Wikimedia-Höhepunkte November 2011
Höhepunkte des Berichts der Wikimedia Foundation und des technischen Berichts für den November 2011, mit einer Auswahl anderer wichtiger Ereignisse des Wikimediabewegung.
Höhepunkte bei der Wikimedia Foundation
WikiKonferenz und Hackathon in Mumbai (Indien)
Wikimediamitarbeiter und Freiwillige sind am 19. und 20. November in Mumbai zum Indien-Hackathon 2011 zusammengekommen, um sich mit mobilem Zugang, Lokalisierung und physikalischer Verbreitung zu beschäftigen. Der Hackathon wurde zeitgleich mit der WikiKonferenz Indien 2011 abgehalten, die von Wikimedia Indien organisiert wurde. Die WikiKonferenz hatte beinahe 700 Teilnehmer, was sie zu einem der größten Wikimediaereignisse bislang macht, aber mit Sicherheit zum bislang größten in Indien. Mehr als 50 Veranstaltungen boten Einsichten in das Bilden von Gemeinschaften, das Steigern von Qualität, die Errichtung von Partnerschaften, die Erfahrungen bei der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und Möglichkeiten für das allgemeine Teilen von Erfahrungen.
Ein neues Hilfsmittel, um neuen Autoren zu helfen
Seit August werden neue Benutzer in der englischsprachigen Wikipedia über eine experimentelle Moodbar-Funktion dazu eingeladen, ein Feedback ihrer Editiererfahrungen in Form eines 140-Zeichen-Kommentars zu geben. Alle diese Kommentare werden als Public Feed auf dem Feedback-Dashboard veröffentlicht. Im November wurde eine neue Funktionalität hinzugefügt: Erfahrene Benutzer können einfach auf diese Kommentare reagieren, ohne das Dashboard verlassen zu müssen. Wikimedia Foundation Community Organizers Steven Walling und Maryana Pinchuk haben ein Response Team aus erfahrenen Benutzern gestartet, die bereit sind Neulingen auf diese Weise zu helfen.
We're continuing to improve this system and assess its impact; specifically, whether new users read the messages they receive, and whether editing activity increases as a result of active coaching.
Fundraiser
The annual Wikimedia fundraiser launched on November 16th with over $ 1M donated on the first day. $ 10,433,402.89 were donated until the end of the month, in a total of 545,362 donations. The significant increase in contributors across more regions of the world can largely be attributed to the increase in the number of currencies Wikimedia is able to accept this year - more than 80.
In addition to the annual personal appeal from Jimmy Wales, this year's fundraising campaign features new voices, including community members and Wikimedia Foundation staff.
Compared with the previous year, four times as many volunteers are contributing to the translation of banners and appeals, including over 700 logged out users (readers?). The Article Feedback Tool enables anyone to rate the quality of the translations.
Sue Gardner visits European Wikimedia chapters
In November, the Wikimedia Foundation sent a delegation to Europe, in which Executive Director Sue Gardner, her assistant James Owen, General Counsel Geoff Brigham and Community Organizer Maryana Pinchuk visited seven cities in three weeks. The main purpose of the trip was to spend time with chapters, with the goal of listening to chapters' hopes and fears, particularly with regards to fundraising and funds dissemination. A secondary purpose was to spend time with the German community, with the goal of improving mutual understanding particularly with regard to ongoing controversy about the possible implementation of a personal image filter.
The trip also involved a number of other activities, such as meet-ups, talks and media interviews. The delegation visited Paris, Utrecht, London, Vienna, Hannover and Berlin. The trip included meetings and/or meals with five chapter boards, as well as four community meet-ups, and a variety of other small informal gatherings with chapters people and/or editors. The group visited the UK National Archives with members of the UK Board, and helped present awards to the winners of the Wiki Loves Monuments competition in Vienna. Sue Gardner gave three presentations, to the UK Board, the German chapter, and to Imperial College in London, and did six media interviews, in London and Berlin.
The Wikimedia Foundation is grateful to the boards of Wikimédia France, Wikimedia Nederland, Wikimedia UK, Wikimedia Österreich and Wikimedia Deutschland, for their hospitality, openness and candour. Our particular thanks to the following individuals: Christophe Henner, Rémi Mathis, Adrienne Alix, Ziko van Dijk, Jan-Bart de Vreede, Roger Bamkin, Andrew Turvey, Andy Mabbett, Jon Davies, Fiona Apps, Marek69, Kurt Kulac, Manuel Schneider, Barbara Neubauer, Jo Pugh, Pavel Richter, Sebastian Moleski, Julia Kloppenburg and Catrin Schoneville.
Data and Trends
Global unique visitors for October:
- 477 million (+4.9% compared with September; +16.7% compared with the previous year)
- (comScore data for all Wikimedia Foundation projects; comScore will release November data later in December)
Page requests for November:
- 16.8 billion (-0.1% compared with October; +12.3% compared with the previous year)
- (Server log data, all Wikimedia Foundation projects including mobile access)
Active Registered Editors for October 2011 (>= 5 edits/month):
- 84,426 (+1.4% compared with September / +0.8% compared with the previous year)
- (Database data, all Wikimedia Foundation projects except for Wikimedia Commons)
Report Card for October 2011: http://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/
- The report card is currently undergoing a redesign as a more fully-featured dashboard (integrating various statistical data and trends about WMF projects).
Finanzen
(Financial information is only available for October 2011 at the time of this report. All financial information presented is for the period of July 1, 2011 - October 31, 2011)
Revenue: $ 4,253,486
Expenses:
- Technology Group: $ 3,021,534
- Community/Fundraiser Group: $ 1,066,080
- Global Development Group: $ 1,116,890
- Governance Group: $ 336,150
- Finance/Legal/HR/Admin Group: $ 1,989,659
Total Expenses: $ 7,530,312
Total surplus/(loss): ($ 3,276,826)
Revenue was ahead of plan due to grants of $ 2.8 million and additional donations ahead of plan of $ 385,254.
Expenses were below plan at $ 7.5 million actual versus $ 9.1 million plan. Expenses were below planned due to lower than planned expenditures in capital expenditures, chapter grants, recruitment cost and other activities due.
Cash of $ 14.9 million, which is six months of cash reserves at current spending levels.
Other movement highlights
- Wikimania videos available: The organizers of Wikimania 2011, which took place in August in Haifa, Israel, have announced that all video recordings from the conference have been uploaded. They are also linked from the conference schedule. The videos have already been watched more than 16,000 times.
- Wikimedia France lobbies for freedom of panorama: On November 23, the French parliament debated an amendment to French intellectual property law that would introduce freedom of panorama exceptions similar to those in many other countries. This would, for example, allow Wikimedians to upload photos of French buildings and of sculptures that are permanently on display in public places. The amendment was supported by the French Wikimedia chapter, but failed to achieve the necessary majority.
- Al Jazeera releases images: After interventions by Wikimedia Foundation fellow Liam Wyatt and Mathias Schindler from Wikimedia Germany, the Qatar-based news channel Al Jazeera English decided to make the photos from its Flickr stream available under the CC-BY-SA 2.0 license. They are being uploaded to Commons. Many of them document the political uprisings of the Arab Spring.
- First Wikimedia hackathon in the UK: A two-day event in Brighton brought together Wikimedia Foundation developers with other new and experienced coders. See notes for day 1, notes for day 2.