WikimediaAnnounce-l

wikimediaannounce-l@lists.wikimedia.org

2 participants
1659 discussions

[Announce] Brion Vibber to rejoin Wikimedia Foundation
by Danese Cooper 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

Hello, Yes, the rumors are true! Today I am pleased to announce that after more than a year away, Brion Vibber will be returning as a full-time employee of Wikimedia Foundation on March 31, 2011. The public posting is available http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/03/06/brion-vibber-rejoins-wikimedia-fo…. I'm really excited to be announcing this hire, especially at this time. I've been looking for a Lead Architect for the next generation MediaWiki platform, and Brion is of course the ultimate expert in MediaWiki internals. He's also deeply committed to the work we are doing to keep MediaWiki relevant for the next 10 years. I completely enjoy working with Brion, and I'm totally looking forward to having him back on the team full time (he has always helped out on a volunteer basis). Anyway, I wanted to give you all a heads up before the public announcement. Please join me in welcoming him back! Danese Cooper CTO, Wikimedia Foundation

1 1

Chapter report Wikimedia Nederland, February 2011
by Lodewijk 05 Mar '11

05 Mar '11

Wiki Loves Monuments After the success of last year, Wiki Loves Monuments will go Europe in 2011! Many countries have indicated that they want to participate this time, and coordination is being set up. Lodewijk has participated a brainstorm meeting in Cologne by German Wikimedians to organize their event and also in other countries much progress is being made. More information: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/Progress Strategy Weekend On 19/20 February Wikimedia Nederland had a strategy weekend in Zeist. The meeting is part of the Wikimedia Nederland strategy process, which is facilitated by Anna Royon-Weigelt. The strategy process was already planned, and has been fit into a pilot project for chapter strategy processes by Anna and Sebastian Moleski. A report of the outcomes and the process following this weekend will be sent to the members. Board interest meeting After the success of last year, also this time a board interest meeting was organized. Potential candidates for the board could familiarize themselves with the association, board work and/or other potential candidates. Meetings & Conferences A stamtafel has been organized again. The food was served cold - suggestions for a new location are welcome! Lodewijk has presented Wiki Loves Monuments at the Bangalore Wikimeet via Skype on February 13. Press attention summary There was some more coverage on the 10th anniversary of Wikipedia, mainly with some more in depth interviews in regional newspapers, but throughout the country. There was also a notice about the cooperation with the National Archive and on the National Architecture Institute choosing a more free licensing policy. Upcoming: - 18-20 March: Lodewijk will attend the Wikimedia Conference in Wroclaw, Poland - 20 March: MaartenD will give a workshop around Wiki Loves Monuments at WMDE's General Meeting in Berlin, Germany - 25-27 March: Paul and Siebrand will represent Wikimedia Nederland at the Wikimedia Chapters Meeting in Berlin, Germany - 28-29 March: Lodewijk and Siebrand will attend Global Melt in Berlin, Germany - April 2: General Assembly - June: 10 years Dutch Wikipedia - September: Wiki Loves Monuments Europe

1 0

The Signpost – Volume 7, Issue 9 – 28 February 2011
by Wikipedia Signpost 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

1 0

Chapters report WMSE January 2011
by Jan Ainali 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

This is the chapters report for Wikimedia Sverige, January 2011. == WP10 == We had two great events. One at Thursday evening where we had a debate and one in Saturday, day time, where we served cake, gave talks, had Q&A and showed Truth in numbers and other video clips. Images here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_10_Sweden 31 mentions in the media! Several board members interviewed on the radio and TV and some Wikipedians featured in newspapers. http://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_i_media&oldid… == Photo hunt == We arranged a photo hunt in the midst of Sweden. Not all images are uploaded yet but they will be in this category on commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikisafari,_Leksand_2011 == Accreditation of a photographer == The president of Estonia visited Sweden and pictures are here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:January_18-20,_2011_Toomas_Hendr… ==Saving Mount Everest== We were invited to the Swedish launch of this project and managed to take these pictures of some mountaineers: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Saving_Mount_Everest,_Swedish_la… == Planning meeting == The board had a yearly planning meeting, this time hosted by the Nordic museum. Jan Ainali Secretary Wikimedia Sverige

1 0

Chapter report Wikimedia Czech Republic, January 2011
by Juan de Vojníkov 26 Feb '11

26 Feb '11

Dear Wikimedians, I can see <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports#Wikimedia_Czech_Republic>, that we haven't reported about our activities and state for a very long time. It is probably due to the fact that writing a good report is hard, as reported by Eric Moeller (in *[Internal-l] Chapters Reporting --Sustainability*). Today I am coming with January 2011 report and I hope, I will be able to prepare it every month. Maybe during 2011's spring, we will offer you our Annual report for 2010, which may fill up the gap between the last report<http://www.wikimedia.cz/web/Report_March_-_June_2009>and this report. Regards, Jan Lochman (Juan de Vojníkov) Wikimedia Czech Republic chair ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- == WMCZ Report (January 2011) == === General Assembly === January 8, 2011 an early General Assembly (GA) was held in the registered place of Wikimedia Czech Republic in Prague. It was caused by the decline of the number of Board (B) members under 3, when internal rules calls for an extraordinary GA to call to order within 60 days. 18 of 29 members where counted on this event on the beginning. Two people from WMDE as observers, were invited by former Board. During this assembly all former B members resigned (2 of 2) and the same for the auditor (1 of 1). Thus the new B members and Auditing Committee (AC), where elected. There are mostly new faces to both organs. New Board members are (4 from 5, while this can be variable): *Jan Lochman (user:Juan de Vojníkov, chair) *Jiří Ohlídal (user:Jirka O., vice-chair) *Milda (B member 2009/2010, AC member 2010/2011) *Frettie *5th position left empty New Auditing Committee members are (2 of 3): *Krvesaj (chair) *Zákupák *3rd position left empty On this GA changes to actual bylaws and other internal documents were made. GA agreed Annual Report 2010, Annual Report from the Auditor 2010, Annual action plan 2011 and Annual financial plan 2011. Annual financial report for 2010 was not ready and thus it should be completed by the end of April 2010. === January 15, 10 years of Wikipedia === ==== Concert for the benefit of Wikimedia Commons ==== Okino, one of the members of WMCZ had organized an open concert of Czech composers <http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praha_/_Prague> of classical music such as Leos Janacek, Jakub Jan Ryba, Bedrich Smetana or Antonin Dvorak. Also a special copy of Wikimedium magazine was released for this event with an interview with Miroslav Malovec<http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslav_Malovec>, first editor of Czech Wikipedia. All songs were recorded and will be released to Wikimedia Commons. ==== Other ==== Juan de Vojníkov met with some Austrian Wikimedinas celebrating in Gratz via Skype. Danny B., Frettie, Jirka O., Juan de Vojníkov, Mormegil, Okino and Packa were interviewed by local mass media about 10 years of Wikipedia. === Internal === There were around 30 members in January and new members were coming. Board meetings are open to all members. These meetings were organized via IRC and TeamSpeak <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeamSpeak>, individual discussion were also done via Skype. Also one auditor committee happened.

1 0

Wikimedia presents its five-year strategic plan
by Ting Chen 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

Dear Wikimedia community and friends: I am very pleased to present the summary report of the Wikimedia Foundation's five-year strategic plan: our first-ever such plan, developed through a transparent collaborative process involving more than a thousand participants during 2009 and 2010. The strategic plan summary can be found on the WMF wiki: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Movement_Strategic_Plan_Summa… And a wiki-based version will also be housed on the Strategy Planning wiki: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Movement_Strategic_Plan_Summary The purpose of this plan is to chart a direction for the Wikimedia movement to carry us into 2015, clearly articulating our key priorities: * To stabilize Wikimedia's technical, financial and organizational infrastructure * To increase participation * To improve quality * To increase reach * To encourage innovation We'll know we have been successful when we: * Increase the total number of people served to 1 billion * Increase the amount of information we offer to 50 million Wikipedia articles * Ensure information is high quality by increasing the percentage of material reviewed to be of high or very high quality by 25 percent * Encourage readers to become contributors by increasing the number of total editors per month who made>5 edits to 200,000 * Support healthy diversity in the editing community by doubling the percentage of female editors to 25 percent and increasing the number of Global South editors to 37 percent The plan, which has been unanimously endorsed by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, will be hosted on strategy.wikimedia.org, which we anticipate will allow for localization of the report, so it can be shared with a global audience. Everyone is encouraged to help with the translation and localization process on the wiki. I want to thank everyone who contributed to the development of the plan -- the more than one thousand people who worked together on the strategy wiki, on IRC and Skype and mailing lists and in face-to-face meetings, to develop the plan. I would also like to particularly thank Sue Gardner, Eugene Eric Kim, Barry Newstead and Philippe Beaudette. And I'd like to thank my predecessor, former Chair Michael Snow, who commissioned the project. This is the first time ever that anybody has developed a five-year strategic plan in a truly open, collaborative process: we should all be very proud of what we've done here. This is the blueprint for Wikimedia through 2015, and we are energized and enthusastic about where Wikimedia is heading. Our projects will lead the expansion and growth of high-quality free knowledge both on the internet and in off-line settings. Please join us in sharing this plan and helping to make it a reality. Ting Chen, Chair of the Wikimedia Board of Trustees -- Ting Chen Member of the Board of Trustees Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. E-Mail: tchen(a)wikimedia.org

1 0

The Signpost – Volume 7, Issue 8 – 21 February 2011
by Wikipedia Signpost 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

1 0

Wikimedia Sverige chapters report december 2010
by Jan Ainali 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

==Fundraising== We were taking part in the fundraiser for the first time. ==Wikipedia 10== We did lots of planning of this event. ==Op-ed== We got several persons to co-sign an op-ed with the headline "Publish the cultural treasure where people is looking". These people were mostly thought leaders of the digital age which included a member of the parliament. http://www.svd.se/opinion/brannpunkt/publicera-kulturskatterna-dar-folk-sok… ==Blog== We published 7 blog posts which can be found here: http://wikimediasverige.wordpress.com/2010/12/ One interesting blog post was about a new tool, mwhistory, which can be found here: http://srv01.testlabb.se:8080/mwhistory/

1 0

Wikimedia Sverige chapters report November 2011
by Jan Ainali 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

== Image donation from Nordiska museet == We recieved 1000 images from Nordiska museet which is being uploaded to Commons in Category:Images from Nordiska museet. == Wikipedia Academy == We arranged a Wikipedia Academy at the Royal library. == In the media == There has been lots of mentioning of us and Wikipedia in the media. This has been due to two reasons, the image donation mentioned above and Sue's visit to Sweden during Wikipedia Academy. == FSCONS == We had several members attending The Free Socitey and Culture Nordic Summit where we made lot of good contacts. == Wikiversity == *Wikiversity in Swedish has opened. == Numbers == *The Swedish Wikisource has reached 5,000 text units. *The Swedish Wikiquote has reached 1,000 pages. ==References== *http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Nordiska_Museet

1 0

Fwd: [WMF Staff] Announcing Hisham Mundol as consultant for National Programs, India
by Jay Walsh 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

Barry - can you send this to: wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org As well? I'll approve it right away. Begin forwarded message: > From: Barry Newstead <bnewstead(a)wikimedia.org> > Date: February 15, 2011 9:01:50 AM PST > To: WMF Staff <staff(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Cc: hisham <hisham.mundol(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [WMF Staff] Announcing Hisham Mundol as consultant for National Programs, India > Reply-To: WMF Staff Mailing List <staff(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > Dear colleagues, > > I am pleased to announce the > appointment of Hisham Mundol as a consultant to the Wikimedia > Foundation to support us in our program initiatives in India. > > As you know, the Wikimedia > Foundation declared India to be a strategic priority during > the strategic planning process [1]. I announced our plans for > the formation of an office in August 2010 and the Wikimedia > Foundation Board of Trustees approved the creation of the > Wikimedia India chapter in June 2010. India is a priority for > the Wikimedia movement as it has a strong and growing > community of Wikimedians building the Indic and English > language projects. It is a country where the Wikimedia > movement can achieve our mission and learn important lessons > for achieving impact elsewhere. The engagement of Hisham will > enable the Wikimedia Foundation to pilot new initiatives aimed > at accelerating the growth of the community in India. I am > very happy we’ve now reached this point. > > As I have mentioned in the > past, we have a lot of momentum in India but we have a long > way to go to achieve our full potential as a movement. > Indians represent 4% of the world’s Internet users today (and > this share is growing), yet they only represent 1.5% of page > edits on Wikipedia. We should be able to rapidly increase this > share - across all projects - and expand readership in a > corresponding fashion. > > Hisham’s title will be > Consultant, India National Programs. He will report to me. > His role will be to design and implement specific pilot > programs that encourage many more Indians to become > contributors to our projects in Indic languages as well as > English. The National Programs initiative will focus on the > following areas in the first year: > Design and implement an > India-wide program to increase Wikimedia’s footprint on > university and college campuses with students and faculty > with the aim of encouraging contributions to Wikimedia > projects > Support the launch and > implementation of community-initiated programs that seek > to increase the editor base for Wikimedia projects > Engage with the > community and chapter to build a strong relationship among > these stakeholder groups and create communications forums > that allow for effective partnerships > > > As a newcomer to the > Wikimedia movement, Hisham’s first task will be to deepen his > understanding of us: our history, goals, values, culture and > mission. To that end, he will be spending the coming weeks > (not months!) in learning mode: Hisham and I will be meeting > with community members in Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore on Feb > 23-25 and then Hisham will join community meetings across the > country as they occur. Hisham will also spend time in San > Francisco with the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation, as well > as with other like-minded individuals and organizations and he > will attend the chapter conference in Berlin. > > Hisham will be creating a > workspace on strategy wiki where he will share what he is > learning and develop the core elements of the action plan > going forward. We encourage active community engagement on > this wiki. We aim to move to action quickly and welcome input > and guidance from across the community. > > Hisham was most recently a > consultant with the Public Health Foundation of India (in a > partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation). He > designed and implemented large-scale national programs on > HIV/AIDS prevention. He worked to understand the dynamics of > hard-to-reach communities by conducting in-depth, > on-the-ground analysis (ask him to tell you about his > experience talking to drivers while sitting under their > trucks). The programs he designed and implemented sought to > convince people in large numbers - 400 million young people > across the nation - to change very personal behaviours. While > we are not tackling issues of such an intimate nature, we do > aim to convince large numbers of people across the country to > contribute their personal time to Wikimedia projects. During > this assignment, Hisham worked closely with public, private > and community groups (local and international) to work through > the details of the programs and build partnerships for > implementing them at scale. He did so in a manner that used > persuasion rather than power to build support to move things > forward. We think his experience navigating these varied > groups position him well to work in the Wikimedia community. > His earlier career was in marketing and business development > with a number of well-known businesses: Infosys, Accenture, > Cadbury and Unilever. This experience positions him well to > engage with a movement and organization that is global in > nature, in particular to work with a team that is based > halfway around the world. > > We have scheduled an IRC > chat with Hisham and myself for Thursday, February 17 at 22:00 > India Standard Time (16:30 UTC). > > I want to thank everyone who > helped in the selection process that identified Hisham. It was > a five month process in which we made an open call for > consultants (using my visit in September to drum up interest > via conversations with the community and the media) in India > and around the world. We had 197 applicants from a wide range > of professional backgrounds. Egon Zehnder’s India office, > part of a leading global executive search firm, helped screen > candidates and manage the process. Egon Zehnder conducted > indepth interviews with 25 candidates based on the inputs from > Bishakha and I who helped shortlist. I interviewed 12 > candidates via Skype in the first round and then I had the > help of Bishakha Datta and Achal Prabhala to interview the top > seven in person in Bangalore. Our top two candidates met with > Sue and Erik in Delhi and then Hisham met with the entire WMF > leadership team and a broad group of staff members in San > Francisco. > > We are very happy with the > selection of Hisham. We recognize that we did not manage to > hire someone from inside the Wikimedia community or the open > source community. We did look for people with this background > and one of our finalists was a long time open source advocate. > We also engaged with a long time Wikimedian for a role, though > he ultimately decided to withdraw for personal reasons. We > are committed to seeing Hisham integrate himself into the > community quickly and to seeing him add people to his team > from the community. We hope that the community will engage > actively with him to bring him into the fold. Hisham will most > definitely bring fresh perspectives to the movement that will > help us grow and change for the better. > > Please join me in welcoming > Hisham to the Wikimedia movement. > > > [1] http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Role_of_the_WMF > [2] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2010-August/000850.ht… > -- > Barry Newstead > Chief Global Development Officer > Wikimedia Foundation > Tel: +1-415-839-6885 x. 6634 > Skype: barry.wikimedia > Twitter: @bazanews > _______________________________________________ > Staff mailing list > Staff(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/staff -- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org blog.wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609, @jansonw

1 0

Jump to page:

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

WikimediaAnnounce-l