Dear community:
Below you will find the report of activities of the month of June 2014 done
by the volunteers of Wikimedia Mexico. Please don't hesitate to get in
touch with us if you require extra information about this activities or
only to make some suggestions.
The report is also available on Spanish and English in our wiki:
*https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Junio_2014/
<https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Junio_2014/>* (Spanish)
*https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Junio_2014/en
<https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Junio_2014/en>* (English)
Kindly regards. On behalf our chapter.
Carmen Alcázar (User:Wotancito)
WMMX Secretary.
==Highlights==
===Edit-a-thon at Museo Soumaya===
On June 6th, we performed our first Edit-a-thon in Museo Soumaya, a private
museographic institution belonging to Fundación Carlos Slim, at its Plaza
Carso venue, previously planned jointly with the museum's curators about
topics related to their collections.
As the first activity, the Wikimedia México community attendees received a
special backstage guided tour with the museum closed. At 10 a.m. we began
the edition marathon and a workshop for beginners attending the event who
do not have any previous experience in Wiki edition. The event was held at
the lobby of the museum, a plain and blank area surrounded by master
workshops as an exact replica of Michelangelo's Pietà and Rodin's Kiss,
plus murals by Mexican masters Rufino Tamayo and Diego Rivera. The event
generated awareness among the visitors of the museum, some of whom received
explanations offered b the volunteers of the Mexican chapter about the
activity we had been performing.
Wikimedia Mexico's volunteers, jointly with the museum, created 9 new
articles in Spanish Wikipedia and one in Wikivoyage. Rufino Tamayo's works
such as Naturaleza muertaand El día y la noche, or Edgar Degas's Woman
Bathing have now an article on the main Internet reference. This event was
actively supported by the director of the museum, Alfonso Miranda, as well
as by his research and outreach staff, who provided the information
necessary to give depth to the writing and verifiability. Officialy the
event ended at 3 pm, but some of the members of the chapter remained at the
museum discussing and improving the contents written with the support of
Soumaya staff until 10 pm.
This event was part of the GLAM initiative between the Mexican chapter and
Museo Soumaya.
Images on Wikimedia Commons [1]
Event on Spanish Wikipedia (with a list of edited articles) [2]
Social media posts and impact around the event on Storify [3]
===First Spanish Republican Exile Edit-a-thon===
Francisco Franco's dictatorship and the Civil War in Spain forced hundreds
of Spanish citizens to exile: they left their country as one of the
aftermaths of the persecution period. Nearly 220 thousand supporters of the
Second Republic left Spain to other countries such as Argentina and Mexico,
who welcomed him differently.
To mark the 75th anniversary of the arrival of Sinaia vessel to the Mexican
port of Veracruz, three Wikimedia chapters (Wikimedia Argentina, Wikimedia
Spain and Wikimedia Mexico) ran the First Spanish Republican Exile
Edit-a-thon of Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource about the
historical facts, biographies and testimonials related to this process.
The coordination of this event, performed under Iberocoop's initiative,
meant that the work would be done at different times on June 16th. Articles
were written in Spanish and Catalan. Several original texts and photographs
of documents of those years were downloaded to both Wikisource and Commons
either during the event or during the days following. The event was
simultaneously held at Centro Cultural de España en México, in Mexico City,
and at Casal de Catalunya in Buenos Aires, Argentina; editors from Spain
participated from their home computers in the Spanish territory.
Watch the video about the event in Mexico City. [4]
Images and documents from Exile on Wikimedia Commons [5]
Event on Spanish Wikipedia (with a list of edited articles) [6]
===Campus Party 2014===
This year Campus Party took place in Zapopan, Jalisco in the metropolitan
area of Guadalajara, western Mexico. Wikimedia Mexico participated through
our members Alan Lazalde, Omar Sandoval and Salvador Alcántar. During the
event was diffused Wikimedia Mexico activities and sought new contacts
within the technological environment. Also the team gave two talks, one
about Wikipedia and other about Wikipedia Education Program in Mexico, but
also was given last minute talks within the event. Near 300 stickers of
Wikipedia and Wikimedia Mexico were distributed. Due to some acts of sexism
and misogyny occurred during the event, the chapter members demonstrate his
oppose against that kind of doings in technology events. The board of
Wikimedia Mexico drafted and approved a special position on the situation,
which was widely shared on social media.
===New GLAM friends on board===
Wikimedia Mexico has a new cultural partner: the Centro Cultural
Universitario Tlatelolco (CCUT), who belongs to the National Autonomous
University of Mexico (UNAM). This center, housed within a former venue of
the Foreign Affairs Secretariat of Mexico, is placed near the Plaza de las
Tres Culturas ("Square of the Three Cultures"), a place with a historical
richness due to the significative episodes occured here: it was a prominent
prehispanic city and the scenary of one of the final battles between the
Spanish and Aztec armies in 1521. In 1967, the Treaty of Tlatelolco was
signed here. On October 2, 1968, ten days before the start of the 1968
Summer Olympic Games, the plaza was the scene of the Tlatelolco massacre in
which more than 300 student protesters were killed by the army and police
who were trying to suppress the protests, and on September 19, 1985, the
zone was one of the more damaged areas as a consequence of the 1985 Mexico
City earthquake, causing a strong self-organization that led to future
civil organizations who led major changes in the democracy of the Mexican
capital. This cultural center is one of the most dynamic emerging venues in
recent years, hosting a wide range of cultural activities trough their
Artistic Linkage Unit as well four museums: Memorial del 68 (about 1968
events), Sala de Colecciones Universitarias, Museo de Sitio Tlatelolco
(related to the archaeological site next to the center) and Colección
Stavenhagen.
This new alliance of the Mexican chapter adds to those previously made with
other two important cultural centers in the north of the historic downtown
of Mexico City, also leaders in their respective fields: the Museo
Universitario del Chopo and Biblioteca Vasconcelos, venue of Wikimania 2015.
==
Journal
==
Jun 2
*
Follow up meeting of the Wikipedia Education Program with the Instituto
Educación Media Superior del Distrito Federal.
Jun 3
*Review of articles from Wikipedia Education Program in the class of the
teacher Monica Quijano, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM.
Jun 4
*
Review of articles from Wikipedia Education Program in the class of the
teacher Francisco Barrón, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM.
Jun 7
*
Moebius radio program 14/16: "Del gol de chilena a León Trotski" (From
bicycle kick to Leon Trotsky)
*
Editathon at the Soumaya Museum
Jun 9
*
Sign of Letter of Intention between Biblioteca Vasconcelos and Wikimedia
Foundation
*
Meeting held by and between the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Mexico
to coordinate Wikimania 2015 tasks
Jun 10
*
Meeting with the Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico, before the First
Editaton of Spanish Republican Exile in Mexico.
Jun 11
*Tour for some hotels at Mexico City with Garfield Byrd and Ellie Young as
part of the organization of Wikimanía 2015. Meeting with Daniel Goldin,
head of Biblioteca Vasconcelos and sign of Letter of Intention between
library and Wikimedia Foundation.
June 14
*
Moebius program number 14/17 : "De Moctezuma Xocoyotzin a San Judas Tadeo"
(From Moctezuma Xocoyotzin to San Judas Tadeo)
*
First Editathon about the Spanish Republican Exile in Mexico
June 21
*Moebius radio program, retransmission of 14/01 episode.
June 27
*
Wikipedia talk within Campus Party 2014
*
Wikimedia México's position about Campus Party 2014
[7]
*
Participation in #CPMX5incluyente forum
June 28
*
Moebius radio program 14/18: "Del concretismo al berimbau" (From concrete
art to berimbau)
*
Wikipedia talk within Campus Party 2014
*
Wikipedia Essay Challenge in Campus Party (in Spanish)
*
Participation at Cumbre de Innovación Ciudadana e Innovación Iberoamérica
(Citizen Innovation and Iberoamerican Innovation Summit) within Campus
Party 2014
[1]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Primer_Editat%C3%B3n_en_el_Muse…
[2]
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encuentros/Editat%C3%B3n_en_el_Muse…
[3] https://storify.com/Wikimedia_mx/editaton-en-el-museo-soumaya
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hJQw81seMI
[5]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Primer_Editat%C3%B3n_del_Exilio…
[6]
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encuentros/Primer_Editat%C3%B3n_del…
[7] https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Posicionamiento_Campus_Party_2014
Hey,
I'm very excited to share that last night, we received the award at an
event presence with of hundreds of guests (Picture of the award:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roaring_Lion_2014_award_to_Wikimedi…
)
The Roaring Lion competition is an award for excellence within Israel's
communications and public relations industry awarded by the Israel Public
Relations Associations. The campaign was chosen among many, judged by a
committee of public relations executives, academics and public figures.
Last July the Hebrew Wikipedia celebrated her 10th anniversary. The
celebrations were followed by massive press coverage - TV radio, internet
and print. You can give a look on some of them in our Press Book:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9iobJg3Vpp0bDdKaDExNmU2VEU/edit?usp=shari…
The strategy was to show the volunteers – the people behind the projects,
so each cover presented another volunteer. To show the power of Wikipedia
we collected a lot of numbers such the most viewed articles of the last 5
years, numbers of edits, words and many others – which leads to many items
covering the history of HEWP.
But besides arranging massive coverage for the celebrations we were looking
for a special way to celebrate – to do something that has never been done
before. The result was a unique collaboration with TV Channel 2, the most
viewed channel in Israel! For an entire week, five of the most senior
Channel 2 reporters, who learned to edit Wikipedia by our volunteers, wrote
or extended an article on Hebrew Wikipedia. Then, each recorded a one
minute video, explaining why they have decided to write on this specific
topic. Every day, just before the evening news broadcast, the video was
broadcasted and while the anchor presented the project, he explained "we
wanted to celebrate Wikipedia’s 10th anniversary and show that everyone can
write an article on Wikipedia. Happy Birthday Wikipedia!”
Due the success of the project Channel 2 decided to broadcast it all over
again on the week after. According to the ratings records 2.033 million
people (cumulatively) watched the project. On the celebrations month pages
views on Hebrew Wikipedia showed increase of 12% (compare to 1%
internationally) and increase of 12% in new articles (compare to 14%
internationally decrease).
You can watch them the videos (translated to English) on our Youtube
Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuQcXKjU3rwJ-TOL8lyru7oHvoufnWtED
I wish to thank all the volunteers who take part making this happen, to the
Wikimedia Israel team, and to Gidoen Amichay who supported and helped lead
the Channel 2 cooperation.
*Regards,Itzik Edri*
Chairperson and Spokesperson, Wikimedia Israel
+972-(0)-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment!
(This press release is also available online
here:https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_Summit_%…
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Telenor_Wikipedia_Zero_…>)
Wikipedia Summit “Wikimania” comes to London - Largest ever gathering
- *Featured speakers include Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, and new
Wikimedia Foundation Chief Executive Lila Tretikov; Thousands of Wikimedia
volunteers; Leaders in Technology, Culture and Society. From August 8th to
10th at the Barbican Centre; Tickets go on sale today.*
- *Wikimania programme to focus on Social Machines, The Future of
Education, Democratic Media, Open Scholarship & Open Data*
Wikimania’s 2014 team today announce the programme for this year’s historic
event. Wikimania 2014 will be held at the Barbican Centre in London from
8th to 10th August, with a two day pre-conference held August 6th and 7th.
Over 4,000 attendees are expected; more than twice the number at any
previous Wikimania.
The future of Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia projects, forms the central
theme. As technological advances promise big changes on the platform,
Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales will delve into what the future has in store
for the world’s fifth most popular website.
“Wikipedia is the largest knowledge base in the world, consulted by over
half a billion people each month,” says Wales. “However, we’ve only just
begun to scratch the surface of what can be done with it. Through
international expansion, a new focus on open data, and a big investment in
technology development, our movement is charting exciting new territory.”
Attendees will also welcome Wikimedia’s new executive director, Lila
Tretikov. Her keynote will focus on the impact of Wikipedia in our changing
world and its potential for our future.
Tretikov sees Wikipedia, a top five website, as an opportunity to for
unlocking and democratizing knowledge globally: “I’d like us to think
beyond what we know today. Think beyond our accomplishments, towards
opportunities. Opportunities for all our collective minds to build the
future of knowledge, collaboration and trust.” Recent developments have
included plans focused on overhauling Wikipedia’s user experience for
readers and editors, a programmatic approach to grant-making and community,
and establishing a development platform for knowledge building.
Open to the public, Wikimania is a five-day, community-organised event
focusing on new projects in the world of MediaWiki, transparency, and open
knowledge. Themes include collaborative working, natural language
processing, crowdsourcing, education, journalism, scientific and medical
research, open data, and multimedia.
--- ends
Programme Summary
The conference is organised around five questions with massive implications
for the future.
- Social Machines: How Can Online Communities Unlock Humanity’s
Potential?
- The Future of Education: Now That Wikipedia Has Done Everyone’s
Homework, What’s Left to Teach?
- Democratic Media: Must All Media Be Commercially Driven?
- Open Scholarship: What Happens When The Cutting Edge of Human
Knowledge is Available To All?
- Open Data: What Can We Build When The Sum Of All Human Knowledge is
Machine Readable?
Lectures from prominent leaders across technology and media will include
the following.
- Jack Andraka, inventor – At the age of 15 Andraka invented a possible
new test for pancreatic cancer by using scientific research available he
found on Wikipedia.
- Professor Yaneer Bar-Yam, President, New England Complex Systems
Institute – Bar-Yam will explore how the complex system of Wikipedia
applies to exposition of scientific enquiry and socio-cultural issues.
- Professor Dariusz Jemielniak – Jemielniak will present an academic's
perspective on Wikipedia's cultural and community structures via research
from his book*Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia*.
- Benjamin Mako Hill, researcher – Hill will give an overview of major
research discoveries about Wikipedia from the past year.
- Elizabeth Marincola, CEO, Public Library of Science – Marincola will
share an update about PLOS ONE, the world’s largest open access journal.
- Carl Miller, Research Director, Centre for Analysis of Social Media,
Demos – Miller will share findings from Demos’ efforts to engage citizens
and increase voter participation by experimenting with using Wikipedia-like
systems.
- Cameron Neylon, Advocacy Director, Public Library of Science – Neylon
is a longtime advocate for open access and unrestricted online access to
peer-reviewed scholarly research.
- Lydia Pintscher, Product Manager, Wikidata – Pintscher will present
Wikidata, the free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and
machines alike. Wikidata centralises access to, and the management of
structured data.
- Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Chairman and Co-Founder of the Open Data Institute
(ODI); Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Head of the Web and
Internet Science Group at the University of Southampton; Principal
Investigator for the Theory And Practice of Social Machines Working Group.
- David White, Head of Technology Enhanced Learning at the University of
the Arts, London – Now that Wikipedia’s done everyone’s homework, what’s
left to teach?
- Lila Tretikov, Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation – The impact
of Wikipedia in our changing world and its potential for our future.
Notes to editors
The conference takes place from 8th to 10th August at The Barbican Centre,
London, with a programme of fringe events already underway. Alongside will
run a pre-conference on education (6th and 7th August) and a hackathon (6th
to 10th August), with the opening ceremony on the evening of the 7th. The
main conference website is: www.wikimanialondon.org; where tickets are now
on sale for £30/45/55 (1 day/3 days/5 days).
There are a number of complimentary tickets available for journalists who
would like to attend. Please contact press(a)wikimanialondon.org.
The conference is being supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, Google,
Ask.com, Mathworks, Tupperware, and Wikimedia UK.
For Wikimedia UK press enquiries please contact Stevie Benton, Head of
External Relations, on 020 7065 0993 or 07803 505 173 or
stevie.benton(a)wikimedia.org.uk.
For Wikimedia Foundation (non UK) press enquiries please contact Katherine
Maher, Chief Communications Officer, on kmaher(a)wikimedia.org.
Images: all are CC-by-SA, and fully available for print, broadcast or
online use.
Jimmy Wales -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales#mediaviewer/File:Jimmy_wants_you.…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales#mediaviewer/File:JimmyWalesJI5.jpghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales#mediaviewer/File:Wikimedia_Confer…
Lila Tretikov - :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lila_Tretikov#mediaviewer/File:Lila_Tret…
The Barbican Centre -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Barbican.jpghttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:London_barbican_16.JPGhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_Culture_Weekend#mediaviewe…
Please consider providing a link or caption that recognises they are held
in wikimedia commons, and acknowledges the photographer where that
information is available. (as is standard in cc-by-sa)
--
Carlos Monterrey
Communications Associate
Wikimedia Foundation
+1.415.839.6885 ext 6881
www.wikimediafoundation.orgblog.wikimedia.org
Hi all,
please find below the WMF report for May 2014, in plain text.
As always, the editable and formatted version has been published on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_May_2014
and the reports are being posted on the Wikimedia blog, too:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/corporate/wmf-monthly-reports/
As usual, we are also publishing a separate "Highlights" summary.
Please consider helping non-English-language communities to stay
updated, by providing a translation:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_May_2014
Many thanks to those who have translated the April "Highlights" into
various languages!
While still focusing on WMF activities, the "Highlights" include a
small selection of the most noteworthy events from the whole movement.
Suggestions for the upcoming June issue are welcome until Wedneday, July 2 at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Highlights#Movement_news_ite…
.
Regards, Tilman
--
Wikimedia Foundation Report, May 2014
<Video: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF_Monthly_Metrics_Meeting_June_5,…>
Video of the monthly Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting
covering the month of May
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/2014-06-05>
(June 5, 2014)
Contents
* 1 Data and Trends
* 2 Financials
* 3 Highlights
o 3.1 12 new individual engagement grants
o 3.2 Inviting anonymous editors to join the Wikipedia community
o 3.3 Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) recommendations
announced
* 4 Engineering
o 4.1 VisualEditor
o 4.2 Editor engagement
o 4.3 Mobile
* 5 Fundraising
o 5.1 Major Gifts and Foundations
o 5.2 Online Fundraising
* 6 Grantmaking
o 6.1 Annual Plan Grants (Funds Dissemination Committee)
o 6.2 Project and Event Grants
+ 6.2.1 Grants funded in May 2014
o 6.3 Travel & Participation Support
+ 6.3.1 Requests awarded in May 2014
+ 6.3.2 Reports accepted in May 2014
o 6.4 Individual Engagement Grants
o 6.5 Learning and Evaluation (including Program Evaluation)
+ 6.5.1 Grants Programs
+ 6.5.2 Grants Operations and tools
+ 6.5.3 Org effectiveness
+ 6.5.4 Other
o 6.6 Wikipedia Education Program
+ 6.6.1 Global programs
+ 6.6.2 Arab world programs
+ 6.6.3 Communications
* 7 Human Resources
o 7.1 May Staff Changes
o 7.2 May Statistics
* 8 Finance and Administration
* 9 Legal & Community Advocacy Department
o 9.1 LCA Report, May 2014
+ 9.1.1 Contract Metrics
+ 9.1.2 Trademark Metrics
+ 9.1.3 Domains Obtained
+ 9.1.4 Coming & Going
+ 9.1.5 Other Activities
* 10 Communications Report, May 2014
o 10.1 Major announcements
o 10.2 Major Storylines through May
o 10.3 Other worthwhile reads
o 10.4 WMF Blog posts
o 10.5 Media Contact
o 10.6 Wikipedia Signpost
o 10.7 Communications Design
* 11 Visitors and Guests
== Data and Trends ==
Global unique visitors for April:
*465 million* (-6.00% compared with March; -9.92% compared with the
previous year)
(comScore data
<http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/unique_visitors> for all
Wikimedia Foundation projects; comScore will release May data later
in June)
Page requests for May:
*20.654 billion* (-0.2% compared with April; -1.6% compared with the
previous year)
(Server log data
<http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyAllProjects.htm>,
all Wikimedia Foundation content projects including mobile access,
but excluding Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org> and the Wikipedia
main portal page <https://www.wikipedia.org/>.)
Active Registered Editors for April 2014 (>= 5 mainspace edits/month,
excluding bots):
*75,364* (-2.25% compared with March / -7.25% compared with the
previous year)
(Database data
<http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/active_editors>, all Wikimedia
Foundation projects.
Note: These numbers were recently adjusted
<http://infodisiac.com/blog/2014/06/reassessment-of-active-editors/>
to correct a bug involving IPV6 addresses.)
*Report Card* (integrating various statistical data and trends about WMF
projects):
http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/
(Definitions <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Metric_definitions>)
== Financials ==
<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF_Revenue_%26_Expenses_April_2014…>
Wikimedia Foundation YTD Revenue and Expenses vs Plan as of April 30, 2014
<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF_Expenses_by_Functions_April_201…>
Wikimedia Foundation YTD Expenses by Functions as of April 30, 2014
(Financial information is only available through April 2014 at the time
of this report.)
All financial information presented is for the Month-To-Date and
Year-To-Date April 30, 2014.
Revenue 49,194,784
*Expenses:*
Engineering Group 13,800,658
Fundraising Group 3,209,299
Grantmaking Group 1,472,907
Programs Group 1,493,168
Grants 4,066,472
Governance Group 725,565
Legal/Community Advocacy/Communications Group 3,256,914
Finance/HR/Admin Group 5,484,592
Total Expenses 33,509,575
Total surplus (15,685,209)
/in US dollars/
* Revenue for the month of April is $8.24MM versus plan of $1.71MM,
approximately $6.53MM or 383% over plan.
* Year-to-date revenue is $49.19MM versus plan of $46.76MM,
approximately $2.43MM or 5% over plan.
* Expenses for the month of April is $3.19MM versus plan of $4.69MM,
approximately $1.50MM or 32% under plan, primarily due to lower
personnel expenses, capital expenses, internet hosting, FDC grants,
and payment processing fees partially offset by higher legal fees,
outside contract services, and travel expenses related to community
convening events.
* Year-to-date expenses is $33.51MM versus plan of $41.06MM,
approximately $7.55MM or 18% under plan, primarily due to lower
personnel expenses, capital expenses, internet hosting, legal fees,
payment processing fees, staff development expenses, grants and
travel expenses partially offset by higher outside contract services.
* Cash and Investments - $55.6MM as of April 30, 2014.
<Video: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ZoomProof_Wikisource_tool_concept.o…>
Demo video for "ZoomProof", a tool that will facilitate proofreading
work on the Armenian Wikisource - one of the 12 new IEG projects
== Highlights ==
=== 12 new individual engagement grants ===
The Foundation's Individual Engagement Grants
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG> (IEG)
support projects from individuals or small teams to organize, build,
create, research or facilitate something that enhances the work of
Wikimedia’s volunteers. The 12 winning grants from the first round of
2014 were announced on May 30
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/30/new-grantees-fresh-perspectives-resea…>.
</w/index.php?title=File:Growth_team_update_(June_2014).pdf&page=8>
<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Growth_team_update_(June_2014).pdf?…>
Test of a message inviting anonymous editors to create an account,
displayed after they have made an edit (presentation slide)
=== Inviting anonymous editors to join the Wikipedia community ===
On the English, German, French, and Italian Wikipedias, the Foundation's
Growth team conducted two experiments to test user interface changes
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/16/anonymous-editor-acquisition/>
for encouraging anonymous editors to create an account and join the
community of registered users. In the first A/B test, a recommendation
to create an account was shown when the user clicks "edit", and in the
second test, the invitation was displayed after the users saved an edit.
Preliminary data strongly suggested a positive effect on new registrations.
<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GLEE_FDC_update_-_Metrics_June_5.pd…>
Overview over the FDC proposals from round 2 (presentation slides)
=== Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) recommendations announced ===
In May, the nine-member Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) met for its
face-to-face deliberations and published its recommendations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/FDC_recommendations/2013-2014_ro…>
to the WMF Board
of Trustees on proposals from four organizations (three chapters and the
Foundation) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals> on
how to spend Wikimedia
donation money. The Board will make its decision on these
recommendations by 1 July. The Advisory Group to the FDC
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee_Advisory_Group>
also met in
Frankfurt for their final meeting, to provide the Executive Director of
the WMF with a recommendation on whether or not the FDC process (begun
in 2012) should continue, and if so, what modifications should be made.
Their unanimously agreed to recommend
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Grants:APG/Funds_Dissemi…>
to continue the process.
== Engineering ==
A detailed report of the Tech Department's activities for May 2014 can
be found at:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2014/May
Department Highlights
Major news in May include:
* changes to the mobile site to better show the editors behind the
curtain
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/02/the-wikipedia-editors-behind-the-curt…>;
* the announcement of CyrusOne in Dallas
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/05/wikimedia-foundation-selects-cyrusone…>
as the location of the new Wikimedia data center;
* the Zürich hackathon
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/10/tech-wizards-behind-wikipedia-meet-in…>
and Lila Tretikov's perspective
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/15/hacker-osmosis-ideas-european-hackath…>
on it;
* experiments by the Growth team to encourage more contributors to
register
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/16/anonymous-editor-acquisition/>;
* the one-year anniversary
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/20/celebrating-one-year-of-tech-news/>
of the launch of Tech News;
* the launch of Wikipedia Zero in Nepal
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/22/wikipedia-zero-shall-accelerate-wikip…>
in partnership with NCELL;
* the launch of a second request for proposals
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/27/request-for-proposals-mediawiki-relea…>
for the release management of MediaWiki for third-party users.
=== VisualEditor
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Portal>
===
In May, the VisualEditor <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor> team
worked on the performance stability of the editor, rolled out a major
new feature to help users better edit articles, and made some
improvements to other features to increase their ease of use and
understandability, fixing 75 bugs and tickets
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=318847&order=priority%2C…>.
The new *citation editor* is now available to all VisualEditor users on
the English, Polish, and Czech Wikipedias, with instructions
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Citation_tool> on how to enable
it on other wikis. The citation and template dialogs were simplified to
avoid technical language and some outcomes that were unexpected for
users. As part of this, the citation icons were replaced with a new,
clearer set, and the template hinting system now lets wikis mark
template parameters as "suggested", as a step below the existing
"required" state. The *formula editor
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae>* is now
available to all VisualEditor users, and a new Beta Feature giving a
tool that lets you set the *language of content*
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Language> was made
available for testing and feedback. Following a new set of user testing,
the *toolbar* was tweaked, moving the list and indent buttons to a
drop-down to make them less prominent, and removing the gallery button
which is rarely used and confused users. The *mobile version* of
VisualEditor, currently available for alpha testers, was expanded to
also have the new citation editor available, and had some significant
performance improvements made, especially for long or complex pages.
Work continued on making VisualEditor more *performant and reliable*,
and key tasks like *keyboard accessibility* have progressed. The
deployed version of the code was updated five times in the regular
release cycle.
Progress was also made on *Parsoid <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid>*,
the parsing program that works behind the scenes of VisualEditor. The
team continued with ongoing bug fixes and bi-weekly deployments. Besides
the user-facing bug fixes, we also improved our *tracing support* (to
aid debugging), and did some *performance improvements*. We also
finished implementing support for HTML/visual *editing of transclusion
parameters*. This is not yet enabled in production while we finish up
any additional performance tweaks on it. As part of the Google Summer of
Code program, one student is working on a wikilint project
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Linting/GSoC_2014_Application> to
*detect broken/bad wikitext* in wiki pages.
=== Editor engagement <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_editor_engagement> ===
In May, the Flow <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow> team prepared the new
*front-end redesign* of this new discussion system. We completed work on
sorting topics on a board by most recent activity, and changed hidden
post handling so that everyone can see hidden posts. Back-end
improvements include optimizations on how we handle unique identifiers
and generate standard URLs. We also accepted Special:Flow (a
community-created improvement that makes it easier to create redirects
to Flow boards) and made fixes for topic submission and replies for
users without JavaScript.
<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Growth_team_update_(June_2014).pdf?…>
Growth team presentation slides from the monthly Metrics meeting
The Growth <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth> team launched its A/B test
of two methods for *asking anonymous editors to sign up
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anonymous_editor_acquisition/Signup_invites>*
on the English, German, French, and Italian Wikipedias. Full analysis of
the test results
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Anonymous_editor_acquisition/Signu…>
is
expected in June, though preliminary data strongly suggests a positive
impact on new registrations. Last but not least, Growth released two
smaller enhancements to our *data collection regarding article
creation*, including adding page identifiers to MediaWiki's deletion
logs and tracking page restorations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schema:PageRestoration>
across all wikis.
=== Mobile <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Mobile_engineering> ===
This month, the Mobile Apps <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps>
team worked on a series of *navigation improvements* to the iOS and
Android alpha apps, focusing on the interface for searching, saving and
sharing pages, and navigating to the table of contents. We also worked
on restyling the global navigation menu and article content—typography,
color, and spacing—to create a *standardized experience* across the
mobile web and apps. In preparation for the launch of the Android app in
June, we tackled a number of user-reported *crashing bugs* to ensure a
more stable and reliable experience for our users.
The Mobile web <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_web_projects> team
continued to build out the basic features of *VisualEditor for tablet
users*, providing the ability to add references via VisualEditor. We
hope to finish refining the add and modify references workflow in
preparation for graduating VE for tablets to the stable mobile site
sometime in July. On the reader features side, we've made a number of
tablet-related *styling improvements* (typography, spacing, and Table of
Contents) to the stable mobile site. This should greatly improve the
reading experience for tablet users who are already accessing the mobile
version of our projects, and it is one of the last pieces of work we
planned to get done before we begin *redirecting all tablet users to the
mobile site* mid-June.
The Wikipedia Zero <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero> team worked
on *restructuring* ZeroRatedMobileAccess
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ZeroRatedMobileAccess> into several
extensions, and added support for graceful *image quality reduction
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Reducing_image_quality_…>*,
and worked on a proposal to use GIF images
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Unfragmented_ZERO_design>
for *Zero banners* instead of ESI
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_Side_Includes>. We also added necessary
library support to the reboots of the Wikipedia apps, performed limited
app code review, added support for Nokia (now MS Mobile) proxies, and
started work with the Design team on the final polish for the Wikipedia
Zero experience in the forthcoming apps.
In May we launched Wikipedia Zero with Ncell in *Nepal*, Sky Mobile
(Beeline) in *Kyrgyzstan* and Airtel in *Nigeria*. We also added Opera
Mini zero-rating in Umniah in *Jordan*. We served roughly *67 million
free page views in May across 30 partners in 28 countries*. We met with
community members from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Jordan, as well as
prospective partners in Brazil, and kicked off the carrier portal design
with Noble studios.
== Fundraising ==
=== Major Gifts and Foundations ===
* The Major Gifts team welcomed Sylvia Ventura to the team as a
*Development Consultant* on a 3 month contract. Sylvia will be
helping plan our fall fundraising events and further developing our
relationships with international donors.
* We are working on an event at St. James Palace in London to *support
Wikimania* the last week of June.
=== Online Fundraising ===
* The online fundraising team ran low-level *banner tests* world-wide.
*Emails* were sent to previous donors in the Czech Republic and
Norway. Approximately *$700,000 USD* was raised in May (preliminary
numbers as donations are still settling).
* The team held *focus groups* with donors in the US, primarly focused
on optimizing mobile and email fundraising.
* The team prepared *translations* of fundraising messages into
multiple languages for upcoming international banner campaigns. If
you would like to help with the translation process, please get
involved <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/Translation>.
* The fundraising tech team successfully deployed a new *credit card
processor* allowing us to process payments more efficiently
internationally, fully customize forms, and have credit card
processing redundancy.
== Grantmaking ==
Department highlights
=== Annual Plan Grants (Funds Dissemination Committee) ===
* In May, the nine-member FDC met for its face-to-face deliberations
and published its *recommendations*
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/FDC_recommendations/2013-2014_ro…>
to the WMF
Board of Trustees on 2013-2014 Round 2 proposals
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals>. The Board
will make its decision on
these recommendations by 1 July. A more detailed calendar on the
process, including upcoming milestones and deadlines, is available
on Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Calendar>.
* In addition, the *Advisory Group* to the FDC also met in Frankfurt
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/FDC_Advisory_…>
for their final meeting. Their goal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee_Advisory_Group>
was to provide
the Executive Director of the WMF with a recommendation on whether
or not the FDC process should continue, and if so, what
modifications should be made. Their unanimously agreed to recommend
to continue the process; more detailed recommendations are forthcoming.
* The FDC is currently accepting *four new members*. To that end,
self-nominations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/No…>
are
accepted through June 15. Four new members will be appointed by the
Board of Trustees, and will be announced in July. If you should have
questions about the process, contact FDCsupport at wikimedia.org.
=== Project and Event Grants ===
* *3 new requests* were funded in May 2014.
==== Grants funded in May 2014 ====
<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Summer_of_Monuments.svg>
The logo for Wikipedia Summer of Monuments.
* Indigenous Knowledge for Wikipedia
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Pgallert/Indigenous_knowledge_for_Wi…>:
To support a workshop and the development of case studies examining
the use of oral citations for improving Wikipedia articles.
* Summer of Monuments 2014
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_US-DC/Summer_of_Monuments_2014>:
To support
Wikimedia US-DC in organizing a photo campaign targeted at select
Southern US states to improve coverage of nationally-recognized
monuments on Wikipedia.
* Wikimedia Estonia office rental
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_EE/Continuing_office_rental>:
To support Wikimedia
Estonia with their rental office space.
=== Travel & Participation Support ===
* *3 new requests* were funded and *2 reports* were accepted in May 2014.
==== Requests awarded in May 2014 ====
Three requests involving participation in the 2014 *Open Source Bridge
Conference* to fund:
* Niharika <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Niharika>’s talk on
a compact interlanguage
selector tool that supports the many languages on Wikipedia
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Niharika/Open_Source_Bridge_Conf…>.
* Rjain’s hack session on Extension Development with Mediawiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Rjain/Open_Source_Bridge_2014>.
* Netha <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Netha_Hussain>’s
presentations at both the Ada
Camp and Open Source Bridge
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Netha_Hussain/Ada_Camp_and_Open_…>
conferences. At Ada Camp, Netha will hold discussions surrounding
the topic of increasing participation in women with plans on tying
in ideas to her proposed diversity workshop
<https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Diversity_Workshop:_Ge…>
at Wikimania 2014. At the OSB, her talk is on “The joy of
volunteering with open technology and culture
<http://opensourcebridge.org/proposals/1269>”.
==== Reports accepted in May 2014 ====
* LibreGraphics Meeting report
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Rodelar/LibreGraphicsMeeting/Rep…>
* Libreplanet 2014 report
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Noopur28/Libreplanet_2014/Report>
=== Individual Engagement Grants ===
<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IEG_r1_2014_May_monthly_metrics.pdf…>
Presentation slides about new Individual Engagement Grants
* *12 new Individual Engagement grants* were selected and announced
<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/30/new-grantees-fresh-perspectives-resear…>
in May! These grants, which range from $600 to $22,600, will support
16 grantees from 10 countries with countless volunteer participants
from around the world. Grantees will build tools and partnerships,
conduct research, and engage in online community organizing. Some
new investment areas in this round include funding mobile app
development, Wikipedia research, and projects aimed at improving
Wikivoyage and Wiktionary. The round 1 2014 projects are:
o Making Telugu Content Accessible
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Making_telugu_content_accessible>,
led by
Santhosh, funded at 104,000 Rupees.
o Medicine Translation Community Organizing
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Medicine_Translation_Project_Com…>,
led by CFCF, funded at $10,000.
o Open Access Reader
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Open_Access_Reader>, led
by
Edward Saperia, funded at $6550.
o Optimizing Wikimedia Category Systems
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Optimizing_Wikimedia_Category_Sy…>,
led by
Paul J. Weiss, funded at $9750.
o Promoting Wikivoyage
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Promoting_Wikivoyage>,
led by Tammy Bennert, funded at $600.
o Pronunciation Recording
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Finish_Pronunciation_Recording>,
led by Rillke
with participation from Ungoliant MMDCCLXIV and Infovarius,
funded at €1450.
o Reimagining Wikipedia Mentorship
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Reimagining_Wikipedia_Mentorship>,
led by I
JethroBT, Soni and Gabrielm199, funded at $22,600.
o Senior Citizens Write Wikipedia
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Senior_Citizens_Write_Wikipedia>,
led by
Vojtěch Veselý with participation from Vojtěch Dostál, Václav
Šulc, and Jan Sokol, funded at 160,000 CZK.
o Tools for Armenian Wikisource and beyond
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Tools_for_Armenian_Wikisource_an…>,
led
by Xelgen with participation from HrantKhachatrian and Mahnerak,
funded at $7600.
o The Wikiquiz
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikiquiz>, led by
Addis Wang,
Mys 721x, and Ericmetro, funded at $1070.
o WikiTrack
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/WikiTrack>, led by Hari
Prasad
Nadig, funded at $2500.
o Women and Wikipedia
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Women_and_Wikipedia>, led
by Amanda Menking, funded at $8075.
* Program Head Siko Bouterse attended the *Wikipedia Education Program
Hackathon* in Jordan to meet with Arabic Wikipedians. While there,
we launched the Arabic Wikipedia Library
<https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9…>,
participated in a group generating a list of online Arabic research
materials for use in editing articles
<https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9…>,
and presented about grantmaking
<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF_grantmaking_@_Jordan_Hackathon.…>
to a group of
educators and Wikipedians.
* Siko also facilitated an *IdeaLab workshop at Wikiconference USA
<http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/IdeaLab>*, where about 15
participants collaborated to develop a handful of ideas into action
plans <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab>.
* User scripts for an add-me gadget and a new Lua info-box template
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Build/Tools> have
been created to facilitate
joining and endorsing ideas, as part of the ongoing IdeaLab
worksprint <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Build/March-June_2014_sprint…>.
The team is wrapping up bug-fixing on the initial scripts before
moving to beta test as gadgets on Meta.
=== Learning and Evaluation (including Program Evaluation) ===
In May, much of the L&E teams time was set on developing the L&E logic
model and also bringing in new team member Maria Cruz! Also, much time
was spent on prepping for the FDC deliberations and advisory group
meeting and the revamp of the IdeaLab.
* Migrated the Evaluation portal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Evaluation_portal> to
the Grants namespace
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation>, as part of our
ongoing efforts to *re-integrate Learning & Evaluation and Program
Evaluation*.
* Collaborated with the IEG program officer, contract developer Jeph
Paul, and designer Heather Walls on the *IdeaLab revamp* project.
See IEG section above for more info.
* Assisted IEG grantee Ocaasi with a 6-month retrospective data
analysis of *The Wikipedia Adventure*.
* Worked with Analytics to develop a framework for gathering *active
editor geodata*.
In addition to participating with the full Learning and Evaluation team
in *strategy sessions* related to our integration under Grantmaking, the
program evaluation and design team members:
* Initiated a community dialogue
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Parlor/Dialogue>
around the evaluation
initiative, its evaluation, and grantmaking and posting/linking of
*Wikimetrics Brainstorm
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Parlor/Metrics_Brainstorm>*,
a metrics
dialogue and development prioritization activity, initiated at
Wikimedia Conference.
* Posted two blogs: *Beginning to Understand What Works: Measuring the
Impact of Wikimedia Programs* (2 May 2014)
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/02/beginning-understand-what-works-measu…>
and *A Collaborative Definition of Impact: Building Metrics
Together* (30 May 2014)
<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/30/building-metrics-together/>.
* Two team members attended WikiConference USA in New York City and
presented a two part session *Growing the awesome in your Programs*
<http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Submissions:Growing_the_Awesome_in_your_P…>
overviewing the evaluation tools and resources and providing a
demonstration of Wikimetrics.
* Hired Maria Cruz on contract for *Program Evaluation Community
Coordinator*.
* Began L&E *Twitter feed* @WikiEval <https://twitter.com/WikiEval>
(gathered 75 followers in week one).
<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GAC_Survey_Summary_2014.pdf>
Survey of GAC members
==== Grants Programs ====
* *Annual Plan Grants*: completed *impact analysis* for the first
round of funding, FDC year 1. Prepped materials for the FDC advisory
group (to be published); published *financial overviews
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/Finan…>*
for the entities applying for funds in Round 2, 2013-14.
* *Project & Event Grants*: finalized consulting engagement with
pro-bono consulting group Inspire <http://inspire-inc.org/>. Key
topic areas:
o *Survey of GAC members
<Image:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GAC_Survey_Summary_2014.pdf>*,
resulting in ongoing
discussion on meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee/Revamp_Discussion>
with GAC
members (facilitated by the PEG team).
o Analysis of the *pain points in the grants reporting and
application* processes; improvements to these areas forthcoming.
==== Grants Operations and tools ====
* Migrated the *Evaluation portal* to a new address at
Grants:Evaluation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation> making its
contents
searchable by default.
* Conducted research on available commercial *QDA (Qualitative Data
Analysis)* solutions.
* Worked with *Fluxx* labs on fixing major bugs in Fluxx site
including bank info, budgets, currencies and others.
* *Documentation of GrantsBot
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_%26_Evaluation/GrantsBot>*!
GrantsBot is a
critical tool used by the grantmaking team to update and maintain a
variety of pages and portals throughout the Grants namespace.
* *IdeaLab revamp* is underway! See IEG section
above.
==== Org effectiveness ====
* Closure of the *Wikimedia board governance survey
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_Board_Governance_Survey>*
developed with
of WMF Board, Wikimedia Chapters, and AffCom. Analysis to be done in
June. Thank you to all the participants!
<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grants-gephi-visualization.png>
A visualization of users' interaction to the Grants namespace talk pages
on Meta (generated using Gephi)
==== Other ====
* Grants Strategy:
o Prepared a Gephi visualization
<http://haithams.github.io/community_visualization/use-user-weight/network/i…>
of *users' interaction on the Grants namespace* on Meta-wiki.
Future development and interpretation anticipated (ideas welcome!)
o Open questions to the broader community around *grantmaking
metrics*
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Parlor/Dialogue>
(see Program
Evaluation below).
* External Grantmaking Outreach:
o Represented the Wikimedia Foundation at The Funder's Role in
Collective Impact forum
<https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/default.aspx?utm_campaign=FunderConv…>.
=== Wikipedia Education Program ===
==== Global programs ====
* The Wikipedia Education Program team is establishing a *baseline of
Wikipedia education initiatives* worldwide. The team is conducting a
large outreach effort to more than 60 programs worldwide that are
using Wikipedia in education. Currently, the outreach consists of
one-on-one talks with all program leaders to understand their
educational initiatives, activities, goals, and potential support
needs. Since beginning our outreach efforts in April 2014,Floor,
Anna, Tighe, and Rod have spoken to 32 initiatives worldwide that
are using Wikipedia in Education.
* The Wikipedia Education Program continues its support for the
*Education Cooperative
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/WEP_Coop>*, a group
of program leaders worldwide committed to working together to share
leanings and experiences using Wikipedia in education. Coop members,
together with the Wikipedia Education Program team, are currently
working on four initial areas for the Coop: Communications,
Resources, Recognition and Mentoring. Check out these works in
progress:
o Restructuring of the *education portal* on Outreach wiki
continues as we bring together five separate educational portals
into one site, combining trainings, materials and brochures,
learnings and worldwide Wikipedia in Education efforts. See:
Update on the education portal
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Education#Update_on_the_education_…>.
We'll be working on the content for each of the pages in the
upcoming months.
o Improvements
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Education/News#Newsletter_improvem…>
to the monthly community-led *newsletter*, /This Month In
Education <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/wiki/Education/News>/,
including an email subscription
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/This_Month_…>
option and a single-page edition
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/May_2014/Single>,
resulted in several new subscriptions as well as a significant
increase in page views.
* Floor Koudijs, Manager of the Wikipedia Education Program, attended
*WikiCon USA 2014
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_USA>*, in New York
from May
30 to June 1.
==== Arab world programs ====
<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hack1110.JPG>
Volunteers from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Lebanon and Jordan gathered
for a two-day hackathon in Amman. Photo: Samir I. Sharbaty
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Samir_I._Sharbaty> CC-BY-SA-3.0
* Arab World Education Program Manager, Tighe Flanagan, *organized the
Wikipedia Education Program hackathon in Amman, Jordan* from 16-17
May, 2014 with support from Dr. Nidal Yousef and Isra University;
WEP sponsored the participation of 11 volunteers from Egypt, Saudi
Arabia, Yemen and Lebanon in addition to over 20 local volunteers
from Jordan.
* 35 volunteers (Wikimedians, educators and student ambassadors)
worked on tasks to improve the Wikipedia Education Program in the
region, documenting their teams and work on-wiki
<https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9…>;
the Editing Wikipedia Brochure
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=pa…>
was partially translated into Arabic and several new institutions
were added to the Education Extension
<https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B5:%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%87%D…>
to track student activity and contributions on-wiki.
* Siko Bouterse from Grantmaking and Adele Vrana from Wikipedia Zero
helped *facilitate the Jordan Hackathon* from the Wikimedia Foundation.
* Egyptian students celebrated the accomplishments of the previous
semester, featured in the This Month in Education Newsletter
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/May_2014/Egyptian_…>.
==== Communications ====
Two blog posts:
* Armenian students enjoy editing Wikipedia
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/07/armenian-students-enjoy-editing-wikip…>
(May 7)
* Wikipedia Education Program students keep editing in Arabic long
after their assignments are finished
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/06/students-keep-editing-in-arabic-long-…>
(May 6)
== Human Resources ==
We supported F&A in the finalization of the WMF *annual plan* for
submisson to the board. We hired two employees, Elena Hernandez, who
began with us as *benefits and wellness coordinator*, and a *recruiting
coordinator* who will begin in June. We completed preparation work for
the *annual reviews* and compensation adjustments, and all the hiring
and onboarding for nine new req holders as well as managing our
portfolio of immigration-related work.
=== May Staff Changes ===
New Requisitions Filled
* Lila Tretikov (ED)
* Bernd Sitzmann (Engineering)
* Daniel Duvall (Engineering)
* Filippo Giunchedi (Engineering)
* Mukunda Modell (Engineering)
* Rachel DiCerbo (Product)
* Abigail Ripstra (Product)
* Elena Hernandez (HR)
Conversions (Contractor to Requisition)
* Rummana Yasmeen (Engineering)
Requisition Departures
* Charles Salvia (Engineering)
New Interns
* Ralph Torres (Office IT)
* Consuelo Jimenez (Office IT)
* Sylvia Ventura (Office IT)
* Mark Verstraete (Legal)
* Chuck Roslof (Legal)
* Joseph Jung (Legal)
* Eric Holmes (Legal)
New Contractors
* Maria Cruz (Grants)
Contracts Ended
* Ryan Faulkner
* Monica Breton
* Marshall Olin
* Shaila Nathu
* Jessica Tam
* Genya Vasyanina
* Aaron Arcos
* Sage Ross
=== May Statistics ===
Total Requisitions Filled
May Actual: 176
May Total Plan: 196 (full req#, with stage-gating and out of plan)
May Filled: 9, Month Attrition: 1,
FYTD Filled: 58, FYTD Attrition: 27
Remaining Open positions to fiscal year end
20 → reflects 4 total out of plan req#s 193-196 (for finance)
== Finance and Administration ==
* In the month of June, the Wikimedia Foundation will be issuing an
RFP (Request for Proposal) for *investment advisory* services.
* Beginning June 14 and ending June 30, the *6th floor* or the
Wikimedia Foundation office will be undergoing improvements which
will shift staff to the 3rd floor and offsite locations.
* The *Annual Plan* of the Wikimedia Foundation has been reviewed by
the Chair of the Audit Committee (Stu West) and is being prepared
for submission to the Board of Trustees for approval.
== Legal & Community Advocacy Department ==
=== LCA Report, May 2014 ===
* Following the closing
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/02/14/a-proposal-for-wikimedias-new-privacy…>
of a 5.5 month-long community consultation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Privacy_policy> in February,
the new draft *privacy
policy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy>* was
approved by the WMF Board of
Trustees and will go into effect upon completion of an appropriate
notice period on 06 June 2014.
* After the vigorous debate during the 5.5 month-long community
consultation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Access_to_nonpublic_information_policy>
closed
<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/02/14/a-new-access-to-nonpublic-information/>
and significant changes were made based off of community feedback,
the WMF Board of Trustees approved the new draft *Access to
Nonpublic Information Policy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_to_nonpublic_information_policy>*,
which will go into
effect upon completion of an appropriate notice period. Importantly,
the new Access to Nonpublic Information Policy contains no
identification requirement by members of the community who are
entrusted with administrative rights that grant them access to
certain nonpublic information, but provides clear guidance about the
responsibilities that come with those rights and maintains
pre-existing minimum age requirements as the previous Access to
nonpublic data policy
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Access_to_nonpublic_data_policy>
contained.
==== Contract Metrics ====
* Submitted : 29
* Completed : 24
==== Trademark Metrics ====
* Submitted : 11
* Request withdrawn : 1
* Pending : 4
* Denied: 1
* Approval not needed : 5
==== Domains Obtained ====
wikimedia.co.za, wikwipedia.org, wikimedia-commons.wiki,
wikimedia.co.za, wikimedia.wiki, wikimediacommons.wiki, wikinews.wiki,
wikipedia.expert, wikipedia.wiki, wikisource.wiki, wikiversity.wiki,
wiktionary.wiki, wikwipedia.org,
==== Coming & Going ====
We said goodbye to our *spring interns*, Shaila Nathu, Jessica Tam,
and Marshall Olin. We thank them for all of their hard work and wish
them the best in the adventures that await them in the future.
We welcomed our new *summer interns*, Mark Verstraete, Joe Jung,
Chuck Roslof, and Eric Holmes. We are very excited to have them join
the Foundation for the summer and look forward to tackling
interesting projects with them.
==== Other Activities ====
* Roshni, a WMF privacy legal fellow, shared her experience about
attending *Yale's Big Data Symposium* in a blog post
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/21/yale-big-data-symposium/>.
* Wikimedia made its debut on the EFF's annual *Who Has Your Back
report <https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2014>*, earning 4 stars.
* Yana published a blog post
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/09/opposing-mass-surveillance-on-the-int…>
announcing our support for the 13 Principles
<https://en.necessaryandproportionate.org/take-action/digiges> that
demand that *governments respect human rights in their surveillance
actions, which earned Wikimedia an EFF star in the Who Has Your Back
report.*
* Legal interns published *notes in Wikilegal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal>* on
Copyright Status of Wikipedia Page Histories
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Copyright_Status_of_Wikipedia_Pag…>,
Authorship and Copyright Ownership
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Authorship_and_Copyright_Ownership>,
Uploading UK
Banknotes to Wikipedia
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Authorship_and_Copyright_Ownership>.
* We updated the *Wikimedia Legal Disclaimer
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>* to
better explain the role of
the Legal Team and allow us to more freely discuss legal related issues.
* Manprit is working with *OTRS* to help them deal with questions from
users regarding legal topics. Manprit published a document
clarifying trademark related issues often faced by OTRS volunteers.
The document is the first of a series meant to provide OTRS
volunteers with a resource to consult when legal questions arise to
hopefully ease the burden they face.
== Communications Report, May 2014 ==
The major news story for the beginning of May was the announcement of
the *new Executive Director*, which resulted in stories in the
Economist, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal, among others. A
ruling by the European Court of Justices in early May on the '*right to
be forgotten'* led to a flood of articles citing the impact of the
ruling on Wikipedia. In the UK, it was discovered that vandalism on an
article about the *Hillsborough stadium disaster* could be traced back
to government computers, promting numerous articles detailing the way
Wikipedia works, including how editors revert such vandalism. A study
released at the end of May on the "accuracy" of top-ten medical articles
garned wide coverage, but was dismissed as inaccurate and misleading by
editors from WikiProject Medicine. A ruling in Chile on the country's
Net Neutrality provisions prompted articles critiquing the potential
impact on projects such as Wikipedia Zero. Throughout the month, the
Communications team worked to support the onboarding of the new
Executive Director, the rollout of the Terms of Use, the launch of
Wikipedia Zero in Nigeria, and preparations for Wikimania, as well as
finalized the Communications Narrative for the Annual Plan for 2014-2015.
=== Major announcements ===
*Airtel offers Nigerians free access to Wikipedia
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Airtel_Offers_Nigerians…>*
(29 May, 2014)
*Wikimedia Foundation names Lila Tretikov as its new Executive
Director
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/WMF_announces_new_ED_Li…>*
(01 May, 2014)
=== Major Storylines through May ===
*Lila Tretikov*
Lila Tretikov becomes the Wikimedia Foundation’s new Executive Director
Wall Street Journal (01 May, 2014) [1]
<http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/05/01/wikipedia-names-software-executive-t…>
New York Times (01 May, 2014) [2]
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/02/business/media/open-source-software-speci…>
*Jimmy Wales and the EU Courts of Justices ruling*
Jimmy Wales describes the ruling on the “right to be forgotten” as
“ridiculous.”
NY Times (blog) (30 May, 2014). [3]
<http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/google-takes-steps-to-comply-with-…>
BBC News (15 May, 2014). [4]
<http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27423527>
International Business Times (15 May, 2014). [5]
<http://www.ibtimes.com/eu-google-ruling-wikipedias-jimmy-wales-ridicules-ri…>
CNET (14 May, 2014). [6]
<http://www.cnet.com/news/wikipedias-jimmy-wales-blasts-ruling-forcing-googl…>
*Hillsborough Wikipedia entries scandal*
Wikipedia page dedicated to the 1989 disaster in which 96 people
died was vandalized using government computers.
The Telegraph (21 May, 2014). [7]
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/10844002/Civil-se…>
International Business Times (21 May, 2014). [8]
<http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/hillsborough-wikipedia-edits-linked-liverpool-civi…>
Mirror (20 May, 2014). [9]
<http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/hilsborough-wikipedia-scandal-strong-l…>
The Boar (9 May, 2014). [10]
<http://theboar.org/2014/05/09/response-hillsborough-wikipedia-scandal/#.U49…>
*Wikipedia and medicine*
Study claims that medical articles on Wikipedia contain inaccuracies.
ABC News Radio (28 May, 2014). [11]
<http://abcnewsradioonline.com/health-news/study-claims-wikipedia-medical-en…>
Yahoo (small business advisor) (28 May, 2014) . [12]
<https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/advisor/shocker-doctors-shouldn-t-rely-wiki…>
Huffington Post (Tech) (27 May, 2014). [13]
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/27/wikipedia-study-medical-informatio…>
The Telegraph (27 May, 2014). [14]
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10857468/Dont-diagnose-yoursel…>
Time (27 May, 2014). [15]
<http://time.com/118904/study-dont-trust-wikipedia-when-it-comes-to-your-hea…>
The Independent (27 May, 2014). [16]
<http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/don…>
=== Other worthwhile reads ===
”Wikipedia is a masterclass in digital democracy”
Wired (22 May, 2014)
[http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-05/22/digital-democracy/
”100 most edited Wikipedia articles”
FiveThirtyEight (30 May, 2014) [17]
<http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/the-100-most-edited-wikipedia-articles/>
Chile blocks free access to Wikipedia and Facebook
Quartz (30 May, 2014) [18]
<http://qz.com/215064/when-net-neutrality-backfires-chile-just-killed-free-a…>
100 most powerful women - Lila is #99
Forbes (28 May, 2014) [19]
<http://www.forbes.com/profile/lila-tretikov/>
”100 most obsessed-over people” on the internet
TIME (27 May, 2014) [20] <http://time.com/109947/web-ranking/>
Official Wikimedia affiliate organization recognized in Pakistan
Lahore Times (16 May, 2014) [21]
<http://lhrtimes.com/2014/05/16/official-wikimedia-affiliate-organization-re…>
An experiment intended to look at whether giving people an arbitrary
advantage over their fellows at the beginning of an endeavour led to a
significantly better outcome for those people, using Wikipedia.
The Economist (03 May, 2014) [22]
<http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21601494-and-science-h…>
=== WMF Blog posts ===
Blog.wikimedia.org published 32 posts in May 2014
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/5/>. Six posts were multilingual
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/tag/multilingual-post/>, with translations
in English, Spanish, Nepali, Russian, Polish, German, French, Italian,
Czech, Catalan, Chinese, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Greek, Turkish,
Portuguese (Brazil) and Malay.
Some highlights from the blog include:
*Happy Birthday, Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/26/happy-birthday-ward-cunningham-invent…>*
(May 26, 2014).
*Donating his estate to the Wikimedia Founation: The story of Jim
Pacha
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/12/the-story-of-jim-pacha/>*
(May 12, 2014).
*“No interviews. Except for Wikipedia!” - Documenting the Eurovision
song contest on Wikimedia Commons
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/10/no-interviews-except-wikipedia-docume…>*
(May 10, 2014).
*Launching a privacy policy built the Wiki way
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/07/launching-a-privacy-policy-built-the-…>*
(May 07, 2014).
*Announcing our new Executive Director Lila Tretikov
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/01/wmf_announces_new_ed_lila_tretikov/>*
(May 01, 2014).
=== Media Contact ===
Media contact through May 2014: wmf:Press room/Media Contact#May 2014
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room/Media_Contact#May_2014>
=== Wikipedia Signpost ===
For detailed coverage and news summaries, see the community-edited
newsletter “Wikipedia Signpost” for May 2014:
* Volume 10, Issue 17
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2014-05…>,
07 May 2014
* Volume 10, Issue 18
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2014-05…>,
14 May 2014
* Volume 10, Issue 19
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2014-05…>,
21 May 2014
* Volume 10, Issue 20
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2014-05…>,
28 May 2014
=== Communications Design ===
The legal team is creating guidelines for *app developers* to follow
when they create apps that integrate use our projects’ names or content.
One of the guidelines is how to create app logos that are not
confusingly similar to our trademarks or our own application logos. We
developed a few logos to provide as examples. We also created some logo
templates for Wikimedia *User Groups*.
We expanded the *endorse gadget* on Meta from last month with another
function to make it easy for people to join a project page in various
roles. Jonathan Morgan and Heather developed a Lua-based infobox to
summarize information across ideas and projects (see also the Individual
Engagement Grants section).
The *staff handbook* continues to be shaped on the Office wiki.
== Visitors and Guests ==
Visitors and guests to the WMF office in May 2014:
1. Violette (Gemalto)
2. Jeremie Acemyan (Gemalto)
3. Ajay Kaushik (Gemalto)
4. RAY KING (TL Design)
5. Tom Hehir (CCSC Inc.)
6. Rishi Sharma (Paul Hastings)
7. Peter Cooper (Paul Hastings)
8. Virgina Sutton (J.D.)
9. Kelly Johnson (J.D.)
10. Priscilla Imboden (Swiss Radio)
11. Hershel Mehta (Stanford)
12. Allison Dods (Stanford)
13. Alex Martell (Stanford)
14. Kent Blake (Stanford)
15. Ellie Redding (Stanford)
16. Gaurav Handa (Standford)
17. Howon Lee (Stanford)
18. Amber Rockwood (Stanford)
19. Julie Fortuna (Stanford)
20. Todd Davies (Stanford)
21. Gaurav Handa (Stanford)
22. Melissa Cliver (Melissa Cliver Design and Research)
23. Charlene Music (Boundless Media)
24. Carsten Voecker (WB)
25. Tamera White (WB)
26. Tom Hehir (CCSC Inc.)
27. Joe Zahradka (CNA)
28. Craig Aaron (Free Press)
29. Josh Levy (Free Press)
30. Humberto Chacon (Concern:EAP)
31. Rachel Connors (Yellow Leaf)
32. Joe Demin (Yellow Leaf)
33. Myleen Hollero (Myleen Hollero Photography)
34. Gregory Flipo (Sikana)
35. Joyce Cruz (Guardian)
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Tilman Bayer
Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications)
Wikimedia Foundation
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