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Wikimedia Foundation welcomes Boryana Dineva as Vice President of Human
Resources
*Experienced tech executive steps into newly created role*
The Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce that Boryana Dineva has
joined the organization as Vice President of Human Resources. In this role,
Boryana will lead development, recruiting, and support for Wikimedia
Foundation staff in support of the Wikimedia mission.
As of 2015, the Wikimedia Foundation has grown to around 200 employees,
supporting a community of around 80,000 active Wikipedia and Wikimedia
contributors and a global readership of nearly 500 million people per
month. Every Foundation employee currently supports nearly 2.5 million
Wikimedia users, and with a mission to engage every single human on the
planet in the sum of all knowledge we have billions more people to reach.
Human Resources is a critical partner in building a team of talented,
passionate people to support this ambitious mission.
Boryana joins the Wikimedia Foundation from Tesla Motors, where she led the
Human Resources Analytics, Information Systems, and Operation groups. At
Tesla, Boryana worked in close partnership with staff and management to
design and develop programs to advance strategy and achieve organizational
goals. She was instrumental in building the company’s people analytics
capacity and developing a data-driven organizational design to support
growth.
Boryana believes that a strong and purposeful culture is essential for an
organization to be truly transformative, particularly for mission-driven
organizations such as the Wikimedia Foundation. “Culture is the sum of the
actions of each individual,” Boryana said. “Each employee can be a partner
in creating a fulfilling and inspiring work environment. I’m thrilled to be
joining the Wikimedia Foundation for the opportunity to advance an
organizational culture rooted in the Wikimedia values of transparency,
stewardship, and openness.”
As Vice President of Human Resources, Boryana will oversee the Wikimedia
Foundation’s talent and culture function, including talent acquisition,
organizational training and development, and talent management and people
analytics. She will design and drive initiatives around workplace culture
and well-being, including diversity, respect, and implement new processes
and tools to support Foundation staff and stewardship. Boryana will report
to Wikimedia Foundation Chief Operating Officer Terence Gilbey.
“Boryana has the right combination of experience and sensibility to help
the organization do what we do best: support the Wikimedia free knowledge
mission,” said Gilbey. “I look forward to working with her as she gets to
know the Wikimedia world and starts to build creative, mission-aligned
strategies to help us achieve our goals.”
Boryana has a degree in Economics from the University of California,
Berkeley. Outside of work, she has been described as a global nomad. She
was born and lived in Bulgaria, and has lived and studied in Russia,
Austria, Germany, and the United States. She is a student of people and
cultures, an area she relies on when defining organizational strategy.
About the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikipedia consists of more than 35
million articles in 291 languages. Every month, tens of thousands of active
volunteers contribute to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. With
nearly half a billion monthly users, projects operated by the Wikimedia
Foundation are 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.
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Hey Wikidata friends,
Wikidata is turning 3 years old on October 29th. This is a reason to
celebrate for all of us. We'll be having a big party in Berlin and we
would love to see as many of you there as possible.
The Wikidata team also has a few more things planned where they'd love
to have videos, images and other input from you.
Find all information including a draft schedule for the event with
exhibition, editathon, award ceremony, party and more on:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Third_Birthday/Party
Here's the event on fb: https://www.facebook.com/events/1487210038273348/
And here's a tweet for you to share:
https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/649227676528545792
Cheers,
Nicole
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Nicole Ebber
Vorstandsreferentin 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.
*Summary: *
*1. Groups and organizations, a
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Simple>**pply
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Simple> by 1 November for
funding by 1 January! *
*2. Volunteers, join the committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Simple/Committee> today!*
*4. Help us out with translation, please (see list of pages below).*
Dear Wikimedia colleagues:
We are piloting the *Simple Annual Plan Grants option, for groups and
organizations* that choose to include program and operating expenses as
part of one application each year. We are excited to move forward with this
new option after making some changes to this idea based on what we learned
from the recent consultation about Reimagining WMF Grants
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Reimagining_WMF_grants/Outco…>
.
*Amazing benefits!*
1. *One application*. Funding for programs, operating expenses, and staff
all in one application for the year, to enable organizations to plan with
better, and to show how their programs are leading to impact.
2. *Simple process.* Simpler and speedier application, review, and
reporting processes than grants through the FDC, with more flexible
eligibility requirements, and open to informal groups as well as
organizations.
3. *Targeted support*. WMF will be developing more guidelines and online
resources specifically for groups and organizations, this option will
include more support from WMF program staff during the application process
and during each grant, and participants will be part of a learning
community with other groups and organizations doing similar work.
*Join us, in creating something new together!*
1. *Applications from groups and organizations that need funding by 1
January will be due 1 November. *More applications will also be accepted
throughout the year. You can learn more about the program and how to apply
here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Simple. If you are
interested, but have questions about the timing of your application, please
contact us.
2. If you want to review annual plan grants, we need you to join the
committee! Add your name here if you want to help:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Simple/Committee.
3. We need your help translating the pages about the pilot, especially:
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Simple
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Simple/About
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Simple/Eligibility (top)
Groups and organizations with annual plans will still have the option to
request funding through the Project and Event Grants program during the
pilot. The pilot phase will be a time to learn together, and will be
evaluated in several stages (at least one in early 2016, and one in early
2017), to discover if this program benefits applicants and grantees.
Questions, comments, and suggestions are welcome on Meta! We've already
received some helpful suggestions, and we hope to make improvements as we
learn.
Please contact me at wolliff(a)wikimedia.org with questions specific to your
group or organization.
Best regards,
Winifred
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Winifred Olliff
Program Officer
Wikimedia Foundation
Dear all,
The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday,
October 1, 2015, at 6:00 PM UTC (11 AM PDT). The IRC channel is
#wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net, and the meeting will be broadcast as
a live YouTube stream.
At next month's meeting, we will:
* Welcome recent hires
* Present a community update
* Review WMF top-level metrics
* Showcase recent work
* Share research findings
* Give a product demo
* Engage in questions/discussions
Please review
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings for further
information about the meeting and how to participate.
We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
Thank you,
Praveena
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Praveena Maharaj
Executive Assistant
Wikimedia Foundation \\ www.wikimediafoundation.org
Hi all,
We have posted the minutes from the Board of Trustees meeting at Wikimania
on July 15-16, 2015, which you can find here:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2015-07-15
Thank you,
Stephen LaPorte
Legal Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation
Please find a summary of last month’s highlights from the Wikimedia blog at
the following link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_August_2015
Contents:
• Hundreds of “black hat” English Wikipedia accounts blocked following
investigation
• The Hunt for Tirpitz
• My life as an autistic Wikipedian
• Content Translation updates from Wikimania 2015
• Using Wikipedia to preserve indigenous languages of Colombia
• When cultural heritage gets a digital life
Translations for August are greatly appreciated.
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Andrew Sherman
Digital Communications | Wikimedia Foundation
*E:* asherman(a)wikimedia.org
*WMF:* ASherman (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ASherman_(WMF)>