Wikimedia monthly activities meetings/Quarterly reviews/Communications and Advancement, July 2016
Notes from the Quarterly Review meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation's Communications and Advancement departments, July 15, 1:30 - 2:30 PM PT.
Please keep in mind that these minutes are mostly a rough paraphrase of what was said at the meeting, rather than a source of authoritative information. Consider referring to the presentation slides, blog posts, press releases and other official material
Present (in the office): Katherine Maher, Samantha Lien, Zachary McCune, Heather Walls, Michelle Paulson, Jeff Elder, Sheree Chang
participating remotely: David Stine, Ed Erhart, Gregory Varnum, Joady Lohr, Katie Horn, Maggie Dennis, Megan Hernandez, Victor Grigas, Wes Moran
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- Sam: Numbers reflect inquires from media
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- Heather: Work has resumed on work previously put on hold
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- Wes: Coordinating New Readers data with metrics?
- Zack: High level findings will be shared with metrics - also thinking about brownbag to talk about findings with community - and talking about sharing findings in India
- Heather: We are still talking about presentations
- Zack: High level findings will be shared with metrics - also thinking about brownbag to talk about findings with community - and talking about sharing findings in India
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- Katherine: What is future for brand party?
- Zack: Looking at regular meetings with contacts made - groups is growing - and trust is being built
- Heather: Efforts reenforced how we operate - still looking into long-term usage of party itself
- Wes: Design team feeling motivated following brand party - tangible outcomes may come from conversations about collaborations and tools
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- Michelle: Have we seen impact?
- Zack: We have seen increase press coverage, activity by the group, and improved internal communications
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- Megan: Will be doing communty feedback group following staff group success
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- Megan: First test did not show much impact, will need to run more
- Wes: Is more testing planned?
- Megan: Yes
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- LATAM = Latin America
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- Katherine: What encouraged them to make this change?
- Sheree: Part of ongoing conversation about easy changes they can make - going to talk about adding additional links - like "Edit"
- Wes: Talking more with some specific teams in Google - having good outcomes already
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- Sheree: Apple reached out to us about inclusion in iOS10 with ideas that happened to match our roadmap already
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- Katherine: How are you measuring goals 5 and 6?
- Sheree: With India - working with program eval to make that a program - working on what to assess and assessing it; with wifi - still figuring that out - soft launched - not measuring yet - tools not yet in place - working to identify which to make based on lessons from soft launch
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- Sheree: Looking to do more about Zero and clarify its impact - want to find out if we are moving our goals outside of the outside factors - will need to have collaboration across organization - looking at quick surveys to reach zero users
- Wes: Some of our capacity in data analytics could help with this conversation
- Michelle: Without data - how are you identifying countries?
- Sheree: Working on surveys based on local interest and other Foundation efforts (such as New Readers project)