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(press release) Aircel partners with Wikimedia Foundation to offer free mobile Wikipedia access through Wikipedia Zero
by Jay Walsh 25 Jul '13

25 Jul '13

(This press release is also posted online at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Aircel_partners_with_Wik…) Aircel partners with Wikimedia Foundation to offer free mobile Wikipedia access through Wikipedia Zero [Aircel subscribers to be the first in India to have free access to Wikipedia on their mobile phones] SAN FRANCISCO and NEW DELHI -- July 25, 2013: Aircel and the Wikimedia Foundation today announced a partnership to offer Wikipedia on mobile phones without any data charges to Aircel customers. The alliance is aimed at making knowledge available on Wikipedia accessible to all Aircel customers in both rural and urban areas for free. This is the first service of its kind to formally launch in India. This partnership is part of the Wikimedia Foundation's Wikipedia Zero program, which focuses on reaching the billions of people around the world whose primary opportunity to access the internet is via a mobile device. The partnership will help provide Wikipedia to 60 million new users in the region. Anupam Vasudev, Chief Marketing Officer for Aircel, said, "Through our alliance with the Wikimedia Foundation, Aircel is not only making internet services reach a wider audience, but also helping to encourage and enrich the lives of our customers by offering access to knowledge and information free of cost. We are excited about this partnership and hope this initiative will benefit all our customers from various age groups." "We hail Aircel’s commitment to enhancing and expanding access to free knowledge for their mobile customers. With the partnership, we extend our program to India where we potentially reach millions of people for the first time." said Kul Takanao Wadhwa, Head of Mobile with the Wikimedia Foundation. "Aircel is one of the operators across the globe that has contributed towards expanding free access to Wikipedia Zero to 470 million mobile users." Aircel customers will be able to access versions of Wikipedia in English, Hindi, Tamil, and 17 other Indic languages. Aircel is a young, data led telecom player and has been continuously innovating products and services to offer convenience to its young customers. The company has recently introduced various noteworthy data products like Pocket Internet Smart and the recent Pocket Internet 24, which offers internet at less than 1 rupee a day. Therefore, Aircel aims to empower and inspire the youth by enhancing their data experience. Questions and answers about this partnership can be found at: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mobile_partnerships#Aircel About Aircel Limited http://www.aircel.com Aircel is one of India’s leading pan India operators. It won 3G spectrum in 13 circles and BWA spectrum in 8 circles and has successfully launched 3G services which is the fastest 3G roll out ever in the Indian Telecom Space. Aircel has been constantly innovating products and services and is credited with making 3G affordable to masses by launching Pocket Internet Smart which offers best value 3G packs. Aircel Pocket Internet Smart gave a boost to 3G adoption in the country as it is a true value for money product that allows consumers to access unlimited 3G data at extremely affordable prices. Aircel has positioned itself as a data led telecom player and has addressed the multi-functionality of a mobile phone in many innovative ways which are Industry firsts, be it the Aircel Pocket Internet, Pocket Internet Games and Facebook Voice Updates on Aircel. Aircel is also a preferred telecom network to launch Apple iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and iPhone 5. For more information, please log on to www.aircel.com. About the Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org http://blog.wikimedia.org The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix, Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive more than 517 million unique visitors per month, making them the fifth-most popular web property world-wide (comScore, April 2013). Available in 285 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 25 million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of roughly 80,000 people. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants. Wikimedia Foundation media contact Matthew Roth Communications +1 415-839-6885 ext 6635 (San Francisco) mroth(at)wikimedia.org Aircel media contact Bhavya Suri Corporate Communications + 91 8802999046 (India) bhavya.suri(at)aircel.co.in

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[press release] Aircel partners with Wikimedia Foundation to offer free mobile Wikipedia access through Wikipedia Zero
by Jay Walsh 25 Jul '13

25 Jul '13

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Tech News summary #30 is out
by Tomasz W. Kozlowski 21 Jul '13

21 Jul '13

Hi community, the latest issue of the Tech News summary has been published and is now being delivered to its subscribers across the wikis: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2013/30 The newsletter aims to help Wikimedians stay informed about recent and future technical changes that are likely to impact their work. Thanks to our amazing community of volunteers translators, the current issue is available in 13 languages (yay!). Since subscribers of this list are likely to be interested in reading the newsletter, we'll announcing its release every week from now on, until we hear from you otherwise :-) Feedback about this decision (and the newsletter) is welcome at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News Please note that you can also subscribe to get the newsletter directly on your talk page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass… Please let me know if you have any questions, comments or concerns. I appreciate your help, feedback and involvement. Tomasz

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Wikimedia Foundation Report, June 2013
by Tilman Bayer 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

Hi all, please find below the WMF report for June 2013, in plain text. As always, the editable and formatted version has been published on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_June_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,_June_2013 Many thanks to those who have translated the May "Highlights" into German, Spanish, French, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Dutch, Russian and Chinese (while translations are still ongoing into Asturian, Hindi, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese and other languages)! While still focusing on WMF activities, the "Highlights" include a small selection of the most noteworthy events from the whole movement. Suggestions for the upcoming July issue are welcome until July 31 at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Highlights Regards, Tilman -- Wikimedia Foundation Report, June 2013 <Video: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF_Monthly_Metrics_Meeting_July_11…> Video of the monthly Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting covering the month of June <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/2013-07-11> (July 11, 2013) Contents * 1 Data and Trends * 2 Financials * 3 Highlights o 3.1 First workshop on how to evaluate the success of organized Wikimedia activites o 3.2 Preparations for the launch of VisualEditor and Universal Language Selector o 3.3 Community input invited for privacy policy update * 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 Strategic Goals Metrics o 6.2 Funds Dissemination Committee o 6.3 WMF Grants + 6.3.1 Grants awarded in June 2013 + 6.3.2 Reports accepted in June 2013 + 6.3.3 Participation Support # 6.3.3.1 Requests awarded in June 2013 # 6.3.3.2 Reports accepted in June 2013 o 6.4 Individual Engagement Grants o 6.5 Learning & Evaluation o 6.6 Brazil Catalyst Project + 6.6.1 Data Analyses + 6.6.2 Communications + 6.6.3 Outreach + 6.6.4 Institutional Partnership + 6.6.5 Education * 7 Program Development o 7.1 Wikipedia Zero o 7.2 Wikipedia Education Program 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, June 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, June 2013 + 10.2.1 Major announcements + 10.2.2 Major Storylines through June + 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 May: *522 million* (+0.97% compared with May; +5.97% compared with the previous year) (comScore data <http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/unique_visitors> for all Wikimedia Foundation projects; comScore will release June data later in July) Page requests for June: *21.1 billion* (+0.7% compared with May; +17.1% 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 May 2013 (>= 5 mainspace edits/month, excluding bots): *80,611* (-0.19% compared with May / -1.92% 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_May_2013_-…> Wikimedia Foundation YTD Revenue and Expenses vs Plan as of May 31, 2013 <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF_Expenses_by_Functions_May_2013.…> Wikimedia Foundation YTD Expenses by Functions as of May 31, 2013 (Financial information is only available through May 2013 at the time of this report.) All financial information presented is for the Month-To-Date and Year-To-Date May 31, 2013. Revenue $50,559,430 *Expenses:* Engineering Group $13,523,471 Fundraiser Group $3,265,731 Grantmaking & Programs Group $8,284,686 Governance Group $692,321 Legal/Community Advocacy/Communications Group $2,777,192 Finance/HR/Admin Group $5,272,075 Total Expenses $33,815,476 Total surplus $16,743,954 * Revenue for the month of May is $0.12MM versus plan of $0.28MM, approximately $159K or 57% under plan. * Year-to-date revenue is $50.56MM versus plan of $45.79MM, approximately $4.77MM or 10% over plan. * Expenses for the month of May is $2.97MM versus plan of $4.01MM, approximately $1.04MM or 26% under plan, primarily due to lower personnel expenses, internet hosting, and grant expenses (FDC grants) partially offset by higher capital expenses, outside contract services, and travel expenses. * Year-to-date expenses is $33.82MM versus plan of $38.08MM, approximately $4.26MM or 11% under plan, primarily due to lower personnel expenses, internet hosting, grant expenses (FDC grants), and travel expenses partially offset by higher legal expenses, bank fees, outside contract services, and personal property tax expenses. * Cash position is $42.7MM as of May 31, 2013. == Highlights == === First workshop on how to evaluate the success of organized Wikimedia activites === On June 22–23, the first workshop on the design and evaluation of programs <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/11/finding-out-what-works-first-workshop…> (organized activities) in the Wikimedia movement took place. The event was held Budapest, Hungary by the Wikimedia Foundation, in partnership with Wikimedia Magyarország, the local chapter. The workshop brought together 21 program leaders from 15 countries to learn the basic concepts of program evaluation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/program_evaluation>. The success of the workshop itself was evaluated, too: Surveys before and after the workshop showed that a majority of the participants left with a better understanding of these terms and concepts. <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_Editing_references_1…> One of the tasks made easier by VisualEditor: References can now be edited and added in a format that is more convenient than the <ref> tags in the middle of the page’s source wikitext. === Preparations for the launch of VisualEditor and Universal Language Selector === In June, work was completed on major new features for VisualEditor (the visual interface to edit wiki pages without markup), in preparation for its launch for all logged-in editors on the English Wikipedia on July 1 <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/01/visualeditor-beta-rollout/>. It is becoming available to most other Wikipedians during the rest of July. Also in June, the Universal Language Selector <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/01/universal-language-selector-uls-deplo…> began to be deployed to all Wikimedia projects. It allows users to configure language settings like interface language, fonts, and input methods (keyboard mappings) in a flexible way. By July 1, it was available on more than 150 wikis. <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ULS-Display-Settings.png> Universal Language Selector: A logged-in user is choosing the language which they prefer for the interface menus on the English Wikipedia === Community input invited for privacy policy update === In preparation for an update of the Wikimedia Foundation's privacy policy (the first since 2008), the Legal and Community Advocacy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy> (LCA) team has invited participation in a community discussion period <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/18/input-on-wikimedia-foundation-privacy…>, lasting until July 18. The goal was to get initial input about what privacy concerns community members have, what they find important, and what they would like to see in the next version of the privacy policy. The community was also asked to provide input on practices regarding the Wikimedia trademarks <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trademark_practices_discussion>. == Engineering == A detailed report of the Tech Department's activities for June 2013 can be found at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/June Department Highlights Major news in June include (see also general "Highlights" section ): * The preparation for the activation of VisualEditor <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/06/preparing-for-visualeditor-on-all-wik…> to most Wikipedia sites, and its debut on the English Wikipedia <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/01/visualeditor-beta-rollout/> on July 1; * News around Language engineering <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/03/language-engineering-development-upda…>, including the activation <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/01/universal-language-selector-uls-deplo…> of the Universal Language Selectors on many wikis; <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor-Parsoid_-_2013-07_Metr…> VisualEditor presentation slides (July 11) === VisualEditor <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Portal> === In June, the team completed major new features for VisualEditor (the visual interface to edit wiki pages without markup) in preparation for making it available to most Wikipedia users in July. The editor is now capable of letting users edit the majority of content without needing to use wikitext: it supports text, as well as adding and editing inclusions of references, templates, categories and media items. We organized an A/B test for new user accounts on the English Wikipedia, with half of them getting VisualEditor ahead of the wider release. There were also a number of user interface improvements, and many bugs uncovered by the community were fixed. The team was expanded with four dedicated new members, who will help community members use VisualEditor, and ensure that feedback will be focused and lead to rapid improvements. VisualEditor relies on Parsoid, the software that converts wikitext to annotated HTML behind the scenes. This month, Parsoid was activated on a new set of servers, and started to track all edits and template / image updates from all Wikipedia sites. The goal was to test Parsoid's performance in preparation for the activation of VisualEditor on almost all Wikipedia sites. Optimization improvements made earlier (notably using caching) proved effective, as servers seemed to handle the increased load well. Good performance allowed the team to focus on improving the conversion to wikitext, in order to avoid conversion errors and wikitext corruption. === Editor engagement <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_editor_engagement> === In June, we released more features and bug fixes for Notifications <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo_(Notifications)> on the English Wikipedia and mediawiki.org. We added a confirmation button for the "Thanks" feature, and added a link to the difference between versions of the page for talk page and interactive notifications. Development of HTML Email notifications <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Feature_requirements#HTML_single_email_…>, as well as of new metrics dashboards <http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/dashboards/enwiki-features>, continued. We ran a week-long A/B test of new user activity <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Notifications/Experiment_1/Results>, and results show that new users who received Echo notifications made more edits than those who did not, but their edits were reverted slightly more often. Later this Summer, we plan to enable Notifications on more wikis, starting with Meta and the French Wikipedia. <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF_Metrics_Meeting_July_2013_04.jpg> Erik Möller explaining first results about the impact of GettingStarted This month, we also activated features and fixed bugs for the Article Feedback Tool <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5> (AFT5) on the English, French and German Wikipedia. An opt-in feature now allows to enable or disable feedback on a page. The metrics dashboards <http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/dashboards/enwiki-features#article_feedback…> show how the new moderation tools are being used: for example, about half of moderated feedback is marked as 'no action needed', and about a tenth as 'useful'. The team supported a wider activation of AFT5 on over 40,000 articles on the French Wikipedia; as for the German community, they elected not to adopt the tool. Feature development has now ended for this project, and we plan to make AFT5 available to other wiki projects in the coming weeks. The Editor Engagement Experiments (E3) team continued work on its experiments related to onboarding new Wikipedians <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/onboarding_new_Wikipedians>, and launched several new tools to Wikimedia projects. The team began running campaigns <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Campaigns> to learn about how many editors sign up on the top 10 Wikipedias, and how many sign up via the invitation to "Join Wikipedia" on the login page (see the list of active campaigns <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Account_creation_campaigns> and analysis). Another tool, the CoreEvents extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CoreEvents>, now logs MediaWiki core activity, like preference updates and page saves across all projects. For the GettingStarted <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GettingStarted> project, the team conducted usability testing <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Onboarding_new_Wikipedians/user_testing#Test…> of new designs. the E3 team also improved and refined the guided tours <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/guided_tours> extension, including adding usability enhancements like new interface animations, support for community tours, and bug fixing. Work has begun on an experiment to deliver guided tours <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Guided_tours> to all first-time editors. After the VisualEditor launch on the English Wikipedia, we started a micro-survey of newly-registered users <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Gender_micro-survey> to give us a first systematic look at the gender diversity of those creating accounts. <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia-Metrics-Meeting-July-11-2…> Maryana Pinchuk presenting about mobile uploads === Mobile <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Mobile_engineering> === This month, the Mobile team launched a new Wikipedia Zero <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero> partnership with Dialog in Sri Lanka. On the technical side, we fixed user interface bugs and enhanced the tool to configure partnerships. We also improved logging and debugging for identification of anomalous access. We also focused on improving education around mobile uploads <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_design/Uploads>, including an interactive Commons tutorial and first-time user copyright and scope check. The "Nearby" feature <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/29/wikipedia-nearby-beta/> was activated on the default mobile site, allowing users to find articles near them that are in need of images, take photos and upload them via mobile. In beta, we started working on an improved navigation <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_design/Wikipedia_navigation> for the site and for articles. This includes design tweaks to the left navigation menu, and a new in-article contributory navigation that combines article actions (edit, upload, and watch) with a talk page link. We also experimented with integration of user Notifications, which now work on the English Wikipedia mobile site. We hope make this feature available to all mobile users in July. == Fundraising == === Major Gifts and Foundations === We received a $300,000 grant from the Knight Foundation. This is the first installment of a two-year grant we were awarded for winning the Knight News Challenge for Wikipedia Zero. === Annual Fundraiser === * The team prepared to begin fundraising worldwide with the start of the new fiscal year in July. An update on this testing <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2013#July_1.2C_2013_Update> was posted on Meta. * Spent three days working with the fundraising staff from the German chapter to prepare for the 2013 fundraiser. == Grantmaking == <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grantmaking_team_photo_June_2013.JPG> Fun photo of the WMF Grantmaking Team. Taken in the Hub, San Francisco, during a team retreat to work on planning for FY2013-14 (see below). === Strategic Goals Metrics === Metric Value MoM MoM% Chart Global South Active Editors (5+ edits in main namespace) 15.6k +563 +3.7% Increase [1] <http://gp.wmflabs.org/graphs/global_north_south_active_editors> === Funds Dissemination Committee === * Two new members were elected to the FDC, and the ombudsperson was re-elected! The FDC welcomes Delphine Ménard and Cristian Consonni, and also welcomes back the ombudsperson, Susana Morais. * FDC staff summary <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals/2012-2013_round1/Staff…> of the first round of progress reports for 2012-2013 Round 1 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals/2012-2013_round1> was published after the reports <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Reports> were submitted by 30 April. The next round of progress reports for 2012-2013 Round 1 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Reporting_requirements> will be due by 30 July. * were submitted by 8 June. * WMF staff is preparing to announce eligibility for FDC 2013-2014 Round 1 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Eligibility> on 15 July for the. Final eligibility will be confirmed by 15 September, and proposals are due on 1 October. * The ombudsperson's annual report <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Ombudsperson_annual_report_-_201…> was published. * The FDC portal is being re-worked to improve user experience. Feedback is being collected <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Feedback>. * A 2012-2013 Round 2 Process Survey was conducted, and analysis is underway. A report is forthcoming. === WMF Grants === * 3 new project grants were approved in June. * 7 grant reports were accepted in June. ==== Grants awarded in June 2013 ==== * Grant to continue encouraging GLAM institutions in Denmark to have Wikipedians-in-Residence: Grants:WM_DK/Wikipedian-in-Residence_Scholarship,_II <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_DK/Wikipedian-in-Residence_Schola…> * Grant to purchase 500 WikiReaders and distribute them to selected schools that have limited or no internet access: Grants:Aislinn_Dewey/Distribute_WikiReaders_to_Schools <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Aislinn_Dewey/Distribute_WikiReaders…> * A project aiming to increase Wikipedia coverage of iconic buildings around Johannesburg with historic and heritage importance: Grants:WM_ZA/joburgpedia-2013 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_ZA/joburgpedia-2013> ==== Reports accepted in June 2013 ==== * Grants:WM_RS/Wikimedia_CEE_Conference_2012 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_RS/Wikimedia_CEE_Conference_2012> * Grants:WM_ES/Conferences_and_meeting_for_tenth_anniversary_of_the_Galipedia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_ES/Conferences_and_meeting_for_te…> * Grants:WM_RS/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_in_Serbia_2012 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_RS/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_in_Serbia…> * Grants:User:HstryQT_-_GLAMWiki_US_Consortium/Advisory_Group_Meeting <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:User:HstryQT_-_GLAMWiki_US_Consortiu…> * Grants:WM_PH/Open_Web_Day <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_PH/Open_Web_Day> * Grants:WM_FI/Tervetuloa_Wikipediaan! <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_FI/Tervetuloa_Wikipediaan!> * Grants:WM_CL/Start-up <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_CL/Start-up> ==== Participation Support ==== * 3 new requests were approved in June. * No grant reports were accepted in June. ===== Requests awarded in June 2013 ===== * Participation:Futureimperfect/_Free_Minds_free_People_and_IDEC_2013 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Futureimperfect/_Free_Minds_f…> * Participation:Thelmadatter/2013_Congreso_de_La_Asociación_Centroamericana_de_Lingüística_(ACALING) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Thelmadatter/2013_Congreso_de…> * Participation:Iopensa/WikiSym_2013 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Iopensa/WikiSym_2013> ===== Reports accepted in June 2013 ===== No reports were accepted in June 2013. === Individual Engagement Grants === * A work sprint <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Build/May_2013_sprint_plan> on the Grants:IdeaLab <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab> continued, in preparation for a July (re)launch of the space aimed at cultivating ideas for proposals in advance of August’s IEG open call. The updates will make it easier to browse and connect with ideas, and will highlight recent activity. * IEG midpoint and final report <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-reporting2> templates have been completed and made available to grantees. The first 5 IEGrantee midpoint reports are due July 15th. * Siko Bouterse and IEGrantee Ocaasi, along with volunteer Wikimedians the wub and Valeriej, attended Open Help Conference <http://openhelpconference.com/2013/sessions/> to present, discuss and worksprint on Wikimedia projects like Teahouse, IdeaLab, the Wikipedia Adventure, and the Help Project. Outcomes and learnings are shared in a blog post <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/03/wikipedians-open-help-conference/>. * A small July meeting was organized to brainstorm and strategize on the gender gap for the coming year. Outcomes will be reported in July. * The Wikipedia Library <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Library>, our 8th and final round 1 IEGrant project to begin work, launched this month. IEGrantee Ocaasi visited San Francisco to participate in a tech roundtable and while in the Bay Area he met with staffers and local organizations to kickoff the project. A full account of June activity is reported on the project page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Library/Timeline>. * All IEGrantee projects continue! Some grantees are contributing to the WMF blog <https://blog.wikimedia.org/tag/individual-engagement-grants/>, and all grantees' progress is chronicled each month at: o Grants:IEG/Build an effective method of publicity in PRChina/Timeline <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Build_an_effective_method_of_pub…> o Grants:IEG/Consolidate wikiArS to involve art schools/Timeline <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Consolidate_wikiArS_to_involve_a…> o Grants:IEG/Elaborate_Wikisource strategic vision/Timeline <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Elaborate_Wikisource_strategic_v…> o Grants:IEG/MediaWiki data browser/Timeline <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/MediaWiki_data_browser/Timeline> o Grants:IEG/Replay Edits/Timeline <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Replay_Edits/Timeline> o Grants:IEG/The Wikipedia Adventure/Timeline <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Adventure/Timeline> o Grants:IEG/The Wikipedia Library/Timeline <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Library/Timeline> o Grants:IEG/MediaWiki_and_Javanese_script/Timeline <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/MediaWiki_and_Javanese_script/Ti…> * Haitham Shammaa transitioned from Contribution Research Manager into a new role in the Grantmaking Department’s Learning & Evaluation team. As Learning Strategist, Global South, Haitham will support Grantmaking and Global South strategy with research, experimentation, and tools to enhance learning and data-driven decision making. * Learnings from an experiment aimed at recruiting editors from the Philippines on English Wikipedia have been shared in a blog post <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/02/english-wikipedia-editor-pilot-philipp…>. === Learning & Evaluation === * Learned a lot from the Grantmaking for Effective Organizations (GEO)'s learning conference in Miami. Met with various grantmakers to talk about how to promote learning internally as well as amongst grantmakers. Joined group of grantmakers that are working on funding networks and evaluating results – a tricky thing to do! Conference notes and speakers can be found here <http://geofunders.org/conferences/learning-conference-2013>. * Hosted our first grantmaking team retreat (see photo above)! We hosted various outside panelists, including Kate Kroeger, Pete York, and Judd Antin. We spent time developing our action calendar and learning goals for the next fiscal year. * Supported program evaluation team in the development of the Budapest workshop * Began planning for Wikimania Learning Day – a day to host a few of the different grantees to work on our collective strategies for learning and evalution of programs and organizations. * Transitioned Grantmaking Data Manager Evan Rosen over to the WMF Analytics team. Fortunately, Evan still is specifically supporting the needs of the Grantmaking & Programs teams! Evan is still working on the UMAPI tool; update for the tool should be included in the Analytics' monthly overview report. * Collected feedback (via survey) on the FDC Round 2 process. * Working on survey development for the Grants Program * Working on the tiger team behind the IdeaLab to create a great collaboration space for new ideas. Mostly did bot work to spotlight different contributors and ideas to encourage participation and collaboration. Work included: o CONTRIBUTORS: regular profiles are found here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Introductions>, and are created by the users themselves. GrantsBot sorts this list so that the profiles of people who have been most active in recent weeks are listed at the top. o CONTRIBUTORS: featured profiles are placed on one of six rotating 'gallery' pages (like this one <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Introductions/Featured/6>) and will be displayed on the IdeaLab front page, a mockup of which is here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Heatherawalls/sandbox>. Currently, the most active participants are 'featured' every week, but we can also set other criteria for who we choose to feature (such as people who just joined). o IDEAS: regular idea profiles have to be created from scratch. GrantsBot does this by grabbing metadata about each Idea proposal <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Accessibility_-_reading,_reusing…> (such as the creator name and the summary text listed in the infobox) and dumps those into a profile template. The different categories of idea proposal (currently 'new', 'participants wanted', and 'IEG draft') are then displayed on this page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Ideas>. This allows IdeaLab visitors to browse the current ideas without having to visit each individual proposal page. o IDEAS: featured idea profiles are just a simplified version of regular idea proposals. They go in a gallery page just like person profiles and will be displayed on the front page of the IdeaLab. === Brazil Catalyst Project === ==== Data Analyses ==== * Second phase of data collection on CAPTCHA <https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usu%C3%A1rio(a):HAndrade_(WMF)/Pesquisa_Vanda…> took place. * Under development: o Configuration of Portuguese Wikipedia Data for automatic update on Limn o localization of Snuggle for the PT-WP o Timeline: advancements on timeline prototype connecting events to data on the PT-WP <https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usu%C3%A1rio(a):JXavier_(WMF)/Linha_do_tempo> ==== Communications ==== Correio da Wikipedia: a site notice about the community newsletter - Correio da Wikipedia, recently reactivated - was published and daily accesses <http://stats.grok.se/pt/latest90/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Correio_da_Wikip%C3%A9dia> increased from 50 per day to up to almost 4300 a day. ==== Outreach ==== Participation in the International Free Software Forum (FISL) - Oona, Henrique and Rodrigo Padula were at FISL to promote Wikimedia projects and discuss potential partnerships (with both private and public institutions). Henrique's presentation was featured on a tech website ("Fisl14: analista da Wikipédia ensina internautas a contribuir para site <http://www.techtudo.com.br/noticias/noticia/2013/07/fisl-14-analista-da-wik…>") ==== Institutional Partnership ==== Draft on project and budget <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programa_Catalisador_do_Brasil/Planejamento…> shared for analyses ==== Education ==== * Hiring of the new education team: o Offboarding of Everton: after 1,5 year working with us, Everton Zanella Alvarenga has ended the transition period and left WMF for Open Knowledge Foundation. Everton has built the education program from scratch in Brazil, developing the pilot and contributing very much to the catalyst program. o Onboarding of Rodrigo Padula and Celio Costa: + Celio Costa (Usuário:Sturm <https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usu%C3%A1rio:Sturm>) has been a Wikipedian since 2004 and is one of the most active editors in the Portuguese Wikipedia. He'll be working as the consultant for Outreach. Holding a bachelor degree at History and Linguistics, Celio has consistently promoted Wikimedia projects as a volunteer and also the wiki practice and use as a professional. + Rodrigo Padula is a researcher at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where he leads initiatives and implementation of the Open Source Technologies Laboratory - LAPTEL. For almost 8 years he’s been collaborating with Mozilla Foundation, promoting Web technology and internet freedom. == Program Development == Department highlights * The first Program Evaluation & Design Workshop took place in Budapest, Hungary, June 22–23 (see also general "Highlights" section and the blog post "Improving program performance: first evaluation workshop in Budapest <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/11/finding-out-what-works-first-workshop…>") * Wikipedia Zero is now available in Sri Lanka for the first time on Dialog's mobile network, reaching over 8 million subscribers. * Faris El-Gwely attended a conference at Dr. Yahia Fares de Medea University in Algeria celebrating the success of the pilot of the program at the university. Dr. Fareh Abdelhak worked with one class in Algeria this term, and the students contributed 1.6 million bytes of content to the Arabic Wikipedia. === Wikipedia Zero === * Wikipedia Zero is now available in Sri Lanka for the first time on Dialog's mobile network, which is part of the Axiata group. Dialog <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialog_Axiata> is Sri Lanka's largest telecommunications service provider with the country's largest mobile phone network of over 8 million subscribers. * Worked with Mozilla on marketing campaigns to promote the availability of Wikipedia on Firefox OS in Eastern Europe (with Engineering): * Developed faster process for mobile carrier testing using partner configuration pages * Created semi-automated method of updating Varnish configurations, thus facilitating the launch and update of Wikipedia Zero partnerships === Wikipedia Education Program === United States and Canada * Started sending out welcome packets to professors interested in joining for the fall 2013 term. Arab World * Faris El-Gwely attended a celebration conference at Dr.Yahia Fares de Medea University in Algeria to celebrate the success of the pilot of the program at the university. Dr. Fareh Abdelhak worked with one class in Algeria this term, and the students contributed 1.6 million bytes of content to the Arabic Wikipedia. * Students started editing again in Egypt after stopping for 20 days because of final exams at the universities. * Faris and faculty leaders started planning a celebration conference in Cairo in August. * Interviewed candidates for Arab World Program Manager position. Communications * Set up system for porting Training infrastructure to any wiki, and tested it successfully with Czech Wikipedia. * Launched community discussion of Commons brochure draft <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Welcome_to_Commons_brochure>. * Worked with David Peters on a refresh of the Bookshelf piece "Evaluating Wikipedia Article Quality". * Reprinted "Instructor Basics", "The Syllabus", and "The Essentials" brochures, with minor edits. * Facilitated three blog posts on the Wikimedia blog: o Wikipedia education projects in Thessaloniki <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/06/wikipedia-education-thessaloniki/> (available in English and Greek) o Communications students at Schreiner University reflect on their Wikipedia assignment <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/10/schreiner-university-wikipedia-educati…> o Starting an education program for small chapters 1.0 <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/26/starting-an-education-program-for-smal…> * Published two newsletters: o 4 June 2013 <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program/News/4_June…> o 18 June 2013 <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program/News/18_Jun…> === Program Evaluation and Design === * The first Program Evaluation & Design Workshop took place in Budapest, Hungary, June 22–23. The event was held by the Wikimedia Foundation, in partnership with Wikimedia Magyarország, the local chapter. The workshop brought together 21 program leaders from 15 countries to learn gain a shared understanding of the basic concepts of program evaluation and why it's a helpful skillset to learn when executing Wikimedia focused programs such as GLAM content donations, Wikipedia education programs, edit-a-thons/workshops, editing contests, and photo upload contests (i.e. WikiLovesMonuments). A blog post about the workshop is here: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/11/finding-out-what-works-first-workshop… * Prior to the workshop, Sarah Stierch encouraged the participants to share their experiences with their respective programs online on Meta: o Edit-a-thons and Workshops <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_Evaluation/Share_Space/Edit-a-thons…> o Wikipedia Education Program <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_Evaluation_and_Design/Share_Space/W…> o GLAM content donations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_Evaluation_and_Design/Share_Space/G…> o Wiki Loves / Takes <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_Evaluation_and_Design/Share_Space/W…> o Contests <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_Evaluation_and_Design/Share_Space/C…> * Outcome of the workshop: Attendees were provided a pre and post survey to fill out as part of evaluation of the workshop. The surveys provided positive results, most participants entered the workshop with little to moderate knowledge about program evaluation and majority left the workshop with a better understanding. Majority of participants also were highly satisified with the concept of using logic models and 63% said they were "mostly" or "very" ready to implement program evaluation in their programs. * An announcement only mailing list has been created for Program Evaluation & Design. Anyone is welcome to join it in order to learn about the latest news, activities and events related to Program Evaluation & Design: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-ped * The team has started fleshing out a space on Meta for Program Evaluation & Design <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_Evaluation_and_Design>. This is the main social space for everybody in the movement interested in Program Evaluation & Design, and will serve as the main contact point for interaction about the subject and resource center. == Human Resources == The primary focus of work for June was annual reviews and annual compensation increases and adjustments for every employee of the Foundation. The other large pieces of work focused on adding index funds to the portfolio of 401k plan options and hosting the annual summer C-level retreat. === Staff Changes === New Requisitions Filled (see also: slides <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/143jtUmwGggT19y7SLvsv8zsO1ApMoMGFYJu…> from the monthly metrics meeting) * Peter Coombe, Fundraising Production Coordinator (Fundraiser) * Toby Negrin, Director of Analytics (Engineering) * Sean Pringle, Administrator, Database (Engineering) * Ken Snider, Contractor for Wikimedia Operations team (Engineering) New Volunteers * Rita Chang (Legal & Community Advocacy) * Joshua Errett (Legal & Community Advocacy) * Alice Debois-Frogé (Legal & Community Advocacy) * Donna Peterson (Legal & Community Advocacy) * Sarah Mitroff (Legal & Community Advocacy) New Legal Interns * Matthew Collins (Columbia) * Jenny Bloom (Harvard) * Lukas Mezger (recent graduate from Germany) New Contractors * Celio Costa (Grantmaking & Programs) * Patrick Early (Engineering) * Erica Litrenta (Engineering) * Kartik Mistry (Engineering) * Rodrigo Padula (Grantmaking & Programs) * Keegan Peterzell (Engineering) * Sherry Snyder (Engineering) * Dhaval Trivedi (Engineering) * Brian Wolff (Engineering) Contracts Extended * Michael Guss (Administration / also a volunteer with Legal & Community Advocacy) * Michael Ray (Administration) Departure * Luke Welling * Tiffany Li Contracts Ended * Everton Alvarenga * Missy Black * Alexander Kuiper * Nischay Nahata * Rebecca Neumann * Robert Smith * Ion Vasquez Department Changes – move to Engineering Analytics * Dan Andreescu * Andrew Otto * Evan Rosen * Dario Taraborelli * Diederik Van Liere * Erik Zachte New Postings Fundraiser Program Manager Director of Program, Mobile Linux System Administrator (Systems & Network) - Part Time === Statistics === Total Requisitions Filled June Actual: 145 June Total Plan: 174 June Filled: 4, Month Attrition: 2 YTD Filled: 62, YTD Attrition: 29 4 Positions On Hold at FYE Remaining Open Reqs to rollover into the next fiscal year 29 === Department Updates === Real-time feed for HR updates http://identi.ca/wikimediaatwork or http://twitter.com/wikimediaatwork == Finance and Administration == * We have negotiated a new foreign exchange rate which will lower the cost of sending payments in a variety of currencies. * The Form 990 FAQ for 2011 has been posted <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Form_990_Questions_and_Answers_(2011)>. == Legal, Community Advocacy, and Communications Department == === LCA Report, June 2013 === The Legal and Community Advocacy Department has been working extensively with the community regarding a number of topics, including PRISM <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:PRISM>, trademarks <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Trademark_practices_discussion>, and privacy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Privacy_policy/Call_for_input_(2013)>. More detail about these ongoing discussions can be found below under "Other Activities ". ==== Contract Metrics ==== * Submitted : 23 * Completed : 26 ==== Trademark Metrics ==== * Submitted : 13 * Approved : 3 * Pending : 7 * Denied : 3 ==== Domains Obtained ==== Acquired: wikipedia.in, wikimanialondon.org, wikipedia.us ==== Coming & Going ==== * We welcome our new summer legal interns, Matthew Collins (Columbia), Jenny Bloom (Harvard), and Lukas Mezger (our first international legal intern, from the German community)! * We say goodbye to our fantastic summer intern, Tiffany Li (Georgetown) as she heads back to Washington DC to spend the second half of her summer at a start-up. We wish her the best of luck! * We welcome Keegan Peterzell, Erica Litrenta, Patrick Earley, and Sherry Snyder, who will be working as community liaisons to assist with the Visual Editor roll-out (seconded to LCA from Engineering). * We also welcome Joshua Errett, Donna Peterson, Alice Debois-Froge, Sarah Mitroff, and Michael Guss as volunteers who will be assisting our Communications team! ==== Other Activities ==== <Video: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Law,_Technology,_and_Social_Change_…> Video recording of the “Technology, Law, and Social Change” presentation and panel * LCA launched a *community discussion <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:PRISM> about PRISM* and what, if any, role WMF and the community should play. The consultations showed limited support for advocacy about government surveillance, and we are currently evaluating advocacy options that are consistent with this guidance. * LCA launched a *community discussion about privacy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Privacy_policy/Call_for_input_(2013)>* generally to engage the community and get initial input about what privacy concerns they have, what they find important, and what they would like to see in the next version of the privacy policy. The discussion is scheduled to close on July 18 and has been very helpful in shaping the forthcoming draft of the privacy policy, which is set for release for public comment at the beginning of August. Special thanks to members of the community who have participated in this important discussion. We look forward to the community’s comments on the draft as soon as it’s completed. * Simultaneously, LCA has been working extensively with the entire Foundation to create a *new version of the privacy policy* that reflects the mission and movement values. Special thanks to members of the tech department for the continued support and guidance. They have been essential to development of the new policy. * LCA launched a *community discussion on trademarks <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Trademark_practices_discussion>* to get the community’s thoughts on how we should employ our trademarks for community members, movement organizations, and third parties. LCA will use this input to shape how the next version of the trademark policy is drafted. Once this discussion closes and the draft is developed, the draft of the new trademark policy will be released for public comment. * LCA presented a proposed process for creating a *new Wikivoyage logo <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikivoyage/Logo_announcement>* and the community gave significant input on the process. Members of the community have begun submitting potential designs <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikivoyage/Logo_2013/Submissions> and we are looking forward to seeing the community showcasing their creativity in the coming weeks. * LCA worked to prepare its *first public event* with General Counsel, Geoff Brigham, keynoting and a panel of speakers from Mozilla, the EFF, Google, and Twitter speaking on “Technology, Law, and Social Change” on July 10. About 100 local attorneys, law students, and people interested in tech law attended eventually. * LCA was happy to announce <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/26/wikimedia-foundation-legal-victory-ita…> a *major legal victory in Italy* in a lawsuit brought by former Italian Minister of Defense, Cesar Previti. * LCA is working hard in cooperation with the tech department on *Visual Editor* and has coordinated the work of the recently hired community liaisons to do so. We are beginning to think beyond the en-wiki deployment and are putting architecture in place to support the deployment on non-English wikis. We have supported the triage and elimination of almost 200 bugs since deployment and coordinated a 24-hour coverage shift to support the deployment. * LCA is excited to present on three topics at *Wikimania* 2013! We encourage the community to sign up and attend any (or all!) of the following presentations: Our Legal Strategy Going Forward: A Talk with the WMF General Counsel <https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Discussing_Our_Legal_S…>; Open Culture, Open Data, Open Source <https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Open_Culture,_Open_Dat…>; and Working Together, But Separately: A Gathering of Functionaries <https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Working_together,_but_…>. === Communications Report, June 2013 === Although we issued no major announcements in June, it was still a busy month. We worked on business planning and transition details for the Wikimedia shop, reviewed and implemented designs for revisions to the Wikimedia blog, kicked off some new design projects, and resumed work on an upcoming Wikipedia Zero announcement. In June we also began collaborating with the Wikimania organizing team to coordinate press activities for the upcoming conference. ==== Major announcements ==== No major press announcements in June. ==== Major Storylines through June ==== Wikimedia response to PRISM/NSA controversy (June 14) The Edward Snowden-led leak of documents relating to the NSA's PRISM program was a major global news story in June. Wikipedia and the WMF sites received mostly neutral mentions (faring better than other top web properties), particularly following the posting of a notice of community discussion about the topic on the WMF blog. (related blog post) https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/14/prism-surveillance-wikimedia/ http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/06/17/wikimedia-foundation-says-it-hasnt… http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jun/19/nsa-prism-privacy-martin-sorrell http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/06/17/joins.open.letter.to.us.congr… Wikimedia Foundation victorious in Cesare Previti lawsuit (June 26) The Foundation's legal team announced a victory against former Italian Minister of Defence Cesare Previti in June. Previti accused the Foundation of providing a venue for hosting inaccurate and defamatory statements. The Civil Court of Rome disagreed with Previti's claim and found in the Foundation's favor, which resulted in major, largely positive coverage in the Italian mainstream press. (related blog post) https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/26/wikimedia-foundation-legal-victory-it… http://thenextweb.com/eu/2013/06/27/wikimedia-prevails-in-italian-lawsuit-b… http://www.lastampa.it/2013/06/29/tecnologia/wikipedia-non-responsabile-dei… http://www.today.it/politica/cesare-previti-perde-causa-wikipedia.html ==== Other worthwhile reads ==== Adding Our Voice to the Wikipedia Chorus <https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/2013/06/20/adding-our-…> | Brooklyn Museum | June 20 Internet Hall of Fame to induct top names in tech <http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57591045-93/internet-hall-of-fame-to-induc…> | CNET | June 26 When The Last of Us are Left, How Long Would it Take to Transcribe Wikipedia? <http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/overthinking-it/2013/06/27/when-the-las…> | Scientific American | June 27 Wikipedia contributors ‘should be proud’ <http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/wikipedia-contributors-should-be…> | Times Higher Education | June 30 ==== WMF Blog posts ==== Blog.wikimedia.org ran 33 posts <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/> in June 2013. Thirteen posts were multilingual <https://blog.wikimedia.org/tag/multilingual-post/>, including Spanish, Bangla, German, French, Greek, Russian, Catalan, Italian, Ukranian, and Armenian. Some highlights: * *Preparing for VisualEditor on all Wikipedias <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/06/preparing-for-visualeditor-on-all-wiki…> | June 6, 2013* * *Wikimedians help translate renowned classical music lyrics to Ukranian <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/07/translate-classical-music-lyrics-ukrai…> | June 7, 2013* * *Call for input on the new Wikimedia Foundation privacy policy <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/18/input-on-wikimedia-foundation-privacy-…> | June 18, 2013* * *How the Wikimedia Foundation’s values are changing the world: The Bolivian experience <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/27/wikimedia-foundation-values-bolivian-e…> | June 27, 2013* ==== Media Contact ==== https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room/Media_Contact#June_2013 ==== Wikipedia Signpost ==== For lots of detailed coverage and news summaries, see the community-edited newsletter “Wikipedia Signpost” for June 2013: * Volume 9, Issue 22 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2013-06…>, 5 June 2013 * Volume 9, Issue 23 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2013-06…>, 12 June 2013 * Volume 9, Issue 24 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2013-06…>, 19 June 2013 * Volume 9, Issue 25 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2013-06…>, 26 June 2013 == Visitors and Guests == Visitors and guests to the WMF office in June 2013: 1. Christine Cavanaugh (CCS Consulting) 2. Stephen Josephs (7 Powers Consulting & facilitator) 3. Barnet Bain (independent consultant & facilitator) 4. Frits Habberman (CTO of PopCap) 5. Jailza Pauly (Haas Business School) 6. Chema Hernández Gil (SF Bike Coalition) 7. Simone Syed (Mithril) 8. Scott Norman (Mithril) 9. Caroline Simard (Stanford University) 10. Rebecca York (Adyen) 11. Jon Fuller (Adyen) 12. Lisa Groesz (Taos) 13. Peter Cooper (Paul Hastings LLP) 14. Rishi Sharma (Paul Hastings LLP) 15. Dennis Porter (Suf) 16. Brian Andersen (Suf) 17. Tom Johnson (Oregon State University) 18. Kevin Phillips (Forte) 19. Adria Richards (BYAG) 20. Shauna Gordon-Mckeon (OpenHatch) 21. Cosimo Cecchi (Endless Mobile) 22. Debbie Wolter (CCS Consulting) 23. Mike Meghan (CB2 Construction) 24. Ohana Hernandez (SFBC) 25. Kellie Brownell (Giant Rabbit) 26. Vijay Toke (Hiaring & Smith LLP) 27. Joey Daoud (Knight Foundation) 28. Sophie Österberg (WMSE) 29. Isabella Bagneros (Twitter) 30. Tom Simonite (MIT Technology Review) 31. Ben Dierker (Walker) 32. Joe Vasquez (Hero @ Home) 33. Christophe Henner (Wikimedia France) 34. Jim Chen (CTBT) 35. Aloka Archige (Forte) 36. Sam Giroy (Forte) 37. Kevin Phillips (J&K) 38. Alexis Rossi (Internet Archive) 39. Will Norris (Google) 40. Daniel Shapiro (Wells Fargo) 41. Pierros Papadeas (Community Manager at Mozilla) 42. Alex Wafula (Wikimedian and Mozilla Rep from Kenya) 43. Josh Lim (Wikimedia Philippines) 44. Lorenzo Losa (Wikimedia Italy) 45. Pedro Lopez (Data Safe) 46. Anna Nygren (Telenor) 47. Taylor Keep (Vital) 48. Lee Eckert (Vital) 49. Sam Slater (Vital) 50. Lisa Groesz (Taos) 51. Patrick Chow (change.org) 52. Dennis Porter (Saf) 53. Pedro Torrecillas (Imagine.cc) 54. Albert Moro (Imagine.cc) 55. Laura Dubreuil (Imagine.cc) 56. Sebastian Romero (Imagine.cc) 57. Nuria Lao (Imagine.cc) 58. Phillipe Delespesse (Imagine.cc) 59. Anna Sala (Imagine.cc) 60. Luis Montes de Oca (Imagine.cc) 61. Oriana Mendez Lopez (Imagine.cc) 62. Xavier (Imagine.cc) 63. Rosa Monge (Imagine.cc) -- Tilman Bayer Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB

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The Signpost -- Volume 9, Issue 28 -- 17 July 2013
by Wikipedia Signpost 18 Jul '13

18 Jul '13

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation's new plans announced http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-07-17/News_a… WikiProject report: WikiProject Square Enix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-07-17/WikiPr… Featured content: Documents and sports http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-07-17/Featur… Arbitration report: ''Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds'' case opens; July 22 deadline for checkuser and oversight applications http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-07-17/Arbitr… Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-07-17/Traffi… Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-07-17 http://identi.ca/wikisignpost / https://twitter.com/wikisignpost -- Wikipedia Signpost Staff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost

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Wikimedia Israel Report, June 2013
by Chen Davidi 15 Jul '13

15 Jul '13

Hey, Here is Wikimedia Israel report for June 2013: * * *Fifth Wikipedia Academy Conference * The fifth Wikipedia Academy conference in Israel was held on June 2, 2013 in the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. The central theme of this year's conference, which attracted an audience of 150—among them Wikipedians, members of the academia and the business world—was "*Why are there fewer women editors on Wikipedia*". We were honored to welcome the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees member *Bishakha Datta* , as our keynote speaker. We also had a women's panel with some of our Wikipedia Israel community members, and several professional researchers. - Follow this link to see<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/03/fifth-wikipedia-academy-israel/> our latest update on Wikimedia blog - Watch the video clip summary <http://youtu.be/Nr9VoizX0-Q> of the conference: - All the sessions are available on our YouTubechannel<http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuQcXKjU3rwLCQz-dbPywnkO8z1cVOpws> : - Photos on Flickr<http://www.flickr.com/photos/wikimediail/sets/72157633952455042/> and Commons<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Academy_Israel_2013> : Wikimedia Israel Survey On June 2013, Wikimedia Israel conducted a survey, according to which 23% of Israeli Wikipedians are women (compared to 10–15% in other parts of the world), 57% of Wikipedians are single and have a bachelor's or master's degree, 15% are under the age of 15 and 5% are over 60. Only 29% of the editors said they wrote new articles; the others engaged in adding content to existing articles, correcting mistakes and adding media. You will find the exact statistics on this press release<http://www.wikimedia.org.il/%D7%A0%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99-%D7%A1%D7%A7%D7%…> . * Program activities * *GLAM* - On June 13, Wikimedia Israel celebrated the Hebrew Book Week in a joint event with the National Library in Jerusalem. The event, run by Wikimedia Israel volunteers, began with an editing workshop for librarians and other library employees. It continued with a "behind-the-scenes" tour at the library’s ancient text archives, where we learned about the various collections and about the historical value of the library. The tour was open to both Wikipedians and the general public. After the tour we gave a lecture about Wikipedia to the general public, while wikipedians were engaged in an edit-a-thon. The event marked the beginning of a second pilot project with the NLI, which includes a "Wikipedian-in-Residence" Program for 6 months. - On June 24, a presentation about GLAM-Wiki, focusing on collaboration with Libraries, was given to about 20 librarians from central Israel. *Africa Center Project* - On June 23, a lecture and editing workshop was held in the Ben-Gurion University (BGU) in partnership with the university’s Africa Center. Eighteen BGU students will travel to Ghana in the coming month and will be installing an offline copy of Wikipedia there. * * *Lectures and Academic Partnerships* - A new partnership with the Faculty of Biblical and Jewish Studies at the Bar-Ilan University has started and on June 13th, an editing workshop was held for the students of the" "Lamentation in the Bible" course. The partnership will involve students writing Wikipedia articles as a mandatory course assignment. It was the first the "Education Extension" was used in an academic course in Israel. - In addition, a “What is Wikipedia” talk was given at the Department of Molecular Biology in the Ariel University. The talk was attended by about 70 students, researchers and faculty. * * *Press coverage* *Media coverage regarding **Wikipedia Academy**:* - 30/6 - נשים, ויקיפדיה צריכה אתכן - ראיון עם בישאקה דאטה<http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151701120445229&set=a.77791940228.…> (Mammon, Yedioth Achoronot - Exclusive interview with Bishakha datta) - 2/6 - מועדון הבנים הסגור של ויקיפדיה בעברית<http://www.haaretz.co.il/captain/net/.premium-1.2035249> (Haaretz - Written and online version) - 2/6 - על גברים, נשים וויקיפדיה - סיון: "אבל התקדמנו!" שלומית ליר: "כנראה שלא כל כך..."<http://www.103.fm/programs/Media.aspx?ZrqvnVq=FKMEDM&c41t4nzVQ=EF> (Radio 103FM Ben Caspit). - 3/6 - למה יש כל כך הרבה נשים בלוגריות, אבל כל כך מעט נשים כותבות בוויקיפדיה? <http://saloona.co.il/anatshapiraspace/?p=692> (Saloona Blog). - העולם הסודי של כותבי הערכים בוויקיפדיה העברית<http://www.pc.co.il/?p=119825> (PC news). - 2/6 - בישאקה דאטה, חברת הוועד המנהל של קרן ויקימדיה: "אנחנו לא מעריכים מספיק את הידע שנשים יכולות לספק, ולא, לא מדובר רק באופנה ובאוכל<http://www.telecomnews.co.il/%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%90%D7%A7%D7%94-%D7%93%D7…>" (Telecom News) - 3/6 - איך זה שוויקיפדיה מלאה סקסיסטים<http://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/mejunderet/.premium-1.2036557> (Haaretz) - 3/6 - על מי כותבים בוויקיפדיה<http://www.haaretz.co.il/news/world/america/.premium-1.2036990> (Haaretz) *Wikipedia general:* - 16/6 - – "Editorial Wars – That’s how a Right Wing organization employee revised Wikipedia articles<http://www.haaretz.co.il/captain/net/.premium-1.2047384>" (Haaretz) - 19/6 - – "The history of Wikipedia edit wars<http://www.haaretz.co.il/.premium-1.2050485>" (Haaretz) * Blog posts this month* · June 2 - The fifth Wikipedia Academy conference – "Why are there fewer women editors on Wikipedia". This post was written by Chen Davidi, Activity Coordinator of Wikimedia Israel, and was published on Wikimedia Israel blog<http://www.wikimedia.org.il/%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%A1-%D7%90%D7%A7%D7%93%D7%9E%D7%…>, as well on the Wikimedia international blog. *Upcoming activities ** July:* - 4.7- A “What is Wikipedia” Lecture. - 7.7- A “What is Wikipedia” Lecture. - 8.7 - Board meeting. - 9.7 - General Assembly - 10.7 – Lecture at the Israel Broadcasting Authority. - 12.7 – Ten years to Hebrew Wikipedia meetup. - 19.7 - A Thousand words tour in Petah Tikva. - 19.7 - WikiAir Flight. - 21 - A “What is Wikipedia” Lecture. - 23- Editathon for the National Library staff and the general public. *August:* - 1- Editathon at the National Library in Jerusalem. - 2 - A Thousand words tour in Jerusalem. - 7-10- Wikimania Hong Kong. - 16 - A Thousand words tour at the 'City of David'. - 20 – Wikicommons Workshop for the Israeli Navy personnel at the University of Haifa. - 28 – Wikicommons Workshop for the general public. *Administrative activities: *We are currently at the end of a procedure towards recruiting a new Executive Director. *Regards, *Chen Davidi Activity Coordinator Wikimedia Israel

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Tech newsletter #29
by Guillaume Paumier 14 Jul '13

14 Jul '13

Greetings, As you might have read on the wikis or the Wikimedia blog ( https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/12/subscribe-to-tech-news-to-stay-inform…), a multilingual tech newsletter was launched a few weeks ago to help Wikimedians stay informed about recent and future technical changes likely to impact them: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News As of this week, we're going to send the newsletter to this list, since subscribers are likely to be interested. Feedback about this decision (and the newsletter) is welcome at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News * *. Note that you can also subscribe to get the newsletter directly on your talk page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass… ------------------------------------------ Latest *tech news<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> * from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. *Translations<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2013/29>are available. * *Recent software changes* *(Not all changes will affect you.)* - The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf10<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf10>) was added to test wikis on July 11. It will be enabled<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/Roadmap>on non–Wikipedia sites on July 15, and on all Wikipedias on July 18. [1] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/73201/> - The Disambiguator<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Disambiguator>extension was enabled on all Wikimedia wikis on July 9 (bug #50174 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50174>). To use it, add the __DISAMBIG__ code to disambiguation templates (see example<https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=120414784&oldid=76564202>). [2] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/72646/> - The Universal Language Selector<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector>was added to all remaining wikis on July 9, finishing the process of replacing<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Deployment/Plann…>the Narayam <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Narayam> and WebFonts<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WebFonts>extensions. [3] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/71971/> - The CommonsDelinker<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CommonsDelinker>bot is now on-line and operating again, after a password problem was fixed (bug #51016 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51016>). - VisualEditor<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Portal>news: - According to the schedule, VisualEditor will be available to all users on the English Wikipedia on July 15. - Users should add TemplateData<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Portal/TemplateData>to templates to prepare for VisualEditor. A tutorial<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:TemplateData>is available. - Parameters marked as "required" in TemplateData are now auto-added when you add a template (bug #50747<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50747> ). - Warnings are now displayed in VisualEditor when users edit pages that are protected or have edit notices<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Edit_notice>(bug #50415 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50415>). - Many other bugs<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2013-07-11_.28MW_1.22wmf…>have been fixed in VisualEditor during the past two weeks. - The Wikimedia technical report<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/June>for June has been published, with a summary<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_engineering_rep…>that can be translated. *Future software changes* - A new version of the Single User Login<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Single_User_Login>system for global accounts will be enabled on July 17. Users will now automatically go back to the previous page instead of seeing the "Login success" page with logos. [4]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-July/000291.…> - The software that resizes images on all wikis will change on July 18. Resizing of big images will be faster and more reliable, and the resolution limit for GIF, PNG and TIFF files (currently set at 50 megapixels) will be removed. [5]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-July/000306.…> - Edit tags (mostly used by AbuseFilter<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter>) will now also be on diff pages. They include a link to Special:Tags<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Tags>before the edit summary. Wikis that use links in tag messages should remove them. [6] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/72317/> [7]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/72984/> - Global edit filters are currently in testing and will be added to wikis later. [8]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-July/070253.html> - Wikivoyage <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/voy:> wikis will start to use Wikidata <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/d:> for interwiki links on July 22. [9]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-July/000297.…> - A new image gallery design<https://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/gallery/index.php?title=Featured_pictures…>has been proposed by Brian Wolff; comments and feedback are welcome. - An IRC discussion <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours>about Bugzilla is planned for July 16, at 16:00 (UTC) on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2013&month=7…>). [10]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-July/070248.html> *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>prepared by tech ambassadors<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Ambassadors>and posted by Global message delivery <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery>• Contribute<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute>• Translate<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2013/29>• Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News>• Subscribe or unsubscribe<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…> .* -- Guillaume Paumier Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation https://donate.wikimedia.org

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Wikimedia Uruguay recognized as newest chapter
by Bence Damokos 14 Jul '13

14 Jul '13

Dear all, It is my pleasure to bring to your attention the Board's latest resolution that recognizes Wikimedia Uruguay as the newest Wikimedia chapter: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Recognition_of_Wikimedia_Uru… Please welcome them to the Wikimedia family with open arms and wish them success in furthering our mission in Uruguay! Best regards, Bence Damokos, Chair, Affiliations Committee

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Wikimedia engineering June 2013 report
by Guillaume Paumier 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

Hi, The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in June 2013 is now available. Wiki version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/June Blog version: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/12/engineering-june-2013-report/ We're also proposing a shorter, simpler and translatable version of this report that does not assume specialized technical knowledge: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/June/summa… Below is the full HTML text of the report. As always, feedback is appreciated on the usefulness of the report and its summary, and on how to improve them. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Major news in June include: - The preparation for the activation of VisualEditor<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/06/preparing-for-visualeditor-on-all-wik…>to most Wikipedia sites, and its debut on the English Wikipedia<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/01/visualeditor-beta-rollout/> ; - News around Language engineering<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/03/language-engineering-development-upda…>, including the preparation<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/06/universal-language-selector-coming-to…>and activation<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/01/universal-language-selector-uls-deplo…>of the Universal Language Selectors on many wikis; - An explanation of how bugs are discovered and fixed<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/04/volunteers-and-staffers-teach-learn-m…> . - A retrospective on the Amsterdam hackathon<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/04/volunteers-and-staffers-teach-learn-m…> . *Note: We're also providing a shorter, simpler and translatable version of this report<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/June/summa…>that does not assume specialized technical knowledge. * Personnel Work with us <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Work_with_us> Are you looking to work for Wikimedia? We have a lot of hiring coming up, and we really love talking to active community members about these roles. - Software Engineer - Fundraising<http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=oawpXfwM> - Software Engineer - Language Engineering<http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=oH3gXfwH> - Director of Program - Mobile<http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=oGqAXfwn> - Software Engineer - Multimedia Systems<http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=oj40Wfw3> - Senior Software Engineer - Platform<http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=ouLnWfwi> - UX Designer <http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=onImXfw8> - Product Manager - Platform<http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=o3vtXfwI> - Dev-Ops Engineer - SRE<http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=ocLCWfwf> Announcements - Sean Pringle joined the Technical Operations team as our Storage and Database Engineer (announcement<http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/368588> ). - Brian Wolff <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Bawolff> joined the Wikimedia Platform Engineering<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Platform_Engineering>group as Software developer for the Summer, working on multimedia contribution and review (announcement<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-June/069724.html> ). - Ken Snider joined the Technical Operations team as an international contractor, poised to fill the Director of Technical Operations position ( announcement<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-June/069844.html> ). - Toby Negrin joined the Engineering department as Director of Analytics (announcement<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaannounce-l/2013-June/000675.h…> ). Technical Operations *Site infrastructure* As part of our capacity planning work, Mark Bergsma upgraded most of our Varnish infrastructure (in EQIAD & ESAMS) with newer and faster servers. He will be adding new mobile Varnish servers in ESAMS next, this coming month. Rob Halsell and Daniel Zahn are pushing ahead with the migration of the other applications <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tampa_cluster> from Tampa to EQIAD. New Parsoid application and Varnish servers were also deployed in anticipation of the coming VisualEditor deployment. Meantime, Alexandros Kosiaris is starting the backup project work; read more about the project <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projects#Backup_infrastructure>and the technology <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bacula>. Mark also put in the finishing touches to deploy all the new network infrastructure at ESAMS. With help from Mark and Leslie Carr, we finally got approval from ARIN for some new IPv4 addresses, needed for our new ULSFO buildup.Many people are refactoring Puppet code with the ultimate goal of having everything organized into Puppet modules. Andrew Bogott, Antoine Musso and Alexandros are setting up an automated testing infrastructure to support these efforts. *Data Dumps <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/Data_Dumps>* Our GSoC student, Petr Onderka, is set up in gerrit and committed his first contributions to the Incremental Dumps project; you can follow his code<https://git.wikimedia.org/summary/operations%2Fdumps%2Fincremental>, read his progress reports<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Svick/Incremental_dumps#Updates>and check the current discussion<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/xmldatadumps-l/2013-July/000834.html>on the mailing list. Additionally, we hold IRC meetings on weekdays at about 4:15 pm (UTC) in #wikimedia-tech; lurkers and contributors are welcome. *Wikimedia Labs <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs>* Wikimedia Labs saw a lot of improvements in June, including the deployment of AJAX improvements for OpenStackManager to wikitech (added actions: console output; improvements: reboot), and a new interface for displaying quotas for projects in OpenStackManager. We ensured that all instances were properly running Puppet and Salt; Many instances were running puppetmaster::self and needed to have local puppet repo merges or rebases. We upgraded Salt everywhere and re-issued keys to fix a vulnerability in Salt. The team also worked on stabilizing the NFS server. We've encountered a kernel bug with NFS; we have changed the scheduler from cfq to deadline and have decreased the read and write sizes of clients to 8k. Progress has been made towards making the Labs database replicas available to the Labs at large (as opposed to only the Tool Labs project). Last, much work has been done towards user request fulfillment in Tool Labs, including work towards WSGI support. Features Engineering<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Features_engineering> Editor retention: Editing tools *VisualEditor <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor>* In June, the VisualEditor team completed the major new features that we prioritised over the past few months, in preparation for making VisualEditor available to most Wikipedia users in July. We have built an editor that is capable of letting users edit the majority of content without needing to use wikitext — text support, as well as adding and editing inclusions of references, templates, categories and media items. The deployed alpha of VisualEditor was updated four times as part of the transition to weekly deployments (1.22-wmf6<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf6#VisualEditor>, 1.22-wmf7 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf7#VisualEditor>, 1.22-wmf8 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf8#VisualEditor>and 1.22-wmf9 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf9#VisualEditor>), with several mid-deployment releases as the code was developed to patch urgent issues. Part of this involved running an A/B test for new user accounts on the English Wikipedia, with half of the users getting opt-in to VisualEditor ahead of the wider release. Generally, there were a number of user interface improvements, and fixing a number of bugs uncovered by the community. *Parsoid <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid>* Early this month, we deployed Parsoid to the new cluster and started to track all edits and template / image updates from all Wikipedia sites, which is close to the full load we'll see when VE is deployed to all of them. Our earlier optimization work paid off as the Parsoid cluster and the associated Varnish caches are handling the load very well. The extra load we put on the API cluster is low enough to not cause a problem. As expected, the VisualEditor deployment to the English Wikipedia hardly showed up in the load graphs. Despite being very short-staffed this month (only two full-time developers), the absence of performance issues left us enough time for a lot more polishing before the VisualEditor release on July 1. As a result, the release went very well with clean diffs on almost all pages. While more work is left to do, it is now clear that we have fundamentally achieved our goal of a clean translation between WikiText and HTML + RDFa. This does not only enable visual HTML editing, but also makes Wikipedia's content easily accessible in a standardized format. It also opens up new opportunities for MediaWiki's core architecture, which we'll pursue this fiscal year. Editor engagement features *Notifications <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo_%28Notifications%29>* In June, we released more features and bug fixes for Notifications on the English Wikipedia and mediawiki.org. Ryan Kaldari added a confirmation button for the 'Thanks feature<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notifications/Thanks>', and updated notification fly-outs to show diff links<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48183>for talk page and interactive notifications, based on a design by Vibha Bamba. Benny Situ continued development of HTML Email notifications<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Feature_requirements#HTML_single_email_…>and deployed a variety of feature updates. Erik Bernhardson developed a special 'Suppressed' content feature, while Matthias Mullie developed a range of new metrics dashboards<http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/dashboards/enwiki-features>. Dario Taraborelli and Aaron Halfaker ran a week-long A/B test of new user activity<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Notifications/Experiment_1/Results>; results show that new users who received Echo notifications made more edits than those who did not, but their edits were reverted slightly more often. Fabrice Florin led the planning process for Notifications, as outlined in the 2013 roadmap<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editor_Engagement/2013_strategy_planning_%28…>, and hosted a day-long roundtable discussion<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Roundtables/Roundtable_1>to improve editor engagement features in collaboration with Wikipedia users (see Echo demo and Q&A video on YouTube<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyJANeVnbsQ>). Later this summer, we plan to start deploying Notifications on more wiki projects, starting with Meta and the French Wikipedia. To learn more, visit the project portal <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notifications>, read the FAQ page<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notifications/FAQ>and join the discussion on the talk page <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Notifications>. *Article feedback <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback>* In June, we deployed final features and bug fixes for the Article Feedback Tool <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5> (AFT5) on the English <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ArticleFeedbackv5>, French <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fr:Sp%C3%A9cial:ArticleFeedbackv5>and German<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:Spezial:Artikelr%C3%BCckmeldungen_v5>Wikipedias. Matthias Mullie released an opt-in feature<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5/Feature_Requireme…>to enable or disable feedback on a page, based on designs by Pau Giner and specifications by Fabrice Florin. In collaboration with Dario Taraborelli, Matthias also developed an updated set of metrics dashboards<http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/dashboards/enwiki-features#article_feedback…>showing how the new moderation tools are being used: for example, about half of moderated feedback is marked as 'no action needed', while about a tenth is marked as 'useful' (these results are generally consistent across different languages<https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aq_75_5y5sKWdD…>). The team also supported a wider deployment of AFT5 on over 40,000 articles on the French Wikipedia, as well as a poll by the German community, which elected not to adopt the tool. Now that feature development has ended for this project, we plan to make AFT5 available to other wiki projects in coming weeks, as outlined in the release plan<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5/Release_Plan_2013>. For tips on how to use Article feedback, visit the testing page<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5/Testing>, and let us know what you think on this talk page<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_5> . Editor engagement experiments *Editor engagement experiment<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editor_engagement_experiments> * In June, the Editor Engagement Experiments (E3) team continued work on its experiments related to onboarding new Wikipedians<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Onboarding_new_Wikipedians>, and launched several new extensions to Wikimedia projects. First, the new Campaigns extension<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Campaigns>was added to all wikis. This analytics tool helps identify internal or external sources of new registrations, by adding a "campaign" name to the signup page URL. This month, E3 began running campaigns to learn about how many anonymous editors sign up on the top 10 Wikipedias, as well as how many sign up via the invitation to "Join Wikipedia" on the login page (see the list of active campaigns<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Account_creation_campaigns>and analysis). Another piece of analytics infrastructure by the team is the new CoreEvents extension<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CoreEvents>, which houses logging of MediaWiki core activity, like preference updates and page saves across all projects. For the Getting Started<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GettingStarted>project, the team conducted usability testing (see results and documentation<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Onboarding_new_Wikipedians/user_testing#Test…>) of new designs. E3 also refactored and refined the guided tours<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Guided_tours>extension in June, including adding usability enhancements like new interface animations, support for community tours, and bug fixing. The team also planned and began work on an experiment to deliver guided tours<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Guided_tours>to all first-time editors. The team also assisted with A/B testing and research for VisualEditor<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor>before its July 1 launch date, assisting with experimental design, EventLogging instrumentation, and other work. After the VisualEditor launch, E3 started a week-long micro-survey of newly-registered users<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Gender_micro-survey>on English Wikipedia, to give us a first systematic look at the gender diversity of those creating accounts. Support *2012 Wikimedia fundraiser<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/2012_Wikimedia_fundraiser> * The initial work on the Adyen payments gateway was finally completed and deployed to production, though we have not yet used the gateway in a campaign. Plans for a mobile fundraising campaign and workflow continued to move forward: We expect to do the first mobile-targeted campaign in mid to late July. Some last-minute tweaking was done to the payments cluster in preparation for the resumption of continuous fundraising on July 1, coinciding with the start of the fiscal year. Payments listener (thulium) deploy was completed, db1013 was moved into the firewalled fundraising cluster and rebuilt as a fundraising QA server, and work continued on the new CiviCRM server (barium). Fundraising backups were overhauled. Mobile <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Mobile_engineering> *Wikipedia Zero <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero>* This month, the team launched Wikipedia Zero with Dialog in Sri Lanka, patched logic and user interface bugs, enhanced the configuration editor, expanded logging and debugging for identification of anomalous access, further decoupled ZeroRatedMobileAccess from MobileFrontend, and proposed ESI- and JavaScript-based software re-architecture. *Mobile Web Photo Upload<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_design/Uploads> * This month, we focused on improving education around uploads, including an interactive Commons tutorial and first-time user copyright and scope check. We also released our "Nearby" feature to production, allowing users to find articles near them that are in need of images, take photos and upload them via mobile. *Mobile Nav<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_design/Wikipedia_navigation> * In beta, we started working on an update to our site and article navigation, including design tweaks to the left navigation menu and a new in-article contributory navigation that combines article actions (edit, upload, and watch) with a talk page link. We also experimented with Echo integration and successfully got Notifications up and running on the English Wikipedia mobile site. We hope to push all of this work to production next month. Platform Engineering<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Platform_Engineering> MediaWiki Core *MediaWiki 1.22 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/Roadmap>* In June, the Platform Engineering group switched to a weekly deployment cycle <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/One_week> for MediaWiki to the Wikimedia Foundation servers. This means that we have almost halved our previous cycle of 2 weeks. As such, we are progressing through wmfXX versions of MediaWiki at a faster rate now. In June, MediaWiki versions 1.22-wmf6 through wmf9 were branched and deployed. *Git conversion <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Conversion>* Chad Horohoe and Christian Aistleitner upgraded our Gerrit instance from a pre-release version of 2.6 to a pre-release version of 2.7 on the last week of June. They've additionally published a new version of the Bugzilla/Gerrit integration plugin. Details about new functionality can be found in the Gerrit 2.7 draft release notes<http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes-2.…> . *Multimedia <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia>* In June, we started expanding our multimedia team: Fabrice Florin joined as product manager, and Brian Wolff began a summer contract as software engineer. We started work on improving the display of images in galleries and are now planning our next development steps in consultation with community members. Some of the first features under consideration include file curation and feedback tools, as well as media viewers, new video formats and other platform improvements, to be prioritized based on user feedback and technical feasibility. We are also recruiting for two more positions: a multimedia systems engineer<http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=oj40Wfw3&c=qSa9VfwQ>and a senior software engineer<http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=ouLnWfwi&c=qSa9VfwQ>. Please spread the word about this unique opportunity to create a richer multimedia experience for Wikipedia and MediaWiki sites! *Admin tools development<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Admin_tools_development> * In June, the team worked on making the last changes to enable global AbuseFilter rules, and on the global account renaming tool. Some additional work was done on Single User Login finalisation<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Admin_tools_development/SUL_Audit>, which will mean that all user accounts will be global across all of Wikimedia's public wikis, and so allowing for cross-wiki notifications and better tools for editors. *Search <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search>* Work has pretty much shifted from supporting MWSearch/lsearchd to investigating and implementing Solr. Nik Everett and Chad Horohoe have begun writing an extension<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CirrusSearch>to implement Solr searching for MediaWiki, and we've gotten a lot of the initial basic functionality completed. Peter Youngmeister and Andrew Bogott will be handling the operations tasks for the new setup. Initial operations tasks will involve packaging Solr 4 and working with Chad to puppetize the whole design. Additionally, we're going to do some investigation into ElasticSearch, as it's been suggested as an alternative to Solr. *Auth systems <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Auth_systems>* In June, the team worked with the Wikimedia Foundation's user experience team to improve SUL2. The improvements were pushed to test wikis on July 1, and will be rolled out to other wikis in July. Implementation of OAuth is well underway, and planned for roll-out in July as well. *HipHop deployment <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/HipHop_deployment>* A Labs instance of MediaWiki running on HipHop is now available at http://hhvm.wmflabs.org. *Security auditing and response<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Security_auditing_and_response> * The team continued to respond to reported security issues, and gave security-oriented tech talks on emerging DoS techniques and using OWASP's ZAP tool for vulnerability scanning. Quality assurance *Quality Assurance <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Quality_Assurance>* This month saw a QA focus on automated browser tests. Besides creating new tests and new builds, and reporting issues identified by tests, we conducted a training session in San Francisco to create automated tests for the Wikilove feature. We continue to support all WMF software development projects, with the VisualEditor being a particular focus in June. *Beta cluster <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_cluster>* Max Semenik wrote a script to synchronize CSS from production on beta. Steinsplitter and Antoine Musso fixed the AbuseFilter configuration to have a global list of filters on the labswiki<http://deployment.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter>. Filters should be configured there and will be used by all the wikis. The PHP fatal errors catched by the wmerrors extension are now sent to the beta udp2log instance. That will largely improve our troubleshooting process. *Continuous integration<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Continuous_integration> * Timo Tijhof and Antoine Musso triaged continuous integration bugs. Antoine has setup a Jenkins slave and migrated most jobs on it. It will be very easy to add new servers. *Browser testing<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Quality_Assurance/Browser_testing> * This month, the QA team added new browser tests for UniveralLanguageSelector and for Mobile (contributed by the Language engineering and Mobile engineering teams, respectively), as well as browser test contributions from volunteers. We created new builds in Jenkins to run browser tests against IE10. We created tests for VisualEditor, including some with our intern with the Outreach Program for Women. Analytics *Analytics infrastructure<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Infrastructure> * We made significant progress with our preparations for replacing udp2log with Kafka in our logging infrastructure. The C library librdkafka<https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka/tree/0.8-wip>has now support for the 0.8 protocol, there is a first version of varnishkafka <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/70928/> ready that will replace varnishncsa, the Apache Kafka project released their first beta of Kafka 0.8, and we have a Debianized<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/68026/>and Pupppetized <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/50385/> version. We keep on adding new metrics <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/71089/> and alerts to monitor all the different parts of the webrequest dataflows into Kraken. We expect to keep making improvements in the coming months, until we have a fully reliable data pipeline into Kraken. We also continued our efforts of moving Kraken out of beta: we puppetized Zookeeper<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/66882/>, JMXtrans <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/70915/>, and the Hadoop client nodes for Hive, Pig and Sqoop <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/69521/>. We started reinstalling the Hadoop Datanode workers with a fully puppetized Hadoop installation; so far, we have replaced 3 nodes, and we'll replace the other seven in the coming weeks. Last, we enabled Jenkins continuous integration for the Grantmaking & Evaluation dashboards. *Analytics Visualization, Reporting & Applications<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Visualization,_Reporting_%26_Appli…> * This month, we completed the end-user documentation<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/UserMetrics/Guide>of UserMetrics (v1). We rebranded UserMetrics as Wikimetrics, and we will slowly start to use that as the new name when referring to UserMetrics v2 or UserMetrics replatforming. We focused on laying out the foundation of Wikimetrics: a new database design, a new job queue design and lots of unit tests. In addition, we started working on porting over some of the features of UserMetrics v1 (like the 'namespace edits' metric and UI components), we added user roles (so users can only see their own metrics) and authentication using OAuth. Last, we fixed some minor issues in UserMetrics v1, among which handling of user names with comma, single and double quotes. *Data Releases <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Data_Releases>* We delivered many following analyses in June, including one of Arabic cohort using UMAPI v1. Erik Zachte provided an analysis of Commons uploaders, and we provided the Wikipedia Zero team with a number of datasets to help them in tracking adoption of the Wikipedia Zero project across the globe. We supported the VisualEditor and Editor Engagement teams with experimental design, data modeling and data analysis for two controlled experiments: a test of the impact of impact of notifications<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/wiki/Research:Notifications/Experiment_1>and a first test <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Visual_Editor> of the impact of Visual Editor on new contributors. The tests were carried out in June and the reports are being updated with the results of the analysis. We started using the EE-dashboard instance on Labs to host dashboards related to editor engagement projects, that were previously hosted on the Toolserver (see the metrics<http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/dashboards/enwiki-metrics>and features <http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/dashboards/enwiki-features>dashboards for the English Wikipedia). Last, we worked with the Features engineering team to expand MediaWiki's instrumentation and collect data on cluster-wide user preference changes<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:User_preferences>and edit-related events <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schema:Edit> to support VisualEditor analysis. Engineering community team *Bug management <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management>* Andre Klapper <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:AKlapper_%28WMF%29>published the Bugzilla administrator policy<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:AKlapper_%28WMF%29/BugzillaAdminPolicy>and documented for which specific tasks<http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/2013/05/28/understanding-bugzilla-groups-an…>Bugzilla admin rights are actually needed (which might be also helpful for other projects using Bugzilla). He started publishing weekly "Bugzilla tips and best practices"<http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/category/computer/bugzilla/>blog posts and reproposed introducing a "PATCH AVAILABLE" status<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-June/069805.html>in Bugzilla (as requested by several developers at the Amsterdam Hackathon) whilst work is ongoing to fulfill prerequisites. On the code side of Bugzilla, a new Bugzilla frontpage <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org> went live, providing useful links. Furthermore, the misleading term "login" was replaced by "email address" <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24992>, it is now possible to set the "Assigned" status directly<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49461>when filing a new bug report, and smaller issues with the "Weekly Bugzilla Report" email sent to the wikitech-l mailing list were fixed. In Bugzilla's taxonomy, open tickets in the dormant "Wiktionary tools" product were retriaged and the product closed for new bug entry, and Security-related components in Bugzilla were reorganized after a meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation's security engineer. *Mentorship programs <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs>* The 20 Google Summer of Code<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013>and the 1 Outreach Program for Women<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_6>interns have completed the bonding period<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013#Community_bonding_period>(with 3 exceptions, 2 of them justified) and they are now working on their projects. One OPW accepted candidate declined her participation due to a job offer. Monthly status updates are available for these projects: - Improving support for book structures<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Book_management/Progress#June> - Mobilize Wikidata<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Pragunbhutani/GSoC_2013_Updates#Monthly…> - jQuery.IME extensions for Firefox and Chrome<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Prageck/GSoC_2013_Application#Monthly_R…> - Browser Test Automation for Visual Editor<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rachel99/proposal1#June> - Incremental dumps<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Svick/Incremental_dumps#June_report> - Refactoring of Extension ProofreadPage<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Proofread_Page/GSoC#June> - Language Coverage Matrix Dashboard<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Harsh4101991/GSoC_2013#June> - Section Handling in Semantic Forms<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Himeshi/GSoC_2013/Project> - VisualEditor Mathematical Editor Plugin<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jiabao_wu/GSoC_2013_Project_Work#June> - ZIM Incremental Updates for Kiwix<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Kiran_mathew_1993/ZIM_incremental_updat…> - VisualEditor RTL support<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mooeypoo/GSOC_2013_Proposal:_RTL_Suppor…> - UploadWizard: book upload customization<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rasel160/GSoC2013/Status> - Android app for MediaWii translation<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Orsagi/GSoC_2013_proposal#Monthly_Repor…> - Pronunciation recording tool<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rahul21/Gsoc2013/Project_Updates> - MediaWiki Moddle extension<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Clancer/GSoC_2013_Project> - VisualEditor plugin for source code<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Beanixster#June> We also met with SocialCoding4Good <http://www.socialcoding4good.org/>, who are relaunching their activities, and we refreshed the Wikimedia page<http://www.socialcoding4good.org/organization/wikimedia>. We expect this to become a regular channel for new technical contributors working in corporations with social/training programs. *Technical communications<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_communications> * In June, work on this topic mostly focused on perennial activities like Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News> and ongoing communications support to engineering staff, as Guillaume Paumier<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Guillom>was lent to the VisualEditor deployment effort, working on communications, documentation and liaising with the French Wikipedia. *Volunteer coordination and outreach<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Volunteer_coordination_and_outreach> * The decision of focusing on fewer activities better executed and based on demand seems to be working out, although it's too soon to confirm the trend. Browser test automation is the number one priority to recruit new contributors, and any help to succeed here is welcome. We created the QA mailing list <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/qa> as an umbrella to host people and discussions focusing on software quality assurance in all its aspects. We have more than 40 subscribers and an initial flow of activity. We had a successful first Browser Test Automation Workshop <http://www.meetup.com/wikimedia-tech/events/124334432/>, with 40 participants in San Francisco and a few more online; we will iterate on this model. We have also helped organizing a Tech Talk on Attack vectors & MediaWiki and OWASP ZAP<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/2013-06-27-midday>, and the upcoming Solr-based Search<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/2013-07-03>. The project to get automated community metrics<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics>based on vizGrimoire <http://vizgrimoire.bitergia.org/> and provided by Bitergia<http://bitergia.com/>has been approved, and a first prototype can be seen at http://korma.wmflabs.org. The project starts effectively on July 1 and includes a one-year period of maintenance. We agreed with the Analytics<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics>team that they will assume the responsibility of this area during this period. Kiwix <http://www.kiwix.org> *The Kiwix project is funded and executed by Wikimedia CH<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CH> .* Development of a new MediaWiki HTML dumper in nodeJS<http://sourceforge.net/p/kiwix/other/ci/master/tree/mwhtmldumper/>has started. This tool exports Wikipedia articles in static files based on the Parsoid <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid> output. This solution looks really promising, and new JavaScript developers are welcome. Wikidata<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata> *The Wikidata project is funded and executed by Wikimedia Deutschland<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/en> .* June in Wikidata was all about the sister projects. The development team published proposals for how Wikidata can support Commons<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikidata_for_media_info>and Wiktionary<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-June/002380.html>. Additionally, they worked on the ability of Wikidata to store language links to Wikivoyage in addition to Wikipedia; as a result, Wikivoyage will soon also be able to manage their language links via Wikidata. Another important step was the deployment of the geocoordinate datatype. This makes it possible, for example, to indicate the location of a city. Geocoordinates that are already in Wikidata can be seen on this map<https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/172199972/map.png>(huge version <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/172199972/map_huge.png>, updated daily). In a blog entry<http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/06/04/on-truths-and-lies/>, Denny Vrandečić explained his understanding of the relation of Wikidata and the truth. In other news, further development of Wikidata has been supported through a large donation by the search engine company Yandex<http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/06/05/grosspende-fur-wikidata/> . Future The engineering management team continues to update the * Deployments <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments>* page weekly, providing up-to-date information on the upcoming deployments to Wikimedia sites, as well as the *engineering roadmap<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Roadmap> *, listing ongoing and future Wikimedia engineering efforts. *Annual goals*<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2013-14_Goals>for the 2013–2014 fiscal year are currently being drafted. -- This report was reviewed and proofread using VisualEditor. -- Guillaume Paumier Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation https://donate.wikimedia.org

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