Wikimedias höjdpunkter i augusti 2012
Höjdpunkter från Wikimedia Foundations rapport och Wikimedias ingenjörsrapport för augusti 2013, med ett urval av andra viktiga händelser inom Wikimediarörelsen
Wikimedia Foundations höjdpunkter
Wikimedias personal rapporterar från deras arbete på Wikimania
From August 7 to August 11, Wikimedians from around the world came together in Hong Kong for this year's annual Wikimania conference, organized by Wikimedia Hong Kong in partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Switzerland (see also this month's movement highlights). The keynote of Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner was titled "The Year in Review and the Year Ahead" (slides, video), and the schedule included many other presentations by WMF staff and contractors:
- Steven Walling, Siebrand Mazeland, Diederik van Liere, Maryana Pinchuk, Howie Fung, Fabrice Florin, James Forrester (med Denny Vrandečić): "Vad är en produktchef, och varför behöver Wikimedia dem?" (abstract, slides)
- Philippe Beaudette: "Att arbeta tillsammans, men var för sig: en samling av funktionärer" (workshop; abstract)
- Arthur Richards; Siebrand Mazeland; James Forrester; Diederik van Liere: "Hacking our teams: Flexible ‘agile’ development at the WMF" (panel; abstract, slides)
- Tilman Bayer: "Skribentundersökningar: Tar pulsen på gemenskapen" (abstract, slides)
- Siebrand Mazeland och andra: "Fråga utvecklarna" (abstract)
- Santhosh Thottingal, Niklas Laxström: "MediaWiki i18n getting data-driven and world-reusable" (abstract, slides)
- Niklas Laxström, Amir Aharoni: "Ett flerspråkigt Wikimedia Commons - Vad kan vi göra för det?" (abstract)
- Sumana Harihareswara, Guillaume Paumier, Quim Gil, Andre Klapper: "Öppenhet och samarbete i Wikimedia-teknik" (abstract, notes)
- Dario Taraborelli (lämnats in tillsammans med Ryan Faulkner): "The UserMetrics API: Measuring participation in Wikimedia projects" (abstract, slides)
- James Forrester, Roan Kattouw, Ed Sanders, Timo Tijhof (med Inez Korczyński): "VisualEditor: Nutiden och framtiden för redigeringar av wikis" (abstract, slides, extended slides, video)
- Siko Bouterse, Heather Walls (med Jake Orlowitz): "Fun user experience is SRS BZNSS, and so can you" (abstract, slides)
- Katy Love, Anasuya Sengupta (med FDC-medlemmar): "Ingen vet, men alla bryr sig: Hur man lämnar in en fantastisk ansökan till Funds Dissemination Committee" (panel och rundabordssamtal; abstract)
- Asaf Bartov: "WMF:s nya strategi för globala syd" (abstract, slides)
- Diederik van Liere, Dario Taraborelli: "Datafying Wikimedia: Data products and services to empower our communities" (abstract)
- Brandon Harris: "Flow: Framtidens samarbete" (abstract, slides)
- Maryana Pinchuk: "Roundtable on Messaging and Discussions" (abstract, slides)
- Jessie Wild (med Martin Rulsch): "stipendier för Wikimania" (diskussion; abstract)
- Geoff Brigham, med WMF:s juridiska team: "Discussing Our Legal Strategy Going Forward: A Talk with the WMF General Counsel" (abstract)
- Luis Villa, Stephen LaPorte: "Licensing Trends in Open Culture, Open Data, and Open Source" (abstract, slides)
- Pau Giner: "Improving the user experience of language tools" (abstract, slides)
- James Forrester: "Förbättra verktygen för administratörer" - workshop (abstract)
- Matthew Roth, Victor Grigas, Tilman Bayer (with Eddie Erhart): "Historieberättande om Wikimedia: hur vi visar rörelsen för världen" (panel; abstract)
- Steven Walling och andra från E3-teamet: "Glöm instruktionsmaterial, vara djärv! Hur ett särdrag har lockat tusentals nya redaktörer" (abstract, slides)
- Fabrice Florin: "Notifications: A new editor engagement tool" (abstract, slides)
- Ryan Kaldari, Benny Situ: "How to enhance your MediaWiki extensions with Echo notifications" (abstract)
- Marc-André Pelletier: "Presentation av Tool Labs" (abstract)
- Erik Moeller: "Ghosts of Wikis Yet to Come: Three Stories of Wikimedia's Future" (abstract)
- Jon Robson, Maryana Pinchuk: "Wikipedia Mobile - The Trojan Horse. Why MediaWiki has a separate mobile site" (abstract)
- Fabrice Florin: "Engaging users on Wikipedia" (abstract, slides)
- Matthew Flaschen and the E3 team: "Make your user experience easy to learn: a guided tour" (abstract, slides)
- Andre Klapper: "Improving MediaWiki quality: How everybody can help with bug report triaging" (abstract, slides)
- Fabrice Florin: "Article Feedback: New forms of collaboration between readers and editors" (abstract, slides)
- LiAnna Davis (med Mohammed Ouda och Aya Mahfouz): "Tillväxt på arabiska Wikipedia genom Wikipedias utbildningsprogram" (abstract, slides)
- Howie Fung: "En titt in i nästa år: WMF:s produktionsfärdplan" (abstract)
Pre-conference:
- Various WMF Engineering staff took part in the Wikimania DevCamp (hacking days)
- Rod Dunican, LiAnna Davis, Sophie Österberg, Frank Schulenburg: Various sessions at the Education Program Pre-Conference
- Siko Bouterse, Heather Walls: "IdeaLab Brainstorm" (workshop; abstract)
- Fabrice Florin, Rob Lanphier, Erik Moeller, Ryan Kaldari (med Andrew Lih): "Rundabordssamtal om multimedia" (abstract, slides)
Beyond these, Wikimedia Foundation staff and contractors also participated in various other panels and workshops, and gave lightning talks.
Wikipedias utbildningsprogram i Arabvärlden fullbordar sin tredje termin
The third term of the Wikipedia Education Program in the Arab World ended with strong results. The program began with a small pilot project at two universities in Egypt in spring 2012. It has now turned into a force on the Arabic Wikipedia, with students participating in the program in three countries, adding content to Wikipedia as part of their university coursework. Last term, students in Egypt, Algeria, and Jordan contributed 12.79 million bytes of content to the Arabic Wikipedia. That’s more than double the 5.97 million bytes of the fall 2012 term.
HTTPS by default for logged-in users
Following concerns over the privacy and security of Wikimedia users due to recent revelations about surveillance on the Internet, on August 28 the Foundation made changes so that now all logged-in users are, by default, accessing Wikimedia sites over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection. Users can turn this off in their preferences. More information can be found on Meta-wiki, in various languages.
Data and Trends
Unika besökare i juni:
- 492 miljoner (-1,50% jämför med juni; +8,92% jämfört med föregående år)
- (comScore statistik för alla Wikimedia Foundations projekt; comScore kommer att publicera statistik för augusti senare i september)
Page requests for August:
- 23.91 billion (+12.29% compared with July; +31.47% compared with the previous year)
- (Server log data, all Wikimedia Foundation projects including mobile access, Wikidata and the Wikipedia portal page)
Active Registered Editors for July 2013 (>= 5 mainspace edits/month, excluding bots):
- data currently under review
- (Database data, all Wikimedia Foundation projects.)
Report Card (integrating various statistical data and trends about WMF projects):
Ekonomi
(Finansiell information finns bara fram till och med juli 2013, vid tiden för denna rapport.)
All financial information presented is for the Month-To-Date and Year-To-Date July 31, 2013.
Intäkter | $3 246 242 |
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Utgifter: | |
Ingenjörsgruppen | $1 206 978 |
Insamlingsgruppen | $276 719 |
Grantmaking & Programs Group | $233 032 |
Beviljade bidrag | $151 787 |
Ledningsgrupp | $50 035 |
Juridiska/Gemenskapsfrämjande/Kommunikationsgruppen | $262 471 |
Ekonomi/HR/IT/Administrationsgrupp | $541 604 |
Totala kostnader | $2 722 626 |
Totalt överskott | $523 616 |
- Omsättningen för månaden och året hittills i juli är $3 24 miljoner jämfört med det $1 miljon enligt planen, cirka $2,24 miljoner eller 223% över planen.
- Kostnaderna för månaden och året har hittills, i juli, varit $2,72 miljoner jämfört med planen som var $3,43 miljoner, cirka $706 000 eller 21% under planen. Detta beror främst på lägre personalkostnader, investeringar, internetkostnader, advokatarvoden, kostnader för bidragsansökningar och resekostnader. Detta motverkades delvis av högre avgifter för betalningshantering vilket kom sig av större inkomster från insamlingarna.
- Mängden kontanter är $39,78 miljoner den 31 juli 2013.
Andra höjdpunkter i rörelsen
Wikimania
In August, around one thousand attendees from more than 80 countries came to Hong Kong for Wikimania 2013. The main event from August 9-11 was preceded by a DevCamp (hacking days), a one-day conference about the Wikipedia Education Program, and various other meetups, as well as the related research conference WikiSym/OpenSym.
The main schedule contained around 120 sessions (see also the Foundation highlights). Jimmy Wales gave his traditional "State of the Wiki" speech (video). In another plenary session, the Board of Trustees answered questions by Wikimedians. At the Board's meeting before Wikimania, Jan-Bart de Vreede was elected as the new chair of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Wikimedians and pilots cooperate to photograph Israel from the air
WikiAir (Hebrew: ויקיאוויר, VikiAvir) is a cooperation between Wikimedia Israel and the Israeli Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), where civil pilots volunteer to take Wikipedians on their routine flights so they can take photos from the air and later on upload them to Wikimedia Commons. At Wikimania, the audience voted it the coolest and most unique Wikimedia chapter project of the year.