REMINDER: This meeting starts in 30 minutes. 
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 4:11 PM, Lena Traer <ltraer@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello everyone,

The next Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday, May 25, 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 May metrics meeting, we'll hear research and stories about developing an inclusive Wikimedia movement. We'll explore some of our challenges to becoming an inclusive movement, and what people around the movement are doing to create a more inclusive, welcoming space where everyone can participate.

Meeting agenda:

* Welcomes, theme introduction
* Movement update
* New filters for edit review 
* The Keilana effect
* Executive update
* 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


May 25, 2017 metrics meeting -- Movement update Appendix 

WikiMed
* January 2017 marked the completion of the 4th iteration of the course.
* 106 medical students participated in the course, almost 50% of them women.
* The majority of participants were Hebrew native speakers, but many were Arabic native speakers, and some Russian and French native speakers.
* On average, each student wrote 2 articles during the semester, collectively contributing over 200 new articles (about 8% of the medical content on Hebrew Wikipedia), which by now got over 4 millions page views.
* More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sackler_Faculty_of_Medicine_at_Tel_Aviv_University

Art + Feminism
* March 2017 marked the completion of the 4th annual Wikipedia edit-a-thon.
* 2,500 participants across 200 events in 42 countries around the world created or improved 6,500 articles. Almost double the outcomes from the 2016 campaign.  
* Anyone can participate, by joining an event, or organizing their own with their local community. To this end, there is an organizer’s kit available for consultation.
* More information: https://artandfeminism.tumblr.com/post/159717690675/the-results-are-in-over-2500-participants-at

Wikiquote at the hospital
* A project to work with patients from a mental institution. Coordinated by User:Jaluj, funded with a Rapid Grant.
* Editing skills as a way to construct a more inclusive society: “[He found the workshop] useful because the negative thoughts, which told him that he would not be able to do anything, disappeared when he managed to began to edit.”
* Many valuable lessons on how to work with patients from a mental health institution, and how it can influence their relationship to other people.
* More information: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Jaluj/Wikiquote_at_the_hospital/Report