Dear all,
The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday,
September 29, 2016 at 6:00 PM UTC (11 AM PDT). The IRC channel is
#wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net, and the meeting will be broadcast as
a live YouTube stream.
Meeting agenda:
* Welcomes
* Community update
* Review of WMF top-level metrics
* Feature Presentation
* Research Update
* Product Demo
* Questions/discussions
* Wikilove
Please review
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_metrics_and_activities…>
for
further
information about the meeting and how to participate.
We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
Thank you,
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Limayli Huguet
Front Office Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello all!
Please join us on September 28 at 16:00 UTC to review the research findings
of the New Readers project <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers>!
This 1.5 hour presentation will share findings from user research in
Mexico, India, and Nigeria.
Why should you come?
- India, Nigeria, and Mexico represent more than 1.5 billion people,
more than 20% of the world
- Current Wikipedia awareness and usage in these countries is low – less
than 25% of people in Nigeria and India have even heard of Wikipedia
- In pursuit of the Wikimedia vision to make knowledge accessible to
“every single human being”, we aim to better understand users around the
world and meet their real needs
Specifically, we will discuss:
- Information seeking habits
- Internet use, devices, and general knowledge patterns
- Wikipedia awareness and usage
- User personas developed from findings
- Potential next steps and opportunities to better serve New Readers in
Asia, Africa, and Latin America
More details on the project can be found on Meta-Wiki.[1]
Join us on September 28 at 9am PDT / 4pm UTC / 9:30pm IST through our
YouTube stream[2] or with conferencing app BlueJeans.[3]
best,
Joe Sutherland
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYymUXRzpU4
[3] https://bluejeans.com/354618595/
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*Joe Sutherland*
Community Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation
joesutherland.rocks
Hi all,
The next meeting of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will be
on Monday, September 19, 2016. You can find the agenda for the next
meeting
on Meta Wiki here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_board_agenda_2016-09
Thank you,
Katie
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Katie Francis
Paralegal
Wikimedia Foundation
149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
kfrancis(a)wikimedia.org
Hi all,
Following up on our Wikimedia Conference report 2016[1], we have now
published more information about our “Visiting Wikimedian” initiative
that we kicked-off with Teele Vaalma from Wikimedia Eesti this year.
This initiative aims to transfer practical knowledge from the German
chapter to other Wikimedia movement affiliates and provides us with an
outside view.
Teele wrote a blog post on the movement blog, describing her time in
Berlin and her work to support us in organising the conference. It’s
really worth a read, as she provides insights into cross chapter
exchange and knowledge transfer.[2]
We have also set up a page (on Meta!) that describes the pilot that we
started this year. We would like to continue this for the Wikimedia
Conference 2017 and now start looking for the next Visiting
Wikimedian.[3] We are especially looking for a person who can apply
the knowledge to an upcoming event, for example if the affiliate is
hosting a regional or international conference. If you are interested
in becoming a Visiting Wikimedian, please reach out to me directly
until mid September.
A special thanks goes out to Wikimedia Eesti for being so supportive
of the idea and to Teele for doing such an awesome job!
Cheers,
Nicole
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016/Report
[2] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/07/28/digest-estonia-germany-wikimedia-conf…
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Visiting_Wikimedian
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Nicole Ebber
Referentin Internationale Beziehungen
Adviser to the ED, International Relations
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. +49 30 21915826-0
http://wikimedia.de
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Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
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V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts
Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig
anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin,
Steuernummer 27/029/42207.