with the prize ceremony of Wiki takes The Hague<http://www.wikilovesmonuments.nl/2014/01/22/prijsuitreiking-wiki-takes-den-…>, a local Wiki loves monuments event that was organised on the 22nd of September in 2013 - Small grants. Three requests for financial support of activities benefiting the Wikimedia projects were received and accepted : EURO 150 to support an edit-a-thon on art and feminism EURO 500 to support the development of a tool to improve the presentation of information generated through Wikidata. EURO 254,10 for a subscription to a database to improve Wikipedia- articles on restaurants. The small grants programme is open to all members of the Wikimedia-community, regardless of whether or not they are WMNL members. - Writing contest. The Wikipedia community organised its annual writing contest and awarded prizes to four articles<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nl:Wikipedia:Schrijfwedstrijd#Uitslag_2013>on the Dutch language Wikipedia for their outstanding quality. WMNL supported the contest by providing and distributing the prizes. WORK: content, collaboration and activity development - Kick-off 550 years Staten Generaal. The first meeting of the Staten Generaal<http://www.staten-generaal.nl/begrip/the_states_general>, the predecessor of the Dutch parliament, took place on January 9, 1464. The project 550 jaar Staten Generaal<https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiproject/Staten-Generaal>has been launched to mark that this happened 550 years ago. The focus of the project is to improve information on the history of the Dutch parliament by writing articles, organising edit-marathons and meetings with experts. This project is an initiative of Wikipedians, and is supported by WMNL both financially and logistically - Content donation University Museum Utrecht. The University Museum <http://www.universiteitsmuseum.nl/english> in Utrecht launched a new website of their collection<http://www.universiteitsmuseum.nl/Collectie/>. The museum announced at the launch of the site that they will donate the content - about 5500 images that are currently available and more images that will become available in the future - to Wikimedia Commons. The donation is scheduled for May this year, the GLAMwiki toolset<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GLAMwiki_Toolset_Project>will be used for the donation. The donation will lead to more available content and higher quality images of pictures that are already on Wikimedia Commons. - Wikipedians in Residence. There are currently 6 Wikipedians in Residence (WiR) in the Netherlands. The last to be announced is Maarten Jansen<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nl:Gebruiker:Maarten_Jansen>, who is already working at the Amsterdam Museum<http://amsterdammuseum.nl/en/node/43>. 5 WiR's and WMNL had a meeting to discuss their projects, the notes of this meeting<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nl:Wikipedia:GLAM/WiR/Notulen/2014-01-28>are public (Dutch). WMNL is going to organise a workshop on using the Europeana GLAM Wiki mass-upload tool for the WiR's and other staff of their host organisations. - OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey. The Open Knowledge Foundation <http://nl.okfn.org/>, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision <http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en>, Europeana<http://www.europeana.eu/>and Wikimedia Nederland are working together to conduct the Open Glam Benchmark Survey<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/OpenGLAM_Benchmark_Survey>in the Netherlands. The goal of this survey is to gain an overview of the extent to which cultural heritage institutions are adapting to new trends such as setting up a digital strategy and their willingness to open up content. The survey was first conducted in Switzerland by the Bern University of Applied Sciences. 17 countries<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/OpenGLAM_Benchmark_Survey/Particip…>have shown interest to participate. - Rathenau Instituut. WMNL Executive Director Sandra Rientjes gave a presentation about the Wikimedia projects at the Rathenau Instituut<http://www.rathenau.nl/en.html>and discussed potential cooperation. The Rathenau Instituut studies and stimulates the formation of political and public opinion on science and technology. They are interested to see how debate about science and technology is reflected on Wikipedia. WMNL - Media. On Wikipedia's birthday (January 15) WMNL chairman Ziko van Dijk was interviewed on Radio Rijnmond. WMNL executive director Sandra Rientjes was interviewed in the BNR radio-programme Digitaal<http://www.bnr.nl/radio/bnr-digitaal/292243-1401/bnr-digitaal-15-januari-wi…> . A full overview of media coverage can be found here<https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Media-aandacht#januari> . - Newsletter. On behalf of WMNL, the Wikimedia Foundation sent out a message to all individuals from the Netherlands who donated via the fundraising banner on Wikipedia. In the days after this message went out 400 people subscribed to the WMNL newsletter. MONEY - Annual report and accounts. Treasurer Paul Becherer and the WMNL office jointly prepared the annual report and accounts. These will be audited in February and presented to the General Assembly on March 29. GOVERNANCE - The board convened on 9 January in Utrecht. One of the topics was the preparation of the next general assembly in March, including the recruitment of new board members and the preparation of the annual report for the members. - The board is on a track to receive better 'job descriptions' for board members, initiated by secretary Frans Grijzenhout with external professional support. Upcoming - Brainstorm session Education project on February 1.

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Closing of the community consultations for the draft Privacy Policy and Data Retention Guidelines

by Michelle Paulson

Hi All, We are happy to announce that the community consultations for the Privacy Policy draft <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy> and the Data Retention Guidelines<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_retention_guidelines>have closed today. We are extremely appreciative of the many community members who have participated in this robust discussion since the opening of the consultations on 03 September 2013 and 09 January 2014, respectively. The consultations led to the creation of a transparent proposed Privacy Policy reflective of community values and our first-ever Data Retention Guidelines. You can read more about the consultations and the next steps for the proposed Privacy Policy and Data Retention Guidelines on the Wikimedia blog<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/02/14/a-new-access-to-nonpublic-information/> . Thanks, Michelle & Geoff -- Michelle Paulson Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 mpaulson(a)wikimedia.org 415.839.6885 ext. 6608 (Office) 415.882.0495 (Fax) NOTICE: *This message might have confidential or legally privileged information in it. If you have received this message by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. For legal reasons, I may only serve as an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation. This means I may not give legal advice to or serve as a lawyer for community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity.*

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