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(American Political Science Association) Teaching and Learning
conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They presented a workshop about
integrating Wikipedia into the classroom and provided outreach and
education at an exhibitor booth. Conference website:
http://www.apsanet.org/content_31632.cfm

=3D=3D GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT =3D=3D

      Global Development Highlights

    * India Catalyst activities in support of the community accelerated
      with the appointment of Hisham Mundol as consultant for India
      Programs (
      http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaannounce-l/2011-Februar=
y/000121.html
      ); Barry traveled to India to introduce Hisham to communities in
      Pune, Mumbai and Bangalore.
    * Progress on several key GD initiatives (see below for details and
      links): Brazil Catalyst draft report, Global Education program,
      Mobile Research and Editor Survey Research
    * Shared draft fundraising agreement with the chapters for
      discussion and made progress with chapters on getting chapter
      agreements in place consistently.

      Chapter Relations and Grants

    * Announced the hiring of Asaf Bartov as Head of Global South
      Relationships (to start in March), along with Moushira Elamrawy as
      contractor supporting Chapter Relations:
      http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaannounce-l/2011-Februar=
y/000113.html
    * Prepared draft of 2011/12 Fundraising agreement with the community
      for comment:
      http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011/Chapters_Agreement
    * WMF and 9 of 12 chapters participating in the 2010/11 fundraiser
      met the deadline to share information about their online revenue
      through January 31:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tracking_Progress_for_2011_chapters_fundrais=
er_and_reporting

No new grants were funded in February.

      Brazil Catalyst

For a full update: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Brazil_Catalyst_Project

    * A draft of the Brazil "Action Plan" was completed with the help of
      about 20 interviews of Brazilian Wikimedians. Based on the
      detailed work led by Carolina Rossini, the general macro-actions
      proposed are:
          o Establish WMF's presence in Brazil and hire a National
            Program Director.
          o Engage in projects that recruit entirely new sets of readers
            and editors such as national events, global events, and
            university partnerships.
          o Establish a new dynamic with the existing community.

      India Programs

    * Barry Newstead traveled to India for a brief trip during which he
      introduced Hisham to the Indian community and chapter, and held
      community meetings in Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore to introduce and
      discuss community activities and expectations.
    * Met with chapter in Bangalore to discuss chapter's way forward and
      its collaboration with the community.
    * Met and conversed with multiple community members, Bishakha Datta,
      and Achal Prabhala to discuss Foundation activities in India.
    * Reviewed existing information on India programs, and prepared a
      draft "India Plan" including objectives, key initiatives, time
      plans, and team structure:
      http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_programs.
    * Initiated discussions with Foundation staff on key initiatives:
      campus outreach, research and communications; all to be taken
      forward and fleshed out in Hisham's upcoming SF visit.

      Mobile Strategy

We finalized the schedule and methodology of conducting research to
understand mobile user experience in India and Brazil.


      Editor Survey 2011

The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a new, comprehensive survey of the
Wikipedia editor community. In February, we:

    * Finalized the questionnaire after several iterations.
    * Hired a vendor for programming and cleaning of the survey.
    * Began work with volunteer translators to get the survey translated
      in several languages.
    * Began work with the engineering team to launch the survey on the
      website.

We should launch the survey in the last week of March or the first week
of April.

      Offline

    * Worked with community members on the best ways to select high
      quality and important articles to create article collections. Tech
      began helping us think about how we can develop tools to assist.
    * Distribution is happening already in several parts of the world.
      For example, enabled by a grant provided by WMF, a group of Kenyan
      Wikimedians began uploading prototype offline versions of offline
      Wikipedia (via DVD & USB sticks) onto computers in schools
      throughout Kenya. Demand is very high here.

      Global University Programs

Frank Schulenburg, Jessie Wild, Rod Dunican and Annie Lin kicked off the
strategy planning process for a Wikimedia Global University Program. A
preliminary version of their strategy paper can be found on the outreach
wiki:

http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_University_Program

This is still in the planning and discussion phase. At this point, the
general recommendations are to

   1. Create a platform for professors from all countries to be able to
      easily incorporate the editing of Wikipedia in the classroom and,
   2. Empower students to form student groups to facilitate outreach and
      editing.


      Communications

/February saw a range of media coverage, mostly following up on the
global activites around Wikipedia 10 and on the presence of a gender gap
within Wikipedia's editor community (see highlights, omitted below). The
Foundation distributed a press release in conjunction with up-time
monitoring service 'WatchMouse' and finalized design and released the
Strategic Plan summary document./

        Major Stories and Coverage through February

    After its January story about the gender gap, the New York Times set
    up a special debate portal and invited scholars on the topic to
    contribute views, and dozens of other outlets followed up on the
    question, e.g..

    * http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/02/02/where-are-the-women-i=
n-wikipedia
    * http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/01/31/133375307/facing-serio=
us-gender-gap-wikipedia-vows-to-add-more-women-contributors
    * http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/8293217/Why-Wikipedia=
s-editors-are-mostly-male.html

*Behind the Scenes at Wikipedia.IN*

    A thoughtful overview of the Wikimedia movement in India and the
    diversity of activities taking place in all corners of the country.
    The story features an interview with Jimmy Wales and focuses on work
    being done to support Indic language projects.

    * http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/PUBLICATIONS/HT/HM/2011/02/13/Articl=
eHtmls/BEHIND-THE-SCENES-AT-WIKIPEDIAIN-13022011018002.shtml?Mode=3D1

*Other worthwhile reads:*

    * http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/our-wiki-wiki-ways-beaut=
iful-in-imperfection/story-e6frg6zo-1226008081388
    * http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/feb/19/interview-jimmy-wal=
es-wikipedia
    * http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikipedias_goal_1_billion_monthl=
y_visitors_by_2015.php

        Major Announcements and Releases in February 2011

*Wikimedia Foundation selects Watchmouse monitoring service* (February
9, 2011):
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/February_2011_Wikimedia_=
selects_Watchmouse_for_monitoring_services

        Major Product Releases in February 2011

*Wikimedia's Strategic Plan Summary*:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Movement_Strategic_Plan_Summa=
ry

        Blog during February 2011

During the month of February, WMF's blog highlighted 8 topics:

    * Wikipedia=92s gender gap
    * WikiProject Medicine urges medical community to edit.
    * Wikimedia selects Watchmouse for global monitoring services.
    * Welcome Wikimedia=92s 30th Global Chapter, Wikimedia Espa=F1a.
    * Wikipedia Contribution Team Plans Events Throughout UK and Beyond.
    * Wikipedia Enters the Sun King=92s Court.
    * Sue Gardner joins Ada Initiative advisory board.
    * Wikimedia presents its five-year strategic plan.

All posts for February can be found at:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/02/.

        Media contact through February, 2011

WMF received 15 media contacts from organizations including BBC World
Service, ABC Australia, Marie Claire, Times of London, Fast Company,
Communications Daily, Read Write Web, NOS Dutch Public Television, The
Guardian (UK), Women in Business, Data Center Dynamics, and Visionary
Productions "On the road in America".

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room/Media_Contact#February_2011

=3D=3D HUMAN RESOURCES =3D=3D

      Staff Changes

*New Hires*

    * Geoffrey Brigham, General Counsel (Legal) =96 FT Permanent
    * Jon Davis, Interim Office IT Manager (Finance) =96 Temp Full Time
    * Tony Le, Controller (Finance) =96 FT Permanent
    * Janice Tud, HR Generalist (HR) =96 FT Permanent

*New Contractors*

    * Hisham Mundol (Global Development)
    * Moushira Elamwray (Global Development)

*Extended Contracts*

    * Michelle Paulson (Legal) =96 Temp Full Time
    * Christine Moellenbrandt, Community Associate (Community) =96 Temp
      Full Time
    * Joshua VanDavier, Development Associate (Community) =96 Temp Full Tim=
e

*New Job Postings*

    * Senior QA Engineer (Tech)
    * Office Assistant, Travel (Finance/Admin)
    * Major Gifts Associate (Community)
    * Grants & Information Officer (Community)

*Contract Ended*

    * Deniz Gultekin, Community Associate
    * Tara Harwood, Head of Office Admin
    * Steven Ma, Community Associate

      Statistics

*Vital Stats:* Total Employee Count

    Plan: 81
    Actual: 63
    Attrition: 3

Remaining Open positions to fiscal year end: 29

*Diversity stats:*

    * 63 Total Employees (includes people considered international
      employees)
    * 42.9% female employees; 6.9% increase from 7/1/10
    * 31.8% ethnic minorities; 5.8% increase from 7/1/10
    * 38.1% foreign nationals; 1.9% increase in U.S. hiring from 7/1/10
    * 42.9% Wikimedians; 0.86% increase from 7/1/10
    * 71.4% have lived abroad; 1.4% increase from 7/1/10

Real-time feed for HR updates:

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

      New Events

The HR Department has been digging into some exciting work since the new
year began. Here's a recap of what we've been working on broken out by
function:

*Recruiting*

We worked on increasing our hiring capacity by adding new recruiting
firms and optimizing and streamlining our recruiting pipeline. We also
worked very closely with hiring managers to collaboratively rethink the
current process and address any challenges we're finding.

*HR Documentation*

The HR department, with the addition of our new generalist Janice Tud,
undertook a documentation project to raise level of awareness regarding
process in hiring and staff development.

*HR Metrics*

HR started tracking diversity stats (see below) to better understand the
make up of our culture. We were excited to see that we are well above
the average for technology companies in several areas.

We also worked on tracking our capactiy to hire. This information is
imperfect, but we are getting closer to understanding our hiring
ability. As we get better data we will talk about it in more detail.

*Staff Development*

Cyn and Daniel attended a seminar at LinkedIn to learn about thier new
recruiting funtionality. While the seminar was fairly cheesy and
targeted at less tech savvy organizations than ourselves, it was a good
learning experience. It may lead to a deeper level of engagement with
LinkedIn to help us find the right people for our organization.

*HRIS (HR Information System)*

The HR team decided on, and began implementation of, a new database to
help track and manage personnel information. The software is called
OrangeHRM and is an open source project:

http://www.orangehrm.com/

The implementation team at OrangeHRM has been great, and we will be
ready to launch in March. This will go a long way towards
professionalizing our department and providing us with accurate data.

=3D=3D FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION =3D=3D

      Finance

    * Mid-year financials were published on the Foundation website at
      http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Financial_reports.
    * Started planning for the development of the 2011-12 annual
      financial plan.
    * Built rough forecast of revenue and spending for end of 2010-11
      fiscal year; expect to be approximately 5 to 10% underspent at
      year-end.
    * Continued to work with Marcin to warp up Wikimania Gdansk
      reporting, funds collections and invoice payment.

      Administration

    * Departments received individual purchasing cards, which will make
      the coding and reporting of expenses paid by credit card more
      efficient.
    * Began searches for interim Head of Office Administration,
      permanent Travel Assistant and Help Desk associate.

=3D=3D LEGAL =3D=3D

    * Geoff began his orientation, starting to learn the ropes at the
      Foundation and within the community, and beginning the development
      of legal strategy and 2011-12 plan inputs.
    * Geoff continues to be supported by Michelle Paulson, associate
      counsel, who has maintained the legal office since last October.
    * Sue and Geoff met with the staff of the Electronic Frontier
      Foundation for pizza & discussion.

=3D=3D VISITORS AND GUESTS =3D=3D

   1. Manish Shah (Intuit - txtweb.com demo)
   2. Manish Maheshwari (Intuit - txtweb.com demo)
   3. Yohei Murakami (Language Grid Project)
   4. Sonia Eunhai Kim Felix (South Korea) (PPI consuls wives and
      honorary consul group)
   5. Florence de Noray (France) (PPI consuls wives and honorary consul
      group)
   6. Luisa Scapolla (Italien) (PPI consuls wives and honorary consul group=
)
   7. Satsuki Kawada (Singapore) (PPI consuls wives and honorary consul
      group)
   8. Gayle Evans (Great Britain) (PPI consuls wives and honorary consul
      group)
   9. Clelia Piragibe (Brazil) (PPI consuls wives and honorary consul group=
)
  10. Eva Voisin (Honorary Consul Hungary) (PPI consuls wives and
      honorary consul group)
  11. Liliane Koziol (Honorary Consul Madagaskar) (PPI consuls wives and
      honorary consul group)
  12. Eny Arguelles (MD, USA) (PPI consuls wives and honorary consul group)
  13. Mary Staunton (Ireland) (PPI consuls wives and honorary consul group)
  14. Josette Osgood (Honorary Consul C=F4te d=92Ivoire) (PPI consuls wives
      and honorary consul group)
  15. Huguette Wildschutz (Luxembourg) (PPI consuls wives and honorary
      consul group)
  16. Brigitte Brockmann (Germany) (PPI consuls wives and honorary
      consul group)
  17. Martha Hertelendy (USA) (PPI consuls wives and honorary consul group)
  18. Kathleen Kimura (Great Britain) (PPI consuls wives and honorary
      consul group)
  19. Gerlind Rothen (Germany) (PPI consuls wives and honorary consul group=
)
  20. Latoya Peterson (Community Member - WikiHistories project)
  21. Gina Glantz (Consultant)
  22. Erik Swan (Splunk)
  23. Ward Cunningham (CTO CitizenGlobal)
  24. Jerome Gary (Producer/Director) and 15 person crew
      (arabic-speaking world 'On the road in America)
  25. Valerie Aurora (Ada Initiative)
  26. Cheol Ryul and Colleague (Korean Wikimedian)
  27. Derrick Coetzee(Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors)


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Erik M=F6ller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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