Wikimedia monthly activities meetings/2012-12

November 2012

Wikimedia Foundation monthly Metrics & Activities Meeting, December 2012

January 2013

• When: December 6, 2012 starting at 7 PM UTC (11 AM pacific time)
• Where:
  • Physical location: 6th floor of the Wikimedia Foundation office in San Francisco.
  • IRC participation: #wikimedia-office^connect
  • YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB5m5AHoGno

Agenda

Most updates should be done in lightning talk form, typically 3 minutes + 2 minutes for Q/A

• General
  • Metrics highlights - Erik - 5m
  • New hire announcements - Gayle - 2m
• Special updates
  • Wikivoyage update - Erik - 3m
• Engineering
  • VisualEditor and Parsoid update - James and Gabriel - 10m (since a major release will occur in December) - Slides on Google Docs
  • Mobile update - New experimental features in Beta: editing and photo uploader demo - Jon & Maryana - 10m - Slides on GDocs
  • Analytics (lightning Kraken demo) - Andrew Otto (remote) / Evan Rosen - 3 minutes
• Grant-making and Programs
  • FDC update (end of Round 1) - Anasuya and Winifred - 10m: Slides on Google Docs
  • Flow funding as an experiment in grantmaking - Asaf - 5m
• Fundraising
  • Quick update from Katie & Zack -- 5m
• Legal, Community Advocacy, and Communications
• HR
  • Employee Engagement Survey Results - (Begins at about 0:59 and ends at about 1:13; budgeted at 10 minutes)
• Executive

Notes/links

For the live note stream see the IRC log -- lots of links, discussion, and some live transcription.

• http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/ - 488 million unique visitors
• @wikimediaatwork on identi.ca for new job openings and for new hires
• WikiVoyage
  • the old site
  • New: en.wikivoyage.org !!
  • wikivoyage.org portal page with more languages
  • mobile site has gone live! en.m.wikivoyage.org, de.m.wikivoyage.org
  • Logo contest
  • commons categories: Files from Wikivoyage Shared,, Files from Wikivoyage WTS (WTS is Wikitravel projects)
  • We have stats! tables: http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikivoyage/EN/Sitemap.htm etc. charts:http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikivoyage/EN/ReportCardTopWikis.htm
• VisualEditor and Parsoid: mw:VisualEditor and mw:Parsoid
  • https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Software_deployments#Ongoing useful - this is the deployment planning.
  • Request VE on your wiki: Requesting wiki configuration changes
• Mobile
  • opt into mobile beta: look at Settings when you go to m. sites like m.de.wikipedia.org on your mobile device to opt into beta features
  • File:Lead Photo For User-Thehelpfulone-phototest0-0009688765276223421.jpg
  • en:User:Thehelpfulone/phototest
  • tag: [Via Mobile], http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&tagfilter=mobile+edit
• mw:Analytics - mail:analytics and IRC channel #wikimedia-analytics^connect
  • Wikipedia Zero: https://blog.wikimedia.org/tag/wikipedia-zero/
  • http://global-dev.wmflabs.org/graphs/monthly_metrics_demo and http://global-dev.wmflabs.org/graphs/brazil_daily_requests
• Fundraising and Funds Dissemination
  • FDC Presentation for Metrics Meeting
  • Signpost summary of dissemination
• Employee engagement survey from Gayle Karen Young
• Sue Gardner talks about WMF restructuring (announcement on wikimedia-l mailing list)