This press release is available online here:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_20…
And also as a blog post here:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/11/29/wikimedia-foundation-annual-fundraise…
Wikimedia Foundation 2016 contribution campaign: support free knowledge
with a gift to Wikipedia
*Non-profit asks readers to help sustain Wikipedia and its sister projects*
(San Francisco, California) November 29, 2016 – Blink! In that short
moment, people like you opened more than 2,000 articles on Wikipedia to
find information they need.[1]
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_20…>
Today,
Giving Tuesday, and through the month of December, we invite anyone who
values this experience to donate <https://donate.wikimedia.org/> and help
keep Wikipedia thriving for years to come.
Wikipedia exists because everyone, everywhere should have access to free
knowledge. Because we need a clear picture of history to prepare for the
future. Because the world is a better place when humans can connect across
time and space, and share knowledge without boundaries. Like blinking, it’s
easy to forget everything that makes Wikipedia possible: a community of
volunteers around the world; a secure connection so you can access
Wikipedia without sacrificing privacy or safety
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/12/securing-wikimedia-sites-with-https/>;
a commitment to never run ads and preserve our independence.
Wikipedia and the other free knowledge projects are supported by donations
from millions of people around the world, with an average gift of $15. This
support is critical to the future of Wikipedia and free knowledge.
"Now, more than ever, the world needs access to reliable, neutral
information," said Wikimedia Foundation executive director Katherine Maher.
“Wikipedia gives us that: 40 million articles across hundreds of languages
ranging from ancient history to current affairs, supported by reliable
sources. Along with other Wikimedia projects such as Wikimedia Commons,
Wikipedia represents an ever-growing repository of knowledge, curated and
owned by the public. We are committed to protecting and upholding this
incredible resource, and we hope you will join us.”
Why donate?
At the Wikimedia Foundation, we support Wikipedia, the Wikimedia sites
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects>, and the volunteers who
contribute to them. The donations we raise help keep Wikipedia free,
neutral and easily accessible for you and everyone in the world-- anytime,
anywhere.
So what happens when you click through the banner and make a donation? Last
year, we were able to do some incredible things with the donations we
received. Here are some of the things your contributions made possible:
* 24/7 availability of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia sites through
maintenance of more than 1,200 servers and a team of dedicated engineers
around the world.
* More than 15,000 code contributions to create new site features, address
bugs, and make improvements to the Wikimedia sites' performance.
* Improvements to desktop, mobile web, and mobile app reader experiences,
including a more efficient mobile download process that saves our readers about
450 terabytes of data
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/09/19/mobile-web-improvements/> each year.
* Events and workshops reaching thousands of volunteers, enriching content
on the Wikimedia sites, inviting new editors to join, and supporting
volunteer work around the world.
* Legal defense to preserve your right to access, share, and remix
knowledge, including court battles won over Wikimedia content in Brazil
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/09/14/rosanah-fienngo/>, Germany
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/08/09/victory-germany-appeal-dismissed/>,
France <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/06/20/france-legal-victory/>, and
India.
* Research around the world, including in Nigeria, Mexico, and India, to
better understand and serve the needs of our global users.
Contributions from millions of donors like you make this work, and much
more, possible. By donating to the Wikimedia Foundation, you’re joining a
movement of people who support free knowledge.
About the 2016 contribution campaign
The 2016 contribution campaign will run on the English Wikipedia through
the month of December. Our goal for this campaign is to raise $25 million
by the end of the month. Donations received from the online campaign will
go primarily toward the Wikimedia Foundation’s operating budget for the
next fiscal year—the funds we use to sustain our work at the Foundation for
a given year. The remainder of the Wikimedia Foundation’s funding comes
from individuals gifts given outside the year-end campaign, and from a
handful of foundation grants.
To make a donation, click the fundraising appeal on Wikipedia, or go
directly to donate.wikimedia.org.
If you’d like to see exactly how every dollar is spent, please take a look
at our 2016–17 Annual Plan
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2016-2017/…>
and
our Financial Reports
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Financial_reports>. We publish these
documents every year; transparency is one of our guiding principles at the
Wikimedia Foundation.
About the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that supports and
operates Wikipedia and its sister projects. Wikipedia serves roughly half a
billion people each month. Every month roughly 80,000 people edit Wikipedia
and its sister projects, collectively creating, improving, and maintaining
its nearly 40 million articles across hundreds of languages -- this all
makes Wikipedia one of the most popular web properties in the world. Based
in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is a 501(c)(3)
charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants.
About Wikipedia
Wikipedia is the world’s free knowledge resource. It is a collaborative
creation that has been added to and edited by millions of people from
around the globe since it was created in 2001: anyone can edit it, at any
time. Wikipedia is offered in hundreds of languages containing a total of
nearly 40 million articles. Wikimedia and its sister projects are the
largest collection of free knowledge in human history.
Wikimedia Foundation press contact
Juliet Barbara
(415) 839-6885
press(a)wikimedia.org
Notes
1. For the purpose of this metric, the blink of an eye is estimated
at 0.3–0.4
seconds
<https://aran.library.nuigalway.ie/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10379/3323/0463762…>,
and the pageview statistics are based on an October 2016 recording of
pageviews/second
<https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm> across
all language Wikipedias.
--
*Samantha Lien*
Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
149 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
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Following the AGM of Wikimedia Australia we wish to announce the committee
for 2016-17 and reports
President: Gideon Digby(unchanged)
Vice President: Pru Mitchell(unchanged)
Secretary:Tom Hogarth
Treasurer: Robert Myers
General members: Caddie Brain
Departed: Andrew Owens, Steve Crossin, Charles Gregory
2016 Annual report:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Austra…
2015-16 Financial report :
https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Australia_Inc._-_Balance_Sheet…
--
Gideon Digby
President - Wikimedia Australia
M: 0434 986 852
gnangarra(a)wikimedia.org.au
http://wikimedia.org.au
Wikimedia Australia Inc. is an independent charitable organisation which
supports the efforts of the Wikimedia Foundation in Australia. Your
donations keep the Wikimedia mission alive.
*http://wikimedia.org.au/Donate <https://wikimedia.org.au/Donate>*
REMINDER: This meeting starts in 30 minutes.
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 7:32 PM, Samantha Lien <slien(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello everyone,
>
> The next Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting will take
> place on Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 7:00 PM UTC (11 AM PST). The IRC
> channel is #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net, and the meeting will be
> broadcast as a live YouTube stream.
>
> Update/change to meeting format: The Wikimedia Foundation is exploring a
> revised format for the November meeting. Our intent is to share work from
> the Foundation and movement, but also to connect our work more broadly
> within the movement’s biggest opportunities and challenges.
>
> To do this, we are piloting the November meeting around a theme that has
> been at the forefront of much of our work recently: “Building an
> inclusive movement.”
>
> In November, speakers will highlight projects, initiatives, and work that
> actively foster inclusivity within our movement -- to create a space for
> everyone to contribute and share in knowledge on the Wikimedia sites.
>
> Here is the agenda for the November meeting:
>
> * Welcomes, theme introduction - “Building an inclusive movement”
>
> * Community update
>
> * June 2016 Inspire Campaign - Chris Schilling
>
> * Guest speaker - Wikipedia Asian Month - Addis Wang
>
> * Executive Director update
>
> * Questions and discussion
>
> * Wikilove
>
> As you may have seen, we are inviting a guest speaker to participate at
> the November meeting. Addis Wang, an active member of the Wikimedia User
> Group China, will be sharing some of his work with Wikipedia Asian Month
> and his efforts to create an inclusive space and invite people to
> participate in the edit-a-thon.
>
> In future meetings, we would like to have one guest speaker from a
> Wikimedia community or someone from outside the movement present on their
> work that ties in with that month’s theme. (More information to come on
> this process moving forward, and who to reach out to if you would like to
> present in future meetings).
>
> If you have any questions about the new format, please feel free to reach
> out to me, Sam Lien, at the Communications department slien(a)wikimedia.org.
>
>
> Please review
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_metrics
> _and_activities_meetings
>
> for further information about the meeting and how to participate.
>
> We will post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
>
> Thank you,
> Sam
>
> --
> *Samantha Lien*
> Communications Manager
> Wikimedia Foundation
> 149 New Montgomery Street
> San Francisco, CA 94105
>
Greetings, my friends!
The Reports from Wikimedia Venezuela's finances and activities are updated!! Please, check it out!
Regards!
Ybsen Manuel Lucero
Tesorero – Treasurer – Trésorier - Schatzmeister
A.C. Wikimedia Venezuela
J-40129321-2
+584241569154
http://wikimedia.org.ve | @wikimedia_ve
"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." J.Wales
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El logotipo y el nombre de Wikimedia, Wikimedia Venezuela, Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Incubator, Wiktionary y otros proyectos relacionados son marcas registradas usadas bajo permiso expreso de su titular, la Fundación Wikimedia, Inc., una organización sin fines de lucro. Otros nombres y marcas pertenecen a sus respectivos propietarios.
Asociación Civil Wikimedia Venezuela (Wikimedia Venezuela) | RIF.: J-40129321-2 | Los Teques, Estado Miranda. Venezuela
Hi all,
The agenda for the next Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees meeting is
now available on Meta Wiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_board_agenda_2016-11
Thank you,
Stephen
--
Stephen LaPorte
Senior Legal Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation
*NOTICE: As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal and ethical
reasons, I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community
members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For more
on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>.*
Hello everyone,
The next Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting will take
place on Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 7:00 PM UTC (11 AM PST). The IRC
channel is #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net, and the meeting will be
broadcast as a live YouTube stream.
Update/change to meeting format: The Wikimedia Foundation is exploring a
revised format for the November meeting. Our intent is to share work from
the Foundation and movement, but also to connect our work more broadly
within the movement’s biggest opportunities and challenges.
To do this, we are piloting the November meeting around a theme that has
been at the forefront of much of our work recently: “Building an inclusive
movement.”
In November, speakers will highlight projects, initiatives, and work that
actively foster inclusivity within our movement -- to create a space for
everyone to contribute and share in knowledge on the Wikimedia sites.
Here is the agenda for the November meeting:
* Welcomes, theme introduction - “Building an inclusive movement”
* Executive Director update
* Community update
* June 2016 Inspire Campaign - Chris Schilling
* Guest speaker - Wikipedia Asian Month - Addis Wang
* Questions and discussion
* Wikilove
As you may have seen, we are inviting a guest speaker to participate at the
November meeting. Addis Wang, an active member of the Wikimedia User Group
China, will be sharing some of his work with Wikipedia Asian Month and his
efforts to create an inclusive space and invite people to participate in
the edit-a-thon.
In future meetings, we would like to have one guest speaker from a
Wikimedia community or someone from outside the movement present on their
work that ties in with that month’s theme. (More information to come on
this process moving forward, and who to reach out to if you would like to
present in future meetings).
If you have any questions about the new format, please feel free to reach
out to me, Sam Lien, at the Communications department slien(a)wikimedia.org.
Please review
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_metrics_and_activities…
for further information about the meeting and how to participate.
We will post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
Thank you,
Sam
--
*Samantha Lien*
Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
149 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
This press release is available online here:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/
Wikimedia_Foundation_welcomes_Victoria_Coleman_as_Chief_Technology_Officer
And also as a post on the Wikimedia blog here:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/11/02/victoria-coleman-
chief-technology-officer/
Wikimedia Foundation welcomes Victoria Coleman as Chief Technology Officer
Victoria brings more than 20 years of experience leading development and
strategy for complex technologies at scale
San Francisco, California November 2, 2016 – The Wikimedia Foundation is
pleased to announce Victoria Coleman as our new Chief Technology Officer.
As the Foundation's senior technology executive, Victoria will be
responsible for setting the vision and strategy for technology and
operations behind the Wikimedia projects, in cooperation with the global
communities of volunteer contributors, users, and researchers. Her first
day is 7 November 2016.
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization behind Wikipedia,
one of the world’s largest and most popular web properties. The
organization also operates 11 other Wikimedia projects
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/FAQ/en#What_free_knowledge_projects_do…>,
including MediaWiki, the open-source wiki software that powers Wikimedia
projects and many other online collaborations. Together, the Wikimedia
sites are visited by hundreds of millions of people each month from every
corner of the globe.
The Chief Technology Officer oversees the organization’s Technology
department <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology> and
technical roadmap, and is responsible for the evolution, development, and
delivery of our core platforms and architecture. In this role, Victoria
will work closely with the Wikimedia Foundation’s technology teams to
ensure an accessible and performant technology infrastructure and
anticipate scale and capability challenges for the Wikimedia projects.
“Victoria brings the right combination of deep technical knowledge,
operational expertise, and the steady hand that is needed in this unique
role, ” said Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia
Foundation. “Her experience leading development for a wide array of
technology platforms at scale, as well as her love for education and
passion for our mission, make her an excellent addition to our leadership
team.”
Victoria has more than 20 years of experience in consumer and enterprise
technology. She is a strong leader with expertise in strategy and
development in software engineering, mobile platforms, connected devices,
cyber security, and web services, and has been a longtime advocate for
innovation in education and the public sector.
“Over the past 15 years, Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects have
radically changed how people access knowledge,” Victoria said. “But the
vast majority of people today still don’t use or have access to these
resources. As we look ahead, we’ll consider how we can grow and evolve our
technologies to support the Wikimedia vision: a world where every person
has access to all knowledge. I look forward to collaborating with the
existing team at the Foundation and the Wikimedia communities in this
important work.”
Most recently, Victoria served as Senior Vice President and Chief
Technology Officer for the Connected Home Division of Technicolor, where
she was responsible for innovation strategy, product management, technology
roadmaps, and technical due diligence for acquisitions and partnerships.
Previously, as Senior Vice President of Research and Development at Harman,
she led the core technology platforms of the Infotainment Division
including systems and software, media, tuner, navigation, connectivity, and
advanced driver assist systems.
As Vice President Engineering at Yahoo! Inc., where she led Yahoo!
membership, web presentation technologies such as the Yahoo! User Interface
Library, mobile web services, notification services, backend SDKs including
accounts and messaging, mobile application testing, and the Yahoo!
Developer Network. Before joining Yahoo!, Victoria served as Vice
President, Emerging Technologies at Nokia, Vice President, Software
Engineering of Hewlett-Packard’s webOS global business unit, and Vice
President of Samsung's Advanced Institute of Technology. She has also held
director roles at Intel and SRI International, in security technology and
system design, respectively.
Before joining SRI International, Victoria was a Reader in Computer Science
for two years at Queen Mary and Westfield College and a Lecturer in
Computer Science at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College for six years,
both at the University of London. She designed the software engineering and
theoretical strands of the Royal Holloway undergraduate computer science
program. She also created the Masters program on Dependable Computer
System, and taught undergraduate and graduate classes in information
security, operating systems, software engineering, and dependable
distributed systems.
Victoria has also been selected to participate on numerous advisory
councils in higher education and the public sector. She serves on the
advisory Board of the Santa Clara University Department of Computer
Engineering. She is also a Senior Advisor to the Director of the University
of California Berkeley’s Center for Information Technology Research in the
Interest of Society. She serves as a volunteer advisor on the United States
Department of Defense’s Defense Science Board and is a member of Lockheed
Martin’s Technology Advisory Group. She is also an advisor to the
Automotive Security Review Board, a nonprofit consortium aiming to make
connected cars more cyber secure.
Victoria has deep familiarity with open source software development, having
witnessed the ascendancy of the Unix movement first as a student and
subsequently as an instructor. She passionately believes in the power of
open source and has been actively involved in the development of LiMo
(renamed Tizen), the first truly open, hardware independent, Linux-based
mobile operating system. Having used Webkit as the basis of the application
runtime of webOS, she is also very familiar with leveraging open source for
building products.
Victoria received her B.Sc and M.Sc in Electronic Computer Systems and
Computer Aided Logic Design respectively from the University of Salford, UK
and her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Manchester, UK.
She holds four patents and is the author of more than 60 articles and
books. Born in Greece, she has worked with teams around the world,
including in Belgium, Brazil, China, France, Finland, Germany, India,
Israel, Korea, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
About the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that supports and
operates Wikipedia and its sister projects. Wikipedia serves roughly half a
billion people each month. Every month roughly 80,000 people edit Wikipedia
and its sister projects, collectively creating, improving, and maintaining
its nearly 40 million articles across hundreds of languages -- this all
makes Wikipedia one of the most popular web properties in the world. Based
in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is a 501(c)(3)
charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants.
About Wikipedia
Wikipedia is the world’s free knowledge resource. It is a collaborative
creation that has been added to and edited by millions of people from
around the globe since it was created in 2001: anyone can edit it, at any
time. Wikipedia is offered in hundreds of languages containing a total of
nearly 40 million articles. Wikimedia and its sister projects are the
largest collection of free knowledge in human history.
Wikimedia Foundation Press Contact
Juliet Barbara
(415) 839-6885
press(a)wikimedia.org
--
*Samantha Lien*
Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
149 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
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