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
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
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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
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#Templateshttp://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:NewUploadhttp://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-wayhttp://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;col1http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2361778,00.asphttp://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.htmlhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/digital_giants/8564348.stmhttp://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
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Fax +1.415.882.0495
Email- jowen(a)wikimedia.org
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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
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April 2010
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General figures and facts
==========================
Some figures
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- 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
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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
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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
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Hi all,
I've posted a new article on the Wikimedia blog about our first U.S. student club, started by Wikipedian Cheryl Moy at the University of Michigan. We're very excited to see what Cheryl and her fellow club members do this year, and we hope to hear about other student clubs springing up on campuses across the world.
Please check out the post and leave a comment if you know of other clubs:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/08/17/first-u-s-wikipedia-student-club-…
Thanks,
Frank
FYI - an update from our friends in Catalonia (not an official
Wikimedia chapter). This is the first I've read about the Mozilla
Drumbeat Festival in Barcelona in November (
http://www.drumbeat.org/drumbeat_festival_2010 ), which some of you
may be interested in attending.
All best,
Erik
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: J. G. Góngora <ganastonia(a)hotmail.com>
Date: 2010/8/8
Subject: [Wikimedia Chapters Reports] [Non-officially recognised]
Wikimedia CAT July 2010 report
To: chapters-reports(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to submit the following Chapter report for the potential
Wikimedia CAT chapter:
Yours,
J. Gustavo Góngora Goloubintseff
(User:Góngora)
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Courses and lectures
This month, where courses are over, there have not been any courses
but we are managing to prepare more activities for next month.
* Meeting with the Department of Education of the Catalan Government
and the UOC for the project Viquilletra, which begins in September.
(User:Barcelona)
* Meeting with the UOC (Catalonia Open University) in order to make
them use Wikipedia on postgraduate studies. (User:Barcelona)
* Meeting with the Department of Pedagogical Innovation of the
Balearic Government. They confirm an economic support of 4.000€ for
the 2010-2011 edition of Viquibalear and the spread of it through the
department at the schools. (User:Paucabot)
Content release
* The collaboration at the free knowledge and free content coordinator
begins to be fruitful. Miquel Adroer has uploaded at Wikibooks the
Ubuntu Guide. (User:Miquel Adroer).
* The Department of Linguistic Standardization of the Balearic
Government has set under consideration the possibility of releasing
contents. Especially, the ones from web hudà. Further information:
(User:Paucabot)
Media
* 20 July: meeting at the "Racó Català" in order to see how we can
improve the outreach of the news on Wikipedia.
* A letter has been sent to the media just to let them be aware of the
British Museum awards. Some journalists have already published
something about it: La tafanera, Racó Català. (User:Gomà)
* At Wikimania, we participated at several interviews with the media.
For instance, the Mediapro staff interviewed some members from the
Catalan Delegation for a TV program they are preparing and that it
will be available on many European TV channels.
Institutional relations
* 15 July. Meeting at the Picasso Museum of Barcelona with several
regional museums: Macba, CCCB, Archaeological, Sciences, MNAC. We are
grateful to Liam Wyat for his incredible task in explaining his
experience with the British Museum. He even translated most of the
slides into Catalan (without our help). Further information:
(User:kippelboy).
* 27 July. Meeting with the Centre d'Estudis Comarcals del Baix
Llobregat. We are considering the idea of running the project that we
have worked at for so long with the support of Fundació Punt CAT (Dot
CAT Foundation). The idea is to carry out a pioneering project which
later can be applied to other study centres of the Catalan Countries.
Further information: (User:KRLS)
* 28 July: Meeting at the Department of Linguistic Standardization of
the Balearic Government. They are going to buy our book on Wikipedia
and deliver different copies of it at each library and at each school
of the Balearic Isles. Further information: (User:Paucabot).
Miscellaneous
* We encouraged more participation at Wikimania 2010. The Catalan
group made an effort. At Wikimania, there has been the possibility of
participating at the European Project and we have also met different
entities interested in getting involved with the Comenius Project,
among which we find a Polish school. More information soon.
*Within the free knowledge and free content coordinator, we have set a
joint agenda. We hope it will help to increase the synergies and the
crossed collaborations between entities to promote free knowledge.
(User:Gomà)
* We are working on the organization of the Mozilla Drumbeat Festival
in November, where we are going to participate with workshops about
contents edition on Wikipedia and initiatives of education by using
Wikipedia. This year's motto is "Learning, freedom and the web".
(User:Esenabre, (User:Toniher), (User:Barcelona).
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