[Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Report, August 2011

[Tilman Bayer]

Please find below the WMF report for August, in plain text.

As always, the editable and formatted version is on Meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_August_2011

Starting this month, the reports are posted on the Wikimedia blog, too:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/corporate/wmf-monthly-reports/

Regards, Tilman

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  * 1 Data and Trends
  * 2 Financials
  * 3 Highlights
      o 3.1 Wikimania
      o 3.2 Summer of Research wraps up
  * 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 Public Policy Initiative
      o 6.4 Fellowship program
  * 7 Global Development
      o 7.1 Department Highlights
      o 7.2 Grants Awarded and Executed
      o 7.3 Chapter Relations
      o 7.4 Global South
      o 7.5 Brazil Catalyst
      o 7.6 Mobile Strategy and Business Development
      o 7.7 Editor Survey
      o 7.8 Readers Survey
      o 7.9 Mobile Research
      o 7.10 Offline
      o 7.11 Global Education Program
          + 7.11.1 Student organizations
      o 7.12 India Programs
      o 7.13 Communications
          + 7.13.1 Major announcements
          + 7.13.2 Global Communications
          + 7.13.3 Storylines through August
          + 7.13.4 Global media coverage
          + 7.13.5 Other worthwhile reads
          + 7.13.6 Wikipedia Signpost
          + 7.13.7 WMF Blog posts
          + 7.13.8 Media Contact
  * 8 Human Resources
      o 8.1 Staff Changes
      o 8.2 Statistics
      o 8.3 Department Updates
  * 9 Finance and Administration
  * 10 Legal
  * 11 Visitors and Guests

== Data and Trends ==

    Global unique visitors for July:
    393 million (-1.5% compared to June; +9.2% compared to previous year)
    (comScore data for all Wikimedia Foundation projects; comScore will
    release August data later in September)

    Page requests for August:
    14.2 billion (+1.0% compared to July; +3.1% compared to previous year)

    Report Card for July 2011: The Report Card is undergoing a redesign
    as a more fully-featured dashboard. Current prototype can be found
    at: http://project2.wikimedia.org/reportCard/reportcardModules.html


== Financials ==

(Financial information is only available for July 2011 at the time of
this report.)

Financial information as of July 1, 2011

Revenue: $1,204,031

Expenses:

  * Technology Group: $731,415
  * Community/Fundraiser Group: $250,872
  * Global Development Group: $146,003
  * Governance Group: $64,873
  * Finance/Legal/HR/Admin. Group: $484,462

Total Expenses: $1,677,625

Total surplus/(loss): ($473,594)

Revenue was on plan at $1.2M, including $1M from the second Sloan
Foundation grant.

Expenses were below plan at $1.7M actual vs. $2.2M plan.

Cash of $17.1M, which is seven month of cash reserves at current
spending levels.


== Highlights ==

=== Wikimania ==

<Image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2011_-_Group_Picture_(2).jpg
Group photo at Wikimania 2011, Haifa, Israel>