Hi everyone!
There's a week and a half left in the community review period of the annual
plan grants. I invite you to take a look at any or all of the proposals and
offer feedback or questions in any language:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2015-2016_round1/Commu…
I'd love to see you there, and welcome you to join the discussion! Please
let me know if you have questions.
Katy Love
On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Katy Love <klove(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hello, Wikimedians!
>
> I want to share with you that the community review period for the Annual
> Plan Grants (APG) program is underway for eleven proposals. These
> organizations are requesting unrestricted funding to support their annual
> plans, including both programmatic and operational costs. These requests in
> Round 1 total just over US$4 million of US$6 million available in both
> rounds this year. In mid-November, Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC), [1]
> a volunteer committee made up of members of the Wikimedia community, will
> convene. They will meet in San Francisco to discuss these proposals in
> detail and make a recommendation to the WMF Board of Trustees on use of
> these funds.
>
> From now until 30 October, we invite everyone to review the proposals, and
> to provide thoughts and ask questions on the discussion pages of the
> proposals. *You can begin your exploration of the proposals on the
> community review landing page *here*: *
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2015-2016_round1/Commu…
> .
>
> *About community review:* Annual plan grant proposals are submitted to
> the FDC on 1 October. That is followed by a 30-day open comment period.
> During this community review, all are invited to provide input on and ask
> questions about specific proposals on the discussion pages of the proposal
> forms. Applicants are also asked to respond to input and questions during
> this period, although they are not able to change the proposal form itself
> after the submission date.
>
> The FDC follows the discussion pages of the proposals in preparation for
> their deliberations in November. These questions, comments and responses
> are an input to their collaborative decision-making process. While anyone
> can comment on proposals after the open comment period closes on 30
> October, the FDC may not be able to take comments made after this period
> into consideration when making its decisions about funding.
>
> *How to join in the review:* Please visit the community review
> page [2] to view the proposals being considered and follow the instructions
> on that page. The proposals are only available in English, but your
> comments on the discussion pages do not need to be in English.
>
> *Why your feedback matters: *We hope that this open comment period will
> add to an in-depth and robust review of each proposal. The community review
> process also helps make our grantmaking transparent and collaborative. The
> FDC and the WMF staff value feedback and insights from the Wikimedia
> community in making its funding recommendations.
>
> You can find more information about the APG program, the FDC or the
> upcoming milestones on our portal. [3] Please let us know if you have any
> questions, concerns, or feedback about the process. You can reach the FDC
> support staff can be reached at FDCsupport(a)wikimedia.org
>
> Warm regards,
> Katy Love
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Funds_Dissemination_Committee
> [2]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2015-2016_round1/Commu…
> [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Information
>
Hi all,
please find the Wikimedia Foundation's report for the first quarter of
this fiscal year at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Quarterly_Repor…
.
Quoting below the foreword by Terry:
We are pleased to bring you the Wikimedia Foundation’s Quarterly
Report for Q1 of the 2015/16 fiscal year, a comprehensive summary of
how we did on the objectives defined earlier in our quarterly goal
setting process. We are continuing to optimize the report’s format and
the organization’s quarterly review process based on the feedback that
we have received.
This issue includes some new pieces of information and a few format
changes. Teams have been starting to highlight one key performance
indicator (KPI) each - with ongoing efforts to identify the best
possible metrics - and to estimate how much time fell into each of the
three categories from the 2015 Call to Action (strengthen, focus and
experiment). We have reorganized the content to present all the
information that is related to a particular objective in one place
(description of the goal, measures of success, how we did on achieving
the objective, and what we learned from working on it), and changed
these slides to a cleaner, more effective layout.
As before, we are including an overview slide summarizing successes
and misses across all teams. In a mature 90-day goal setting process,
the “sweet spot” is for about 75% of goals to be a success.
Organizations that are meeting 100% of their goals are not typically
setting aggressive goals.
Terry Gilbey, Chief Operating Officer
--
A wiki version should become available on Meta-wiki tomorrow, and we
will also announce the report in a blog post.
--
Tilman Bayer
Senior Analyst
Wikimedia Foundation
IRC (Freenode): HaeB
Please find a summary of last month’s highlights from the Wikimedia blog at
the following link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_September_2015
Contents:
Drone photography of Versailles
Wikimedia project milestones: Swedish Wikipedia hits 2 million
What I Learned: Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina
In September, we love monuments
Reimagining the Wikimedia Foundation’s grants
Wikipedia’s very active editor numbers have stabilized—delve into the data
with us
Should I pay for a Wikipedia article?
Translations for September are greatly appreciated.
--
Andrew Sherman
Digital Communications | Wikimedia Foundation
*E:* asherman(a)wikimedia.org
*WMF:* ASherman (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ASherman_(WMF)>
Hello everyone,
**Wikipedia’s 15th birthday is coming. We want to celebrate with you. Read
this whole email for more information about resources and plans, and join
us on the Meta page to participate and coordinate:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_15**
As many of you know, the first Wikipedia was created January 15, 2001. That
means that the idea of our movement is nearly 15 years old! After the
celebration of Wikipedia’s 10th birthday <http://ten.wikipedia.org/> five
years back, we’re eager to coordinate celebrating this upcoming milestone
with you on January 15, 2016.
Wikipedia’s 10th birthday <https://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>
resulted in 470 events across 113 countries, providing our global community
with an opportunity to gather, share stories, and bake many, many cakes
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_10_cakes>.
As a way to kickstart planning around the 15th, there is a page on
Meta for Wikipedia
15 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_15> (thanks to User:Pharos
and User:JSutherland (WMF)) for coordination. Eventually, we plan for the
page will have resources including:
1.
Resources plan events and meetups locally to celebrate the 15th.
2.
More information on sharing birthday photos, videos, stories, Wikipedia
content, and other media.
3.
Tips for pitching to local media to cover your event.
Many of the sections on the meta page are blank for now, but we’ll be
working with you to add more information to the page over the next few
months leading up to the birthday celebration in January. Please feel free
to add, edit, and discuss what you’d like to see for Wikipedia’s 15th
birthday!
We look forward to working with you to celebrate Wikipedia’s 15th!
-The Wikimedia Foundation Communications team
If you have any questions, please feel free to send an email to Joe
Sutherland (jsutherland(a)wikimedia.org) and Sam Lien (slien(a)wikimedia.org).
--
Katherine Maher
Chief Communications Officer
Wikimedia Foundation
149 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
+1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635
+1 (415) 712 4873
kmaher(a)wikimedia.org
Dear Wikimedia friends,
We have just published our report of the Program and Engagement
Coordination for the Wikimedia Conference. It covers the first six
months of our experiment. (Spoiler: We consider this experiment a
success.)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_DE/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/…
With this report – as well as the two previous ones – we share our
experiences and learnings in a quite extensive manner so that people
can learn from and build upon it. Besides these reports, we also
strive to share our learnings in presentations, talks or personal
conversations. We appreciate any feedback or recommendation regarding
the Program and Engagement Coordination, because we strongly believe
in the power of being learning partners in the movement.
Happy reading!
Nicole & Cornelius
For the timeline of the 2016 conference, please see here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016
--
Nicole Ebber
Referentin Internationale Beziehungen
Adviser to the ED, International Relations
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!
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 27/681/51985.
Hello, Wikimedians!
I want to share with you that the community review period for the Annual
Plan Grants (APG) program is underway for eleven proposals. These
organizations are requesting unrestricted funding to support their annual
plans, including both programmatic and operational costs. These requests in
Round 1 total roughly US$4.2 million, out of US$6 million available in both
rounds this year. In mid-November, Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC), [1]
a volunteer committee made up of members of the Wikimedia community, will
convene. They will meet in San Francisco to discuss these proposals in
detail and make a recommendation to the WMF Board of Trustees on use of
these funds.
>From now until 30 October, we invite everyone to review the proposals, and
to provide thoughts and ask questions on the discussion pages of the
proposals. You can begin your exploration of the proposals on the community
review landing page here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2015-2016_round1/Commu….
About community review: Annual plan grant proposals are submitted to the
FDC on 1 October. That is followed by a 30-day open comment period. During
this community review, all are invited to provide input on and ask
questions about specific proposals on the discussion pages of the proposal
forms. Applicants are also asked to respond to input and questions during
this period, although they are not able to change the proposal form itself
after the submission date.
The FDC follows the discussion pages of the proposals in preparation for
their deliberations in November. These questions, comments and responses
are an input to their collaborative decision-making process. While anyone
can comment on proposals after the open comment period closes on 30
October, the FDC may not be able to take comments made after this period
into consideration when making its decisions about funding.
How to join in the review: Please visit the community review page [2] to
view the proposals being considered and follow the instructions on that
page. The proposals are only available in English, but your comments on the
discussion pages do not need to be in English.
Why your feedback matters: We hope that this open comment period will add
to an in-depth and robust review of each proposal. The community review
process also helps make our grantmaking transparent and collaborative. The
FDC and the WMF staff value feedback and insights from the Wikimedia
community in making its funding recommendations.
You can find more information about the APG program, the FDC or the
upcoming milestones on our portal. [3] Please let us know if you have any
questions, concerns, or feedback about the process. You can reach the FDC
support staff can be reached at FDCsupport(a)wikimedia.org
Warm regards,
Katy Love
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Funds_Dissemination_Committee
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2015-2016_round1/Commu…
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Information