REMINDER: This meeting starts in 30 minutes. 
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 5:07 PM, Lena Traer <ltraer@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello everyone, 

The next Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday, July 27, 2017 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.[1]

During the July metrics meeting, we'll hear from staff and outside speakers about how Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement are perceived and understood by the world. We’ll hear about research findings and interviews with community members and staff related to Wikipedia users and the Wikimedia brand. 

Meeting agenda:

* Welcomes, theme introduction
* Movement update
* Why people read Wikipedia, and why they don’t 
* WikimediaFoundation.org discovery findings
* Questions and discussion
* Wikilove

Please review 
for further information about the meeting and how to participate.

We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.

Thank you,
Lena


Lena Traer 
Project Assistant // Communications // Advancement
Wikimedia Foundation 

July 27, 2017 metrics meeting -- Movement update Appendix 

WikiCite 2017
* WikiCite is a proposal to build a bibliographic database in Wikidata to serve all Wikimedia projects.
* 94 participants from 62 different organizations, including universities, archives, open knowledge orgs, and several Wikimedia organizations.
* A program geared towards turning past experiences and future visions into concrete actions: understanding what tools are needed to centralize citations on Wikidata; potential collaborations with other research fields, like Medicine; and other topics.  
* More information: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite 

Wiki Loves Earth 2017
* An international photographic competition to collect photos of natural heritage sites all over the world. 
* 37 countries uploaded over 108,000 pictures. Germany, Ukraine and Pakistan among the top ten countries contributing to the contest. 
* National competitions are running until June 30. International winners announced by the end of September. 
* More information: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2017 

Conferences in June and July

* Iberoconf 2017 was held in June in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It brought together affiliates from Latin America, Spain and Italy, to build a shared understanding of the value of the network and how to become stronger together. More information: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Iberocoop:Iberoconf_2017
* The group also submitted a statement letter with a plea to democratize the movement from a communications perspective, both allowing more inclusion of languages other than English in key communications and exchanges, and also promoting stories about collective impact.

* WikiWomen Camp 2017 was held in Mexico City in July, and it brought together women from different countries in the Wikimedia movement, to focus on the gender gap. More information: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp_2017