Dear fellow Wikimedians,
Below you will find Wikimedia Deutschland’s 2018 report to the Wikimedia
Movement. Since 2017, Wikimedia Deutschland no longer receives movement
funds through the Annual Plan Grant program (via the Funds Dissemination
Committee, FDC). However, as an organization of this movement, we are
committed to sharing annually what we do and what we learn, being
accountable for our financial resources, and checking progress and impact
based on goals and objectives in Wikimedia Deutschland’s Annual Plan.
In this report you will find overviews, stories and descriptions of our
work in 2018 in three fields of action: Volunteers, Technology/ Software
Development and Conditions for Free Knowledge, as well as about our general
support for the Wikimedia movement. You will also find the financial
information for fiscal year 2018. This report for the movement goes out to
all people and affiliates who are interested in learning more about the
work of our chapter. A broader, less detailed view will be provided in our
Annual Report, to be published in the upcoming weeks.
Start page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/Movement_Report_2018
Short URL: w.wiki/35Z
Enjoy reading! If you have any questions or suggestions, please let us know.
Best regards
Cornelius
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Cornelius Kibelka
Internationale Beziehungen | International Relations
Vorstandsteam | Office of the ED
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207
Hello,
As you perhaps noticed, the email for this month's meeting is coming out
late. We had some last minute cancellations, are forging ahead, but need
your help with this and future meetings.
*Next meeting*
For tomorrow's meeting, we are going to try a small experiment. We are
asking people in the audience to share 1-2 activities you are working on
and excited about, as well as 2-3 activities others are working on and you
are excited about.
You do not need to share details on the activities, it can be as simple as
the name of the activity or a quick one sentence description. We will
collect these via IRC, attempt to do so from the YouTube chat, and from
people attending in person. You may also email them directly to us if none
of these options work for you: ActivitiesMeeting(a)wikimedia.org
The next Wikimedia Monthly Activities meeting will take place on Thursday
25 April 2019 at 18:00 UTC (11 AM PDT). The IRC channel is
#wikimedia-office on https://webchat.freenode.net, and the meeting will be
broadcast as a live YouTube stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZMZWX0bvnw
*Future meetings*
For future meetings, a reminder that the agenda of this meeting is meant to
belong to all of us, and we need your help to do that! If you (yes you!)
have a 3-15 minute presentation or update you would like to share with the
movement, please sign up on Meta-Wiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_monthly_activities_meetings/Sign_…
*Agenda:*
Facilitator: Gregory Varnum, Communications Strategist, Wikimedia Foundation
- Welcome and introduction to agenda - 2 minutes
- Movement update - 3 minutes
- Call for proposals for future meetings - 5 minutes
- Movement strategy update - 15 minutes
- Experiment activity (see above) - 15 minutes
- Questions and discussion - 10 minutes
- Wikilove - 5 minutes
Please review the meeting's Meta-Wiki page for further information about
the meeting and how to participate:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_monthly_activities_meetings
The May 2019 monthly activities meeting will take place on Thursday
23 May starting at 18:00 UTC (11:00 Pacific Daylight Time). To sign up
to participate, please visit:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_monthly_activities_meetings/Sign_…
Thank you!
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Gregory Varnum (pronouns - he/his/him)
Communications Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Librarians and library lovers,
Next month from May 15th to June 5th we will be joining together around the
world to make Wikipedia more reliable. You can participate in #1Lib1Ref by
simply adding a citation to Wikipedia's content.
That's all we ask and imagine: a world in which every librarian (or
archivist, reference professional, and scholar) adds 1 more reference to
Wikipedia.
This is the fourth year of the #1Lib1Ref campaign and our second time
running it in May, when it's more convenient for the southern hemisphere.
You can learn about this year's January campaign too in our recently
released learnings report.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Lessons/2019
Full resources and guides for participating in May are available on the
http://1lib1ref.org campaign website.
The campaign will be fully tracked with daily metrics and leaderboard
updates. You can make sure your contribution is counted by using the
Program and Events Dashboard for your event, institution, or region.
Login to start a new event or join up with an existing group for the May
Campaign here:
https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/1lib1ref_may_2019/programs
Please tell your library and library-loving friends about #1Lib1Ref in
May. We need everyone's help to make Wikipedia more reliable!
Sincerely,
Jake Orlowitz
Head of the Wikipedia Library
Wikimedia Foundation
wikipedialibrary(a)wikimedia.org
@Wikilibrary
P.S. Don’t worry if you can’t make it for the May campaign, as now 1Lib1Ref
receives annual support and you can always reach out for assistance any
time of the year.
Hi everyone,
I am happy to share that earlier this year, the Wikimedia Foundation Board
of Trustees approved our newest Wikimedia chapter - Wikimedia Korea!
For more information about our newest Wikimedia chapter, Wikimedia Korea,
please see the announcement on the Wikimedia Foundation website:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/04/23/wikimedia-korea-new-chapter-affi…
I want to congratulate the new chapter and recognize their commitment,
efforts, and time involved in moving through the chapter recognition
process over the past year. From their work building partnerships with
universities, to supporting and training new editors in South Korea, we
look forward to seeing the impactful work from our community members in
South Korea as they advance in their new affiliate role.
As many of you know, this is our first chapter approval in several years -
since the newest Wikimedia affiliate approval processes were put in place.
This marks a new moment in the history of our Wikimedia movement
affiliates. The Board appreciates the amazing work coming from these user
groups around the world, and is inspired to see how far some of these
groups have come in terms of their impact both on our movement and their
local communities. Indeed, we should all be proud of the impact our
affiliates continue to have on our projects, our vision, and the world
around us.
Any affiliate interested in becoming a chapter or thematic organization
must have at least two years of activities and experience as a user group
before applying. Please check out the user group creation guide to get a
user group started - it is meant to be very easy:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_user_groups/Creation_guide
You can find a lot more information about our movement affiliates model on
Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_movement_affiliates/Models
You may also reach out to the Affiliations Committee with questions or to
begin the approval process for your group:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee
Please join me in congratulating Wikimedia Korea for this important
achievement and thanking the members of the Affiliations Committee and
Wikimedia Foundation staff who supported and worked with them during this
long process.
Kind regards,
María
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María Sefidari Huici
Chair of the Board
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
[Sorry for the cross posting]
Dear all,
*Wikimedia Chile* (WMCL) held its annual General Assembly on April 13th,
which was also the beginning of a new term of our Board (2019-2021). All
the members from the 2017-2019 Board were reelected for the next two years,
and the positions were filled as follows:
- Rocío Consales, Chair;
- Marco Correa: Vicechair;
- Carlos Figueroa, Secretary;
- Osmar Valdebenito, Treasurer;
- Dennis Tobar, Director:
- Claudio Loader, Director.
We are glad to have Rocío serving as the new president of WMCL, not just
for her amazing work as volunteer and Board Member, but also because she is
the first woman to hold this position in our chapter's history.
Congratulations, Rocío!
Best regards,
*Marco Correa Pérez*
Vicechair - Wikimedia Chile
http://www.wikimediachile.cl
Hi everyone,
I'm pleased to announce the first draft of the Wikimedia Foundation’s
Medium-Term
Plan
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/Medium-ter…>!
[1] We intentionally designed a process that will enable the Foundation’s
medium-term plan and Movement Strategy to work together. You can find more
information about the Foundation’s planning process
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-term_plan_2019/…>
and how it connects to the Wikimedia 2030 movement strategy process. [2]
*Your feedback*
Between now and 20 April, we are requesting comments and questions from all
parts of the community. We are looking for feedback on whether the outcomes
we hope to achieve are appropriate given the strategic direction of
Wikimedia 2030. We want to know: are these the right “big things” to
accomplish in the next 3-5 years? We would also like feedback on whether
our overall metrics are appropriate and aspirational enough given our
ambitious vision. Are we setting the right targets for how we will measure
our progress?
Please leave all comments and questions on the talk page of the Medium-Term
Plan’s Meta page[3]:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/Mediu…
*Next steps*
After we receive comments and feedback on the draft plan, we will make a
final round of updates before publishing it again on Meta-Wiki at the end
of May. In subsequent years, we intend to update the plan on an annual
basis to adapt to new information, changes in our environment, and the
things we learn along the way.
The Wikimedia Foundation has spent the last several months creating a
medium-term plan that will support the Wikimedia 2030 strategic
direction.[4] This plan represents the work the Foundation will do within
the global movement so Wikimedia becomes the essential infrastructure of
the ecosystem of free knowledge. Through this process, we are integrating
the strategic direction pillars of Knowledge Equity[5] and Knowledge as a
Service[6] into our programmatic goals to better align our work to the
larger movement. The Foundation is also working on identifying some of the
structural changes that might be necessary to support our programmatic
work, and will do so in dialogue with the movement strategy process.
*Foundation medium-term goals*
The Wikimedia Foundation will focus on two medium-term goals to support the
strategic direction:
*Grow participation globally, focusing on emerging markets. *We will expand
the use of Wikimedia sites, projects, and products, across the globe, with
a focus on increasing engagements in low-awareness or low-use geographies
and languages, in order to bring the number and diversity of our users in
line with rates of overall internet usage.
*Modernize our product experience. *We will make contributor and reader
experiences useful and joyful; moving from viewing Wikipedia as solely a
website, to viewing the Wikimedia ecosystem as a collection of knowledge,
information, and insights with infinite possible product experiences and
applications.
*Thank you!*
We hope that you all will provide your insight and thoughts to help the
Foundation build this plan and continue to make progress toward our
strategic direction!
Cheers,
Katherine
1.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-term_plan_2019
2.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-term_plan_2019/…
3.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/Mediu…
4. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20
5.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Direction#…
6.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Direction#…
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Katherine Maher (she/her)
Executive Director
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>