Wikimedia monthly activities meetings/2012-12
November 2012 | Wikimedia Foundation monthly Metrics & Activities Meeting, December 2012 | January 2013 |
- When: December 6, 2012 starting at 7 PM UTC (11 AM pacific time)
- Where:
- Physical location: 6th floor of the Wikimedia Foundation office in San Francisco.
- IRC participation: #wikimedia-officeconnect
- YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB5m5AHoGno
Agenda
editMost updates should be done in lightning talk form, typically 3 minutes + 2 minutes for Q/A
- General
- Metrics highlights - Erik - 5m
- New hire announcements - Gayle - 2m
- Special updates
- Wikivoyage update - Erik - 3m
- Engineering
- VisualEditor and Parsoid update - James and Gabriel - 10m (since a major release will occur in December) - Slides on Google Docs
- Mobile update - New experimental features in Beta: editing and photo uploader demo - Jon & Maryana - 10m - Slides on GDocs
- Analytics (lightning Kraken demo) - Andrew Otto (remote) / Evan Rosen - 3 minutes
- Grant-making and Programs
- FDC update (end of Round 1) - Anasuya and Winifred - 10m: Slides on Google Docs
- Flow funding as an experiment in grantmaking - Asaf - 5m
- Fundraising
- Quick update from Katie & Zack -- 5m
- Legal, Community Advocacy, and Communications
- HR
- Employee Engagement Survey Results - (Begins at about 0:59 and ends at about 1:13; budgeted at 10 minutes)
- Executive
Notes/links
editFor the live note stream see the IRC log -- lots of links, discussion, and some live transcription.
- http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/ - 488 million unique visitors
- @wikimediaatwork on identi.ca for new job openings and for new hires
- WikiVoyage
- the old site
- New: en.wikivoyage.org !!
- wikivoyage.org portal page with more languages
- mobile site has gone live! en.m.wikivoyage.org, de.m.wikivoyage.org
- Logo contest
- commons categories: Files from Wikivoyage Shared,, Files from Wikivoyage WTS (WTS is Wikitravel projects)
- We have stats! tables: http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikivoyage/EN/Sitemap.htm etc. charts:http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikivoyage/EN/ReportCardTopWikis.htm
- VisualEditor and Parsoid: mw:VisualEditor and mw:Parsoid
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Software_deployments#Ongoing useful - this is the deployment planning.
- Request VE on your wiki: Requesting wiki configuration changes
- Mobile
- opt into mobile beta: look at Settings when you go to m. sites like m.de.wikipedia.org on your mobile device to opt into beta features
- File:Lead Photo For User-Thehelpfulone-phototest0-0009688765276223421.jpg
- en:User:Thehelpfulone/phototest
- tag: [Via Mobile], http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&tagfilter=mobile+edit
- mw:Analytics - mail:analytics and IRC channel #wikimedia-analyticsconnect
- Fundraising and Funds Dissemination
- Employee engagement survey from Gayle Karen Young
- Sue Gardner talks about WMF restructuring (announcement on wikimedia-l mailing list)