[VereinAT-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Wikimedia's 2010-11 Annual Report

Mo Dez 19 11:06:07 UTC 2011

Die Wikimedia Foundation hat ihren Jahresbericht veröffentlicht.
Nach Kritik vor kurzem (ua. wg. Bildfilter) dass die Community nicht
viel von der WMF mitbekommt gibt es nun eine Zusammenfassung des
Berichts in verschiedenen Sprachen, ua. auf Deutsch.

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report

An dieser Stelle möchte ich noch auf unseren Jahresbericht von Wikimedia
Österreich hinweisen - er wurde an der Mitgliederversammlung in
gedruckter Form verteilt, aber evtl. sind hier noch weitere
Interessenten die ihn lesen möchten, er steht natürlich ebenfalls im Netz:

http://mitglieder.wikimedia.at/Archiv/2011-Jahresbericht

bzw. als PDF mit Kassenbericht, Budget etc.pp.
http://mitglieder.wikimedia.at/images/f/fe/2011-12-10_Jahresbericht_vollst%C3%A4ndig.pdf

Alle Dokumente einzeln und in verschiedenen Varianten wie immer im Archiv.
http://mitglieder.wikimedia.at/Archiv

Grüsse,

Manuel

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[Internal-l] Wikimedia's 2010-11 Annual Report
Date: 	Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:17:13 -0800
From: 	Jay Walsh <jwalsh at wikimedia.org>
Reply-To: 	Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed
subscription) <internal-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
To: 	Communications Committee <wmfcc-l at lists.wikimedia.org>, "Local
Chapters board and officers coordination (closed subscription)"
<internal-l at lists.wikimedia.org>

(xposted to Comcom and internal)

Hello all,

I'm happy to announce the release of the Foundation's 4th Annual Report,
the 2010-11 Annual Report, which is now posted on the WMF Wiki at
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report

>From here you can download a high and lo res PDF of the report, or go
right to the meta-hosted wiki version.  And for the first time, you can
access translated 'summary' reports in 6 languages.  Printed copies are
being worked on right now (proofs being developed) and copies should be
in the WMF office next week.

This year we considerably expanded our multi-lingual effort by adding 6
translated 'summary' reports in Arabic, Japanese, French, German,
Portugese, and Spanish.  It's our first really visible multi-lingual
communications product, and it took some serious coordination to time
translation, design, production and wiki publishing.  As anyone in our
world who has worked in many languages knows, you have to get to one
source high quality text before going to translation, otherwise you end
up having to cascade changes over 6 projects, not just one.

This year's report focusses on global celebrations around Wikipedia 10,
our emerging work in India, the global education program, our mobile
expansion efforts, and on our major engineering/product accomplishments
and ambitions.  We center the book around the amazing Arab Spring
article, highlighting the inspiring quote from Wael Ghonim 'Our
revolution is like Wikipedia...'

The report is as much a story of the work and activities of our
international community as it is a traditional report on the work of WMF
through the year.  We hope it's not construed as a report focussed on
the work of WMF staff, rather a wide-ranging review of the work of
chapters, volunteers, partners - individuals and other kinds of
volunteers. We aim to enlighten the reader with the incredible range of
activity and innovation in our movement - to take them beyond the idea
that Wikipedia is simply text living on the web and show them a thriving
and dynamic community (but also give people a sense of how their moneys
are spent).

We also hope that the report can find an audience in those completely
new to our projects and our movement.  It should enlighten and deepen
someone's understanding of what this world is about - spurning
(requiring!) that they join us - whether as an editor, donor, partner or
even employee.

We open the book with the declaration 'the way the world tells its
story' - an idea the report production team was fascinated by.
 Wikipedia grown to become the default place where all people are
welcome to share their history, geography, cultures - the story of the
world. The Arab Spring article stands in the center of this metaphor, a
page that took shape in this extraordinary year and helped millions of
people around the world develop a deeper, neutral, and timely
understanding of the events that have changed the middle east and the
world forever.

As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions.  You can add
comments along with the community on the meta wiki talk pages, or send
them directly to the communications team.

Many thanks to the report production team: Tilman Bayer, design
strategist David Peters, and our story consultant David Weir.  Our
communications intern AJ was also a big help. Mostly we owe huge thanks
to the Wikimedians who made and shared the beautiful imagery in the book
by posting it to Commons. This is an ambitious, 100%
fueled-by-free-works project. I'd like to think it's one of the more
unique and successful free culture printed works out there - and it
wouldn't be possible without our community.

Finally - I'd really love to hear thoughts about how we can keep working
to make the report useful to chapter folks or other project volunteers.
 Hoping the translated summaries get us started in offering more
information in other languages.  We will do more of this, and next year
I'm hopeful we can get more people involved earlier and prepare an
entire report in other languages.

Thanks and enjoy!

-- 
Jay Walsh
Head of Communications
WikimediaFoundation.org
blog.wikimedia.org <http://blog.wikimedia.org>
+1 (415) 839 6885 x 6609 <tel:%2B1%20%28415%29%20839%206885%20x%206609>,
@jansonw

-- 
Regards
Manuel Schneider

Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge
www.wikimedia.ch
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