Sorotan Wikimedia, April 2014
Sorotan dari Laporan Yayasan Wikimedia dan laporan kejuruteraan Wikimedia untuk April 2014, dengan pemilihan beberapa peristiwa daripada gerakan Wikimedia yang penting.
Sorotan Yayasan Wikimedia
Makmal Wikimedia telah dipindah ke pusat data baru
Platform Wikimedia Labs (Makmal Wikimedia) membolehkan para sukarelawan meletakkan peralatan perisisan untuk membantu kerja-kerja komuniti, dan juga untuk melibatkan diri dalam operasi-operasi teknikal terhadap pelayan-pelayan Wikimedia. Sebagai sebahagian daripada usaha berterusan Yayasan buat mengurangkan kebergantungan pada pusat data lama di Tampa, Florida (AS), Makmal-makmal dipindahkan ke pusat data baru di Ashburn, Virginia dalam bulan April, dan melengkapkan usaha berbulan-bulan yang dilakukan staf WMF dan sukarelawan yang melaksanakan projek-projek Makmal. Antara kelebihan usaha ini adalah pemindahan kepada sistem fail baharu (NFS) yang lebih andal daripada sistem Makmal di pusat data lama (GlusterFS, yang menyebabkan kebanyakan kegagalan Makmal dan masa rosak dalam bulan-bulan kebelakangan). Juga, di pusat data baharu, banyak projek Makmal sekarang menggunakan proksi sesawang dalaman, yang menyediakan beberapa kelebihan termasuk pencapaian HTTPS dan peningkatan privasi data pengguna. Penutupan Toolserver, pelopor bahagian "Tool Labs" (Makmal Perkakas) Makmal-Makmal Wikimedia, dirancangkan pada 30 Jun.
MediaPemapar baru mula dikeluarkan di laman Wikimedia
The Foundation's multimedia team released Media Viewer v0.2 on 14 pilot sites in April, in preparation for a wider deployment in May. The overall response was favorable, and a growing majority of survey respondents was finding this new multimedia browser useful. The team also developed a set of metrics dashboards to track how often MediaViewer and its various features are used, and how fast it performs over the Internet, as well as local metrics dashboards for selected sites: first results showed a decline in image load time, and suggest that Media Viewer loads faster than the old file description pages.
Pengarah Eksekutif dan Ketua Pegawai Komunikasi Baru
In April, preparations took place to welcome the Foundation's incoming executive director Lila Tretikov, who was announced on May 1. She will succeed Sue Gardner on June 1, who will move into a new role as special adviser. Lila Tretikov was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States as a teenager. She has been working for technology companies, primarily in open source, in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past 15 years, most recently at SugarCRM.
Juga pada April, Katherine Maher telah diumumkan sebagai Ketua Pegawai Komunikasi Yayasan yang baru.
Data dan Trend
Pelawat global unik unik bulan Mac: 495 juta (+4.44% berbanding bulan Februari; -4.33% berbanding dengan tahun sebelumnya)
- (data comScore untuk semua projek Yayasan Wikimedia; comScore akan mengeluarkan data untuk bulan April lewat Mei)
Permintaan halaman untuk April:
- 20.697 bilion (-1.6% berbanding Mac; -0.6% berbanding tahun sebelumnya)
- (data log Pelayan, semua projek kandungan Wikimedia Foundation termasuk pencapaian mobil, tetapi tidak termasuk Wikidata dan halaman utama portal Wikipedia.)
Penyunting Berdaftar Aktif buat bulan Mac 2014 (>= 5 suntingan ruang utama/sebulan, tidak termasuk bot):
- 79,352 (+4.59% berbanding dengan Februari / -2.84% berbanding tahun sebelumnya)
- (data Database, semua projek Yayasan Wikimedia.)
Kad Laporan (kamiran pelbagai data statistik dan trend tentang projek-projek WMF):
- //reportcard.wmflabs.org/
(Definisi)
Kewangan
(Maklumat kewangan hanya tersedia bagi Mac 2014 pada waktu laporan ini.)
Semua maklumat kewangan adalah untuk bulan mutakhir (Month-To-Date) dan tahun mutakhir (Year-To-Date) 31 Mac 2014.
Pendapatan | 40,957,259 |
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Perbelanjaan: | |
Kumpulan Kejuruteraan | 12,358,813 |
Kumpulan Pengumpul Dana | 2,989,855 |
Kumpulan Pembuat Geran | 1,198,163 |
Kumpulan Program | 1,358,725 |
Geran | 3,961,161 |
Kumpulan Pentadbir | 582,854 |
Kumpulan Perundangan/Komuniti/Anjran/Komunikasi | 2,831,941 |
Kumpulan Kewangan/Sumber Manusia/Pentadbiran | 5,034,754 |
Perbelanjaan Penuh | 30,316,266 |
Lebihan keseluruhan | (10,640,993) |
Dalam dolar AS |
- Revenue for the month of March is $1.71MM versus plan of $0.01MM, approximately $1.70MM or 29,215% over plan.
- Year-to-date revenue is $40.96MM versus plan of $45.05MM, approximately $4.09MM or 9% under plan.
- Expenses for the month of March is $3.22MM versus plan of $4.57MM, approximately $1.35MM or 30% under plan, primarily due to lower personnel expenses, internet hosting, FDC grants, payment processing fees, and travel expenses partially offset by higher legal fees and outside contract services.
- Year-to-date expenses is $30.32MM versus plan of $36.37MM, approximately $6.05MM or 17% under plan, primarily due to lower personnel expenses, capital expenses, internet hosting, legal fees, payment processing fees, staff development expenses, grants and travel expenses partially offset by higher outside contract services.
- Cash and Investments - $50.69MM as of March 31, 2014.
Perkara-perkara yang menyerlah daripada pergerakan Wikimedia
Mesyuarat Tahunan Wikimedia (Annual Wikimedia Conference) begabung dengan organisasi-organisasi Wikimedia di Berlin
From April 10-13, representatives of Wikimedia chapters, the Wikimedia Foundation and other organizations and committees from the Wikimedia movement attended Wikimedia Conference 2014 in Berlin, hosted by the German chapter. In previous years, many presentations covered program activities by chapters, but this year's conference focused more on organisational issues and the future of the Wikimedia movement in general. Examples from the schedule:
- Wikimedia Germany presented the results of its Chapters Dialogue project, which assessed the needs, goals and stories of Wikimedia chapters. Representatives from all chapters had been interviewed for the project, alongside other actors.
- Several other sessions and workshops at the conference discussed how to evaluate the success of program activities in the movement.
Ahli Wikimedia memperingati Adrianne Wadewitz dan Cynthia Ashley-Nelson
Pergerakan Wikimedia meratapi kematian mengejut dua orang ahli Wikipedia wanita yang unggul dalam bulan April
Adrianne Wadewitz (User:Wadewitz) mula menyunting Wikipedia dalam tahun 2004, mencapai lebih daripada 50,000 suntingan. Beliau dikenali sebagai seorang sarjana yang menganjurkan penggunaan Wikipedia dalam pendidikan dan mempelopori pendekatan yang membenarkan para penuntut menyumbang kepada Wikipedia sebagai sebahagian daripada kursus mereka (kini Program Pendidikan Wikipedia). Usaha beliau untuk menangani ruang gender mendapatkan beliau penghargaan meluas.
Cynthia Ashley-Nelson (User:Cindamuse) mula menyunting Wikipedia dalam tahun 2007, mencapai lebih daripada 33,000 edits. Beliau terlibat dalam Pasukan Respons Sukarelawan (OTRS) dan menjadi moderator dalam senarai mel ruang gender. Beliau meninggal dunia semasa Mesyuarat Wikimedia berlangsung di Berlin di mana beliau baharu sahaja diundi sebagai timbalan pengerusi Jawatankuasa Afiliasi.
Wiki Education Foundation receives $1.39 million grant
The Wiki Education Foundation was initiated in 2013 as a spin-off of the Wikimedia Foundation, assuming responsibility for supporting the Wikipedia Education Program in the United States and Canada, formerly run by the Wikimedia Foundation. The program, in which students write Wikipedia articles in place of traditional term papers, created the equivalent of more than 7,000 printed pages of new, high-quality content during the fall term of 2013 and the equivalent of more than 36,000 printed pages of content since its start in 2010.
On April 14, the Wiki Education Foundation announced that it had received a $1.39 million grant from the Stanton Foundation. The grant covers the first year of a three-year funding period, and supports improvements in the education program in the US and Canada, as well as additional programs to improve underdeveloped content areas on Wikipedia.