[Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Report, November 2011

[Tilman Bayer]

Hi all,

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

As always, the editable and formatted version is on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_November_2011

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


We are now 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,_November_2011

Many thanks to those who translated last month's "Highlights" into
Vietnamese, Dutch, Japanese, Italian‎, French, Finnish, Spanish,
German, Danish, Russian and Simplified Chinese!

While continuing to focus on WMF activities, the "Highlights" now
include a small selection of the most noteworthy events from the whole
movement. Suggestions for the upcoming December issue are welcome at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights (until the first
week of January).

Regards, Tilman


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  Wikimedia Foundation Report, November 2011

  * 1 Data and Trends
  * 2 Financials
  * 3 Highlights
      o 3.1 WikiConference and Hackathon in Mumbai, India
      o 3.2 A new tool for helping new editors
      o 3.3 Fundraiser
      o 3.4 Sue Gardner visits European Wikimedia chapters
  * 4 Technology
      o 4.1 Operations
      o 4.2 Features Engineering
      o 4.3 Mobile
      o 4.4 Special projects
      o 4.5 Platform engineering
  * 5 Research
  * 6 Community
      o 6.1 Projects
      o 6.2 Fundraiser
      o 6.3 Fellowship Program
  * 7 Global Development
      o 7.1 Grants Awarded and Executed
      o 7.2 East Asia Visit
      o 7.3 Brazil Catalyst
          + 7.3.1 Research on Portuguese Wikipedia
          + 7.3.2 Hiring National Program Director
      o 7.4 Arabic Catalyst
      o 7.5 Wikimania Scholarships
      o 7.6 Mobile and Business Development
      o 7.7 Offline Wikipedia
      o 7.8 Global development research
      o 7.9 Wikipedia Education Program
      o 7.10 India Programs
          + 7.10.1 Global Education Program
      o 7.11 Communications
          + 7.11.1 Major announcements
          + 7.11.2 Major Storylines through August
          + 7.11.3 Other worthwhile reads
          + 7.11.4 Wikipedia Signpost
          + 7.11.5 WMF Blog posts
          + 7.11.6 Media Contact
  * 8 Human Resources
  * 9 Finance and Administration
  * 10 Legal
  * 11 Visitors and Guests


== Data and Trends ==

Global unique visitors for October:

    477 million (+4.9% compared with September; +16.7% compared with the
    previous year)
    (comScore data for all Wikimedia Foundation projects; comScore will
    release November data later in December)

Page requests for November:

    16.8 billion (-0.1% compared with October; +12.3% compared with the
    previous year)
    (Server log data, all Wikimedia Foundation projects including mobile
    access)

Active Registered Editors for October 2011 (>= 5 edits/month):

    84,426 (+1.4% compared with September / +0.8% compared with the
    previous year)
    (Database data, all Wikimedia Foundation projects except for
    Wikimedia Commons)

Report Card for October 2011: http://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/

    The report card is currently undergoing a redesign as a more
    fully-featured dashboard (integrating various statistical data and
    trends about WMF projects).


== Financials ==

(Financial information is only available for October 2011 at the time of
this report. All financial information presented is for the period of
July 1, 2011 - October 31, 2011)

Revenue: $4,253,486

Expenses:

  * Technology Group: $3,021,534
  * Community/Fundraiser Group: $1,066,080
  * Global Development Group: $1,116,890
  * Governance Group: $336,150
  * Finance/Legal/HR/Admin Group: $1,989,659

Total Expenses: $7,530,312

Total surplus/(loss): ($3,276,826)

Revenue was ahead of plan due to grants of $2.8 million and additional
donations ahead of plan of $385,254.

Expenses were below plan at $7.5 million actual versus $9.1 million
plan. Expenses were below planned due to lower than planned expenditures
in capital expenditures, chapter grants, recruitment cost and other
activities due.

Cash of $14.9 million, which is six months of cash reserves at current
spending levels.


== Highlights ==

=== WikiConference and Hackathon in Mumbai, India ===
<Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hackathon_Mumbai_2011_Groupshot.jpg
Participants of the Mumbai Hackathon/>