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Appointment of Esra’a Al Shafei to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
by Christophe Henner 01 Dec '17

01 Dec '17

Hi everyone, With the appointment of Raju to the Board of Trustees a couple of months ago, we were left with a remaining open vacancy to fill. I am thrilled to share that after several months of searching and discussions, we have made another important appointment. At our November Board Retreat, the Board appointed and welcomed Esra’a Al Shafei to fill our vacant expert seat. Esra'a is a prominent international human rights activist and social entrepreneur. She founded and directs Majal, a nonprofit which utilizes digital media to amplify under-reported and marginalized voices throughout the Middle East and North Africa. For those of you that heard her keynote presentation at this year's Wikimania, I think you will agree she will make a very valuable addition to the Board and brings an important perspective and skillset to the Board's efforts. Below (and on the Wikimedia Blog) you will find the official announcement about Esra’a Al Shafei. Please join me in warmly welcoming her to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees and to the Wikimedia movement! Christophe Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees P.S. Due to the nature of Esra’a’s work, sharing photos or videos of Esra’a may endanger her safety or the safety of others. To help ensure the privacy and safety of Esra’a and her colleagues, we are not sharing any photographs or videos of Esra'a. We ask that you please join us in supporting this important safety consideration. Press release Header: Esra'a Al Shafei joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Subheader: Bahraini human rights activist and social entrepreneur brings to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees more than a decade of experience in applying creative solutions to challenges faced by underserved and underrepresented communities. Image: https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Esraa.png[a] <https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1wNmwgJkUPp25nVLRVgX5WzU_LuEi5a9gJDp…> [b] <https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1wNmwgJkUPp25nVLRVgX5WzU_LuEi5a9gJDp…> [c] <https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1wNmwgJkUPp25nVLRVgX5WzU_LuEi5a9gJDp…> [d] <https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1wNmwgJkUPp25nVLRVgX5WzU_LuEi5a9gJDp…> San Francisco, California, 1 December 2017 — The Wikimedia Foundation today announced the appointment of Esra'a Al Shafei, a prominent human rights activist and a passionate defender of free expression, to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. A native of Bahrain, Esra'a’s work aims to increase and protect free speech, promote expression for youth and underrepresented voices, and improve the lives of LGBTQ people in the Middle East and North Africa. She founded and directs Majal, a network of online platforms that amplify under-reported and marginalized voices. “Esra'a shares Wikimedia's foundational belief that shared knowledge can facilitate shared understanding,” said Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director, Katherine Maher. "Her achievements exemplify how intentional community building can be a powerful tool for positive change, while her passion for beautiful and engaging user experiences will only elevate our work. We are so fortunate to have her perspective in support of our global Wikimedia communities." Esra'a founded Majal in 2006 as Mideast Youth, at the time a series of blogs bringing a voice to marginalized and underrepresented young people across the Middle East. Today, the organization's team helps build communities that celebrate, protect, and promote diversity and social justice. Their endeavors include CrowdVoice.org, which curates crowdsourced media to contextualize social movements throughout the world; Mideast Tunes, the largest web and mobile app showcasing underground musicians in the Middle East and North Africa who use music as a tool for social change; and Ahwaa.org, an open discussion platform for Arab LGBTQ individuals that uses game mechanics to protect and engage its community. “When I first encountered Wikipedia shortly after obtaining an internet connection in the early 2000s, I felt that the true purpose of the internet was realized. With Wikipedia, I accessed research regarding persecuted communities in my home country and the wider region: ethnic and religious minorities whom we were discouraged from learning about, and whose histories and beliefs were dictated to us from a singular government perspective. Wikipedia’s open source and crowdsourcing practices would inspire the platforms I built to advocate for underrepresented communities, and the internet would shape my life’s work in advocating for freedom of expression and identity around the world,” said Esra'a. Esra'a received the Berkman Award for Internet Innovation from the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School in 2008 for "outstanding contributions to the internet and its impact on society." The World Economic Forum listed her as one of "15 Women Changing the World in 2015." She has won the "Most Courageous Media" Prize from Free Press Unlimited, and the Monaco Media Prize, which acknowledges innovative uses of media for the betterment of humanity. She has been featured in Fast Company as one of the "100 Most Creative People in Business;" in The Daily Beast as one of the 17 bravest bloggers worldwide; and in Forbes' "30 Under 30" list of social entrepreneurs making an impact in the world. Esra'a was a keynote speaker at Wikimania 2017 in Montreal, the annual conference centered on the Wikimedia projects. “Esra'a brings tech expertise and a valuable perspective to the Board - coming from a region where access to information is not taken for granted. I was impressed by her talk during Wikimania 2017 on 'Experiences from the Middle East: Overcoming Challenges and Serving Communities'. I think her experience in that region will be important to our efforts around the globe,” said Nataliia Tymkiv, Governance Chair for the Board. Esra'a is a senior TED Fellow, an Echoing Green fellow, and a Director’s Fellow at the MIT Media Lab. She received a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowship in 2012 for her work on CrowdVoice.org. Esra'a joins nine other Foundation Trustees <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://wikimed…> who collectively bring expertise in the Wikimedia community, financial oversight, governance, and organizational development; and a commitment to advancing Wikimedia’s mission of free knowledge for all. She was approved unanimously by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Her term is effective December 2017 and will continue for three years. Please see the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://wikimed…> for complete biographies. About the Wikimedia Foundation The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that supports and operates Wikipedia and its sister free knowledge projects. Wikipedia is the world’s free knowledge resource, spanning more than 45 million articles across nearly 300 languages. Every month, more than 200,000 people edit Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, collectively creating and improving knowledge that is accessed by more than 1 billion unique devices every month. This all makes Wikipedia one of the most popular web properties in the world. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants. Esra’a Al Shafei profile Esra'a Al Shafei is a human rights activist and the founder and director of Majal, a nonprofit which helps build communities that celebrate, protect, and promote diversity, and social justice. A native of Bahrain, Esra'a works avidly to increase and protect free speech, promote expression for youth and underrepresented voices, and improve the lives of LGBTQ people in the Middle East and North Africa. She founded Majal in 2006 as Mideast Youth. The organization has built online platforms that creatively facilitate the struggle for social change in the Middle East and North Africa. Esra'a received the Berkman Award for Internet Innovation from Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School in 2008 for "outstanding contributions to the internet and its impact on society." The World Economic Forum listed her as one of "15 Women Changing the World in 2015." She has won the "Most Courageous Media" Prize from Free Press Unlimited, and the Monaco Media Prize, which acknowledges innovative uses of media for the betterment of humanity. Esra'a is a senior TED Fellow, an Echoing Green fellow, and a Director’s Fellow at the MIT Media Lab. She received a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowship in 2012 for her work on CrowdVoice.org. She lives in the Middle East and North Africa region.

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The Signpost – Volume 13, Issue 11 – 24 November 2017
by Wikipedia Signpost 23 Nov '17

23 Nov '17

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Board of Trustees November 2017 meeting agenda and August 2017 meeting minutes
by Charles M. Roslof 17 Nov '17

17 Nov '17

Hi all, The agenda for the next Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees meeting on November 17–19, 2017 is now available on Meta Wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_board_agenda_2017-11 The Board has also approved and published minutes from its meeting on August 9–10, 2017: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2017-08-9,10 Best, Charles M. Roslof Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation croslof(a)wikimedia.org (415) 839-6885 NOTICE: This message might have confidential or legally privileged information in it. If you have received this message by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal/ethical reasons I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For more on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>.

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Nov/Dec Wikimedia Foundation Metrics & Activities meeting
by Samantha Lien 17 Nov '17

17 Nov '17

Hello everyone, The currently-scheduled November and December metrics meetings both fall on popular holiday weeks in the United States and other parts of the world. Given this, we will be combining the November and December meetings into a single metrics meeting on *Thursday, December 14th, from 6:00 - 7:00 PM UTC (11 AM - 12 PM PT)*. Please stay tuned for more details on the meeting in the coming weeks! Best, Sam and Greg -- *Samantha Lien* Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation 1Montgomery Street Suite 1600 San Francisco, CA 94104

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Wikimedia Community User Group Georgia report (2016-2017)
by David Asriashvili 13 Nov '17

13 Nov '17

Here is Wikimedia Community User Group Georgia report for 2016-2017 years https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Georgia/repo…

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This Month in GLAM: October 2017
by The 'This Month in GLAM' team 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

*This Month in GLAM* is a monthly newsletter documenting recent happenings within the GLAM project, such as content donations, residencies, events and more. GLAM is an acronym of *G*alleries, *L*ibraries, *A*rchives and *M*useums. You can find more information on the project at glamwiki.org. *This Month in GLAM – Issue X, Volume VII – October 2017* ------------------------------ Australia and New Zealand report: Adding Australian women in research to Wikipedia http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2017/Contents/Au… Brazil report: Integrating Wikimedia projects into the Brazilian National Archives GLAM http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2017/Contents/Br… Bulgaria report: Botevgrad became the first wikitown in Bulgaria http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2017/Contents/Bu… France report: Wiki Loves Monuments; Opérations Libres http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2017/Contents/Fr… Germany report: GLAMorous activities in October http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2017/Contents/Ge… Italy report: Experts training on GLAM projects http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2017/Contents/It… Serbia report: Wikipedian in residence at Historical Archives of Subotica; Model of a grain of wheat exlusivly digitized for Wikimedia Commons; Cooperation of the Ministry of Culture and Information and Wikimedia Serbia - GLAM presentations and workshops for museums, archives and libraries http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2017/Contents/Se… Spain report: Women Writers Day http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2017/Contents/Sp… Sweden report: Swedish Performing Arts Agency; Connected Open Heritage; Internetmuseum; More Working life museums http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2017/Contents/Sw… UK report: Scotland's Libraries & Hidden Gems http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2017/Contents/UK… Ukraine report: Wikitraining for Librarians; Library Donation http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2017/Contents/Uk… USA report: trick or treat http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2017/Contents/US… Wikidata report: WikidataCon & Birthday http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2017/Contents/Wi… WMF GLAM report: News about Structured Commons! http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2017/Contents/WM… Calendar: November's GLAM events http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2017/Contents/Ev… ------------------------------ About *This Month in GLAM* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/About Single page view http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2017/Single Twitter http://twitter.com/ThisMonthinGLAM Add your story / Work on the next edition http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/Newsroom -- The *This Month in GLAM* team http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter

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[PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia Foundation appoints Toby Negrin as Chief Product Officer
by Samantha Lien 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

This press release is available online here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_ap… And also as a blog post on the Wikimedia blog here: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/11/08/toby-negrin-chief-product-officer/ *Wikimedia Foundation appoints Toby Negrin as Chief Product Officer* *Toby Negrin has been with the Wikimedia Foundation since 2013 and brings nearly two decades of experience in research, design, analytics, and product development* (San Francisco, California) 8 November 2017 — The Wikimedia Foundation is excited to announce the appointment of Toby Negrin as Chief Product Officer. Toby has been leading the Foundation's product development in an interim capacity since April. He brings nearly 20 years of experience of integrating data, research, and design to produce effective and popular products. The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that supports Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. Together, Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects are visited by more than a billion unique devices every month. The Wikimedia Foundation is driven by its mission to build a world in which every single person can freely share in the sum of all human knowledge. As Chief Product Officer, Toby will lead one of the organization's largest departments in collaborating with the Wikimedia communities on the development of the software products which operate Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. He will be responsible for cultivating a culture of excellence, engagement, and sustainability within the product engineering teams. Toby will also work with others in the organization's leadership on responding to the product needs and requests of the Wikimedia communities. "Toby has demonstrated a style of leadership focused on outcomes, collaboration with the Wikimedia community, and respect for Wikimedia values," said Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. "He has a deep interest in partnership with our communities, an instinct for assembling and cultivating teams, and a record of supporting staff as they develop and explore new skills and roles. I am thrilled to have him leading the Wikimedia Foundation's product development efforts." Since joining the Wikimedia Foundation in 2013, Toby has led an expansion of our analytics efforts, built a new team focused on people who utilize the content developed by Wikimedia's volunteers, and championed the development of intuitive mobile interfaces and mobile applications. Toby played a critical role in the creation of the organization's Community Tech team, which develops features and tools based on feedback from active members of the communities. He was also a part of the creation of the New Readers program, a cross-departmental effort to help new people discover and benefit from Wikimedia's projects. Prior to joining the Wikimedia Foundation, Toby led analytics efforts at DeNA, a mobile social games company. At DeNA, he partnered with colleagues in Japan and China to build global dashboards used to track gaming performance around the world. He also held roles at Yahoo! related to cloud platforms, anti-abuse efforts, and content moderation. Toby grew up in Los Angeles and the UK before landing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and worked in software development at startups in Sweden and The Netherlands. "The Wikimedia movement is an amazing collaboration among editors, developers, chapters and other organizations around the globe," Toby said. "I am excited and honored to be part of the movement and look forward to partnering with our communities to build the tools and experiences for the next 15 years." Toby graduated from the NIMBAS Graduate School of Management and University of California - Santa Cruz. In his free time, he enjoys spending time winemaking and grape growing, running and hiking Bay Area trails, playing tennis, and supporting the Golden Gate Philharmonic youth orchestra. *About the Wikimedia Foundation* The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that supports and operates Wikipedia and its sister free knowledge projects. Wikipedia is the world’s free knowledge resource, spanning more than 45 million articles across nearly 300 languages. Every month, more than 200,000 people edit Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, collectively creating and improving knowledge that is accessed by more than 1 billion unique devices every month. This all makes Wikipedia one of the most popular web properties in the world. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants. *Wikimedia Foundation press contact* press(a)wikimedia.org <press(a)wikimedia.org> -- *Samantha Lien* Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation 1Montgomery Street Suite 1600 San Francisco, CA 94104 (To be unsubscribed from this press release distribution list, please reply to communications(a)wikimedia.org with 'UNSUBSCRIBE' in the subject line)

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Wikimedians of the Levant annual report for 2016-17
by Farah Jack Mustaklem 31 Oct '17

31 Oct '17

We are happy to announce the publishing of the second annual report for the Wikimedians of the Levant User Group for the period between May 20, 2016 and May 19, 2017. The report can be found here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_the_Levant/Reports/2016/2017…> . Regards, Farah Mustaklem, Treasurer UG-LEV

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Invitation to WMF October 2017 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, October 26, 18:00 UTC
by Lena Traer 26 Oct '17

26 Oct '17

Hello everyone, The next Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday, October 26, 2017 at 6:00 PM 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.[1] During the October metrics meeting, we'll hear from different presenters along the theme of knowledge equity -- understanding and addressing barriers to participation in free knowledge globally. Meeting agenda: * Welcomes, theme introduction * Movement update * Wikimedia grants * Aulas AMiGAS (Juan Manuel Lopera) * Movement strategy update * Questions and discussion Please review https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_metrics_and_activities… for further information about the meeting and how to participate. We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting. Thank you, Lena [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN3rOgNECjQ Lena Traer Project Coordinator // Communications // Advancement Wikimedia Foundation

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Movement Strategy: Endorse the strategic direction today! #wikimedia2030
by Nicole Ebber 26 Oct '17

26 Oct '17

Dear Wikimedians, Today marks the final milestone of phase 1 of our movement strategy process. Over the past eight months, many of you, of your peers, colleagues, partners and friends have contributed to an endeavor that resulted in the new Strategic Direction of the Wikimedia movement. This direction provides us with an answer to the question: What do we want to build and achieve as a movement over the next 10–15 years: By 2030, Wikimedia will become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge, and anyone who shares our vision will be able to join us.[1] On behalf of the strategy team, it’s with great pleasure that I invite you today to declare your intent to work together towards this future. Organized groups as well as individual contributors of our movement are invited to endorse the Strategic Direction by adding their signature to the endorsement page on Meta-Wiki. You will find all necessary instructions there.[2] By endorsing the Strategic Direction, you are not necessarily agreeing with every single outcome of the first phase. Endorsing means that you commit to participating in the next phase of this discussion in good faith and to help define, by Wikimania 2018, how to come to an agreement on roles, responsibilities, and organizational strategies that enable us to implement that future. In addition to signing the meta page, you are all welcome to use the #wikimedia2030 hashtag on social media to celebrate and share your excitement with the world and encourage other Wikimedians to show their support, too. Ideally, please leave questions or remarks on the talk page, to make it easier to follow-up in a structured way. Thank you! Nicole [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Direction#… [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Direction/… -- Nicole Ebber Adviser International Relations Movement Strategy Track Lead: Organized Groups 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.

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