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Fwd: [cultural-partners] Announcing GLAM-WIKI:UK
by Erik Moeller 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

FYI. Liam Wyatt has championed Wikimedia's relationships with cultural institutions, and has led key initiatives like the British Museum's "Wikipedian in Residence" program in June 2010 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BM ). Please see his announcement below regarding an important event hat will take place in London in November. Hope some of you will be able to make it there. :-) Erik ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com> Date: 2010/9/14 Subject: [cultural-partners] Announcing GLAM-WIKI:UK To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, chapters-cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch, Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List < foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: board(a)wikimedia.org.uk, Matthew Cock <MCOCK(a)thebritishmuseum.ac.uk> Dear WikimediaUK, Cultural Partnerships & Foundation-l mailing lists, On behalf of Wikimedia UK I am pleased to formally announce the second edition of the GLAM-WIKI conference - this time to be held in London at the British Museum on the 26th and 27th of November. The purpose of this conference is to bring the UK and European GLAM sector [gallery, library, archive & museum] into direct conversation with the Wikimedia community so we can build a better understanding of our common purpose - sharing culture - and how to assist each to best do that. After all, we are here for the same reason, for the same people, in the same medium so we might as well do it together :-) As the British Museum will be generously hosting this event, and today marks the anniversary of the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone (hence today's Feature Article on the English Wikipedia), we thought it would be an auspicious time to declare that registration is now open. The registration price for Wikimedians is £20. You can read all the details at: *http://glamwiki.org* <http://glamwiki.org> and the WM-UK blogpost just published: http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2010/09/announcing-registration-now-open-for-g… Wikimedia France will be hosting edition three of GLAM-WIKI one week later in December at the *Assemblée nationale* in Paris, and Wikimedia Australia hosted edition one last year at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, so we're in good company. Keynote speakers at this conference will be: - Author, activist, blogger and London local *Cory Doctorow<http://craphound.com/> * - Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation *Sue Gardner<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Sue_Gardner> * - Director of the Columbia University copyright advisory office *Dr. Kenneth Crews<http://copyright.columbia.edu/copyright/about/director-and-staff/> * And many other presenters besides! Some are already listed on the conference page and many more will be announced by @wikimediaUK<http://twitter.com/wikimediauk> Wikimedians from the UK and further afield are invited to register for this conference. If you are in contact with professionals in the GLAM sector, please mention this event to them too. Moreover, if you would like to come and moderate a session please write to me directly with your proposed session. If you have any questions you can write to me privately, leave them on the event's talkpage or reply on the mailing list. Sincerely, Liam [[witty lama]] Convener, GLAM-WIKI:UK & Wikipedian in Residence, British Museum wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata _______________________________________________ Chapters-cultural-partners mailing list Chapters-cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch http://lists.wikimedia.ch/listinfo/chapters-cultural-partners -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Cyn Skyberg joins Wikimedia as CTCO!
by Sue Gardner 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

Hi folks, I'm delighted to tell you that the Wikimedia Foundation has just hired its first-ever Chief Talent and Culture Officer. Cyn Skyberg will begin work with us this coming Monday, September 13. She'll report to me. As CTCO, Cyn will have two major first priorities: to help the Wikimedia Foundation's hiring managers recruit amazing staff (including key new positions such as the director of operations [1] and the national program director for India [2]), and to continue the work of creating and entrenching a staff culture that fits inside the bigger Wikimedia culture and shares its values of independence, openness, community, transparency and diversity. In this work, she'll be supported by Daniel Phelps, the Wikimedia Foundation's Human Resources Manager. This is a really important job, and as I worked through the hiring process it became clear that I needed to find someone unusually creative and flexible, with a real passion for understanding and supporting people in voluntary online communities. Cyn stands out as exactly that. For the past five years, Cyn has worked at Linden Labs, the organization behind Second Life. There, she held a series of increasingly-responsible positions culminating in Vice President of Partnerships -- all of which included responsibility for the Second Life user community. Both the Second Life and Wikimedia communities are known for being iconoclastic and independent of spirit – nobody is exactly like us, LOL, but I think that Cyn's experience at Second Life will nonetheless help equip her to do well in our world :-) And, Linden is pretty much identical in age to the Wikimedia Foundation, and went through a massive growth spurt during Cyn's time there, which has I think enabled her to understand and navigate the challenges and opportunities that come with growth and change. She has done lots of recruiting, including outside the United States: during her time at Linden she hired in the UK, Germany, Australia, the Netherlands, France, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Korea and Singapore. She also incorporated an outsourced group in Newcastle, and was the executive sponsor of Linden's Brighton office. And, she worked with other Linden executives to develop Linden's internal culture, including its employee and mentorship programs. Prior to Linden, Cyn worked in museums: first at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History where she worked with the Anthropology department and managed the retail operations, followed by running the retail organizations (including managing both paid staff and volunteers) at the Portland Art Museum and the San Jose Museum of Art. Cyn has a bachelor's degree in cultural anthropology from the University of California (Santa Barbara). While at Linden she developed an interest in helping organizations focus on individual empowerment and collaboration, and she's now about to receive a master's degree in organizational psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. I am delighted Cyn will be joining us: please help me welcome her. But -- she doesn't yet have a Wikimedia e-mail address, and she's not yet subscribed to our mailing lists. So maybe wait for Monday :-) I'd also like to take a second to thank the people who helped with the hiring process --- including Erik, Veronique, Barry, Danese, Zack, Daniel, Jay, Bill, Tomasz, Sal Giambanco of the Omidyar Network and HR consultant Jane Creech. And of course my thanks to our recruitment firm m|Oppenheim, who –as always-- did a terrific job. I also want to particularly thank Veronique, who's been handling the HR portfolio, with Daniel, to date. When Veronique first joined us, a lot of HR basics were missing -- such as health insurance and a retirement savings plan, vacation allotments, and procedures for hiring staff and evaluating performance. Veronique has done a great job looking after the Wikimedia Foundation's HR needs, and I'm grateful to her for it. Thanks, Sue [1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Director_of_Technical_Oper… [2] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/National_Program_Director,… -- 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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WMF Board meetings, minutes and motions
by Samuel J Klein 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

<forwarding to the announce list> Hello, This is a quick update on recent and pending Board work. I intend to send these out on a regular basis, including the work of Board committees. == Summer meetings == In July, the Board held its summer meeting in Gdańsk before Wikimania. We discussed internal Board committees, movement roles, and the last stage of the strategic plan. We agreed to try out a revised meeting schedule this year, with additional IRC meetings and just three in-person meetings, as well as a possible retreat (this would be the first one in four years -- we would finally need to disambiguate [[m:Board retreat]] ). We said goodbye and a hearty thank you to Michael Snow, and welcomed our new chapters-selected trustee, Phoebe Ayers. New officers were elected. And the Trustees spent more time enjoying Wikimania than has happened in recent memory - less overbooking, more time participating in sessions.... a welcome change. On August 31, we held the first IRC meeting of the fiscal year, to review and discuss broad targets for the strategic plan. Minutes of that meeting will be posted shortly. At the same time, we also approved the formation of Wikimedia Eesti. Welcome to the Estonian chapter! This chapter has the distinction of having received approval without translating any of their core documents into English. (While I like this, I hope that ee. editors will find time to update the Estonian pages on Meta to reflect the current state of the projects, in the language of their choice...) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Eesti http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tell_us_about_Estonian_Wikipedia You can read the latest minutes and resolutions here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/July_8,_2010 http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolutions == Upcoming meetings == The next meeting of the Board will be in San Francisco, October 8-9. The agenda will include a review of the final version of the five-year strategic plan, and the controversial content study facilitated by Robert Harris. Comments and suggestions on this and future meetings are welcome: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Board_meetings Finally, there will be an informal open Wikimedia meeting Saturday, September 11 on IRC, with our two newest Trustees. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_meetings#September_2010 On behalf of the Board, Sam -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj

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Wikimedia Foundation Report - July 2010
by Erik Moeller 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Hello all, sent on Sue's behalf. We're working through the April/May/June backlog for historical completeness, but wanted to share this new report upon completion. We should be returning to predicable production frequency now. I'd also like to invite you to help get the word out about this report, to start disseminating it to a wider audience. There's a wiki version at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_July_2010 which you can share, help improve, translate, wikify. :-) All best, Erik WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION REPORT - JULY 2010 HIGHLIGHTS 1) Wikimedia community, staff and board attend Wikimania 2010 in Gdansk, Poland. 70 travel scholarships were awarded to recipients in 39 countries. 2) Beginning of the new fiscal year. New hiring plan underway. First-ever open call for community fellowship and residency applications. 3) Catalyst grants awarded to Wikimedia chapter organizations in nine countries 4) Planning continues for new data center in Virginia WIKIMANIA 2010 More than 300 Wikimedians gathered in Gdansk, Poland, for the sixth Wikimania conference. The Wikimedia Foundation awarded 70 travel scholarships to Wikimedians from 39 countries -- greatly expanding on past years' scholarship programs. There were many side meetings in which contributors to fledgling Wikimedia projects shared experiences, encourgaged each other, and met with Wikimedia Foundation board and staff, as well as like-minded organizations. New Wikimedians, new board members, and new staff were welcomed by Wikimania regulars. A great line up of presentations and discussions delved into new and long standing questions about community health, project governance, growth and new technology. Many Wikimedia Foundation staff members gave presentations. Our communications team carried our first major video production effort focused on capturing the stories of Wikimedians on the sidelines of Wikimania. They interviewed 35 people and the final videos are forthcoming. Wikimania 2010 program: http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule Photos: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2010 Community report in the Wikipedia Signpost: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-07-12/News_a… DATA, TRENDS AND FINANCIALS The monthly report card for July 2010 can be found at: http://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/RC_2010_07_detailed.html Global unique visitors: 360 million (-5% compared to previous month / + 21.9% compared to previous year) Page requests: 13.1 billion (-6% compared to previous month / + 27.2% compared to previous year) July 1, 2010 is the beginning of the 2010-11 Financial Year. The Annual Plan can be found at: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Financial_reports Operating Revenue Budget: USD 20.4MM Operating Expense Budget: USD 20.4MM Operating revenue for July: USD 160K vs. plan of USD 188K Operating expenses July: USD1.3MM vs. plan of USD 1.6MM Unrestricted cash on hand as of mid August: USD 11.0MM The underspend in July is primarily due to underspending in capital expenditures and internet hosting (those were budgeted evenly over the year but will actually start lower and increase throughout the year) and underspending related to personnel. This was partially offset by overages related to Wikimania funding and WikiSym sponsorship and timing of Wikimania scholarships. The review of global unique visitors and pageviews shows the normal June/July seasonal drop during sommer months. Wikimedia Foundation data analyst Erik Zachte has created a series of new reports on revert trends (how frequently are changes undone), which he also presented at Wikimania. The relevant blog post can be found at: http://infodisiac.com/blog/2010/08/wikistats-reports-on-article-revert-tren… The data, for example for the English language Wikipedia, can be found at: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/EditsRevertsEN.htm In coming months, we hope to gain a better understanding of the relationship between revert trends and editing trends: Do revert ratios predict editing activity? We invite the research community to help us in the sensemaking process. An additional set of reports was prepared by Erik Zachte to capture pageviews and editing activity by country-of-origin: http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportsCountriesLanguagesV… Particularly noticeable is the relatively high percentage of edits from European countries, as well as the strong correspondence between the percentage of pageviews and the percentage of edits from the Global South, which suggests that scaling our reach in the Global South will also help us to gain more participants in those countries. Other notes and obervations: * It is instructive to review the "movers and shakers" section of page requests, which shows that Indonesian, Korean, and Russian Wikipedia have seen the strongest growth over the last year. * A recent data loss issue on the logging server has been fixed. Previously logged pageview data has been corrected based on an estimate of the data loss. Months affected by the data loss are grayed out in the report card. * We've received more detailed reports from PediaPress about sales of books using the book tool (compile Wikipedia articles into a printed book), and will share some of this data soon. Highlights: From May through July, PediaPress shipped 1,671 printed books to 981 buyers in 46 countries. 38% of books were sold to Germany and 28% to the United States. The feature was also used to generate approximately 85,000 PDF files per day. HUMAN RESOURCES In July, we added 1 permanent hire (Barry Newstead, Chief Global Development Officer) and 2 temporary employees (Alolita Sharma, Engineering Program Manager, and Arthur Richards, Fundraising Engineer). Stewardship Associate Anya Shyrokova resigned from her position with Wikimedia to attend graduate school. The hiring of Barry Newstead as Chief Global Development Officer and Zack Exley as Chief Community Officer was announced in June. Please refer to the press release for more information: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/June_2010_Wikimedia_Foun… Total employee count: Plan: 51, Actual: 49 TECHNOLOGY 1) New Data Center We are building out an additional data center location for safe failover in the event that our current primary facility in Tampa, Florida suffers a major downtime. In July, we've been collecting rough bids from hosting vendors we met in our June visit to Ashburn, VA. We have submitted requirements to a potential major equipment donor and attended meetings to support their consideration of whether to give us machines as an in-kind donation. We have enough budget earmarked to purchase these machines, but are looking for donations so we can repurpose any savings. 2) Project overview A full overview of projects that the engineering team has been working on through much of July and August can be found at: http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/09/wmf-engineering/ Here are some highlights: - Resource Loader - Planning and requirements gathering for an enhanced capability to handle JavaScript loading in MediaWiki in support of deployment of new functionality, including the new media upload wizard for Wikimedia Commons. - Article Assessment, AKA "Rate This Article" - Requirements gathering for a pilot of this capability, tied to the Public Policy Initiative - Pending Changes - Half-way through trial deployment of this feature for the English Wikipedia, which was formerly called "Flagged Revisions". - Liquid Threads - A new discussion system. Working on UI redesign, which was presented at Wikimania. - Vector Phase V - Final rollout of new default look and feel for Wikimedia properities (already deployed on all of the large sites) scheduled for early September. This change will complete the rollout of the Vector project. Wikimedians interested in what we are working on should watch the wiki pages mentioned in the tech blog entry. 3) Visits and planned meetings - Student contractors - Over the summer, most of our student contractors made visits to the Wikimedia Foundation offices in San Francisco. - Hackathon - Planning a 2-day public event to get together the WMF Tech Staff with volunteer engineers for an old-fashioned face-to-face coding sprint. This meeting will be formally announced in September and will take place in October this year on the East Coast of the US. - Data Summit - Planning an invitational meeting to discuss plans related to how data is organized, displayed, captured and analyzed on WMF properties. Keeping the invite list small, but interested parties should apply to danese at wikimedia dot org for an invite. GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT Overall, the Global Development (GD) team is still very much in its formative stages with the CGDO coming on board in July. We are focused on building the team with active or soon-to-be active searches for key positions including Chapter Development Director, National Program Director for India, Senior Research Analyst, Global Product Merchandise, Movement Communications and Program Assistant. In July, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved the formation of a chapter in India. The Indian team is now moving forward to secure the legal registration of the chapter. We did make significant progress on the first stage of chapter grant making with grants approved for 9 chapters (Argentina, Switzerland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Czech Republic, Ukraine, New York) and a grant to support the formation of a chapter in South Africa. We have increased our budget available for grants this year. For more information about the grant-making process and the submitted grants and reports, please see: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Index The Wikimedia blog (http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/07/) featured postings from volunteer Liam Wyatt on his internship at the British Museum, updates to the Google translation toolkit, changes to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, the approval of the Indian chapter, the first ever open call for community fellowship and residency applicants, and a summary of a Wikimedia and free culture community event in Germany called Skill Share. COMMUNICATIONS The communication team carried out Foundation's first major video production project. The project interviewed over 35 wikpedians and is the Foundation first series of videos intended to shed light on the Wikimedia community. The videos will debut in September 2010. * Major issues and media-interest topics: ** Gov't edits to Wikipedia articles rattle Canadian politicians (July 29) http://www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/editorials/computers+used+alter+Wiki… ** Wikipedia tops in customer service (July 20) http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-07-20/facebook-ranks-in-bottom-5-in-c… ** Wikipedia bottoms in collecting user-data (July 30) http://blogs.wsj.com/wtk/2010/07/30/wikipediaorg/ Media contact through the reporting period: July 2010 http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room/Media_Contact#July_2010 Please also see the detailed weekly news summaries by the Wikipedia Signpost: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-07-05/In_the… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-07-12/In_the… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-07-19/In_the… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-07-26/In_the… COMMUNITY DEPARTMENT The Community Department launched an "open call" for submissions by people interested in working on community-facing projects. There were almost 2,000 submissions, many very promising, who were and are being evaluated for fellowship and residency positions at the Wikimedia Foundation. The open call brought us in contact with many active Wikimedians outside of the circle of well known voices and many women and candidates from the Global South. The public policy initiative held several in-person meetings, events and trainings around the country of professors, student volunteers and Wikimedians to build out the organization for the first semester. Community staff working on the fundraiser established a volunteer fundraising committee of Wikimedians from around the world to help drive the 2010 fundraiser, as well as working through many other preparations for the fundraiser. FUNDRAISING, GRANTS, & PARTNERSHIPS During July, the Wikimedia Foundation received 762 donations, with a combined total value of USD 64,292. July is the beginning of the Wikimedia Foundation's fiscal year; this year's Community Give and Major Gifts target is USD 16,500,000. Combined with the USD 3,500,000 goal for Partnerships and Foundation related activiteis brings the total Fundraising related goal for the year to USD 20,000,000. LEGAL Mike conducted ongoing work identifying and interviewing legal resources for Wikimedia UK, to support the process of obtaining charitable status. We've been in contact with both the Apple and Android app stores to ask their assistance in policing trademark-infringing apps. We're also working independently with Apple to conclude a pre-existing legacy agreement and develop a new contractual relationship regarding Wikimedia trademark use in Apple products. In July we re-engaged a charity-specialist attorney, first to help identify the right path to organizing fundraising and other activities in India, and later to help with other fundraising/chapter issues. We confirmed that there are ongoing structural issues, particularly in Europe, with transferring charitable funds to WMF -- we're looking for holistic, comprehensive ways of resolving these issues. VISITORS AND GUESTS In July, the following people visited the Wikimedia Foundation offices for meetings and talks: Kathy Nicholson, Program Officer with the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Travis Kriplean and Jonathan Morgan, HCI Researchers at the University of Washington, Craig Newmark of Craigslist, and 20 attendees from a conference on direct democracy, most of whom were visiting from Europe. EXECUTIVE BLOG Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner launched her personal blog in July, starting with two blog posts: "Why Wikimedia’s new revenue strategy makes me happy" http://suegardner.org/2010/07/17/hello-world/ "If You Have These Five Characteristics Wikimedia Wants to Hire You" http://suegardner.org/2010/07/25/if-you-have-these-five-characteristics-wik… -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Fwd: [Wikimedia Chapters Reports] Chapters report WMSE August 2010
by Erik Moeller 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

FYI, below is the August report for Wikimedia Sverige (Sweden). ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jan Ainali <jan.ainali(a)wikimedia.se> Date: 2010/9/1 Subject: [Wikimedia Chapters Reports] Chapters report WMSE August 2010 To: chapters-reports(a)lists.wikimedia.org This is the chapters report for Wikimedia Sverige in August 2010. == Image donation == The Swedish Left party, Vänsterpartiet, donated 104 high resolution images on their candidates for the upcoming election in September. [1] == Photo hunts == === Skånesafari === After our great response on the photo hunt in June, people got inspired and arranged another one, this time in the Southern part of Sweden, Skåne. [2] Wikimedia Sverige will cover travel expenses up to €300. Pictures are being uploaded to this category on Commons. [3] === Bergslagssafari (again) === Since our last report on this photo hunt another 185 images has been uploaded, now totaling 462 images. [4] 4 has been promoted to Quality Images so far. [5] == Toolserver tools == There are two new useful tools on the toolserver. One for getting the page hits for all articles (on all projects) that has an image from a specified category on Commons. [6] The other one gives all page hits for all articles in a specified category on a specified Wikipedia version. [7] We believe these can be helpful for all chapters that are working with GLAM organizations. Both thanks to User:Prolineserver, a WMSE member. == Board meeting == We had one board meeting in August, minutes are available in Swedish. [8] One important outcome of this meeting was that Axel Pettersson was elected to replace Johanna Henriksson who stepped down earlier this summer on personal reasons. Axel is also the new press contact for the Swedish Wikipedia, appointed by the community. == In the media == A journalist, Adam Svanell, in Sweden's third largest newspaper wrote an article about how easy it is to fake something on Wikipedia. [9] He wrote the article about himself and gradually exaggerated it over time. In his article he says that he is surprised no one corrected it. Stats.grok.se will tell you it was not such a big surprise nobody noticed it. [10] Our chair, Lennart Guldbrandsson blogged about the journalist's methods and the facts that were wrong [11] which generated more media. [12] == Numbers == Sorani Wikipedia (ckb) passed 2000 articles. Although not an official language in Sweden, most of the traffic to this Wikipedia comes from Sweden. [13] == References == * [1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Vänsterpartiet * [2] http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WT#Skåne-safari.2C_Fotevikens_museum… * [3] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sightseeing_in_Sk%C3%A5ne_August… * [4] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Historical_sightseeing_in_G%C3%A… * [5] http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php?wikifam=commo… * [6] http://toolserver.org/~prolineserver/glamorous/glamorous.php * [7] http://toolserver.org/~prolineserver/glamorous/glamorous_cats.php * [8] http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6tesprotokoll/Protokoll_2010-08-23 * [9] http://www.svd.se/kulturnoje/nyheter/svd-testade-varldens-storsta-uppslagsv… * [10] http://stats.grok.se/sv/201004/Adam_Svanell * [11] http://wikimediasverige.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/wikipedia-testade-sveriges… * [12] http://www.journalisten.se/artikel/24075/strid-om-svds-wikipedia-test * [13] http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerLanguage… ---- Jan Ainali Secretary Wikimedia Sverige _______________________________________________ Chapters-reports mailing list Chapters-reports(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/chapters-reports -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Fwd: [Wikimedia Chapters Reports] Wikimedia Hungary report for August 2010
by Erik Moeller 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

FYI: The latest report from Wikimedia Hungary below. Congratulations to WM-HU for being awarded a grant by the Council of Hungarian Internet Providers of HUF 4.7 million ($ 21 300), which will be used for technical infrastructure. As noted below, WM-HU has also been awarded grants by the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm also personally very pleased to see Wikipedia's "create a book" feature being used for the purpose of a competition. :-) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bence Damokos <bence.damokos(a)wiki.media.hu> Date: 2010/8/31 Subject: [Wikimedia Chapters Reports] Wikimedia Hungary report for August 2010 To: chapters-reports(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hi, After a longer hiatus, the latest report on the activities of Wikimedia Hungary has been published on Meta at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Ma…. For your convenience, it is reproduced below. Best regards, Bence Damokos, Wikimedia Hungary ==Meetings== ===WikiCamp=== Between 5 and 8 August we organized a camp[1] for Wikipedians in Nagykanizsa, a small town in southwestern Hungary. The four day meeting saw about sixteen participants visiting nearby nature parks, reserves and towns and also playing Wikipedia quizzes and video clips, as well as listening to lectures on Wikipedia and the chapters. The camp was the first multi-day Wikimedia event to take place in Hungary, supplementing a long tradition of at least quarterly Wikipedia meetups[2] in different parts of the country. Given the positive feedback, if there is interest from the community to organize a WikiCamp 2011, we plan to support it as well. ===Conference organization=== On 28 August there was a meeting about the ongoing organization of a Wikipedia conference to be held on the 15th of January 2011 aimed at the educational sector. ==Book contest== We started a contest[3] on the Hungarian Wikipedia with the aim to create community books from the topic of the encyclopedia. We hope that the outcome can serve as a good step to identify featureable topic categories. The winners will get their entries in the form of a PediaPress book and Wikimedia Hungary will use the best books in its regular activities in promoting and showcasing Wikipedia. To help the contest we created a tutorial video[4] about the book creation tool, and the corresponding help page[5] has also been updated. ==Grants== ===Council of Hungarian Internet Providers=== The Hungarian Council of Hungarian Internet Providers has provided Wikimedia Hungary with a HUF 4.7 million ($ 21 300) grant to set up and maintain a server. We are in the process of obtaining quotes for this server that would serve as a mini toolserver (running resource intensive analytics programs, such as WikiTrust; test environments for MediaWiki extensions; bots and user scripts; and generally being available to the local user and research community and serving the chapter’s general needs for a server.) ===Wikimedia Foundation grants=== The five grant submissions of Wikimedia Hungary for the fiscal year 2010-2011 have all been approved and the grant has now been transferred into our accounts. Our aim is to buy promotional supplies, projecting equipment, organize a conference on the 10th anniversary of Wikipedia, run a number of photo contests, and to produce a number of tutorial videos for Wikipedia. You can read about the individual grants in detail on Meta-Wiki.[6] The total value of the grants is $6250 – we appreciate the support of the Wikimedia Foundation. ===National Civil Fund=== Our grant application to the National Civil Fund to help provide scholarships for Wikimania has succeeded and we have won HUF 248 000 ($1100) out of the requested HUF 330 000. Unfortunately, the news came after the event and we were unable to utilize it to its potential. We estimate that the total amount we can spend from this grant (and reimburse to the participants of Wikimania) will be about HUF 70 000. On a brighter note, we received HUF 200 000 ($900) from the National Civil Fund to cover some of our administrative and operating expenses. ==Media== Our WikiCamp event was featured in Kanizsa TV[6], the local TV of Nagykanizsa and our president gave an interview emphasizing the importance of face-to-face meetings. The camp was also featured in the Wikimedia Foundation blog.[7] ===Social Media=== You can now find us on Twitter(and occasionally on Identi.ca) at @WikimediaHU[8], as well as Facebook[9]. We also maintain the Facebook page for the Hungarian Wikipedia[10] and have a blog.[11] ==GLAM-relations== We have established contact with a group of librarians who want to start an initiative to systematically improve Wikipedia content on the topics they find important. A tentative meeting has been scheduled with them for the end of September. [1] http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Magyar_wikip%C3%A9distatal%C3%A… [2] http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Magyar_wikip%C3%A9distatal%C3%A… [3] http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Wikim%C3%A9dia_Magyarorsz%C3%A1… [4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:K%C3%B6nyvk%C3%A9sz%C3%ADt%C5%91_haszn%… [5] http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:K%C3%B6nyvek [6] http://www.kanizsatv.hu/index.php?mod=hr&hr_id=1602 [7] http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/08/27/volunteers-from-serbia-and-wikime… [8] http://twitter.com/WikimediaHU, http://identi.ca/wikimediahu [9] http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wikimedia-Magyarorszag/143944295635566 [10] http://www.facebook.com/pages/Magyar-Wikipedia/175106302938 [11] http://huwiki.blogspot.com/?utm_source=metareport _______________________________________________ Chapters-reports mailing list Chapters-reports(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/chapters-reports -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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HR and Recruiting Feed on Identi.ca and Twitter
by Daniel Phelps 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hello Everyone, Recently we've been having some internal conversations regarding transparency for our hiring, recruiting and contracting. In efforts to be more proactive about sharing this information we're moving to a system of tweeting short bursts of announcements. This will be done in a "bot" style voice not unlike the WMF tech feeds. The idea is that we'll get the information out on new hires and new contractors and consultants working with us along with new job openings etc. Basically the streams will recap the comings and goings in a short and sweet format. I invite you all to see these data streams - http://identi.ca/wikimediaatwork/all or http://twitter.com/wikimediaatwork. Eventually we also hope to find more ways to use this feed for recruiting and reaching out to a larger candidate pool and audience. There will also be times where we link the streams or feeds to longer and more detailed blog postings. -Daniel

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Report to the Board (February and March)
by Erik Moeller 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Please find below the Wikimedia Foundation reports for February and March. We're still working through the backlog on these -- apologies for the delay. All best, Erik ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James Owen <jowen(a)wikimedia.org> Date: 2010/8/29 Subject: [Foundation-l] Report to the Board (February and March) To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org FEBRUARY Report to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Covering: February 2010 Prepared by: Sue Gardner, Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation Prepared for: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees MILESTONES FROM FEBRUARY Wikimedia Foundation receives $2 million grant from Google Conducted Interviews and engaged candidates for the Chief Development Officer position. Beta roll-out of new features and updates to the usability initative KEY PRIORITIES FOR MARCH Finalize the Stanton Public Policy Grant Bi-annual all-staff meeting. Begin the business planning phase of the strategy process. THIS PAST MONTH KEY PROGRAM METRICS Reach of all Wikimedia Foundation sites: 345 million unique visitors (rank #5) +14.8% (1 year ago) / -5.3% (1 month ago) Source: comScore Media Metrics Pages served: 11.1 billion +5.8% (1 year ago) / +0.0% (1 month ago) Active number of editors (5+ edits/month): 101,730 -1.5% (1 year ago) / -4.6% (1 month ago) Source: February 2010 Report Card <http://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/RC_2010_02_detailed.html> KEY FINANCIAL METRICS Operating revenue year to date: USD 14.1MM vs. plan of USD 8.8MM Operating expenses year to date: USD 5.5MM vs. plan of USD 6.2MM Unrestricted cash on hand as of March 24: USD 5.2MM while unrestricted CDs and US Treasuries were USD 8.3MM STRATEGIC PLANNING PROJECT Following the Board's endorsement of the Wikimedia Foundation's high- level strategic priorities moving forward, the strategic planning process has shifted into two parallel processes. The first is the Foundation's business planning process, led by The Bridgespan Group. The goal is to develop a five-year action plan for the Wikimedia Foundation and a more granular one-year business plan for 2010-2011. This process will run through May. The second is to complete the larger, movement-wide strategic planning process. Late in January, a Strategy Task Force formed, which started discussing and evaluating the recommendations and feedback from the Phase 2 Task Force process. That Task Force will continue to work in March to articulate and propose a set of movement-wide goals. The sign of a good open process is that certain surprising things emerge. The team was surprised by the success of the Call for Proposals process in Phase 1, and are looking for ways to use those proposals as a way to activate the volunteer community. They were also surprised by the success of the Task Force process and people's desire to apply the processes of the strategy project beyond its original scope. Three new Task Forces have formed (BLPs, NASA, and Analytics), and the team is looking forward to seeing others form as well. GOOGLE GRANT AND VISIT In February, the Wikimedia Foundation received a $2 million (USD) grant from the Google Inc. Charitable Giving Fund of Tides Foundation. This is the Wikimedia Foundation's first grant from Google. The funds will support core operational costs of the Wikimedia Foundation, including investments in technical infrastructure to support rapidly- increasing global traffic and capacity demands. The funds will also be used to support the organization's efforts to make Wikipedia easier to use and more accessible. Several Wikimedia Foundation staff members met with Google product and engineering managers in Mountain View to discuss possible opportunities to work together, ranging from infrastructure and open source technologies to public outreach programs. Google has designated a liaison contact for all future Wikimedia Foundation inquiries. TECHNOLOGY – CORE As noted in the previous report, Danese Cooper joined the Wikimedia Foundation as CTO, succeeding Brion Vibber. Erik Moeller and the Wikimedia Foundation technology team organized several orientation and transition meetings. The process for decommissioning old, out-of-warranty Wikimedia Foundation servers and donating them to non-profit organizations continued in February: http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/02/server-decommissioning-donations/ A follow-up meeting took place between Wikimedia and Microsoft Research India regarding MSRI's efforts to develop wiki language collaboration tools. Wikimedia's BugZilla server was updated to version 3.4.5 with REST APIs: http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/02/wikimedia-bugzilla-upgraded-to-versio… A bug that caused 1.3 million Wikipedia article revisions from 2005 to appear as blank pages was resolved. TECHNOLOGY - USABILITY The usability beta was enhanced on February 4 with the following features: Improvement in precision of navigable table of contents Enhanced dialogs for links, tables, and search and replace Language-specific icons for Bold and Italics This release introduced an HTML iFrame element as a new technological foundation for richer editing features. Despite extensive cross- browser testing, the release introduced problems in editing such as extra line breaks, and the iFrame deployment and features dependent on it were rolled back for the time being. Babaco Release page, http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Releases/Babaco Blog: Deployment of Babaco Enhancements, http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/01/babaco-enhancments/ Browser Compatibility Matrix for features in Babaco, http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Releases/Babaco/Compatibility_Matrix Blog: Iframe bugs, http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/02/iframe-bugs/ In February, design refinements and development of template collapsing and expansion features continued and staging in the usability sandbox started. The objective of template collapsing is to hide complex wiki syntax from the editor, which is important because, we observed that templates are an intimidating factors for new users.. http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Citron_Designs#Templates http://prototype.wikimedia.org/sandbox.6/San_Francisco Based on the evaluation of proposals submitted by usability study firms, gotomedia was commissioned to conduct the last round of the usability study. The focus of the study is to evaluate the template collapsing and expansion features, and overall improvements in usability for the last twelve months. gotomedia: http://www.gotomedia.com/ February ended with a total of 571,579 users having tried the Beta. Approximately 59,100 additional users tried the Beta in February. This number is down slightly, even considering the fact that February is a shorter month. The cumulative retention rate across all projects held steady at 79.8% as of February 28. http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Beta_Feedback_Survey#Update:_February_28.2C_2010 Regression tests across all supported browsers, interaction automation suites were set up using the opensource quality assurance software, Selenium. This test automation system will be used by the user experience team to increase the efficiency of software testing and release cycles. The plan is to open up this automation system to the wider MediaWiki developers community. Selenium, http://seleniumhq.org/ MULTIMEDIA USABILITY PROJECT Development of the new upload interface continued in February and preparations for setting up the system infrastructure for prototype system started. Product specification for a temporary staging area for incomplete uploads has started. http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multimedia:NewUpload http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multimedia:Incomplete_uploads A call for proposals for the first study of the multimedia usability initiative was initiated. Four usability study firms submitted proposals. A usability study firm in San Francisco, gotomedia, was chosen based on quality, cost, and references. The study is scheduled to be conducted in March 2010. http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multimedia:UX_study,_March_2010/CfP Guillaume Paumier and Neil Kandalgaonkar appeared on IRC office hours on February 4. They received lots of interesting questions, including technical questions, from the participants. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2010-02-04 OTHER PROGRAM ACTIVITIES During February, Frank Schulenburg and Pete Forsyth embarked on writing a grant proposal for the second phase of the Public Policy Initiative. The Initiative's overarching goal is to develop a model for how to systematically improve articles of a specific topic area by encouraging and enabling subject-matter experts to contribute to Wikipedia. For this purpose, the Wikimedia Foundation will reach out to faculty members at select universities and encourage them to use Wikipedia as a teaching tool during the fall semester 2010 and the spring semester 2011. Over these two phases of the project, the Wikimedia Foundation will pilot in-classroom and didactic usage and improvement of Wikipedia in an experimental manner. Ongoing and systematic metrics development and evaluation will measure the project's success in terms of article improvement and educational experience. Pete and Frank continued to strenghten the Wikimedia Foundation's ties to universities by giving a presentation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Under the title "Wikipedia – the encyclopedia that works only in practice, not in theory" they gave students and faculty at Harvard an introduction into the internal mechanisms of Wikipedia and answered the diverse questions of the audience. The presentation was part of a new lecture series called "Digital Workshops for Students" at the Kennedy School's Joan Shorenstein Center. http://www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/students/digital_workshops.html The Public Outreach Team did preliminary/exploratory work toward developing opportunities for collaboration and education among the community. Pete explored a possible partnership with Ontier, a producer of screen casting software; and had discussions with Howie Fung of the User Experience team about the dynamics that surround editor departure. Frank launched a chapters events calendar on the Outreach Wiki; and the Public Outreach department had preliminary discussions with Eugene Kim and Cary Bass about establishing a Compassionate Communications training program for community members. Also in February, Frank hired Rod Dunican as a Education Programs Manager. Rod is a senior learning professional with more than twenty- five years of experience in corporate training, consulting, coaching, and project management, working in the areas of organizational development, operations, marketing, eLearning and instructor-led training programs. He will be the Project Manager for the second phase of the Public Policy Initiative. Cary Bass worked on organizing the Wikimania Scholarships committee for Wikimania 2010 in Gdańsk. He also a acted as a staff coordinator for the very first meetup of San Francisco Wikipedia volunteers in the new office. Furthermore, Cary organized the relaunch and rebranding of the Living Persons Task Force on the English Wikipedia and selected, appointed and installed the current ombudsmen commission. COMMUNICATIONS A busy, though short month for Wikimedia communications. The Google grant announcement mid-month delivered the highest amount of coverage - resulting in more coverage than the closing of this year's annual campaign. Other coverage through the month focussed on general Wikipedia topical issues and interviews with Jimmy Wales. * Announcements Wikimedia Foundation announces $2 million grant from Google 17 February 2010, Donation will support capacity investments in Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_ann… Telefónica and Wikimedia Foundation Partner to Advance Learning and Increase Access to Free Knowledge 1 February 2010, Strategic partnership will improve access to Wikimedia educational and informational content in Latin America and Europe. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Telefonica_and_Wikimedia… * Blog posts http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/02/ * Media contact http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room/Media_Contact#February_2010 * Major coverage through February 1. Wikimedia and Telefonica partner to expand access to Wikipedia (February 1) Considerably less coverage of the Telefonica/WMF partnership than previous major telco partnerships. Most media outlets copied press release verbatim or offered neutral perspective on the details. http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/News/News-Item/Telefónica-Wikimedia-Fou… m http://www.finchannel.com/Main_News/Tech/57337_Telefónica_and_Wikimedia_Fou… / 2. $2 million Google grant for Wikimedia Foundation (February 16-17) Heavy coverage of Google's grant/gift to Wikimedia Foundation later in February, in major blogs and mainstream media around the world. Prompted by an advance tweet from Jimmy, news spread quickly on blogs with mainstream coverage following the formal press release on February 17. Mostly positive coverage, with many bloggers highlighting the positive intentions of Google (most coverage focussed on Google rather than Wikimedia or Wikipedia). http://mashable.com/2010/02/16/google-wikipedia-donation/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/16/google-donates-2-million-to-wikimedia-foun… http://license.icopyright.net/user/viewContent.act?tag=3.5721%3Ficx_id=D9DU… http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&cf=all&ncl=dfpdnb404BjC… Other worthwhile reads http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/02/10/more-video-coming-wikipedias-way http://media.www.mcgilltribune.com/media/storage/paper234/news/2010/02/02/N… http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Students-at-McGill-U-Band/21033/ http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/02/why-wikipedia-beats-wikinews-as-a-collabor… http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/companies_on_wikipedia_apple_bt_nokia.… * Communications campaign update The Fenton communications team continued work on the three key communications products associated with part two of the campaign: the wikimedia story presentation, a leave-behind printed product, and a story video. The team held a consultation with Sue Gardner in late February to break down the basic pieces or 'acts' of a Wikimedia presentation, and submitted an initial creative brief framing up a collective voice for the communications products. Fenton and SeaChange strategies also conducted survey design work with Wikimedia Foundation staff for the first qualitative, on-line focus groups of Wikimedia donors. This data will be combined with broader survey results to form a draft, compound demographic analysis of our donors - culminating in an donor audience tool to determine next steps for strategic outreach with donors. During Februay, the Wikimedia Foundation participated in interviews with SWISS Magazine (Basel, Switzerland); Televisió de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain); NHK (Tokyo, Japan); KCBS (San Francisco, California, USA); DataCenterDynamics (San Francisco, California, USA); Wall Street Journal (New York, New York, USA); Associated Press (San Francisco, California, USA);UN Special Magazine; Wall Street Journal (New York, New York, USA); Denver Post (Denver, Colorado, USA); Parade Magazine (New York, New York, USA); Media Bistro (New York, New York, USA); Cell magazine (New York, New York, USA); BBC 2 (London, United Kingdom). FUNDRAISING, GRANTS, & PARTNERSHIPS The Wikimedia Foundation received 3,450 donations in February, totaling approximately USD 2,108,885. Year-to-date, the Foundation has raised USD 11,259,228 in individual donations, 50% above its annual goal of USD 7,500,000. In February, the Foundation also raised USD 500,000 of restricted and unrestricted grants, brining the total fundraising related revenue for the year to USD 13,309,228, 43% above the goal of USD 9,297,000. The Community Giving team continued to wind down the 2009-10 Annual Fundraiser. The team entered in the final gifts from Dexia, Moneybookers, Citibank, and various other accounts in order to complete the transaction record for the fundraiser. They also processed refunds for suspected and real fraudulent credit card transactions. The Community Giving team began the 2010 Fundraising Survey project in conjunction with SeaChange to better access our donors and messaging. In the area of major gifts, the month of February was packed with donor stewardship meetings, both to thank recent donors and explore new partnerships. In addition, Rebecca Handler planned and led a three- hour stewardship workshop for the board, and met with Jimmy Wales to discuss his Davos trip and our upcoming trip to New York City. Jan- Bart attended a donor meeting and was on message and a wonderful ambassador for the Foundation. Rebecca helped Anya prepare for the World Affairs Council, which ended up being a successful sold-out program on February 22nd. LEGAL In February, the Legal Department won an important domain-name decision through a Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) proceeding and blocked a commercial entity from using the domain name "softwarewikipedia.com". The decision was tweeted to general approval in the community. Mike increased demand letters and other actions against trademark infringers, domain-name squatters, and other unauthorized users of Wikipedia marks. This action is in line both with the Foundation's efforts to build positive branding of the Wikimedia projects in the public interest world and with our business partnerships that center on co-branding. MARCH Report to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Covering: March 2010 Prepared by: Sue Gardner, Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation Prepared for: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees KEY PROGRAM METRICS Reach of all Wikimedia Foundation sites: 371 million unique visitors (rank #5) +13.3% (1 year ago) / +7.4% (1 month ago) Source: comScore Media Metrics Pages served: 11.7 billion +0.3% (1 year ago) / +0.0% (1 month ago) Active number of editors (5+ edits/month): 100,950 ~+1% (1 year ago) / -0.76% (1 month ago) Source: March 2010 Report Card <http://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/RC_2010_03_detailed.html> KEY FINANCIAL METRICS Operating revenue year to date: USD 14.3MM vs. plan of USD 9.0MM Operating expenses year to date: USD 6.3MM vs. plan of USD 7.1MM Unrestricted cash on hand as of April 28: USD 12.8MM while unrestricted CDs and US Treasuries were USD 8.7MM STRATEGIC PLANNING PROJECT The working groups have finished most of their preliminary planning with the help of The Bridgespan Group. The strategy team will spend April and May finalizing and integrating that work into a cohesive plan. The Strategy Task Force has made progress toward drafting a movement-wide set of goals and priorities. A draft for comments should be completed by the end of April. There have also been a number of substantive conversations about the scope of content across different Wikimedia projects, which has resulted in a new Task Force. TECHNOLOGY – CORE Operations Wikimedia sites suffered from a global outage on March 24, that lasted up to several hours for some users, due to a DNS corruption problem in the standard fail-over procedure to divert traffic from Amsterdam to Tampa. The tech team have reduced the Foundation's DNS update interval from standard 30 minutes to 5 minutes, and will be reviewing enhancing notification / escalation procedures to keep communications better informed of status during outages. The entire Tech Team came together in San Francisco for its twice- annual Tech Meeting, and discussed both plans and issues. The plan for Operations has been further developed in the Tech Strategy Work Group. The Amsterdam network has been extended for the upcoming server capacity expansion. This new network equipment will also be used to migrate to a much more fault tolerant network topology. Preparations were made for the caching servers expansion in Amsterdam, and new servers were ordered. The team expects to complete the expansion by the end of April. External Storage (i.e. wiki revisions data) was re-compressed into a more efficient format: from 1.9 TB to about 140 GB, a saving of 93% on our storage servers. Rob Halsell made progress on research and experimentation with Ubuntu Cloud for the development server cluster. Mobile The technology team released a new version of the Wikimedia Mobile App to the iTunes store which is awaiting Apple acceptance. The team is also on the verge of deploying a new version of the Mobile Server and migrating m.stats to stats.wikimedia. Analytics A planning group on analytics begun assessing different options for web analytics and other analytics requirements across the whole Wikimedia Foundation. Privacy issues were a key part of the discussion to-date, and both open source and proprietary solutions have been considered. The group expects to reach a better sense of decision tradeoffs (features/cost/privacy/timing/risks etc.) by May. TECHNOLOGY - USABILITY The usability beta was updated on March 17, to decouple the HTML iFrame, which introduces considerable additional complexity, from the features for inserting links, tables and, search & replace. Dialog features were enabled for over 500,000 beta users.[1] The main features for Citron, such as template collapsing, inline expansion and the dialog for templates were enabled for the usability study. (Citron features are not available for wider audience due to iFrame dependency.) [1] Usability Update: Introducing Dialogs, http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/03/25/usability-update-introducing-dialogs/ The third round of the usability study was conducted in March in partnership with gotomedia[2]. Ten people participated at Fleischman Field Research in San Francisco and eight other participants were surveyed remotely using web conference technology. The objective of the study was to evaluate the new features such as template handling features (collapsing, inline expansion, and pop-up) and side-by-side preview tab and overall evaluation of the Stanton Wikipedia usability project. The findings from the study and videos will be published in early May. [2] gotomedia, http://www.gotomedia.com/ The usability team is preparing to offer the usability beta as default user interface and interaction to all Wikimedia projects. The beta has been tried out by over 600,000 users since August 2009, and an average of 80% of users continue using it. The plan is to roll out to Commons on April 5, and evaluate the responses and system capacity and continue on to Wikipedia and the rest of Wikimedia projects towards end of the month. The announcements were made though WMF blog and tech blogs. [3][4][5] [3] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/03/25/wikimedia-gets-ready-for-some-big-chan… [4] http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/03/the-change-in-interface-is-coming/ [5] http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/03/the-power-of-translators/ March ended with a total of 635,942 users having tried the Beta. [6] [6] http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Beta_Feedback_Survey#Update:_March_31.2C_2010 MULTIMEDIA USABILITY PROJECT Development of the new upload interface continued and the prototype was staged in a lab environment. The two types of user flow are staged, 1) “my own work” and 2) “found on Internet.” The user flow which requires author's permission will be staged later time. Once the prototype is finalized, it will be used for the usability study and be opened up for the community for feedback. Assets uploaded but missing mandatory information, such as author or copyright status, require flags or some protection, so that assets are not distributed without permission from authors or without confirming the appropriate copyright status. A feature for incomplete uploads that supports graceful handling of this interim status is under active discussion.[7] [7] http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multimedia:Incomplete_uploads The usability study was postponed from March 30 and 31 to early May, in order to incorporate feedback and avoid conflicting schedule with conferences in the second half of April. Ten study participants were recruited and screened for the usability study through the banner on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. The usability study will be conducted in partnership with gotomedia. OTHER PROGRAM ACTIVITIES During March, Rod Dunican, Pete Forsyth and Frank Schulenburg finalized the grant proposal for the second phase of the Public Policy Initiative. They started to outline a Wikipedia Campus Ambassador training and certification program as a key deliverable of the Initiative. Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors will serve as trainers, working directly with classroom instructors to teach the basics of Wikipedia editing. Furthermore, Campus Ambassadors will help to start Wikipedia student groups, facilitate the exchange of ideas regarding Wikipedia as a learning tool, and plan social events. The grant proposal outlines the establishment of this Campus Ambassador Program and includes a high-level program view of the Ambassador training sessions. Frank Schulenburg also participated in a video conference with the winners of Google's Kiswahili Challenge in Nairobi/Kenya. The participants of the Challenge discussed with Frank, Erik Möller, Naoko Komuara and Samuel Klein Wikipedia's upcoming new usability features, Wikimedia's outreach resources and opportunities for the contest participants to get more involved in the Wikimedia movement. As part of the Wikimedia Foundation's strategic planning process, Frank Schulenburg embarked on planning the outreach department's priorities for the fiscal year 2010/2011. Together with the members of the Program Team Workgroup, he worked on a mission statement for the Program Team, the Team's core processes, and the potential implications for the future structure and activities of the Program Team. Rod Dunican, Wikimedia's new Education Program Manager, started to discuss a potential meeting – "Using Wikipedia as a Learning Tool in the Classroom" – with librarians and professors. He reached out to instructors who are currently using Wikipedia as a teaching tool and have first-hand knowledge of the pitfalls and successes that the Public Policy Initiative may experience. Rod investigated their interest in sharing their experiences with WMF and helping the Wikimedia Foundation to develop sample lesson plans and other instructional materials for universities. Pete Forsyth continued his communication with schools who participated in phase one of the Public Policy Initiative. He secured verbal commitments from professors for the second phase of the Initiative. Pete worked with contacts at Harvard's Taubman Center --who wish to dedicate 18 public policy case studies under a Creative Commons license for use in the Public Policy Initiative-- to clarify licensing issues and seek consensus on how to move forward. He also met with the Internet Archive, American Field Service, and BunchBall, and explored Yahoo Answers and the Open Directory Project, in ongoing efforts to stay abreast of current thinking about online communities and volunteerism, and to maintain a network in that arena. Pete also began to coordinate the setup of a Contact Relationship Management database for the program team. Together with members of Wikimedia's tech team he set up a CiviCRM installation for testing purposes and started to get trained. Furthermore, Pete started to plan a meeting with members of the German Mentoring Team, to be held in April in Berlin. The meeting will aim at sharing best practices and discussing the necessary steps for building sustainable Mentoring Programs in other Wikipedia language versions. Cary Bass worked with the User Experience team to plan and develop the roll-out of Vector onto the Wikimedia projects; including advanced planning for the development of the Wikipedia 2.0 logo for extended languages. With Sara Crouse, he organized the Wikimania 2010 scholarship team. In conjunction with Austin Hair, Cary updated 2009's scholarship application and database, submitted the call for applications and worked with making phase one application review work efficiently for scholarship team. Cary coordinated the board certification of the results of the Steward election. On March 26 and 27, Erik Zachte attended the Critical Point of View conference (CPOV) in Amsterdam. (Mark, Jose and Hay also attended one day.) The CPOV conference brings together researchers and Wikipedians from around the world to share and build insights into the complex and messy reality of Wikipedia: What are the new processes for determining the threshold of knowledge and how do they actually play out? What are the new relations that emerge between this knowledge reference and external institutions such as schools and governments? How is agency distributed within the Wikipedia platform? The conference was staged by the Amsterdam-based Institute of Network Cultures (INC) and the Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society (CIS). It's the second event staged by those two organizations: the first was 'WikiWars,' in Bangalore, India in January 2010. In September 2010 there will be a third even in Leipzig, Germany. Erik reported back that the conference was very well organized, with pictures and talk summaries later put online at networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/. About 100 people attended. COMMUNICATIONS March was a quiet month for media coverage and communications operations. Major media interest focussed on Wikipedia downtime in late March. Jay Walsh spent much of March focussing on strategy/ business plan support, support and planning for vector roll-out, and design strategy planning. * Blog posts http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/03/ (Blog traffic peaked later in March, on both techblog and Wikimedia blog with global interest in brief WP downtime.) * Media contact http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room/Media_Contact#March_2010 * Major coverage through January 1. Suspected gunman had Wikipedia connections (March 5) Some neutral-tone coverage through the US about a gunman who open- fired on the Pentagon in March, who allegedly had connections to Wikipedia, as well as many other online properties. http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/gunman-outlined-theories-online/ 2. Wikipedia as a trusted news source (March 15) Moka Pantages garnered a few tech headlines and considerable micro- blogging mentions during a SXSW presentation in Austin focussing on digital journalism. The claim that Wikipedia should be trusted as a news source was backed up by bloggers and supported by reporters attending the social media gathering. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/why_wikipedia_should_be_trusted_or_how… 3. "Get Video on Wikipedia!" (March 18) The campaign to get video on Wikipedia, led by Kaltura and the HTML5 open video alliance received headlines in mid-March. The news focussed on major advances in open video and HTML5 and how these improvements stood to increase the quality and quantity of video on Wikipedia. Coverage was largely positive. http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Wikipedia-Pushes-for-Users-to/22035/ http://mashable.com/2010/03/18/video-wikipedia/ http://digital.venturebeat.com/2010/03/18/open-source-video-company-kaltura… 4. Wikipedia down (March 24) A one-hour plus downtime for Foundation web properties in late-March resulted in a deluge of tech blogger and micro-blogger coverage. Most coverage was short and neutral in tone, and quickly updated once the site resumed service. Major media combined the news with the similarly but unrelated timing of a youtube.com site outage. http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=7795&tag=content;col1 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2361778,00.asp http://mashable.com/2010/03/24/wikipedia-is-down/ 5. Wikipedia readies for User Interface overhaul (March 26) Largely positive coverage of the blog post from the Wikipedia Usability team announcing the details of the forthcoming vector roll- out on Wikimedia Foundation properties. Coverage on almost all major tech blogs, as well as main stream media. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/29/new-wikipedia-layout-2010_n_517007… http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/are_you_ready_for_the_new_easier_wikip… http://mashable.com/2010/03/26/wikipedias-redesign-is-coming-soon/ http://digital.venturebeat.com/2010/03/26/wikipedia-prepares-for-user-inter… Other worthwhile reads http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/03/23/urnidgns852573C… http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2010/03/23/25575/ http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/03/from_haiti_to_the_oscars_wikim.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/digital_giants/8564348.stm http://opensource.com/business/10/3/wikimedia-foundation-doing-strategic-pl… http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20100311/you-ask-jimmy-wales-answers-a-crow… http://www.nrcu.gov.ua/index.php?id=148&listid=113390 During March, the Wikimedia Foundation participated in interviews with the Wall Street Journal (New York, New York, USA); the Associated Press (San Francisco, California, USA); National Public Radio (Washington, District of Columbia, USA); PR Week (London, United Kingdom); the National Post (Toronto, Canada); ABC News (New York, New York, USA); CNBC (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA); Together Magazine (Brussels, Belgium); Daily Princetonian (Princeton, New Jersey, USA); Streaming Media (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA); Radio Netherlands (Hilversum, Netherlands). * Communications campaign update Fenton's communications work through March focussed on refining concepts for the executive presentation kit, as well as presenting refined concepts for an accompanying video. Wikimedia fundraiser research focussed on evaluating pre-existing donor research ideas and refining ideas for the upcoming donor survey. FUNDRAISING, GRANTS, & PARTNERSHIPS The Wikimedia Foundation received 1,968 donations in March, totaling approximately USD 99,095. Year-to-date, the Foundation has raised USD 11,358,323 in individual donations, 53% above its annual goal of USD 7,500,000. Including revenue from restricted and unrestricted gifts the Wikimedia Foundation has raised USD 13,408,323, 45% above the goal of USD 9,297,000. In March, the Community Gifts began planning for the 2010 Annual Fundraiser. The team began compiling reports of the make up on the Foundation's donors and the effects of various donor cultivation and stewardship efforts. The fundraising department plans to use the reports to fuel planning and upcoming budgets. In addition, the Community gifts team continued working the 2010 Fundraising Survey (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Survey ) with intents to understand the Foundation's donors, how they perceive the foundation’s work, and what kinds of interactions would be most valuable in maintaining long-term philanthropic relationships. The survey will launch in May after translation efforts are completed. With the assistance of the Technology team Community giving posted and boarded activity recruiting for two staff positions to support the 2010 Fundraising efforts. These positions should mitigate peak demand for engineering to support Fundraising without diverting resources from other technology functions. Major gifts activities in March including working with Bridgespan on the fundraising business plan, mapping out and event for the end of 2010, developing fundraising communications for Jimmy Wales and preparing for April donor meetings in New York. In addition, Rebecca conducted prospect/donor meetings with over ten individuals. LEGAL The legal team began a pro-bono relationship with the Perkins Coie law firm, which may be able to provide significant litigation work for the Foundation. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Business Development focused its attention on mobile and offline areas and its development in the strategic plan. In March Kul and Tomasz attended Mobile World Congress and spoke at the event about user data, trust, and the worldwide growth of content on mobile devices. Kul is directing developments in mobile apps with existing partners Orange and Telefonica, and is working toward a system to engage with many more partners in geographic regions such as Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and throughout Asia. Kul is also working with various partners to test several initiatives to bring Wikipedia in offline forms/ devices in markets. Currently the focus on offline Wikipedia has been on market research and product development with market and distributions tests soon to come. FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION In March Veronique and KPMG worked to finalize the 2008 Form 990 Tax Return. The return was approved by the Audit Committee on March 24. The Board of Trustees will be presented with the final Form 990 during their April meeting in Berlin, Germany. To facilitate the rapid growth of Foundation staff as outlined in the preliminary version of the Strategy Plan, the administration team visited a vacant office space on the 6th floor of 149 New Montgomery Street, in San Francisco. After their visit the administrative team began negotiating a lease and hope to obtain the 6th floor to facilitate the Foundation's projected growth. With the current growth rates the Foundation will likely require the extra floor by early 2011. Bill Gong, the Foundation's accountant, began working with vendors to find an updated accounting system for the Foundation. Currently the organization has been using Quickbooks, but with the rapid growth of the organization this software is no longer a practical solution. The accounting team hopes to find a system that will be compatible with the open-source fundraising software CiviCRM. VISITORS AND GUESTS In March, the following people visited the Wikimedia Foundation offices for meetings and talks: Jesse Ansubel of the Sloan Foundation; Melissa Hagemann, Advisory Board member and Senior Program Manager with the Open Society Institute; a delegation from the Chinese State Department; New York Times journalist Jenny 8 Lee; former IDEO engineer and founder of BunchBall, Rajat Paharia; User: Erdrokan from Switzerland; a delegation from intercultural learning and student exchange non-profit AFS Intecultural Programs; User:Elonka; Bishakha Datta; Meghan Murphy of the X Prize Foundation; Megan Smith of Google, and Thomas Dalton of Wikimedia UK. STAFF ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES No changes were made during March. STAFF ACTIVITIES The bi-annual All Staff meeting was held on March 4th and 5th. Sue opened this year with an overview of the goals and targets coming out of the Strategic Plan for the next 5 years including a focus in on the 2010-2011 fiscal year. Bridgespan attended the meetings and helped facilitate as we broke into groups by department to determine the necessary positions and logistics that would get us from here to there with an emphasis on the next fiscal year. James Owen Executive Assistant & Board Liaison Wikimedia Foundation Office +1.415.839.6885 x 604 Mobile +1.415.509.5444 Fax +1.415.882.0495 Email- jowen(a)wikimedia.org Website- www.wikimediafoundation.org _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Fwd: [Wikimedia Chapters Reports] WMFR reports from April to June 2010
by Erik Moeller 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

FYI - three months of reporting from France. I'm especially excited about the upcoming "GLAM" (galleries/libraries/archives/museums) event in December. :-) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bastien Guerry <bastien.guerry(a)wikimedia.fr> Date: 2010/8/27 Subject: [Wikimedia Chapters Reports] WMFR reports from April to June 2010 To: chapters-reports <chapters-reports(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear chapters, below is a compilation of the WMFR reports from April to June 2010. I am also attaching a PDF version of it, which might be more readable, especially for links. The next report is due early september in french and will cover the whole summer. I'll try to post its english version around the 15th of september. Enjoy, Bastien ######################################################################## April 2010 ~~~~~~~~~~~ General figures and facts ========================== Some figures ------------- - At the end of April, Wikimedia France has 203 active members. - In April, our website (http://www.wikimedia.fr) has been visited more than *9000* times and our blog (http://blog.wikimedia.fr) more than *2600* times. - Our search portal http://www.wikipedia.fr has been improved to allow search to be performed on regional languages spoken in France (such as Breton). This portal receives each month more than *20000* visits. Strengthening regional groups ------------------------------ New mailing lists have been created for regional groups - these groups are a way for WMFR to encourage local initiatives. Regional group # members Mailling list -----------------------------+-----------+----------------------------- Non-Cabale de l'Ouest (NCO) 8 rennes(a)lists.wikimedia.fr Cabale Toulousaine 7 toulouse(a)lists.wikimedia.fr Cabale à la noix (Grenoble) 4 - Cabale d'Île de France 13 paris(a)lists.wikimedia.fr Skill-based groups ------------------- Building up on the dynamics of our general assembly, skill-based groups are being formed or reactivated. WMFR wants to provide more autonomy to these groups, and make sure they communicate smoothly with the rest of the association. The "photo" group has now its own mailing list. Skill-based group # members ------------------------+-----------+-------------------------- Photo and reporting 13 photo(a)lists.wikimedia.fr Conferences, workshops 3 - GLAM 9 - Wikimedia projects 1 - Legal issues 1 - Research 1 - Communication 1 - Activity ========= Presentations, conferences, workshops -------------------------------------- - From March 31st to April 4th, WMFR participated to the Festival Déclic de Nanterre (http://www.nanterre.fr/Envies/Multimédia/Declics.htm) - April 8th, Christophe et Adrienne participated to a movie projection on free licenses in a cinema in Toulouse. - April 9th, Julien gave a conference on Wikipedia in Viroflay. - April 14th, Thierry Coudray presented the Wikimedia projects and Wikimedia France to the board of the "Fondation pour le Progrès de l'Homme" in Paris - April 17th, Julien held a workshop on Wikipedia in Viroflay. - April 17th, several members participated to the Breizh Entropy Congress (http://www.breizh-entropy.org) and gave a conference on Wikipedia. - April 29th, Alexandre Moatti and Bastien gave a talk at the « le numérique éditorial et sa gouvernance » conference at INHA (http://www.sens-public.org/spip.php?article734). International presence in the Wikimedia sphere ----------------------------------------------- - From 2nd to 5th of April, Yves participated to the /Commons Photoworkshop Nyköping 2010/ in Sueden, an international meeting of wikimedians on photography. - From 14th to 16th of April, Sébastien participated to the developers meeting in Berlin. - From 14th to 18th of April, Florence and Delphine participated to the chapters meeting. Projects ========= « Colloquium » 2010 -------------------- A page on the wiki has been created to let everyone shares her thoughts on what the program should be for this event. A specific mailing list has also been created. Museum de Toulouse ------------------- WMFR is actively working on this partnership. WMFR will work with the Museum to take pictures of paleographic objects and put them online on Commons (http://snipurl.com/10tr9w). University projects -------------------- WMFR has been working with the University of Lille to let students validate credits by editing Wikipedia articles. This workshop started in february and ended in April. This projects in Lille is similar to the one that has been done with the Plume! (http://www.plume.info) association in Toulouse (see the page on the french Wikipedia: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Wikipeplum) News from the Wikimedia projects ================================= Wikisource: partnership with the French National Library (BnF) --------------------------------------------------------------- The partnership has been officially announced on April 7th (read the press release - http://snipurl.com/10tra4). Wikisource contributors are working on 1400 books that the BnF sent to them. May 2010 ~~~~~~~~~ News from the Wikimedia projects ================================= Wikisource: Partnership with the French National Library (BnF) --------------------------------------------------------------- After the partnership has been officially announced in April, the first books are now getting published on Wikisource. Wikimedia Commons: projects with the Museum of Toulouse -------------------------------------------------------- The Museum of Toulouse wants us to wait for the local event of the city of Toulouse (la Novela - http://novela.toulouse.fr) to be launched in october 2010 before we publish the first pictures on Wikimedia Commons. The details of the partnership are still being actively discussed. We hope that our careful approach for this first project will help build new ones with the Museum in the next coming years. New from the regional groups ============================= Toulouse --------- The Wikipeplum project (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Wikipeplum) is going on okay. With the help of local Wikipedians and members of the Plume! association, PhD students contribute to Wikipedia on topics related to their PhD (and others if they want.) AFter more than 400 contributions in a few weeks, some students have already been diagnosed as "wikipediholic". General activity ================= Night of the Museum (May 15th) ------------------------------- Five members of the regional NCO group (Brittany) have been taking photographs during the [European Long Night of Museums]. See some of their photographs in the [dedicated category on Commons]. [European Long Night of Museums]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Night_of_Museums [dedicated category on Commons]: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Night_of_Museums_2010_in_Rennes Conferences et manifestations ------------------------------ - May 15th-16th : NCO members participated to the Rencontres Bretonnes du Logiciel Libre (http://www.rbll.info). - May 28th: Bapti animated a workshop on Wikipedia in Toulouse, together with the local Linux User Group (Toulibre - http://www.toulibre.org). Meeting of WMFR's board ------------------------ WMFR's board spent two days in Paris to work. The contract with Bastien Guerry, our first employee, was signed after three months and a half of probing period. Groups activity ================ "Photo" group: the biggest jump in the world --------------------------------------------- Thesupermat took pictures of Taïg Khris for his new worl record of the highest jump. Pictures where immediately published on [Commons], and an article on [lepost.fr] and on [our blog] followed, a nice example of a quick Wikimedia-Project/WMFR/press reactivity. [Commons]: http://snipurl.com/10tr89 [lepost.fr]: http://snipurl.com/10tr4i [our blog]: http://snipurl.com/10tqyw Fundraising group ------------------ After lengthy discussions on the fundraising mailing list, the donation page of WMFR website has been improved: we now collect more rigorously details of people donating to WMFR; we also keep a [public history of donations (http://dons.wikimedia.fr/journal.php) for donors who accept to appear online. Internal communication group ----------------------------- On May 7th, we held on IRL meeting two try to sort out internal communication issues -- i.e. make sure everyone knows the tools, use them efficiently, feel confident in communicating with the board and the rest of the association. We also had an IRC meeting during which we skimmed through the "ideas box" -- a webpage on the internal wiki collecting ideas posted by the members). The goal was to discuss/rework ideas and restate them in a more "activable" form so that those bottom-up suggestions come closer to something that the board can actually take a decision on, and activate. June 2010 ~~~~~~~~~~ News from the Wikimedia projects ================================= Wikiversity and Wikibooks - what living space for each one? ------------------------------------------------------------ There is on ongoing [debate] on how to help the french Wikiversity and the french Wikibooks projects better thrive by avoiding any overlap in goals and content. [debate]: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Xzapro4/WB_et_WV WMFR Activity ============== GLAM-WIKI event: December 3rd-4th at the National assembly, Paris ------------------------------------------------------------------ We now have a date and a location for our GLAM-WIKI event: it will happen on the *3rd and 4th of december* at the *National assembly* (Victor Hugo's room). The program is still under heavy construction. We also need to find a catchy name for this event (as "GLAM" doesn't give any clue of what it's all about in French.) Projects with the City of Toulouse ----------------------------------- Bastien went to Toulouse and attended several meeting with officials of Toulouse. The first one with the Archives of Toulouse: they are willing to publish some of their pictures from the [Eugène Trutat] archives on Commons. The other one with the Museum of Toulouse, where things are going quite smoothly for the current project. The last meeting with the administration of Toulouse: all participants to the [Novela] event in october (including universities, local associations, companies, etc.) where meeting eachothers. Bastien and Adrienne presented Wikimedia France's mission and the ongoing projects with the Museum and the Archives. Bastien went to Toulouse and attended several meeting with officials of Toulouse. The first meeting was with the Archives of Toulouse: they are willing to publish part of their their [Eugène Trutat] funds to Commons. The other meeting was with the Museum of Toulouse, where things are going quite smoothly for the current project. The last meeting was with the administration of Toulouse: all participants to the [Novela] event in october (including universities, local associations, companies, etc.) where meeting eachothers. Bastien and Adrienne presented Wikimedia France's mission and the ongoing projects with the Museum and the Archives. [Eugène Trutat]: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Trutat [Novela]: http://novela.toulouse.fr Welcome to Elisabeth Coye -------------------------- June 16th, Florence announced that Elisabeth Coye, who has been of vital help for processing all the 2009 donations, joined the assocation. As Elisabeth might progressively be involved in more tasks for the fundraising, she wanted to know more about the association itself and to be part of it. Welcome Elisabeth! On the blog this month ======================= A new textbooks publisher ignores copyright -------------------------------------------- lelivrescolaire.fr (http://lelivrescolaire.fr) is a new textbooks publisher who reused many pictures from Wikimedia Commons for its paper-based and online manuals. This is quite an original move in this market and WMFR heavily encourages this publisher to explore this possibility further. But this publisher gave the wrong credit for the pictures, only mentionning (c) Wikimedia... Read more on the blog (in french): http://snipurl.com/10traq Contribute to Wikipédia and win 100£ British Museum vouchers ------------------------------------------------------------- In March, WMFR announced that Liam Wyatt was going to be [a Wikipedian in residence at the British Museum]. The Museum just announced it will give 100£ vouchers to the authors of the first five featured articles about objects of the Museum's collections. This offer is available for all wikipedians and articles can be written in any language. Read more on the blog (in french): http://snipurl.com/10tr0x [a Wikipedian in residence at the British Museum]: http://blog.wikimedia.fr/wikipedia-residence-british-museum-1388 WMFR on twitter, identi.ca and Facebook ---------------------------------------- Follow Wikimédia France: - Identi.ca users can follow us here: http://identi.ca/wikimediafrance - Twitter users can follow us here: http://twitter.com/Wikimedia_Fr - Facebook users can subscribe to the Wikimedia France Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wikimedia-France/107558089273305 _______________________________________________ Chapters-reports mailing list Chapters-reports(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/chapters-reports -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Fwd: [Wikimedia Chapters Reports] Chapters report Wikimedia Nederland May - July 2010
by Erik Moeller 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Below is a summary of three months of activities by Wikimedia Nederlands. Please do check out the gallery of recently uploaded Tropenmuseum objects. This is one of the first cultural partnerships resulting in a large scale upload of photos of three-dimensional objects with metadata -- and it's a beautiful collection. Here's a handy URL showing you all the uploads: http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/Gallery.php?wikifam=commons.wikimed… ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org> Date: 2010/8/22 Subject: [Wikimedia Chapters Reports] Chapters report Wikimedia Nederland May - July 2010 To: Chapter reports mailing list <chapters-reports(a)lists.wikimedia.org> This is the chapters report for Wikimedia Nederland, May - July 201. I apologize for the delays and large time span. If you have any questions, please approach us directly. Wiki loves Bieb Wiki loves Bieb is a cooperation project ongoing with libraries in southern Zeeland. Amongst others, the booklet "Wikipedia i skolan" by Lennart Guldbrandsson has been translated from Swedish to Dutch and a Brochure has been drafted for cultural institutions. The first results are currently shaping: a cooperation project with amongst others the muZEEum on the river Schelde. http://biebblog.openia.com/2010/08/17/wiki-project-uit-de-steigers/ (Dutch) Wiki loves Monuments Wiki loves Monuments is a photo scavenger hunt contest running from September 1 - 30. The 60.000 national monuments in the Netherlands are the subject for these photos. Prizes (including an iPad and Android) will be awarded for the best photos and the highest number of photos. A special, simplified, upload form on Wikimedia Commons has been prepared to make uploading through Wikimedia Commons possible this year. The main prizes are an iPad and Android smartphone. http://www.wikilovesmonuments.nl (Dutch) Tropenmuseum The Tropenmuseum has once again released a number of images under a free license. This time over 6000 images from 3D objects in the museum, made by musum employees. Some more information on: http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/06/objects-from-tropenmuseum-for-w… http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Tropenmuseum General Assemblee In June the second General Assemblee of the year was held. Important topics on the agenda were the professionalization, an updated 2010 budget and how to support the community health. Professionalization process Wikimedia Nederland has filed a grant request with the Wikimedia Foundation for 2010-2012 regarding professionalization, as an investment into the future. We feel that there are opportunities for sustainable growth with the right support. The grant has been partially awarded. You can find the original application at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_NL/Professionalization . Communication A new design has been made for the chapter website, to replace the current Wiki layout for "outsiders". The wiki will remain, less visibly, available to our community members of course. Also the annual report for 2009 has been layouted properly now and will be printed for all members. The pdf will become available on our website. A constant overview of the media attention for Wikipedia / Wikimedia in the Netherlands can be found on http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Media-aandacht/2010 Meetings, conferences etc. Wikimedia Nederland participated with two board members in the fundraising summit in Bristol, hosted by Wikimedia UK. Two board members attended the "download debate" (also on copyright legislation) as part of the lobby process. Also, one board member attended Geo Freedom Day and one attended Wikimania in Gdańsk. Coming up 1-30 September: Wiki loves monuments Press conference 13 September: Nationaal Archief/Spaarnestad releasing more than 1000 historical Dutch political images Geograph photo donation _______________________________________________ Chapters-reports mailing list Chapters-reports(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/chapters-reports -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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