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Amical Viquipèdia Report, February 2012
by David Parreño Mont 25 Mar '12

25 Mar '12

Dear fellows, The following message is just to keep you informed about the activities developed during the last month by Amical Viquipèdia<http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/P%C3%A0gina_principal> . Sorry for delay. Kind regards, David Parreño Mont User:Davidpar (As a member of Amical Viquipèdia) --- *Source:* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Associaci%C3%B3_Amical_Viquip%C3%A8dia/Febru… Education <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Converses_2012_al_Museu_del_Ferrocarril…> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Converses_2012_al_Museu_del_Ferrocarril…> Presentation at the Catalonia Railway Museum <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Converses_2012_al_Museu_del_Ferrocarril…> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Converses_2012_al_Museu_del_Ferrocarril…> One of the work groups in a train car at the Railway Museum discussing ideas for introducing Wikipedia at the museum. - The registration period begins for Viquiescoles (Wikischools)[1], which aims to bring the Wikipedia to the classroom such that students in compulsory secondary education (ESO), vocational training programs (Cicles Formatius) and post-compulsory secondary education (Batxillerat, i.e. A-levels / senior high) are encouraged to write articles on a variety of topics through a contest and awards for the best contributions. Some 250 students from a total of 15 schools will participate. - February 10. Creation of the WikiEducació (WikiEducation)[2] mailing list on Wikis in the educational sphere. The list is open to anyone interested. Administrators: Dvdgmz & Paucabot - February 25. Introductory course to the Wikipedia and its educational potential at the Garraf Center for Pedagogical Resources (Centre de Recursos Pedagògics del Garraf), with a total of 125 attendees. The presentation went over the possibilities and advantages this tool offers for the schoolroom, i.e. teaching democratic values and a critical spirit, making students active knowledge builders, lending them motivation or serving as a tool to work on basic skills, among others. See Note (in Catalan)[3]. Barcelona & Kippelboy - February 29. "Local Museums + Wikipedia = Educational Success"[4]: meeting of Wikipedians, professors and education professionals in the museum sector at the Catalonia Railway Museum[5]. The aim of the meeting was to explore ways of collaborating. Two presentations were made in the morning on different examples of successful GLAM-WIKI projects and the Wikipedia's educational potential. In the afternoon, groups met in the train cars on exhibit at the museum to propose activities involving the Wikipedia that would be suitable for their museums. See Note[3], the photo gallery[6] and the museum's opinion of the event[7]. Barcelona and Kippelboy GLAM-WIKI - February 3. Meeting with the Joan Miró Foundation[8] to discuss opportunities for collaboration in 2012 and prepare the Mobile World Congress and QRpedia campaigns. Kippelboy - February 6. Meeting with the CCCB[9] to discuss the I+C+i symposium on the influence of the Wikipedia and open knowledge on society, to be held in April 2012. Kippelboy - February 9–13. Attended GLAMCAMP Washington DC, explained the Catalan situation and provided a Catalan point of view at GLAM-WIKI and Wiki Loves Monuments 2011. See Presentation[10] and photo gallery[11]. Kippelboy - February 15. Meeting with the Girona Cinema Museum[12] to begin collaboration on contents through implementation of QRpedia[13]. Arnaugir - February 16. Meeting with the National Art Museum of Catalonia[14] to discuss possible GLAM-WIKI collaboration. Kippelboy - February 23. Meeting with Mozilla to seek synergies for GLAM-WIKI collaboration and Hackasaurus[15]. Kippelboy - February 23. Presentation of QRpedia at the Joan Miró Foundation at the Social Media Point[16] congress in Barcelona. See Note[17]. Kippelboy - February 27-29. Mobile World Congress. Backstage pass to the Joan Miró Foundation and meeting with Wikipedia Mobile and QRpedia teams. Kippelboy Editing Workshops <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lluis_tgn_al_taller_de_Viquip%C3%A8dia.…> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lluis_tgn_al_taller_de_Viquip%C3%A8dia.…> Wikipedian Lluis_tgn holding up a "Welcome to Wikipedia" leaflet. - February 17. Workshop at the Antoni de Martí i Franquès Secondary School[18] in Tarragona. See Note[19]. Lluis_tgn - February 6. Editing course for students doing internships with the Visual Artists Association of Catalonia (Associació d'Artistes Visuals de Catalunya - AAVC)[20]. Pilot collaboration project between the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona), universities, the AAVC and the Wikipedia. Kippelboy Institutional Relations - February 1. Meeting with the General Directorate for Linguistic Policy of the Catalan Government[21]. - February 8. Visit to the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco. Report on www.digital-commons.net Lilaroja - February 8. Meeting with the Department of Social and Family Affairs of the Catalan Government to evaluate the outcome of the workshops for the elderly carried out in 2011 and set out the program for 2012. Gomà i Pallares - February 9. Meeting of the Catalan Alliance for Open Knowledge and Open-Source Software (Aliança Catalana pel Coneixement i el Programari Lliures), where an initial joint activity is planned regarding Open Data using the agreement established between Amical Viquipèdia and the Catalan Government. Attending the meeting were Softcatalà, Mozilla, Caliu and Amical. - February 14. Meeting with Angelique Pinon, head of projects for the Pyrenees-Mediterranean Euroregion[22], to present a euroregional project going beyond Wiki Loves Monuments. Gomà & Àngels - February 15. Meeting with the Baix Llobregat County Center for Studies (Centre d'Estudis Comarcals del Baix Llobregat)[23]. Pallares - February 15. Meeting with the Culture Commission of the Cardona[24] City Council to develop a project involving Viquiescoles (Wikischools)[1], Wiki Loves Monuments and QRpedia. Beusson Other - Progress made on the Wiki4HE[25] project. We now have a rough draft of the survey for professors at the Open University of Catalonia (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya - UOC) and the Technical University of Catalonia (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) as well as the interview script. In addition, a form has been created to document experiences in Wikipedia application and the profile defined for the research assistant to be contracted for the project. The call for candidates for the position will soon be announced. The position is a part-time, remunerated job as research assistant at the UOC for a duration of 18 months or so. Gomà - The Catalan Cinema WikiWeek (Viquisetmana del Cinema Català)[26] was held before the 4th Gaudí Cinema Awards[27]. All in all, some thirty-odd articles on filmmakers and nominated films were created or improved. Davidpar, Pallares - Amical Viquipèdia, together with the Wikipedia in Catalan, provides support for and participates in disseminating the Catalanitzador per a Windows[28] tool by Softcatalà, which helps users who so wish to get their computers and programs to be in Catalan. Davidpar - Wikitexts in Catalan reaches 10,000 revised pages and is now in 9th position worldwide. See Press Release[29] - The technology blogs, Paella de Bits.cat[30] and Betes i Clicks[31] publish articles about the presence of QRpedia at the Mobile World Congress. Davidpar - The Facebook page[32] is updated to the new "timeline" design. [1] http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/Apunt:Introducing_Wikischools_2012_%28Viqui… [2] http://llistes.softcatala.org/mailman/listinfo/wikieducacio [3] http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/Apunt:Vilanova_i_la_Geltr%C3%BA_s%27est%C3%… [4] http://converses2012.eventbrite.com/ [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia_Railway_Museum [6] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_presentation_at_Museu_… [7] http://museuvictorbalaguer.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/wikipedia-museus-locals… [8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundaci%C3%B3_Joan_Mir%C3%B3 [9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_de_Cultura_Contempor%C3%A0nia_de_Barcel… [10] http://www.slideshare.net/Kippelboy/glamcamp-dc-glamwiki-outreach-basics [11] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:GLAMcamp_DC [12] http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museu_del_Cinema-Col%C2%B7lecci%C3%B3_Tom%C3%A… [13] http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRpedia [14] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museu_Nacional_d%27Art_de_Catalunya [15] http://hackasaurus.org/ca/ [16] http://www.socialmediapoint.es/ [17] http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/Apunt:El_projecte_QRpedia,_en_%C3%BAs_a_la_… [18] http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_Antoni_de_Mart%C3%AD_i_Franqu%C3%A8s [19] http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/Apunt:Taller_de_Viquip%C3%A8dia_a_l%27Insti… [20] http://www.aavc.net/aavc_net/html/index.php [21] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalitat_de_Catalunya [22] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrenees-Mediterranean_Euroregion [23] http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_d%27Estudis_Comarcals_del_Baix_Llobregat [24] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardona,_Spain [25] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wiki4HE [26] http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquiprojecte:Cinema [27] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th_Gaud%C3%AD_Awards [28] http://catalanitzador.softcatala.org/ [29] http://ca.wikisource.org/wiki/Viquitexts:Notes_de_premsa/10.000 [30] http://www.paelladebits.cat/el-projecte-qrpedia-present-al-mwc/ [31] http://betesiclicks.com/2012/02/25/aquesta-setmana-hem-llegit-sobre-bebes-a… [32] https://www.facebook.com/wikimediacat

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Translations of the "Wikimedia Highlights" for February 2012 available in Nederlands (Dutch), 日本語 (Japanese), Italiano (Italian), Français (French), Deutsch (German)
by Tilman Bayer 22 Mar '12

22 Mar '12

The following translation are now available for the February 2012 "Wikimedia Highlights", which combine some of the most relevant information from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for February 2012 with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement. Help is welcome in spreading the translated versions among the project communities for these languages, where this has not already been done. Many thanks to all translators! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_February_2012/de Höhepunkte aus dem Bericht der Wikimedia Foundation und dem technischen Bericht von Wikimedia für Februar 2012, mit einer Auswahl anderer wichtiger Ereignisse aus der Wikimedia-Bewegung https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_February_2012/fr Éclairages sur le rapport de la Wikimedia Foundation et le rapport d’ingénierie Wikimedia pour février 2012, avec une sélection d’autres événements importants du mouvement Wikimedia. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_February_2012/it Punti salienti dal rapporto della Wikimedia Foundation e dal rapporto ingegneristico Wikimedia di febbraio 2012, con una selezione di altre importanti iniziative dagli eventi di Wikimedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_February_2012/ja 2012年2月のウィキメディア財団報告書及びウィキメディア技報の抄録ほかウィキメディア運動の重要行事について https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_February_2012/nl Hoogtepunten uit de Wikimedia Foundationrapportage en de Wikimedia technische rapportage voor februari 2012, aangevuld met een selectie van andere belangrijke gebeurtenissen binnen de Wikimediabeweging. Suggestions for the movement news section in the upcoming Highlights issue are welcome until April 4, see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights . -- Tilman Bayer Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB

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Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!
by Sue Gardner 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

Hey folks, I sent the note below to the staff and board a few hours ago: sharing now with everyone :-) Thanks, Sue ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sue Gardner <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org> Date: 20 March 2012 19:17 Subject: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team! To: Staff All <wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hey folks, A couple of changes at the Wikimedia Foundation that I want you to know about. Everybody knows that reversing stagnating/declining participation in Wikimedia’s projects is our top priority. To make better progress, as of April 16 we're going to bring together resources from the Community and Engineering/Product departments into a new cross-functional team tasked specifically with conducting small, rapid experiments designed to improve editor retention. We already know some of the fixes that will solve the editor retention problem, and we're working to put them in place. The purpose of *this* team will be to identify the fixes we don't yet know about. Separately, Zack has to move back to Missouri for family reasons. When Zack told me about that, we agreed that it’s an extra impetus for this new team to be launched now. This means that going forward, Zack’s department will focus solely on fundraising, and some members of his department will move permanently into other groups. There have been lots of conversations about this over the past few weeks, which have included everyone affected. So here’s what we’re going to do: FUNDRAISING: Zack will manage fundraising remotely. He’ll continue to be part of the C-level team, but he’ll do it from Missouri. He’ll travel back to San Francisco frequently, and he’ll probably be here throughout the fundraising campaign every year and spend other longer chunks of time here when needed. We don’t yet know what the title of Zack’s department will be, or what Zack’s title will be. Neither Zack nor I care very much about titles, and we are in the happy position of not particularly needing to impress anyone -- so, we do not need fancy euphemistic titles. It would be nice to have titles that are clear and direct and understandable, and also to have ones that reflect the creative/storytelling/community aspect of the fundraising team’s work. So, we are leaving this piece open for the time being, and we’ll just call the department “fundraising” until and unless we think of something better. Folks with suggestions should talk with Zack. :-) EDITOR ENGAGEMENT EXPERIMENTATION: Reflecting the importance of editor engagement in the Wikimedia Foundation’s strategy, we will have the following teams directly focused on it: **the Visual Editor group (led by Trevor as lead developer, and by the soon-to-be hired Technical Product Analyst) which is making the visual editor; **the Editor Engagement group (led by Fabrice Florin as Product Manager and Ian Baker as ScrumMaster) which is working on medium-term projects improving Wikimedia’s handling of reputation/identity and of notifications; **the new team focused on rapid experimentation, led by Karyn as Product Manager and a to-be-hired engineering lead/ScrumMaster, tentatively titled something like Research & Experimentation, Editor Engagement Innovation Lab or the Rapid Experimentation Team. Our thinking is basically this: we know the Visual Editor will help with editor retention. We know that improving notifications, messaging, identity and other core features of MediaWiki will help with editor retention. But there are a handful of other smaller projects --maybe just simple tweaks, maybe ideas that should become fully-fledged new features-- that will also help. The purpose of the new experimentation team will be to conduct many quick experiments, which will identify a handful of small changes that can either be accomplished by the team itself, or be queued up as part of our overall product backlog. Staff moving from the Community Dept to Engineering and Product Development (AKA Tech) are: Karyn Gladstone, Maryana Pinchuk, Steven Walling, and Ryan Faulkner. They will form a team tasked with rapid experimentation to find policy, product or other changes that will increase editor retention. Karyn will head product thinking and maintain the experimentation backlog, reporting to Howie. Alolita will hire and manage the engineers for this team, and will help interface them with the rest of the engineering organization. The important thing to know about this team is that they are being tasked with one of our absolutely most important objectives: to figure out new ways to increase editor engagement and retention. Karyn will report to Howie. Maryana, Ryan Faulker, and Steven will report to Karyn. The group has never had engineering resources assigned to it, and it’s clear they need engineering resources. Therefore, Alolita will work in close partnership with Karyn to recruit an engineering team --mostly developers but also UI/design people-- to support the new group. If you have ideas for people we should be recruiting for this, please tell Alolita or Karyn! Dario Taraborelli will join the editor engagement experimentation team as senior researcher and help design the roadmap and the individual experiments the team will run. We don’t yet have a firm title for the experimentation team, nor do we know yet what Karyn’s title will be, or whether other people’s titles (like, Steven or Maryana’s) will change. The team will figure this out, and to that end they’re kicking it around with other staff and with some folks in the community. FELLOWSHIPS: As most of you know, Siko runs our fellowship program. The fellowship program has lots of similarities to Asaf’s work on the grants program -- they are both, at heart, about giving funding and other support to members of the Wikimedia community to enable people to do useful work. The community-building projects that fellows often take on line up with some of Global Dev’s work, particularly as the fellowship program expands its global reach. So as we’ve been talking through Zack’s move and the implications for the Community department, it makes sense to shift Siko to Global Development. Siko’s title remains Head of Community Fellowships for now and she will report to Barry. Fellows and fellowship projects are continuing as planned, and you are still highly encouraged to keep an eye peeled for community members with good fellowship ideas. :) EDITOR RETENTION OVERALL: Finally, I want to talk for a minute about editor retention overall. As you know, we started the year with two major goals: the increase the number of mobile pageviews to two billion, and to push up the number of active editors to 95K. We’re doing fine on mobile reach (yay!) but we are completely failing to move the needle on the number of active Wikimedia editors. That doesn’t reflect poorly on the people who work on editor retention. It’s a complex problem that took a decade to develop, and the team doesn’t control all the variables affecting it. It makes sense that it will take time to fix. But it does mean that we need to increase the resources focused on it, so we can get more done faster. That’s what we’re doing here. We’re reorganizing to focus our existing resources more tightly, and we’ll also be adding new resources -- starting now, and continuing through the 2012-13 financial planning process. And, we’re going to move many/most of the editor-retention related people up to the 6th floor by the collab space. I really love the model Zack developed for the annual campaign -- the war room in Yongle, work visible on the walls for everyone, the buzz of people working hard towards a common purpose. I want us to have that same energy and momentum and focus for the editor retention work. Sorry for this long note, but I figure you will all be curious about this and have questions, so the goal here was to anticipate everything and get it answered up-front. This note was crafted collectively by many people :-) If questions remain, please feel free to ask them, or to talk with any of the individuals involved. And thanks to everyone who contributed to creating this plan: I very much appreciate everyone’s single-minded focus on attacking the editor retention problem, and I look forward to future success moving the needle on it. Everything I talk about in this mail will take effect April 16. Once it’s in your in-box, it’s no longer confidential, and you can feel free to talk about it publicly. I will forward it to announce-l, after I give you a couple of hours to read it yourselves. And please join me in congratulating the folks who are going to work on this important new team :-) Thanks, Sue Q What’s the impetus behind these changes? A Two things. Mainly, we want to redouble our focus on attacking the editor retention problem, and it makes sense for us therefore to consolidate our efforts into a single focused mega-team. Secondarily, Zack has decided he needs to relocate to Missouri. We had already been talking about whether consolidation made sense -- with Zack moving, that accelerated those conversations. Q What’s happening to Zack? A Zack will lead our fundraising remotely, as a C-level employee. His title and the title of his team will change to reflect that, but no final decisions have been made yet about what those titles will be. Ideally we’d like to have a title for that department, and for Zack, that reflects the storytelling aspect of their work, telling the community’s stories to the world. But in the end we may settle for just calling it Fundraising, if we don’t think of anything better. Q What’s happening to the Community Department? A We initially created a community department because it made sense to have focused resources dedicated to understanding the community and being a centre of expertise about it for the Wikimedia Foundation. At the time that was the right thing to do, because although some individual staff members had lots of community understanding, the organization as a whole did not -- which meant it made sense for us to focus our energy, for a time, on researching and documenting and analysing the community. But having a Community Department was never a perfect fit for the Wikimedia Foundation the way it is for other internet companies, because community is not a small subset or a single aspect of what we do at the Wikimedia Foundation --- all our departments have interactions with community members for multiple different purposes, and over time we have been growing specific community expertise and responsibilities in multiple departments throughout the organization. As expertise grew elsewhere, having a community department became a less-good fit for us. Basically: it made sense to have a Community Department at the time when we did it, and it makes less sense now as the organization has matured and evolved. Q Why are you integrating the Karyn/Ryan/Steven/Maryana group into Engineering and Product Development? A The goal is to create a better model for rapid experimentation/innovation, with minimal hindrance to the work of our active editors and maximal gain in new community members. That group is not necessarily a perfect fit with Engineering and Product Development, but we think that’s okay: it’s a good fit, and being in that department will enable the team to increase its impact overall, by giving it better access to UI/design and engineering resources. Q How is the new product team different from Fabrice’s team? A The new team won’t focus on critical major changes to the platform (like the Visual Editor) or critical but equally complex projects like improving the mechanisms by which editors communicate and collaborate on the projects. This team will be much more fast-paced and experimental, identifying small-scale interventions that might make an impact on editor retention and quickly iterating through them on a weekly (or even daily) basis. Unlike Fabrice’s team, which has a list of projects that are known to be important and impactful, this team will quickly cycle through a large number of ideas that have not yet been tested in order to identify what does and doesn’t work, and what can be integrated into existing product roadmaps. Q Will this new team be building new features? A No. Ideas for new features that come out of successful experiments will be handed off to Fabrice’s team or elsewhere in engineering/tech as is appropriate for the task. Q What kinds of projects will this new team be working on? A Some of our projects will be similar to the template A/B testing conducted by Steven, Maryana, and Ryan Faulkner: small tweaks to existing community-built systems like template messaging. Others will focus on more innovative ways to engage new and current editors, using notifications, task assignment, and different kinds of incentives to keep editing. All of the projects will be temporary tests, not permanent large-scale changes, and focus on measuring effects to inform further decisions. Q How can volunteers give input on this work? A Ping Steven or Maryana. Q Who will be in charge of this work? A The C-level in charge of this team is Erik Moeller. The team reports to Karyn Gladstone. Q Where will fellowships live and how do fellows fit with other teams? A The fellowships program will move to Global Development, but the structure and scope of current and planned fellowships will not change. Fellows will continue to be recruited from the community to work on their own projects, supported by Siko Bouterse, Head of the Fellowships Program. Q Where will other community projects live (e.g., summer researchers/analytics, community convenings)? A Current community department projects will be integrated into either the new team or other teams in the organization, depending on their purpose. Convenings of various kinds will be staged on an ad hoc basis by multiple groups, including this one. Q What’s happening to fundraising and storytelling? A The fundraising team, which includes storytelling, will be managed by Zack and will continue to operate as planned. Q Why is this all so confusing? The Wikimedia Foundation changes people’s titles and reporting lines all the time! A Yes, we do :-) The Wikimedia Foundation is a pretty young organization: it’s growing, and doing lots of experimentation. We learn new things all the time, and we want to be able to apply what we’re learning, which includes restructuring/reinventing ourselves. If we were a hundred-year-old organization, or if we had tens of thousands of employees, it would be hard for us to adapt and change, because there would be too many layers of people who would need to be involved, and the downstream implications of even small changes would be serious. That’s a problem for big/old organizations, because it limits their adaptability. Luckily, at this point the Wikimedia Foundation is still small enough and young enough that we can afford to be reasonably flexible. That said, we know that this kind of change can be confusing for people who aren’t involved (at a minimum, it’s one more long e-mail to read), so we appreciate everybody’s patience :-) Q How can I join this team? A We’re hiring! We’re looking for more experienced editors to help us design experiments, track results, and communicate what we’re doing. We are also looking for strong front-and back-end developers to deploy experiments. If you’re interested in working with us, please check out available positions on the Wikimedia Foundation jobs page: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings -- Sue Gardner Executive Director Wikimedia Foundation 415 839 6885 office 415 816 9967 cell Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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The Signpost -- Volume 8, Issue 12 -- 19 March 2012
by Wikipedia Signpost 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

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Wikimedia UK Communications Manager
by Richard Symonds 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

All, We’re happy to announce our fourth employee at the UK chapter – Stevie Benton. Stevie will be taking on the communications role for the charity. He has worked in non-profit communications for over eight years in a variety of disciplines, including internal communications, press, online and multimedia. He believes that education and access to information are fundamental to the development of humanity. He’ll be working from the office in Old Street, but believes in being very hands-on and is looking forward to getting out and meeting as many Wikimedians, volunteers and partners as possible. Stevie is interested in all kinds of art, literature and music, enjoys video games and is a long-suffering fan of the Philadelphia Eagles NFL team. Over the next few weeks Stevie will be working with Wikipedians to promote the Monmouthpedia Project in April and our AGM in the Science Museum in early May. He can be contacted at at stevie.benton(a)wikimedia.org.uk, or by phone on 0207 065 0993. Richard Symonds Office& Development Manager Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 207 065 0992 -- Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited, a Charitable Company Registered in England and Wales, No: 6741827. Charity No:1144513 Office: 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. Wikimedia UK is the local chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.

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Wikimedia Hungary Report - February 2012
by Bence Damokos 17 Mar '12

17 Mar '12

Dear all, Please find the February 2012 report of Wikimedia Hungary available at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Ma…. Reports covering the September-November 2011 period have also been published in Hungarian at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Ma…. We hope to use the Translate extension so that over time our Hungarian reports can be read in English and our English reports in Hungarian. In the mean time, we are happy to answer any questions. For your convenience, the February report is copied below. Best regards, Bence Damokos Wikimedia Hungary '''Wikimedia Hungary Report''' '''Vol 5 Issue 2''' '''February 2012''' ''Prepared by: Bence Damokos'' This is an update on Wikimedia Hungary's activities covering the February 2012 period. We have recently uploaded to Meta our reports for the September-November 2011 period in Hungarian, you can find them [[Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimédia_Magyarország|here]]. ==Activities == * We have awarded one small grant to buy a book to help improve articles on [[:en:Franz Liszt|Franz Liszt]]. Furthermore, we have created info pages about our programs to provide funding for community projects[1] and travel[2]. * Work has been ongoing on replenishing our stock of Wikipedia themed merchandise. Tangible results are expected by end of March, early April. * We held two smaller scale meetups for our members, at one of them Milos Rancic from Wikimedia Serbia was also present. * Furthermore, a full-day board meeting was held with the main topic being the implementation of our annual plan.[3] * Orsolya, one of our members has participated in the Open Wiki GLAM of Serbia event in Belgrade.[4] * Bence, our vice-president participated in the Paris finance summit.[5] * Bence (later joined by Ting Chen, Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation) has spent a weekend as a guest of Slovene Wikipedians as they were celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Slovene Wikipedia.[6] The anniversary has garnered substantial media attention. On the visit, Bence has discussed the idea of a Slovene Wikipedia chapter and the general process and requirements of establishing a local Wikimedia organisation. * Our office manager has participated in a conference and training about the new laws and regulations governing Hungarian civil society, and has prepared a summary of the regulatory context.[7] * Our website was restored following a crash in January[8] * We have started preparing a campaign to collect 1% income tax allocations from Hungarian donors. A specialized fundraising agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation was agreed to and (as of March 2012) signed. * Csongor Gál has joined our ranks as a communications intern until about April. == Financials == The following financial data is provided for informational purposes only. The data presented is not audited and may change slightly as all invoices come in. Amounts are in Hungarian Forints. === Expenses === [[File:Wikimedia Hungary expenses in 2012.png|right|thumb|Expenses by month of Wikimedia Hungary in 2012]] {| | align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Category''' | align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''January''' | align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''February''' | align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Total YTD''' | align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Plan 2012''' |- | postage fees|| 18 286 || 2 315 || 20 601 || 30 000 |- | server maintenance|| 34 375 || 34 375 || 68 750 || 420 000 |- | employee and employment costs|| 17 705 || 235 038 || 252 743 || 2 500 000 |- | office space|| 13 875 || 9 398 || 23 273 || 60 000 |- | telephone|| 11 553 || 5 135 || 16 688 || 100 000 |- | printer and printing costs|| 33 610 || - || 33 610 || 70 000 |- | debt to Wikimedia Austria|| 61 100 || - || 61 100 || 50 000 |- | banking fees|| 7 165 || 3 850 || 11 015 || 50 000 |- | community travel|| 4 320 || - || 4 320 || 1 725 000 |- | board travel|| - || 119 200 || 119 200 || 650 000 |- | board meeting|| - || 46 818 || 46 818 || 100 000 |- | small grants programme|| - || 3 200 || 3 200 || 100 000 |- | accountant|| 13 208 || - || 13 208 || 300 000 |- | '''Total:'''|| '''215 197''' || '''459 329''' || '''674 526''' || |} === Revenues=== [[File:Wikimedia_Hungary_income_in_2012.png|right|thumb|Revenues by month of Wikimedia Hungary in 2012]] {| | align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Category''' | align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''January''' | align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''February''' | align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Total YTD''' | align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Plan 2012''' |- | donations|| 9 500 || 113 000 || 122 500 || - |- | interest|| 39 705 || 36 406 || 76 111 || - |- | membership fees|| 19 000 || 6 000 || 25 000 || 100 000 |- | other|| - || 23 985 || 23 985 || - |- | '''Total:'''||'''68 205'''||'''179 391'''||'''247 596'''|| |} ==Links== * [1]: http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Wikim%C3%A9dia_Magyarorsz%C3%A1… * [2]: http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Wikim%C3%A9dia_Magyarorsz%C3%A1… * [3]: http://wikimedia.hu/wiki/2012-es_programterv/en * [4]: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_Wiki_GLAM_of_Serbia * [5]: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Finance_meeting_2012 * [6]: http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:10 * [7]: http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szerkeszt%C5%91:Samat_(WMM)/Civil_szervezetek_… (in Hungarian) *[8]: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Ma… * Blog posts published in February: http://huwiki.blogspot.com/2012_02_01_archive.html

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The Signpost -- Volume 8, Issue 11 -- 12 March 2012
by Wikipedia Signpost 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

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Wikimedia Nederland reports for January and February 2012
by Ziko van Dijk 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

This is the chapter report for Wikimedia Nederland for January 2012. == Cultural heritage == Together with Teylers Museum in Haarlem there is a "challenge" in which people are asked to write Wikipedia articles about subjects related to that museum. Conferences etc. On Saturday January, 21st WMNL was the guest of Teylers Museum in Haarlem. Our new years reception (nieuwjaarsborrel) was visited by ca. 120-150 people. == Press and outreach == The anti SOPA strike was a news subject in the Netherlands on and around January 18th. Many newspapers reported, and our president was on national TV for the issue. == Upcoming == February: strategy weekend board March: general assembly This is the chapter report for Wikimedia Nederland for February 2012. == Cultural heritage == User:Husky gave a short one-day course on editing in Wikipedia to volunteers in Gouda, co-organized by Goudanet and The Gouda platform for History. People made their first edits and wrote their first article on Gouda history. Around 10 people participated including people from the local library. The volunteers will continue to edit Wikipedia in the next few months. Conferences etc. == Other == The board of WMNL met in Zutphen on the 4th and 5th for a strategy weekend. The results should be presented to the members before the general assembly on March 24th, so they will have time to give feedback on the results. On the 25th the WMNL board had an afternoon scheduled on the day of a Wiki-Saturday to receive people who are interested in a board position. == Upcoming == March: general assembly http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Nederla… -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland dr. Ziko van Dijk, voorzitter http://wmnederland.nl/ -----------------------------------------------------------

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Wikimedia Foundation Report, February 2012
by Tilman Bayer 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

Hi all, please find below the WMF report for February 2012, in plain text. As always, the editable and formatted version is on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_February_2012 and the reports are posted on the Wikimedia blog, too: https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/corporate/wmf-monthly-reports/ Since a few months, we have been 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,_February_2012 Many thanks to those who translated last month's "Highlights" into Arabic, Danish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch and Vietnamese. While still focussing on WMF activities, the "Highlights" include a small selection of the most noteworthy events from the whole movement. Suggestions for the upcoming Febuary issue are welcome at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights (until April 4). As last time, the monthly Metrics & Activities meeting at the WMF office has been recorded on video. The recording should become available on Commons within a few days. Regards, Tilman -- Wikimedia Foundation Report, February 2012 * 1 Data and Trends * 2 Financials * 3 Highlights o 3.1 Legal and Community Advocacy department launched o 3.2 Teahouse project kicks off o 3.3 MediaWiki 1.19 deployed * 4 Technology o 4.1 Events o 4.2 Operations o 4.3 Features Engineering o 4.4 Mobile o 4.5 Platform Engineering * 5 Research * 6 Community o 6.1 Community Organizing Projects o 6.2 Fundraising o 6.3 Fellowship Program o 6.4 Community Relations * 7 Global Development o 7.1 Grants Program + 7.1.1 Grants Awarded and Executed o 7.2 Brazil Catalyst o 7.3 Arabic Language Initiative o 7.4 US Cultural Partnerships o 7.5 Mobile and Business Development o 7.6 Global development research o 7.7 Wikipedia Education Program o 7.8 India Programs + 7.8.1 Indic Languages + 7.8.2 India Outreach o 7.9 Communications + 7.9.1 Major announcements + 7.9.2 Major Storylines through February + 7.9.3 Other worthwhile reads + 7.9.4 Wikipedia Signpost + 7.9.5 WMF Blog posts + 7.9.6 Media Contact * 8 Human Resources o 8.1 Staff Changes o 8.2 Statistics o 8.3 Department Updates * 9 Finance and Administration * 10 Legal and Community Advocacy * 11 Visitors and Guests == Data and Trends == Global unique visitors for January: *482 million* (+5.5% compared with December; +16.5% compared with the previous year) (comScore data for all Wikimedia Foundation projects; comScore will release February data later in March) Page requests for February: *18.1 billion* (+0.5% compared with January; +16.2% 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 January 2012 (>= 5 edits/month): *88,548* (+6.7% compared with December / -3.2% compared with the previous year) (Database data, all Wikimedia Foundation projects except for Wikimedia Commons) Report Card for January 2012: http://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/RC_2012_01_detailed.html The report card is currently undergoing a redesign as a more fully-featured dashboard (integrating various statistical data and trends about WMF projects). == Financials == (Financial information is only available for January 2012 at the time of this report.) All financial information presented is for the period of July 1, 2011 - January 31, 2012. Revenue: $29.4 million Expenses: * Technology Group: $5,720,105 * Community/Fundraiser Group: $2,828,009 * Global Development Group: $2,459,774 * Governance Group: $535,925 * Finance/Legal/HR/Admin Group: $3,375,754 Total Expenses: $14,919,567 Total surplus/(loss): $14,455,334 Revenue for the month is $3.8MM vs plan of $1.3MM, approximately 178% over plan. Year-to-date is $29.4MM vs plan of $24.4MM, approximately 21% over plan. Expenses for the month is $2.1MM vs plan of $2.5MM, approximately 16% lower than plan. Year-to-date is $14.9MM vs plan of $16.7MM, approximately 11% lower than plan. Underspending MTD is due to timing of capital expenditures ($160K - budget was spread evenly over 12 months), personnel expenses ($170K), recruiting fees resulted from timing of staff hiring ($176K), cash awards and grants ($45K – budget was spread evenly over 12 months), and volunteer development ($28K) offset by higher bank fees ($42K) and higher professional services ($168K). Underspending YTD is due to timing of capital expenditures ($1.1MM - budget was spread evenly over 12 months), internet hosting ($50K), volunteer development ($169K), travel and conference expenses ($251K), personnel expenses ($754K), recruiting expenses ($300K), and IT desk equipment ($89K) offset by higher awards and grants ($217K – budget was spread evenly over 12 months), legal and accounting fees ($58K), professional services ($458K), and bank fees ($290K). Cash of $32.6 million, which is fifteen months of cash reserves at current spending levels and fourteen months of cash per the annual plan. == Highlights == === Legal and Community Advocacy department launched === We announced <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/LCA_Announceme…> the formation of the new Legal and Community Advocacy group. Community consultation is ongoing <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/Community_Advo…>, and everything is up for discussion, even the name of the new department. Help us brainstorm about how it can support the community, such as helping administrators and functionaries, and facilitating non-English participation in WMF initiatives (like policies and key projects). === Teahouse project kicks off === <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WP_teahouse_logo.png Logo of the "Teahouse"> On February 27th we launched the Teahouse <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse>, a peer support space designed specifically for new editors on the English Wikipedia. This pilot project is testing various social approaches to new editor support, to see if these methods improve our ability to retain more new editors and more female editors in particular. The project organizes a group of Wikipedians called “hosts” to reach out to new good-faith editors and invite them to a place where they can meet other new editors and experienced Wikipedians, build community relationships, find projects to participate in, and ask questions about Wikipedia. The pilot is scheduled to run with 25 trained hosts for 3 months. During this time we'll be working with the community and new editors to refine the experience and measure the project's impact. === MediaWiki 1.19 deployed === Version 1.19 of the MediaWiki software <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.19> was gradually deployed to Wikimedia sites in February. It brings many new features and bug fixes. Some are back-end, behind-the-scenes changes, for example infrastructure work to support our ongoing move to Swift as our media storage platform. There are also more visible improvements, like better diff readability for colorblind people, and better support of the user's gender and language (internationalization) in the interface. == Technology == A detailed report of the Tech Department's activities for February 2012 can be found at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2012/February Department Highlights Major news in February include: * The deployment of our Swift infrastructure to serve image thumbnails; * Continued success for our Wikipedia Android app; * The deployment of MediaWiki 1.19 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.19/Deployment_announcement> to all Wikimedia sites except for most Wikipedia languages; * Continued preparation for our move from Subversion to git <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/02/15/wikimedia-engineering-moving-from-sub…>. === Events === * *Pune hackathon* (10–12 February 2012, Pune, India) — A few dozen participants came to this three-day developer outreach event cohosted with GNUnify. Participants focused on language support (internationalization and localization) and mobile applications. Some new translations were created and the Wikimedia Mobile team received improvements to the Android app for Wikipedia. === Operations === * *Media Storage* — February saw Swift deployed to production to serve thumbnail requests. A few bugs were fixed, but one was serious enough to revert the deployment and fall back to the legacy thumbnail infrastructure. Once the issue is fixed and Swift serves thumbnails again, the next steps will involve documentation and maintenance procedures, creating a mirror cluster in Ashburn, setting up Swift in Wikimedia Labs, and handling original media (not just thumbnails) with Swift. === Features Engineering === * *Visual editor* — Trevor Parscal did research on cursor interaction and selection rendering for RTL (right-to-left) and support for line breaks in PRE elements. Gabriel Wicke improved template expansion and parser function support, investigated Microdata and RDFa for WikiText-in-HTML-DOM embedding and added rough support for images and other files. Rob Moen committed a working Editable Surface IME prototype (bidirectional text not fully supported). Audrey Tang joined the team and worked on the sanitizer and the testing process. * *Article feedback* — This month, the team created a new feedback page, with special features to be tested with oversighters and rollbackers in early March. Roan Kattouw has completed code review for compatibility with 1.19 and will deploy a new release on March 8, as well as a new working test environment in coming weeks. Final reports for phase 1 of this project will be published in early March. === Mobile === * *Wikipedia Mobile App* — In February, the Wikipedia Android app crossed over 1.8 million device installs. This is incredible growth as the app has been in the Android Market for just under two months. Yuvaraj Pandian announced a new beta version of both the Android app and the newly re-written iOS app. The re-written iOS version builds on our PhoneGap code base, and will allow us to deprecate our old objective C code. New features include: OSM integration, quick search integration, URL intents, search enhancements, bug fixes, and better developer attribution. * *Mobile Designs* — Philip Chang and Heather Walls worked on new design mockups for full screen search, contact us, navigation (ongoing), and references. Philip Chang also started the definition of Photo Upload as two workflows, Basic and Advanced. Basic is modeled after the current Upload Wizard as the basis of a mobile-friendly workflow, and Advanced uses a Wikipedia article (or other site content) as the starting point and incorporates game dynamics. === Platform Engineering === * *MediaWiki 1.19* — In February, MediaWiki 1.19 was gradually deployed to Wikimedia sites (see general "Highlights" section). Stages 1 through 4 of the deployment schedule have been completed; all sister projects, and a few Wikipedia wikis, are now running MediaWiki 1.19. * *Git conversion* — The migration of MediaWiki core and of extensions used on WMF sites is now tentatively scheduled for 21 March 2012. Sumana Harihareswara and Chad Horohoe wrote a blog entry to answer some common questions about the migration. WMF Engineering is making strong efforts to train the development community in using Git and Gerrit, including documentation and trainings via screensharing. We will be moving Gerrit infrastructure to Ashburn, as the Tampa server we're using can't handle the load. * *Volunteer coordination and outreach* — Sumana Harihareswara continued to follow up on contacts and recruit new contributors to the Wikimedia tech community (especially for commit and patch review), and mentor new contributors. Sumana also prepared for the June Berlin hackathon and the Wikimania hackathon in July and recruited participants for upcoming events. 13 contributors got commit access. == Research == * Research Committee member Mayo Fuster visited WMF and met with Dario Taraborelli to discuss how to streamline RCom activity, plans for an RCom session at Wikimania 2012 and a pilot project to apply systematization of experiences methodology to Wikipedia participation though the Digital Commons process <http://www.digital-commons.info>. * RCom members John Riedl and Dario Taraborelli and former member Luca de Alfaro participated in the Hypothes.is Reputation Workshop <http://hypothes.is/repworkshop.html> (22-24 February) to contribute to the design of Hypothes.is – an open source collaborative annotation tool – from Wikimedia's perspective. A report from the workshop is available <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DarTar/Hypothes.is_Reputation_Workshop>. * We published the February issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2012-02-27> covering 22 recently published Wikipedia studies. * We continued experimenting with CKAN <http://ckan.org/> and the DataHub <http://thedatahub.org/group/wikimedia> as a solution for open data hosting and worked with the OKFN to prioritize Wikimedia's requirements. * We continued reviewing and supporting new research proposals <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Projects>. * Former RCom member Milos Rancic announced <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/rcom-l/2012-February/000540.html> his departure from the committee. == Community == Department Highlights * *Teahouse Project* - Fellows Sarah Stierch and Jonathan Morgan, with the help of the Head of Community Fellowships Program Siko Bouterse, launched the Teahouse project on the English Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse> on February 27th (see general "Highlights" section). <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco_Wikipedia_Meetup_Febr… San Francisco Wikimedia Meetup February 2012> * *SF Meetup* - On February 4th, 2012, the Community Department hosted the first San Francisco meetup of 2012. There were a record 40 participants, including the Board of Trustees. (Blog post <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/02/07/first-san-francisco-meetup-of-2012/>) === Community Organizing Projects === * *Brazil Community Engagement* - In preparation for their tour of Brazil in March, Steven Walling and Maryana Pinchuk outlined a plan for working with the Portuguese Wikipedia community on pilot projects to improve editor retention.[2] * *Template Testing* - With Ryan Faulkner, the new Community Department Data Analyst, Steven and Maryana began a deeper exploration of template testing data. Results are encouraging in many cases: in a test of the first level English warning templates, increasing personalization and decreasing the number of links led to a 20% increase in edits to articles by Wikipedians who had passed the 10-edit threshold.[3] Our plans for the future include a report including more qualitative feedback from Wikimedians (see below), as well as working with the community to make more permanent changes based on test results. * New template A/B tests were started in collaboration with the Wikimedia Incubator.[4] * Over 40 English Wikipedians joined Maryana and Steven in a discussion about the effectiveness of deletion notifications on English Wikipedia.[5] This qualitative feedback has been distilled into a report on how our largest project communicates about article deletion.[6] * *SF Meetup* (see above) 1. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/02/07/first-san-francisco-meetup-of-2012/ 2. http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Wikipedia_community_pilot 3. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template_A/B_testing#English_Wikipedia_Hugg… 4. https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incubator:Template_testing 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_user_warnings/Testing/T… 6. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Deletion_notice_effectiveness === Fundraising === Fundraiser * As we said goodbye to the majority of our fundraiser contractors (Charles Barr, Joseph Seddon, Peter Coombe, and Alex Zariv), we said hello to three permanent additions to the team. Josh VanDavier, previously Development Associate, moved to Fundraising QA Associate, and will be optimizing donor experience through customer service and constant QA'ing of donor landing pages. Victor Grigas transferred into a permanent Storytelling position and will continue working closely with the fundraiser team and sharing the story of Wikipedia with the world. Peter Gehres, previously a Production Coordinator contractor, moved to Fundraiser Production Manager and will be providing strategic technical leadership for the fundraiser. * Though not new to the Fundraiser, Katie Horn has taken the mantle of Fundraiser Tech Lead from outgoing lead Arthur Richards. * Megan Hernandez and Victor Grigas are currently in Brazil for the first of four Portuguese language Donor Focus groups and one Argentine Donor Focus group aimed at optimizing the localized donor experience. Victor is also capturing imagery and Wikipedian stories for use in the Fundraiser. They are joined by Oona Castro, the new Brazil program consultant. * The Fundraising team completed the first A/B testing of banners for the 2012 Fundraising year with the new team in place.[1] * The fundraising team worked on a full report from the 2011 fundraiser to be posted publicly in March. 1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2012 Major Gifts and Foundations * We received a $1.25 million five-year grant from Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. * We hired consultant Sara Lasner to assist with major donor outreach. === Fellowship Program === * *Recruitment* - The fellowship program has wrapped up an open call for community fellowship applicants and project ideas, resulting in applications from prospective fellows in 21 different countries, and 28 project ideas. Applicants are being interviewed and the community is being engaged to help evaluate project ideas on meta-wiki.[1] * *Teahouse Project* - Fellows Sarah Stierch and Jonathan Morgan launched the Teahouse project on English Wikipedia on February 27th (cf. general "Highlights" section). 23 volunteer hosts have been trained to provide outreach and support to new editors. 180 new editors have been invited to the Teahouse during the first 48 hours of the pilot, and new invitations are going out each day. We have also partnered with the Global Education Program to provide online support to students in 6 classrooms.[2] * *WikiWomen's History Month* - Wikipedians interested in encouraging women's participation have been invited to organize local meetups and edit-a-thons during March in honor of International Women's Day and Women's History Month. 10 offline events are currently being planned.[3] * *Gender Gap Panel at CSCW* - Sarah Stierch participated in a panel on Gender and Participation in Peer Production at the 2012 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work.[4] * *Translation Project* - Fellow Jon Harald Søby traveled to Brussels to meet with the i18n team and plan usability improvements to the translate extension.[5] A simplified process for requesting translations and assistance loading texts into the extension is in progress.[6] 1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships/Endorsements 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month 4.http://cscw2012.org/program/panels.php#2 5.https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate 6. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jsoby/Request_translation === Community Relations === Philippe Beaudette (previously Head of Reader Relations) was promoted to Director of Community Advocacy. Philippe is working with Maggie Dennis, Community Liaison, to build the newly formed Legal and Community Advocacy Department. Please see the Legal Department section for additional information. == Global Development == Department highlights * Telenor makes Wikipedia available to 135 million customers in Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Serbia, Montenegro and India (press release: "Telenor and WMF partner on Wikipedia mobile <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Telenor_and_WMF_partner…>") * Hiring and announcement of Brazil Program Consultant, Oona Castro [1] <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Brazil_Program/National_Program_Consultant_A…> and joint community outreach efforts at Brazil Campus Party [2] <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/02/20/brazil-campus-party/> * *GLAMcamp DC* (WMF blog summary <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/02/16/glamcamp-dc-kicks-off-us-coordination…>) took place February 10-12 at the National Archives and Records Administration <http://www.nara.gov>. GLAMcamp was supported by a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation and by the Foundation's US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator. See details under *US Cultural Partnerships* below. * The Global Development department built out a hub page on Meta to make it easier to follow and connect into the work of the various teams within the department: Global Development <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Development> === Grants Program === ==== Grants Awarded and Executed ==== * Wikimedia Grants <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Index> o Grants:SarahStierch/GLAM_WIKI_Santiago_attendance <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:SarahStierch/GLAM_WIKI_Santiago_atte…> === Brazil Catalyst <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Brazil_Catalyst_Project> === In February, Kul, Jessie and Pats spent time in Sao Paulo at the annual Campus Party conference. See the blog post <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/02/20/brazil-campus-party/> for more detailed information. Highlights included a keynote speech by Kul Wadhwa and a brief editing competition hosted by Wikimedia Brasil. The Brazil Education Pilot is ready to start for the first semester of the university system in March! February included a lot of prep work for this project, primarily conducted by Brazilian contractor Everton Alverenga. Five professors in Sao Paulo and Rio are going to be incorporating the editing of Portuguese Wikipedia into their classroom models. * Information about the classes <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pt:Wikip%C3%A9dia:Wikimedia_Brasil_Educa%C3%A…> (in Portuguese) * Background of Brazil Education Program <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_Brazil_programs/Educ…> (English and Portuguese) In March, we are working with the Community team to do more research into editor retention and community health within the Portuguese Wikipeida. === Arabic Language Initiative <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Arabic_Language_Initiative> === * Currently in discussion with the National Library of Tunisia in order to release their historic content of digitized books, postcards, journals, etc. to Commons or Wikisource * Planned outreach events this March in Morocco, Lebanon and Jordan include Wikipedia training for TechWomen and joint events with Mozilla in Amman. * Working on a project with twitter Arabization group (taghreedat) to promote Arabic Wikipedia to their community === US Cultural Partnerships === * *GLAMcamp DC* (WMF blog summary <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/02/16/glamcamp-dc-kicks-off-us-coordination…>) took place February 10-12 at the National Archives and Records Administration <http://www.nara.gov>. GLAMcamp was supported by a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation and by the Foundation's US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator. (Images <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:GLAMcamp_DC>) <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glamwikimergegroups.JPG A group discusses deliverables for the GLAMcamp DC weekend.> Outcomes: 1. The GLAM/US portal <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/US> was updated, with many new pages such as GLAM: Connect <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/US/Connect> and GLAM: Bookshelf <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLAM/US/Bookshelf>. An abundance of new documentation was added to these pages, including state-based resource pages <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/US/Colorado> for GLAMs and a new GLAM:Contribute <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/US/Contribute> page. 2. The GLAM One-Pager <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GLAM_One-Pager.pdf> was created as a sample handout for cultural institutions, and includes an overview of GLAM-Wiki information, case stories on current partnerships, pull quotes from GLAM professionals, and contact information. 3. Tech-related outcomes included the OPAC Wikipedia citation tool <https://github.com/jdickie/GLAMCamp> browser extension for MARC <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARC_standards> records and new Bulk Upload Documentation <http://notes.wikimediadc.org/p/upload-project> that came out of close collaboration with Walters Art Museum staff in attendance. Blogging summaries from attendees: 1. Reports from GLAM camp <http://mith.umd.edu/reports-from-glam-camp/>, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities blog, Grant Dickie 2. Planning GLAMcamp <http://wikistrategies.net/glamcamp-dc-plan/>, Wiki Strategies blog, Pete Forsyth 3. GLAMcamp DC summary <http://theglamwikiexperience.blogspot.com/2012/02/glamcamp-dc-2012.html>, The GLAM-Wiki Experience blog, Alex Hinojo * Blog posts about Wikipedia in the cultural sector and the GLAM-Wiki movement: 1. Wikipedians in Residence: Two Years of Open Culture <http://blog.okfn.org/2012/01/27/wikipedian-in-residence-two-years-of-open-c…>, Open Knowledge Foundation. 2. GLAMcamp DC adds sparkle to museum-Wikipedia partnerships <http://midea.nmc.org/2012/02/glamcamp-dc-adds-sparkle-to-museum-wikipedia-p…>, New Media Consortium. 3. NARA plays host for Wikipedians at GLAMcamp DC <http://blogs.archives.gov/online-public-access/?p=7409>, NARAtions blog. 4. Open Authority and the Future of Museum Ethics <http://futureofmuseums.blogspot.com/2012/02/open-authority-future-of-museum…>, Center for the Future of Museums. * There has been ongoing follow-up on leads and expressions of interest from GLAM institutions. A consolidated master list of GLAM contacts was further compiled at GLAMcamp DC, which is now maintained by a small “GLAM Contacts Committee” that is made up of volunteers representing regions across the US. * There have been ongoing coordination talks between local museum technology contacts and Europeana, who will be collaborating on GLAM tools over the coming year. * In March, GLAM-Wiki will be shared via the Library of Congress blog <http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/> and the Technology in the Arts <http://www.technologyinthearts.org/> blog. Coordination will continue for upcoming conferences in May, June, and July. === Mobile and Business Development === * Telenor Partnership (see also Mobile_Projects/Partnerships/Q_and_A#Telenor_Partnership <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/Partnerships/Q_and_A#Teleno…>): o We just entered into a partnership with Telenor to provide Wikipedia Zero to 135 Million customers in Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Serbia, Montenegro and India. o Malaysia beta-launch is scheduled to happen by the end of Q1. * Orange Partnership o We are starting the implementation work to launch no-data charge access to Wikipedia on mobile in the first territory in Orange’s footprint: Tunisia. * While Kul Wadhwa was at Campus Party for the Brazil Catalyst Project, we met with various development groups (with the help of Pats Pena from the community department and Wikimedia Brasil) to plan for our first Hackathon in Brasil, focused on mobile, for later in the year for Sao Paulo and/or Nordeste. === Global development research === * Finished series of blog posts <https://blog.wikimedia.org/tag/readers-survey/> from the readers study. The last blog post <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/02/24/thank-you-to-all-who-have-contributed…> was well received with about 14 comments on the blog and many more on social media channels. * Created a tool for evaluating outreach events (i.e. whether attendees edit Wikipedia after the event). Tested the prototype of the tool with actual outreach data from India. * Wrapped up the mobile study with the mobile survey: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/02/19/wikipedia-at-no-data-cost-is-appealing… * Working on a plan to evaluate the Cairo pilot of the Global Education program: it would be a combination of pre and post test surveys of different sample populations and analytics around key indicators. === Wikipedia Education Program === <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikipediaEducationProgramLogo.svg Wikipedia Education Program logo, part of the new visual identity> * As part of the Cairo Pilot, Online Ambassadors have been trained by local Wikipedians. The orientation of the Online Ambassadors concludes the training of all Ambassadors for the pilot project on the Arabic Wikipedia. A total of 17 Campus Ambassadors and 11 Online Ambassadors are now ready to support student work during the spring 2012 term. * Classes started at Cairo University and at Ain Shams University. Among the first articles being improved on the Arabic Wikipedia was the article on civil disobedience: Students of Dalia Al-Tokhy's class from Ain Shams University added a section about civil disobedience in Egypt after being trained by Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors. * Essam Sharaf, a Wikipedian from Cairo, was hired as a part-time contractor for the on-campus outreach. In the first half of February, Essam visited the Wikimedia Foundation's office in San Francisco and started to work on a project plan for outreach events that will be conducted in Cairo between March and June 2012 <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Pilot_on-campus_outreach>. * Visual Identity launched: Participants in the Wikipedia Education Program are now able to create logos and other designs for country, city, university, or other regional groups through a do-it-yourself manual and logo assets. The new visual identity for the program, designed by David Peters, allows a theme to permeate the entire program, while allowing individual regions to create their own logos with colors or symbols that have meaning for that region. The concept is based on the highly successful Wikipedia 10th Anniversary party designs. (https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program_visual_iden… ) * On February 15, the British newspaper /The Guardian/ published a long article about the various facets of the Wikipedia Education Program in operation around the world. The reporter talked to Wikimedia Foundation staff and professors who had used Wikipedia as a teaching tool in their classes in the past. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/15/wikipedia-cairo-educationa… ) * Volunteers around the world who are running their own programs and Education Program staff worked collaboratively on a post for the Wikimedia Foundation's blog on the current status of education initiatives in different countries. (http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/02/22/wikipedia-education-program-kicks-off-… ) * Contractor Jeroen De Dauw is working on a new MediaWiki extension for the Wikipedia Education Program. The new extension will provide a framework for courses, instructors and students and increase transparency for on-wiki activities related to the Wikipedia Education Program. Community members are invited to participate in betatesting the extension: http://education.wmflabs.org/index.php/MW_1.18:Community_portal * Wikipedians from 9 different countries worked collaboratively on a submission for this year's Wikimania. The planned session intends to bring together those who want to share their experiences with Wikipedia in higher education and those who would like to hear what others have done in this field: http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/The_Teaching-with-Wikip… === India Programs === * Made offer for the last member of the India Programs team - Noopur Raval for Communications. * Initiated effort to align all India Program work around formal Program Design methods, including detailed design, learning criteria as well as performance measures. ==== Indic Languages ==== * Ongoing efforts to build communities beginning to show results - especially in Assamese, Kannada and Telugu. * Outreach sessions conducted in Assam and capacity built in the community to do independent outreach (including preparing outreach presentations and FAQs as well as hands-on training on outreach design and execution). Please see http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-as/2012-February/000037.html * Series of community collaboration initiatives encouraged, which are beginning to show results in a WikiProject for Physics in Assamese as well as a WikiProject to do Google Translate Clean-Up in Kannada. * Interesting potential in the Medical Translation project with participants from Assamese and Malayalam already translating articles (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2012-February/007054.… ) * Challenges remain with mobilising the Hindi community - which will continue to be worked on. * Published annual analysis of Indic language Wikipedias: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages/Statistics/201… ==== India Outreach ==== * Effort to improve impact and increase the scale of outreach. o A handbook including best practices to conduct an effective outreach session: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Outreach_Programs/Handbook o Standardised documents which may be adapted and adopted o Collating tips and advice for conducting an effective outreach event o Evaluating effective ways of capturing participants data with the help of Ayush, Nimish & Mani: building username & collection form o Evaluating how to stay in touch with outreach sessions attendees using a CRM system (with help from Philippe) * Evaluating how to measure outreach impact with the help of Ayush, Nimish & Mani: getting participants' edit counts over the course of 3 months after an event * Mail sent on the India mailing list on improving outreach efforts in India: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2012-February/006934.… * 15 outreach session conducted in 6 weeks: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Outreach_Programs/Outreach_Ses… o >550 participants attended these sessions and we are tracking 100 of their progress. o Initial figures indicate relatively low "conversion" rates, but we are working how to improve this. === Communications === Communications work through February focussed on a large amount of media follow-up regarding the international reaction to SOPA/PIPA in the US, development of communications products for the WMF/Telenor announcement, streamlining of the Wikimedia store operation, and supporting internal communications efforts around HR and recruiting. ==== Major announcements ==== Telenor makes Wikipedia available to 135 million customers in Asia and Europe (Feb 28, 2012) http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Telenor_and_WMF_partner_… ==== Major Storylines through February ==== Wikipedia and SOPA carry steam through February By far the major storyline for Wikimedia in February continued to focus on the impact of the defeat of SOPA in the US. Global media continue to inquire about the details of the efforts, including speculation about how the decision will affect future SOPA-like initiatives. Related op-ed from Jimmy Wales and Kat Walsh: "We are the media, and so are you" Jimmy Wales/Kat Walsh Op-ed in Washington Post, Feb 9, 2012 http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-are-the-media-and-so-are-you/2012… ==== Other worthwhile reads ==== The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia, Chronicle of Higher Ed, Feb 12, 2012 http://chronicle.com/article/The-Undue-Weight-of-Truth-on/130704/ How Wikimedia Uses Nimsoft to Keep Track of Uptime, Feb 21, 2012 https://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2012/02/how-wikimedia-uses-nimsoft-… Does Wikipedia have an accuracy problem? The Atlantic, Feb 16, 2012 http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/02/does-wikipedia-have-a… Wikipedia donors most likely to be from India, study says, Huffington Post, Feb 7, 2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/06/wikipedia-most-likely-donate_n_125… One of the Nation's Top Historians Decides It's Time to Embrace Wikipedia, The Atlantic, Feb 4, 2012 http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/02/one-of-the-nations-to… ==== Wikipedia Signpost ==== * Volume 7, Issue 6, 6 February 2012 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2012-02…> * Volume 7, Issue 7, 13 February 2012 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2012-02…> * Volume 7, Issue 8, 20 February 2012 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2012-02…> * Volume 7, Issue 9, 27 February 2012 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2012-02…> ==== WMF Blog posts ==== http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/02/ ==== Media Contact ==== https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room/Media_Contact#February_2012 == Human Resources == === Staff Changes === New Hires * Christine Bocknek, Senior Accountant (Finance) * Terry Chay, Director of Features Engineering (Engineering) * Nathan D'Annibale, Staff Accountant (Finance) * Charles Deubner, Office IT Support Specialist (Office IT) New Other Roles Filled * James Alexander, Wikimedia Merchandise Manager (Communications) * Victor Grigas, Storyteller: Content and Video Producer (Community) Conversions * Maggie Dennis, Community Liaison (Community) * Peter Gehres, Fundraiser Production Manager (Community) * Ryan Faulkner, Research Analyst (Community) * Roan Kattouw, SW Developer, Back-end (Engineering) New Contractors * Mariel Bird (Administration) * Mark Holmquist (Engineering) * Sara Lasner (Community) * Essam Sharaf (Global Development) * Lindsey Smith (Engineering) * Audrey Tang (Engineering) Contract Extended * Michael Beattie (Community) * Karen Chelini (HR) * Farhan Choudhury (Global Development) * Jeroen DeDauw (Engineering) * Rodney Dunican (Global Development) * Moushira Elamrawy (Global Development) * Emmanuel Engelhart (Engineering) * Rayne MacGeorge (Office IT) * Stacey Merrick (HR) * Sam Reed (Engineering) * Angela Robeson (HR) * Jon Harald Soby (Community) * Santhosh Thottingal (Engineering) * Heather Walls (Engineering) * Daniel Zahn (Engineering) Exit * Parul Vora Contract Ended * Peter Coombe (Community) * Aaron Muszalski (Community) * Joseph Seddon (Community) * Alex Zariv (Community) New Postings * Technical Product Analyst * Development Associate * Data Analytics Manager * Counsel RFPs * Production Support, Fundraiser * Lucene Search Operations Engineer === Statistics === Total Employee Count: Actual: 99 February Plan: 110, February Filled: 6, February Attrition: 2 YTD Filled: 38, YTD Attrition: 13 Remaining open positions to fiscal year end: 19 === Department Updates === It's our second month working as a fully staffed HR team and we've identified three core changes in the way we work. We need to get clearer in our processes and our work prioritization. We need our outward facing communications to be more consistent and better. We also need to have some boundaries in how we respond to requests, so that our overall service quality is higher. On the recruiting front, we have Stacey Merrick supporting us in doing social media outreach about jobs and other opportunities to work with WMF. She will also be doing some redesign work on the HR corner of the office wiki to make information more easily accessible. We also welcome Michelle Collins, who is helping us with recruiting on a part-time basis in a coordination role. Real-time feed for HR updates: http://identi.ca/wikimediaatwork or http://twitter.com/wikimediaatwork == Finance and Administration == We welcome Christine as our new Senior Accountant who will also work with chapters on reporting for both chapter agreements and fundraising agreements. Office improvements for this month were a new tile floor in the 6th floor kitchen. Volunteers who travel on behalf of the Foundation now have limited travel accident insurance when traveling outside of their home countries. Please contact Garfield <gbyrd at wikimedia dot org> to get additional information. == Legal and Community Advocacy == * We announced <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/LCA_Announcement> the new Legal and Community Advocacy group. Community consultation is ongoing, and everything is up for discussion, even the name of the group. Some initial community responses suggested that the key purpose of this department might be for legislative activities, but, in fact, we are thinking more about ways that we can support the community, such as helping administrators and functionaries and facilitating non-English participation in WMF initiatives (like policies and key projects). Help us brainstorm <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/Community_Advoc…> this new department. We are thrilled to have Philippe and Maggie with us! * Legal and Global Development worked together to get the Telenor contract done on a tight deadline to allow for an announcement during a large telecommunications conference. * Attendance at Paris finance meeting while taking input on and finalizing a note to the Board: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_and_Funds_Dissemination/Staff_me… (Many thanks to Philippe and Maggie for managing the process) * Our legal interns have been answering a lot of community questions via memos and white papers. While the team may only represent the Wikimedia Foundation on legal matters and is not able to give legal advice to the volunteer communities, it does offer generalized informational resources so that volunteers can craft their own approaches to these complicated issues. For example, the Commons community was exploring questions related to the public display of art and its impact on copyright in the United States; the document that our legal intern produced is displayed on its own page there <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Public_art_and_copyrights_in_the…>. Both Commons and the English Wikipedia have also been struggling with questions related to international copyright. In January, Commons approached us about a recent US court decision which may impact thousands of images hosted on Commons. The research produced by the legal interns is published in the community deletion discussion <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/All_files_copy…>. The English Wikipedia is attempting to reach a consensus for handling content that is public domain in the United States because the United States does not have copyright relations with the country in which it was published. Our intern's work is published as part of that discussion <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Copyrights&oldid=4…>. Many thanks to them for their hard work. * Our team has been working on building a centralized "legal corner" for internal & external use. We hope to create and compile useful resources for both staff and community members. * We are looking for a junior legal counsel who is an active Wikimedian. Here is the job posting: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Counsel * Stats o Number of contracts signed - 12 o Number of trademark requests - 10 + approved - 6 + denied - 2 + approval not needed - 1 + pending - 1 == Visitors and Guests == <Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Members_of_the_German_Bundestag_vis… Six members of the German parliament's sub-committee on new media visiting the Wikimedia Foundation's Office on February 13> 1. Christian (Wikia) 2. Andrew Lih (Wikipedian/Author/Journalist/Professor) 3. Stan van de Burgt (founder of Watchmouse) 4. Jeroen Borgsteede (Manager of products & Services, Kennisnet) 5. Renee Blodgett 6. Mayo Fuster Morell (Amical, RCom member, User:Lilaroja <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lilaroja>) 7. Sebastian Blumenthal (Bundestag) 8. Dr. Reinhard Brandl <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Brandl> (Bundestag) 9. Thomas Jarzombek (Bundestag) 10. Lars Klingbeil (Bundestag) 11. Herbert Behrens (Bundestag) 12. Dr. Konstantin von Notz (Bundestag) 13. Dr. Franca Wolff (Bundestag) 14. Consul General Peter Rothen 15. Michael Ahrens, Consul Cultural and Press Affairs at the German Consulate General 16. Brigitta Richman, a translator 17. Dwight Wilson (WorldCorp Interns) 18. Mike Hegazy (Crunch Gym representative) 19. Grant Joung (ThoughtWorks) 20. Latoya Peterson (http://latoyapeterson.com/about/) 21. Sarah Stierch (WMF Community Fellow) 22. Jonathan Morgan (WMF Research Fellow) 23. Grant & Marie Claire (Thoughtworks) 24. Otavio Good (Wikipedian) 25. James Cullen Heaphy III (Wikipedian) 26. Essam Sharaf (Wikipedian) 27. David Munir 28. Terry Brodt (CWT travel) 29. Tilman Bayer 30. Andrew Garrett 31. Linda Chang (Design MBA program at California College of the Arts) 32. Rana Cho (Design MBA program at California College of the Arts) 33. Ali Musleh (Design MBA program at California College of the Arts) 34. Arash Shirinbab (Design MBA program at California College of the Arts) 35. Max Klein (Wikipedian) 36. Valerie Ball (KPMG) 37. Stu West (WMF Board of Trustees member) 38. Ting Chen (Chair of WMF Board of Trustees) 39. Jimmy Wales (WMF Board of Trustees member) 40. Jan-Bart de Vreede (Vice Chair of WMF Board of Trustees) 41. Kat Walsh (WMF Board of Trustees member) 42. Arne Klempert (WMF Board of Trustees member) 43. Matt Halprin (WMF Board of Trustees member) 44. Bishakha Datta (WMF Board of Trustees member) 45. Phoebe Ayers (WMF Board of Trustees member) 46. Deborah Bezona (D. Bezona & Company) 47. Juan Carlos Guaqueta (Chile) 48. 20 community members (English Wikipedians, editors of Wiktionary, Wikisource, as well as Portuguese and German Wikipedia) -- Tilman Bayer Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB

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Chapters Committee update
by Bence Damokos 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hi, It is with great pleasure that I can announce that following the public call for candidates, the Chapters Committee has selected five new members to serve in approving chapters and pending further discussion on movement roles, possibly other types of organisations. The new members are: - Galileo Vidoni - Lodewijk Gelauff (reelected) - Maria Sefidari - Bengt Oberger - Tomasz Kozłowski They are joined by: - Damian Finol, - Ray Saintonge, - Sebastian Moleski - Jeromy-Yu Chan - Bence Damokos (chair) We would like to express our gratitude to Austin Hair, Vladimir Medeyko and Nathan Carter who have helped scores of chapters on their way to approval in their long and dedicated service in the Committee, and their service has now ended. Delphine Ménard, one of the original members of the Chapters Committee has applied to serve on in an advisory capacity. (Read full resolution here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_Committee/Resolutions/Resolutions/… ) We look forward to the renewed energy the new members will bring to the Committee as we take on new challenges and try to make our work as a Committee more efficient and transparent. Chapcom will hold an internal meeting in Berlin on 29th March, and members of the Committee will attend the following Chapters Meeting – please seek us out with any questions, queries, ideas or concerns during the conference. Best regards, Bence Damokos Chair, Chapters Committee

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