Punti salienti Wikimedia, novembre 2013
Highlights dal Wikimedia Foundation Report e dal report tecnico Wikimedia di novembre 2013, con una selezione di altri importanti eventi dal movimento Wikimedia
Punti salienti di Wikimedia Foundation
Nuovo materiale di supporto per organizzatori di programmi: Report di valutazione sul edit-a-thons, e Pattern Library
Il nuovo report sull'edit-a-thons' include dati da 46 eventi tenuti tra febbraio 2012 e ottobre 2013. Questo dà il via a una serie di sette report sui tipi più comuni di programmi eseguiti dai leader del programma Wikimedia in tutto il mondo, supportati dal Programma di Valutazione della Wikimedia Foundation e il Design Team. Questa è la prima volta che una tale analisi compara i risultati di un specifico programma ai suoi costi. Tra le varie scoperte di questo report, un edit-a-thons con un piccolo budget può essere tanto produttivo quanto eventi con un grosso budget.
Nel nuovo ' imparare libreria di pattern' su Meta, un Wikimediano può condividere ciò che conosce sull'organizzazione di attività come edit-a-thons, collaborazioni GLAM, divario di genere sensibilizzazione, o Wiki Loves Monuments. Ogni modello include una descrizione di un problema comune, e le istruzioni per risolverlo.
"Funzioni beta" opzione che consente agli utenti di testare le prossime modifiche del software
A new "Beta Features" section has been added to the user preferences menu, allowing logged-in editors to test upcoming software changes and give feedback to the developers, before these features become available for everyone.
Summit sui linguaggi Open Source a Pune, India
Together with Red Hat, the Wikimedia Foundation's language engineering team organized the fall 2013 Open Source Language Summit in Pune, India. It was also attended by members of the VisualEditor and Mobile teams. Session topics included:
- improving the support for fonts (in particular in Indic languages)
- input methods for entering characters that are not available on a user's keyboard
- the Language Coverage Matrix Dashboard, which displays how a language is supported on Wikimedia projects
- a prototype for a user interface for translating Wikipedia articles and other content
L'estensione OAuth semplifica l'uso di strumenti di modifica di terze parti
All Wikimedia wikis now support OAuth, an open standard that allows users to authorize third-party software tools to carry out actions on the wiki on their behalf, without handing over their user password. Among the first tools that use this new feature is "CropTool", which allows users to crop images on Wikimedia Commons.
- Una visualizzazione dell'interazione tra uno strumento di terze parti (a sinistra), la wiki e l'utente mediante il protocollo OAuth
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Dati e tendenze
Global unique visitors for October:
- 530 million (+4.86% compared with September; +8.62% compared with the previous year)
- (comScore data for all Wikimedia Foundation projects; comScore will release November data later in December)
Page requests for November:
- 19.039 billion (+1.2% compared with October; -6.4% compared with the previous year)
- (Server log data, all Wikimedia Foundation projects including mobile access. Note: the numbers previously reported for the months of July to October 2013 have been corrected.)
Active Registered Editors for October 2013 (>= 5 mainspace edits/month, excluding bots):
- 75,964 (-0.99% compared with September / -3.83% compared with the previous year)
- (Database data, all Wikimedia Foundation projects.)
Report Card (contenente vari dati e tendenze statistiche sui progetti Wikimedia)
Contabilità
 Wikimedia Foundation YTD Revenue and Expenses vs Plan as of October 31, 2013 |
 Wikimedia Foundation YTD Expenses by Functions as of October 31, 2013 |
(Financial information is only available through October 2013 at the time of this report.)
All financial information presented is for the Month-To-Date and Year-To-Date October 31, 2013.
| Entrate | $11,646,366 |
|---|---|
| Uscite: | |
| Gruppo tecnologia | $5,379,535 |
| Gruppo Raccolta Fondi | $1,097,830 |
| Gruppo di ricerca donazioni | $556,471 |
| Gruppo Programmi | $573,291 |
| Contributi | $857,473 |
| Gruppo di governance | $221,061 |
| Gruppo legale/difesa comunitaria/comunicazione | $1,058,063 |
| Gruppo finanze/risorse umane/amministrazione | $2,490,383 |
| Spese Totali | $12,234,107 |
| Deficit totale | ($587,741) |
+Le entrate per il mese di Ottobre sono state di 3,78 milioni di dollari, contro una previsione di 4,91 milioni di dollari, quindi circa 1,13 milioni di dollari (il 23%) meno di quanto previsto.
- Year-to-date revenue is $11.65MM versus plan of $7.88MM, approximately $3.77MM or 48% over plan.
- Expenses for the month of October is $2.84MM versus plan of $3.52MM, approximately $680K or 19% under plan, primarily due to lower personnel expenses, capital expenses, internet hosting, legal fees, payment processing fees, and travel expenses partially offset by higher grants and recruiting expenses.
- Year-to-date expenses is $12.23MM versus plan of $14.70MM, approximately $2.47MM or 17% under plan, primarily due to lower personnel expenses, capital expenses, internet hosting, legal fees, grants, staff development expenses, and travel expenses partially offset by higher payment processing fees.
- La Liquidità è di $38.61MM al 31 ottobre 2013.
Altri titoli dal movimento Wikimedia =
Decimo anniversario di Wikisource
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Wikisource on November 24, proofreading contests were held on the Italian, the Catalan and the English Wikisource, contributors answered interviews (here in English and in French). On the same day, the official recognition of the Wikisource Community User Group was announced. Since Wikisource was founded in 2003 (initially named "Project Sourceberg"), its volunteers have proofread 1.4 million pages in 63 languages.
Università indiana rilascia enciclopedia sotto licenza gratuita
La "Konkani Vishwakosh" è un'enciclopedia in 4 volumi scritta in Konkani, una lingua parlata principalmente dalla popolazione che vive nel Goa e negli stati confinanti della costa occidentale dell'India.
At the suggestion of Access to Knowledge (A2K, a program supporting Wikipedia in India, run at the Centre for Internet & Society and funded by a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation), the publisher of the "Konkani Vishwakosh", Goa University, released it under a Creative Commons License (CC-BY-SA 3.0). This is part of a three-year effort to build the Konkani Wikipedia. The 3632 pages of the Vishwakosh are being digitized by 37 volunteer Wikimedians.
Conferenza sulle diversità
On November 9–10, over 80 Wikimedians attended the first Wikimedia Diversity Conference, hosted by the German Wikimedia chapter in Berlin. Many of the presentations addressed Wikipedia's gender gap (the fact that the large majority of contributors are male). But other aspects of diversity were a topic as well, e.g. geographic diversity (the under-representation of editors from the Global South) or LGBT issues.
Fotografo riceve finanziamento attraverso Kickstarter da $17000 per documentare videogames su Wikimedia Commons
Evan Amos (User:Evan-Amos) is a video game enthusiast who has been uploading high-quality photographs of gaming consoles to Wikimedia Commons since 2010. He has now started a project to expand this into an online collection about the history of video games, called "The Vanamo Online Game Museum". He presented the idea on Kickstarter, a fundraising site, and received over $17,000 from more than 1,000 donors in little less than a month. The money is dedicated to buying old video game hardware so that it can be photographed.