REMINDER: This meeting starts in 30 minutes.

*Update/change to Movement update:* Please note we are changing the Movement update section of the meeting to include the main highlight of each community story, activity, or project mentioned. We are sharing metrics and more details for each story in the appendix of the metrics presentation deck (which will be uploaded on the meta page after the meeting) and below in the body of this email.

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Lena Traer ltraer@wikimedia.org wrote:

Hello everyone,

The next Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday, March 23, 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.

The theme of the March meeting is: “Wikimedia for the world” – understanding how we can better serve and include people around the world in the Wikimedia movement.

Meeting agenda:

• Welcomes, theme introduction
• Movement update
• Wiki Women's History on social media
• Wiki Indaba update
• Movement strategy update
• Questions and discussion
• Wikilove

Please review https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_ 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, Lena

*March 23, 2017 metrics meeting -- Movement update Appendix*

Wiki Loves Africa 2016 *Multimedia contest to capture the rich African heritage through dance, music and movement. *3rd issue of the contest in a row. *10 participating countries, almost 8,000 media uploaded through the campaign. *International winners are still to be announced. *More: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016

Intercultur *An editing challenge with focus on Spain’s 8 spoken languages: Aragonese, Asturian, Basque, Catalan, Extremaduran, Galician, Occitan and Spanish. *22 participants, 278 articles edited *More information: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Intercultur

The women you have never met *A global writing contest with a focus on women’s biographies. *March 4 - April 9, 2017 *18 participating countries so far, from 7 different regions in the world. You can join as organizer, too! *More information: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Women_You_Have_Never_Met

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