Hi,

as mentioned in last week's announcement of the September 2011 Wikimedia Foundation report, this time we published a separate "Highlights" summary, combining excerpts from the general report and the engineering report. It's an experiment, a format which might be useful for those who might find the full reports long to read, and it facilitates translations.

Several translations are now available (help is welcome in spreading them):

مجموعة من أهم ما جاء في تقرير مؤسسة ويكيميديا وتقرير هندسة ويكيمييديا لشهر سبتمبر 2011 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Highlights,_September_2...

Höhepunkte aus dem Monatsbericht und dem technischen Bericht der Wikimedia Foundation für September 2011 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Highlights,_September_2...

I punti salienti presi dal Wikimedia Foundation Report e dal Wikimedia engineering report del mese di Settembre 2011 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Highlights,_September_2...

2011年9月のウィキメディア財団報告書及びウィキメディア技術報告より抄録 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Highlights,_September_2...

Thanks to all translators! Translations can still be added at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Highlights,_September_2...

As said above, this is an experiment, so it would be nice to hear how useful the result is to people, and what could be improved.

I would also like to take the occasion to draw attention to "Wikimedia:Woche", an new weekly newsletter run by the German Wikimedia chapter, summarizing news from the whole movement in German language (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/vereinde-l/2011-September/005121.html ). To my knowledge it is the first initiative of its kind by a chapter (of course there are already volunteer-run publications such as the Signpost, Wikizine and Kurier).

-- Tilman Bayer Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB