Hi all,
please find the monthly report for Wikimedia Germany for January 2011 on
meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Deutsch…
We are using a new translation service, so it would be great if you have
some feedback regarding the translation. Any other comments are welcome as
well, of course.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
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This month has been very intense because of the accumulation of events
regarding the organization of the 10th anniversary celebrations and usual
activities. The impact in the Catalan media has been extraordinary. It may
have contributed to the increase in pages read on the Catalan Wikipedia by
70% over the same month last year. Many activities have been aimed at
increasing the number of editors on Wikipedia. In this respect many results
have been achieved but under the objectives we had set. At present the
number of active editors of Wikipedia in Catalan is 10% larger than last
year at this time.
== Courses and conferences ==
*Viquifabricació. On March 2 and 10 courses were made editing on Wikipedia
at the University Jaume I of Castellon. Gomà & Pacopac. As a result, 104
students have enrolled, 10 in Catalan and 94 in Spanish.
*Viquibalear. This year’s edition has come to an end. Almost 136 articles
have been moved to Wikipedia. The awards ceremony took place on March 29 at
the Ramon Llull Institute of Palma. In the subsequent meeting with the
General Direction of Educational Innovation, they said that they are very
satisfied with the experience and they will schedule the next edition.
Paucabot, User:Antoni Salvà, Barcelona, Tomeu87.
*March 5. Workshop editing Wikipedia (aimed at teachers) at the Citilab of
Cornellà de Llobregat. Barcelona.
*March 17. Talk-debate: 10 years of Wikipedia. Aula Magna of the Faculty of
Sciences of the University of Girona. Arnaugir & Castor
*March 17. Workshop editing on Wikipedia. Vilanova I la Geltrú. Pallarès and
Kippelboy.
*March 18. Workshop editing on Wikipedia at the University of Andorra.
Góngora.
*March 18. Workshop editing on Wikipedia at Berga’s Telecenter. Toniher.
*March 19. An introduction to Wikipedia and guided editing session. Citilab
of Cornellà de Llobregat. CECBLL Esther & SMP.
*March 19. Guided editing session on Wikipedia. Mata de Jonc School of
Palma. Paucabot.
*March 19. Guided editing session on Wikipedia. Salesians de Ciutadella.
Ciutadella de Menorca. Agdo.
*March 21. Presentation on Wikipedia and a course on how to edit it. IES
Betxí. Coet.
*March 27. Workshop editing Wikipedia. Micalet Choral Society. Valencia.
Gomà.
== Thematic conferences ==
This month, coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the Catalan Wikipedia,
we organized six thematic sessions.
;Research
On March 15 the Open University of Catalonia was the Roundtable on Research
and Wikipedia. The results of several research projects about Wikipedia were
presented. We also explained the role of the WMF Research Committee and
proposed an online collaboration between the University, Wikipedia, and
Amical in order to carry out the strategic plan. Lilaroja, Dvdgmz, Eaibar &
Gomà. On March 21 it was the Wikipedia Research presentation at the
Polytechnic University of Valencia. Lilaroja. We really expect that our
proposed alliances will bear any fruit.
;Education.
On Friday the 18th at Golferichs house, Barcelona was the working day
"Viquipèdia and Education". In the morning it was dealt with elementary
school and high school. Several experiences where presented: Viquibalear,
Viquiescoles, Experimenta_wiki, EduWiki, Viquiprojectes Olympic Games (2008)
and Astronomy (2009) and Viquilletra. At the afternoon the subject of the
Viquipèdia at University was treated: Viquifabricació UPC, Wiki Realidad
Virtual - GMM UOC, GRF wiki UOC, and Viquiprojectes (ILV and Tipografia) -
GMM UOC, audiovisual Viquiprojecte:Telecomunicacions EUETIT and ETSETB- UPC
;Minority languages.
On Saturday 19th we made the working day in Perpignan on minority languages
and Wikipedia. This is a futher step to launch a working group to help each
other. Attended Wikipedians in Occitan, Aragonese, Esperanto, Hebrew,
Amerindian languages, Catalan, Portuguese, roman and eusquera as well as
people from apertium and mozilla projects. Were raised several lines of
collaboration and exchanged experiences and ideas. Among them extend and
integrate amical-bot with apertium to make it accessible to these languages
and retrofeed apertium with revised texts to improve the sytem continuously.
The bot to create articles from statistical data has been redesigned to fit
these languages. Eusquera tests have already been made and the results are
pretty good. We also proposed to continue the work at Wikimania 2011 and do
part of the session in Esperanto (with a previous online course for all
attendees). It can be a very enriching experience. Capsot
;Photography Contest in Alghero.
The contest has been finished and the competition awards delivered. 21
contestants participated and submitted 200 pictures. Gusdan
;Museums. Glamwiki Barcelona.
On March 21 was the GlamWiki day 2011 at the Picasso Museum in Barcelona.
Kippleboy. We have to thank Liam Wyatt's presence. The conference was a
success. Both participation, more than 150 people as the results. At the
moment there are already underway:
* Picasso Museum project collaboration in the medium term (they have passed
a set of ideas)
* Maritime Museum: a courtesy visit one (they are thinking about a backstage
pass or some kind of award or similar)
* Railway Museum of Vilanova: Starting to manage a project (this will be in
summer)about the world of rail
* Museum of Lleida: We will do a Miniglamwiki for Museum of Lleida
* MACBA: A Shorter -term project collaborative development of a particular
article.
;Feast of Wikipedia public outreach.
On March 19 at the premises os Barcelona castellers we celebrated the great
feast of Wikipedia public outreach. We mounted an exhibition with 10 posters
on wikipedia and attended the public offering to collaborate in writing,
there was cake and fun activities, very crowded, hight echoed in the media.
Toniher, Lluis_tgn, KRLS, Mezod, Davidpar, Kippelboy, Baggio, Eilas
beginning.
== Media ==
We have sent press releases announcing the 10th anniversary of the Catalan
Wikipedia and the various acts that have been developed. We also anounced
the awards ceremony and presentation of book Wikipedia in Palma. This has
generated a great impact in the media. A brief summary:
3cat24.cat - La Viquipèdia celebra 10 anys entre les 15 edicions amb més
articles del món<http://www.3cat24.cat/noticia/1109948/altres/La-Viquipedia-celebra-10-anys-…>(19/3/2011),
3cat24.cat - Deu anys de viquiconeixement
(vídeo)<http://www.3cat24.cat/video/3429950/altres/10-anys-de-viquiconeixement>(19/3/2011),
3cat24.cat - Els autors de la Viquipèdia ensenyen com l'escriuen per
celebrar el desè aniversari de l'edició catalana
(1)<http://www.3cat24.cat/noticia/1110766> (i
2) <http://www.3cat24.cat/noticia/1110786> (19/3/2011), Agència Catalana de
Notícies - La Viquipèdia en català fa deu anys i ho celebra amb una festa
oberta a tothom<http://www.acn.cat/acn/602526/General/text/Viquipedia-catala-celebracio-wik…>(10/3/2011),
Avui - La
Viquipèdia en català fa deu anys i ho celebra amb una festa oberta a
tothom<http://www.avui.cat/noticia/article/13-comunicacio/20-comunicacio/381118-la…>(10/3/2011),
El Punt - La
Viquipèdia en català fa deu anys i ho celebra amb una festa oberta a
tothom<http://www.elpunt.cat/noticia/article/13-comunicacio/20-comunicacio/381118-…>(10/3/2011),
Empordà.info - La
Viquipèdia celebra el seu 10è aniversari amb una
festa<http://www.emporda.info/cultura/2011/03/10/viquipedia-celebra-aniversari-fe…>(10/3/2011),
Regió7 - La
Viquipèdia celebra el seu 10è aniversari amb una
festa<http://www.regio7.cat/cultures/2011/03/10/viquipedia-celebra-aniversari-fes…>(10/3/2011),
directe!cat - La
Viquipèdia en català vol celebrar el desè aniversari amb el rècord de 2.000
editors en un dia<http://www.directe.cat/noticia/130522/la-viquipedia-en-catala-vol-celebrar-…>(10/3/2011),
Reus Directe - La
Viquipèdia en català fa deu anys i ho celebra amb una festa oberta a
tothom<http://www.reusdirecte.cat/cat/notices/2011/03/la_viquipedia_en_catala_fa_d…>(10/3/2011),
Nació Digital - 10
anys de Viquipèdia<http://www.naciodigital.cat/noticia/23074/anys/viquipedia>(10/3/2011),
Reus Directe - La
Viquipèdia en català fa deu anys i ho celebra amb una festa oberta a
tothom<http://www.reusdirecte.cat/cat/notices/2011/03/la_viquipedia_en_catala_fa_d…>(10/3/2011),
Som.cat - La
Viquipèdia en català fa deu anys i ho celebra amb una festa oberta a
tothom<http://www.som.cat/5667/noticia/actualitat/la-viquipedia>(10/3/2011),
Alguer.cat - Alguer
a la Wikipèdia: 200 fotografies
originals<http://cat.alguer.it/noticies/n?id=39564>(16/3/2011), Alguer
Digital Premis
del concurs de fotografia digital “L’Alguer a la
Viquipèdia”<http://www.alguerdigital.cat/2011/03/21/entrega-dels-premis-del-concurs-de-…>(21/3/2011),
Ara - Deu
anys de Viquipèdia: de l'àbac a 312.569 articles
més<http://www.ara.cat/ara_premium/media/Deu-anys-Viquipedia-labac-articles_0_4…>(versió
en paper), Ara - La
Viquipèdia en català fa 10
anys<http://www.ara.cat/comunicacio/Viquipedia-catala-deu-anys_0_440956203.html>(9/3/2011),
ButlleTIC - La
Viquipèdia celebra els seus 10 anys<http://phobos.xtec.cat/butlletic/?p=4108>,
Comunicació 21 - Viquipèdia vol reunir 2.000 editors per celebrar els 10
anys<http://comunicacio21.cat/2011/03/viquipedia-vol-reunir-2-000-editors-en-un-…>(14/3/2011),
Diari de Balears - Una
dècada de Viquipèdia<http://dbalears.cat/actualitat/cultura/una-decada-de-viquipedia.html>(16/3/2011),
Diari de Girona - La
Viquipèdia en català, deu anys editant amb la
«ç»<http://www.diaridegirona.cat/cultura/2011/03/16/viquipedia-catala-deu-anys-…>(versió
en paper <http://www.arnauduran.net/viquiarnaupetitpetit.png>) (16/3/2011),
El Punt - Projecte
Viquipèdia<http://www.elpunt.cat/noticia/article/2-societat/5-societat/384635-projecte…>(18/3/2011),
El Singular Digital - Gomà:
"La viquipèdia no és fiable i és bo que la gent ho
sàpiga"<http://www.elsingulardigital.cat/cat/notices/2011/03/entrevista_joan_ramon_…>,
Espai Internet (TV3) - Feliç aniversari,
Viquipèdia!<http://blogs.3cat24.cat/espaiinternet.php?itemid=38963>(13/3/2011),
Garraf Digital - Viquipèdia
en català celebra els 10 anys aquest dijous a l’espai Neàpolis
Cowork<http://www.garrafdigital.cat/index.php/2011/03/16/viquipedia-en-catala-cele…>,
IB3 Ràdio - 10 anys de la Viquipèdia a “Tassa i
mitja”<http://ib3noticies.com/20110318_146899-10-anys-de-la-viquipedia-a-tassa-i-m…>(20/3/2011),
Info K - Deu
anys de Viquipèdia<http://www.tv3.cat/pprogrames/infok/infkSeccio.jsp?seccio=notis&idint=8376>(18/3/2011),
La Veu de Mallorca - Viquipèdia
organitza un seguit d'activitats per celebrar el desè
aniversari<http://www.laveudemallorca.cat/noticia/3346/Viquip%C3%A8dia+organitza+un+se…>(14/3/2011),
Ona Mallorca - Mallorca
en Xarxa <http://www.rtvmallorca.cat/#radio/programes/cercap/23/24017>(19/3/2011),
Racó Català - La
Viquipèdia en català celebra els seus 10 anys amb una
festa<http://www.racocatala.cat/noticia/25652/viquipedia-en-catala-celebra-seus-1…>14/3/2011),
Ràdio Catalunya - L'Alguer:
Concurs fotogràfic per a
Wikipèdia<http://www.radiocatalunya.ca/noticia/27035/>(13/3/2011),
Som.cat - Aquesta
tarda a El Cop d'Estat hem parlat amb en Joan Ramon
Gomà<http://www.som.cat/6169/elcopd%27estat/actualitat/ecd-entrevista-joan-rmon-…>(16/3/2011),
Tribuna.cat - La
Viquipèdia: deu anys d'enciclopèdia en
català<http://www.tribuna.cat/noticies/societat-civil/la-viquipedia-deu-anys-denci…>,
VilaWeb - Desè aniversari de la
Viquipèdia<http://www.vilaweb.cat/noticia/3861304/20110316/dese-aniversari-viquipedia.…>(16/3/2011),
VilaWeb - La
Viquipèdia celebra deu anys
d'articles<http://www.vilaweb.cat/noticia/3861247/20110319/viquipedia-celebra-deu-anys…>(19/3/2011),
VilaWeb Castelló de la Plana- Avui,
al Casal d'Acció Cultural, xerrada sobre "Deu anys de Viquipèdia en
català"<http://www.vilaweb.cat/noticia/3858527/20110309/casal-daccio-cultural-xerra…>(9/3/2011),
VilaWeb Catalunya Nord - A
G del Casal Jaume Primer, i Viquipèdia
catalana<http://www.vilaweb.cat/noticia/3862545/20110319/g-casal-jaume-primer-viquip…>(19/3/2011),
La veu de Mallorca Viquipèdia
Descobrir utilitzar
contribuir<http://www.laveudemallorca.cat/noticia/3429/Viquip%C3%A8dia%3A+Descobrir%2C…>(29/03/2011).
== Relation with entities. ==
* Departament of Linguistic Policy in Catalonia.
* Departament of Linguistic Policy of the Balearic Islands.
* President of Aran Valley Council
* Deputy Mayor of Perpignan
* Authorities of Alghero.
* Publishing Department of the Polithechnic University of Catalonia.
== Miscellaneous ==
*Presentation of the book "Wikipedia". Together with the delivery of the
prize Wikibalear there was the act of public presentation of this book in
Mallorca. The department of linguistic policy of the Balearic Government
announced the distribution of 150 copies between schools on the islands.
Paucabot and Gomà
*In order to use them in acts of the 10th anniversary we have developed 10
posters explaining various aspects of Wikipedia they set up an exhibition
that may be used in different formats and frames. We also have two roll-ups
usefull to frame any iind of events arround Wikipedia ans sister projects.
If someone needs them feel free to ask. They are available to everyone no
mater if you are members of the association or not. Mafoso, Barcelona. To
request the panels if you want to use them, please contact Amical-gestio1.
*Wikilovesmonumens. An enthusiastic team has been working hard on this
initiative. Untill now they have fetch lists of monuments from the
authorities of different countries and are completing the lists of monuments
in Wikipedia. The Association has purchased the domain
wikilovesmonuments.cat to integrate it with the network of
wikilovesmonuments sites in Europe. We have started contacts to get sponsors
for prizes and to involve several organizations in the project. We will
continue to reporting. Vriullop. You can find the list of participants here:
Participants.
*Special thanks to Millars from WMES and to Cultural Action of the Valencian
Country because on the 10th and 15th March they did in Casals Jaume I in
Vilareal an Castellò respectively a presentation of Wikipedia and sister
projects. The association Amical Wikipedia sent them material consisting
mainliy in leaflets of "Welcome to Wikipedia", Cultural Action of the
Valencian Country facilitated their premises and Millars did the
presentations. Hopefully it is a good example of collaboration for the
future.
You can found the report here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Associaci%C3%B3_Amical_Viquip%C3%A8dia/March…
http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/04/15/ten-million-free-media-files-and-…
Ten is turning out to be the number of the year for Wikimedia. First, the Wikimedia Foundation celebrated the tenth anniversary of Wikipedia in January, and now Wikimedia Commons – the library of images, sound files, and videos that constitutes an integral component of Wikipedia’s user experience – has logged its 10,000,000th file. All files on Wikimedia Commons can be used for any purpose, including commercial use, under terms consistent with the Definition of Free Cultural Works. This, together with its educational focus, makes Wikimedia Commons a media repository unlike any other.
The ten millionth file uploaded to Commons is a photograph of a waterfowl observation platform near Lipno Lake in the Wdzydze Landscape Park in Poland. It was uploaded by Commons user Leinad, who has been uploading to Commons since 2006. Leinad is also active on the Polish Wikipedia, and attended the 2010 Wikimania conference in Gdansk.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:POL_Lipno_%28jezioro_w_wojew%C3%B3dz…
What stories these ten million files can tell. The scope of Wikimedia’s ambitions has always been epic, and comparing 2006’s 1 millionth image – a pygmy hippopotamus at the Singapore Zoo – to 2009’s five-millionth upload – an article detailing democracy from an 1838 Danish newspaper – succinctly demonstrates the near-limitless capacity for sharing knowledge we’ve fostered.
While the frequency of new articles appearing on Wikipedia may have slowed, our repository of educational media is growing faster than ever. Today’s entry marks less than a two year period during which more than five million new files have been uploaded. This is in part thanks to Wikimedia’s global volunteer building more and more relationships with cultural institutions and collection holders around the world, receiving and uploading large treasures of photographs, video and other content. And we are hoping to accelerate the project’s growth further, with a new media upload tool (login required) which we are currently beta testing, as well as improved video support.
Our huge thanks to the tens of thousands of individuals who have contributed to Wikimedia Commons and who have helped bring the project to this milestone. You have helped us create the largest, and almost certainly, the highest quality trove of entirely freely re-usable, education-oriented media files in history.
--
Jay Walsh
Head of Communications
WikimediaFoundation.orgblog.wikimedia.org
+1 (415) 839 6885 x 6609, @jansonw
Sending on behalf of Tomasz Finc.
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Greetings All,
I'm super happy to announce that the engineering department has hired its
first developer specifically for mobile. Patrick Reilly has joined us as a
Sr. Software Developer for mobile and will be reporting directly to me.
Patrick's first responsibility will include porting our existing mobile
gateway to something a bit closer to our core architecture. He'll be
assessing the current list of features for the gateway and will begin work
on the next generation of mobile infrastructure for the WMF. This is a very
high priority project as it is carefully timed with the mobile research work
that both Mani and Parul are leading for us. Both of these projects will be
the foundation of our mobile efforts going forward and are being actively
documented and discussed at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects
I'm really happy to have Patrick in this role as he has a wealth of platform
development experience on big web sites. Through his work at Big Tent
Design, Inc, OmniTI, Schematic, Media Revolution and numerous others he's
really enjoyed building high traffic sites while keeping a focus on the
mobile experience.
Patrick continues to be active in the open source community by being the
evangelism team leader for the PHP group.
If you have any questions for Patrick or simply want to say hello then you
can reach him at preilly(a)wikimedia.org or preilly on irc in
#wikimedia-mobile.
Please join me in welcoming Patrick Reilly to the Tech Department and to
WMF. We are very happy to have him join us.
--tomasz
Dear all,
The Wikimania jury are pleased to announce that they have selected Washington, D.C., USA as the location for Wikimania 2012[0]. The DC team presented an imaginative and exciting bid[1] that the jurors found impressive. As before, all the bids to host Wikimania had strong points in their favour and making this decision was difficult. We will send detailed feedback to each of the bids, but for now we know the winning team will appreciate the community's support and help in making a great Wikimania in 2012. The jury particularly thanks the other finalist in the process, the South African team[2] for their excellent work, and encourages them to bid again in the near future.
If you have never been to a Wikimania before I would urge you to consider attending. This year the conference will be in Haifa, Israel[3], and promises to be an excellent event. Wikimania is always a great way to meet members of our global community and help improve the movement, and Washington DC looks to be a worthy successor.
Our congratulations to the Washington DC team and many thanks to all of the bidders for working so hard. I encourage all bidders to use the fantastic energy they have put into their bids by hosting smaller continental or regional events, and considering another bid for Wikimania in the future.
The jury welcomes looks forward to discussing the result and the Wikimania process with the community.
[0] Jury, process& timeline:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012
[1] DC bid:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/Bids/Washington,_D.C.
[2] SA bid: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/Bids/Stellenbosch
[3] Wikimania 2011:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2011
Yours,
The Wikimania 2012 jury moderators [non-voting]
* James Forrester
* Joseph Seddon
On behalf of the Wikimania 2012 jury:
* Ting Chen
* Austin Hair
* Richard Knipel
* Deror Lin
* Patricio Lorente
* Abbas Mahmoud
* Takashi Ota
* James Owen
* Achal Prabhala
* Liam Wyatt
* Phoebe Ayers [non-voting advisor]
* Sue Gardner [non-voting advisor]
* Samuel Klein [non-voting advisor]
* Delphine Menard [non-voting advisor]
As always, the wiki version with images is on Meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_March_2011
All best,
Erik
==Data and Trends==
:Global unique visitors for February:
:379 million (-8.3% compared to previous month / +9.9% compared to
previous year)
:(comScore data for all Wikimedia Foundation projects; comScore will
release March data later in April)
:NB: Drop is caused by shorter number of days in February; comScore
does not normalize the data.
:Page requests for March:
:15.1 billion (-2.5% compared to previous month / N/A for accurate
previous year comparison)
:(Server log data, all Wikimedia Foundation projects including Wikipedia mobile)
:Report Card for February 2011:
: http://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/RC_2011_02_detailed.html
==Financials==
(Financial information is only available for February 2011 at the time
of this report.)
:Operating revenue for February: USD 0.2MM vs plan of USD 0.2MM
:Operating revenue year-to-date February: USD 19.9MM vs plan of USD 17.1MM
The successful 2010 fundraising campaign has resulted in the Wikimedia
Foundation exceeding its revenue targets year-to-date.
:Operating expenses for February: USD 1.3MM vs plan of 1.7MM
:Operating expenses year-to-date: USD 11.9MM vs plan of 13.5MM
Expenses MTD and YTD are under due to both the timing of capex
spending related to the build-out of the data center, as well as to
personnel-related expenses, which were under due to slower hiring.
Underspending was partially offset by spending in outside contract
services and travel.
Cash and investments as of February 2011 totaled USD $20.4MM
(approximately 12 months of expenses).
==Highlights==
=== Editor Trends Update Published ===
On March 11, 2011, Executive Director Sue Gardner shared a message
with the global Wikimedia community focusing on the trends we are
seeing with regard to participation in Wikimedia projects, and
specifically the retention of new users. This message summarized data
from the simultaneously published Editor Trends Study, a project
undertaken by Diederik van Liere and Howie Fung under the supervision
of Erik Moeller. The Editor Trends Study specifically examined changes
in the long-term retention of users newly joining Wikimedia projects.
>From Sue Gardner's update:
: Here’s what we think the Editor Trends Study tells us: Between 2005
and 2007, newbies started having real trouble successfully joining the
Wikimedia community. Before 2005 in the English Wikipedia, nearly 40%
of new editors would still be active a year after their first edit.
After 2007, only about 12-15% of new editors were still active a year
after their first edit. Post-2007, lots of people were still trying to
become Wikipedia editors. What had changed, though, is that they were
increasingly failing to integrate into the Wikipedia community, and
failing increasingly quickly. The Wikimedia community had become too
hard to penetrate.
: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/March_2011_Update
Since it was posted, Sue's update has been fully or partially
translated into more than 20 languages. The software and data
underlying the editor trends study is available to the community as
well.
The update also summarized the Wikimedia Foundation's priorities for
the year ahead with an eye to this data:
* Create a visual editor
* Improve the new user experience
* Support growth in developing countries
* Serve audiences on all devices
* Create an improved experience for contributing and reviewing multimedia
With regard to the product development priorities, a more detailed
analysis can be found in the Wikimedia Foundation Product Whitepaper,
which summarizes both internal and external trends, presents a full
taxonomy of product development opportunities, and justifies product
development priorities according to our strategic plan and the overall
data:
: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Product_Whitepaper
=== Chapters, Wikimedia Foundation Staff and Board meet in Berlin ===
The annual Chapters Conference was held in Berlin from March 25-27.
The conference was hosted by Wikimedia Germany and brought together
representatives from Wikimedia's 30 chapters and additional groups
that are in the formation stage, including South Africa (which became
an official chapter on March 27), Canada, Kenya and Chile. WMF had
eight staff members in attendance. The conference covered a range of
topics including the Editor Trends Study, cultural and educational
partnerships, chapter-WMF communications and chapter organizational
development.
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees met in Berlin alongside the
Chapters Conference. The meeting was chaired by Ting Chen and attended
by trustees Phoebe Ayers, Bishakha Datta, Jan-Bart de Vreede, Matt
Halprin, Samuel Klein, Arne Klempert, Kat Walsh and Stuart West, as
well as Executive Director Sue Gardner and Executive Assistant James
Owen. Jimmy Wales was unable to be in Berlin, but attended part of the
meeting via Skype. The agenda for the Board meeting included:
*An audit committee update (Stu);
*An update from the Movement Roles working group (Arne);
*A discussion about the chapters (Ting and Stu);
*A Board governance update (Matt);
*A presentation of materials related to the Editor Trends Study and a
discussion about Wikimedia's difficulty retaining new editors (Sue);
*A report from the Controversial Content working group (Phoebe);
*An update on the community elections (Jan-Bart).
The Board was also able to attend several of the chapters' meeting
sessions. There was also a large all-day meeting of the Movement Roles
working group, prior to the Board meeting.
=== 2009-10 Annual Report Released ===
We released the Annual Report for the fiscal year ending June 30,
2010. In addition to the print and PDF versions, we have also
published the report as a set of wiki pages for easier collaborative
improvement and translation. Highlights of the 2009-10 Annual Report
include:
* Usability and multimedia upload initiative
* Wikimedia's strategic plan goals
* Wikimania 2009
* The Hoxne Hoard and British Museum collaboration
* 2009/10 annual giving campaign
The Annual Report can be found at:
: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report
==Technology==
As always, detailed info about the Tech Department's activities for
February 2011 can be found at:
: http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/04/wikimedia-engineering-march-2011-repo…
Highlights below:
=== Developer Community Outreach ===
==== Google Summer of Code Submissions ====
We have received a record number of excellent student proposals for
this year's GSoC. Final deadline is April 8th for student
registration/submission, and we will be sorting through and accepting
proposals as soon as we can after the deadline.
: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2011
==== Berlin Hack-a-thon ====
The good folks at Wikimedia Deutschland are again hosting a
Hack-a-thon in May. We will be sending a large contingent of staff
engineers and are planning to host discussions about our plans for
MediaWiki development. Community members interested in attending
should register before April 10 at:
: http://de.amiando.com/hackathon2011.html
=== Hiring ===
This month we welcomed Ops Engineer Peter Youngmeister, and welcomed
back Brion Vibber as Lead Architect:
: http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/03/brion-vibber-to-rejoin-wikimedia-foun…
=== Operations ===
==== Data Dumps ====
Ariel Glenn and other ops staff and community members continued their
work to restore and improve data dump services after the failure of
the old system in December. The January run of the complete English
Wikipedia dumps was completed in March, and the March run was almost
completed. We are also working with Google to enable regular mirroring
of the most recent dumps to Google storage for download.
==== New Data Center Buildout ====
Ashburn Data Center work continues. All machines are racked and
cabled and we have been working through configuring the individual
servers. We will not be able to switch over to using Ashburn for
daily traffic until we get a connection established from Tampa to
Ashburn, which we have ordered (but it is taking longer than expected
to set up). Meanwhile, we expect to hold a coding sprint on setting
up replication/failover for all of our sub-systems during the Berlin
Hack-a-thon in May.
=== Features ===
==== Article Feedback ====
The second phase of this feature was released on the English Wikipedia
in mid-March. Reviewers can now specify the source of their knowledge,
e.g. if they have an academic degree in a related field. Experiments
to encourage user engagement are being performed as well. Dario
Taraborelli also published an analysis of the first phase experiment.
We are currently expanding the scope of the experiment to include
several thousand articles, in order to get results that are more
statistically meaningful.
==== Wikilove 0.1 ====
Because many automated patrolling tools and gadgets are focused on
making it easy to warn or reprimand users, Ryan Kaldari wrote a user
script to facilitate nice behavior between editors. For example, it is
now possible, on the English Wikipedia and other wikis, to give a
“virtual kitten” to another editor. The script was adapted for use by
the Russian and Tamil communities, and Ryan is helping support other
communities willing to use it.
==== Community Features Experiments ====
Trevor Parscal deployed a change to the placement of the Edit button
for section-level edits as a feature experiment. Initial data
indicates a dramatic increase in edit actions and a significant
increase in edit completions. We're continuing to investigate the data
before making a final decision on whether to productize this change.
==== Media Upload Wizard ====
The Upload Wizard is a significantly improved media uploading tool for
Wikimedia Commons. Neil Kandalgaonkar and Ryan Kaldari continued to
fix bugs, test functionality, and generally prepared the software for
wider usage. Try it here:
: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard
=== General Engineering ===
==== Performance Optimization ====
Tim Starling and volunteer developer Platonides have been working on
two great projects designed to enhance MediaWiki performance:
* '''PoolCounter''' - Tim Starling deployed this extension, written by
Platonides to control the number of simultaneous parses that happen on
a single page (to avoid the “Michael Jackson” effect -- see
http://dom.as/2009/06/26/embarrassment/ ). It was later disabled
because of a bug now fixed; Platonides also added integrated
statistics to this tool. We plan a second deployment attempt in April.
* '''Ehcache deployment''' - Tim Starling investigated Wikimedia’s low
parser cache hit ratio and suggested an increase in the parser cache
size to reduce Apache CPU usage. After researching available options
for disk-backed object caches, he selected Ehcache and wrote a
MediaWiki client for it. Our test deployments showed promising
results, but also surfaced additional problems that we need to sort
out.
==Research and Strategy==
=== Internal Research Progress ===
We publicized and explained the results of the Editor Trends Study
(see highlights). A paper by Howie Fung and Diederik van Liere
describing the results from the Editor Trends study was submitted and
is currently under review for the WikiSym 2011 conference.
As a result of the launch of v.2 of the Article Feedback tool in
March, we started collecting and analyzing data on rater expertise and
calls to action following the rating completion, complementing the
previous results on article ratings.
=== Research Committee Activity ===
The survey on expert participation in Wikipedia [1] conducted by
Wikimedia Foundation Research Committee members Daniel Mietchen, Dario
Taraborelli and Panagiota Alevizou was covered by Zoe Corbyn in an
article for ''the Guardian'' published on March 29, 2011 [2] (and
followed by an editorial on April 6 [3]) also featuring interviews
with Mike Peel, a postdoctoral researcher at Jodrell Bank Observatory
and secretary of the Wikimedia UK chapter, Mark Graham from the Oxford
Internet Institute, Paul Goldberg from the University of Liverpool,
and Suzie Sheehy from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The survey
was also featured in a Slashdot story [4] that generated 385 comments
as of April 6. The survey is still accepting participants and will
close on April 15.
=== Research outreach initiatives ===
The preparation for the data competition (in partnership with Kaggle)
and the data visualization challenge (co-organized with WikiSym)
continued throughout March. The focus of the first data visualization
challenge will be on Wikipedia's ''external impact'' and both the
Foundation and WikiSym are involving a number of organizations to
sponsor this competition. A call for contributions for both
initiatives will be published in April.
:1. http://survey.nitens.org/?sid=21693
:2. http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/mar/29/wikipedia-survey-academic-c…
:3. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/06/in-praise-of-academic-wiki…
:4. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/30/1957240/Wikipedia-Wants-More-Contri…
== Community ==
The Community Department made progress on several community organizing
and research projects in March.
=== Wiki Guides Project ===
With 60 volunteers taking part, the Wiki Guides program continues to
be exciting. The program follows and protects new users through their
initial days by offering a sheltering and supportive atmosphere. In
particular, we have emphasized rescuing articles created by new users.
Statistics are being posted on meta, but one early finding shows we
have to move very quickly to intervene before the new users lose
interest. Each guide is following nearly 100 users. We are analyzing
against a control group, and look forward to presenting those results
to the community.
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Guides
: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Guides
=== OTRS Analysis ===
Christine is beginning a 360 degree analysis of the OTRS e-mail
ticketing system from both a technical and social perspective. She is
reaching out to administrators, users, and "customers" to determine
whether our current system is sufficient, has glaring needs (such as
training or technology), and is appropriately scalable to support
growth in India and other areas where readership is rising quickly.
=== Contribution Taxonomy ===
Steven Walling and others in the Community Department resumed work on
the Contribution Taxonomy Project. The methodology description on Meta
has been updated, [1] work began on defining metrics for measuring
specific editing activities, [2] and public tracking of the data
analysis was added. [3] The community is invited to help refine the
metrics, research questions, and help run analyses using the open
source "Wikilytics" toolkit developed during the Editor Trends Study.
[4]
: [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Contribution_Taxonomy_Project#Methodology
: [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Contribution_Taxonomy_Project/Research_Quest…
: [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Contribution_Taxonomy_Project/Progress
: [4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilytics
=== Account Creation Improvement Project ===
Fellow Lennart Guldbrandsson continued testing modifications to the
account creation experience. Statistics gathered so far show a slight
increase in edits made by people creating new accounts as a result of
changed user interface messages.
: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Account_Creation_Improvement_Project
=== Fundraiser ===
The fundraising team welcomed Josh VanDavier as our permanent
Development Associate to support the growth and integrity of our donor
database, help prepare for the next fundraiser, and respond to donor
inquiries. For a full description of the role:
: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Development_Associate
We also posted several open positions for the next fundraiser that can
be seen here:
: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings
Chapter and WMF fundraising representatives have started planning a
summit to be hosted by WMAT in July to collaborate on the 2011
fundraiser.
=== Public Policy Initiative ===
Approximately 1.4 million characters (or about 900 pages) of content
were added to the English Wikipedia in March by students participating
in the Public Policy Initiative (a project focused on improving
articles in the domain of public policy and funded by a grant). With
some PPI classes scheduled to start editing Wikipedia articles in
April, we will continue to watch the numbers climb. For more
information on how the students and classes are doing, check out the
new Leaderboard:
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Pol…
LiAnna Davis and Amy Roth successfully presented at the SoTL
Conference for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Georgia and
drew lots of interest in Wikipedia in Higher Education as well as
potential universities to work with next fall. Frank, Rod, and Annie
met with Wikimedia chapter members from Germany, the UK and Italy. The
three-day meeting was hosted by the German Chapter to discuss
Wikipedia in Higher Education and what aspects of PPI could be
adapted/modified to work in the various countries.
=== Fellowship Program ===
The Wikimedia Fellowship Program now has a public application process
posted on Meta. [1] Since its announcement on September 15, 2010, [2]
the fellowship program has been experimental, with both the Global
Development Department and Community Department engaging with
community members on an ad hoc basis. The new process outlines two
different kinds of fellows and a public procedure for applying or
proposing a fellowship.
:[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships
:[2] http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/09/15/wikimedia-foundation-fellowship-p…
==Global Development==
===General===
* Asaf Bartov joined Global Development as a contractor to work on
Global South Relationships.
* In addition to the chapters conference (see highlights), several
Wikimedians including WMF staff participated in Global Melt 2011 in
Berlin, an unconference about event organizing in the Open
Code/Data/Content movements. We made some promising contacts and
hatched some ideas for collaboration with Mozilla, CC, and others.
* Posted two new positions for the Communications team:
: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Movement_Communications_Ma…
: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Design_Communications_Mana…
===Chapter Relations and Grants===
* Updates to the Grants program were introduced by Asaf and discussed
at Wikimedia Conference in Berlin.
* Outreach materials mini-grants were made available under WMF's grants program.
====Grants awarded in March====
*WikiSym Conference (USA): $20,000.00 USD in support of The
International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym).
: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_XX/WikiSym_2011.
*Wikimedia Ukraine: $6,400.00 USD to help WMUA build up its structural
support base in order to sustain the projects which it plans to
pursue.
: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_UA/Chapter_startup.
*Recent Changes Camp 2011 Boston (USA): $1,500.00 USD to support
Boston's recent changes camp.
: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_RecentChangesCamp2011_Boston.
*Wikimedia Indonesia: Beacon of Theology: $2,400.00 USD to support a
72-day wiki-based writing competition.
: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_ID/Beacon_of_Theology_2011.
*Launch of a Chapter Organizational consulting pilot initiative to
work with Wikimedia Netherlands, Sweden, Czech Republic and Hungary.
====Chapter Relations====
* WMF and chapters have been working to ensure that we have chapter
agreements in place that help to clarify our relationship and
responsibilities. We had 24 of 30 chapter agreements in place at the
end of March. Current status here:
: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter_Agreements#Table_of_chapters_and_the…
* WMF and the chapters who participate in fundraising continue to have
reporting and fund transfer responsibilities. The attached page shows
the status of completion of these responsibilities:
: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tracking_Progress_for_2011_chapters_fundrais…
===Communications===
* The 2009/10 annual report was released (see highlights).
* There was light media activity through March overall, with few major
stories or issues breaking headlines.
* Communications welcomed nine new members to the Communications
Committee, including members from the UK, Japan, Hungary, Germany,
Hong Kong, South Korea, Cambodia, India, and Egypt.
* Communications worked to revamp current social media practices to
make them more open and inclusive.
* The IRC channel dedicated to communications discussions has been
revived and anyone interested in participating is encouraged to join
#wikimedia-comcom on irc.freenode.net.
====Major Stories and Coverage====
A two-day visit from Fast Company freelancer Karen Valby yielded a
large story in the April issue of Fast Company, which was released in
March. Valby interviewed WMF ED Sue Gardner, and explored the
details of the Wikimedia strategic plan and the history and future of
Wikimedia:
: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/154/librarian-to-the-world.html
There were only three incoming media inquiries in March from the
Guardian (UK), Der Freitag (Germany) and Convergance Magazine (Canada)
: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room/Media_Contact#March_2011
Other worthwhile reads:
*http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/221632/5_women_leaders_who_are_shaping_it.html
*http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate-uk/2011/03/06/women-and-the-science-education-question/
*http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-0303-wiki-20110303,0,3948115.story
*http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/22/reinventing-your-business-wikipedia-style/
*http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/mar/29/wikipedia-survey-academic-contributions
====Blogging through February, 2011====
Topics of March Blogs included:
* “How Wikipedia Works” hits our shelves
* Brion Vibber rejoins Wikimedia Foundation
* Wikipedia celebrates International Women’s Day
* Update on Offline Wikipedia Projects
* Presenting our 2009-10 annual report
* Welcoming more ubuntu spirit to the Wikimedia movement
* Campus Ambassador program tackles gender gap
See: http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/03/
===Mobile===
*Hired external contractor to work with Global Development Research on
qualitative field research in India (and then Brazil) on mobile user
behaviour to inform future mobile strategy and feature development.
*Device testing: Analyzed mobile and other Internet connected devices
in strategically important global dev regions for user testing.
*Currently adjusting the focus of relationships with exisiting mobile
partners Telefonica and Orange to include greater access to Wikipedia
in priority regions of Latin America,the Middle East and Africa.
*Developing a new affiliate partner program to increase mobile
partnerships worldwide. Currently in discussions with multiple
companies to test pilots.
*Soliciting community input on how to balance confidentiality
requirements of companies with our culture of transparency and
openness.
===Editor Survey===
*An editor survey across the Wikimedia sites is scheduled to launch in
April with the goal of increasing our understanding of the current
state of the editor community. This survey will be repeated regularly
to provide us (the Wikimedia movement) with regular feedback from the
editor community.
: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Editors_Survey_2011
*The editor survey will be available in 22 languages thanks to the
efforts of volunteers Casey Brown and Alex Zariv, the Engineering team
and global development staff along with our outside research
organization, Resolve Market Research.
===Offline===
*Blog post: http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/03/16/update-on-offline-wikipedia-proje…
*Wikipedia 0.8 came out: a huge effort spearheaded by volunteer
Martin Walker to create a high quality, high importance subset of
articles from English Wikipedia.
*Created an offline portal consolidating all offline work:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects.
===Global Education===
* Finalized white paper outlining the benefits of expanding to a
global university program (comments would be appreciated):
: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_University_Program
===India Programs===
Hisham Mundol visited San Francisco and used the opportunity to
conduct intensive face-to-face meetings across functions, with the
objective of socialising and detailing the India Plan. Hisham also
attended the Chapters Conference in Berlin to engage with other
chapters as well as Wikimedia's Board, with the objective of learning
from others' experiences and to further sharpen the India Plan.
On the ground in India:
*Detailed the India Plan and shared it with Community.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_programs
*Worked on legal/corporate structure for India entity.
*Started reaching out to community for inclusion in Fellowships/Staff Members.
*Started to identify potential communications agencies about
partnerhips with WMF.
==Human Resources==
===Staff Changes===
New (RE)Hire
* Brion Vibber, Lead Software Architect (Tech) – FT employee
Conversion
* Josh VanDavier, Development Associate (Community) – FT Employee
Extended
* James Alexander, Community Fellow (Community) – Temp Full Time
New Postings
* Storyteller
* Software Engineer – Community R&D
* Movement Communications Manager
* Data Analyst and Researcher
* Engineering Program Manager – Data Analytics
* Community Liaison
* Fundraiser Production Coordinator
* Design Communications Manager
No Contracts Ended
===Statistics===
Vital Stats: Total Employee Count
:Plan: 88
:Actual: 64
:Attrition: 3
: Remaining Open positions to fiscal year end: 28
Diversity stats:
* 64 Total Employees (includes people considered international employees)
* 42.9% female employees; 6.9% increase from 7/1/10
* 31.8% ethnic minorities; 5.8% increase from 7/1/10
* 38.1% foreign nationals; 1.9% increase in U.S. hiring from 7/1/10
* 43.8% Wikimedians; 1.75% increase from 7/1/10
* 71.4% have lived abroad; 1.4% increase from 7/1/10
Real-time feed for HR updates:
: http://identi.ca/wikimediaatwork or http://twitter.com/wikimediaatwork
===Department Updates===
During the month of March, the HR team continued building out a more
efficient hiring pipeline in collaboration with hiring managers. The
goal was to evaluate how to better reach qualified candidates,
specifically those who understand the open source movement and
particularly the Wikimedia movement. We also had a few conversations
with folks outside of WMF to discuss their ideas and suggestions.
The results of this work should start to become apparent when we
report out again in April.
Internally, we are continuing to implement OrangeHRM. This is a human
resource information system that will make some pieces of HR more
efficient by automating some of the more transactional pieces, such as
data tracking and internal resource management. The second step will
be creating a database behind the job opening process that allows
people to apply directly into an internal/secure database, making our
hiring process more streamlined and efficient.
We have also been collaborating with the other departments to create
the annual plan and budget for the 2011-12 fiscal year.
==Finance and Administration==
*Invoiced chapters related to 2010-11 fundraiser participation
*Presented 2009 Form 990 tax return to audit committee for review and approval
*Held budget meetings with various departments to begin preparation
for 2011-12 annual plan development
*Hired interim IT Project Manager and set date for Google Apps
Migration (April 22-25)
*Completed search for interim Head of Office Administration (will
start April 25)
*Completed search for interim IT Help Desk positions (started April 4)
==Legal==
*Received strong WIPO opinion underscoring that the Wikipedia
trademark is "widely known around the world for providing information
in the field of general encyclopedic knowledge."
*Started search for Deputy General Counsel (with an emphasis on
transactional work).
*Will sign on to amicus brief in Golan v. Holder, where the Supreme
Court must decide whether the Copyright Clause gives Congress
authority to take a work out of the public domain.
*Worked on policies to help guide WMF employees on how to approach
content issues.
==Visitors and Guests==
#Anna Sew Hoy (San Jose Museum of Art)
#JoAnne Northrup (San Jose Museum of Art)
#Victoria Bellotti (PARC)
#Dmitry Buslaev (CitizenGlobal)
#Eben Moglen (Software Freedom Law Center)
#Harshad Gune (Open Source Initiative Board Member)
#Ed Bice (CEO of Meedan)
#Sebastian Moleski (Board President of Wikimedia Germany)
#Heather Ford (former Advisory Board member for WMF and a CC activist)
#David Peters (ExBrook)
#David Weir (Consultant for Annual report)
#Ben Lowenstein and Lee Jacobs (Colingo.org)
#Michael Lopez (Solid Ground)
#Lennart Guldbrandsson (community fellow)
#Randy Tan (AV and journalism at San Mateo College)
#Sara Godwin (UCSF student for PPI)
#Anhika Kline (UCSF student for PPI)
#Pamela May (Design Media)
#Sarah Hargrave (Hargrave Consulting)
#Michael Snow (former Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees)
#Latoya Peterson (Social Media Consultant)
#Ward Cunningham
The board of Wikimedia Denmark has committed itself to quarterly
reports. This is the first one.
Regards,
Ole
Quarterly Report - April 2011
Members and Economy
Wikimedia Denmark has 20 members at the end of first quarter and a
treasury of approx. DKK 1650,-
Activities in 1st quarter 2011
Internal
Two board meetings was conducted; a physical presence meeting in
February and one online in March.
External
During the quarter, Wikipedia's tenth anniversary gave some Danish
publicity. Unfortunately we had to cancel the planned Wiki-X
celebration, but in 2012 we will be celebrating the Danish-language
Wikipedias 10 years anniversary.
We have continued our talks with various cultural organizations
(detailed below) and with IT-Politisk Forening (IT-Political
Association).
We were not able to conduct the planned seminar Kulturarv og
Delingskultur (Cultural Heritage and Shared Culture), but we continue
our dialogue with Dansk Historisk Fællesråd (Danish Historical
Confederation).
IT-Political Association of Denmark
In February we had a meeting with IT-Political Association of Denmark
to see if we have some common interests and concerns. Through a good
dialogue we found out that these common interests only are a few, as
their primary concern is about individuals rights and privacy on the
internet. In some areas, as copyright, we have some common interests,
we have decided to remain in contact, though no further activities are
currently planned.
Planned activities in Q2-Q3-Q4 2011
Collaboration with the National Museum of Denmark
The National Museum of Denmark wants to create Wikipedia articles on
all Danish Runestones. To accomodate this, they will seek to assign an
employee specialised in Runestones and donate pictures of runestones
to the Wikimedia Commons.
The National Museum will create a day, especially for wikipedians to
photograph numerous artefacts and the Museum will further explore the
possibility of donating an amount of existing images to Wikimedia
Commons.
In late 2011 or in the beginning of 2012, the National Museum
advertises a Wikipedian-in-residence position.
Collaboration with The Danish State Archives
The Danish State Archives wants more public awareness of its holdings,
and will invite Wikipedians to photograph a number of archival
materials, selected jointly by the parties.
The Danish State Archives are examining their options to receive a
Wikipedian-in-residence during 2011. An announcement for this must be
prepared.
Wiki Loves Monuments
There has been an initial meeting with the Heritage Agency of Denmark
on buildings, monuments, etc.
WikiWednesday
WikiWednesday is expected to resume in May.
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