Thank you Erik! I would like to pass on my compliments to the Wikimedia Foundation staff for putting together these reports. I remember me complaining in Buenos Aires that, even though I was heavily involved in Wikimedia, I did not have a clear image of what the Wikimedia Foundation was doing. With these reports, that becomes much clearer - especially now they are also closer to the end of the preceeding month and timely! Huge thanks for this big improvement, which increases transparency a lot and allows people to participate much easier.
With kind regards, Lodewijk 2011/2/12 Erik Moeller <[email protected]>: > Hi folks, > > please find below the Wikimedia Foundation report for January. > > As always, you'll find a wikified version on Meta (this one includes a > selection of 10th anniversary photos, so do take a look): > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_January_2011 > > Edits and feedback are always welcome. > > All best, > Erik > > In this report: > > * 1 Data and Trends > * 2 Financials > * 3 Highlights > o 3.1 10th Anniversary > o 3.2 New Wikimedia Foundation Fellowships > o 3.3 Movement Roles Workshop > * 4 Technology > o 4.1 General Engineering > o 4.2 Operations > o 4.3 Features > * 5 Research and Strategy > * 6 Community > o 6.1 Fundraising Team > o 6.2 Public Policy Initiative > * 7 Global Development > o 7.1 Offline > o 7.2 Global Development Research > o 7.3 Grantmaking and Wikimania Scholarships > o 7.4 Brazil Catalyst Project > o 7.5 India Catalyst Project > * 8 Communications > * 9 Human Resources > * 10 Finance and Administration > * 11 Visitors and Guests > > --------------- > Data and Trends > --------------- > > [Only December data is available as of February 10, 2011] > > Global unique visitors: > 395 million (-3.7% compared to previous month / +14% compared to > previous year) > comScore data for December, all Wikimedia Foundation projects; > comScore will release January data later in February > > Page requests: > 13.9 billion (-6.7% compared to previous month / + 22.9% compared to > previous year) > (Wikimedia Foundation data for December, all Wikimedia Foundation > projects including Wikipedia mobile) > > Report Card for December 2010: http://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/ > > ---------- > Financials > ---------- > > [Only December data is available as of February 10, 2011] > > Operating revenue for December: USD 8.0MM vs plan of 9.9MM. > Operating revenue year-to-date December: USD 18.1MM vs plan of 15.1MM. > > The successful 2010 fundraising campaign has resulted in the Wikimedia > Foundation exceeding its revenue targets year-to-date. Revenue above > does not reflect amounts expected to be received from chapters: that > revenue will be reflected once payments are received. > > Operating expenses for December: USD 1.7MM vs plan of 1.8MM > Operating expenses year-to-date: December: USD 7.7MM vs plan of 10.0MM > > The Wikimedia Foundation is under-spent for December primarily due to > timing of capital expenditures and internet hosting, as well as > under-spending in staffing costs (a decision was made early in the year > to bias towards hiring slowly and well, rather than prioritizing speed). > Major data center purchases that occurred in January will make up for > much of this underspend. > > Cash and investments as of December 2010 totaled $22.8MM (approximately > 13 months of expenses). > > ---------- > Highlights > ---------- > > ---------------- > 10th Anniversary > ---------------- > > On January 15, 2011, Wikipedia was 10 years old, an event that was heard > around the wikis and celebrated around the globe. The Wikimedia > Foundation supported chapters, volunteers, and other groups hosting > celebrations in self-organizing events, spreading the good news, and > generally marking this a once-in-a-movement historic event. > > *Celebrations everywhere* > > More than 400 celebrations were logged at http://ten.wikipedia.org/. > Many took place on or around January 15, with more planned for later in > the year. Photo gallery can be found here: > > http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_gallery > > The celebrations included wiki-conferences, photo walks, casual > meet-ups, dance parties, pub nights and kite flying. Wikimedia > Foundation staff and board members travelled to support a variety of > events, including: Ting Chen in Nairobi, Jimmy Wales and Jan-Bart de > Vreede in London, Bishakha Datta in Kolkata, Phoebe Ayers in San > Francisco, Frank Schulenburg in Budapest, and Barry Newstead and Moka > Pantages in Mumbai. Many celebrations included an airing of a special > message from Jimmy Wales produced by WMF for the Wikipedia community: > > http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WalesCalltoAction.ogv. > > On January 15, Bay Area Wikimedians staged an all-day conference > featuring speakers Ward Cunningham and Kevin Kelly. The Wikimedia > Foundation supported that event by staging a party for roughly 250 > guests that same evening. > > Barry Newstead spoke at the Wikipedia 10 celebration in Mumbai. He also > spoke at three events in Pune, India: a TEDxPUNE event for school > children, a meeting of public administrators in Pune, and the official > Wikimedia community event. > > *T-Shirts and buttons for the mission* > > The Wikimedia Foundation shipped more than 80 Wikipedia 10 celebration > kits to support volunteer-organized events all over the world. Each > included 50 custom-themed T-shirts, buttons, and stickers. This was an > important pilot for the Wikimedia movement: new data about customs, > logistics, and postal services for a wide range of nations has been > gathered, and new processes for soliciting orders from chapters or other > groups for timely delivery have been developed. > > *Collaborative design* > > With the help of San Francisco graphic designer David Peters, WMF > produced a simple design scheme to help celebrate Wikipedia 10. The > Wikipedia 10 design concept was at the center of event-related > merchandise, and was further localized and developed by dozens of local > Wikipedia groups in the form of icons, banners, cakes, and other products. > > http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design > > ------------------------------------ > New Wikimedia Foundation Fellowships > ------------------------------------ > > Lennart Guldbrandsson began a six-month fellowship during which he will > work on the Bookshelf Project (public outreach resources and many > languages) and the Account Creation Improvement Project (exploring ways > to engage more people to become editors after making a Wikimedia project > account). The full announcement can be found at: > > http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/07/announcing-our-fourth-fellow-lennart-guldbrandsson/ > > Liam Wyatt began a 12-month fellowship to build the capacity of the > Wikimedia community to undertake partnerships with cultural institutions > known as GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums), following > his pioneering work in this area: > > http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/19/announcing-our-glam-fellow-liam-wyatt/ > > Achal Prabhala began a four-month fellowship focused on the role of oral > citations as a source for Wikimedia projects. He will be conducting > field research in rural South Africa and India with Wikipedians and > non-Wikipedians across three languages - he plans to explore ways to > compensate for the lack of written source material in many local > languages. The full announcment can be found at: > > http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/ > > Maryana Pinchuk's fellowship has been extended for an additional 12 > months, so that she can coordinate the writing of histories of several > more Wikipedias. She and fellow Victoria Doronina will soon be releasing > their history of the Russian Wikipedia in both Russian and English on > Meta and on the Russian Wikipedia. See the previous announcement: > > http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/09/30/two-new-community-department-fellows/ > > ----------------------- > Movement Roles Workshop > ----------------------- > > The Movement Roles project is a project of the WMF Board of Trustees > supported by contractors Austin Hair and Jon Huggett acting as > facilitators. Its goal is to clarify the roles and responsibilities of > different entities, groups, and people working to support the > international Wikimedia movement. It is working on recommendations for > the development of Wikimedia as a global network of organizations. > > The working group held an in-person meeting in Frankfurt on January 29 > and 30. The meeting reviewed suggestions from the past few months, > identified areas of agreement and disagreement, and proposed ideas to > provoke discussion in the broader community. Work will continue on Meta > and is open to input and participation from all. > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_roles_project/2011-01-29 > > The group drafted a matrix of organizational roles and responsibilities: > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_roles_project/2011-01-29/roles_matrix > > The next in-person meeting of the group will be the day before the March > chapters meeting in Berlin. > > ---------- > Technology > ---------- > > As in previous months, details of our technology activities in the month > of January 2011 can be found in the tech blog: > > http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/02/february-wmf-engineering-update/ > > Highlights below: > > ------------------- > General Engineering > ------------------- > > *MediaWiki 1.17* > > MediaWiki 1.17 is the upcoming release of the MediaWiki software. We > plan to deploy MediaWiki 1.17 to Wikimedia Foundation sites on February > 8th. We are still working through the code review queue (revisions, > graph) and fixing some integration issues. The major noticeable feature > of this deployment will be Resource Loader, which will enable the > release of the second iteration of Article Feedback sometime afterwards. > We are also dark-launching the improved category collation code that > Aryeh Gregor wrote back in August, and will enable this feature shortly > after the 1.17 launch. Some new extensions will also wait until after > the dust settles from the 1.17 launch. > > ---------- > Operations > ---------- > > *Data Center* > > In January, we finally placed orders for most of the equipment for the > Ashburn VA Data Center. We expect to be slightly over budget on this > order as we have decided to order extra high-availability storage > hardware for backups. Starting in February, teams of Ops engineers will > be working to rack these new machines. We plan to post a link to a live > video feed of our enclosure where you can see the work in progress. > > *Media Storage* > > Since December, we have been working with a contract engineer to create > a new extensible Media Storage Architecture, and are now at the point of > testing on a single machine. As the new Upload Wizard is coming closer > to production-quality release, we are trying to anticipate a substantial > increase in media contributions. > > *Monitoring* > > We signed a deal with Watchmouse, a global website and application > performance monitoring company. The community can expect us to broaden > the public information we make available on performance of our wikis > around the world. > > *Virtualization Cluster* > > We continued to work on creating an environment to deploy temporary > machines for testing and experimentation, for use by WMF staff and > volunteers working on important projects (as capacity allows). WMF Ops > Engineer Ryan Lane announced the release of the OpenStackManager > extension for MediaWiki, which interacts with OpenStack, an open source > toolset for cloud computing. There was a bit of a setback, however, with > some missing features in OpenStack testing, so we are waiting for the > next OpenStack release before deploying this. We have a little more > hardware to configure as well. > > -------- > Features > -------- > > *Threaded Discussions - Liquid Threads* > > A formal evaluation of LiquidThreads, a new discussion system for talk > pages, is underway. This includes its UI, code and database > architecture. We are modifying the design to incorporate input from > several community discussions as well as from our engineering staff. We > plan to consolidate all of our documentation on these discussions on > mediawiki.org in the next month. > > *Other Features* > > Tomasz Finc began work with two new engineering contracts on offline > content projects. Tomasz blogged about it here: > > http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/01/update-on-offline-wikimedia-projects/ > > --------------------- > Research and Strategy > --------------------- > > Wikipedia's 10th anniversary saw several scholarly outlets call for > experts and researchers to join Wikipedia and help "overcome the > prejudices against Wikipedia in academic circles" [1-2]. To this aim, > Dario Taraborelli, in collaboration with Daniel Mietchen and Panagiota > Alevizou from the Wikimedia Research Committee, designed a survey to > better understand the barriers to expert participation in Wikimedia > projects [3]. The pilot phase started in December and ended in January > and the official launch of the survey is due on February 8, 2011. > > On January 10, 2011, Dario Taraborelli published, in collaboration with > Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia and Moritz Stefaner, an interactive > visualization of the 200 longest Article for Deletion discussions in the > history of Wikipedia [4], introducing scholarly research on the > functioning and impact of AfD discussions to a broader audience. > > Research continued on the Article feedback study and Dario Taraborelli > joined Howie Fung in analyzing the early data, with new results to be > published later this month. > > Members of the Research Committee continued the discussion on subject > recruitment guidelines for Wikimedia research projects in collaboration > with WMF staff. The committee also started to explore possible venues > for a research panel, with the goal of discussing research directions of > strategic importance to the Wikipedia community at a major social > computing conference. > > Howie Fung, Diederik van Liere and Erik Moeller continued review of > first data from the Editor Trends Study [6] conducted by Diederik van > Liere. The study is an in-depth quantitative analysis of major trends in > Wikipedia editing communities, and will be published on StrategyWiki in > February. Howie and Erik also continued work on the Product Whitepaper, > a comprehensive assessment of product development priorities in > strategic context. [7] > > [1] http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125899/ > [2] http://www.jmir.org/2011/1/e14/ > [3] > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_Committee/Areas_of_interest/Expert_involvement/2011_survey > [4] http://notabilia.net > [5] > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_Committee/Areas_of_interest/Subject_recruitment_processes > [6] http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_Trends_Study > [7] http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Product_Whitepaper > > --------- > Community > --------- > > ---------------- > Fundraising Team > ---------------- > > The fundraising team wrapped up the successful 2010 fundraising campaign > in January. The team ran contribution banners that asked people to get > involved with Wikipedia by starting to edit. These banners were later > replaced by banners that highlighted Wikipedia's 10 year anniversary. > > The team spent the rest of January beginning an in-depth retrospective > on the testing and operations of the 2010 fundraiser. > > ------------------------ > Public Policy Initiative > ------------------------ > > The Public Policy Initiative Team kicked off the new year with a two-day > train-the-trainer session in San Francisco prior to the start of the > spring semester. A group of current ambassadors were trained as trainers > to prepare them to lead five two-day regional ambassador trainings in > various US locations: San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., Baton > Rouge, and Indianapolis. As a result, the number of Wikipedia > Ambassadors is growing rapidly, and about 46 % of them female. With the > goal of globalizing the program, Wikipedia community observers from > Sweden, Israel, Germany, and Brazil attended the train-the-trainer > session and the San Francisco ambassador training. Sage Ross spoke about > the Public Policy Initiative at the Wikipedia 10th anniversary > celebration in Washington D.C. > > ------------------ > Global Development > ------------------ > > ------- > Offline > ------- > > * We began pursuing partnerships with computer manufacturers and > other education agencies to aid in the distribution of the offline > materials upon completion. Meanwhile, milestones were accomplished > by the Wikimedia community: > o The community neared completion of new releases of the > "Wikipedia 1.0" project and Wikipedia for Schools, two > article selection projects in the English language Wikipedia > that select the most applicable and high-quality subset of > articles. Other language communities also actively > contributed to the development of offline content, including > Tamil. > o Community distribution began of the Wikipedia for Schools > English version, using the Kiwix offline reader, throughout > Kenya. > > --------------------------- > Global Development Research > --------------------------- > > * Completed a first draft of the English version of the Wikipedia > editor survey; > * Created a mobile strategic plan for current and next fiscal year > with engineering, including a detailed timeline for different > phases of mobile research beginning with ethnographic research and > survey in key markets to UX testing; > * Started work on the readership survey, working with vendors to > conduct a household survey in key countries; > * Worked with engineering team to conduct analytics for global > development, including the creation of a monthly report card that > focuses on India. > > -------------------------------------- > Grantmaking and Wikimania Scholarships > -------------------------------------- > > * Funded 13 new grants in December and January, nine of which were > in support of Wikipedia 10 celebrations; > * Met our budget for grantmaking in 2010-11 at the end of January; > * Held an open call for Wikimania 2011 scholarship applications > throughout January and then closed the call on January 31, 2011. > > ----------------------- > Brazil Catalyst Project > ----------------------- > > Kul Takanao Wadhwa and Jessie Wild spent the last half of January in > Brazil, with these goals: > > * Raising awareness of Wikimedia projects and Wikimedia's presence > in Brazil; > * Finding productive partnerships for WM initiatives in Brazil; > * Introducing the Brazilian community members to different > organizations; > * Better understanding what WM presence in Brazil could and should > look like going forward. > > They met with universities, community members, student organizations, > government officials, and potential tech partners. The trip was very > productive, and a full set of details including the agenda and materials > utilized can be found here: > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global/Brazil/Agenda_January_2011 > > Progress on the Brazil Catalyst Project work included: > > * Mobile research: > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global/Brazil/Brazilian_Digital_Landscape#Mobile_Landscape_in_Brazil > * January Community Interviews: > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Brazil_Catalyst_Project/Community_Interviews#Sobre_ajuda_vinda_da_WMF > * Debate on structures: > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global/Brazil/Debate_sobre_estruturas > * Started to document laws that could affect WMF in Brazil: > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Brazil_Catalyst_Project/Brazilian_Digital_Landscape#Policy_Debate.2FDebate_de_Politicas_Publicas > * Started documenting possible legal structures as well as more > practical issues that will help with logistics, such as "how to > send money to Brazil". Also started checking-in with lawyers and > accountants who can help with logistics on the ground: > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Brazil_Catalyst_Project/Procedures_to_open_a_local_office_in_BrI > > ---------------------- > India Catalyst Project > ---------------------- > > Barry Newstead and Moka Pantages spent one week in India to attend > Wikipedia 10 celebrations, meet with community, stakeholders, NGO and > government officials, and conducted fact-finding meetings with > associated organizations. > > Highlights from the trip included: > > * Barry attended Wikipedia 10 celebrations in Mumbai at VJTI and in > Pune at the Symbiosis Institute. Moka joined Wikimedians in Bangalore; > * Barry met with some members of the newly formed Indian chapter, > Sunil Abraham of the Centre for Internet and Society, and Achal > Prabhala, Wikimedia Advisory Board member; > * Barry, Moka and Arjuna from the India chapter had an introductory > discussion with Nokia Research; > * Barry and Moka traveled to Mumbai to meet with a group of students > and educators at IIT-Mumbai, as well as to visit Reliance > Telecommunications for introductory discussions on their mobile > strategy and tour their operations center and data center; > * After Mumbai, Barry and Moka traveled to Delhi met with Bishakha > Datta, Hari Prasad Nadig from the Wikimedia India chapter, and > contracted legal counsel to attend a round table discussion with > local NGOs and officials working in similar areas as the Wikimedia > Foundation; > * Barry and Moka met with Google India's communications and legal > teams in Gurgaon; > * Moka stayed behind and conducted additional meetings with > community members, as well as press and communications > organizations in India, Hong Kong and Seoul; > * In Hong Kong, Moka met with Chinese Wikipedians from Hong Kong, as > well as a group of five who traveled from neighboring Macau; > * In Seoul, Moka met with a group of 16 Korean Wikipedians. This > meeting kicked-off a group initiative to continue regular meetings > to begin the chapter creation process. > > -------------- > Communications > -------------- > > Since Wikipedia's inception, journalists and other cultural commentators > have struggled to assess its societal impact, often criticizing the > content as inaccurate, or the model as one that cannot work. As the 10th > anniversary approached, the international media seized the opportunity > to reassess: this resulted in hundreds of stories around the world that > were overwhelmingly positive. The media coverage painted a picture of > Wikipedia as a successful educational endeavor serving more than 400 > million people. Its volunteer and non-profit nature were recognized and > celebrated. > > January 4-6 NYC Media Tour with Jimmy Wales > > * Jimmy was interviewed by six media outlets, including the Daily > Show with Jon Stewart. > > January 9-12 NY Media Tour with Sue Gardner > > * Sue was interviewed by 10 media outlets, including an > off-the-record lunch with the New York Times, which prompted the > "Gender Gap" story January 30. > > January 12 Media Call > > * Both Sue and Jimmy participated in an hour-long media call with 15 > journalists including the Associated Press, Al Jazeera and > ReadWriteWeb. > > Highlights included: > > * Cover stories for BusinessWeek and the Economist > * Front page of the New York Times > * Substantial pieces by Time magazine, La Tercera, the Washington > Post, Wired, Agence-France-Press, Origó, Hong Kong Economic Times, > Associate Press, Spiegel, The Guardian, Chronicle of Higher > Education, El País, NPR, Times of India, PC world (macedonian > edition), LA Times, The Hindu, The Atlantic and the Huffington > Post, La Repubblica. > > Links to coverage: > > * http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_coverage > * > http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Wikipedia-to-increase-local-language-content/articleshow/7279863.cms > * > http://www.makpcworld.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1065:2011-01-13-12-44-33&catid=35:%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BD%D0%B0%20%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0&Itemid=55 > * > http://www.economist.com/blogs/theworldin2011/2011/01/wikipedias_tenth_birthday > * http://www.economist.com/node/17902943?story_id=17902943 > * http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/internet/article1073395.ece > * http://news.etnet.com.cn/feature/shisuibaike20110114.html > * > http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/wikipedia-marks-10-years-of-edit-it-yourself/ > * > http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/01/201111571716655385.html > * http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,739367,00.html > * > http://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli-e-cultura/2011/01/11/news/10_anni_wikipedia-11072136/ > * > http://www.elpais.com/articulo/Pantallas/Wikipedia/anos/278/ediciones/elpepirtv/20110111elpepirtv_2/Tes > * > http://www.origo.hu/techbazis/20110115-az-alapitokat-is-meglepte-a-wikipedia-sikere-tizeves-a.html > * > http://diario.latercera.com/2011/01/14/01/contenido/tendencias/16-56057-9-diez-anos-de-wikipedia-sus-editores-en-chile-revelan-como-son-los-usuarios.shtml > > Other links and information for January 2011: > > Press releases issued in January 2011: > > * > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Half_a_Million_People_Donate_to_Keep_Wikipedia_Free > * > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Celebrates_10_Years_of_Free_Knowledge > > Media contact through January 2011: > > * http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room/Media_Contact#January_2011 > > Blog posts through January 2011: > > * http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/ > > For lots of detailed coverage and news summaries, see the > community-edited Wikipedia Signpost editions for January 2011: > > * > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2011-01-03 > * > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2011-01-10 > * > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2011-01-17 > * > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2011-01-24 > * > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2011-01-31 > > --------------- > Human Resources > --------------- > > A large percentage of the staff in San Francisco was out for at least a > week with the "WikiPlague", a variant of the RSV virus that we seem to > have caught at the 10th Anniversary Party. > > We made solid progress in recruiting over January and posted and boarded > all of the positions we wanted to. We engaged two new recruiting firms, > and are starting to see results from them. HR also conducted a hiring > and onboarding process overhaul. > > We started tracking metrics for new hires and the Wikimedia Foundation > as a whole, and will start compiling anonymized data regarding diversity > and other internal characteristics so that we stay mission-aligned. > > The fellowship engagements have prompted the formalizing of the > Fellowship program and other alternative employment options at the > Wikimedia Foundation, and initiated a conversation that is currently > ongoing. > > We have decided on an HRM software called OrangeHRM, which is an open > source project. More news on this in February as we start engaging with > them. > > New Hires > > * Maryana Pinchuk, Research Fellow (Community) – Temp Full Time > > Extended > > * James Alexander, Community Associate (Community) – Temp Full Time > * Ryan Faulkner, Data Analyst (Tech) – Temp Full Time > * Mark Hershberger, Bugmeister (Tech) – Temp Full Time > > New Openings Posted > > * Data Analytics Engineer (Tech) > * Fundraiser Data Analyst (Community) > * Development Associate (Community) > * Volunteer Development Coordinator (Community) > * Community Department Research Fellow (Community) > * Performance Engineer (Tech) > * Operations Engineer (Tech) > * Software Developer – Features (Tech) > > Openings Still Posted > > * Head of Community Fellowship Program > * Senior QA Engineer > * Software Developer (Mobile) > > Contracts Completed > > * Keegan Peterzell, Community Associate > * Dan Rosenthal, Community Associate > * Alexander Zariv, Community Associate > * Pete Forsyth, Public Outreach Officer > > Total Employee Count > > Plan: 81 > Actual: 60 > > Remaining Open Positions to fiscal year end: 31 > > Job Openings - http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings > > Real-time feed for HR updates: http://identi.ca/wikimeidaatwork or > http://twitter.com/wikimediaatwork > > -------------------------- > Finance and Administration > -------------------------- > > * Submitted draft of the 2009 Form 990 tax return to KPMG; > * Identified a firm for sellers permits, sales tax, etc. related to > the planned Wikimedia merchandising webstore; > * Worked with attorneys regarding residency certificates needed to > receive Telefonica licensing payments (certificates should arrive > in February); > * Worked with KPMG regarding India entity and proposed legal structure. > > ------------------- > Visitors and Guests > ------------------- > > 1. Edward Erhar (User:The_ed17) (Online Ambassadors, who support > professors and students via online means such as IRC and Wikipedia > talk pages) > 2. Lennart Gulbrandsson (Bookshelf and Account Creation Improvement > Project) > 3. Nevio Carlos de Alarcao (Wikimedia Brazil) > 4. Achim Raschka (Wikimedia Germany) > 5. Dan Vaks (Wikimedia Israel) > 6. Federico Rampini (US Bureau Chief for one of Italy's top daily > papers, La Repubblica) > 7. Brent Barnum (Trivad) > 8. Hans Lim (Trivad) > 9. Gabriel Mugar (User:Gabrielm199) (Wikipedia Campus Ambassador > Train-the-Trainer event) > 10. PJ Tabit (User:Pjthepiano) (Wikipedia Campus Ambassador > Train-the-Trainer event) > 11. Chanitra Bishop (User:Etlib) (Wikipedia Campus Ambassador > Train-the-Trainer event) > 12. Rob Pongsajapan (User:Pongr) (Wikipedia Campus Ambassador > Train-the-Trainer event) > 13. Dominic Grifo (User:AMDomG) (Wikipedia Campus Ambassador > Train-the-Trainer event) > 14. Derrick Coetzee (User:Dcoetzee) (Wikipedia Campus Ambassors Training) > 15. Dominic McDevitt-Parks (User:Dominic, formerly User:Dmcdevit) > (Wikipedia Campus Ambassors Training) > 16. Mike Cline (User:Mike Cline) (Wikipedia Campus Ambassors Training) > 17. David Lee (User:bibliomaniac15) (Wikipedia Campus Ambassors Training) > 18. Joni Spigler (User:Saudade7) (Wikipedia Campus Ambassors Training) > 19. Christopher Cheney (Wikipedia Campus Ambassors Training) > 20. David Guz (Wikipedia Campus Ambassors Training) > 21. Matt Senate (Wikipedia Campus Ambassors Training) > 22. Jodi Wilson (Wikipedia Campus Ambassors Training) > 23. Honor Gunday (Paymentwall) > 24. Brian Roth (Paymentwall) > 25. Jonathan Zittrain, Elizabeth Stark and 17 students from the > Stanford Cyberlaw Class > 26. Ward Cunningham (Advisory Board) > 27. Corey O'Brien (OMP Consultant) > 28. Frank O'Brien (OMP Consultant) > 29. Steve Geer (OMP Consultant) > 30. Ken Berger (President and CEO of Charity Navigator) > 31. Christine Herring (Arabic production called 'On the Road in America') > 32. Arthur Honegger (Swiss public TV) > 33. Amar Ashar (Berkman Center at Harvard) > 34. Madeline Stranionis (Watershed) > 35. Karen Valby (Fast Company) > 36. Mimi Zhang (Penn State University) > 37. Sarah Novotny (Blue Gecko) > 38. Martin Schulz (Yale Computer Science Department) > > -- > Erik Möller > Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
