[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Report, January 2013

Tilman Bayer tbayer at wikimedia.org
Mon Feb 18 04:29:57 UTC 2013


Hi all,

please find below the WMF report for January 2013, in plain text.

As always, the editable and formatted version has been published on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_January_2013

and the reports are being posted on the Wikimedia blog, too:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/corporate/wmf-monthly-reports/

As usual, we are also publishing a separate "Highlights" summary.
Please consider helping non-English-language communities to stay
updated, by providing a translation:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_January_2013

Many thanks to those who have translated the December "Highlights"
into  Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Danish, German, Spanish,
Indonesian, Mongolian, and Simplified Chinese (and partially into
some other languages)!
While still focussing on WMF activities, the "Highlights" include a
small selection of the most noteworthy events from the whole movement.
Suggestions for the January issue are welcome until March 6 at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Highlights .

Regards, Tilman


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  Wikimedia Foundation Report, January 2013



<Video: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monthly_Metrics_Meeting_February_7,_2013.ogv>
Video of the monthly Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting
covering the month of January
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/2013-02-07>
(February 7, 2013)

    Contents

  * 1 Data and Trends
  * 2 Financials
  * 3 Highlights
      o 3.1 New program offers financial support for projects by
        individual Wikimedians
      o 3.2 Successful migration to new data center
      o 3.3 New partnership grows the reach of Wikipedia Zero to 330
        million mobile users
      o 3.4 Wikivoyage becomes newest Wikimedia project
  * 4 Engineering
      o 4.1 VisualEditor
      o 4.2 Editor engagement
      o 4.3 Mobile
  * 5 Fundraising
      o 5.1 Major Gifts and Foundations
      o 5.2 Annual Fundraiser
  * 6 Grantmaking and Programs
      o 6.1 Grantmaking
      o 6.2 Strategic Goals Metrics
          + 6.2.1 Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
          + 6.2.2 WMF Grants Program
              # 6.2.2.1 Grants approved in January 2013
              # 6.2.2.2 Reports accepted in January 2013
          + 6.2.3 Participation Support requests approved in January
            2013
          + 6.2.4 Individual Engagement Grants
          + 6.2.5 Fellowships
          + 6.2.6 Wikimania Scholarships
          + 6.2.7 Editor Growth and Contribution Program
      o 6.3 Programs
          + 6.3.1 US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator
          + 6.3.2 Brazil
              # 6.3.2.1 Catalyst Project development
                  * 6.3.2.1.1 Team building
                  * 6.3.2.1.2 Institutional Development
              # 6.3.2.2 Outreach
                  * 6.3.2.2.1 Campus Party
                  * 6.3.2.2.2 Digitalia
              # 6.3.2.3 Education - Brazil
                  * 6.3.2.3.1 2012 Results Report
                  * 6.3.2.3.2 Program development
          + 6.3.3 Mobile
          + 6.3.4 Global Education
      o 6.4 Learning & Evaluation
  * 7 Human Resources
      o 7.1 Staff Changes
      o 7.2 Statistics
      o 7.3 Department Updates
  * 8 Finance and Administration
  * 9 Legal and Community Advocacy
      o 9.1 Contract Metrics
      o 9.2 Trademark Metrics
      o 9.3 Other Activities
      o 9.4 Communications Report, January 2013
          + 9.4.1 Major announcements
          + 9.4.2 Major Storylines through January
          + 9.4.3 Other worthwhile reads
          + 9.4.4 WMF Blog posts
          + 9.4.5 Media Contact
          + 9.4.6 Wikipedia Signpost
  * 10 Visitors and Guests


== Data and Trends ==

Global unique visitors for December:

    *472.6 million* (-2.46% compared with November; +3.39% compared with
    the previous year)
    (comScore data
    <http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/unique_visitors> for all
    Wikimedia Foundation projects; comScore will release January data
    later in February)

Page requests for January:

    *22.2 billion* (10.3% compared with December; +23.4% compared with
    the previous year)
    (Server log data
    <http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyAllProjects.htm>,
    all Wikimedia Foundation projects including mobile access)

Active Registered Editors for December 2012 (>= 5 mainspace edits/month,
excluding bots):

    *78,536* (-1.04% compared with November / +0.09% compared with the
    previous year)
    (Database data
    <http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/active_editors>, all Wikimedia
    Foundation projects. Note: We recently refined this metric
    <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/08/31/improving-the-accuracy-of-the-active-editors-metric/>
    to take into account Wikimedia Commons and activity across several
    projects.)

*Report Card* (integrating various statistical data and trends about WMF
projects) for December 2012:

    http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/

(Definitions <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Metric_definitions>)


== Financials ==

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF_Revenue_%26_Expenses_December_2012_-_Actual_vs_Plan.png>
Wikimedia Foundation YTD Revenue and Expenses vs Plan as of December 31,
2012
	
<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF_Expenses_by_Functions_December_2012.png>
Wikimedia Foundation YTD Expenses by Functions as of December 31, 2012

(Financial information is only available for December 2012 at the time
of this report.)

All financial information presented is for the Month-To-Date and
Year-To-Date December 31, 2012.

Revenue 	$30,916,665
*Expenses:* 	
Engineering Group 	$6,289,609
Fundraising Group 	$2,039,275
Grantmaking & Programs Group 	$2,390,621
Governance Group 	$364,699
Legal/Community Advocacy/Communications Group 	$1,557,154
Finance/HR/Admin Group 	$2,820,212
Total Expenses 	$15,461,570
Total surplus/(loss) 	$15,455,095

  * Revenue for the month of December is $14.30MM vs plan of $14.41MM,
    approximately $109K or 1% under plan.
  * Year-to-date revenue is $30.92MM vs plan of $29.91MM, approximately
    $1.01MM or 3% over plan.
  * Expenses for the month of December is $2.70MM vs plan of $3.14MM,
    approximately $433K or 14% under plan, primarily due to lower
    personnel expenses, capital expenses, and travel expenses partially
    offset by higher legal expenses, bank fees, and outside contract
    services.
  * Year-to-date expenses is $15.46MM vs plan of $17.78MM, approximately
    $2.31MM or 13% under plan, primarily due to personnel expenses,
    internet hosting, travel expenses, and capital expenses partially
    offset by higher legal expenses, bank fees, and awards and grants.
  * Cash position is $41.17MM as of December 31, 2012.


== Highlights ==

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IdeaLab_kitten_logo.png>
Logo of the IdeaLab


=== New program offers financial support for projects by individual
Wikimedians ===

The Foundation's Individual Engagement Grants
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG> program
launched on January 15. While most WMF grants have so far gone to
organizations like chapters, the new program will finance initiatives by
individual Wikimedians or small teams to improve Wikimedia projects. The
first application period lasts until February 15. During the first two
weeks, 31 ideas, drafts, and proposals were submitted. An "IdeaLab
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab>" has been set up
where draft proposals can be
discussed, and applicants can get help to turn their ideas into complete
proposals.

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Servers-8055_05.jpg>
Wikimedia Foundation servers


=== Successful migration to new data center ===

On January 22, Wikipedia and all other Wikimedia sites were migrated
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/19/wikimedia-sites-move-to-primary-data-center-in-ashburn-virginia/>
to the Foundation's new primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia (US).
The prior data center in Tampa, Florida had been the main hosting site
since 2004; it will remain on standby to take over in case the new data
center experiences an outage. The switch worked nearly without any
problems. The Operations Team attributes
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/05/how-the-technical-operations-team-stops-problems-in-their-tracks/>
this success to the careful preparation since 2011. This involved
reviewing, improving and documenting the configuration of the servers
(currently about 885) in a way that has already improved stability
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/05/how-the-technical-operations-team-stops-problems-in-their-tracks/>
in 2012, and will make it possible to set up new data centers much faster.


=== New partnership grows the reach of Wikipedia Zero to 330 million
mobile users ===

VimpelCom <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VimpelCom>, the sixth largest mobile
network operator in the world, joined the Wikipedia Zero program
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/24/vimpelcom-partnership-grows-wikipedia-zero-330-million/>
in January, raising the number of mobile users who are eligible to
access Wikipedia without data fees by 100 million, to 330 million
worldwide. Among the countries serves by VimpelCom are Russia, Ukraine,
Armenia and other countries of the former USSR.

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikivoyage-logo-en-TTO-attempt.svg>
Wikivoyage logo


=== Wikivoyage becomes newest Wikimedia project ===

On January 15, the 12th anniversary of Wikipedia, Wikivoyage
<https://www.wikivoyage.org/> was officially launched
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/15/wikimedia-foundation-launches-wikivoyage-a-free-worldwide-travel-guide-that-anyone-can-edit/>
as the newest project of the Wikimedia Foundation. The free travel guide
that anyone can edit is already available in nine languages - Dutch
<https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/nl:>, English
<https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/en:>,
French <https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/fr:>, German
<https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/de:>, Italian
<https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/it:>,
Russian <https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/ru:>, Portuguese
<https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/pt:>, Spanish
<https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/es:>
and Swedish <https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/sv:> - with more being added.
There are more than 50,000 articles, which are edited and improved by a
core group of approximately 200 volunteer editors.


== Engineering ==

A detailed report of the Tech Department's activities for January 2013
can be found at:

    https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/January

Major news in January include:

  * the successful migration of our main services
    <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/19/wikimedia-sites-move-to-primary-data-center-in-ashburn-virginia/>
    to our data center in Ashburn, Virginia (see general "Highlights"
    section)
  * new features
    <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/11/mobile-beta-a-sandbox-for-new-experimental-features/>
    available in our mobile beta;
  * progress on input methods
    <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/25/language-engineering-progress-with-input-methods-and-translation-editor/>
    and our upcoming translation interface
    <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/11/a-more-efficient-translation-interface/>;
  * the announcement of GeoData
    <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/31/geodata-a-new-age-of-geotagging-on-wikipedia/>,
    a feature to attach geo-coordinates to Wikipedia and Wikivoyage
    articles;
  * a testing event to assess how VisualEditor handles non-Latin
    characters
    <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/28/help-us-test-and-investigate-visualeditor/>.

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Monthly_Metrics_and_Activities_Meeting_February_7,_2013-7624-12013.jpg>

Roan Kattouw presenting about VisualEditor and Parsoid (slides
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor-Parsoid_-_2013-02_Metrics_deck.pdf>)


=== VisualEditor <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor> ===

In January, the VisualEditor team worked primarily on reviewing and
cleaning up the code that was enabled on the English Wikipedia
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/12/12/try-out-the-alpha-version-of-the-visualeditor/>
in December. They spent time with their colleagues in the Parsoid team
planning the next phase of development, which aims to make the
VisualEditor the default editor for all Wikipedias from July 2013. The
alpha version on mediawiki.org and the English Wikipedia was updated
twice, fixing a number of bugs reported by the community and making some
adjustments based on feedback.

The Parsoid <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid> team (who are creating
the parsing program <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing> that translates
plain wikitext into HTML annotated for easy editing, and /vice-versa/)
also cleaned up their code and fixed bugs. Parsoid's features were
overhauled to be more robust and extend support for wikis in various
configurations (including in languages other than English). The team
also discussed the longer-term strategy in the Parsoid roadmap
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Roadmap>, in which they decided to
focus their efforts on performance improvements and HTML storage for the
existing implementation, instead of the performance-oriented C++ version
of Parsoid.

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Monthly_Metrics_and_Activities_Meeting_February_7,_2013-7639-12013.jpg>

Terry Chay presenting about editor engagement/features engineering
(slides <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltqNe-ZyANE>)
<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot_of_GettingStarted_guided_tour_step_1.png>
Demo screenshot of guided tours


=== Editor engagement <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_editor_engagement> ===

This month, the Editor engagement team stepped up development on the
Notifications project /Echo/
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo_(Notifications)>, and updated the first
experimental release on mediawiki.org. The user experience for core
features was improved (such as the badge, fly-out, all-notifications
page and email notifications) and development started on new features,
like preferences. The team completed work on HTML emails and started
development of a more robust job queue. A first release on the English
Wikipedia is expected by the end of March; in the meantime, users can
try the current version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Testing> on
mediawiki.org.

Flow <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow>, a feed-like interface to enable
users to better interact with their projects, entered the product design
phase in early January. It has several "modules", one of which is a
design for a structured user-to-user communication system. User research
began in order to learn how user-to-user talk pages are handled, and how
to improve them. Engineering discussions started about potential
back-end and performance difficulties, the possible use of Wikidata's
ContentHandler <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ContentHandler>, and the
evaluation of Wikia's MessageWall. A consultation with the community is
planned for February, with experienced and newer users alike.

Regarding Article Feedback v5
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5> (a quality
assessment feature), its code was cleaned up in January, and new
features (simpler moderation tools and better filters) were developed.
An internal feedback evaluation study
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Article_feedback/Final_quality_assessment>
suggests that about 39% of the feedback collected can be used to improve
articles. Discussions happened on the English
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Article_feedback>
and
French
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fr:Wikip%C3%A9dia:Prise_de_d%C3%A9cision/Mise_en_place_de_l%27outil_d%27%C3%A9valuation_des_articles_sur_la_Wikip%C3%A9dia_en_fran%C3%A7ais>
Wikipedia regarding the future use of the tool, and the German pilot
program <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:Wikipedia:Artikel-Feedback> is
expected to continue until May.

The Editor Engagement Experiments team ("E3") launched
<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/01/guided-tour-launch/> guided tours
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/guided_tours> on the English Wikipedia, a
feature allowing developers and Wikimedians to build tours to guide
newer users. The team also tested the Getting Started
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GettingStarted> landing page and
task list, measuring the effect it had on driving new contributions.
Analysis showed that the onboarding experience is leading to small but
statistically significant increases in new English Wikipedians
attempting to edit, as well as saving their first edit. In addition to
measuring the effects of the guided tour associated with this project,
immediate plans are to redesign the landing page and add additional task
types, to entice more new contributors. Work also continued on refining
the reliability and precision of the data collected from the
EventLogging extension
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EventLogging>. In particular, it was
migrated to a dedicated database, and the team began collecting data to
measure, for example, account creations on desktop and mobile.

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Monthly_Metrics_and_Activities_Meeting_February_7,_2013-7613-12013.jpg>

Maryana Pinchuk demonstrating mobile photo uploading (slides
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1A2URDSkSIa7kBYDHu1DaxZfnR6Wd9z-K0iVvcHEodo0/edit?usp=sharing>)


=== Mobile <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Mobile_engineering> ===

After its soft launch in December, GeoData
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GeoData_Storage_%26_API> was officially
announced
<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/31/geodata-a-new-age-of-geotagging-on-wikipedia/>
this month; this functionality, which attaches geo-coordinates to
articles, will be particularly useful for the mobile "Nearby" feature
(enabled on an experimental version of the site), to help contributors
identify articles in need of photos not far from their location.

This month, the mobile web team also finished work on the watchlist
feature, and focused their efforts on photo uploads by first adding
basic uploading functionality: uploading images to Wikimedia Commons. A
workflow was put in place to allow users to add a thumbnail of an image
they just uploaded to the appropriate article on their local Wikipedia
or sister project. These features are currently live on the Beta mobile
site and are set to be released to the full mobile site in February.

Uploading photos was also the focus of the newly created "Apps team",
who started to develop iOS and Android versions of an app to upload
photos to Commons <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Apps/Commons>. The two basic
apps can already upload, share and show the user's contributions.


== Fundraising ==

<Video: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WEB_Clip.webm>
Clip from the upcoming documentary "Web", showing how Wikipedia has
impacted a small village in Peru <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestina,_Peru>

Department highlights

  * Sent the Thank You email for donors including a link to the 'The
    Impact of Wikipedia' video
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Impact_Of_Wikipedia.webm>
  * We reached our $6 million annual goal for Major Gifts!


=== Major Gifts and Foundations ===

  * We reached our $6 million annual goal
  * Received a $500,000 gift from the Milner Foundation.


=== Annual Fundraiser ===

  * The Thank You email to donors included a link to the 'The Impact of
    Wikipedia' video
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Impact_Of_Wikipedia.webm>
) on
    Youtube, which features Wikipedia editors from around the world, and
    a clip from Michael Kleiman
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WEB_Clip.webm> about how
    Wikipedia has impacted a small village in Peru, taken from his
    upcoming documentary 'Web'. Public responses to the videos on
    YouTube have been almost entirely positive. Here is one example:
    “Your videos are amazing. Thank you for sending them out. I have
    given donations in the past because I appreciate Wikipedia. Now, I
    have a much stronger commitment to support you. Thank you for giving
    us a fuller picture of the worldwide impact of knowledge made
    available through WIkipedia.”
  * The fundraising team prepared banners, translations, and donation
    pages to begin 2013 testing in various languages and countries that
    were not included in the year-end 2012 campaign.
  * Reconciliation: The Fundraising and Finance teams are creating tools
    and establishing best practices for funds reconciliation.
  * The donor services team pulled reporting numbers on top payment
    method requests and major issues from the fundraiser. Disseminated
    this information to the rest of team to set 2013 implementation
    priorities.
  * Donor messaging: The team spent time collaboratively editing,
    revising, and translating new donor messages based on feedback from
    the 2012 fundraiser. The goal is to give donors all the information
    they need to make easy, successful online donations.


== Grantmaking and Programs ==

Department Highlights

  * Launch of the Individual Engagement Grants
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG>
    program, which support Wikimedians to complete projects that benefit
    the Wikimedia movement, lead to online impact, or otherwise serve
    our mission, community, and strategic priorities.
  * Launch of the new Grants Portal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start>
  * Launch of the 2013 Wikimania Scholarships
    <http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships>. Working with
    a committee of 8 volunteers to review and select between hundreds of
    applicants worldwide.
  * Welcoming FDC Senior Program Officer Katy Love and Head of the
    Education Program Rod Dunican


=== Grantmaking ===


=== Strategic Goals Metrics ===

Metric 	Value 	MoM 	MoM% 	Chart
Free Wikipedia Zero Page Requests 	3.0m 	232k 	+8.4% Increase 	[1]
<http://gp.wmflabs.org/graphs/free_mobile_traffic_by_version_monthly_desc>
Global South Active Editors (5+ edits in main namespace) 	15.8k 	+453
+2.9% Increase 	[2]
<http://gp.wmflabs.org/graphs/global_north_south_active_editors>


==== Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) ====

  * The FDC proposal form was reviewed and minor edits were made to make
    it more user-friendly for applicants and the FDC. These suggested
    edits <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposal_form_v2>
came largely from the FDC
    members, entities, and FDC staff. All are welcome to continue to
    make suggestions about the proposal form on the Talk page.
  * In anticipation of the second round of funding, the FDC proposal
    creation tool has now been launched on the FDC portal
    <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee>.
Eligibile entities
    <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Eligibility_criteria>
must close their eligibility
    gaps <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Eligibility_status/2012-2013_round2>
by Feb
    15 2013 in order to apply for Round 2 FDC grants. Please contact the
    FDC support team with any questions or comments.
  * Senior Program Officer Katy Love
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:KLove_(WMF)> joined the
    Wikimedia Foundation staff last month. Katy's role, specified in the
    framework, is to facilitate the FDC process from start to finish,
    ensuring a smooth and effective process. Feel free to reach out to
    Katy on her talk page.

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Monthly_Metrics_and_Activities_Meeting_February_7,_2013-7655-12013.jpg>

Siko Bouterse presenting about WMF Grants


==== WMF Grants Program ====

  * Improvements to the Grants:Index
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Index> include more
    detailed pages describing WMF Grants Program policies and procedures
    and improved templates to track the status of submissions and
    reports. The status of submissions and reports may also be viewed at
    Grants:Table <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Table>.
  * Policy change: Grant reports will now be due within 60 days of the
    project completion date listed on the approved grant submission
    (this will apply to grants with agreements signed after 31 January
    2013).


===== Grants approved in January 2013 =====

Grants:WM_NO/christmas_seminar_and_wlm_ceremony
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_NO/christmas_seminar_and_wlm_ceremony>
    The Wikimedia Foundation has funded a meetup and seminar with the
    the Arts Council Norway, organized by Wikimedia Norge, where winners
    of Wiki Loves Monuments, the worlds largest photo contest, were
    celebrated. Wikimedia Norge's collaboration with the Arts Council
    has produced over 35 editing events with more than 600 participants.
Grants:Shipmaster - Community of Arabic Wikipedia/Producer Prize-2013
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Shipmaster_-_Community_of_Arabic_Wikipedia/Producer_Prize-2013>
    Wikimedia Foundation grant for the "Producer Prize" to encourage
    quality content creation on Arabic Wikipedia


===== Reports accepted in January 2013 =====

  * Grants:WM NO/Nordic Chapter Meeting 2012/Report
    <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_NO/Nordic_Chapter_Meeting_2012/Report>
  * Grants:Ciphers and Shipmaster - Community of Arabic
    Wikipedia/Producer Prize/Report
    <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Ciphers_and_Shipmaster_-_Community_of_Arabic_Wikipedia/Producer_Prize/Report>
  * Grants:WM NO/Outreach GLAM
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_NO/Outreach_GLAM>


==== Participation Support requests approved in January 2013 ====

  * Participation:Nicola/International Cycling History Conference
    <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Nicola/International_Cycling_History_Conference>
  * Participation:Eduardofeld/WikiSalvador2.0
    <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Eduardofeld/WikiSalvador2.0>


==== Individual Engagement Grants ====

This new program launched <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG>
on January 15 with a
request for grant proposals
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-applying> and
volunteer committee members
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Committee> to help select
the first round of grantees. We also launched an IdeaLab
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab> to offer help to
potential grantees in turning
ideas into complete proposals. In the first 2 weeks of what will be a
month-long RfP, 31 ideas, drafts, and proposals have been submitted. 15
candidates have signed up for the committee. (see also general
"Highlights" section)


==== Fellowships ====

January was the end of the Fellowships program at WMF. Tanvir Rahman and
Sarah Stierch completed their projects, and all fellows final reports
will be available on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships/Fellows>.


==== Wikimania Scholarships ====

We've launched a search for a Conference Coordinator
<http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=o1k2Wfw3&c=qSa9VfwQ/> to act
as point of contact for WMF in supporting the Wikimania teams each year.

Launch of the Wikimania Scholarships Program: These are full
scholarships for anyone to attend Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong. See the
Wikimania Scholarships page
<http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships> and encourage
quality volunteers to apply!


==== Editor Growth and Contribution Program ====

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Editor_Growth_and_Contribution_Program_logo.png>
Logo of the Editor Growth and Contribution Program

A new project proposal on Geo-targeted Editors Participation
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geo-targeted_Editors_Participation>
was posted on English Wikipedia. The new project proposal aims at
experimenting with new ways to increase participation of editors on
English Wikipedia from underrepresented geographies where the most
likely contribution language for editors is English.


=== Programs ===


==== US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator ====

The role of Lori Byrd Phillips as 2012 US Cultural Partnerships
Coordinator has ended on Dec 31st, and a final report about her year as
USCPC is forthcoming.


==== Brazil ====


===== Catalyst Project development =====


====== Team building ======

  * Hiring of Data and Experiments consultant
    <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programa_Catalisador_do_Brasil/Planejamento_2012-2013/Data_analyst_consultant>:
    finalized hiring process in Brazil, still under approval process.
    Results to be announced soon.
  * Hiring of a short term, part time community member contractor, to
    develop data analysis projects in partnership with the community and
    the new Data and Experiments consultant


====== Institutional Development ======

  * Rental of a co-working space <http://saopaulo.the-hub.net/> for an
    experimental three months period in São Paulo, where the team will
    be able to work together more often
  * Update of the annual planning and budget Learn more
    <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programa_Catalisador_do_Brasil/Planejamento_2012-2013>


===== Outreach =====


====== Campus Party ======

WMF and Wikimedia Brasil promoted activities in Campus Party 2013
<http://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campus_Party/2013>, an event held in São
Paulo, with the participation of 7 volunteers and 2 WMF staff members.
Two lectures have been presented (one by Mateus Nobre, volunteer from
Mossoró (RN) and one by Everton Alvarenga, coordinator of the Education
Program). Additionally, WMF had the opportunity to contact possible
future partners at this event, such as the Mozilla Foundation which will
launch the new Firefox OS in Brazil including the Wikipedia app by
default. Read more about the Campus Party activities.
<http://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campus_Party/2013/Relat%C3%B3rio>


====== Digitalia ======

Organization of the Wiki Meet-up at Digitalia, a digital culture event
in Salvador (Bahia). Digitalia brings together academians, artists and
activists to debate and propose projects and research on digital
culture. The event, organized with the support of the Wikimedia Brasil
Community, had 25 attendees on Wikimedia Workshops and 8 new Wikipedia
accounts created as one of its results. More details will be included in
the February report. Wiki Meet up in Salvador
<https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Encontros/WikiSalvador_2.0>

Check out more information about Digitalia 2013
<http://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/Digitalia/2013>


===== Education - Brazil =====


====== 2012 Results Report ======

  * The 2012 report summarizing the results, achievements, key findings
    and activities of the Education Program in Brazil can be accessed at
    http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ezalvarenga/Report#Results


====== Program development ======

  * Wikiprojects revamp: Health Wikiproject development with the
    participation of experienced Wikipedia editors and medicine
    students, professors and researchers. They already started editing
    <https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Projetos/Medicina>.
  * Translation of articles in partnership with Gama Filho University
    <http://www.posugf.com.br/cursos/pos-graduacao-ead/50-traducao>
  * Interview with Everton by a national radio station: Listen to it (in
    Portuguese)
    <http://cbn.globoradio.globo.com/programas/revista-cbn/2013/01/06/EDITORES-QUE-DESISTIRAM-DA-WIKIPEDIA-NEM-SEMPRE-CONHECEM-REGRAS-DA-ENCICLOPEDIA-ONLINE.htm>
  * Article on the Education Program at [3]
    <http://diariodigital.sapo.pt/news.asp?id_news=613443>.

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Monthly_Metrics_and_Activities_Meeting_February_7,_2013-7679-12013.jpg>

Kul Wadhwa presenting about Wikipedia Zero (slides
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GYvFMatdD5gG1Kxzy6OHJq93S1QNZ-TGcfcH0ap4VkM/edit?usp=sharing>)
<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Monthly_Metrics_and_Activities_Meeting_February_7,_2013-7694-12013.jpg>

Kul Wadhwa explaining Wikipedia via Text


==== Mobile ====

  * Launched a new partnership with VimpelCom to provide Wikipedia Zero
    to at least 100 million additional customers this year (WMF press
    release
    <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/VimpelCom_partners_with_the_Wikimedia_Foundation>)
  * In January, the Wikimedia Foundation was awarded a grant
    <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/17/wikimedia-foundation-winner-of-knight-news-challenge/>
    in the Knight News Challenge for our work in expanding Wikimedia
    mobile projects. Part of this grant ($600,000 for two years) will be
    used for Wikipedia Zero <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero>
    and the SMS/USSD
    <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_over_SMS_%26_USSD> projects to
    improve access to knowledge in the developing world. Press releases:
    WMF
    <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_Knight_News_Challenge_winner>,
    Knight Foundation
    <http://www.knightfoundation.org/press-room/press-release/eight-mobile-ventures-win-24-million-funding-knigh/>
  * Wikipedia Zero was of the 2012 winners of the African News
    Innovation Challenge <http://africannewschallenge.org/2012-Winners/>
    for making information available free of charge on mobile phones to
    Africans in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Tunisia, and Uganda.
  * On other mobile platforms, we've begun to explore ways to reduce the
    memory and processor requirements of our J2ME app
    <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_S40_J2ME_app>, to increase the
    number of phones that can use this application; we are also
    finishing work on capturing the metrics from the SMS server
    <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_over_SMS_%26_USSD> to learn
    usage numbers and determine how many sessions are completed.


==== Global Education ====

Blog profiles design professor in Brazil

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Professora_Iara_Camargo.jpg>
Professor Iara Camargo

The Wikimedia Foundation blog published a profile of Iara Camargo, a
professor of design in Brazil who participated in the Wikipedia
Education Program last term. She joined students in her Editorial Design
course in improving articles on the Portuguese Wikipedia about subjects
such as designers, design concepts, and publishing houses. Iara wrote an
article on book design as part of her work with her students. Learn more
about her experiences by reading the post.
<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/14/iara-camargo-wikipedia-education-program-brazil/>

Brazil program organizes Campus Party activities

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palestra_Mateus_Nobre_CPBR6.JPG>
Mateus Nobre presents at Campus Party in Brazil.

Wikimedia Brasil together with the Wikimedia Foundation organized
activities supporting the use of Wikipedia in education in Brazil
through Campus Party. Mateus Nobre, a Wikimedia Brasil volunteer, talked
about Wikipedia and Free Culture, giving a general panorama on the
history of encyclopedias, from the medieval to the information age,
where we have Wikipedia as part of the free culture movement. The
coordinator of the Wikipedia Education Program in Brazil, Everton
Zanella Alvarenga, also talked about Wikipedia and the Future of
Education. Learn more about the Campus Party activities.
<http://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campus_Party/2013/Relat%C3%B3rio>

U.S., Canada Thematic Organization proposed

A group of Wikipedia Ambassadors and program instructors known as the
Working Group have developed a plan for supporting the Wikipedia
Education Program in the U.S. and Canada starting in Summer 2013. The
group is in the process of applying for Thematic Organization approval
through the Affiliations Committee. All current instructors and
Ambassadors are encouraged to stay up-to-date on the next few months'
progress. If you plan to continue using Wikipedia in the classroom in
the U.S. and Canada and would like to become a member of the new
organization, please sign up on the interest list linked from the
proposal! To read more about the current plans, see the current proposal
and feel encouraged to provide and feedback or ask questions on the talk
page.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Education_Working_Group/Proposal>

Welcome (back), Rod Dunican!

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RDunican_April_2010_wikimedia_03_10_616.jpg>
Rod Dunican

Rod Dunican re-joined with Wikimedia Foundation family last month as the
director of the Wikipedia Education Program. Frank Schulenburg, the
former director, had been promoted to Senior Director of Programs in
December 2012. Rod was previously the project manager for the Public
Policy Initiative, the pilot of the Wikipedia Education Program in the
United States, so he is extremely familiar with the program and the
Wikimedia projects. In his new role, Rod is responsible for building
systems that enable quality at scale in different educational
environments. Leave a welcome note for Rod on his talk page.
<http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rdunican>


=== Learning & Evaluation ===

  * Migrated the former global development dashboard into a new
    Grantmaking & Programs dashboard <http://gp.wmflabs.org/>! Shifting
    into the new version of Limn
    <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Limn> (the visualization
    software) now.
  * Pull up review of the advancement towards annual goals based on the
    board meeting. To summarize:
      o Mapped the last 6 months of grantmaking: $8.7M allocated
        globally via FDC, grants, and participation support, primarily
        to Europe. This includes 18 project based grants, 11 annual
        planning grants (via FDC), and 8 participation support grants
        (travel)
      o During the months of heavy activity of the Cairo Education
        Program, contributions from the Education Program comprised 3-4%
        of total bytes added to Arabic Wikipedia
        <http://gp.wmflabs.org/graphs/ar_bytes_monthly>.
  * Migrated team over to Asana for evaluation requests


== Human Resources ==

WMF managers have been conducting their mid-year employee reviews. HR
has been supporting Finance and Administration in preparing staffing
baselines for the WMF annual planning process, and facilitating a senior
management team 2-day meeting to kick-off the annual planning process.
The purpose of the meeting was to coordinate and build alignment on
priorities and interdependencies, so that we work with better
assumptions as we move into the annual planning process. HR also staffed
up our recruiting function.


=== Staff Changes ===

New Requisitions Filled

  * Doreen Dunican, Travel Manager (Administration)
  * Rod Dunican, Global Education Program Director (Grantmaking and
    Programs)
  * Yuvi Panda, Software Developer – Mobile (Engineering)
  * Ram Ramanath, Senior Software Engineer – Platform (Engineering)

New Legal Interns

  * Missy Black
  * Megumi Yukie
  * Ava Miller

New Contractors

  * Emily Blanchard (Human Resources)
  * Runa Bhattacharjee (Engineering)
  * Heather McAndrew (Human Resources)
  * Shankar Narayanan (Engineering)

Contract Extended

  * Oliver Keyes (Engineering)
  * Siebrand Mazeland (Engineering)
  * Robert Miller (Administration)
  * Stefan Petrea (Engineering)

Departure

  * Sangeeta Prashar

Contract Ended

  * Lauren Bocknek
  * Desirina Boskovich
  * Mimi Li
  * Tanvir Rahman
  * Sarah Stierch
  * Steven Zhang

New Postings

  * Conference Coordinator (Contract)
  * Site Reliability Engineer
  * Tools Lab Operations Engineer (Contract)
  * Technical Writer


=== Statistics ===

Total Requisitions Filled
    Jan Actual: 131
    Jan Total Plan: 172
    Jan Filled: 4, Month Attrition: 1,
    YTD Filled: 36, YTD Attrition: 17
    1 Position canceled for FY

Remaining Open positions to fiscal year end
    42 (8 of which are on hold)


=== Department Updates ===

Real-time feed for HR updates

http://identi.ca/wikimediaatwork or http://twitter.com/wikimediaatwork


== Finance and Administration ==

The Wikimedia Foundation has begun its Annual Planning process. We now
have a master calendar which will result in Board review and approval of
the annual plan by June 29 and be released to the community on July 1.


== Legal and Community Advocacy ==


=== Contract Metrics ===

  * Submitted : 23
  * Completed : 20


=== Trademark Metrics ===

  * Submitted : 14
  * Approved : 3
  * Pending : 10
  * Denied : 1

<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Monthly_Metrics_and_Activities_Meeting_February_7,_2013-7665-12013.jpg>

Philippe Beaudette presenting about Community Advocacy work (slides
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GYvFMatdD5gG1Kxzy6OHJq93S1QNZ-TGcfcH0ap4VkM/edit?usp=sharing>)


=== Other Activities ===

  * Community Advocacy announced the expansion of the ombudsman
    commission <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ombudsman_commission>
and will be working with the
    new team to streamline processes.
  * One of our observations: The OTRS team processed more than 50,000
    pieces of mail last year! See the full report
    <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS/Reports/2012>. OTRS admins
also announced updates to
    their recruiting processes.
  * We've been taking a close look at staff advanced permissions on wiki
    (together with Engineering and HR) and implementing training and
    auditing schemes.
  * Philippe and Geoff will be joining the election committee
    <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Election_committee> (Philippe for
the fourth time!) to
    support that team in organizing the Board and FDC election processes.
  * Since September 2012, we have worked with Compass Partnership and
    WMUK in providing information relevant to the governance report,
    which was released February 7, 2013. For details, please see:
    http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/07/wikimedia-uk-and-wikimedia-foundation-release-compass-partnership-report/
  * The draft conflict of guidelines discussion is presently scheduled
    to close on February 15, 2013 (after international outreach). People
    should feel free to provide feedback and suggestions. See
    http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Guidelines_on_potential_conflicts_of_interest
  * Favorable German decision addressing the German right of personality
    of a deceased individual was upheld after withdrawal of appeal. See
    update at the bottom of the blog here
    <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/12/04/two-german-courts-rule-in-favor-of-free-knowledge-movement/>
  * Developed grant templates for FDC grants, WMF individual grants, and
    WMF individual engagement grants. We are presently updating the WMF
    organizational grant template.
  * Case summary on Flava Works, Inc. v. Gunter
    <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Flava_Works,_Inc._v._Gunter>
- Missy Black


=== Communications Report, January 2013 ===

January was a busy month for WMF Communications. The follow-up coverage
of the annual campaign, four major announcements (including the launch
of Wikivoyage), and media stories kept the team and communications
contacts around the globe active. January saw our first public promotion
of the Wikimedia Shop as well, which resulted in close to 500 orders
over two days with English-project messages encouraging users to
celebrate Wikipedia day with WP fan gear.


==== Major announcements ====

  * *The Wikimedia Foundation launches Wikivoyage, a free, worldwide
    travel guide that anyone can edit
    <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_launches_Wikivoyage>*
    (15 January 2013)

  * *Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner named to the
    Board of Directors at Global Voices
    <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Sue_Gardner_joins_Global_Voices_board_of_directors>*
    (16 January 2013)

  * *Wikimedia Foundation winner of Knight News Challenge
    <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_Knight_News_Challenge_winner>*
    (17 January 2013)

  * *VimpelCom partners with the Wikimedia Foundation to offer free
    mobile Wikipedia access through Wikipedia Zero
    <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/VimpelCom_partners_with_the_Wikimedia_Foundation>*
    (25 January 2013)


==== Major Storylines through January ====

‘’Wikipedia losing editors, says another study’’ 4 January

Aaron Halfaker’s University of Minnesota study of declining
participation on Wikipedia gained considerable coverage in early
January, owing largely to a high-profile AFP wire story that carried the
story to dozens of outlets. Mostly negative/neutral tone stories
repeated the main findings in Halfaker’s study, few of which outlined
the Foundation’s ongoing work to tackle editor decline.

    http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hb2pGE23MQU4AoQYjmUhR-7Xa3EA?docId=CNG.fc9c2269ad1aa5f9bab8cf4fb4ec0d64.3a1&index=0
    http://mashable.com/2013/01/08/wikipedia-losing-editors/
    http://www.dailydot.com/business/wikipedia-editors-decline-wikimedia-fellows/

‘’WikiVoyage takes flight under the Wikimedia flag’’ 15 January

Considerable media coverage in January of the successful launch of a new
Wikimedia project, Wikivoyage. Mostly positive tone coverage discussed
how the project came into being, and speculated on the opportunities for
the new, non-commercial platform.

    http://skift.com/2013/01/15/interview-wikipedias-travel-site-wikivoyage-launches-today-amidst-big-hopes/
    http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57563426-93/wikimedia-foundation-launches-travel-site-wikivoyage/
    http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/2013/0111/With-Wikivoyage-Wikipedia-makes-foray-into-world-of-travel-guides

‘’Fictional article on Bicholim Conflict makes global headlines’’ early
January

Global media spent time highlighting the story of a high profile
Wikipedia hoax, the long-standing but fictional article about an alleged
Portugal/India war, ‘Bicholim Conflict’
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Bicholim_conflict).
The majority of coverage repeated the details from other mainstream
media stories, with some critical stories attacking the credibility of
Wikipedia and its editor community.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2257482/The-war-Wikipedia-fooled-years-Bicholim-Conflict-article-elaborate-4-500-word-hoax.html
    http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-01-06/social-media/36173194_1_wikipedia-article-clash
    http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/06/an-imaginary-war-a-wikipedia-hoax/

‘’Remembering Aaron Swartz’’ 12 January

The sad news of the passing of Aaron Swartz dominated headlines
throughout the US and around the world through late January. An active
Wikipedian and proud defender of free culture, Aaron’s legacy and impact
on our projects was well known amongst Wikimedians. Media coverage
frequently cited his involvement with the project.

    WMF Blog post:
    https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/12/remembering-aaron-swartz-1986-2013/
    http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/aaron-swartz-a-data-crusader-a-defendant-and-now-a-cause/articleshow/18016317.cms
    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/technology/aaron-swartz-a-data-crusader-and-now-a-cause.html
    http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2020128045_apusswartzprosecution.html


==== Other worthwhile reads ====

Sue Gardner op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, 13 January

“Wikipedia, the people's encyclopedia: If anyone can write and edit
Wikipedia, how do we know it's accurate?”

    http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-gardner-wikipedia-20130113,0,5394695.story

Jimmy Wales, featured guest on Colbert Nation, 7 January
    http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/422660/january-07-2013/jimmy-wales

Mashable’s top ten most interesting Wikipedia stories of the year, 3 January
    http://mashable.com/2013/01/03/most-interesting-wikipedia-stories/


==== WMF Blog posts ====

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/

Forty-five blog posts in January - an active month, with posts
reflecting a high degree of news and announcement activity as well.
Through January 2013 the Communications team and other WMF staff
conducted
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/04/help-us-improve-the-wikimedia-blog-by-taking-this-survey/>
the first-ever WM blog survey. With around 200 respondents we gathered
first-time input from our readers on views and perceptions of the blog.
A final top-line review will be posted later in February, but we're now
aware that roughly 60% of readers are Wikimedia editors, and lots of
readers arrive via the Planet Wikimedia aggregator or other RSS feeds.

Some highlights from the blog in January:

  * *Can beginners write high-quality articles? Czech students prove yes
    again!
    <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/31/wikipedia-education-program-czech-republic/>*
  * *Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum announces first
    Wikipedian in Residence
    <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/22/gerald-r-ford-presidential-library-museum-announces-first-wikipedian-in-residence/>*
  * *Wikimedia Foundation winner of Knight News Challenge
    <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/17/wikimedia-foundation-winner-of-knight-news-challenge/>*
  * *Afripedia project increasing off-line access to Wikipedia in Africa
    <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/24/afripedia-project-increasing-off-line-access-to-wikipedia-in-africa/>*


==== Media Contact ====

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room/Media_Contact#January_2013


==== Wikipedia Signpost ====

For lots of detailed coverage and news summaries, see the
community-edited newsletter “Wikipedia Signpost” for January 2013:

  * Volume 9, Issue 1, 7 January 2013
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2013-01-07>
  * Volume 9, Issue 2, 14 January 2013
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2013-01-14>
  * Volume 9, Issue 3, 12 January 2013
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2013-01-21>
  * Volume 9, Issue 4, 28 January 2013
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2013-01-28>


== Visitors and Guests ==

Visitors and guests to the WMF office in January 2013:

 1. Anya Shyrokova (consultant)
 2. Cindy Hawley (Arthur J. Gallagher)
 3. Brendan Quinla (Arthur J. Gallagher)
 4. Ted Dulittle (Arthur J. Gallagher)
 5. Chad Nitschke (Axis)
 6. Kerri Malek (Axis)
 7. Jim Giles (New Scientist)
 8. Denise Larsen (Concern: EAP)
 9. Ann Wagner (Concern: EAP)
10. James Raffell (unhosted e.V.)
11. Ellie Young (The Ada Initiative)
12. Cindy Hawley (Arthur J Gallagher)
13. Jon Kate (Wikipedia editor)
14. Jake Orlowitz (Wikipedia editor)
15. James Heilman (Wikipedia editor)
16. Lisa Groesz (Taos)
17. Grant Joung (Thoughtworks)
18. Jaspar Weir (TaskUs)
19. Matt Clark (TaskUs)
20. Koen van Praet (Global Collect)
21. Doug Lambert (Global Collect)
22. Patricia Reed (Global Collect)
23. Valerie Aurora (The Ada Initiative)
24. Shane Quivey (Licom EQIX)
25. Berylnn Bell (Blue Shield)
26. Mandy Lee (SITZMANN MORRIS & LAVIS INSURANCE AGENCY)
27. Sam Harnett (NPR Marketplace)
28. Trevor Bolliger (Wikia)
29. Lisa Groesz (Taos)
30. Mark Oppenheim (m|Oppenheim)
31. Dariusz Jemielniak (FDC Member)
32. Ian Blei (Optimized Results)
33. Kathy Ramsey (The Ada Initiative)
34. Myleen Hollero (photographer)
35. Paul Cardoso (Sequioa)
36. Brendan Corriga (JP Morgan)
37. Ryan McNeil (JP Morgan)
38. Charu Gorrepati (JP Morgan)
39. Rebecca Kankei (JP Morgan)
40. Ian Thatcher (N/A)
41. Ting Chen (WMF Board of Trustees member)
42. Kat Walsh (Chair, WMF Board of Trustees)
43. Jan-Bart de Vreede (Vice Chair, WMF Board of Trustees)
44. Bishakha Datta (WMF Board of Trustees Member)
45. Stu West (WMF Board of Trustees Member)
46. Jimmy Wales (WMF Board of Trustees Member)
47. Samuel Klein (WMF Board of Trustees Member)
48. Alice Wiegand (WMF Board of Trustees Member)
49. Patricio Lorente (WMF Board of Trustees Member)
50. Jove Oliver (Minassian Media)
51. Chris Cavanaugh (CCS Consulting Inc.)
52. Roland Navas, Jr. (Travelers Insurance)
53. Matt Fisher (N/A)


-- 
Tilman Bayer
Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications)
Wikimedia Foundation
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